Chapter 349: Rebirth in the Nineties: The Tyrannical Flower Chapter 350: All Caught in One Pot

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

"Ah... one hundred billion, how much is that? Chai Mi, you're just teasing your aunt, right?" Zhao Caifeng pouted, simply not believing what Chai Mi said.

"Besides, I don't have any money either, that's why I came to your house to ask. Old Third..." Zhao Caifeng looked at Su Wan and said, "Sister-in-law, I've never argued with you in this lifetime..."

The aunt was indeed a good person.

Chai Mi now had a splitting headache; her aunt lived so far from the village that even Sun Guoyou had taken notice of her, so other relatives were probably hopeless.

"Sun Guoyou, that bastard. He really causes great harm..." Chai Mi was completely helpless.

Recently she hadn't done anything, just busy persuading others not to be deceived, and she was already exhausted.

This thing wasn't easy to persuade.

Sometimes even if you said it, they thought you were harming them.

But after all, the aunt wasn't an outsider; she was a relative of Chai Mi's very close relatives. So Chai Mi didn't want to persuade, but had to.

"Aunt, let's go inside to talk."

After several people entered the house, Chai Mi directly laid it out: "Aunt, that Sun Guoyou is just a swindler. Don't believe Liu San's words either. They're obsessed. You, just stop thinking about getting rich."

"Oh, Chai Mi, you're overthinking. We're all pure relatives; they only thought of me now. Otherwise, such a good thing wouldn't fall to me in eight hundred lifetimes." Zhao Caifeng said.

"You don't believe what I say?" Chai Mi frowned. "Fine, eat first. In a while I'll take you to a place, and then you'll believe."

Zhao Caifeng lowered her head and said nothing.

Sigh... Chai Mi just didn't want to lend money...

Breakfast was actually eaten quite well, only everyone's mood wasn't good, so they ate rather hastily.

After eating, Chai Mi pulled Song Qiushui, leading Zhao Caifeng directly to the county seat.

Zhao Caifeng was dumbfounded: "Chai Mi, why are we going into the city?"

Chai Mi said with a smile: "If we don't go to the county seat, counting on those few police stations in the countryside is obviously not enough."

"Huh? What do you mean? You want to take your aunt to the police station?" Zhao Caifeng was shocked.

But it was already too late.

Chai Mi had already parked the inverted donkey at the entrance of the Public Security Bureau, then supported Zhao Caifeng and went in.

By evening, the entire Sanjiacun was in chaos.

Police cars one after another, followed by dozens or over a hundred people such as Sun Guoyou, Liu Chunyan, and Liu San, were taken away in a grand procession.

Everyone then understood that they had all been deceived.

Under the big willow tree, Da Lao Song was completely bewildered; he had gone to the city these past two days to see Chai Youfu, and afterward didn't know his own family had been deceived the most.

He cursed and made a scene there.

Around them was also a group of deceived people.

Some were deceived out of several thousand or tens of thousands, some out of several hundred.

The unluckiest was Lao Liutou... he wasn't deceived, but the police had come, and he was still stealing trees...

So because he stole trees, he was also caught and taken away...

"Oh... so it was a scam. I said it, how can there be such good things in this world, investing one hundred for ten thousand, why not give one hundred million?"

"I'm fine, just lost two hundred, I don't plan to ask for it back. As for Liu San's relatives, they're tragic; except for Chai Mi's family, they were all deceived..."

"This money is probably gone; I heard Sun Guoyou was also deceived, he borrowed a lot of money himself, this life is over. He led the way, and also dragged others down..."

"Liu San is also tragic; the couple put all their business money into it, even sold the car... now it's over."

Everyone discussed animatedly, saying all sorts of things.

Chai Mi watched for a while, then took Zhao Caifeng home to eat.

Dinner was also eaten heavily. After dinner, Chai Mi wanted Zhao Caifeng to stay overnight, but Zhao Caifeng firmly refused.

So she could only drink some tea, and wait a while to send Zhao Caifeng back.

"Aunt, look... I'm not trying to claim credit with you. If not for me, even the money to buy medicine for your grandfather would have been deceived."

Zhao Caifeng also heard those discussions, her face turning red and white, tightly gripping Chai Mi's arm, her fingers ice-cold. "Chai Mi... Aunt's heart... is terrified... if not for you forcibly dragging me to the county..." Her voice trembled, "If that money were gone, your grandfather's medicine... I really wouldn't have the face to live..."

Chai Mi patted the back of her hand: "Alright, Aunt, not losing money is better than anything. Come, go home."

"Hey, hey!" Zhao Caifeng nodded repeatedly, then thought of something, "Chai Mi, you... you send Aunt home? My heart... is thumping, and my legs are weak..."

"I'll definitely send you; otherwise, how would you get back from such a long way?" Chai Mi agreed crisply, then turned to Song Qiushui, "Qiu Shui, help me pack a few catties of the newly fried chicken legs and wings, pick the big ones. Also pack me several newly steamed vegetable buns."

Because Chai Mi knew she definitely had to send Zhao Caifeng, so she also called Song Qiushui to eat dinner; otherwise, coming back in the dark would be a bit scary.

"Alright!" Song Qiushui responded.

Chai Xiu came over: "Sister, I'm going too!"

"What are you going for? Watch the house. The calf just got better, Dad is clumsy with his hands and feet, you watch and feed him the medicine." Chai Mi instructed.

In a short while, Song Qiushui carried a large pile of things: "Here, hot! For Grandpa and Grandma to taste!"

Chai Mi rode the inverted donkey, with the restless Zhao Caifeng and Song Qiushui sitting in the cart, squeaking along to the hamlet where Zhao Caifeng lived. The road was full of potholes, jolting Zhao Caifeng so she cried out in pain.

"Chai Mi, go slow... these old bones of mine..."

"This broken road is just like this, Aunt, hold on tight." Chai Mi held the handle, "How has Grandpa been these past two days? Hasn't missed a dose of medicine, right?"

Mentioning this, Zhao Caifeng's eyes turned red again: "Medicine... medicine is being taken, but that leg... has no feeling at all, a large patch on his buttocks is rubbed raw, looking at it is heartbreaking... Grandma's eyesight isn't good either, it's hard for her to help him turn over... I'm like this all day, my heart is in my throat..."

Chai Mi said nothing, afraid Grandpa wouldn't last much longer.

In my previous life, it was also this time period; the person passed away.

In this life, I fear it will still be the same.

Arrived at Zhao Caifeng's house. Low mud-brick house, the window paper had several holes torn in it, pasted over with old fertilizer bags. Stepping inside, a thick medicinal smell mixed with a stuffy odor hard to describe.

On the kang, Chai Mi's maternal grandfather curled up in thick old bedding, his exposed face wasted out of shape, eyes cloudy. Maternal grandmother hunched at the waist, was wiping his hands with a wet cloth, movements slow as if frozen in a frame.

"Dad, Mom! Look who's here!" Zhao Caifeng hurried over.

Maternal grandmother squinted and looked for half a day before recognizing Chai Mi, squeezing out a smile: "Aiyo, Chai Mi ah... sit sit, Chai Mi..."

Maternal grandfather's throat made he-he sounds, wanting to raise his head, unable to move, only able to roll his eyeballs.

Chai Mi's nose soured, a feeling of wanting to cry.

Ai...

When people get old, perhaps in the end they still have to pass away. This world is just like this — birth, aging, sickness, death; no one can take another's place, and there's no way to change it, right?

Maternal grandfather laboriously opened his mouth, throat making he-he sounds twice more, as if wanting to say something.

"What's Grandpa saying?" Chai Mi asked Maternal grandmother.

Maternal grandmother leaned in to listen, sighed: "Praising you... saying Chai Mi has become promising..."

Zhao Caifeng watched from the side, tears plopping down: "Ai... almost implicated Chai Mi... Dad, Mom, today nearly scared me to death..." She couldn't help recounting the daytime incident of almost being swindled out of money again, patting her chest in lingering fear.

Maternal grandmother listened and recited Buddha nonstop: "Amitabha... Bodhisattva bless... thanks to Chai Mi ah..."

Chai Mi didn't respond, walked to the foot of the kang, lifted a corner of the blanket at Grandpa's feet to look. Sure enough, near the tailbone a palm-sized bedsore, glaringly red, edges already ulcerating.

"The bedsore's gotten worse again, Aunt (Mother's Sister), the medicine paste from last time all used up?" Chai Mi frowned.

"Applied... applying it, but... but not getting better..." Zhao Caifeng's voice dropped, "That medicine... not cheap either..."

Chai Mi put down the blanket, walked to the cloth bundle she'd brought, fished out a small cloth bundle from inside, stuffed it into Zhao Caifeng's hands: "Aunt, take it."

Zhao Caifeng pinched it once, a thick stack, jumped in fright, hurriedly tried to push it back: "This... what's this for? Chai Mi! No no! You earn money not easily..."

"Take it!" Chai Mi pressed the cloth bundle hard into her hands, "Buy medicine for Grandpa, buy some good plaster patches. Also buy some meat, stew soup to supplement him. My Grandma needs to eat well too. Look how thin she is." She glanced at the old people on the kang again, "Don't save it; if it's gone, tell me again."

Zhao Caifeng clutched that cloth bundle, like clutching a piece of branding iron, tears completely bursting the dam, lips trembling: "Chai Mi... Aunt... Aunt sorry to you... before... before didn't help you all much either..."

"What's the use of saying these things." Chai Mi cut her off, tone softening, "All one family. My Grandpa and Grandma doing well, better than anything. Sky not early anymore, I have to go back, the calf still needs feeding medicine."

"Ai, ai! Stay one night before leaving ah!" Zhao Caifeng hastily wiped tears.

"Not staying, home's got a pile of things." Chai Mi waved a hand, and said to the kang, "Grandpa Grandma, I'm leaving ah, next time come see you again."

Maternal grandmother nodded repeatedly: "Ai, good child... take care on the road..."

Maternal grandfather's throat made he-he sounds twice more, eyes fixed on Chai Mi.

Chai Mi mounted the inverted donkey and headed back, sky dark, road not easy to travel either.

On the road, jolting, Song Qiushui in the cart rubbed her butt complaining: "Aiyo my butt... this broken road, even more treacherous than Liu Xiaochun's face! Chai Mi you slow down the jolting!"

"Already very slow." Chai Mi stared at the pitch-black road ahead, "Bear with it, almost there."

"You say that Sun Guoyou, that turtle bastard, I only just found out, my mom also got swindled out of two hundred, really fucking... ah... my mom lied at first, later the police station came, then she told my dad. Really convinced... I still warned her a thousand times, result useless." Song Qiushui's anger still not dissipated, "How many families did that group swindle ah? Liu San and wife this time dumbfounded, family savings all lost in compensation right? Serves them right! Let them not believe evil!"

Chai Mi hmphed once: "Deserved. Greed knows no bounds. What were they doing earlier."

"Exactly!" Song Qiushui agreed, "Also my Second Aunt, five thousand yuan! Thrown in water not even a splash heard! I'll see how she still struts later! You don't know ah, that spendthrift old bitch, can be fucking black-hearted, she just can't stand my family doing well. When my family's days were bad, she's my real Second Aunt; now my family's doing okay, she's not my real Second Aunt anymore. She's a mother yaksha... just this kind of person, seeing others' families doing well, not only themselves doing badly, but feeling upset too... Ei, you say Chai You De that old brat, this time didn't meddle in it right?"

"Him?" Chai Mi's tone carried a bit of disdain, "His bit of money all tied on Xiao Doubao's pants waistband, wants to meddle but can't take it out. At most just itchy in the heart."

Just as they were speaking, a figure suddenly darted out from the dark shadows by the road ahead, standing straight blocking the middle of the road.

"Mama ya!" Song Qiushui scared a jolt, nearly jumped up, "Who ah?!"

Chai Mi fiercely squeezed the brake, the inverted donkey "ga-ji" a sound stopped. In the dim yellow halo of the cart lamp, stood Che Lianying with disheveled hair, eyes red and swollen like rotten peaches, staring dead at Chai Mi.

"Chai Mi..." Che Lianying's voice hoarse, carrying a crying tone, "Liu Xiaochun... Liu Xiaochun he..."

Chai Mi frowned: "What's up with him again? Police didn't take him away?"

"Took him away! But Chai Zhongming's side..." Che Lianying excitedly lunged forward, grabbed the handlebar with one hand, "Chai Zhongming's side wants money! Medical expenses! Extortion ah! Saying no five thousand yuan no go! My family where still has money? House about to collapse! Chai Mi, you... you do a good deed, help me say a word! That old undying one also stole your family's corn, why only extort me ah?"

Song Qiishui heard and immediately fired up: "Ei Che Lianying! Your man when chopping people thought what? Now think of finding Chai Mi? What were you doing earlier! Chai Mi family's corn stolen account still not settled with you all yet!"

"I know! I know we're not human!" Che Lianying wailed crying, Ordinary knelt in the mud: "Xiaochun also because wanted to pay you back money, went to rob Chai Zhongming ah. If not for thinking to give you money, how could he possibly go beat Chai Zhongming?"

Chai Mi knitting brows, coldly laughing asked: "Not... Third Aunt ah, you're a bit funny. I remember it was that morning you gave me the money, afterward morning Liu Xiaochun and Chai Zhongming fought, incident happened. I'm not stupid, you better not try to fool me ha. Besides, our matter, I also said, turn the page. This problem of yours, I can't help even if I want to."

Finished speaking, Chai Mi then left with Song Qiushui.

Che Lianying stood up, facing the direction Chai Mi walked, spat a mouthful of saliva: "Wait. My days can't be lived, you also don't think about living well."

Finished saying these, Che Lianying again feeling in the dark, went to Chai You De's house.

Chai You De already drunk a lot, was sleeping.

Che Lianying directly entered the courtyard, started knocking on the window, knocking on the window while crying.

Che Lianyun in the room angry to the point of cursing loudly: "Che Lianying, you finished or not! Today you've come three or four times already!"

"Second Sister, just have pity on me ba. They said, no five thousand yuan, person can't be redeemed out."

"Then let him die inside, what's it to me? Did I tell him to take a kitchen knife to chop people? Or did I tell him to go rob money?" Che Lianyun not spoiling Che Lianying. "You if still not leaving, you believe not believe I'll turn hostile?"

Che Lianying also anxious: "Xiao Doubao, don't force me! You believe not believe today you don't give me money, tomorrow I'll let Chai You De know, you two sons exactly whose seed they are..."

Instant.

The whole world went quiet.

Only left Chai You De's gu-lu-gu-lu snoring sounds.