Chapter 69: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 69

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Just like that, Li Xiulan joined Lin Dajun's construction team.

Seven days later, construction began on schedule.

Lin Dajun hired a small excavator to dig the foundation.

The excavator's roar attracted many villagers to watch.

Everyone pointed and whispered, all envious, jealous, and hateful.

Li Xiulan got the demolition compensation early and started building her new house early.

While other villagers still hadn't received demolition compensation, they could only wait eagerly — either waiting for the compensation to arrive, or waiting until they saved enough money — before they could start building new houses.

Li Xiulan's special case made some villagers especially red-eyed, psychologically unbalanced.

Even Li Yunxia was red-eyed.

"Why can she get demolition compensation early? Build a house early? We can't?"

Li Yunxia muttered, her heart full of anger.

"Exactly! Only she gets special treatment!"

He Dashu on the side also muttered along.

As the village's notorious gambler and drunkard, He Dashu was still a bare bachelor at over fifty.

Li Xiulan saw the villagers' envy in her eyes, and not only was she not angry, she secretly felt a kind of satisfaction:

"This old lady just wants you to envy me, yet be unable to do anything about me! This old lady wants to anger you to death!"

Soon, in less than a day, the excavator finished digging the foundation.

After Li Xiulan paid the excavator master, the master drove the excavator away with a roar.

But just as it reached Yang Xiaocai's door, it was stopped by Yang Xiaocai, who said the excavator's tracks had damaged the ground in front of his house, and demanded the excavator master pay compensation.

This Yang Xiaocai is Yang Dafu's younger brother. Years ago, Yang Dafu was not only hospitalized after being slashed by Wang Zhanggen, but also forced to lose his Women's Federation Director job, and divorced his wife in a huge uproar. Finally too ashamed to face anyone, he fled the village to work outside.

Yang Xiaocai felt Li Xiulan had ruined his brother, so he had harbored resentment ever since.

Now Li Xiulan was building a house, and the road in front of Yang Xiaocai's house was the necessary route for transporting construction materials to the new house, so Yang Xiaocai planned to use this to manipulate Li Xiulan.

He deliberately let the excavator enter to dig the foundation, and only when it came out did he demand money from the excavator master.

And this was actually just the prelude to him disgusting Li Xiulan. Building a house would take at least half a year, and afterward he would have plenty of time to mess with Li Xiulan.

The excavator master was unwilling to pay, so he found Li Xiulan and had her help handle it.

Upon hearing Yang Xiaocai demand money, Li Xiulan immediately got angry.

She rushed to Yang Xiaocai's door in a rage:

"Yang Xiaocai, what do you mean? Your doorstep isn't a cement floor, so what if it's pressed? In a while I'll help you fill it level. We're all villagers of the same village, how can you have the nerve to ask for money?"

Yang Xiaocai already found Li Xiulan an eyesore, so he sneered:

"How do I have no nerve? However you treated my brother back then, I'll treat you the same now! You pay up fast! The ground in front of my house is my land, not public land, my word is law!"

Li Xiulan was no longer that weak, easily bullied woman from back then; now she had been ground by life into a fierce woman.

So she immediately told the excavator master:

"Master, drive straight out. I want to see if Yang Xiaocai really dares to block you!"

The excavator master smiled bitterly, not daring to drive straight through.

He didn't want to make too big a deal of it.

So he said to Yang Xiaocai:

"However much you want, I'll give it to you!"

Yang Xiaocai said: "I'm not asking for a lion's share. You've pressed my road surface like this, at least ten yuan, right?"

The excavator master hurriedly took out money. He felt more trouble than it's worth, and didn't want to waste too much time here; he still had to rush to the next construction site.

However, at this moment, Yang Xiaocai refused to take his money:

"I don't want your money. You were hired by Li Xiulan, I only want Li Xiulan's money!"

As the saying goes, Buddha fights for a stick of incense, a person fights for a breath of pride.

Yang Xiaocai usually didn't treat people and handle affairs like this, but today he insisted on being this way toward Li Xiulan.

These years because his brother's reputation was ruined, he also suffered by association, didn't escape villagers' idle gossip. Now he'd finally found a chance for revenge, he wouldn't let it go lightly.

Li Xiulan knew Yang Xiaocai was deliberately making things difficult for her, and was instantly angered half to death, yet had no way out.

This farce attracted many villagers who gathered around, all discussing heatedly, commenting and judging.

By rights, this was definitely Yang Xiaocai in the wrong. The excavator merely passed through the dirt road in front of his house, and he wants to collect a toll — a bit excessive.

But not a single person was willing to step forward and speak for Li Xiulan.

Not for any other reason, only because Li Xiulan got demolition compensation early while none of them had.

Li Xiulan was also stubborn. At this point if she had spoken nicely to Yang Xiaocai, perhaps she could have made a big thing small, but she not only didn't speak nicely, she said many ugly things to Yang Xiaocai.

"Yang Xiaocai, you insist on taking my money? Fine fine fine, you just wait!"

Li Xiulan turned and ran back to the construction site, grabbed a mortar-mixing hoe, and chased Yang Xiaocai to smash it down.

Yang Xiaocai was directly scared stupid.

He never would have thought, Li Xiulan would actually do something like this.

This crazy woman!

Yang Xiaocai broke out in a cold sweat and immediately turned tail and fled.

Li Xiulan, holding a hoe, cursed loudly at Yang Xiaocai's fleeing back:

"You dog thing, if you've got guts don't run! You think you can bully me like your brother did back then! The current Li Xiulan is no longer the Li Xiulan of the past! Whoever dares bully me, I'll fight them to the death!"

Life's experiences had made Li Xiulan realize a principle: living in the rural area, one cannot speak of principle or law; whoever is more unreasonable seizes the initiative.

So she had long ago discarded the attributes of gentleness, virtue, and kindness, and transformed into an unreasonable shrew.

"Master, you hurry and drive the excavator out. If Yang Xiaocai still dares come stop you, watch me not take a hoe and hoe his head off!"

Li Xiulan cursed and grumbled.

The whole village was stunned silly watching.

The excavator master was also stunned silly.

"Alright alright, I'll drive it out right now!"

The excavator master hurriedly climbed into the driver's seat and drove the excavator out.

Yang Xiaocai, having run far away, gritted his teeth in hatred at this, yet dared not step forward to stop it:

"Li Xiulan, you insist on doing it this way, huh? You just wait!"

This matter stirred up a huge commotion.

Even Lin Dajun and Zhou Hongwei, who were in the middle of working, were alarmed.

They both came out to watch the situation.

Seeing Li Xiulan and Yang Xiaocai at such a deadlock, Lin Dajun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, couldn't help but sigh, and couldn't help but secretly worry for Li Xiulan:

"You two making a scene like this isn't too good, is it? Later when we transport cement, sand, steel bars, and bricks in, we'll still have to pass through his family's door..."