Chapter 16 Thicker Skin Than a City Wall
"This is the money he gave me to have and raise my child!"
Minister Shen took the remittance slips from Xie Zhizhi's hand, flipped through them one by one, and showed Xie Zhizhi a look of disappointment and frustration.
But he still spoke to Xie Hongchao, saying, "You're shameless. You pee standing up, how can you be so shameless..." Perhaps he wasn't satisfied with just cursing, so Minister Shen couldn't help but kick Xie Hongchao.
After kicking, Minister Shen said: "Hitting someone is definitely more satisfying."
"Look at this yourself! You haven't left anyone a single penny!" Minister Shen said, shaking the thick stack of remittance slips. "Are you and your husband leeches?"
"Trying to be sucked to death?"
The others craned their necks to look at the remittance slip in Minister Shen's hand, and finally they all raised their hands to accuse Xie Hongchao and his wife, "How can you be so shameless!"
"Exactly, their skin is thicker than a city wall!"
"Taking so much money from people for no reason, aren't they afraid of being bloated to death?"
"Pah, shameless!"
Xie Hongchao and Wei Guihua, a married couple, were harassed by the crowd. One lay silently on the ground, while the other squatted down, leaning against the doorway, enduring everyone's insults and curses, but they refused to mention repaying the money.
They remained silent, so Xie Zhizhi grabbed the megaphone again and yelled into Xie Hongchao's ear, "Pay back the money!"
Xie Hongchao "..."
"Fuck your mother..."
"Slap!" Minister Shen slapped him across the head. "Isn't her mother your mother?"
"Did you spring out of a crack in a rock?"
"What the hell!"
"Who shares a mother with her?" Xie Hongchao blurted out in anger.
After he said those words, Xie Hongchao's expression changed.
He said in a panic and urgency, "You bitch, you just wait, I'm going to call home right now and have your mother come and kill you."
His remark, "Who shares a mother with you?" seemed to be just a fit of anger, a reckless outburst, and nobody took it to heart.
Xie Hongchao said he was going to make a phone call, so he got up and rushed out of the crowd to find a public phone.
Wen Jinzhou originally wanted to grab him, but Xie Zhizhi gestured for him not to, so Wen Jinzhou withdrew his hand.
Xie Hongchao ran off to make a phone call, and Xie Zhizhi stepped over Wei Guihua and went inside.
This is a three-bedroom house, quite spacious, with a very large living room.
All kinds of furniture are available.
Sunlight streamed through the extended balcony, filling the entire living room with excellent natural light.
The door was open, and a gentle breeze was refreshing.
Aside from the slightly heavy traces of daily life, this is a very satisfying house.
Xie Zhizhi glanced around casually a few times, then headed towards the master bedroom.
Wei Guihua, who had been lying on the ground pretending to be dead, stopped pretending at this moment. She let out a "whoop" and got up from the ground, heading straight for Xie Zhizhi.
Wen Jinzhou rushed over immediately.
Xie Zhizhi also turned around.
Just as she raised her hand, she saw Wei Guihua stop the car, her hair disheveled, her face swollen from being hit, and she shouted at her, "Who let you in?"
"Who let you in?"
"Get out of here, get out of here, get out now."
Xie Zhizhi: I was so angry I laughed.
Xie Zhizhi did laugh. "Heh," she gently picked at her ear. "Did I hear that right?"
"Get out?" Xie Zhizhi pointed at herself.
Xie Zhizhi twirled her fingers lightly, "You're the one who should get lost!"
Her casual remark made Wei Guihua tremble with anger.
Xie Zhizhi pointed to the mess inside the room and asked, "Are you going to clean it up yourselves, or should I go through the trouble of throwing it out for you?"
As for the money, Xie Zhizhi knew they wouldn't give it up so easily.
But don't worry, she has plenty of ways.
Wei Guihua trembled even more violently, but still said matter-of-factly, "You dare!"
Xie Zhizhi quickly responded with a gesture.
Clothes, cups...
Xie Zhizhi didn't throw them into the stairwell; she threw them directly downstairs.
When Xie Zhizhi threw things downstairs, the elderly women and men who were watching the drama quickly moved aside, afraid of blocking Xie Zhizhi's performance.
There was also an older woman who quickly grabbed the megaphone Xie Zhizhi had brought, afraid that Xie Zhizhi might accidentally knock the megaphone off the railing when she threw something.
"Ahhh..." Wei Guihua screamed like a madwoman as she watched Xie Zhizhi throw the things downstairs, but she couldn't stop Xie Zhizhi because Wen Jinzhou kept deliberately blocking her way.
Seeing Xie Zhizhi throwing more and more, Wei Guihua spread her legs and sat down on the ground, slapping her thighs and wailing again, "Heartless! Beast! How can you treat your own brother and sister-in-law like this!"
"God, why won't you open your eyes? Send a bolt of lightning to strike her dead!"
Xie Zhizhi was a little tired after throwing away a lot of things.
This body is still too weak. Although she has been eating a lot of good food these past two days, she has been depleted for too long and cannot recover in just a few days.
To restore your body to a normal state, you need to eat and drink well for at least ten days to half a month.
Shaking off any dirt that might have gotten on her hands, Xie Zhizhi said to the wailing Wei Guihua, "Look at you, you've lost all your manners again."
Xie Zhizhi's original intention was to shake the dirt off her hands.
But in Wei Guihua's view, her swinging motion was just a warm-up exercise before hitting someone.
Wei Guihua instinctively covered her head with her hands and screamed loudly, "Ah..."
Her screams were so shrill and piercing that they made Minister Shen, who was still standing at the door, frown. "Look at you! You've taken over someone else's house, and now that couple is about to get a divorce, not only do you not know your mistake, you're even trying to shift the blame..."
"You're being unreasonable."
"Yes, that's right, they're just unreasonable."
"Exactly! And she called herself my sister-in-law? What kind of sister-in-law would do something like that!"
"If you ask me, even if they were to be struck by lightning, it should be the couple who get struck."
As Minister Shen began to speak, everyone started criticizing Wei Guihua, who was slumped on the ground.
Everyone was talking about Wei Guihua, but Wei Guihua didn't dare to say a word or howl.
Who can blame them when the people living here are either family members of leaders or retired leaders!
She can't afford to offend any of them!
Seeing that she had stopped crying, Minister Shen spoke earnestly again, "You're so young, and perfectly capable. Don't be like that scoundrel and make people look down on you."
"Act like a proper sister-in-law. Go pack your things, move out, and give the house back to your sister-in-law."
"Afterwards, you and your husband should find a job, work hard together, and rely on your own hands to make a living. That's the way to live!"
"Slap slap..."
As soon as Minister Shen finished speaking, Xie Zhizhi enthusiastically clapped her hands, "Good, well said!"
Minister Shen stood with his hands behind his back and his head held high, saying modestly, "Ahem, no, no."
But Xie Zhizhi still raised both hands high and gave a thumbs up.
This made Minister Shen hold his chin up even higher; he was clearly pleased to be photographed.
With Xie Zhizhi taking the lead, the older women also praised Minister Shen, saying, "The old minister is right. You have to rely on yourself to make a living. Think about how difficult it was for us back then."
"That's not true, we can't even get enough to eat."
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