Chapter Ninety-One: I should have just gotten a divorce
Zhong Chengfa's face darkened completely.
Without hesitation, he turned and left, saying, "Since you care so much about your family, then you can stay there for the rest of your life!"
He gave a mocking laugh: "I should have listened to my mother and divorced you a long time ago!"
His sudden departure left the Li family somewhat dumbfounded.
The group looked at each other in bewilderment, and Li Hongjuan was completely dumbfounded. She quickly chased after them.
"Chengfa? Chengfa? Wait for me! You can't just leave like this!"
Sister-in-law Li grabbed her hair and pulled her back, her tone rude: "Why are you running away? You haven't even paid for your food yet and you're already trying to leave?"
Li Hongjuan felt a sharp pain in her scalp and had to stop.
Li Dazhuang hesitated for a moment: "How about... how about we just let her go back?"
"What are you going to say back to!" Sister-in-law Li smiled smugly. "Dad, you know perfectly well that after Zhong Guosheng died, Zhang Chunxue received a large sum of compensation, I heard it was five hundred yuan!"
"Now that they've all divided the family property, Zhong Chengfa will definitely get a lot of money! If he wants a wife, he'll have to pay her!"
"Compared to remarrying, we're just asking him for some food expenses!"
"I think he can tell which one is cheaper, right?"
Upon hearing this, Li Dazhuang immediately agreed wholeheartedly: "Those three sons, each of them should get at least 150 yuan! That's 150 yuan!"
As Li Hongjuan watched Zhong Chengfa's departing figure, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Sister-in-law Li shoved her impatiently: "Cry, cry, cry! All you do is cry! You've cried away all your good fortune! Get back to work! You really think you can just freeload?"
She couldn't help but grumble again: "Any family that has a daughter like you is truly cursed! All you do is laze around at your parents' house eating and drinking all day long!"
While cursing Li Hongjuan, she was secretly calculating how much money she could get from Zhong Chengfa.
Zhong Cheng returned to the village in a rage, his anger barely contained.
When he got home, he saw Zhong Hongqing squatting in the yard playing with mud, which made him even angrier. He walked over and kicked the mud that Zhong Hongqing had made, smashing it to pieces.
Zhong Hongqing was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears.
Zhong Chengfa immediately started cursing: "Cry, cry, cry! All you do is cry! Just like your mother!"
Zhong Xiaoxiao had just returned from her stroll outside and, seeing the situation, couldn't help but frown: "Big brother! What are you doing! Why are you taking your anger out on Hongqing? Where's sister-in-law? Didn't you go to pick her up?"
"Don't mention your sister-in-law!" Zhong Chengfa's anger flared even more when she asked about Li Hongjuan. "I went to pick her up, but her family wouldn't let her go and even demanded that I pay for her food!"
"I'll give you my ass! The worst that can happen is divorce!"
He swore and cursed a lot.
Zhong Xiaoxiao's eyes widened: "But brother, when you went to their house before, didn't they keep urging you to bring your sister-in-law back? How come now that you've gone to pick her up, things are like this again..."
Zhong Chengfa said with a grim face, "That family is like a bloodsucker... Damn it! I'm not going to pick them up! I want to see whether they can't hold on first, or I can't hold on first!"
He even considered just getting a divorce.
If he knew he was going to get a divorce, why did he even separate the family property?
Zhong Chengfa grew increasingly furious. Seeing that Zhong Xiaoxiao was already comforting Zhong Hongqing while Zhong Hongqing was still wailing, he dragged Zhong Hongqing over, pressed him onto his lap, pulled down his pants, and slapped him a few times.
"I'll make you cry! I'll make you cry!"
Zhong Hongqing cried even louder.
Zhong Xiaoxiao angrily pulled Zhong Hongqing back and helped him pull his pants back up: "Brother! What kind of behavior is it to take your anger out on the child!"
She whispered comfortingly, "Hongqing, don't cry, your aunt will take you out to play..."
Zhong Hongqing then followed Zhong Xiaoxiao out the door, sobbing.
When Zhou Mingli returned from get off work, Zhang Chunxue pulled her into her room, gave her the money she had been allocated, and explained the division of the family property to her.
"...From now on, you and Yuanyuan will live in the second brother's room. If you feel it's inconvenient for me to live with the eldest and third brothers in the front yard, then have someone partition off the yard and open another door for the house. You can then enter and exit through the back yard of our house."
Seeing how thoughtful Zhang Chunxue was, Zhou Mingli felt tears welling up in her eyes: "Mom! You're so good to me!"
"I'll do whatever you say!"
Zhang Chunxue reached out and patted her shoulder: "Silly child, why are you crying! You call me Mom, of course I'll protect you!"
Zhou Mingli could no longer hold back and burst into tears, throwing herself into Zhang Chunxue's arms.
Honestly, neither her biological parents nor Zhang Chunxue treated her as well.
Just before dinner, Song Xingzhi arrived, carrying a large watermelon.
Zhang Chunxue was overjoyed: "Where did this watermelon come from?"
Song Xingzhi smiled and handed it to her: "There were some villagers selling them over at the brigade headquarters, so I bought two. I brought one over for you to cool off."
"Then I'll put it in the well to cool down first, and cut it up to eat after we finish eating!" Zhang Chunxue went to find a net bag and hung the watermelon in the well.
Song Xingzhi rolled up his sleeves: "Is there anything I can help with tonight?"
Zhang Chunxue quickly said, "You're a guest, how can I let you help?"
Song Xingzhi looked at Zhang Chunxue earnestly: "But I don't want to just be a guest. I also want to help Sister Chunxue with some things I can do myself."
Zhang Chunxue's heart warmed: "Then...then will you help me wash the rice? I'll go chop the vegetables."
Song Xingzhi immediately smiled and said, "Okay! I'll go right now!"
Zhang Chunxue told him the location of the rice jar, and Song Xingzhi immediately got busy.
The two of them worked together very well, one washing rice and vegetables, the other chopping vegetables, talking as they worked.
After washing the vegetables, Song Xingzhi noticed a strand of Zhang Chunxue's hair hanging down. He couldn't resist reaching out and gently smoothing it up, tucking it behind her ear.
His cool fingertips touched Zhang Chunxue's earlobe, and Zhang Chunxue was startled, a faint blush immediately appearing on her face.
She glanced at Song Xingzhi with a hint of shyness before softly uttering two words.
"Thanks."
Song Xingzhi's fingertips twitched, his face flushed slightly, but his eyes were full of smiles: "Yes, you're welcome, it's nothing."
That's right.
These three words swirled in Zhang Chunxue's mind, as if each stroke of the pen transformed into a butterfly fluttering its wings, making her already slightly flushed cheeks even redder.
Looking at her slightly flushed cheeks, Song Xingzhi felt as if honey was flowing into his heart, sweet and delightful.
Unbeknownst to them, Zhou Mingli was just about to enter the kitchen when she witnessed this scene, and she was so shocked that her eyes widened in disbelief.
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