Chapter 244 Awakening from the Dream
Seeing Song Lubai's appearance, Lin Jianshe rolled up his sleeves and prepared to beat up Lu Jianxi.
Song Lubai grabbed him, "You'll just get beaten up for nothing if you go. I'll just poison him and be done with it."
Lin Jianshe strongly objected, saying, "If he dies, you'll have to pay with your life; it's not worth it at all!"
Lin Jianshe, furious, stood with his hands on his hips, spinning around in place, and said, "I'll lure him out and then kill him!"
Song Lubai shook her head and sneered, "If he's going to die, he'll die by my hand."
After thinking for a long time, Song Lubai asked again, "Does your factory have industrial salt?"
Lin Jianshe asked, puzzled, "What do you need that for?"
Song Lubai didn't want to say too much, only saying, "Don't worry about it. If you have any, try to get me more. If they're strict, take a little at a time, so it doesn't affect your work."
Industrial salt is not poison, and the factory's supervision is not strict. In fact, if the people in the factory wanted to, they could produce it.
While accidental ingestion of this substance is not fatal, long-term consumption in large quantities can be fatal.
Lin Jianshe is right, Lu Jianxi is a scumbag, and she shouldn't have risked her life because of such a scumbag.
Then let's take a little longer.
During this time, Song Lubai went home, but her mother's words chilled her to the bone.
She didn't care what Lin Dahai said, after all, she didn't care about any of his words.
But her mother actually conspired with Lin Dahai to change her.
"Jianxi really wants to spend his life with you. We're already married, but you still have such a bad attitude every day. What man could stand that?"
"You're not getting any younger, it's time to have children. Jianxi said you don't want to live with him and you won't let him touch you, is that true?"
Anyone can say such things, but Song Lubai felt that only her mother couldn't.
“Lu Bai, now that you’re married, you should live a good life. You stay in the dormitory every day and don’t go home. It’s normal for him to feel a little irritable because he thinks you don’t want to be with him. Your uncle and I will talk to him, but you also need to change. You’re not getting any younger. What will you do if you don’t have children?”
Song Lubai: "I didn't want to get married in the first place. After we got married, I wanted to observe him for a while longer. But in just one month, he showed his true colors. I will not continue to live with him, nor will I raise his children or have his children. You used to say you supported my divorce, but now you're on his side. Whose mother are you?"
Zhang Cui retorted angrily, "He helped us with the matter, and you promised to marry him, so you should live a good life with him. Now you're going back on your word. What will people say about our family?"
Song Lubai sneered, "It's enough that Jianshe is back. What more do you want?"
If someone reveals their true nature after only a month or two, what's the point of living like that?
Zhang Cui pointed to the door with a headache and said, "Fine, you won't listen to anyone. Don't come back to this house. It's all for your own good. Don't you think about what will happen to you when you get old? It's like talking to a brick wall. You just stick to your own stubborn idea! Don't come back. Don't come back. Seeing you gives me a terrible headache."
Song Lubai nodded, "Okay, I won't come back anymore."
Seeing that Song Lubai was determined not to live with him, Lu Jianxi frequently came to bother her.
He came to her workplace and caused a scene, making it impossible for her to work and live a normal life.
The Lin brothers helped her vent her anger, standing by her and confronting Lu Jianxi, almost causing deaths several times. Lin Dahai was so angry that he almost died, and whenever he saw Song Lubai, he would say that his family was in trouble.
Before the two of them could even settle into their life together, Lu Jianxi brought home a newborn baby girl from somewhere and simply dumped her on her.
The girl's face vaguely resembled Lu Jianxi's, and Song Lubai realized that this scoundrel had been dishonest outside.
She wanted to start with this girl and sue Lu Jianxi, a scoundrel, but the child's mother died in childbirth, and the biological father was nowhere to be found.
During their numerous arguments and physical altercations, the two brought up Song Lubai's previous boyfriend, and Song Lubai vaguely felt that Lu Jianxi was involved in the death of her previous fiancé.
After realizing something was wrong, she tried to find evidence, but she couldn't find any. This alerted Lu Jianxi, and the two had a falling out.
Later, Lu Jianxi died.
From the time the two held their banquet until his death, only half a year had passed.
The sky had already brightened without us even realizing it.
When the noisy sounds from each household in the tenement building returned to her ears, Song Lubai opened her eyes.
Zhang Cui went to work at the factory after only two hours of sleep that night.
When Zhang Cui returned from the cafeteria with her meal, she saw that her daughter was still asleep. She didn't disturb her and chatted with her neighbors in the hallway about what had happened the night before.
"Da Hai killed someone, he should be shot by Mu Chuang. Really, he shouldn't have associated with his nephew in the first place. Now look what happened, he's ruined himself and his wife and children."
"Luckily, Lu Bai was quick-witted last night. If he had sneaked into your house, the consequences would have been dire."
"Da Hai acted impulsively. How could he kill someone without any regard for consequences? How will your family survive after this..."
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The hallway was filled with the sounds of local dialect. Song Lubai lay there listening for a while, feeling a sense of familiarity, yet also a feeling of being in another world.
After chatting with her neighbors for a while, Zhang Cui dragged her tired body in with a worried expression.
"Lu Bai, get up and eat something before you go back to sleep."
Song Lubai's eyes were swollen, painful, and dry; she lay there with her eyes open, not moving.
Everything in her dream last night made sense, which made her realize that her mother didn't actually care about her that much.
Zhang Cui bent down and shook her shoulders, saying, "Don't sleep, you won't be able to sleep tonight. After dinner, go to the county town to visit your aunt. Jianshe and Heping have been talking about you every day. In a few days, I have to go to the countryside to exchange some grain. Grain is hard to buy these days."
Song Lubai stood up blankly. Zhang Cui looked at her pale face and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
She patted Song Lubai's head. Song Lubai instinctively tried to dodge, but because she was slow to react, she didn't dodge immediately.
"You don't have a fever, so why do you look so pale?"
Song Lubai didn't want to talk to her. After getting up listlessly, she carried a basin to the washroom to wash up like a lost soul.
Zhang Cui noticed Song Lubai's unusual behavior but assumed she was frightened by the previous night.
When the neighbors in the building saw Song Lubai come out, they started talking all at once.
Song Lubai paid no attention to the crowd and gave perfunctory greetings.
The harsh voice of Aunt Niu next door rang out again: "This young girl is really daring. She knocked someone down with one blow. She's really ruthless."
After she finished speaking, almost everyone thought that Aunt Niu had something wrong with her head.
The thugs have climbed to the window. Instead of using weapons to knock them down, are we going to open the door and let them in?
Song Lubai turned around and said, "Aunt Niu, you didn't get away with being beaten, you really didn't! Every beating you received was what you deserved."
Many people chuckled.
Once she realized what was happening, Aunt Niu scolded, "You brat, you're still as annoying as ever after a year. You don't know how to respect your elders at all, you have no manners whatsoever."
Zhang Cui came out and scolded, "Niu Lili, it's good that you're well-mannered, but you don't say a word when you're beaten. Nobody is as well-mannered as you. You have to teach your daughter and granddaughter to learn your manners. If someone insults you, you can't talk back; if someone hits you, you can't say a word; if someone climbs through your window in the middle of the night, you have to open the door and let them in. You're so well-mannered, you have to teach your daughter and granddaughter to be just like you!"
Niu Lili's face flushed red as she said, "Your whole family is terrible. I really feel sorry for the brothers Heping and Jianshe, having to deal with a mother who's been married twice, a father who's a murderer, and a sister who's completely ill-mannered..."
Neighbors are all neighbors, everyone knows each other's little squabbles, and when they argue, they all know exactly how to rub salt into each other's wounds.
"The murderer's father" is the death that Zhang Cui is now utterly afraid to face.
Zhang Cui got angry and grabbed Niu Lili, starting a fight with her.
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