Chapter 68 067. Daring to marry Lei Li, what a man...
Niu Dali chose the second option.
Anyone who has a shiny white kitchen knife pressed against their crotch and is threatened by an expressionless butcher will choose the second option without hesitation.
Divorce is better than having no descendants.
"very good."
Lei Li laughed again, but the kitchen knife, which was so sharp that the bone could be seen after one cut, kept turning around Niu Dali's crotch, as if he was considering where to cut.
"You stole Mr. Miao's money, didn't you? Where did you put it? On your left thigh or your right thigh..."
"Pants, belt!"
Niu Dali was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and kept swallowing his saliva. "I put it on my belt! I was afraid of losing it, so I tied it to my belt... It's just one tael, no, that's not right, it's two taels of silver and more than three hundred coins... I spent some on drinking..."
"Wouldn't it be better if you were so obedient earlier?"
Lei Li used the back of his knife to pry open Niu Dali's belt, and two broken silver ingots rolled out, along with a string of copper coins tied together with a rope.
The silver coins were picked up.
Niu Dali did not wait for the shade to leave. The back of the knife was still against his stomach, reminding him of the place where Lei Li cut open the belly when he slaughtered the New Year pig in the village.
Breaking out in a cold sweat.
He dared not move again.
"You still have gambling debts, right?"
"I owe a little..."
"Really?"
Under Lei Li's smiling yet sinister gaze, Niu Dali hurriedly said, "Five taels, I owe you five taels. I was thinking of selling the paddy fields to make up the difference. I didn't intend to take advantage of Xiaobao... Really..."
He's just a kid of a few years old, can't work, can't have children, and no one wants him...
The smile in Lei Li's eyes suddenly disappeared, and he stared at Niu Dali as if he was staring at a fish on a chopping board.
He originally thought that no matter how much gambling debt Niu Dali owed, he would just ask Miao Fulang for money and use violence when Miao Fulang refused to give it. He didn't expect that he also thought about selling Xiaobao.
Lei Li could use threats and fists to make Niu Dali stay quiet for a while and not dare to attack Miao Fulang and Xiaobao, but if he really wanted to sell Xiaobao out, Lei Li would have no time to stop him and no position to stop him.
After all, Niu Dali is Xiaobao's father.
Just go all out...
Lei Li suddenly glanced at Zhou Yi and sighed inwardly. It's not good for her husband to be too nice. He has to go through so much trouble to solve a problem that can be solved by just using rat poison.
“……?”
Zhou Yi received Lei Li's gaze, and sensed his disgust, condemnation, and inexplicable joy. He felt a little uneasy... would the spearhead suddenly be directed at him?
Zhang Daqiang was a man of strong limbs but a simple mind. He was slow to grasp Niu Dali's intentions and immediately kicked him in shock and anger. "Are you still human? Are you Xiaobao's father?! You actually want to sell Xiaobao!"
After saying that, he still felt unsatisfied and kicked Niu Dali again.
Fortunately, Lei Li put away the kitchen knife in time, otherwise Niu Dali would have really ripped him open.
Lei Li looked at Niu Dali quietly, as if he was watching a dying fish on a chopping board. After he recovered his breath, he slowly said,
"Twenty taels."
"What……?"
Niu Dali gasped in pain after being kicked twice, his mind still half-clear. "What do you mean twenty taels?" They weren't going to ask him to pay twenty taels, were they?!
"After you divorce Mr. Miao, I'll give you twenty taels. You can use it to pay off your gambling debts, or spend it on drinking. You can also go to the gambling house and earn forty, sixty, or even a hundred taels."
"really?!"
Niu Dali suddenly forgot the pain in his body and his eyes were shining.
"certainly."
Lei Li said calmly, "But you must sever your father-son relationship with Xiaobao, and you must not harass Xiaobao and Miao Fulang again. You must also give the house and land in Sanli Village to Miao Fulang."
"Xiaobao doesn't recognize you as his father."
"Miao Fulang knows you want to sell Xiaobao, so he will definitely not give you money in the future. Your family only has two acres of remote paddy fields that can't be sold at a high price. Your house is also a shabby thatched house. No one wants the land deed even if you sell it."
"Twenty taels is a lot."
Niu Dali choked and swallowed back the "no" that he wanted to blurt out. He rolled his eyes and felt that Lei Li was right, but he also felt that he could trick Lei Li into doing more.
"Still want to bargain?"
Lei Li's knife suddenly hit Niu Dali's face. It was cold and white, reflecting Niu Dali's dark yellow, weak, panic-stricken and sweaty face.
"Believe it or not, I can make you die here without even a scream. I'll cut your throat and let the blood flow out like a pig's blood."
"If someone asks, I'll just casually say that this was accidentally spilled duck blood, and no one will know you're dead."
"Because no one will look for you."
"If you don't come home, Mr. Miao will be happy and won't report you to the police. The villagers will just think that you are gambling outside, owe money and can't pay it back, so you ran away."
"You have to believe it."
"I'm as experienced in killing people as I am in slaughtering pigs, especially people like you."
There was complete silence.
Niu Dali didn't dare to breathe or swallow his saliva, only a yellow liquid soaked his crotch and the ground.
“…”
Lei Li took two steps back calmly and said calmly, "What's your answer?"
"Divorce..."
Niu Dali suddenly came to his senses and said hurriedly with tears streaming down his face, "I want a divorce, a divorce from the Miao family. I don't want Xiaobao anymore, and I don't want the house or the land either. Twenty taels, twenty taels..."
He wanted to say that he didn't dare to take the twenty taels, but he couldn't bear to give it to him. In panic, he glanced at Lei Li and whispered tentatively, "Are you really going to give it to me?"
"That's natural."
Lei Li smiled again, put away the knife, and took back the silver note of one hundred taels from Niu Dali.
fortunately.
The banknotes were not wet.
Lei Li then looked at Zhou Yi and Zhang Daqiang, smiling broadly, and said, "It's solved. Easy, right?"
Zhou Yi looked at Niu Dali without any sympathy and nodded affirmatively.
Zhang Daqiang looked at Zhou Yi with sympathy and nodded admiringly.
Dare to marry Boss Lei.
What a man.
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Divorce is very common in modern times.
But in the Dayou Dynasty, divorce was a big deal, more eye-catching than marrying ten wives at the same time, and there might not be one every three to five years.
Miao Fulang never thought that he would be able to divorce Niu Dali and have exclusive custody of Xiaobao, and the house and land would also be his.
Even the dowry he had saved for Xiaobao was returned almost intact, except that Niu Dali spent some of it on wine, which was negligible compared to what he had taken away in the past.
It's like a dream.
This is all thanks to Lei Li.
Miao Fulang was really grateful to Lei Li. It was Lei Li who helped him when he was beaten by Niu Dali before.
Although Lei Li used to feel that his reputation in the village was not very good, he was afraid that Gui Fulang would gossip about him, so he did not have much contact with Miao Fulang in public.
But Miao Fulang knew that Lei Li was a very kind and warm-hearted person.
Lei Li would sometimes pass by and see Xiao Bao playing alone in the yard. He would come to talk to Xiao Bao and give him small toys.
——For example, a grasshopper that you caught by chance.
The little wooden horse that Xiaobao likes very much was given by Lei Li, and later he also got an embroidered little tiger.
"I can't let you give me those twenty taels for nothing. I will hurry up and earn some silver and return it to you as soon as possible."
Although Miao Fulang had never been to school, he was very sensible. He knew how difficult it was to get Niu Dali to divorce, and how difficult it was for Fulang, who had no house or land, otherwise he would not have endured the anger for so long.
In the village where he grew up, there was an aunt who was always beaten, scolded, and robbed of money by her husband. The two girls she gave birth to were sold to landlords as concubines.
When she was pregnant with her third child, the doctor said it was a boy and she didn't receive good care. In the end, the aunt died in her own field at eight months of pregnancy.
Miao Fulang didn't want to die in such a miserable way, and he didn't want his little baby to be sold as well.
Even with Lei Li's intimidation and the village chief's discipline, Niu Dali would not change his bad habits. After being quiet for a while, he would continue to harass him, suck his blood, and even suck Xiaobao's blood for the rest of his life.
That’s more than twenty taels.
We can’t let Lei Li do a good deed and spend such a large sum of money.
Miao Fulang stuffed the two taels of silver in his hand, which were still wet, into Lei Li's pocket, leaving only a few hundred coins for food. His face flushed again, "But I'm slow at saving money. It might take several years... maybe ten years to pay back your twenty taels."
He had to pay back the money and save up a dowry for Xiaobao so that she could find a good family.
"I know."
Lei Li is actually very rich now and has no shortage of these twenty taels of silver... Although he was really heartbroken, he gave Niu Dali twenty taels without hesitation.
Find a chance to snatch back the twenty taels?
While pondering the feasibility, Lei Li returned a silver ingot to Miao Fulang and said, "Give me back one or two taels first. You can use it for emergencies. There's still a long way to go. Things will get better and better in the future. Don't worry about returning it to me."
"That's fine."
Miao Fulang's eyes were red, and he quickly wiped away his tears and said solemnly, "I will definitely pay you back. I will pick more mushrooms. If you want any fruits or herbs, please let me know and I will pick them for you."
"There's just one thing."
Lei Li smiled, and unlike the fake smile he showed to Niu Dali, he was now genuinely kind and amiable.
"It's August now. I have to deliver a batch of herbs to Doctor Cao in mid-September. I can't leave the store right now, so please go to the mountains and help me collect them."
"I won't owe you anything."
"I'm the one who received the goods from Doctor Cao. You picked and dried the medicine. How about we split it 100% and 90%? I'll take 100% and you take 90%?"
"No, no, no need."
Miao Fulang quickly shook his head and said, "I will help you pick the pineapple. I don't want money. Just deduct it slowly from the twenty taels of silver I pay you back. When I pay it back, you can give me a share of the money."
"No, you have to make money."
Lei Li shook his head and said, "If not for myself, then for Xiaobao. Xiaobao is growing up very fast. He's six years old now, and in the blink of an eye he'll be sixteen or seventeen and will be able to find a good family."
"Well, we'll split it 50-50. You can pay me back and save money for Xiaobao, so you'll have some cash to spend on daily."
"Well, alright then..."
Miao Fulang knew that Lei Li was helping him on purpose, and he felt even more grateful and guilty, so he made up his mind to do a good job in the herbal business.
Also, send good mushrooms and fruits to Lei Li, and help Uncle Dashan and Aunt Liu Yeer more often!
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