Chapter 428: The 90s Contrast System (31)

Looking back at Zhu Meijiao, who married a year ago, her married life was comparable to a complete mess.

Although the marital home was eventually bought, it was not in Zi Zhu Yuan, but rather in a remote development chosen for its low price.

Moreover, the developer promised a discount for signing on the spot, so they didn't investigate thoroughly; only after signing the contract did they hear that a waste treatment plant would be moved there in the future.

No wonder the housing price was much cheaper than other developments.

This made Zhu Meijiao feel as if she had swallowed a fly; before the property was even handed over, she had already lost all enthusiasm for it.

Because it was an off-plan property, it would take half a year to be handed over, and after that, it would still need renovations and ventilation, so for this first year of marriage, she lived with her parents-in-law and brother-in-law in that three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment surrounded by an overpass.

The brother-in-law suffered from a severe eye disease and stayed at home almost every day, rarely going out.

The mother-in-law was retired and also had nothing to do at home.

Zhu Meijiao discovered she was pregnant not long after graduation, so she simply didn't look for a job, and relying on her pregnancy, she demanded to eat well while refusing to do a single bit of housework.

The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deteriorated rapidly.

The brother-in-law naturally sided with his own mother, and when he chimed in, he inevitably said some unpleasant things.

Zhu Meijiao naturally cursed back.

It was unclear if the noise from the overpass made pregnant women sensitive, irritable, and restless.

In any case, ever since she entered the house, the sound of arguing could be heard from the Zheng family every day.

Mr. and Mrs. Zheng, who cared deeply about their reputation, saw their home become a laughingstock in the eyes of their neighbors and gave their daughter-in-law even colder looks.

Coupled with the fact that the Zhu Family's home was slow to be demolished, Mr. and Mrs. Zheng deliberately asked people to inquire and found no news of demolition in He Wan Village other than at the foot of Xiao Chai Shan, and immediately realized she was lying.

If it weren't for the fact that she was carrying the Zheng family's golden grandson, they would have wanted their son to divorce her.

Although they couldn't divorce now, when the arguments became fierce, Mrs. Zheng inevitably let this intention slip.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Meijiao was so angry that her eyes bulged.

What! After I give birth to the child, this old hag actually wants Zheng Qinglin to divorce me?

In her dreams!

She spat: "Pah! If Zheng Qinglin dares to mention the word divorce to me, I will broadcast his shameless, naked adult films!"

Only then did Mrs. Zheng realize that her son had left incriminating evidence in the hands of his daughter-in-law.

This kept her awake for several nights, and one day, taking advantage of her daughter-in-law going to the hospital for a prenatal checkup, she wanted to steal the videotapes and destroy them.

Unexpectedly, she was caught by her daughter-in-law who returned early.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wrestled into a ball.

Mrs. Zheng accidentally gave a push, causing Zhu Meijiao to fall, and bright red blood gushed from her lower body; she had clearly miscarried.

"You old hag! You actually dared to push me! Ah! Why is there so much blood! Call an ambulance! Hurry and call an ambulance!"

Zhu Meijiao was terrified, her face turning pale, and as the bleeding increased, her vision went black and she fainted.

Mrs. Zheng looked at the blood all over the floor and her unconscious daughter-in-law, panicked and at a loss.

"Xiaoshu! Xiaoshu! What do I do! Your sister-in-law has fainted!"

Zheng Qingshu groped his way out of the room: "Mom, don't panic, I'll go find a neighbor to help call an ambulance."

Mrs. Zheng hesitated: "Your sister-in-law... she might have miscarried. Later, your older brother will definitely blame me..."

"He won't. Mom, you didn't do it on purpose; it was sister-in-law who was being unreasonable."

"Right, right, right! I was also doing it for your brother's sake, wanting to help him burn those troublesome videotapes."

Recalling the reason for the conflict with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zheng hurriedly found a hammer, smashed those videotapes into pieces, threw them into an iron bucket, lit a fire, and burned them.

Ensuring that her daughter-in-law would never be able to use this matter to threaten her eldest son again, she then hurriedly went to find a neighbor to help call an ambulance.

This delay caused Zhu Meijiao to suffer from hemorrhagic shock for too long, and the rescue failed.

Upon receiving the bad news, Zhu Weiguo and Zhou Ru, who were far away in He Wan Village, were stunned.

Meijiao is gone?

And the child in her belly, two lives lost at once?

"A fine Zheng family! How are they tormenting my daughter?"

Zhu Weiguo angrily called a group of brothers working at the construction site and stormed toward the Zheng family aggressively.

Zhou Ru was calmer than him; she notified her maiden family, the various branches of the Zhu Family, and Zhu Meijiao's maternal grandparents' family one by one, then packed all the items needed for the funeral before setting off for the city.

Although Zhu Meijiao's death was an accident, before the accident happened, the neighbors had heard the commotion of the Zheng mother and daughter-in-law fighting, so Mrs. Zheng couldn't deny it even if she wanted to.

For the sake of face, they finally chose to settle privately and compensated the Zhu Family 500,000.

But all at once, where could the Zheng family get so much cash?

In the end, they emptied Mrs. Zheng's retirement pension, took an advance on Mr. Zheng's salary for the next half year, and sold that marital home that Zhu Meijiao had despised so much to scrape it together.

Xie Yang had just learned from the Main System about the story of Zhu Meijiao bringing about her own death, when she heard from her three aunts that Zhou Ru was going to divorce Zhu Weiguo.

"Why?"

"Zhu Weiguo blames his younger sister for not being willing to go back to her maiden home to borrow money for his daughter to pay the down payment on a better ready-to-move-in house. He says if they had bought a ready-to-move-in house back then, his daughter wouldn't have had to live under the same roof as her parents-in-law, and the tragedy of two lives being lost wouldn't have happened."

"..."

Xie Yang twitched the corner of her mouth.

Zhu Meijiao's unreasonableness and blaming others seem to be hereditary.

"But this matter has nothing to do with you. I'm telling you just to give you a heads-up. If your mother comes to bother you without thinking clearly, you tell us. It's not easy for you and Xiao Xu to have a happy start; if she doesn't help, that's fine, but there's no reason for her to come and hold you back."

"Exactly! It's not that she can't return to her maiden home after the divorce; your father and mother already left a room for her. When the time comes, she can live with your father and mother, spend more time with the old folks, and fulfill her filial duty. Other than that, she shouldn't think of anything else."

"Speaking of which, of the 500,000 compensation Zhu Weiguo squeezed out of the Zheng family, did he give any to his younger sister?"

"Zhu Weiguo wanted to swallow it all, but his younger sister isn't someone to be trifled with either. She said that even if she didn't have great achievements, she had put in the effort over the years, and she forced Zhu Weiguo to give her 200,000. With 200,000 to rely on, she won't starve in the short term, so you don't need to worry, Yang Yang."

The three aunts took turns counseling her.

Xie Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry; she wasn't afraid of Zhou Ru at all.

She wasn't afraid of her when she wasn't even an adult, so why would she be afraid of her now?

But neither she nor the three aunts expected:

It was true that Zhou Ru had divorced, but not long after the divorce, she got together with a man who looked strikingly like Xie Lei.

The other party was ten years her junior, divorced with no children, but also had no house, no car, and no stable job, living by renting a room and doing odd jobs.

Zhou Ru took her two hundred thousand yuan and moved in with him.

The man was after the money in her hands, and she was after the man's youth, good looks, and the shadow of her ex; she held the money over him to make him do this and that, venting the bitter resentment she had held for years.

But the good days didn't last long before the man swindled all the money she had, and holding a grudge against her for using him like a beast of burden, he sold her to northern Myanmar before he left.

Although she was lucky enough to be spotted by a minor leader of the fraud syndicate and taken home to be his concubine.

But she could forget about freedom; she would never get out of northern Myanmar in this lifetime, and she was often abused by the minor leader's other wives, living a life of misery.

The people in the Lao Zhou family only knew that Zhou Ru had gone to the south to develop with a man ten years her junior; they didn't know what happened to her afterward.

Xie Yang only learned about it from the Main System, which was obsessed with eating melons.

As long as the fraud syndicate didn't reach its hands into the country, she would pretend not to know.

But if their reach was too long and extended into the country, she wouldn't mind spending some points to have the Main System anonymously send the background information it had gathered to the authorities, which had indirectly saved quite a few innocent people who had been swindled into going to northern Myanmar.

Because Zhou Ru was the minor leader's concubine, she was not on the rescue list.

Whether Zhou Ru was living well or poorly, what did that have to do with Xie Yang?

Her Task in this plane had long been completed; staying here to eat melons and watch the show was only because the next task plane hadn't opened yet.

【Ding! A new task world has opened. Does the Host need to set off now?】

Xie Yang: "..."

A tall, slender figure walked slowly toward her.

The evening breeze brought the chill of early autumn and the clean, crisp scent of cedarwood on him.

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly: "Can I delay setting off for a while?"

Main System: 【...】

Host, do you want to listen to what you said a few seconds ago?