Lu Chen led the way, and they soon arrived at Li Cuihua's house.
The courtyard was rather dilapidated, and the gate was a broken wooden door that couldn't block anything; it was just for show.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard Li Cuihua cursing inside the house.
"You old geezer, how dare you talk to me like that, and even use my daughter to pressure me? So what? She's my daughter, I can do whatever I want with her. Even if she gave birth to her, she's still under my control. Even if I sold her myself, could she kill me?"
"Give it back to me and see? What's wrong with me trying?"
Even with Li Cuihua eating, she couldn't shut up; the girl kept talking.
Her son, Lu Shitou, could no longer bear it: "Mom, if you want to curse, go outside and do it. Don't get in my way here. Aren't you annoying?"
His face was full of annoyance, and his eyes were full of disgust.
Li Cuihua shut up, feeling annoyed.
Ye Zhiyu looked at Chen Jiaran with heartache, but the little girl instead comforted her.
"Sister, don't be sad for me. I have loving parents. They just had an accident recently and sent me back. They'll take me home soon."
Ye Zhiyu sighed. She didn't know if Hua'er's words about loving her parents were just a facade; she only felt that the child's understanding was heartbreaking.
Enraged, he didn't knock and kicked the already flimsy door open.
The two people inside came out when they heard the noise. Li Cuihua immediately saw the door lying on the ground and started howling.
"Oh my god, the educated youth are causing trouble! Is there anyone who can mediate?"
Lu Shitou's eyes lit up when he saw Ye Zhiyu. It has to be said that a woman who can charm so many men must have something special.
Lu Chen's eyes were cold and filled with murderous intent. Lu Shitou hurriedly looked away, his body trembling involuntarily.
Ye Zhiyu calmly watched Li Cuihua throw a tantrum, grabbing at any obstacle and lying down wherever she could find a spot; that was a skill in itself.
“You’re awake. Is anyone coming? You’re making a scene. It’s obvious you’re not well-liked. If you had just been less troublesome, you wouldn’t be all alone this time.”
Li Cuihua was forced to stop crying, but she wasn't embarrassed at all. Instead, she said with a straight face, "I don't care, you have to pay for this door."
"pay?"
Ye Zhiyu responded as if he had heard a joke: "Why should I pay? Which eye of yours saw me kick it? I haven't even mentioned that your door startled me. It just slammed down when I got next to it. It's fortunate that it didn't hit me. If it had touched me even a little bit, you can expect to be bankrupt."
Li Cuihua was usually the one who made trouble unreasonably and was greedy for small gains. But when she was suddenly confronted like this, she was stunned. The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn't say them.
(You used all my words!!!)
"It's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. My mother was just joking with you, Ye Zhiqing."
Lu Shitou was watching from the sidelines. If Li Cuihua succeeded, the benefits would still fall into his hands. If she failed, it wouldn't matter if he came out later.
Ye Zhiyu rolled her eyes and snorted coldly: 'Whether it's a joke or not, you know in your heart.'
Lu Shitou chuckled.
"What brings you here today...?"
Ye Zhiyu frowned, "Hua'er is such a big person standing here, are you blind? She's been kidnapped, and you guys are still in the mood to eat at home?"
Li Cuihua curled her lip: "A little brat, a money-loser, why bother with her? If she's lost, she's lost."
Lu Shitou didn't speak, which clearly meant he agreed.
The saying "Like father, like son" resonated deeply with Ye Zhiyu at that moment.
I'm too lazy to talk to them about grand principles; they won't listen.
“I’ve brought her back to you. I heard what you were saying inside. If Hua’er ever disappears, it’s because you sold her. I’ll be your witness then.”
Li Cuihua and her son's expressions changed.
"Ye Zhiqing, what do you mean? If she really gets lost, what does it have to do with us?"
"Then why don't you take good care of her? Is it so hard to find such a sensible child?"
Ye Zhiyu was already impatient. She squatted down and said gently to Chen Jiaran, "Hua'er, if you need anything in the future, come to your sister or go to the brigade leader's house, understand?"
Chen Jiaran nodded.
Ye Zhiyu patted her head again, got up to leave, then stopped and turned back: "Don't even think about taking your anger out on her. If I see this child tomorrow and she has even one more wound on her body, I will sue you for child abuse."
Li Cuihua stubbornly refused to believe it: "My child is my own child, I can do whatever I want, and no one has the right to tell me what to do."
As if they had found Ye Zhiyu's weakness, they held their heads high.
Lu Shitou wasn't so optimistic. Sure enough, the next second he heard Ye Zhiyu say, "Hua'er, first of all, she's an individual; secondly, she's her parents' daughter; and only then is she your granddaughter. I don't know if there's a crime of child abuse under the law, but I know there's intentional murder, intentional injury, and abuse. I have plenty of charges for you to try."
Ye Zhiyu gestured for them to proceed, and the mother and son fell silent. Considering Ye Zhiyu's background, they knew she definitely had the power to turn white into black.
After they left, Lu Shitou gave Chen Jiaran a cold look and went inside.
Li Cuihua glared at her, getting angrier and angrier, but she couldn't hit her, so she could only talk. "What are you looking at? Do I have flowers on my face? Just like your mother, you're both ungrateful wretches."
Chen Jiaran was already used to this kind of life, and silently went back to her room.
Before we came here, my mother said, "What Grandma says is all nonsense. Just let it go in one ear and out the other. It would be best if you didn't listen to a single word of it."
She listened to her mother.
......
On the way back to the educated youth settlement, Ye Zhiyu looked at the rather silent Lu Chen and pursed her lips.
I wanted to say something to coax him, but I felt that my words were shallow and one-sided, and that I was just trying to appease him.
And so, the two remained silent the entire way.
At the educated youth settlement, because they were worried about Ye Zhiyu, they didn't come back to cook. Right now, they were busy steaming cornbread.
"You're back? Dinner will be ready soon," Wu Wenwen greeted.
Everyone greeted Ye Zhiyu warmly. Regardless of what Ye Zhiyu was like before, they admired her for saving so many children today.
Ye Zhiyu responded politely.
He glanced at Lu Chen out of the corner of his eye, looking somewhat troubled.
"We'll talk about it later. I'm going to get something for Lu Chen."
"good."
Liu Yuan stared at the backs of the two figures, one tall and one short, one strong and one petite, and found them strangely harmonious; he even felt they were somewhat well-matched.
Lin Yueze patted him on the shoulder.
Liu Yuan didn't look up; sometimes, men comfort each other with silence.
Ye Zhiyu was having a headache about how to coax Lu Chen.
She didn't notice the change in the man's eyes behind her; they were like those of a tiger, leopard, or jackal, the kind of light that comes when someone spots their prey.
She entered absentmindedly, not noticing that the man behind her hadn't left the door open to avoid suspicion like last time, but had instead turned around, closed it, and gently locked it.
Ye Zhiyu sighed and prepared to have a good talk with Lu Chen.
Before I could even turn around, a hot body pressed against my back.
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