Chapter 245: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 246 — Making a Scene Until the Whole World Knows

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

"What nonsense? Chai Zhongxiao wants to report our family?" Chai Mi frowned and asked.

Su Wan said while crying: "After you left, your dad wasn't home either. Your grandmother came. She said: if Chai Mi doesn't give me money, my father-in-law said he'll go to the township and report your family's third child's matter, and then we'll see if the fine doesn't kill you."

Chai Mi comforted Su Wan a few sentences, then asked Chai Xiu: "Then why are you crying?"

Chai Xiu froze for a moment: "Mom cried, so I cried."

"You little good-for-nothing." Chai Mi scolded Chai Xiu, then wiped Chai Xiu's tears. "Adults' business, what are you joining the excitement for? Go play on the side."

Chai Mi then said to Su Wan: "Mom, don't cry either. You can't stop this thing anyway. If he wants to use this to threaten me, he's overthinking. If he wants to file a complaint, let him go file it. If he wants to completely tear face, then let him come and see. It's no big deal. If Chai Zhongxiao reports our family, I naturally have ways to deal with him until his family is ruined and he's dead."

Chai Mi wasn't not angry; rather, she was extremely angry.

But Mother Su Wan was crying, so she could only go comfort her.

Chai Mi's thinking was very simple. If Chai Zhongxiao wanted to threaten her, there was no way. Third child Chai Xin's matter was a problem sooner or later.

Third child Chai Xin's problem had always been a problem. No one mentioned it, but Chai Mi also knew this trap; sooner or later someone would bring it up.

Now since Chai Zhongxiao had this idea, she might as well retreat to advance — go to the township herself first and pay the fine that should be paid.

Chai Mi comforted Su Wan a few more sentences, then went out the door to find the village Women's Director Li Guohua.

Li Guohua had very high seniority and was also related to the Chai family. By seniority, Chai Mi should call Li Guohua Danaigai, even though she was only in her early thirties, younger than Su Wan.

But the seniority was there, and there was no way around it.

Li Guohua's relation to the Chai family was actually quite distant. Chai Mi remembered it seemed to be Li Guohua's husband's great-grandmother, surnamed Chai... just that kind of relative.

This kind of matter, Chai Mi could only find her.

But Li Guohua usually wasn't in the village; she worked in the county city, only returning occasionally. So the village's work in this area was basically idle, no one managed it.

However, after all, the third child was non-compliant. Now Chai Zhongxiao brought it up, Chai Mi pondered doing a once-and-for-all thing: pay the fine that should be paid, then whoever went to report afterward wouldn't matter.

Anyway, no matter how this money was spent, as long as it didn't end up in Chai Zhongxiao's hands, that was fine. As for them wanting to threaten or report her family, Chai Mi was angry for now but not surprised.

What matter could they not do?

Walked a while before reaching Li Guohua's home. Coincidentally, Li Guohua was home today.

She was a woman who looked quite neat. In her thirties, she didn't do much field work, her skin was maintained okay. Wearing a light green and white checkered shirt, black leather shoes, black pants, and her hair was even tied in a ponytail. At this age, tying a ponytail was really rare. Generally only those with small heads tied them, or those who didn't do farm work. Otherwise wind, sun, and rain — long hair would be especially troublesome, always needing washing.

At Li Guohua's doorway, some garden peach blossoms were planted. She was squatting at the door watering flowers.

Chai Mi arrived and stopped her steps. When she spoke, Li Guohua was still watering flowers: "Danaigai, watering flowers? You raise these flowers well, the small courtyard is tidied clean too."

"Aiya... Chai Mi ah." Li Guohua was obviously surprised by Chai Mi's arrival. The two families actually didn't interact closely. If not for Xiangli Chief Liu Zhanggui's relationship causing Li Guohua to give gift money at Chai Mi's house twice, Li Guohua and Chai Mi's family would have almost no intersection.

"You this is..." Li Guohua actually couldn't decide what Chai Mi came to do.

If it were a familiar person, Li Guohua might have called Chai Mi inside to talk.

But clearly the two weren't close, so Li Guohua just tentatively said a sentence.

"Have a matter, want to trouble Danaigai." Chai Mi didn't avoid it either, directly cutting to the chase: "It's like this, Danaigai you also know, my family's third child... is the third child. By rights, should pay some fine..."

Li Guohua's expression obviously paused for a beat, then hurriedly said: "This matter I didn't say..."

The implication being: although the matter had already happened, Li Guohua hadn't gone upstairs to file a small report. After all, it involved money — this kind of offense-causing work, she wouldn't do it.

"No, I actively want to pay it. Otherwise registering hukou is also hard. Just don't know what the standard is, who to pay, how to pay, and whether hukou will be implemented afterward."

"This has no too many standards. Generally just look at family situation. 1000-5000 all uncertain. If you actively want to implement hukou, then I'll go ask specifically how much?" Li Guohua tentatively asked.

"Okay. This matter troubles Danaigai then."

Then Li Guohua went to Xiangli Chief Liu Zhanggui's house to ask how to handle this matter. Li Guohua, adhering to the principle of not letting any responsibility fall on her, had Liu Zhanggui decide this matter.

Liu Zhanggui spread his hands, indicating he was already suspended, this matter couldn't be handled. But since the person actively wanted to pay money, they should ask upstairs if a discount could be given.

Li Guohua didn't believe Liu Zhanggui's ghost words at all.

"Xiangli Chief, whoever steps down, you also can't step down. You're still Xiangli Chief. The big fellows still listen to you, right? Why don't you make a call? You're Xiangli Chief. You know people at the township. Speaking and handling things are easy. What do I, a Women's Director, understand? This kind of matter, I've never done it."

Li Guohua was doing her utmost to distance herself from this matter.

"Xiangli Chief, I didn't say anything, didn't do anything. This is all Chai Mi actively finding me. She's still waiting at my doorway for news. This kind of matter I don't manage. Last time at night calling hardworking people to eat, she even called me. I wasn't home so didn't go. I also don't know what she's thinking. This thing generally no one actively goes to pay. All are forced with no way out before doing it. Now it's not like the first few years either. I see quite a few written as adopted to other families. Doing it that way there's no matter. I see that Chai family's Second Uncle Chai Youfu's family has only one child. If Chai Mi's third child is adopted to her Second Uncle's family, then there should be no matter, no need to pay money."

Li Guohua not only distanced herself, but also rambled a whole pile, all for Chai Mi's sake.

Liu Zhanggui listened and laughed: "Aiya, look at you. Who said blame you? I didn't say you secretly reported at all... I reckon Chai Mi ran into some matter. Maybe those people at their Chai family old house want to report Chai Mi's family. Wind got out. That's why Chai Mi actively wants to pay money."

Li Guohua wasn't too clear on Chai family's internal chaos. Expression somewhat surprised: "Then their family's old master does this? Their family is like this?"

"En, their family is messed up badly. I'll call first, ask the township how to handle."

Liu Zhanggui spoke, then took the phone to call the township.

Due to Sanjiacun's village office being long unrepaired, already all weeds. Plus some other problems, causing the village office's big courtyard to actually not belong to the village anymore. Later because of this matter, a lawsuit was even fought. But these are later stories.

Due to no village office, the village's only phone connecting to outside was at Liu Zhanggui's house.

Liu Zhanggui went to the inner room to make the call. Li Guohua waited outside.

About ten-odd minutes passed. Liu Zhanggui walked out, said: "That... I'll go with you. Chai Mi is at your doorway?"

"En."

So Liu Zhanggui and Li Guohua walked back to Li Guohua's home.

Two homes not far. Just a few minutes' road.

After seeing Chai Mi, Liu Zhanggui made a long story short, just told the phone call content.

In brief: Given Chai Mi's family situation isn't good, family already has three children. Grandparents, maternal grandparents — whole family all very difficult. Wanting to pay more fine doesn't exist. Relatives and friends don't exist. In short, poor to the point of almost unable to uncover the pot. Barely borrowed some money to get by. Give Chai Mi family punishment at lowest tier: 1000 yuan.

"This money, you give to me then. I'll go to township and pay for you. You give me the hukou booklet. I'll handle it together for you." Li Guohua said.

"That's hard on you, Danaigai."

Chai Mi was still quite relieved by this result, and immediately went home to fetch her household register and one thousand yuan, handing both over to Li Guohua.

This matter was basically considered settled.

However, only this matter was finished; Chai Mi had no intention of letting Chai Zhongxiao off just because he did this.

Since they don't observe martial virtue, then Chai Mi won't observe martial virtue either.

That evening, Chai Mi went to find Sun Yuguang to have a fortune told...

As for what the fortune-telling entailed, no one else knew.

"Something big happened..."

The next day, early in the morning, news spread through the village, and villagers gathered in twos and threes to watch the excitement.

"Have you heard? Sun Yuguang and his two daughters carried a coffin to the newspaper office..."

"Isn't that suicide? It wasn't done by someone else, so what's the point of carrying it anywhere?"

"You don't understand anything? He's trying to make things difficult for Chai Zhongxiao... If he does this, Chai Zhongxiao is finished. The person is dead, and as long as he says he was driven to it by his biological father, Chai Zhongxiao will become the most famous person in Ke County..."

The villagers watched the excitement with great fervor.

But Chai Zhongxiao at the old house couldn't sit still, and cursed furiously at home.

Wang Huirong also had a grim face, her resentment reaching its peak.

From morning until noon, several waves of reporters from the newspaper office had already come...

"Are these people just full and have nothing to do?" Wang Huirong gritted her teeth and cursed: "They don't care about right or wrong, and just start blabbering. They don't care whether people are willing or not, they just want to interview..."

The front door of the house was tightly closed, but there were still a few reckless reporters on the wall taking photos.

That morning, Sun Yuguang carried a coffin and ran to the doors of several newspaper offices, beginning to complain of his suffering.

Does this have anything to do with him?

Obviously not.

But he also had no way out.

Because Sun Yuguang's two daughters had injured Chai You De, this was certain. Since someone was injured, compensation was needed.

But conversely, Chai Chunfang committed suicide, and he wouldn't get a single cent.

All things considered, his wife died for nothing, and he still had to lose money to compensate Chai You De.

Thus, Sun Yuguang's main point on this trip was: my daughter acted out of love for her mother, which led to her injuring someone; they are not only innocent but should also be commended, and moreover, the family has no money to bury Chai Chunfang...

With Sun Yuguang putting it this way, the newspaper people and the onlookers also felt this matter was indeed very hot and worth reporting.

Sun Yuguang's core demand was: it was precisely because Chai Zhongxiao and the others struck first that Chai Chunfang could no longer go on living, so why can't his two daughters hit people?

Chai Zhongxiao was given a headache by this group of people; this matter was too embarrassing, and he didn't want to go out, so he simply pulled the curtains.

Chai Zhongxiao originally thought he was: the older the ginger, the spicier.

He had planned to blackmail Chai Mi for some money, but now he couldn't even go out; this family scandal was known not only to the whole village, but now to the whole county.

Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong were tormented at home, while Chai Mi was leisurely cutting some leeks in the vegetable garden at home, preparing to make dumplings.

As a result, several reporters also came to her own doorway and began asking about Chai Zhongxiao.

Chai Mi said she knew nothing at all.

But Chai Mi also reminded the reporters: flies don't bite seamless eggs... a biological father who could drive his own daughter to death—would his other matters be done cleanly?

The reporters suddenly understood... and prepared to dig into other news about Chai Zhongxiao.

Chai Mi also warmly gave some vegetables to several reporters and treated them to some tea.

Mother Su Wan was coaxing the child in the room and didn't dare go out either; she paced back and forth, feeling somewhat uneasy, and when Chai Mi returned, Su Wan asked: "Chai Mi, what's going on... why are there so many people with cameras?"

Chai Mi hehed and laughed: "They're just people who watch the excitement and don't mind if things get big. This time, the old man and old woman should settle down. They're just waiting for famine."

"Ah? They still have famine?"

"Not yet, but soon they will."

Chai Mi smiled without speaking.

Chai Mi knew the character of Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong all too well.

Since they started on the first day, Chai Mi didn't mind doing the fifteenth.

Chai Mi didn't much like doing low-level things like making false accusations.

If Chai Mi did something, she would do it thoroughly.

This matter had gone from the village to being known throughout the county.

It could be said to be a storm throughout the city.

Plus, with a group of newspaper reporters involved, they would take magnifying glasses to look at Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong.

People cannot withstand testing.

How could people not make mistakes? Even good people, I'm afraid, have made mistakes. And Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong are obviously not good people, so they are sure to make mistakes.

Especially in the countryside, this kind of mistake can be said to be inevitable.

Chai Mi made dumplings with peace of mind, and also comforted Su Wan not to think too much, just wait to watch the excitement.

As for Chai Youqing...

The well digging had already finished yesterday; Chai Mi hadn't gone to calculate the wages yet, but the well was indeed dug, about fourteen or fifteen meters deep, and the water was especially good, the kind of good well that a few water pumps couldn't pump dry.

Chai Youqing was arranged by Chai Mi to go irrigate the fields.