Chapter 42

Gao Xuelian covered her face and tried to get up to curse, “Yu Tuanjie, you’re not human! You’re shameless and lowly! You’ve wronged your woman! I must have been blind to marry you!”

Yu Tuanjie didn’t waste any more words with her. He directly grabbed her by the legs and dragged her forcefully to the Gao family’s house!

Gao Daliang and Ma Yufen were at home.

These days, Gao Daliang had been tortured so much that he felt like death would be better!

Ma Yufen was a tough woman. She often woke him up in the middle of the night with the sound of her sharpening knives!

It terrified him so much that he didn’t dare move.

Gao Xuelian had always been relatively quiet when at home, so what had happened today?

Dragged all the way, Gao Xuelian was dizzy, her body scraped multiple times, and the pain made her tears fall non-stop!

“Brother…” She looked at Gao Daliang for help, but he hid in the back room.

Yu Tuanjie coldly said, “You both know the situation with Gao Xuelian and Gao Daliang! Today is my little sister’s wedding, and on such an important day, Gao Xuelian wants to make trouble! If I hadn’t stopped her in time, this wonderful day would have been ruined! What are you going to do about it, Gao family? If you can’t control her, I’ll find a way! Gao Daliang’s eldest son is getting married soon, right? I’ll bring people to make trouble at your house then!”

Ma Yufen’s expression stiffened!

The reason she had been tolerating this situation was that, one, she was no longer young and had nowhere to go if she divorced, and two, she couldn’t bear to leave the children!

Ma Yufen walked over, grabbed Gao Xuelian’s hair, and slapped her face fiercely!

“You shameless slut! You cheated, you wronged the Yu family, and you still have the face to make trouble? Yu Tuanjie is right! I’m your sister-in-law, and since you’ve divorced and are living in my house, I have to take responsibility! Gao Xuelian, since you can’t be at peace, just get married! I’ve found a man for you, tonight you’ll go to his house and stay there! You filthy, worthless woman, you’re not even worthy of a proper ceremony!”

Seeing that Ma Yufen was firm, Yu Tuanjie said no more and left.

Gao Xuelian cried out loud, “Brother! Help me! I don’t want to marry! I don’t want to marry!”

But Gao Daliang stayed silent, hiding in the room.

Gao Xuelian couldn’t help herself and shouted again, “Tuanjie! Tuanjie, don’t leave! I’ll remarry you! I’ll never dare again!”

But Yu Tuanjie had already gone far, unwilling to pay any attention to her.

That afternoon, Ma Yufen personally took Gao Xuelian to a village twenty miles away.

She married a divorced man who was eight years older than her.

As soon as they arrived, she was locked in a back room. Gao Xuelian immediately began to curse, but this husband was nothing like Yu Tuanjie.

The man, with a dark face, grabbed a shoe and began to beat her soundly!

He beat Gao Xuelian so hard that she cried until she fainted! Regret was useless now.

The only potential disturbance at Yu Li’s wedding was thus completely nipped in the bud.

The entire day went happily, and the family smiled so much their faces almost got tired!

Several times, Yu Li turned around to find Lu Guanshan looking at her with a gaze full of affection, his large hand always holding hers tightly.

The overflowing tenderness seemed to wrap her in a honeyed embrace.

What pleased Yu Li the most was that her husband was really too handsome!

Everyone in the village, old and young, repeatedly praised how handsome Yu Li’s man was! It really gave her face!

She couldn’t help but think to herself, being loved and cared for really made marriage such a joyful thing!

Afterward, there was the cleaning up of the banquet leftovers and packing the bags for the trip to the stationed area the next day.

Chen Ailan couldn’t bear to leave the big tree at the door behind, worrying that Yu Li might not have a place to cool off at the stationed area.

All the members of the Yu family gathered in the living room, each with a smile in their eyes, looking at Yu Li and Lu Guanshan.

They spoke from time to time, and the room was filled with the taste of happiness and warmth.

The Wu Family

Xia Yuying was already extremely dissatisfied. She pushed her bicycle to the Wu family’s house and looked at the sparse guests and the pitiful spread of six vegetarian dishes on the table, while the guests’ expressions varied.

The harsh gossip occasionally reached her ears.

“Which family only serves six dishes at a wedding? Peanuts count as one, cold wood ear mushrooms as another, fried potatoes, fried eggs—what’s this? Fried chili with pickles? Boiled soybean sprouts? More soybean sprouts! In the middle of summer, which family doesn’t have soybean sprouts? I came to drink wedding wine and all I get is soybean sprouts!”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, isn’t Wu Guohua a company commander? How stingy! My sister went to the Yu family’s wedding today, and she smelled meat from far away. I heard they bought a whole bunch of chicken, duck, fish, and meat yesterday. I should have gone to Yu’s family instead!”

“Pah, such a miser also gets married!”

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Xia Yuying was about to suffocate, clutching her palm tightly.

Her own wedding had been so humiliating!

But she kept telling herself over and over in her mind: “It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay.”

Once Gao Xuelian made trouble, even if Yu Li were serving a national banquet, the outcome would still be embarrassing!

She tried desperately to comfort herself until she entered the bridal room and saw the dowry money Wu Guohua gave her. Her mood immediately brightened!

One hundred sixty yuan! Yu Li definitely didn’t get such a large dowry.

Wu Guohua going out of his way to give her this much dowry was proof that he loved her!

Xia Yuying opened the red envelope, unable to hide the smile on her face.

But when she looked closely, she couldn’t smile anymore!

There wasn’t a single coin in the envelope, just a thick piece of folded paper!

Xia Yuying’s hands trembled as she opened it and saw that it was a love letter from Wu Guohua!

The beginning was all nonsense, and only at the end did it mention the dowry.

“Yuying, I know you truly love me and won’t care about money, but I will never treat you unfairly. The one hundred sixty yuan dowry I promised you, I will definitely give you! This is an IOU. After the wedding, I will make sure to give you the dowry money!

Trust me, I will never let you down.”

Xia Yuying was stunned. How could there be such shameless people in the world!

He said he wouldn’t let her down, but the dowry was zero? Not a single penny? And he married her with just an IOU?

Xia Yuying completely broke down and screamed, “Wu Guohua! Get in here, get in here!”

Wu Guohua was outside, humbling himself to entertain the guests. He knew there wasn’t enough food today, so he was feeling guilty.

When Xia Yuying suddenly yelled like this, he felt embarrassed and hurried inside.

Xia Yuying slapped him across the face!

“Is this your idea of love? You married me with an IOU? You promised me a hundred sixty yuan dowry! You said you would treat me well! Wu Guohua, what do you think I am? Even prostitutes cost more than me!”

Wu Guohua quickly covered her mouth: “What are you talking about?”

He was both anxious and angry. “What’s your problem, Xia Yuying! We’re in love, not doing this for money! What happened to you? I earn forty-five yuan a month, in four months I’ll have one hundred sixty, don’t you get it? Is that all you care about!”

Xia Yuying nearly cried herself unconscious. She raised her fist and started punching him furiously!

“Cheater! Cheater! Cheater!”

Love? Can love be eaten?

If it weren’t for the fact that he was an officer, would she have worked so hard to steal him from Yu Li?

As the two were crying and fighting, suddenly a few men entered.

Three rough-looking men came in, shouting as they entered.

“Where’s Wu Tong! You scammed me badly! Come out here and explain yourself!”