Chapter 409: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 412 We Have to Go Demand Money

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Facing the police who came to inquire about the situation, it was instead Sun Shengyue, the one who had been beaten, who became evasive and hesitant.

Old Zhang, the Police Station Chief, was also very familiar to Chai Mi.

After all, Old Zhang had come to Sanjiacun several times, and by extension had been to the Old Chai Family several times as well, so he counted as a familiar face.

Liu Zhanggui and Chai Youqing were also following behind.

Once inside the house, Old Zhang from the Police Station inquired about the situation — what exactly had happened.

Police Station Chief Zhang held his hat in his hand, his expression serious as he entered the house. Liu Zhanggui followed behind him, his face also looking grim.

"Comrade Sun Shengyue, right? I'm Zhang Limin from the Township Police Station. Your uncle Chai Youqing came to the station to report a case, saying you were assaulted by your boyfriend Niu Dianfeng, causing a miscarriage. Is that true? How are you feeling now? Do you need to be sent to the clinic first?"

Sun Shengyue shook her head violently, her voice as thin as a mosquito's buzz: "He didn't beat me that hard... I... that... I accidentally... fell myself..."

Sun Yuguang also spoke up from the side: "Right, right, there was a bit of a misunderstanding, the child accidentally fell..."

The moment Chai Youqing heard this, he flared up instantly: "Sun Yuguang! Your daughter was beaten until she miscarried, and you're here spouting nonsense? Fell? Can a fall cause that kind of damage? Shengyue, raise your head and look at Uncle! Don't be afraid! The police are right here! That surnamed Niu still can't eat you!"

Liu Zhanggui couldn't bear to watch either, cleared his throat: "Shengyue, and Brother Yuguang, this matter can't be concealed. If it really was Niu Dianfeng who struck, the nature of the case changes. Whatever difficulties you have, speak them out. Police Station Chief Zhang is here, and the village can back you up. Hiding it only hurts yourselves."

"Exactly! Shengyue, look at your dad's cowardly look — what can he support you with? Your Uncle went all out to report the case, the police comrades are here, what are you still afraid of? What bewitching soup did that surnamed Niu pour into you? Beaten like this and still covering for him? What do you see in him? That he beats his wife with lethal force?"

Chai Mi also said: "Cousin, look at me. We're not afraid. Whatever Police Station Chief Zhang asks, you answer truthfully. We have justice on our side and can walk anywhere under heaven. The more you don't speak, the more people think you have a guilty conscience. Besides, your body was already weak, a miscarriage is no small matter, it damages your vitality. If it leaves a root of illness, what then? Who takes responsibility? If you gloss over it this time, what about later? We have to get to the bottom of this — how exactly you were injured, whoever is responsible must take responsibility. Right, Police Station Chief Zhang?"

Police Station Chief Zhang nodded: "This comrade is right. Comrade Sun Shengyue, it's your own body. We handle cases based on evidence, but you also have to tell the truth. If it was intentional injury causing miscarriage, that's a serious criminal offense. If you don't speak now, and we find out later, the nature changes. Concealing the truth, even giving false testimony, also carries legal responsibility."

Sun Shengyue pondered for a moment, thinking of her grievances, and finally couldn't hold back and burst into tears.

The room fell instantly silent, leaving only her miserable wailing.

After a good long while, she finally spoke in broken sobs:

"It was Niu Dianfeng who beat me. He's not human. After the betrothal he said since we're getting married soon anyway, let me move into his house first. I went. The first few days were okay, but later..."

She couldn't continue, another bout of heartbreaking sobs.

"What happened later?" Chai Youqing asked angrily.

"Later he found out the month of my pregnancy didn't match, that it wasn't his seed. He went crazy, cursing me every day, calling me a ruined woman, a liar, forcing me to say whose wild man's child it was... If I didn't speak he'd find ways to torture me, wouldn't give me food, pointed at my nose and cursed me, the curses were so filthy..."

Chai Mi interjected aptly: "And then? Cousin, he started hitting you?"

Sun Shengyue nodded violently, tears smearing her face: "Mhm... yesterday he cursed me again, cursed my mother, the curses were so filthy. I couldn't take it and talked back one sentence, and he... he grabbed me and hauled me off the Kang, kicked my stomach with his feet, kicked several times, I bled a lot, and he also said..."

"What did he say?!"

Sun Shengyue's voice trembled with despair: "He said if I dare tell this... tell anyone he beat me, he'll beat me to death, and said he absolutely won't marry me, and will go to the Town to make a scene, let everyone know I'm a ruined woman pregnant with a bastard's child tricking him into marriage, let me and my dad have no face to see anyone in the ten li eight xiang, wuwuwu... I'm scared, I don't dare speak... I really don't dare..."

Sun Yuguang plopped down on the ground, covering his face and wailing loudly: "Retribution, my daughter, how can we live..."

Chai Youqing shook with rage: "Son of a bitch! Beast! I fuck his ancestors, Niu Dianfeng! Police Station Chief Zhang! Did you hear! This is fucking intentional murder! He's trying to force my niece to death!"

Chai You Fu also gasped, then shouted with righteous indignation: "Listen! Listen! Is this even human speech? He did the immoral thing himself, then turns around and threatens the victim? Police Station Chief Zhang! You have to arrest him! Even shooting him wouldn't vent my hatred!"

Liu Zhanggui was also deeply shocked, shaking his head repeatedly: "This is too outrageous! Too vile!"

Police Station Chief Zhang's face darkened completely. He looked at Sun Shengyue, who had cried to the point of nearly fainting: "Comrade Sun Shengyue, is every word you just said the truth? You must be responsible for your words."

Sun Shengyue raised her tearful eyes and nodded.

Chai Mi stood to the side, she slightly lowered her eyelids, concealing the satisfaction deep in her eyes.

This eye medicine was applied at just the right moment.

Niu Dianfeng, and the Sun family's pool of mud — this play has only just reached the exciting part.

Police Station Chief Zhang nodded, signaled the young officer beside him to record, then turned to Sun Yuguang and Chai Youqing: "We basically understand the situation. Comrade Sun Shengyue needs to go to the hospital immediately for a detailed examination and injury appraisal. Comrade Sun Yuguang, you are her father, come with us to the station to make a formal statement. Comrade Chai Youqing, and Village Chief Liu, please also cooperate as witnesses or reporters. Comrade Chai Mi, you stay here to look after Sun Shengyue, wait for us to contact the hospital."

Chai Youqing immediately patted his chest: "No problem! Police Station Chief Zhang, I'm going with you! I'll watch with my own eyes how that son of a bitch is brought to justice!"

Liu Zhanggui also hurriedly agreed: "Should, should, Police Station Chief Zhang, we'll fully cooperate!"

Sun Yuguang was helped up by the police, nodding in a daze.

Then Police Station Chief Zhang left.

Chai Mi let out a light breath, walked to the Kang side, sat down next to Sun Shengyue, didn't touch her, just looked at that pale face.

"Cousin. Everyone's gone. Crying it out is good, holding it in hurts the body more. This body of yours, just suffered such a huge ordeal, needs proper recuperation."

Sun Shengyue closed her eyes, a string of tears rolling down.

Chai Mi paused, as if chatting about family matters, her tone even carrying a trace of barely perceptible ease: "Speaking of which, a man hitting a woman... tsk, really isn't a thing." She shook her head slightly, "Once there's a first time there's a second, a dog can't change its habit of eating shit. Think about your maternal grandfather, my grandfather, Chai Zhongxiao."

"A while back, the old man nearly beat the old woman to death, broke her arm, later beat her until she was incontinent. One beating lasted seven or eight days, that old woman didn't look human anymore. Isn't this a living example? Temper flared, even broke her arm. Why? Just because there was no money for daily expenses, he beat his wife. You tell me, what meaning is there in such a life? Living in constant fear. In the end, didn't it become... a laughingstock in the ten li eight xiang, himself neither here nor there."

"But my reputation..." Sun Shengyue hesitated.

Chai Mi lowered her head, shook her head.

Actually, ever since Sun Yuguang went to find Liu Zhanggui, even Chai You Fu had heard it, so other people probably all heard it too.

Actually, it's already known throughout the whole city.

Still want to hide it?

Good news doesn't leave the gate, bad news travels a thousand li.

Where the fuck can this be hidden!

"Cousin, you're still thinking about reputation at a time like this? Your life's almost gone! Can reputation be eaten as food, can it make your stomach not hurt? Niu Dianfeng precisely pinched that fear of yours, that's why he dared to torment you to death! You still want to jump into that fire pit? Be his ox and horse, until one day he beats you to death on the Kang?"

Chai Mi glanced sideways at Sun Shengyue, thinking usually she's so bold, what is she afraid of now?

Actually, judging by Sun Shengyue's looks, finding a better family really wouldn't be hard.

Sun Shengyue's height was tall, could be half a head taller than Chai Mi, and she wasn't fat either, except her face was slightly larger, everything else was very good.

Moreover, Sun Shengyue's face wasn't particularly large; it was the round type, and her short hair just happened to cover it perfectly, making her look much better.

In this era, girls like Sun Shengyue still had quite a market. It was just that she single-mindedly wanted to marry a rich man, to shed her identity as a countryside bumpkin.

Actually, this was easy to understand; the hard part was that her judgment had gone wrong.

Sun Shengyue must have believed Chai Chunwei's introduction, which was why she started seeing that previous man; perhaps she felt it was safe, so she didn't think too much about it, and then she got pregnant.

But things had come to this pass; anyway, Sun Shengyue had already deliberately made things difficult to the point that everyone in Sanjiacun knew.

That didn't matter anymore.

Seeing Sun Shengyue had already wavered, Chai Mi continued: "No matter who you marry, you cannot marry Niu Dianfeng again! He's a beast wearing human skin! Today the police even came, and he's still like this; in the future with no one to keep him in check, won't he eat you alive? Leave him, no matter how hard life gets, it's better than waiting to die in his hands! Our Old Chai Family, no matter how bad off, still has several mouths, and still won't let you starve or freeze to death! It's still better than being beaten to death or driven to death by him!"

The two then spoke about going to the hospital.

Sun Shengyue's face immediately showed embarrassment.

"Hospital? I... I don't have any money..." She couldn't go on; that bit of bride price from the betrothal had long been emptied by Niu Dianfeng under various pretexts, or taken by Sun Yuguang for his own younger sister Sun Shengli's studies; where would there be money now.

Chai Mi immediately frowned, her face showing just the right amount of difficulty and a trace of helplessness; she sighed: "Ai! Cousin, speaking of money... I... really can't help much either. You know, recently the family smashed pots and sold iron, just contracted those two mu of greenhouses; the family right now is truly, a rat crawling in would have to cry its way out, can't squeeze out a single copper."

The light in Sun Shengyue's eyes instantly dimmed; that bit of hope just risen was extinguished again by reality's coldness, leaving only deeper despair.

"No money?" Sun Yuguang, who had been playing dead on the ground beside them, suddenly lifted his head.

"No money?! No money, go ask the Niu Family for it! Perfectly justified! He Niu Dianfeng beat my daughter like this! The child was beaten away! And he still wants to pat his ass and act like nothing happened? No way!"

In a few steps he rushed to the kang edge, roaring at Sun Shengyue: "Medical fees! Nutritional fees! Mental distress damages! Lost wages! Not a single one can be less! Short by a single copper, and I'm not done with his Niu Family! Shengyue! Don't be afraid! With Dad here! Dad will decide for you! Must make the Niu Family cough up this money! Won't pay? Won't pay, I'll go lie on their kang head! Let's see if his Old Niu Family can afford to lose this face!"

Chai Mi watched coldly from the side; at Sun Yuguang's look of instantly coming alive at the mention of money, she wasn't surprised in the slightest.

Before, when Chai Chunfang died, Sun Yuguang was exactly this state.

As if whoever died had nothing to do with Sun Yuguang.

But money had a very big relation.

Chai Mi recalled when Chai Chunfang died in the Laozhai, what Sun Yuguang thought of wasn't calling the police or anything, but going to demand money.

This kind of useless person... or rather this kind of person, just what specific kind of perverted psychology he has, Chai Mi truly couldn't see through.

Chai Mi didn't say anything, just watched Sun Yuguang's figure stumbling out the courtyard gate, then running back again after a while, through the window.

This eye medicine, sure enough wasn't applied in vain.

"Your dad's back again; I see he wants to drag you along to go."

Sun Shengyue froze: "Eh......"

Sun Yuguang came back, entered the room and prepared to pull Sun Shengyue out to go to the Old Niu Family to demand money: "Go, you come with me to demand medical fees."

Sun Shengyue refused to go: "I'm not going. I'll wait at home for you."

Sun Shengyue's body had just been injured and vitality depleted; moving was a bit strenuous, and she was also afraid of the cold.

The temperature now was fiercely low; watching it get colder and colder.

Moreover, Sun Shengyue still wanted some face; going to demand money at this time, and having called the police, would the Old Niu Family give a good face?

"If you don't go, I can't find their house either...... Besides, this matter you absolutely must go. If you don't go, they won't acknowledge the debt; how to handle it?" Sun Yuguang said.

After all, verbal claims hold no proof.

Sun Shengyue still didn't want to go.

Chai Mi persuaded: "Cousin, the soft fears the hard, the hard fears the reckless, the reckless fears the death-defying. We don't be afraid; we have reason. With reason you can travel the world... Being human, when it's time to be hard, you have to harden up."

Sun Shengyue was spoken into a chaotic mess by the two of you one word me one word.

She closed her eyes; when she opened them again, hardening her scalp she said hoarsely: "Fine, I'll go."

Sun Yuguang heard this, his face immediately gained some color: "That's right! Quick, put on thick clothes! The wind outside is biting!"

He bustled about helping Sun Shengyue find clothes.

Chai Mi stood up: "Then alright, Cousin, Old Uncle, you tidy up and hurry, strike while the iron's hot. My family's greenhouse side has a pile of things waiting; a pile of people waiting for me to arrange; truly can't get away. I have to go back first. Whatever situation, tell me later."

Sun Yuguang's mind full of going to the Niu Family to collect debts, agreed casually: "Right right, you mind yours! If there's news I'll tell you!"

Chai Mi nodded, didn't look at weak Sun Shengyue again, turned and went out the door, walking away without looking back.

Sun Yuguang practically half-dragging half-carrying Sun Shengyue, stumbling toward the Niu Family in town.

Sun Shengyue wrapped in worn thick clothes, face whiter than winter snow, every step like treading on cotton, the cramping pain in her belly one wave tighter than the next, cold wind scraping her face like knives.

With great difficulty they felt their way to the street where Niu Dianfeng's house was; from afar they saw several neighbors gathered together, pointing and gesturing toward the Niu Family's direction. Sun Yuguang's heart felt a bit timid, but thinking of money, his waist straightened again.

He took a deep breath, stepped forward and banged on the door: "Open up! Old Niu Family! Open up!"

The door was yanked open; Niu Dianfeng's father, a sturdy old man with a black face blocked the doorway, behind him followed his mother with an equally fierce face.

"What are you doing? Wailing at a funeral?" The Niu old man shouted impatiently.

"What am I doing? Come to settle accounts! Look at what good thing your good son did! Beat my daughter like this! Child beaten away! And you still have face to stay at home?"

Sun Yuguang in one motion pulled Sun Shengyue, who was hiding behind him, to the front: "Look! Look at what good thing your son did! What have people become?"

Sun Shengyue pushed to the front, only felt her scalp go numb, lips trembling unable to speak, only subconsciously clutching her lower abdomen.

The Niu old woman looked Sun Shengyue up and down, triangular eyes full of meanness: "Yo, I wondered who it was? Isn't this that broken shoe carrying a wild seed trying to latch onto our Dianfeng? What? Couldn't keep your own wild seed, now have the face to come make trouble at my house? Who knows if you didn't fall carelessly yourself, trying to scam us?"

"You bunch of shameless ones, big with belly seeking the husband's family, also counts as a first in our town! In my life I've never seen you this shameless a family!"