“You’ve all misunderstood. It wasn’t Zhao’s second brother who bullied me. He didn’t do anything. It was his wife who did it.”
Li Lao Er's eyes widened in disbelief upon hearing his sister's words.
"His wife did nothing but stand by and watch? She deserved to be hit!"
It must be said that Li Lao Er is good at grasping the key points.
Zhao Laosan was completely dumbfounded.
Is this person's thought process really that peculiar?
However, when Zhao Laosan glanced at the door of the room where Li's sister was, his face was full of complicated emotions.
He just couldn't understand why a perfectly healthy young woman would speak as if she couldn't poop, squeezing out words little by little.
Seeing his second brother's increasingly unnatural expression, he knew that things were unlikely to end well today.
At this moment, Zhao Laosan had only one thought in his mind: he absolutely could not let this matter be brought to his father's attention.
If Dad gets angry about this and then gives away the good jobs that he finally assigned to me and my second brother to make money, he'll feel like he's losing out!
Zhao Laosan knew exactly what the Li family was angry about, and he also knew what the Li family was most worried about.
He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and without much thought, blurted out a single sentence.
"If you feel that our Zhao family has caused your sister to suffer or affected her marriage, I'll take responsibility!"
It's impossible to make my second brother, who has a wife and children, take responsibility, right?
As the old saying goes, it's better to tear down a temple than to break up a marriage.
Although he also felt that his second sister-in-law was a bad person, he couldn't just dislike her, so he let his second brother and sister-in-law separate and he remarry.
Besides, although people in rural areas get married early, most of them only apply for a marriage certificate when they reach the legal marriage age after they have children.
Actually, Li's daughter isn't very old; she's just reached marriageable age. Marrying her would mean you could go straight to getting a marriage certificate and solve your bachelor problem.
The more Zhao Laosan thought about it, the more he felt that he was really smart.
With his current reputation, let alone marrying a virgin, he'd probably have a hard time even finding a widow with a child.
If I could really be with the Li family's daughter, I would not only solve this major life event, but also keep my profitable business, and I could also gain respect in front of my elderly father...
Before Zhao Laosan could finish his thought process, he felt a chill run down his spine.
Forced to turn around, he saw Li Lao Er's bloodshot eyes staring intently at him.
Fortunately, Li Lao Er didn't swing his hoe at him, otherwise he would probably have lost his life.
"You think you can marry my sister? You're just a country bumpkin?"
Li Lao Er's voice was icy cold, "Get out! All of you get out! Don't let us see any more members of the Zhao family!"
Who is Zhao Laosan? He's a tough nut to crack; do you think he can be intimidated by such a statement?
"What are you saying, Second Brother? We're all from the same village. Even if I roll from one end of the village to the other, I can't avoid your Li family."
Li Lao Er got even angrier, "Don't call me that so affectionately, your second brother is right next to you, I'm not your brother!"
Zhao Laosan scratched his ear. "Then... then I'll call you Second Brother? You're older than me, that's not a good idea."
And so, the two Zhao brothers were kicked out of the Li family's courtyard by the Li family. The door slammed shut from the inside, almost pinching Zhao Laosan's nose.
The two brothers finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhao Laosan even freed one hand to grab his second brother and run away.
"Run! If the Li family catches up and drags you in for another beating, I can't protect you!"
Zhao Lao Er was completely bewildered. As his third brother pulled him toward home, a big question mark popped into his head.
So he's overthinking it?
My third brother's words were just an excuse to get away; he had no interest in that girl from the Li family at all.
The Li family at this time.
After calming down, Li's daughter changed her clothes and, supported by her elderly mother, walked out with a pale face.
The brothers had just driven the Zhao family away and were all busy with their own things.
When they saw their sister come out, they all gathered around her.
Li Lao Er looked the girl up and down, and seeing that she was fine except for her pale complexion, his nervousness dissipated considerably.
Before he could even say a few words to comfort her, his sister's words struck him like lightning, almost splitting him in two.
"Second brother, I think Zhao Jianhua is a pretty good person. We didn't know him before, and we just believed whatever the villagers said. We were all fooled."
Li Lao Er almost choked, looking at his sister as if she were a lunatic.
"Do you even know what you're saying? Are you out of your mind or just having a fit?"
The other brothers nearby also chimed in, trying to dissuade their sister from doing something foolish, one after another saying:
"If it's just our family that has a prejudice against Zhao Laosan, how come the whole village shares the same view?"
“Listen to me, Zhao Laosan is definitely not a good person! I have seen him rob people with my own eyes, and they were all teenagers.”
"You saw it when he was doing farm work; he couldn't even finish half an acre of land in a day. He's not even as good as a ten-year-old kid in the village!"
"Besides, he's incredibly lazy. All he does is eat, sleep, or play. It's not just the villagers who are furious with him; even Zhao Youcai's father gets angry at him. What's so good about someone like that? Did Zhao Lao Er's wife beat you senseless?"
The brothers suddenly stopped talking, and one of them turned around and shouted loudly towards a room:
"Mother! Mother, come out quickly! Take my sister to the hospital to have her brain checked!"
An old woman with a face full of wrinkles ran quickly out of the house, her hands trembling, and she almost tripped and fell.
"Honey, are you really scared?"
He quickly approached Li's sister, grabbed her arm tightly, and tried to rush outside.
Li's daughter was both amused and exasperated, and quickly reached out to pat her mother's hand.
"I'm fine, Mother, don't be afraid."
She smiled and looked around at the Li family members, then suddenly shared her opinion on Zhao Laosan.
"Don't you brothers think Zhao Jianhua is very smart? While all the other members of the Zhao family were working themselves to the bone to support that college student, Zhao Jianhua was the only one eating, drinking, and loafing around. Was he just trying to avoid becoming a workhorse to be slaughtered?"
The brothers fell silent, none of them following their sister's line of reasoning.
They were filled with hatred; they were practically grinding their teeth to powder.
Those damned Zhao family members!
Finally, he stopped thinking about Zhao Lao Er and his heart had moved on to someone else. But how did this change happen, and it's still someone from the Zhao family?
Did your parents have other ideas when they were making you, so they didn't bring a brain with them when they had a daughter?
At this moment, Zhao Laosan had no idea that his former behavior, which was disliked by both men and dogs, would have such an explanation in Li's sister's mouth.
He didn't have time to think about anything else, because as soon as he got home, he found the house eerily quiet.
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