Chapter 13: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 13 Shangou Village 13

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Yang Dafu actually wanted Li Xiulan to help him pull down his pants to urinate; this shameless request left Li Xiulan stunned.

"Are you deaf? Hurry up and pull down my pants for me, otherwise I'll wet my pants, and not only will you have to help me pull down my pants, you'll have to help me wash them too!"

Yang Dafu ordered her around in an overbearing manner.

Li Xiulan resisted from the bottom of her heart, felt disgust, and even felt nauseated.

But she knew she had no choice at all; if she didn't do it, Yang Dafu wouldn't write a letter of understanding for her husband.

In the end, she could only endure this resistance, disgust, and nausea, pulling down Yang Dafu's pants for him and helping him urinate.

Seeing Li Xiulan's agonized expression, Yang Dafu felt a sense of triumph welling up in his heart.

"Don't put on a woebegone face like your parents died; it's just letting me pull down my pants to urinate, such a simple thing, any orderly in the hospital could do it, why can't you?"

Li Xiulan kept her head down and said nothing.

After Yang Dafu finished urinating, he shook his body, then had Li Xiulan pull his pants back up for him.

In the following days, Yang Dafu not only had Li Xiulan help him defecate, urinate, and wipe his buttocks, but also bathe him, wash his clothes, feed him food and water.

These days were simply the most agonizing days of Li Xiulan's life; she had never done these things even for her own husband, but now she had to do them for Yang Dafu.

She felt that although she hadn't been substantially raped by Yang Dafu, she had already been spiritually raped by him countless times.

Especially when Yang Dafu's injuries had healed a little, when she helped him urinate, Yang Dafu would always show unrestrained lust on his face, and then deliberately make a physiological reaction in front of Li Xiulan, openly and brazenly, to desecrate Li Xiulan.

Li Xiulan felt tormented and agonized.

Fortunately, her two children were also by her side; children could always bring her courage and hope.

So although she was almost on the verge of collapse every day these days, in the end she still bravely held on.

In the blink of an eye, seven days passed, and Yang Dafu was finally discharged from the hospital.

Yang Dafu kept his promise and wrote a letter of understanding for Wang Zhanggen.

After receiving the letter of understanding, Li Xiulan didn't want to stay another moment; she hastily packed her luggage and wanted to leave quickly.

However, at this moment, Yang Dafu called out to her:

"Don't leave yet, I have something to give you!"

He then took out a jade bracelet; it was left to him by his grandmother for his mother, his mother passed it to his wife, and not long ago his wife quarreled with him about divorce and threw this jade bracelet back at him.

Now Yang Dafu wanted to give this heirloom jade bracelet to Li Xiulan; what it meant went without saying.

"I don't want your things!"

Li Xiulan did not accept this gift, and also said:

"Don't bother me again in the future!"

Yang Dafu's heart was broken; these days Li Xiulan's meticulous care for him, to be honest, had actually made him develop real feelings; now he not only wanted to possess Li Xiulan physically, but had also developed love for her psychologically.

"No matter what, thank you for taking care of me these days, Xiulan; you should know, I love you."

Yang Dafu spoke his true thoughts from his heart.

But in return came Li Xiulan's "Pah," spitting a mouthful of saliva viciously onto the ground, then leaving decisively without looking back.

Watching Li Xiulan's back as she left quickly with her two children, Yang Dafu couldn't help but feel anger, turning love into hate; the long scar on his face became twisted and hideous:

"Li Xiulan, are you really going to be so heartless to me!"

Yang Dafu asked heart-rendingly, but received no response at all.

Even worse, just as Li Xiulan left the ward with her front foot, his wife Lin Aifen appeared before him with her back foot, and with a face full of disgust forced him to go handle the divorce registration today.

Yang Dafu had Li Xiulan come to the hospital to be his orderly, taking care of him for seven days; during this period, his various spiritual desecrations of Li Xiulan were pleasurable, but they also made Lin Aifen, as the original wife, increasingly determined to divorce him.

Yang Dafu didn't want to live with Lin Aifen either; this woman was very snobbish, not at all a woman who could live an honest life; now seeing he had lost his job and still had a scar on his face, she didn't hide her disgust for him, kicking him when he was down; what use was keeping her by his side?

"Divorce then, let's go divorce now!"

Yang Dafu's attitude was also very firm.

He never thought that over the ten-plus years Lin Aifen had been married to him, she had not only borne him a son but also silently contributed a lot to this family.

He would never think that the reason Lin Aifen proposed divorce was not because he lost his job at the Women's Federation, nor because he had a scar on his face, but because during the time he was injured and hospitalized, he was not honest at all, and actually dared to force Li Xiulan to come be his orderly.

This was what Lin Aifen could not tolerate the most.

On the day Yang Dafu was discharged, he and Lin Aifen went to the Civil Affairs Bureau in town to get the divorce certificate; the moment they walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Yang Dafu was in a daze, feeling everything was like a dream; he was somewhat at a loss, not knowing what his future life would be like.

On the other side, Li Xiulan took Yang Dafu's letter of understanding and returned to the Police Station in town; the staff at the Police Station, after seeing the letter of understanding signed by Yang Dafu himself, released Wang Zhanggen according to law.

"Husband, let's go home!"

The moment Li Xiulan saw Wang Zhanggen, all the grievances and all the negative emotions in her heart turned into a warm faint smile.

At that moment, she felt all her previous efforts were worth it!

Especially when Wang Zhanggen fiercely pulled her into his embrace!

"Wife, I've let you suffer grievance!"

Wang Zhanggen was not stupid; he knew the reason he could be released without guilt was definitely because Li Xiulan had made many efforts behind his back... even, made certain sacrifices!

Things had come to this; he didn't want to ask more, nor dared to ask more.

He was afraid he would ask out a truth he found difficult to accept.

He swore in his heart that he would never leave his wife half a step again; whatever working to earn money, whatever living in the city, none of it mattered; what mattered most was to always stay by his wife and children's side!

That afternoon, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan, with their two children, returned to Shangou Village.

The home was empty, with not a sound, looking rather desolate.

Through Li Xiulan's account, Wang Zhanggen only then learned that the family's livestock and valuable furniture and appliances had long ago been taken away by the Family Planning Office people.

"Those damn bastards, where did our having children get in their way? They insist on treating us like this!"

After learning the truth, Wang Zhanggen slammed a fist hard onto the worn, moldy tabletop, hating those people so much he was gritting his teeth in hatred.

"It's all in the past, don't dwell on so much." Li Xiulan instead took it in stride; she patiently comforted Wang Zhanggen: "Husband, I have a strong premonition that once this third child in my belly is born, our life will definitely get better and better!"