Chapter 941

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Zhang Yueran drove Wang Erhai's car around outside for a loop.

Wang Erhai, in the passenger seat, showed a relieved smile on his face:

"Thanks. If you hadn't bailed me out tonight, I probably wouldn't have been able to shake off Yao Xueqin's pestering."

Zhang Yueran's face was expressionless:

"No need to thank me. I just couldn't stand the sight of your ex-girlfriend's unreasonable mug."

Speaking of which, Zhang Yueran couldn't help but complain:

"How come you always know such weird women? Your ex-wife and that ex-girlfriend just now are cut from the exact same cloth!"

Wang Erhai's face was full of embarrassment:

"They used to be best friends, so it's normal they have similarities."

Zhang Yueran's complexion wasn't too happy; she wanted to say something, her lips moved slightly, but in the end she still didn't say it.

Her being unhappy was normal too; after all, Wang Erhai had concealed his relationship with Yao Xueqin from her.

"Do you have something you want to say? If you do, say it directly. Don't keep it bottled up inside. I hope we can open our hearts and communicate."

Wang Erhai noticed the unhappiness on Zhang Yueran's face, so he took the initiative to ask.

Only then did Zhang Yueran speak:

"Tell me honestly. Besides that Yao Xueqin just now, are there any other ex-girlfriends, or even a current girlfriend?"

Zhang Yueran felt that since Wang Erhai would hide Yao Xueqin's existence from her, he might also be hiding the existence of other women!

Wang Erhai used to work in the real estate industry, and that industry is said to be a mixed bag; quite a few big bosses who became overnight tycoons through real estate keep several women on the side!

She didn't know if Wang Erhai was that kind of person.

Wang Erhai then spoke truthfully:

"I've had three relationships. The first was a girl I dated in Guangzhou, named Zhang Xiaoyun. The second was my ex-wife, Liu Meiqi. The third was a brief involvement with Yao Xueqin. Besides those, there are no other women."

At this, Zhang Yueran pulled the car over to the side, then turned her head and stared at Wang Erhai:

"Are you sure?"

Wang Erhai looked straight into Zhang Yueran's eyes, without the slightest evasion:

"Sure."

He naturally didn't need to evade, because what he said was the honest truth.

He also said:

"If you don't believe me, you can go ask Uncle Chunsheng."

Zhang Yueran looked at Wang Erhai, silent for a moment.

Finally she said:

"You drive. Drop me off at my residential complex gate, then you go home. It's not early anymore."

Finished speaking, not waiting for Wang Erhai to answer, she unfastened her seatbelt and got out from the driver's seat.

Wang Erhai got out from the passenger side, returned to the driver's seat, then drove carrying Zhang Yueran back to her residential complex.

"Very sorry. I also didn't expect something like this would happen today."

Wang Erhai apologized to Zhang Yueran.

He knew Zhang Yueran was clearly unhappy now.

"It's nothing."

Zhang Yueran replied faintly with just that sentence, then spoke no more, turning her head toward the car window, watching the night scenery spiraling backward outside, her gaze distant, lost in thought.

Soon, Wang Erhai sent Zhang Yueran back to her residential complex's main gate.

Zhang Yueran got out of the car, said goodbye, then turned and walked inside.

Wang Erhai watched her retreating back, couldn't help but sigh.

He hated Yao Xueqin to death!

This scheming bitch, simply a lingering ghost!

Too hateful!

Originally, the relationship between Wang Erhai and Zhang Yueran looked like it was about to develop a step further.

Never expected this kind of thing would pop up!

Causing Zhang Yueran's good impression of Wang Erhai to plummet!

Now it's great!

Who knows how Zhang Yueran will treat him, Wang Erhai, afterward!

After returning to Shangou Village, Wang Erhai was depressed the whole evening because of this matter.

Tossing and turning, he didn't sleep well all night.

Early the next morning, Wang Erhai took the initiative to send a WeChat to Zhang Yueran to say good morning.

"Morning. Up yet?"

Zhang Yueran didn't reply for a long time.

This made him even more depressed.

His mind couldn't help but run wild with thoughts.

Even breakfast, he had no appetite for.

"What's wrong with you?"

Seeing Wang Erhai looking all listless, Li Xiulan asked with concern.

"Mom, I'm fine."

Wang Erhai didn't want his parents to worry, so he didn't tell them what he'd experienced last night, choosing to bear it alone.

"Looking like that, you don't look fine at all. Did something happen to you again?"

A mother knows her child best; Li Xiulan saw at a glance that Wang Erhai was hiding something on his mind.

"Mom, I really'm fine, just didn't sleep well last night."

Wang Erhai still chose to conceal it.

Because he knew, even if he told them, Li Xiulan and Wang Zhanggen couldn't help him with anything.

His own parents were both rural people, their abilities were what they were; whether in career or relationships, they couldn't possibly provide him any help at all.

Since saying it would be useless, better not to say it.

Li Xiulan was just about to continue pressing the question.

At this moment, a guest arrived outside.

It was none other than Liang Xinghua.

"Brother Zhanggen, Sister-in-law Xiulan, morning! Erhai, morning!"

Liang Xinghua wore a simple, honest smile on his face, greeting the people inside the house.

"Xinghua, have you eaten breakfast? Want a bowl of salted vegetable porridge?"

Wang Zhanggen warmly invited him, not waiting for Liang Xinghua to respond, he urged Wang Erhai:

"Hurry and bring a bowl and chopsticks over for your Uncle Xinghua!"

Wang Erhai hurriedly stood up to fetch the bowl and chopsticks.

But Liang Xinghua hurriedly said:

"No need, no need, I've already eaten!"

Then he said to Wang Erhai:

"Erhai, has your County Town renovation company been established yet?"

Liang Xinghua looked at Wang Erhai eagerly.

This renovation company of Wang Erhai's was extremely important to him.

Last night he'd quarreled with his wife Lan Menglian again because of this matter.

Lan Menglian felt Wang Erhai was unreliable; waiting for his renovation company to open for business was worse than Liang Xinghua going to the County Town himself to find work!

But Liang Xinghua said he'd already promised Wang Erhai to go work at his renovation company, so he couldn't go back on his word for profit!

Lan Menglian sneered sarcastically:

"How could the Wang Family possibly help us! Your mother hanged herself to death inside the Wang Family's new building back then, don't you forget that!"

Liang Xinghua's heart trembled.

This was something he'd never been willing to bring up!

He never expected his wife would poke the sore spot!

Deliberately stabbing his lung tube!

"That was my mother's fault first, going to dig up their ancestral grave — that was wrong to begin with. They got angry over it, not inviting her to the wedding banquet was only reasonable, yet she hanged herself in their new house because of it. To speak the truth, what she did was really too excessive!"

Liang Xinghua replied coldly.

But Lan Menglian said:

"Liang Xinghua, how can you be so cold-blooded? No matter what, that's still your mother! You don't help your own mother, yet go lick the Wang Family's boots — can't you have a bit of backbone?"

Liang Xinghua was left speechless.

After a long silence, he finally said:

"Back then the Wang Family sold that new house to us, asking for ten thousand yuan, but we only gave them fifty thousand, the remaining fifty thousand has been owed all along, and they never came to collect. They've already been benevolent and righteous to the utmost toward us!"

Lan Menglian said coldly:

"That's because they felt guilty themselves. Your mother died in their house, they should bear part of the responsibility to begin with!"

Liang Xinghua said angrily:

"Can you stop being so unreasonable!"

But Lan Menglian said:

"The family's so poor we can barely scrape by, and you say I'm being unreasonable?"

In the end Liang Xinghua sighed and compromised:

"I'll go ask Wang Erhai again tomorrow morning. If his renovation company still hasn't opened, I'll go to the County Town myself to find work. That should be fine, right?"

Once Liang Xinghua said this, Lan Menglian finally had nothing more to say.

But Liang Xinghua couldn't help muttering:

"Speaking of which, I earned some money doing masonry work before — where did all that money go? Living in the countryside, you basically can't spend much money at all."

Lan Menglian immediately exploded:

"You're suspecting me! Daily necessities don't cost money? The child's eating, drinking, defecating, and urinating don't cost money?"

Liang Xinghua was speechless:

"I'm not suspecting you, just — how the money's spent, you ought to let me know, right?"

But Lan Menglian didn't answer directly, instead acting even angrier, changing the subject:

"Fine, fine, fine. Since you say that, from tomorrow you stay home and raise the kid, I'll go out and earn money. How's that?"

The two of them quarreled because of this.

However, a couple's quarrel at the head of the bed is resolved at the foot of the bed; after their big fight, the next day they were just like people with nothing wrong.

Liang Xinghua ate breakfast, then hurriedly went to the Wang Family to find Wang Erhai and ask about the Renovation Company's progress.

No matter what, he absolutely could not lightly divorce Lan Menglian; after all, he and Lan Menglian had already given birth to a child.

On top of that, his parents had both passed away, leaving only him alone; his wife and child were already his closest kin.

So although he and Lan Menglian were a poverty-stricken couple, although a hundred things brought sorrow, they could endure when they could endure; a ruckus was a ruckus, a quarrel was a quarrel, but ultimately they would not reach the point of divorce.