Chapter 68: Going to the Countryside as Educated Youth in the 1970s 31
[This is a parallel fictional world. Please do not take any similarities between place names and people as they appear.]
Suddenly, a car drove up and stopped. Li Jianmin got out without even looking at his daughter. He walked up to Zhang Xiaojia and said, "Xiaojia, this is Jiaojiao, you're so big now. I'm Uncle Li, your mother's friend."
Zhang Xiaojia said bluntly, "Uncle Li, take us back to the clinic."
Li Jianmin laughed and scolded, "Just like the boss, you don't know what politeness is. Get in the car."
Li Mei saw her father walk away without looking back and ignoring her.
Song Weiqing snorted coldly and said, "I told you two brothers to seriously investigate why Leng Jiaojiao was in Eighteen's bed. None of you investigated and decided it was Leng Jiaojiao's fault. Now that you've returned to your position, shouldn't Eighteen be happy? I wonder how the clan leader will deal with it? Will he kick you two out?"
He Shiba watched his wife leave without looking back. He didn't hear what his sister-in-law said at all. He just felt his head buzzing and panicked. Without saying a word, he rushed to the bicycle, got on it and rushed to the He family's house.
Li Mei also left sadly.
He Jiu was dumbfounded. Why didn't his brother want a divorce? What was going on? Looking at his wife foolishly, Song Weiqing's forehead was smoking. He cursed, "How many times have I told you? Don't interfere in my younger brother's marriage. Every time you see Leng Jiaojiao with a nose that's not a nose and eyes that are not eyes, how many times have I told you? Your idiot brother fell in love with her before they were married, but you just didn't believe it. Well, her family came to find you. Her family background is better than yours. Now you have gone to the clan leader for a divorce. When you changed your son's surname, the clan leader and elders always wanted to beat you up. Fifth brother protected you and they didn't beat you up. Now Leng Jiaojiao goes back and says that they have slept in separate beds for three years after marriage and have never had sex. Eighteen is still having an affair with another woman. Do you think Fifth brother will beat you two brothers?"
"Nineteen is my biological brother. He wouldn't do this to his own brother, right? He hasn't slept with his wife for three years. This scumbag brother has treated his wife coldly and violently, leaving her a widow. Oh my god! The clan leader will beat her to death! What should I do with my wife?" He Jiu said in horror.
Song Weiqing sighed, "I'll prepare some medicine for you. I advise you to go back now, kneel down and admit your mistake. Fifth Brother will leave you with a lasting impression."
"Wife, won't you go back with me?" He Jiu looked at her pitifully.
"No, I also really can't stand you bullying Jiaojiao like this. You don't listen, and I can't bring myself to do it. It's just right for Fifth Brother to beat you." After saying this, Song Weiqing rode away on his bicycle.
After getting off the car, Zhang Xiaojia wanted to talk to Leng Jiaojiao, but was stopped by Li Jianmin, who drove everyone else out of the car.
"Xiao Jia, when Sister Leng got divorced last time, your old boss severely criticized you, right?"
Zhang Xiaojia nodded without saying anything.
"Divorce is impossible. You understand the truth better than I do. Right now, society as a whole holds a strongly negative moral view of divorce. Jiaojiao's reason for divorce is family conflict. Once it's publicly stated, those with ulterior motives will label it as 'bourgeois decadent ideology.' Don't even think about divorce. He Shiba is a good man. He has feelings for Jiaojiao. You can bully him, you can beat him, even break his legs, but divorce is not an option. Do you understand?"
Zhang Xiaojia was stubborn and refused to speak.
Li Jianmin suddenly said sternly, "Your father has really taken great pains for you. Do you think no one says anything every time you buy chicken, duck, fish or meat at the market? He's always helped you out, and our family has money. These are minor issues. It's okay. Girls are a little spoiled. It's okay to spoil your only daughter. It's okay for you to show off with photos, but the basic principles must not be broken. We don't require you to do anything. We give you a free and happy life, but you must never hold the boss back. Go back and reflect on this. You don't have to go to the post office to make a phone call. I'll notify Sister Leng."
Zhang Xiaojia was kicked out of the car
Zhang Xiaojia felt very frustrated, so frustrated.
Leng Jiaojiao looked at Zhang Xiaojia, touched her head, and said gently, "Xiaojia, it's not easy to get a divorce, right?"
Zhang Xiaojia felt that she was useless and only knew how to talk big, so she could only say, "I'm sorry, Sister Jiaojiao."
Leng Jiaojiao gently shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter. I asked about it a year ago, and the higher-ups didn't agree."
Zhang Xiaojia asked Sister Jiaojiao, "Sister, what happened between you and He Shiba?"
"When I escaped from the Liu family, I happened to save an old lady, so she let me live in her old house. I used the market to buy soybeans and made bean curd sheets to make money to buy food, and secretly hid from the Liu family. One time, I was discovered by the Liu family and they chased me to beat me. It was Shi Ba who saved me. He also helped me sell the bean curd sheets to buy food. To thank him, I treated him to a meal, and after the meal, we actually lay in the same bed. The next day, my room was unexpectedly broken into by the Liu family, and everyone saw us in the same bed. He was punished, did not get a promotion, and was forced to marry me. I also used him to get rid of the Liu family.
Xiaojia, He Shiba has never wronged me. After we got married, he gave me his salary every month. It's just that I wasn't qualified to use his money. I saved it all. It's me who has wronged him."
Zhang Xiaojia still believed that it was He Shiba's fault, and said very hypocritically, "If that's the case, why did he wrongly accuse you? Why let another woman blame you? He felt wronged, but aren't you wronged? If you designed this, you deserve to be wronged. It wasn't you who did it, so why should you bear all the responsibility? Since you won't divorce me, then we can separate. Sister Jiaojiao, is your household registration still in the Liu family?"
"No, I'm still in the Sixth Village. The village secretary separated me from the Liu family and secretly gave me a dozen certificates. Only then can I go to the market to buy things."
Zhang Xiaojia said, "Let's go see the old secretary during the Mid-Autumn Festival."
He Xinyan and Xiaoyi were eavesdropping on the side. Xiaoyi was confused. When He Xinyan heard that He Shiba asked another woman to bully Leng Jiaojiao, her eyebrows raised.
This is not a manly thing. Go home and tell grandpa and uncle.
It was not her turn to complain. Ping'an and Pangpang returned home and saw their father, grandfather and Uncle He Ba were all there, so they exaggerated the complaint. The old patriarch had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. He failed to beat He Jiu last time, and now He Shiba dared to bully his wife, and He Jiu even condoned it.
The patriarch immediately found the elders and discussed with them to go to the city to beat people up tomorrow.
He Wu rubbed his forehead and asked, "Ping An, is your sister living next door to your Eighteenth Aunt now?"
"Well, it's not Aunt Eighteen, it's Sister Jiaojiao."
"Forget it, I'll go ask myself." He Wu walked quickly to the next room, and He Ba followed.
He Wu said unhappily, "Why are you here to join in the fun?"
He Ba was afraid that there would be chaos and said, "Fifth brother, such a fun thing? How can I be left out?"
After listening to Zhang Xiaojia's story (Zhang Xiaojia didn't say they hadn't gone to bed yet), He Wu didn't know what to say.
He Shiba, this idiot, was framed and slept with by someone without knowing what was going on, and he didn't even bother to check things out?
He suspected Leng Jiaojiao was behind this, and they were even married? He said he had no feelings for Leng Jiaojiao, but who would believe him? Didn't he have any idea?
Since you have chosen to get married, just move on and live a good life. Why do you let other women blame your wife?
Listening to my son and Zhang Xiaojia saying that woman's accusations must have happened more than once or twice.
Why did He Jiu join in the fun of Shi Ba's couple's relationship? Did he think their life was too leisurely?
He didn't want to deal with this lousy young patriarch anymore. He had caused so many troubles. He might as well beat him up!
He Ba was so disappointed that he said to Leng Jiaojiao, "Sister-in-law, you are so disappointing. How could you let Shiba bully you like this? Why don't you go back to the tribe and fight your sister-in-law? You should learn the art of controlling your husband from your sister-in-law. Look at the sisters-in-law in the tribe, they are all tigresses."
What could He Wu do? People are selfish. No matter how wrong his brother is, he will beat him up behind closed doors to teach him a lesson. His brother must have feelings for Leng Jiaojiao. He cannot agree to their divorce. He can only persuade him, saying, "Sister-in-law, you still have feelings for each other. If you want to beat or scold him, you can do it as you please. If he dares to resist, I will beat him to death. Give him a chance."
He Wu tried to persuade her a few times, but when he saw Leng Jiaojiao wavering, he stopped trying to persuade her. He thought that saying too much would be counterproductive.
He Wu dragged He Ba away. If he let this guy continue talking, the daughter-in-law of the He family would become a tigress and would soon become a female tyrant.
After the busy farming season, he had to check the accounts of the chicken farm, pig farm, and market, and also arrange things for the second half of the year. When he got home after finishing his work, he just brought the wine poured by his wife when he saw He Shiba coming in. He Wu drank it in one gulp.
He Wu said coldly, "Your wife is next door, why don't you go and beg her instead of coming here to get beaten?"
He Shiba said aggrievedly, "I went, but there was a piece of paper posted at the door saying that He Jiu and He Shiba are not allowed to enter."
He Wu instructed, "First, find out why you and Leng Jiaojiao slept together, and then you can talk about it as a couple. Otherwise, this will be a thorn in your side. Second, completely break off all ties between you and Li Mei. After you've done these two things, kneel in front of me in the ancestral hall for three days and get out~~"
He Wu didn't know that they had been married for three years and had never slept together, and He Shiba treated Leng Jiaojiao coldly, so he didn't hit her.
He Shiba didn't want to check. "Fifth brother, we're already married, what's there to check?"
"Leng Jiaojiao said it wasn't her, but you thought it was her. This is your conflict. You're unwilling to turn the page and live a good life. Why are you blaming the responsibility on a woman?"
"I'm willing to live a good life. I hand over my monthly salary and keep 2 yuan for cigarettes. I let her make all the decisions at home. I have no objections. As long as the family takes care of me, I do all my work and even wash my own clothes. What else do you want from me?"
Su Lanhua asked carefully, "Eighteen, do you mean you wash your own clothes and cook your own meals?"
He Shiba said as if it was a matter of course, "Yes! Of course I do my own things myself."
He Wu wanted to crack his brain open to see what he was thinking. Don't you know why you got married? And if he separated from his wife so clearly, wouldn't it be like telling Leng Jiaojiao that he wanted to cut off all ties?
He Wu stood up angrily and kicked him.
He Jiu rushed over at this time and shouted, "Fifth brother, please show mercy. He Shiba is a bit stupid. They were forced to get married like that. Shiba was too confused to sleep with He Leng Jiaojiao. Please forgive him. I promise that he will change!"
After hearing this, He Wuyi finally understood why Zhang Xiaojia was so angry. After being married for three years, he made someone a widow. How the hell is that something a human being would do?
When the old patriarch heard that He Jiu and He Shiba had returned, he rushed home with a whip. Then he heard that He Shiba had been married for three years and his wife had been a widow, and he became quiet for a moment.
He Wu looked at the farce in front of him. His father had been looking for an opportunity to beat He Jiu, and finally he got the chance. Seeing He Jiu and He Shiba being beaten all over the place, he wanted to stop it, but his wife gave him a look and told him to forget it. He should just drink. Anyway, his father would not beat the two brothers to death.
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