Chapter 13: Who to Help?

These words shocked the entire courtyard!

Oh my god!

The neighbors’ hearts skipped a beat, Chen Laosan was actually helping Li Xinyue?

Did the sun rise from the west today?

Didn’t everyone know that the Li family forced a marriage? The groom returned to the army the day after the wedding and hadn’t returned in five years?

Now this… was he going to accept the mother and son?

And what about the old Mrs. Chen?

Li Xinyue was also a little surprised: This man… what trick was he playing?

Protecting the original owner?

Impossible!

Chen Mingchuan hated the female lead so much, the original owner didn’t know, but Li Xinyue did, it was written in the book.

A man being forced by a woman, the shame… was naturally imaginable, and this man had been suppressed and forced by his parents since childhood.

But now, he was actually helping her… there must be a catch!

The book said that this male lead was an extremely outstanding person, and outstanding people were certainly smart.

Although she was also very smart, Li Xinyue knew she disliked dealing with smart people the most.

Why?

It was too taxing on the brain!

With that brainpower, she might as well go earn more money!

Chen Mingchuan didn’t look at her.

He glanced at everyone indifferently and continued, “As for my mother… she is old after all, and she is injured.”

“Secretary, for my sake, let her stay at home and learn.”

“Give her a chance to correct herself, okay?”

What?

Mom could stay, but his wife had to go?

Chen Mingguo jumped up: “Third brother, you’re going too far!”

“Ye Juan is my wife, she’s your sister-in-law!”

Why could his mother stay but his wife had to go, this third brother was still as annoying as ever!

Sister-in-law?

Humph!

Chen Mingchuan glanced coldly at Chen Mingguo and said: When this couple bullied his son, did they talk about brotherly love?

Did they still have any family affection in their hearts?

Back then, this younger brother of his, how many times had he snatched the clothes and food from his mouth?

He didn’t remember!

Now, facing this helpless mother and son, he probably never showed any mercy!

Thirteen years outside had tempered Chen Mingchuan’s firmness.

“So what? In the revolutionary ranks, there are only enemies and ourselves, no brothers!”

“Li Xinyue is a military dependent, a military marriage! Do you know how many soldiers there are in this world?”

“If their families can be arbitrarily accused of theft, do you know how big a problem this is?”

“This is not just a matter of slander against family members, but a questioning of the moral character of soldiers!”

“Your wife put a hat on my wife, that’s putting a hat on me, a soldier, have you thought about me?”

“Secretary Zhang, don’t you agree?”

Isn’t that right?

Looking at the man who had personally sent him to the army, Secretary Zhang felt a little complicated.

He was still young back then when Chen Mingchuan was recruited.

But he had stayed at his doorstep for three days and three nights, begging him to help him enlist.

If he wasn’t allowed to join the army, he would starve to death at his doorstep!

That year, because the relationship between the two sides was very tense, there was a possibility of an outbreak, and the young men in the village were afraid to go to the front line and didn’t want to go.

Although Chen Mingchuan wasn’t old enough, it wasn’t a big problem, and he could make up the numbers.

Secretary Zhang was an ordinary person, he also had selfish motives.

As a brigade cadre, it was his responsibility to complete the state’s recruitment task.

So he found someone and secretly changed his age by one year.

That year, all men aged sixteen had to register for the army.

The skinny boy back then was gone, he had grown into a soldier with a special kind of authority!

Secretary Zhang had heard that Chen Mingchuan was a battalion commander.

That was a high-ranking official on the same level as the commune secretary!

He naturally supported such a promising person, especially since he was right!

Slandering the families of soldiers was slandering the soldiers themselves!

This was a big deal!

“Mingchuan is right, slandering the families of soldiers is a reactionary act!”

“All reactionaries are enemies of the people! Since this is the first time, we’ll be lenient.”

“Ye Juan, starting tomorrow night, you’ll go to the brigade headquarters to receive ideological education and reform!”

“If you don’t reform, you’ll be sent to the labor camp!”

What?

A labor camp?

Was that a place for humans?

“Mingguo… woo woo woo… I can’t go, I can’t go!”

Ye Juan cried!

Every night, people were receiving education at the brigade headquarters, but who were they?

They were all people with bad backgrounds, the four categories of people!

If she went to receive education and reform, wouldn’t she become like them?

Also, her son wouldn’t be able to join the army or become a brigade cadre in the future!

She couldn’t go!

She really couldn’t go!

Chen Mingguo knew his wife couldn’t go, and he immediately panicked.

He was angry.

But he was smart!

He knew that this wasn’t the time to be stubborn.

“Third brother, Juanzi is crazy, she doesn’t know what she’s saying.”

“Just forgive her this time, okay? She won’t do it again, I swear!”

Don’t want to go?

Heh!

You two scumbags are dreaming!

You two bullied the original owner and her child, but you never showed any mercy!

Since someone was helping, how could Li Xinyue easily let Ye Juan, the vicious female supporting character, escape?

If it wasn’t for the fact that human trafficking was illegal, she would have sold both Ye Juan and Chen Lifang!

She would have sold them to the mountains to be wives for old men!

And, ideally, they would be “shared” wives.

She would make them spend their lives giving birth to children for those old men and warming their beds!

But she knew the law, she couldn’t do that.

But this time, she wouldn’t let Ye Juan get away!

“Chen Mingguo, you said Ye Juan is crazy, do you have a diagnosis from the hospital?”

“Sickness isn’t something you can just say exists.”

“Whether someone is sick or not, only a doctor can determine.”

“You’re not a doctor, how do you know she’s sick!”

“Saying someone’s sick when they’re not is deliberately avoiding receiving revolutionary education and ideological reform.”

“I think you have a big problem with your thinking too, you should receive reform together!”

“Secretary, there’s a saying, ‘Birds of a feather flock together.'”

“I think this couple has the same thinking, that’s why they did such things and said such things!”

“These reactionaries, if they don’t receive education together, they’ll cause more problems in the future!”

Li Xinyue delivered the final blow, making Chen Mingguo and his wife almost faint!

Secretary Zhang knew what kind of people Chen Mingguo and his wife were, since they bullied others, they should face the consequences.

If they weren’t properly educated, they would cause more trouble in the future!

He immediately waved his hand: “That’s settled!”

“Be at the brigade headquarters tomorrow night at 8:00, both Ye Juan and Mingguo.”

“If you’re late or don’t come, you’ll face the consequences!”

“Mingchuan, deal with your own marital affairs.”

“Uncle won’t get involved in this!”

“It’s getting late, I need to go home for dinner, come to my place for drinks tomorrow!”