Chapter 53 Chapter 53: Nothing is surprising (Part 2)
Sister Luo's words were so unexpected that Luo Chunyu was stunned for a moment. Even Liu Mianmian and Aunt Liu were silent for a long time.
The truth is, Liu Leping's previous behavior was that he was indignant about his wife's suspicion of cheating on him, and he was even more confident when scolding her. He was definitely the image of a husband who lost his mind because of anger.
But after Liu Mianmian thought about it carefully, she came to her senses.
Liu Leping had been accusing his wife of cheating on him, but he had no concrete evidence. Generally speaking, men, for the sake of their reputation, wouldn't make a big deal about such a thing, even if it were true, and would more likely resolve it privately. Unlike Liu Leping, who, without any evidence, launched into a rant about his wife in the open shop, seemingly eager to be overheard, he did so.
In his previous life, Liu Mianmian had seen countless strange gossips on the Internet, such as a hardworking, frugal and noble entrepreneur who was exposed after his death for having an affair and gave birth to a bunch of illegitimate children; a man who sent his wife to a mental hospital while living together with his mistress while portraying himself as a loyal person; and a man who threw his child off the building to death in order to be with his mistress... Anyway, there is nothing you can't think of that these people can't do.
Therefore, it is not impossible that Liu Leping cheated on his wife, deliberately slandered Luo Chunyu for cheating on him, forced Luo Chunyu to divorce, and then put all the responsibility for the divorce and the bad reputation on Luo Chunyu...
Really, I'm not surprised by it.
Of course, Liu Mianmian felt that if she were Luo Chunyu, she would not doubt her husband because of what her neighbors said, so it was not impossible that others deliberately instigated her.
Luo Chunyu obviously didn't believe it either. She said blankly, "Sister Luo, could it be that you heard it wrong?"
Sister Luo sighed. "You've been married for over ten years, so there must be some affection. I know you might not believe me, so I said it from the beginning. It's really easy to get in the way of me by saying this. You've been in your hometown for over ten days now, right? There are so many people coming and going on this street, and I'm not the only one you've seen. Why don't you ask around quietly?
She said, "Now that I've told you, I'm not afraid of offending Liu Leping, so I might as well tell you everything I know. It's also a coincidence. My husband, Old Cai, sometimes goes out to help people shoot scenes or something, and he saw that woman near Nanpu Primary School a while ago. She seems to live in the alley west of Nanpu Primary School. My husband, Old Cai, heard people call her Teacher Jiang, so he asked around and found out that she's a substitute teacher at Nanpu Primary School."
Sister Luo looked at Luo Chunyu sympathetically and said, "Sister, I want to tell you something from my heart. No matter whether this is true or not, for Qianqian's sake, you have to be clear-headed and not lose everything."
"Nanpu Primary School?" Luo Chunyu murmured, "Isn't that Qianqian's school? Teacher Jiang, the science teacher in Qianqian's class, is named Jiang."
Luo Chunyu was in a very bad mood. Aunt Liu and Sister Luo took turns to comfort her. They both reminded her again and again that, among other things, she should be more careful with the money at home and the goods in the store.
Then the three of them came out of the North-South Dry Goods Store.
Aunt Liu patted Sister Luo on the shoulder and said, "Xiu Yan, you are a good person. If it were someone else, they wouldn't get involved in this kind of thing, and wouldn't say anything even if they knew about it. You two are both kind people."
Sister Luo sighed again: "I just feel sorry for them. If Liu Leping really has any evil intentions, they might really have to beg for food."
Bidding farewell to Sister Luo, Liu Mianmian and Aunt Liu walked to the bus stop together. Aunt Liu also sighed: "Luo Xiuyan is an honest person and would not do anything to sow discord. What she said is probably true. This Liu Leping is really a piece of shit. Don't look at him like he looks dead today. He is actually quite eloquent normally. Back then, because he insisted that we were from the same family and that knowing him was like having another relative, he said a lot of good things about us. I couldn't resist his tricks and reduced the rent by five yuan."
Aunt Liu said bitterly: "If I had known earlier, I should have given him an extra five yuan!"
Shen Bokang and Yu Wan didn't care about these things. Aunt Liu had always been in charge of them. How much rent to collect and how to collect it were all estimated by Aunt Liu herself.
After all, Liu Mianmian had just met Luo Chunyu and the others today, so naturally she didn't feel as deeply as Aunt Liu, but she was also very sad.
Of course, if what Sister Luo said was true, then Luo Chunyu’s store would most likely go out of business.
After returning, Jiang Hongmei did not come to Qiuzhi Lane for several days. Liu Mianmian wanted to wait for news from Gongren Road, so she did not go to find her.
A few days later in the evening, Sister Luo called and asked Aunt Liu to go to Gongren Road quickly to check, saying that Liu Leping was smashing the store and one of the doors was broken.
As everyone in the family was there, Uncle Wang hurried to the winery to borrow a motorcycle with a three-wheeled vehicle, and took Aunt Liu, Liu Mianmian and Shen Weizhuo over.
Shen Weiyun also wanted to go and watch the fun, but Yu Wan had heard Aunt Liu mention Luo Chunyu and his wife, and didn't want Shen Weiyun to see such a dirty thing, so she didn't let her go.
It is actually quite comfortable to sit on a roofless motorcycle in the summer evening. It is almost like sitting in a convertible car of this era, with the wind blowing.
Liu Mianmian was a little worried about Shen Weizhou: "Are you sure it's okay to be blown by the wind like this?"
Shen Weizhou said helplessly: "It doesn't matter. I've been drinking Chinese medicine for so long, and I'm all better now. Mr. Bai said last time that everything is normal."
Liu Mianmian glanced at him and muttered, "You said you were drinking Chinese medicine, but I've never seen you drink it in person."
Shen Weizhou looked at her with a smile, then grabbed her hand and squeezed it nonchalantly, saying, "You don't care about me, do you?"
Liu Mianmian: “…”
Haha, man.
You are quite proficient in the skill of putting the blame on others!
She changed the subject: "You are too curious to travel thousands of miles to see something exciting."
Shen Weizhou was speechless. He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Am I here to watch the fun?"
The couple must have had a big fight, and he was afraid that if she went there, she would accidentally get caught up in the conflict.
Although Uncle Wang went with them, if something really happened, he would probably only have time to take care of Aunt Liu.
"He has no conscience."
Liu Mianmian laughed.
The shops along Gongren Road are also open at night. During the day, the sun is scorching and the temperature is high, making it less suitable for shopping. However, there are more people in the evening than during the day.
When Liu Mianmian and the others arrived, the entrance of the North-South Dry Goods Store was already crowded with people. Of the four wooden doors, two were still intact, one was crooked, and there was a corpse lying on the ground in front of the other.
"Oh my, this is too outrageous." Aunt Liu was very angry.
Liu Mianmian stood at the door and looked inside. The shelves that had been mostly filled that day were now completely empty. Several shelves had been overturned, and there were broken pieces of wood on the ground, probably broken stool legs, as well as broken glass and scraps of cloth. It was unclear what the debris was.
A burly man pressed Liu Leping to sit on a stool against the wall. Luo Chunyu protected a girl about ten years old and stood against the wall on the other side. The girl was crying, but not loudly. She sobbed softly, her shoulders shrugging.
"Luo Chunyu, you can do it, you really can do it!" Liu Leping's eyes were bloodshot, and he glared at Luo Chunyu fiercely with an extremely ferocious expression. "You won't leave anything for me, right?"
Luo Chunyu didn't say anything, but just hugged her daughter tighter.
Sister Luo appeared out of nowhere, slumped over to Liu Mianmian and the others, and whispered, "Luo Chunyu is amazing. After she figured out what was going on between Liu Leping and that substitute teacher named Jiang Ying, she sold everything she could at home, even clearing out the stock in the store. While Liu Leping was out, she had a truckload of them haul away everything. No one knows where she hid the money, but when Liu Leping came back, he found the stock and money gone, and even the family savings passbook missing. He went crazy."
"If it weren't for my husband, Old Cai, holding him down, he would have beaten Luo Chunyu and Qianqian!"
Liu Mianmian thought to herself that the burly man holding Liu Leping was actually your old Cai. She asked, "Have you reported this to the police?"
Sister Luo was surprised: "Does the police station care about this kind of fight between husband and wife? Besides, there was no fight, they just smashed some things, why don't you just ask him to compensate you later?"
At that time, people's awareness of the rule of law was not so strong. They all believed that any conflicts between couples or family members, even if they fought and injured each other, were family affairs and there was no need to call the police.
In fact, many people in later generations also had this idea.
Liu Mianmian: "He's intentionally destroying other people's property. It's not something that can be dismissed with just a little compensation. Besides, he's so excited. What if he does something extreme?"
Hearing her say this, Sister Luo felt that it made sense. Her husband, Mr. Cai, couldn't keep holding Liu Leping down all the time. If he let him go, and he really did something, they might not be able to stop him in time.
"I'll go make a phone call. There's a phone number in my store." Sister Luo turned around and trotted back to the store.
Uncle Wang and Aunt Liu entered the store. Old Cai let go of Liu Leping and said, "Leping, Aunt Liu has always been nice to you. Look at you, you've smashed the store like this. It's unacceptable, isn't it?"
Liu Leping stiffened his neck and said, "I have no money left. It's all with that bitch Luo Chunyu. Ask her to pay me back."
Aunt Liu frowned. "You two shouldn't rent this shop anymore. You paid a deposit when I rented it to you. Now we won't return it to you. Oh, it might not even be enough to repair the door."
Liu Leping said nothing.
The two sides were deadlocked for a while, and then Liu Leping suddenly changed his expression and began to coax Luo Chunyu in a gentle voice: "We are husband and wife, and you are too heartless to do this. Divorce and so on, aren't they just angry words? You made such a fuss with me just because of an angry word? Look, Qianqian is scared."
Luo Chunyu laughed sarcastically and covered his daughter's ears before speaking. "You would rather use your money to support someone else's son, and you still say I'm heartless? You're even happy to be your cheap father, and you still have the nerve to accuse me of cheating on you? Liu Leping, you're such a jerk!"
How ironic! She originally thought that Jiang Ying's child was Liu Leping's, but in fact, the child was Jiang Ying's ex-husband, a gambler.
Liu Leping suddenly became excited: "So you knew, huh, no wonder! Luo Chunyu, you know shit! Your three sisters all gave birth to daughters. When I married you, my mother was not happy, saying that women in your family were not destined to give birth to sons. And what happened? It's true! I'm a grown man, and if I don't have a son, what's the point of earning money? Am I waiting for others to eat up the family income?"
He shouted loudly: "I want a son, a son, you know! Jiang Ying can give me a son!"
"Give me back the money, it belongs to my son!"
Liu Leping suddenly pounced on Luo Chunyu, but before he could reach him, he stretched out a leg from the side and kicked him lightly, knocking him down.
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