Chapter 119 Dividing Money and Tickets
"You... toad lusting after swan meat, wanting a woman? I'll give you my worthless wife to play with, but don't you dare make a move on Huanwu!"
With blood dripping from the corner of his lips and tears welling in his eyes, Zhou Shuyao screamed in anguish, then spat out another mouthful of blood.
The entire room fell into a deathly silence.
It wasn't because Zhou Shuyao vomited blood, but because of a very damaging remark he had just made.
He gave away his own wife, but advised people not to have designs on his sister-in-law.
What kind of malicious remarks are these?
Song Yaoyao was already very weak after giving birth. When she turned to Zhou Shuyao, her face was pale and she was swaying, like a porcelain doll that was about to shatter. "So... you fought with him just now because of Ling Huanwu?"
"So... what do you take me for? You want to give me away to someone else to play with?"
How could you do this to me?
Song Yaoyao practically shouted her last words.
She grabbed a carrying pole from the side and started smashing it at Zhou Shuyao like a madwoman.
Countless grievances and tears welled up at this moment.
The villagers all stepped forward to dissuade him, their eyes filled with reluctance.
"Guihua's daughter-in-law, you're still in your postpartum period, don't get angry, go home and lie down."
"Zhou's second son, you should say less. Couples always make up before they get out of bed. No one would say they'd give their wife away!"
Zhou Jiuzhen could no longer bear it. He walked over and slapped Zhou Shuyao across the face, causing his teeth to fly out along with blood and foam.
"Your wife is still in postpartum confinement, are you even human?!"
"Yes, I'm not human!"
Zhou Shuyao laughed as he vomited blood, his laughter filled with desolation.
When she looked up at Zhou Jiuzhen again, her eyes were filled with hatred, and the words she said while pointing at Song Yaoyao shocked everyone: "Why didn't you marry Song Yaoyao? Why did you have to steal Huan Wu from me!"
He was kept by Wang Guihua to take care of the child all night, and was forced to go to work early in the morning.
As soon as he started work, he heard that Ling Huanwu had been taken away by Boss Lai yesterday evening. He hurriedly dropped his hoe and was about to go look for her when this annoying educated youth grabbed him and asked him all sorts of questions.
Seeing this educated youth who looked like her older brother, actually saying that he wanted to pursue Ling Huanwu, she was so angry that her blood boiled, and she vented her resentment towards her older brother on him.
Tears streamed down his face. When his gaze fell upon Ling Huanwu behind Zhou Jiuzhen, all his resentment and grievances poured out in that instant.
Ignoring his broken ribs, he staggered to Ling Huanwu's side, excitedly hugged her, and burst into tears.
"Huanhuan, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I only now realize how much pain you must have felt back then. Please forgive me..."
Only now does he truly understand the pain Ling Huanwu suffered back then.
He was tormented by the fact that someone was plotting against Ling Huanwu and that his elder brother and Ling Huanwu had been intimately entangled for so long.
Moreover, how distressed Ling Huanwu must have felt when she found out he had a child with his secretary.
At least back then, Ling Huanwu would have been angry if she had found out that he had gotten another woman pregnant.
But now, she is indifferent to the fact that he has given birth to triplets with another woman. How can he not break down?
Just now, he thought she had been kidnapped and disappeared, and that he was going to lose her forever.
Thankfully, she returned unharmed.
He still had so much guilt to tell her, and he hadn't yet paid off his sins.
At that moment, all he wanted was to show her his true feelings and beg her to turn back to him.
Everyone around was stunned by what they saw, and even more curious about the meaning of "back then" in Zhou Shuyao's words.
Ling Huanwu simply pushed him away, her gaze falling on the new seedlings bent over by the two of them, her face full of heartache.
What happened next took everyone by surprise.
She stood with her hands on her hips on the newly turned paddy field ridge, the tips of her canvas shoes grinding hard against the crushed potato seedlings at her feet, her eyes wide like two round tomatoes. "Are you two donkeys or bulls? Huh?"
"This seedling just sprouted yesterday, so tender you could squeeze water out of it, and you've put on a 'dragon and tiger fight' here. Did you fight your way to a gold ingot or a steamed bun?"
She picked up a broken seedling stalk and waved it at the two of them: "Zhou Shuyao, are you all army? And you, what kind of educated youth are you, with your fists all hard? If you're so tough, go and fight the stones on the grassland! Why are you fighting with these newly born seedlings? If they don't produce potatoes, I think you two will end up hugging each other and eating each other!"
She stood between the two of them, her ponytail whipping like a small whip: "Still glaring? If you keep glaring, you'll kill this half-row of seedlings! Quickly squat down and lift up the seedlings you can. If you dare to slack off..."
She pointed to a small hill of various meat and cloth coupons that had suddenly appeared not far away, as well as a neatly stacked pile of "Big Black Ten" banknotes, and said, "You two will be punished by having no share!"
Ling Huanwu's words carried a hint of arrogance, but her eyes shone with an astonishing brightness.
Staring intently at the two of them, Zhao Jingxiang, a seasoned player in the dating scene, felt uneasy and turned his head away.
Zhou Shuyao stared intently at Ling Huanwu, as if he had returned to his previous life in Hong Kong, to the domineering way he first saw Ling Huanwu at the dinner table, using her little weakness to get the company's first contract.
The villagers who had been watching the fight from the beginning finally followed Ling Huanwu's directions and saw two small piles of things on the ridge of the field.
The villagers thought they were seeing things, rubbed their eyes, and were so surprised that their mouths were agape enough to fit a flatbread.
"What's going on? Did a pie fall from the sky? How did all sorts of bills suddenly appear out of the ground?"
"We hadn't seen these things just now, Comrade Ling, what's going on?"
The villagers were all very excited, surrounding Ling Huanwu and asking her all sorts of questions.
In fact, while everyone's attention was focused on the two fighting, Ling Huanwu took out the money notes that Boss Lai had plundered from his house from her spatial storage, intending to take them from the people and use them for the people.
Ling Huanwu feigned ignorance, looking completely bewildered. "I didn't know either. Weren't these bills and money distributed to everyone by the village chief and team leader? I thought so, which is why I was planning to use them to punish the two who were fighting..."
The village chief and the production team leader just looked at each other, completely unaware that the other was going to divide the money and tickets.
But the villagers were already making a rumbling sound like a boiling kettle, a scene of utter uproar.
"Thanks to the country, my child can finally wear clothes this year!"
"My child has been asking for pork ribs for ages, and now we can finally fulfill their wish..."
Some cheered, some wiped away tears.
Everyone was clamoring for the tickets and the money to be divided.
Amid cheers, the village chief and production team leader snapped out of their daze and called over the team accountant to begin calculating the distribution of tickets and money.
Long queues formed along the long ridges of the field, as people eagerly awaited their share of money and tickets.
Faced with this sudden change, Zhou Shuyao and Zhao Jingxiang, who had just been locked in a heated argument, were completely bewildered.
One was a wealthy department store manager who was never short of money, and the other was once rich but didn't care about such a small amount.
But the two of them obediently squatted down and, under Ling Huanwu's death stare, straightened up one of the potato seedlings that had just been bent over.
Seeing the two men being completely subdued, Song Yaoyao's eyes turned bloodshot and she looked like she was about to explode.
Just then, Wang Guihua, the mother-in-law, heard that there were money tickets to be distributed, and rushed over with one of her triplets to share the money tickets.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she arrived at the scene, Song Yaoyao rushed towards Wang Guihua like a madwoman and snatched the child from her hands.
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