Chapter 43: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 43: Mountain Gully Village 43

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Are you even a man? The moment you come back you hit my mother!"

Wang Dashan's small frame actually rushed forward and shoved Wang Zhanggen away.

Wang Zhanggen stood awkwardly in place.

He felt deeply pained, deeply lost.

He never expected his own biological son to not be close to him at all.

But actually this is also a matter of course.

All three sons were raised single-handedly by Li Xiulan; naturally they are all closer to Li Xiulan, not to this so-called father who only comes home two or three times a year.

"Mom, are you okay?"

Wang Erhai and Wang Xiaohua also rushed up to show concern for Li Xiulan.

Li Xiulan held them and couldn't help but burst into tears.

She wasn't crying from sadness, but from being moved.

The three sons' reaction at this moment made her feel that all her years of hardship were worth it.

She alone raised them to adulthood; all her sacrifices were repaid at this instant.

Wang Zhanggen watched with jealousy; he thought his return would make the three sons happy and surprised, yet he didn't know their reaction toward him would be like this.

He flung his sleeve and ran off to the room to sleep.

Li Xiulan didn't want to sleep with him, so she took the three children to another room to sleep.

The next day Li Xiulan still got up at five-thirty in the morning as usual to make breakfast, feed the pigs and chickens, and do the laundry.

Wang Dashan went to school after eating breakfast.

Wang Erhai and Wang Xiaohua went to the Village to find other kids to play Glass Marbles.

Only Li Xiulan and Wang Zhanggen were left in the house.

Wang Zhanggen was still lying in bed, not up yet.

He lay on his side, back facing the Bedroom door.

Li Xiulan walked over and said to him:

"Breakfast is on the table, eat it yourself, I'm going to watch the store."

Then she turned and left.

After last night's deep consideration, in the end Li Xiulan didn't bring up divorce with Wang Zhanggen again.

Because she knew, if she divorced Wang Zhanggen, the three children would definitely have to be separated; she could not possibly win custody of all three children, at most she could only fight for custody of one or two children.

And letting the three brothers be separated was something Li Xiulan was absolutely unwilling to see.

Especially when last night, the three brothers came back and so protectively stood up for her as their mother, it made her even more determined not to abandon any one of the three.

Wang Zhanggen suffered insomnia all night last night; the three children's coldness toward him made him feel very aggrieved, very displeased.

He even wondered whether in the future when he got old, these three children would not support him in his old age.

And all of this, he blamed on Li Xiulan — it was Li Xiulan who didn't educate them well, which caused them to not respect him as a father at all.

"Li Xiulan, you usually didn't say few bad things about me to the kids, right!"

Wang Zhanggen suddenly flipped up from the bed, wanting to give Li Xiulan a good scolding, but discovered Li Xiulan had already left the room.

He put on plastic slippers and walked out to the Living Room.

Only to see the Living Room empty and deserted, no sign of Li Xiulan.

On that worn-out Dining Table still sat the breakfast Li Xiulan had prepared for him.

A bowl of Salted Vegetable Porridge, two boiled Eggs, and the Peanuts he loved to eat most.

However, at this time Wang Zhanggen no longer had any appetite for breakfast.

In a huff he swept the table over with one hand.

"Clatter!"

The things on the table fell all over the floor.

The Floor that Li Xiulan had just tidied clean this morning became a complete mess.

Wang Zhanggen still wasn't satisfied; he turned and went out the door, carrying a heart full of anger, striding quickly toward the Village Entrance Convenience Store.

Right now was the time slot when children go to school in the morning; quite a few kids passing by the Village Entrance Convenience Store on their way to school came in to buy snacks or stationery.

The Convenience Store's business was very good.

Li Xiulan and Niu Chunsheng were busy greeting customers.

But in the eyes of Wang Zhanggen, whose mind was already twisted, this looked like the two of them being lovey-dovey.

The more Wang Zhanggen looked, the more of an eyesore it became.

Finally he lost his reason.

He strode forward and actually overturned a small display rack placed at the Convenience Store entrance!

With a "Boom!"

The rack fell, nearly hitting a child.

Fortunately that child reacted quickly and dodged in time.

The kids in the store, seeing this, were all frightened and scattered in a rush.

Niu Chunsheng was completely dumbfounded, never expecting something like this to happen.

Li Xiulan was both anxious and furious, she angrily accused:

"Wang Changgen, what are you doing acting crazy!"

Wang Changgen gritted his teeth, his face ferocious: "Today I'm going to act crazy!"

He rushed into the convenience store, at everything inside the convenience store, both hitting and smashing!

"Wang Changgen, you've gone mad!"

Li Xiulan hurried forward to stop him, but was shoved away hard by him.

If not for Niu Chunsheng supporting her from behind, Li Xiulan might have already fallen to the ground.

Niu Chunsheng was both shocked and angry at this, he stepped forward and held Wang Changgen tight, not letting him continue the destruction.

Wang Changgen broke free with a shove, and backhanded a punch to Niu Chunsheng.

Niu Chunsheng got angry.

He lunged forward and grappled with Wang Changgen.

The two fought for a long time, neither able to gain the upper hand.

Both their bodies were covered in many bruises, many wounds.

Outside the convenience store a large crowd of onlookers had long since gathered.

All watching with relish.

"You all stop fighting!"

Li Xiulan saw the situation was bad, hurried forward to stop them.

But found she simply couldn't pull them apart.

Finally she went to fetch Village Party Secretary Liang Yuanchao, and under Liang Yuanchao's persuasion, the two of them finally stopped fighting.

"Niu Chunsheng let me tell you, as long as Li Xiulan hasn't divorced me for a single day, she's my wife, you don't even think about touching a single hair on her head! Don't think just because you're the Women's Federation Director I'm afraid of you, the last Women's Federation Director I hacked with a knife several times, everyone in the village knows it!"

After being pulled apart, Wang Changgen still angrily pointed at Niu Chunsheng and cursed loudly.

Niu Chunsheng was also furious beyond control: "If you've got the guts come hack me now, don't think I'm afraid of you! Psycho!"

Wang Changgen no longer paid attention to Niu Chunsheng, he turned back and roared at Li Xiulan:

"I forbid you from opening a store with him again, if you open a store with him again, just watch how I deal with you!"

Finished speaking, Wang Changgen turned and left in a huff.

Niu Chunsheng looked at the mess all over the floor, furious beyond measure, the convenience store he had painstakingly managed, was actually smashed up just like this by that bastard Wang Changgen, the losses here are immeasurable!

"Village Secretary Liang, you go help me call Doctor Zhong's place to report to the police, have the police come arrest that madman Wang Changgen!"

Niu Chunsheng while cleaning up the store's remains, shouted excitedly.

Looking at the convenience store's smashed goods, his heart was bleeding.

Liang Yuanchao also felt Wang Changgen had gone too far, he hurriedly nodded, decided to go help Niu Chunsheng report to the police.

But Li Xiulan hurriedly blocked him, and also came to persuade Niu Chunsheng:

"Chunsheng, don't report to the police okay! I'm begging you! No matter how you put it, he's the biological father of my three sons, if he's arrested and jailed, it'll have a very bad influence on the three children!"