Chapter 3

Li Hongmei was so angry that she pulled Yang Guihua’s hair hard. With one pull, a lot of hair fell out. The next second, Yang Guihua let out a terrifying scream, “Oh, my hair, my nose…”

Li Hongmei not only hit her face but also her front teeth. In just a few seconds, Yang Guihua started bleeding from her nose. Her creepy appearance scared the villagers so much that they stepped back.

“Oh my god, Hongmei is still so powerful, oh my, Guihua is bleeding.”

“Oh my god, one of Guihua’s front teeth has fallen out.”

“How scary! How dare they mess with the Zhang family? They are just tyrannical bandits.”

“That’s right. Everyone knows that Li Hongmei has three brothers and two younger brothers. She’s been like a tyrant since she was little. Plus, she has a tough husband. Who dares to mess with her?”

Wei Zhiguo said stubbornly, “Really? It wasn’t me. It was my mom who came up with the idea. No, it was my mom who heard Yang Tiantian complain that if Zhang Xiyue didn’t take the exam, she would definitely not get the job. It was my mom who beat Zhang Xiyue. It has nothing to do with me. I am innocent.”

At most, he is an accomplice, and his crime does not deserve the death penalty.

Up to now, the Wei family was still stubborn, which angered Zhang’s father. He said angrily: “Big brother, third brother, and old Xi, beat them up. The Wei family is a murderer. They almost killed Xiyue. Jian Shou is seeking death.”

His daughter was almost drowned. How ridiculous.

Zhang’s father, Zhang Tieniu, is a butcher. After the meat processing plant was established, he passed the exam and became a member of the plant. Now he is the director. He slaughters pigs and hunts all year round. He has a fierce aura and most villagers dare not mess with him.

Zhang Tieniu is a man with strong muscles and as muscular as a bear. Who would dare to mess with him?

At Zhang’s father’s order, the men of the Zhang family went to beat Wei Zhiguo. Even Yang Lihua, who was at odds with Zhang Xiyue, joined in the fight. She was still clear-headed. If she didn’t help when her own people were bullied, she would think the Zhang family was made of clay.

Seeing Yang Guihua being beaten, the Wei family could not turn a blind eye. So the two families started fighting. However, no one helped Wei Zhiguo. The Wei family knew that if it were not for him, they would not have taken the risk to do such a thing.

Zhang Xiyue sat on the ground, leaning on her eldest niece’s arms, her face full of worry. “Aunt, don’t be afraid. If bad people bully you, your grandparents, parents, uncles, and aunts will seek justice for you.”

“Well, niece, I’m fine.”

Yang Guihua screamed repeatedly: “Ouch, someone’s been beaten to death, team leader, branch secretary, you guys don’t care about it, Li Hongmei, you beat me to death today, aren’t you afraid of eating peanuts?”

“I was going to use that sack to store pig feed. Who said it was a sunken corpse? And I was going to use this money to buy a pound of pork in the city.……”

After thinking for a moment, he said cunningly,I was going to use it to treat fish. Our village has such a big river, and everyone has used medicine before. You Zhang family are wrongly accusing me.”

Li Hongmei slapped him a few more times: “Bah, you bitch, keep talking nonsense, how could it be such a coincidence? If Xiyue had really been thrown into the river by you, she would have really died. Go tell the people on the farm about this.”

Wei Zhiguo was beaten so badly that his face was bruised, but he did not forget to clarify for himself, “Uncle Zhang, I really didn’t want to do this. It was my mom and Yang Tiantian who came up with this bad idea. They thought that if Xiyue couldn’t take the exam, I would have one less competitor and I would get the job. I didn’t expect her to be so harsh.”

“Ouch.”

“ah!”

Wei Zhiguo rolled on the ground in pain. Zhang Tieniu punched Wei Zhiguo in the face. “You bastard, you must have wanted to get a job so you tricked your mom into helping you. And you’re putting the blame on her. You’re really good.”

After beating him up and venting his anger, Zhang Tieniu picked up Wei Zhiguo with one hand and was about to throw him out. The frightened team leader Zhang Dagui ran up and hugged Zhang Tieniu’s arm, saying, “Tieniu, stop it. If you hit him again, he will be killed. Just call the police and send him to a farm for rehabilitation. People like him are a nuisance to the village if they stay.”

Zhang Dagui has a junior high school diploma and used to be a battalion commander in the army. After being injured, he was demobilized and returned to the village to become a team leader. Zhang Tieniu still had to give him some face.

There’s no way, my eldest son and his family are still earning work points in the village.

“Captain, are we just going to let it go like this? No, wouldn’t it be a bargain for them to go to the farm for rehabilitation? It’s just farm work, everyone can do it, so what’s the big deal?”

Indeed, Shengli Brigade has a special geographical location. It is located on the outskirts of the city and very close to the county town. There are many houses in both the city and the village.

So, many people in Shengli Brigade do farm work. Many of them have found jobs in the city, and their children’s household registration follows their mothers, but they still do not give up their farm work. Many people choose to live in the village just to have land to grow vegetables and raise chickens and ducks for eggs.

When food was distributed in the village, everyone had to work hard. In order to get a share of the food, many people would ask young people to help the elderly with work. The work points they earned could be exchanged for food.

Zhang Dagui had a headache and stopped the farce. “Alright, stop fighting. Stop and discuss it. Yang Guihua, Wei Zhiguo, what do you want to do? Xiyue, what compensation do you want?”

Zhang Xiyue glared and said, “I’m also going to report Yang Tiantian. It was her bad idea, and she can’t be spared. I heard Yang Guihua gave Yang Tiantian one dollar first, and she’ll give her another dollar after the job is done. You can search her and see.”

Yang Rong searched Yang Tiantian and frowned at the money in her hand. “It seems to be true. Yang Tiantian, you are really cruel. Dagui, this should be considered kidnapping. If someone really thinks Xiyue was abducted, their spitting can drown people.”

Yang Tiantian said in panic: “My mother gave me this money to buy brown sugar. It really wasn’t me. Wei Zhiguo was possessed by a ghost. It has nothing to do with me.”

She absolutely could not admit it and looked at the Yang family expectantly, but she didn’t know that the Yang family members were full of disdain, especially Yang Tiantian’s stepmother Zhang Shufen, who even mocked her.

“Don’t bring me into this. We’re not close, so why would I let you buy brown sugar? I even borrowed two brown sugar tickets from the team leader’s wife, Cuihua, today. My eldest daughter is about to have a baby. Look, the sugar tickets are with me. I’m going to buy them myself tomorrow.”

Zhang Shufen and Yang Tiantian do not have a good relationship. She is a stepmother and thinks she is treating Yang Tiantian well. However, she did not expect that this girl would often cry in front of outsiders, which led to her bad reputation. Outsiders said that she was abusing her stepdaughter and was a vicious stepmother. After her reputation was ruined, she simply pushed all the housework to Yang Tiantian.

Now Yang Tiantian has a bad reputation and will probably be sent to the countryside. She is so happy that she doesn’t even have time to help testify.

Lin Cuihua nodded and said, “Yes, Shufen told me that she borrowed sugar coupons and will go to the county town with me to buy them tomorrow.”

Yang Tiantian felt like it was all over. Today’s plan had failed, and things were developing in an uncontrollable direction…

Why didn’t Zhang Shufen help her? They are obviously family, but she gave up on her.

Seeing Yang Tiantian speechless, Wei Zhiguo said, “See, it was Yang Tiantian who instigated this. She also helped us keep watch and told us when Xiyue left. My mother was a little too heavy-handed and didn’t notice such an insignificant person. Xiyue, I’m sorry. I wanted to work so badly that I stayed in the city.”

He has done enough work in the fields. Why should the eldest brother’s family enjoy a good life in the city while he can only work hard farming in the village during holidays? This is unfair.

Zhang Xiyue raised her eyebrows: “Okay, it was indeed Aunt Yang who hit me. I first said that Wei Zhiguo hit me because I wanted to see him personally say that it was Aunt Yang who did it.”

“Aunt Yang, you have to accept your fate now.”

Yang Guihua lost the energy to argue: “I admit it, I admit it, what do you want?”

Her son kept trying to clear himself and refused to admit that it was impossible.

What a rebellious son, what a beast! Who is she doing this for? He doesn’t think that since he did it, he can still take the exam, right?