Chapter 606: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 606: Strike First, Right?

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Go back? Go back where?"

Du Guoqing was stunned.

"Back to our hometown." Du Xiaojuan answered confidently.

"Didn't you rent a villa? Rest there for one night tonight." Du Guoqing said.

They had indeed rented a villa, and letting them rest there for one night was actually fine; Wang Erhai had originally planned to do exactly that.

But Du Xiaojuan did not want her three family members to stay here for even a moment.

"The villa expires tonight. If you want to stay until tomorrow morning, you have to pay for it yourselves. Dashan and I don't have a penny left. You figure it out."

Lin Xiudi said displeasedly:

"How come you have no money?"

Du Xiaojuan was speechless:

"I don't know how you could ask such a question. Dashan spent so much on the bride price, and tonight you extorted fifty thousand from us. Even a sponge would be squeezed dry by you. Where would there be any money left?"

Wang Dashan stood by, smiling bitterly and echoing:

"Uncle, Auntie, we really have no money left..."

He was also very uncomfortable with Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi's behavior.

So although he had already married Du Xiaojuan, he still refused to change how he addressed them to Mom and Dad.

"Let's go, let's go, we're leaving!"

Du Guoqing stood up with an impatient look.

Lin Xiudi and Du Jiabao followed and left together.

Du Xiaojuan and Wang Dashan went to see them off.

Arriving at the hotel entrance, they called over a seven-seat SUV from the wedding company, then the five of them got in the car and returned to Yuexi.

On the road, Du Guoqing remained silent.

Lin Xiudi sighed and spoke to Du Xiaojuan:

"Younger sister, you have married out, but your younger brother hasn't married yet. As his older sister, you can't just ignore your brother after marrying."

"Mm, I know."

Du Xiaojuan didn't refute her, just nodded in agreement.

After all, there was still an outsider, the driver, in the car, and she didn't want to make the driver brother look like a joke.

Besides, refuting her would only cause an argument and serve no purpose.

"When you earn money in the future, you must support your younger brother. He has no ability. If you don't support him, he'll find it very hard to live a good life." Lin Xiudi continued nagging.

"Mm, I know."

Du Xiaojuan still nodded in response without emotion.

Whatever they said, she would agree. Anyway, after they returned to their hometown tonight, they wouldn't meet again.

As for supporting that scoundrel Du Jiabao, that was even more impossible.

But Wang Dashan, being straightforward, couldn't bear to watch anymore.

"Jiabao, why don't you go learn a skill? Even if you learn plastering or learn to unclog toilets, it's better than working in a factory. With a skill, you won't have to worry about having no food to eat."

Wang Dashan was sincerely suggesting Du Jiabao learn a trade.

Du Jiabao retorted:

"Don't you work in a factory too? Why don't you go learn a trade?"

Wang Dashan was stunned, speechless.

He almost forgot that the persona he presented in front of them was that of a useless good-for-nothing who worked in a factory earning a monthly salary of four thousand.

"I am learning. I just started learning to unclog toilets not long ago."

Wang Dashan perfunctorily replied with that sentence.

Du Jiabao sneered:

"Won't it splash feces and urine all over your face? It's so dirty, yet you're willing to learn it. Truly, I'm embarrassed for you, Brother-in-law!"

Wang Dashan said nothing.

Du Xiaojuan lightly patted Wang Dashan's arm a few times, soothing his emotions, and also hinting that he shouldn't speak anymore.

Dealing with these family members, Du Xiaojuan herself was more capable of taking action, after all, she knew their roots and bottoms.

"Little brother, your brother-in-law is just like this. He's rather stupid, has no knowledge. Besides working in a factory, he can only go learn to unclog toilets. In the future, if we can't earn money to support you, don't blame me and your brother-in-law."

Du Xiaojuan said this.

She directly blocked off all paths for Du Jiabao to ask them for money in the future.

Not only blocked, but she also added several thick walls:

"By the way, your brother-in-law now owes a mountain of debt. I don't know when he'll be able to pay it off. Dad, Mom, when do you plan to give me the bride price money?"

Du Guoqing said coldly:

"Talk about it later. Giving it to you now, I'm afraid you'll spend it recklessly everywhere. You young people always spend money lavishly. Otherwise, you wouldn't owe so much debt!"

"Oh, oh, alright. Then you must remember to give it back to me in the future. If you forget, I'll call to remind you every few days."

Du Xiaojuan said this with a smile.

"We're all like family, why say such things?" Lin Xiudi accused Du Xiaojuan at this time, and added: "Don't blame us either; we're doing this for your own good!"

"I know you're doing it for my good. Daughter, I'm truly very grateful to you all! Really, thank you so much!"

Du Xiaojuan spoke firmly and with conviction, as if it were true.

Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi, hearing this, both felt somewhat embarrassed.

For a moment, no one could speak.

A silence fell over the car.

The journey took more than three hours; not far, but not near either.

By the time they returned to their hometown in Yuexi, it was already midnight.

Du Xiaojuan and Wang Dashan sent them back to the Village, then left in a hurry.

They didn't even enter the house.

Of course, Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi had no mind to entertain them either.

They didn't try to stop them from leaving, nor did they say a word of polite farewell.

After Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan left, Du Guoqing sighed:

"Forget it. Let's not blame Du Jianmei's lowly daughter anymore. At least tonight we got fifty thousand yuan."

Du Guoqing's meaning was clear: they felt it was only right to blame Du Jianmei, and not blaming her was a favor bestowed upon her.

At this moment, Du Jiabao suddenly said:

"This bit of money isn't enough to buy a BBA..."

Meanwhile, on the Other Side.

Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan were sitting in the car; the road back was very dark, but fortunately, after midnight, dawn wasn't far off.

"Xiao Juan, why not just block all their contact information?"

Wang Dashan had always felt Du Xiaojuan's parents' behavior toward her was too excessive.

But now, his thinking had changed; he felt Du Xiaojuan had still been too gentle.

"Block them, and never have anything to do with them again!"

Wang Dashan said indignantly.

Du Xiaojuan shook her head:

"We can't block them."

Wang Dashan was stunned and puzzled:

"What? You still want to keep them for the Spring Festival? You're just too soft-hearted."

Du Xiaojuan said:

"It's not that I'm soft-hearted. If blocking them actually worked, I would have done it long ago. Believe it or not, if they can't contact me, they might very well run to your hometown County Town to find your second brother, or even run to our Mountain Gully Village to find your parents, and force me to come out and see them."

Wang Dashan smiled bitterly.

Others might not do such a thing, but Du Xiaojuan's parents were so shameless that they probably really would.

"Then what do we do? What if they keep asking you for money?"

Wang Dashan sighed.

Du Xiaojuan smiled:

"What else can we do? Strike first! Before they open their mouths to ask me for money, I'll open my mouth to ask them for money! From now on, every three days I'll call home to demand our Bride Price money from them, until they block me."

Du Xiaojuan was truly clever; she had actually planned everything long ago.

The reason she left the Bride Price money with her parents was so she would have a legitimate reason to keep demanding they repay the money.

The best way to refuse lending money to others is to ask them for money first.

Du Xiaojuan understood this principle well.