Chapter 016: Big Farce

Everyone was watching the gossip when a group of people came out of the factory in a hurry. The one walking in front was the leader of the machinery factory, and following behind was Tang Jianguo and his group.

"Tell me what you are doing? You knew your daughter was being abused at home, but you still sent people to look for her. You are causing trouble for the factory! Do you still want your daughter to support that family? If you want to support her, can't you do it yourself?!"

"Leader, I really don't know. I thought she was doing fine at home."

"What the hell, she's fine. Why was she dressed like a beggar when she first came? It's only been two months, and you've forgotten everything? Tell me the truth, when your daughter was adopted, did you really only send her one dollar?"

"How could that be? It must be more than one dollar, several dollars."

“How often do you send it?”

"A month or two... a few dollars will be enough..."

"Enough? Enough, what the hell? Don't even mention your daughter is not enough. Your parents are at home, so you don't need to be filial to them? You don't need to give them money? Reflect on yourself and take care of the family affairs. If you don't let them bother your daughter again, you don't have to work in the factory!"

Having said that, the leader got on his bicycle and headed towards the hospital.

Tang Jianguo chased for a few steps, but was stopped by the Tang family members who came out from behind, so he had to turn back and respond.

"We really gave the money, how could we not give it?" Liu Hongmei ran out from behind, "No matter what, we can't not raise the child."

"Your wife has already said that she will only give you a few dollars every one or two months. Who will use this money?"

"Yes, she is indeed the stepmother. She is not a good person at all. Ugh."

"Pah, pah, pah."

Liu Hongmei's face turned pale and she looked at Tang Jianguo in surprise.

Tang Jianguo whispered: "We can find out."

Liu Hongmei took a deep breath and said, "Except for the money we send back every one or two months, the money and things we send back during the holidays don't count. How can it not be enough to support the child?"

"Isn't that filial piety? Do you mean it's all the parents' fault? Blame them for not using the things they use to show filial piety to themselves to raise their children?" Tang Yuan said in a pinched voice in the crowd.

Before Liu Hongmei could say anything, the old lady who had followed closely raised her hand and slapped her hard on the face: "You bitch, you still dare to blame me?"

Liu Hongmei covered her face, feeling the burning pain, and shouted, "We clearly gave you money, but you didn't raise the child, and you even beat and scolded her. Isn't it your fault?"

The old lady was not polite at all. She raised her other hand and slapped her on the other side of the face: "What money? Who will use that money for? Do you think I don't know what you are thinking? You just hope that she will have a bad life in her hometown and die so as not to cause you trouble. You have disliked Xiaoyuan since you married Jianguo from our family!"

"I didn’t."

"Why didn't you? If I hadn't been watching, you would have poured a basin of boiling hot water over the little gardener. Didn't you want to destroy her?"

Tang Yuan's eyes lit up: Oh wow, there is such a big melon?

However, the original owner had no burn scars on her body, so the incident the old lady mentioned probably did not hurt her.

"It was an accident. I fell down accidentally! You pushed me away and I got burned!"

"Who knows whether you did it by accident or on purpose? You are not a good person if you become someone's stepmother!" The old lady began to pull the entire group of stepmothers mercilessly.

Liu Hongmei was furious, but she didn't dare to fight back. She covered her face and looked at Tang Jianguo, shouting: "Tang Jianguo, are you dead? Don't you know whether I did that on purpose? If you hadn't put a stone in your house, would I have been tripped?"

Tang Jianguo looked at her, then at his mother, and covered his head and said, "Can you guys stop arguing? Xiaoyuan is still in the hospital."

"That little bitch did it on purpose this time. I clearly saw her open her eyes after she fainted!" The old lady roared, "No, I'm going to settle the score with her. The little bitch is getting more and more arrogant. If I don't teach her a lesson, she won't even know her own last name!"

"Mom..." Tang Jianguo held the old lady, "Please stop making trouble. Our leader has already gone to the hospital. If Xiaoyuan is really pretending to be unconscious, the hospital will definitely be able to find out."

"The doctors in the hospital are just there to eat and do nothing. They know nothing like me. I'll go and see you. I'll make sure to wake the patient up." The old lady was very strong. When she walked forward, she pulled Tang Jianguo a few steps with her.

"Mom, if you make trouble like this, the leader will punish me."

"Your leaders have no reason to punish you. If you want to punish someone, you should punish that little bitch who pretended to be unconscious. She won't listen unless she is beaten. She has been like this since she was a child. She will only behave properly after being beaten. If you listen to me, I guarantee that I can control her and make her obedient."

"Yes, it's this guy. He wanted to beat someone up even after all this, and he even beat the person to death. Public Security comrades, people like this must be severely punished. They must all be arrested!"

Along with the speaker, several men in uniform walked in from outside.

Tang Yuan followed the crowd and stepped back, watching the police approach Tang Jianguo and his mother.

The old lady tensed up and subconsciously hid behind Tang Jianguo.

Tang Jianguo smiled shamelessly: "Comrade Public Security, we didn't hit anyone, we were just joking."

"We can't tell you're joking. We heard everything your mother said just now."

"Yes, yes, my mother knows she was wrong, and we are talking about our own family, a family matter, yes, it's all family affairs, we can solve it ourselves," Tang Jianguo continued with a shy smile, "It's all fine now."

"Really? But we received a report that you beat someone to a pulp?"

"How could that be? She's not stupid, not at all. She's just a little dull. Isn't this kind of personality very normal these days?" Tang Jianguo tried to make excuses.

At this moment, the old lady poked her head out from behind him and said, "That's right, how could it be so easily damaged? Her head is made of iron, and she was fine even after having a big hole in it before."

"How did she get that big hole?"

"Isn't it because she is disobedient..." The old lady was about to say something else, but Tang Jianguo covered her mouth with his hand.

The police officer smiled wryly: "Come with us. If nothing happens, you'll be out soon. But if there is something wrong, even if we are family, we will still be held accountable."

Tang Jianguo wanted to say more: "No, Public Security Comrade, this matter is really ..."

Police: "Do you want us to use handcuffs?"

"No, no," Tang Jianguo shook his head and turned to talk to his mother, "Mom, you go there."

"I'm right. Why should I go? Every household in our place does the same thing. They are all right. What's wrong with me? I won't go... I won't go... "

No matter how the old lady shouted, she was still dragged away from the factory by the police.

Tang Yuan looked at the old lady's back as she left, put the carrot in his hand into his mouth and took a bite, making a crunchy sound.

She hadn't expected today's events to turn out like this. She had originally just wanted to extricate herself from the impasse, but she hadn't expected there would be an unexpected surprise.

Tang Jianguo and Liu Hongmei had a good idea. They called their family members over to see her current condition, and then took money from her to make her life miserable to relieve their hatred.

Unexpectedly, the old lady said something shocking.

The original body did have memories of being beaten and scolded many times. In the memory, the original body was beaten on the head because one night he was so hungry that he secretly hid an egg.

She did hide it well, but when the old lady found out that an egg was missing, she blamed and beat the original owner without asking any questions.

When he was being scolded, he stepped on a stone and fell down, and his head hit the sharp stone on the ground, leaving a lot of blood.

It seems that it was not easy for the original body to survive. It's a pity that she couldn't survive the high fever she had before she came.

Tang Yuan continued to put carrots into his mouth, looking at Liu Hongmei's blushing face.

The old lady has been living in the countryside for many years. Apart from other things, she is indeed very strong. After two slaps, the marks on Liu Hongmei's face were symmetrical. If she were given a mirror, her expression would be very interesting.

Tang Jianguo squatted on the ground for a while, but finally stood up and ran quickly in the direction where his mother was taken away.

Liu Hongmei looked at his back, her eyes flushed red, she looked around and yelled: "What are you looking at? What's so good about it? Get out of here, all of you!"

"It's really strange that he is still so arrogant after being slapped twice."

"Didn't the old lady just say that she wanted to pour boiling water on her stepdaughter? How can she be a good person if she has such thoughts?"

"Poor kid, I heard he's stupid."

"Are you really stupid?"

"I'm not stupid, I'm just dull and not very smart."

"That's not much different from being stupid, right? It's so pitiful. His mother died at such a young age, and he has a stepmother. His father is not good, and his family members are not good either. How can he live like this?"

"How pitiful."

Tang Yuan heard so many stories about her that the word "stupid" was almost growing strings in her ears.

But seeing that the word "stupid" still has some meaning to her today, she just said it. As long as she is not really stupid and can keep her job, nothing else matters.

She didn't have much to do in the boiler room, and she didn't interact with many people. If she wanted to communicate with others, she could just change her identity. She didn't have to pretend to be silent 24 hours a day.

When Liu Hongmei chased people away again, she left with a small group of people.

She did not immediately turn her attention back to the main body. Instead, she strolled around the market, bought a batch of eggs with the ticket in her hand, and then quietly went to the black market.

The crackdown has been strict recently. The black market has been in a state of "fishing for three days and drying the nets for two days" for more than a month. You may not always meet people.

But today's black market is particularly lively.

She walked around inside and bought a piece of bacon, a piece of bacon, and thirty eggs. She also saw someone selling watches, no tickets required, for two hundred dollars each.

She had no money, so after looking at it for a few more times, she started thinking about buying a watch.