Chapter 113: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 113

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

The next morning, after finishing breakfast, Li Xiulan went to start construction on the house together with Wang Zhanggen.

Li Xiulan did the small worker tasks, responsible for sifting sand and mixing cement sand, while Wang Zhanggen did the big worker tasks, responsible for laying bricks.

Li Xiulan's waist injury, after more than two months of rest and recuperation, had now basically fully recovered.

She carried two buckets of cement sand into the construction site, not feeling any waist pain at all.

Wang Zhanggen held a cigarette in his mouth, head down laying bricks, silent and sullen.

Li Xiulan discovered to her surprise that Wang Zhanggen's bricklaying technique was actually quite good; the walls he laid were very straight and level, not at all like a novice.

She didn't know that Wang Zhanggen had done masonry work in town for a period of time; that was when Wang Zhanggen learned to lay bricks.

The couple worked silently without a word.

Just then, footsteps and voices came from outside the construction site.

Li Xiulan looked up and saw He Dazhu leading his beautiful partner, as well as a middle-aged man, walking over.

Pointing and gesturing at a nearby empty plot of land.

"He Dazhu, what are you doing here?"

Upon seeing He Dazhu, Li Xiulan's face immediately darkened, thinking He Dazhu had come to stir up trouble again.

Previously, He Dazhu had used the pretext of helping Li Xiulan redeem Wang Zhanggen to take Li Xiulan to a hotel in Dongguan, where he trampled and violated her dignity and personhood; this matter still cast a shadow in Li Xiulan's heart.

However, Li Xiulan also had to admit a fact: if it weren't for the one thousand yuan He Dazhu had charitably given her at the time, she probably still wouldn't have been able to redeem Wang Zhanggen.

"Xiulan, what kind of reaction is that? Are you that afraid of me?"

He Dazhu let out a cold laugh; seeing Li Xiulan's posture as if facing a great enemy, he couldn't help finding it amusing.

He didn't have that much idle time to deal with Li Xiulan.

Back in Dongguan he had already vented his anger; from now on, he and Li Xiulan had already severed all ties completely.

"Rest assured, I'm not here to make things difficult for you. It's just that my family's homestead land allocation happened to be next to your family's homestead land. I've brought the foreman master here to look at the site, planning to build a three-story villa!"

Hearing this, Li Xiulan was stunned.

She hadn't expected that after He Dazhu's old house was demolished, the new homestead land would actually be allocated right near her home!

He Dazhu then said with a beaming smile:

"Xiulan, aren't you poor as a church mouse? Can you even afford to build this house? Just afraid you'll run out of money halfway through and won't even be able to close in the roof, ending up with an open-air house."

Hearing this, Li Xiulan felt insulted, yet she couldn't find anything to retort.

Because she was indeed very poor, indeed had no money!

"Whether I can build this house up is none of your business; you just mind yourself!"

Li Xiulan coldly spat out this one sentence.

He Dazhu chuckled:

"Want me to lend you some money? As long as you open your mouth and beg me, I might charitably give you a little."

Li Xiulan trembled all over with anger, yet couldn't utter a word.

Just at this moment!

Wang Zhanggen walked over!

"He Dazhu, what are you doing! Trying to seduce my wife again!"

Wang Zhanggen pointed at He Dazhu's nose and cursed loudly.

In the whole Shangou Village, the person he found the biggest eyesore was He Dazhu!

He had always believed that if it weren't for He Dazhu seducing Li Xiulan back then, his and Li Xiulan's relationship would never have become so riddled with holes as it is now!

However, one sentence from He Dazhu instantly deflated him:

"Don't misunderstand. Your wife is old and ugly; even if I were to seduce someone, it would be impossible to seduce her! Forgot to introduce you two — this is my partner, her name is Chen Meili!"

He Dazhu pulled Chen Meili over, putting his arm around her slender waist that could be spanned by one hand.

Chen Meili was true to her name — truly young and beautiful!

When she smiled, it was as if a hundred flowers bloomed at once!

Wang Zhanggen only glanced at Chen Meili once, and his heart gave a tremor; looking again at his own wife, he didn't know from when she had already turned into an old and ugly middle-aged village woman!

As the saying goes, without comparison there is no harm!

Chen Meili and Li Xiulan compared like this, making the originally very face-conscious Wang Zhanggen instantly feel he had lost all face!

He was unconvinced in his heart!

Clearly they both came from the same village!

Why could He Dazhu find such a beautiful partner as Chen Meili, while he, Wang Zhanggen, could only marry a village woman with such a bitter face like Li Xiulan!

But what use was being unconvinced?

Who told him he was so incapable!

He went out to work for so long, not earning money was one thing, but he even got caught and thrown into the Zhangmutou Shelter, couldn't even come up with eight hundred yuan for redemption money, needing Li Xiulan to run all the way there to help him pay the redemption money!

"Zhanggen, I'm going to build a three-story villa right next to your house; from now on we'll be neighbors. We should get along well, don't go throwing faces at the drop of a hat. Although I was hurt by you and your wife before, I don't want to dwell on past matters; hope you don't dwell on them either. Otherwise if a fuss kicks up, who ends up losing is still hard to say!"

He Dazhu wore a lofty, superior air, his face full of arrogance.

But he had the capital to be arrogant; after all, he had made big money outside.

Back in the village, even the Acting Village Committee Secretary Zhang Zhongtian had to give him three parts of thin face!

Wang Changgen felt terrible inside, but had nothing he could say!

And right at this moment, He Dazhu, in front of Wang Changgen and Li Xiulan, said to the foreman master he had brought:

"Master, when the time comes, raise my family's foundation a whole meter higher, to prevent the house from being flooded when heavy rainstorms come in June."

The foreman master, hearing this, couldn't help but be stunned:

"Raise the whole thing a meter higher, that's going to cost quite a bit more money."

He Dazhu laughed generously:

"No problem, I can still afford this bit of money!"

Wang Changgen, however, immediately became unhappy.

He Dazhu's homestead land was right next to his house; if he raised his own foundation by a meter, wouldn't Wang Changgen's house be a meter lower than his?

This was deliberately trying to be a cut above his family!

He Dazhu doing this was bullying people too much!

So Wang Changgen immediately protested!

"You can't raise your foundation! Isn't this bullying people!"

He Dazhu, however, sneered coldly:

"I'm working on my own foundation, not yours, how is that bullying people?"

Wang Changgen gritted his teeth:

"This is exactly bullying people, I won't allow you to do this!"

He Dazhu rolled his eyes:

"Are you sick? It's my own homestead land, I'll do whatever I want with it, it's none of your business! If you have the ability, you can raise your own house too!"

To anger Wang Changgen, He Dazhu turned back and said to the foreman master he brought:

"When the time comes, raise it a whole meter and a half for me, one meter is too low, it has to be a meter and a half!"

Him doing this was purely to anger Wang Changgen.

The foreman master, hearing this, had a face full of shock.

He said weakly:

"Actually the terrain here is already quite high, it won't get flooded even without raising the foundation, raising it a whole meter and a half won't look too good......"

He Dazhu, however, said coldly:

"Are you the master of the house or am I? I tell you how to do it, you do it that way, I'm not not paying you!"

The foreman master chuckled, and stopped speaking.

Wang Changgen on the side, however, was furious.

If He Dazhu really raised his new house a meter and a half, how could he ever hold his head up high as a person afterwards?

"He Dazhu, don't you bully people too far!"