[Chapter 225 Chapter 225 Do you think I'm a fool? ]
Cheng Liyan returned home relatively early today, and his wife was still asleep when he came back.
He washed quickly and went into the bedroom.
Cheng Liyan was just about to have a good talk with his wife, but Shen Yuyao didn't wait for him to speak, and pointed outside and said, "There's a package for you. Qiao An picked it up for you."
Cheng Liyan was stunned for a moment and subconsciously looked towards the outer room.
"Whose?" he asked.
"From your home." Shen Yuyao leaned against the head of the bed, holding a book in her hand, and said without raising her head.
"From my family?" Cheng Liyan repeated, then glanced at his wife.
Although Shen Yuyao didn't show anything, Cheng Liyan could clearly feel her unhappiness at the moment.
Instead of going to bed, he turned and went to the outer room.
He kept muttering, "Which home am I in?"
Ever since his father passed away, Cheng Liyan felt that he had no other home except his current one.
Shen Yuyao didn't answer him.
Cheng Liyan walked into the living room, looked around the room, and found the woven bag on the bench next to the dining table.
He picked it up and looked at it, and his expression changed when he saw the address.
He went to the kitchen, got out a pair of scissors, opened the bag, and saw that it was filled with half a bag of dried sweet potatoes that had turned black.
There was also a folded letter.
Cheng Liyan ignored the dried sweet potatoes and opened the letter to read it.
The letter was very short and it took him less than a minute to finish reading it.
Then he threw it aside.
Before getting on the train, Cheng Liyan reported his cousin Cheng Lanhua's family for human trafficking.
Not long after he returned to the army, he received a reply letter from his comrades.
They said they came to investigate the situation and wanted to take the homeowner Jiang Xian and the person involved Jiang Jian away.
As a result, Cheng Lanhua insisted and took all the blame on herself.
So the final result was that she and Jiang Xianquan were taken away and sentenced to three months and one year in prison respectively as punishment. In addition, the one hundred yuan used for human trafficking was confiscated.
As for their son Jiang Jian, he was not at home when the incident happened and he indeed did not know about that incident, so he will not be held responsible.
Cheng Liyan knew that the reason why Cheng Lanhua and his wife were not given long sentences was indeed due to his family factors.
As the only living relative in their family, the county recognized Cheng Lanhua's qualifications as a military dependent.
But the matter has already been decided, and he can’t reply and say anything. Wouldn’t that be interfering with the work of the local government?
He also told Shen Yuyao about the result, and Shen Yuyao shared his opinion, thinking that such a punishment was too lenient for that family.
After that, Cheng Liyan completely stopped contacting Cheng Lanhua's family, and no one would bring up the matter on their own initiative.
At this time, Shen Yuyao also walked out of the house.
She picked up the letter that Cheng Liyan had dropped on the table, opened it and took a look, then turned to look at him and asked with a sneer, "Are you going to give them the money?"
"No! What for?"
We've already fallen out, why are you trying to save face now?"
He took a look at the dried sweet potatoes and sneered, "Why are they sending these? To complain? To say that they were wronged because of us?
Do you think I'm a fool and will be soft-hearted after seeing these? What a joke! "
Shen Yuyao glanced at Cheng Liyan and didn't respond to his words.
I didn't have the courage to tell him that when I was reading the letter, I really thought that this fool of his was determined.
After all, Cheng Lanhua did not mention a single word about her imprisonment in the letter, as if she had already accepted the result with a sense of grievance.
This letter should have been written by someone else. It was very short and the content was very simple.
The letter said that there was a heavy rain in their hometown some time ago, which flooded the ancestral tomb of the Cheng family.
It was said that there was a hole in Cheng Liyan’s grandparents’ grave, and someone was needed to clean it and repair it.
He said that his family was in financial difficulty and asked him to send back 100 yuan to build his grandparents' graves.
Of course Shen Yuyao knew that this person was taking advantage of the situation!
What kind of grave can be built with a hundred dollars under the current circumstances?
Feudal superstitions are no longer allowed, and in many places even the ancestral graves of ordinary people have been leveled.
Even if one wants to repair a tomb, it is impossible to do it in a grand manner in today's world.
It costs a hundred dollars to repair a grave. It's no exaggeration to say that it's robbery!
But this is a big deal after all.
As a woman born into a large clan family, Shen Yuyao would certainly not raise any objection to such matters concerning ancestral etiquette and laws.
So no matter what she thought in her heart, if Cheng Liyan agreed to this matter, she would never object.
Even though she totally disagreed in her heart.
But looking at his current appearance, Cheng Liyan is obviously very clear in his mind.
In this case, Shen Yuyao felt much more comfortable.
Cheng Liyan crumpled the letter and stuffed it into his pocket, then took the dried sweet potatoes into the kitchen and placed them in the corner.
Then I washed my hands again and returned to the room.
Although he didn't say anything more, anyone could see his displeasure.
Lying on the bed with Shen Yuyao, Cheng Liyan didn't speak for a long time.
When Shen Yuyao was drowsy and about to fall asleep, Cheng Liyan suddenly said, "That's not my aunt. The grave repair should not be given to her. I will take care of it."
Shen Yuyao suddenly woke up.
Cheng Liyan had talked about this matter with Shen Yuyao before, but he only mentioned it vaguely.
Since Cheng Lanhua brought it up today, he told his wife the whole story.
Shen Yuyao finally figured it out.
That Cheng Lanhua was not Cheng Liyan’s biological aunt, but his cousin.
Cheng Lanhua's father is Cheng's father's uncle.
Cheng's father went to the army when he was a teenager and was away for decades.
When he was finally able to return to his hometown after liberation, he found that his entire family was gone.
After asking the villagers, I learned that Cheng's parents took his brothers and other villagers to escape famine, and later died on the way.
The whole family starved to death on the way to escape the famine.
Cheng's father took Cheng Liyan to his hometown for seven days and built a cenotaph for his parents and brothers.
I also found my cousin Cheng Lanhua, the only surviving member of the family who lived in the neighboring village.
Cheng Lanhua did not suffer this misfortune because she got married early and did not follow her family.
Cheng's father left a sum of money for his only relative, his cousin, and asked her to help sweep the graves during festivals and burn incense on the first day of the Qingming Festival.
Cheng Lanhua agreed.
After that, Cheng's father would send some things to Cheng Lanhua every year, and occasionally give her some money, and the two sides began to interact like proper relatives.
The time when Cheng Liyan met Shen Yuyao, he was out on a mission, and the mission location happened to be very close to Cheng Lanhua's home.
At that time, Cheng's father had passed away. Cheng Liyan thought that since he had already returned to his hometown, he must go to pay homage to his grandparents.
So he made a special trip to Cheng Lanhua's house.
Because the trip was sudden, Cheng Lanhua didn't know about it in advance, so she didn't make any preparations.
It was only then that Cheng Liyan discovered that the grass on the graves of his grandparents and uncles had grown so tall that the graves were almost flat!
One can tell at a glance that in the years after her father passed away, probably because she was too busy, she had no contact with Cheng Lanhua's family, so she never came to see her grandparents at all!
Cheng Liyan was very angry.
But Cheng Lanhua is still an elder after all.
And because he was in the special forces during those years, he really didn't contact her or send her any money.
So Cheng Liyan did not show his dissatisfaction.
I just decided in my heart that I would entrust the tomb sweeping task to other reliable people.
Then I gradually became estranged from this cousin's family and stopped having any contact with them.
At that time, he had never thought that he would meet Shen Yuyao at Cheng Lanhua's house.
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