Chapter 692

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

That afternoon, Wang Zhanggen went to the Town Credit Union and withdrew forty thousand yuan, giving it to Luo Jiaxin.

After taking the money, Luo Jiaxin was delighted.

She took Li Yuncui and Li Zhenxing back.

Li Xiulan was very unhappy about this:

"Why give them money? Xiao Hua is right; we clearly didn't have to give them a single cent!"

Wang Zhanggen, however, put on a stern face and said coldly:

"What do you know? Consider it spending money to ward off disaster; besides, giving them forty thousand—four means death—it's cursing them to die. Just wait; it won't be long before something big happens to their family!"

Wang Xiaohua sighed deeply.

Back in high school, when studying "The True Story of Ah Q," he thought Ah Q's spirit of victory was absurd, but now looking at his own father, who spent a large sum of money and was smug, thinking he had won—wasn't this a living Ah Q?

But he didn't blame his father; he had long since become numb to his father's ignorant thinking.

He blamed Luo Jiaxin, and he blamed Li Yuncui.

A pitiable person must have a hateful side; this truly proved that saying.

How could they be so shameless as to actually have the nerve to come to our door and extort us?

Just thinking of the word "extortion," a thought arose in Wang Xiaohua's mind:

Why not report it to the police?

Reporting them for extortion would definitely be a slam dunk.

Forty thousand yuan was enough to send them to prison.

Since they were unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous!

I can't let the other villagers think the Wang family is easy to bully, otherwise more people will ride roughshod over us in the future!

Thinking this, Wang Xiaohua took out his mobile phone.

He dialed 110.

But just as he was about to press the dial button, he hesitated again.

To be exact, he had gone soft-hearted.

He naturally knew that as long as he reported it, the charge of extortion against the Li family would be confirmed.

He could vent his anger and settle old scores!

But then, the Li family would be completely ruined.

Li Yuncui was pregnant; she was about to become a single mother. If a major upheaval happened in the family now, losing the parents' support, her already fragile life would surely plunge into the abyss.

She might even choose suicide because she couldn't bear the blow.

Forget it.

After weighing it again and again, Wang Xiaohua decided not to pursue this matter anymore.

Shanggou Village already had Zhou Aidi hanging herself at his house; he couldn't let Li Yuncui come to his house to hang herself too.

Sometimes, some things, even though you are in the right, you shouldn't press your advantage.

Letting someone take a step back is not to show off one's magnanimity, but to prevent worse outcomes.

He didn't want Li Yuncui's life, because of his small action, to be cast into the bottomless abyss,

"Xiao Hua, why don't we report it to the police? Forty thousand yuan, how long would I have to save to get that much? And we're building a new house in the spring, urgently needing money!"

Li Xiulan said this to Wang Xiaohua at this time.

She couldn't persuade Wang Zhanggen, so she came to persuade Wang Xiaohua.

She knew Wang Xiaohua, like her, definitely didn't want to pay this sum.

However, this time, Wang Xiaohua's reaction was beyond her expectation:

"Mom, let's forget this matter. Dad is right; consider it spending money to ward off disaster."

Hearing this, Li Xiulan was stunned:

"Xiao Hua, what are you saying? They extorted so much money from us!"

Wang Xiaohua hurriedly comforted Li Xiulan:

"Mom, money can be earned back. Big Brother and Second Brother are both good at earning money now. We don't need to quibble over every penny. When building the house later, if we don't have enough money, we can just ask them for some."

Seeing Wang Xiaohua actually take his side for once, Wang Zhanggen couldn't help but show a relieved smile:

"You kid always argued against me; this time it's really rare that you stand with me. It seems you've grown up and started to be sensible."

Wang Xiaohua smiled helplessly, noncommittal, and only said:

"Don't make random decisions for me anymore. Your own matters, I don't care, but if it involves me, you must call me in advance to ask my opinion. Phone bills aren't expensive; don't be reluctant to spend this little money!"

Wang Zhanggen said:

"I know, I know. Isn't this for your own good?"

The next day, Wang Xiaohua packed his luggage to return to school.

Actually, there was still about a week until the start of school.

He planned to go to the County Town first to meet Li Jianjia, then go to Guangzhou with Li Jianjia to play for a few days, and then, when school was about to start, take an airplane to Beijing.

When leaving the village, Wang Xiaohua saw Li Yuncui again, carrying her big belly.

He didn't go to greet Li Yuncui, acting as if he hadn't seen her, and lowered his head, quickly leaving.

Because he really did not want to have anything to do with Li Yuncui anymore.

Li Yuncui instead waved at him first:

"Wang Xiaohua, where are you going?"

Wang Xiaohua pretended not to hear her words and kept walking forward.

Li Yuncui watched Wang Xiaohua's back, feeling both guilty and angry.

The guilt was because she herself knew she shouldn't have extorted forty thousand yuan from him yesterday.

The anger was because Wang Xiaohua ignored her, making her feel Wang Xiaohua did not respect her.

"Wang Xiaohua, are you deaf?"

Li Yuncui held out her big belly and walked over, blocking Wang Xiaohua.

"Sister, what do you want?"

Wang Xiaohua was speechless.

Getting involved with someone like this is truly unlucky.

"About yesterday, sorry."

Li Yuncui actually apologized.

Wang Xiaohua laughed and cried at the same time.

He really didn't know what Li Yuncui was thinking.

"Don't block me, okay? I'm not close with you."

Wang Xiaohua just wanted to leave here as soon as possible; he really didn't want to say a single word to Li Yuncui.

Besides being annoyed with Li Yuncui, he was also afraid that if he said a few more words, Li Yuncui would mistakenly think they still had feelings.

"That girl who came to your house yesterday, what's her background?"

Li Yuncui asked this at this time.

"What does that have to do with you?"

Wang Xiaohua answered coldly.

At this time, at the village entrance by the roadside, the bus arrived.

Wang Xiaohua didn't wait for her answer, hurriedly ran out, boarded the bus as if fleeing, and only then breathed a sigh of relief.

The bus started, Li Yuncui stood at the village entrance.

She held out her big belly, watching the taillights gradually fade into the distance.

She couldn't help but feel inexplicably sad.

She knew she and Wang Xiaohua were two people from different worlds.

With this departure, they should have no more intersections from now on.

Li Yuncui returned home.

At this time Li Zhenxing told her a piece of news:

"I'm returning to the county town this afternoon, and I have to go to work tomorrow, so I can't keep accompanying you."

"What about me?" Li Yuncui was stunned, "Aren't we going back to the county town together?"

Li Zhenxing sighed:

"You stay in the village to raise the fetus for now, don't go back to the county town yet, your mother will stay behind to take care of you."

Li Yuncui was somewhat unhappy, because the village not only had no entertainment facilities, but not even a small supermarket, making life very inconvenient.

"No, I want to go back. In this village, I'll be bored to the point of molding!"

Li Yuncui said this, and she also said:

"Besides, I have to go to the hospital for checkups every few days!"

Li Zhenxing however said:

"Just go to the hospital when it's almost time to give birth; no other checkups are needed, we don't have that money at home!"

Li Yuncui was unhappy, muttering:

"Didn't we just get forty thousand yuan? How is there no money?"

Luo Jiaxin at this time grabbed Li Yuncui's hand, hurriedly comforting:

"Yuncui, do you know why we came back to Shanggou Village for the Spring Festival this time? It's not because you're pregnant, and not because your dad and I like the quiet of the village, but because we really had no choice; those debt collectors blocked our door, we have to hide a bit."

It turned out Li Zhenxing and Luo Jiaxin did business in the county town, lost money, and owed quite a lot of debts. The creditors said they would come to their house to collect debts during the Spring Festival, and they really had no choice, so they brought their daughter back to Shanggou Village for the Spring Festival.

Otherwise, if the creditors really came to the door and made a scene, Li Yuncui might be scared into a miscarriage.

The reason Luo Jiaxin acted unreasonably and extorted forty thousand yuan from the Wang family yesterday was actually very importantly because the family really couldn't make ends meet.

As the saying goes, wealth breeds conscience, poverty breeds schemes; she was really left with no choice but to open her mouth like a lion.

Li Yuncui fell silent:

"Exactly how much do you owe outsiders?"

Li Zhenxing wore a worried expression:

"You don't need to worry about that, just raise the fetus well!"

Luo Jiaxin then said:

"You communicate well with your former man; maybe he'll change his mind. If you can marry him, then marry him. Don't worry about whether he's good or not, at least there's a guarantee."

Li Yuncui fell even more silent.

The man who got her pregnant had long since disappeared without a trace and had blacklisted all her contact information; how could she still contact him?

"Fine, fine, staying in the village to raise the fetus, then staying in the village to raise the fetus!"

Finally Li Yuncui compromised.

She became a new-generation left-behind woman of Shanggou Village.

And unlike Li Xiulan, she had no man to back her up, and was about to become a single mother.

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