Chapter 437: Bangeng Regrets Marrying a Widow

Damn it!

When he thought of the point where he turned ruthless.

Bangeng swore a vulgar word.

He immediately lifted his shoe, repeatedly stomped on the bedbug on the ground, crushing it into a pulp, and his gloom eased just a little.

The widow sitting on the kang diagonally opposite.

That is, Bangeng's wife Shi Jiahong, who looked at Bangeng with disdain, a faint mockery flashing across her face.

Bangeng

She had him figured out.

Without Shi Jiahong's consent, Bangeng couldn't return to the city at all; he could only spend his life honestly staying in Mountain-reliant Village as her husband.

Want to leave.

You can.

Take Shi Jiahong along.

Shi Jiahong wasn't at all worried about being bullied if she returned to the city; the troublemaking of Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi, who had come over when Bangeng got married last year, seemed fierce but were actually cowardly softies—nothing more than the old routine of playing good cop/bad cop, one playing the white face, the other the red face—really pissed her off, she'd give them a big slap.

Knowing that Bangeng desperately wanted to return to the city.

Also knowing that Bangeng didn't want to bring her and the three of them back to the city together.

The initiative in the matter.

Lay in Shi Jiahong's hands.

Although she clearly knew Bangeng was in a bad mood, she still deliberately provoked him with a remark.

"Bangeng, everyone has their own fate; Yan Jiekuang and Liu Guangfu have the fate to return to the city, so they have returned; you don't have the fate to return to the city, so you stay in our village. Our fathers—one is a leader in the commune, the other is the head of the village—as long as you honestly live with me, no one will dare mess with you."

Bangeng looked up at Shi Jiahong, and naturally believed her words without doubt; he was indeed Shi Jiahong's most direct victim, because one father was a head in the production team and the other a leader in the commune, which caused Bangeng to be unable to divorce and unable to return to the city.

Just thinking back to when Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang said those things to Bangeng upon their return to the city, the anger in Bangeng's heart flared up, making his teeth itch with hatred.

He hated Shi Jiahong.

He hated Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu; if it weren't for their inadequacy, he wouldn't have had to come to Dongbei to suffer, and wouldn't have lost all hope of returning to the city.

Knowing he was no match for Shi Jiahong.

He stayed put honestly, ignoring Shi Jiahong's words.

"Bangeng, we've been married over a year; you've seen how I treat you. If you follow my advice and work hard, our life together will surely improve."

After repeated provocations,

Bangeng more or less lost his reason.

He talked back with several sentences to Shi Jiahong.

"What? What the hell are you doing? Marrying you, I've really had eight lifetimes of bloody bad luck. I'm a fine young fellow, with a great chance to return to the city, but just because I married you—a widow, and moreover a widow with three kids—I'm stuck day after day dealing with the black soil. Am I losing out or not?"

If you don't talk about it, it won't be resolved.

If you don't explain the matter, it won't be clear.

Might as well take advantage of this atmosphere.

Bangeng once again brought up divorce.

"Shi Jiahong, if you think I, Bangeng, have treated you well, then go ahead and happily greet your two fathers, get them to agree to our divorce, then stamp and sign my application to return to the city, and I promise to be grateful to you, Shi Jiahong, for the rest of my life."

In his tone,

carrying a hint of pleading.

One can't blame Bangeng for being so impatient yet timid as a mouse.

The two originally had little affection for each other.

It was simply that Bangeng's lust flared up; he mistook Shi Jiahong, a toothless tiger, for an obedient lapdog, overestimated himself, considered himself a city person, thought he was superior to Shi Jiahong in every way, and underestimated her fighting strength, wanting to rely on his city-person identity to find fault with her in every aspect, thinking that as a city person he was gaining an advantage over this rural widow, which to her was also a supreme honor—at worst, he'd just spend some money later.

Bangeng, who had little money, nevertheless insisted on pretending to be a wealthy big shot in front of Shi Jiahong.

Shi Jiahong, however, believed Bangeng's nonsense.

There was also the factor of Bangeng's fondness for causing trouble.

As for why he didn't scheme against Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang, after inquiring he learned that Liu Guangfu's family background meant this guy had been beaten up since childhood; as for Yan Jiekuang, who inherited Yan Fugui's scheming genes, one look at Shi Jiahong's face and he knew what she was up to, so he instead demanded money from her.

He picked the tallest among the short.

He took a liking to Bangeng.

He staged a scene that was essentially a beauty trap.

The relationship between Shi Jiahong and Bangeng was purely a transaction of interests, both sides fully aware; it was just that Shi Jiahong outmaneuvered him by one move, leaving Bangeng with the outcome of stealing a chicken only to lose the bait.

Before, they could barely get by.

In the evenings, someone would cook for him when he returned, and at night someone would warm his bed.

These superficial satisfactions were ultimately exposed when Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang returned to the city; having someone cook and warm his bed compared to enjoying the city life, there was simply no comparison.

Returning to the city might mean not finding work, but it was still better than staying in the village doing daily chores, especially with three children right there calling him 'dad'.

Bangeng was about to go crazy.

He saw that only he remained as an educated youth.

He was so anxious he felt like setting the house on fire.

The contradiction between him and Shi Jiahong immediately came to light.

Back then, whether he returned to the city or not didn't matter, since someone else was suffering alongside Bangeng, and he didn't care; but now he must consider those later matters.

Because Bangeng heard a piece of news.

Who spread it no longer mattered; what mattered was that this matter concerned Bangeng.

After a while, the educated youths who stayed in the village and couldn't return to the city would likely never have a chance to go back.

Bangeng only then remembered the idea of having a good talk with Shi Jiahong; even if he had to kneel before Shi Jiahong, he had to let Shi Jiahong release him.

After all, he was an educated youth with Capital City household registration; how could he marry a rural widow as his wife, especially since this widow still had three children from her previous husbands?

Born into a widow's family, Bangeng clearly understood his position.

He was simply a guy who ropes people into schemes.

Back then, the scandalous uproar in the Siheyuan about Shazhu and Qin Huairu's affair started because the Jia family widow wanted to scheme against Shazhu, making him a pawn for the Jia family, intending to ruin Shazhu's marriage with Yu Li, turning Shazhu into the Jia family's ox and horse; but since the plan failed, Shazhu and Qin Huairu became even more estranged, never to reconcile.

Bangeng also knew that Shi Jiahong must have used some means; otherwise, after being married for over a year, why hasn't she borne him a son and a daughter?

Jia Zhangshi had told Qin Huairu that if a widow bears a child for her later husband, then the children of her former husband must suffer.

Bangeng is the Jia family's only male descendant; he certainly doesn't want to let the Jia family's line die out just like that.

He said to Shi Jiahong, "I've knelt before you; just let me go."