Chapter 1197: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1197: Remember These Bad People, Don't Associate With Them In The Future!

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Liang Xinghua returned to Shangou Village, only to see an excavator and two tractors already parked beside his raw house.

The demolition workers Wang Erhai hired had already arrived and were ready to go.

And Liang Xinghua's household luggage had already been packed up and brought out with the help of Wang Xiaohua and Li Xiulan.

While packing, Li Xiulan was still muttering, wondering if doing this was too heartless, if it was too unconscionable.

Wang Xiaohua said:

"Mom, you're just too prone to guilt, which is why you've never had it easy your whole life."

Li Xiulan, however, said:

"I only had it rough when I was young; now that you three brothers have grown up, am I not doing just fine? And the reason I'm doing well now is all because the virtue I accumulated in my youth is taking effect!"

Li Xiulan has her own set of theories.

This set of theories of hers can not only be applied to herself, but even to Liang Xinghua!

The reason Liang Xinghua is doing poorly now, with everything going wrong, is because his father Liang Yuanchao didn't act like a human when he was a Village Cadre.

Liang Yuanchao helped Yang Dafu post that declaration slandering Li Xiulan on the Village Entrance bulletin board, causing Li Xiulan to be imprisoned and misunderstood by the whole village as a promiscuous woman.

Let's not even speak of this matter!

Later, Li Xiulan went alone to clear wasteland and plant cassava; she had only planted one season before Liang Yuanchao forcibly took the land back and resold it to someone else — is that something a human would do?

Thinking about it now, Li Xiulan still feels a bit angry.

But those are all things from twenty-plus years ago; Liang Yuanchao has been dead for many years now, and she hasn't bothered to dwell on it that much.

"Being a person, one must accumulate virtue; unconscionable things cannot be done."

Li Xiulan said this to Wang Xiaohua.

Wang Xiaohua said:

"Later I'll have Erhai subsidize Liang Xinghua a bit of money, just to cover the cost of the doors and windows he installed on this raw house; that should be fine, right?"

Hearing this, Li Xiulan's sense of guilt lessened considerably.

Liang Xinghua had just arrived on this side; without even glancing at Wang Xiaohua or Li Xiulan, he hurried over to pick up his daughter Liang Ailan.

"Lanlan, are you okay? In these days I wasn't here, did those bad people bully you?"

Liang Ailan cried in her father's arms:

"Daddy, Daddy, Mommy left; she said she's never coming back!"

Liang Xinghua held Liang Ailan even tighter:

"If she left, she left; no need to be sad. With me here, I'll take good care of you."

Then Liang Xinghua asked again:

"In these few days I wasn't here, did any bad people bully you?"

Liang Ailan shook her head:

"They were all pretty nice to me, even gave me sugar to eat; no one bullied me."

However, Liang Xinghua deliberately guided her:

"Lanlan, look clearly at these people now; these are all big villains, these big villains want to tear down our home. When you grow up later, you must ruthlessly retaliate against them!"

Liang Ailan is just a little girl; what could she understand?

Hearing her own daddy say this, a surge of hatred immediately rose in her heart.

"They, they're all big villains? But they were pretty nice to me..."

"Their kindness to you is all a deception! Remember this: in this world, only Daddy won't deceive you; everyone else will deceive you!"

Wang Xiaohua couldn't bear to watch:

"No, Uncle Xinghua, the child is still this young, and you're already teaching her hatred; aren't you harming her?"

Liang Xinghua gritted his teeth at Wang Xiaohua:

"None of your business! You stinking dwarf!"

Wang Xiaohua gave a dry heh-heh laugh and stopped wasting words on Liang Xinghua, directly waving his hand at the excavator operator:

"Master, start working!"

The excavator master gave an OK gesture, then drove the excavator, ramming a bucket into the wall, directly smashing a big hole in the raw house's wall.

Red bricks scattered all over the ground, dust billowing up.

Earlier Wang Xiaohua had said he'd have his second brother give Liang Xinghua a subsidy for the door and window installation costs; now Wang Xiaohua didn't mention a word about this matter.

Instead, it was Liang Xinghua who took the initiative to bring it up at this moment:

"These doors and windows were installed by me; if you're tearing down the house, you have to compensate me a bit for the door and window costs!"

Wang Xiaohua asked coldly:

"How much do you want?" And warned him, "Don't you dare ask for an exorbitant price!"

Liang Xinghua thought for a moment, then finally said:

"At least thirty thousand!"

He actually only spent a bit over ten thousand, not even twenty thousand, on installing the doors and windows, yet now he opened his mouth asking for thirty thousand!

That counts as asking for an exorbitant price!

But Wang Xiaohua despised him — wanting to ask for an exorbitant price, yet not daring to name too high a figure!

Liang Xinghua was just like this—if you said he was honest, he wasn't completely honest; if you said he was bad, he wasn't completely bad either!

If he had kept his original intention and stayed honest to the end, or if he had been as thoroughly bad as his ex-wife Lan Menglian, he wouldn't have fallen into this kind of predicament today.

One can only say that people who waver between good and bad in reality often don't fare too well.

Wang Xiaohua said:

"Thirty thousand is thirty thousand, I won't haggle with you anymore. When you bought this building before, you still owed us fifty thousand, right? Deduct it from that. Now you still owe us twenty thousand."

Liang Xinghua immediately became unhappy:

"You all want to tear down this house, and you still have the nerve to ask me for that fifty thousand?"

Wang Xiaohua said:

"Why wouldn't we have the nerve? One thing is one thing! The money you owed for buying the house before—that was before! Now we're taking back the house, and that's the condition for giving you the letter of understanding! If you're not willing, then we'll slowly settle this account, starting with the losses from my second brother's fish pond! Don't blame me for not telling you—the losses from my second brother's fish pond are at least two or three hundred thousand!"

Liang Xinghua heard this number, his mind trembled slightly, and only then was he speechless.

Obviously, he had never expected that putting down three packets of Huangteng Jing would cause Wang Erhai such a huge loss!

He thought the fish in that fish pond were worth at most twenty or thirty thousand yuan!

"Anyway, if you tear down this house, then don't even think about me paying back the money I owed for buying your house before."

Liang Xinghua waited a long time before he finally forced himself to say this one sentence.

This was him acting like a scoundrel.

Wang Xiaohua laughed and cried at the same time:

"Liang Xinghua, I didn't expect you to be such a person!"

At this moment Li Xiulan came over to smooth things over:

"Alright, alright, Xiao Hua, say a few words less. Forbearance is a virtue!"

Then she took the initiative to say to Liang Xinghua:

"Xinghua, you don't need to pay back the money you owed us for buying the building before. Hurry and go find a job in the city. From now on, work honestly and don't do stupid things like poisoning other people's fish ponds just because you're jealous. This kind of stupid thing harms others and doesn't benefit yourself!"

Li Xiulan could be said to be kind and patient, tolerant and magnanimous toward Liang Xinghua.

But Liang Xinghua didn't appreciate it, and snorted coldly:

"Hmph, don't give me fake compassion here!"

After saying these words, Liang Xinghua picked up his luggage, took his daughter, turned around, and left.

This raw house didn't have many things in it, just some clothes he wore when he came back to live here.

So when he left, he didn't need to bring along big bags and small bags of things.

Li Xiulan watched the backs of Liang Xinghua and Liang Ailan, father and daughter, leaving, and couldn't help but sigh.

And Liang Xinghua was still teaching his daughter:

"Lanlan, remember this—the Wang family are all bad people, they're not good things. From now on, don't associate with them!"

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