CHAPTER 47: CHAPTER 47: TURNING HOSTILE

That’s his precious bike! His most valuable possession!

Liu Yongguo looked at his distraught brother in his arms, feeling overwhelmed, and quickly took him back to the hospital.

Ma Cuihua instinctively wanted to scold Liu Yongming.

Liu Yongguo quickly shot her a glance, "Mom, say less. Little brother doesn’t want to live anymore! He just cried all the way here!"

Everyone in the ward was dumbfounded.

Ma Cuihua said indignantly, "He still has the face to cry! He chose his own wife, and that worthless child was born by his wife. I didn’t cry, so why is he crying!

"Mom! It’s not about the wife and kid!" Liu Yongguo was anxious, glanced at the dispirited Liu Yongming, shook his head and sighed, "His bicycle was stolen, he’s devastated."

"Cough cough..." Xu Manzhi was so shocked she choked on her saliva, wide-eyed staring at Liu Yongming, "Why is Yongming so unlucky? His wife got caught, his son turned into a daughter, and now even his bicycle..."

"Wow..." Liu Yongming couldn’t hold back and burst into tears, jumping and stomping his feet, then fiercely pounding his chest, "My bicycle! My bicycle!"

Xu Manzhi was startled, quickly stepped aside, pulled on Liu Yongguo’s clothes and mumbled, "Looks like losing the bike is worse than losing the wife, what should we do?"

Liu Yongguo was also anxious, "If I knew what to do, that’d be great! He cried the whole way, couldn’t ask anything, I don’t know what’s going on either."

Ma Cuihua angrily climbed out of the hospital bed, walked up and gave Liu Yongming two hard slaps, "Shut up for your mother!"

Liu Yongming was left stunned by the hits, finally calmed down.

Ma Cuihua, while crying, tremblingly pointed at Liu Yongming to reprimand, "I raised you with hardship, supported you through school for you to get a diploma, not for you to come here and go crazy! I won’t pursue Meixiang’s matter, we won’t take in that worthless one from her, but you must pull yourself together now, and resolve the issue with Meixiang!"

Liu Yongming slowly lowered his head, "Mom, how should I resolve it?"

Ma Cuihua, hearing this, became even angrier, "How else to resolve it? If you can divorce once, you can divorce twice! I think this Fang Meixiang is not as good as Lin Qin! Did you spend a lot of money on Fang Meixiang?"

Liu Yongming remained silent.

Ma Cuihua suppressed her fury, gritting her teeth, "This is fraud marriage! All that money must be reclaimed! Most importantly, divorce! We don’t want Fang Meixiang and the child! Just go out and say Fang Meixiang cheated in marriage for money, nothing else can be admitted, you are still our Liu family’s most promising child, once you graduate and get work assigned in two months, mom will find you a new suitable wife."

Having Ma Cuihua’s firm backbone, Liu Yongming gradually calmed down.

Beside them, Liu Li was dissatisfied.

"Mom, you and second brother talked for ages and missed the point. Yesterday it was Lin Qin who made me like this, and caused you to be hospitalized with anger, are we just settling accounts like this?"

Ma Cuihua looked at Liu Yongming.

Liu Yongming took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, recalling yesterday’s matter and seething with anger, "I went to Shanglin Village, couldn’t find Lin Qin and Lin Yi, just smashed their home, destroyed their vegetable garden, ended up being charged fifty yuan by Shanglin Village villagers, even lost my bike there... sob sob... my bike, my bike..."

Xu Manzhi glared fiercely at Liu Li, "He can’t mention the bicycle now, why are you provoking your second brother? Come to think of it, wasn’t it your provocation of Lin Qin? Did she hit you because you provoked her? If you hadn’t fought, your brother and mom wouldn’t have ended up like this fighting for you!

Liu Li, you’re not young anymore, you’re about to take the high school entrance exam, even if you don’t study, you keep causing trouble every now and then, our family is chaotic enough, can’t rely on you for help, but don’t add to the chaos!"

If it was before, Xu Manzhi definitely wouldn’t talk to Liu Li like this, after all Liu Li had good grades, pretty, might be the Liu family’s next diploma holder, with that face, might find a wealthy husband in the future.

Xu Manzhi saw value in Liu Li, did everything to please and indulge her, but now Liu Li, no longer studies, her face is ruined, don’t know if it’ll leave scars, hangs out with misfits, acting unruly.

Forget the future, just wasn’t led astray would be good.

Now convinced Liu Li is ruined, Xu Manzhi naturally wouldn’t treat her as kindly as before.

"Xu Manzhi! My mom didn’t say a word, what qualifies you to lecture me? Just because my brother protects you, doesn’t mean you can walk all over me!" Liu Li glared menacingly at Xu Manzhi, her fist clenched.

Liu Yongguo shouted angrily, "Doing what? She’s your sister-in-law, what is wrong with saying a few words to you? Besides! Did your sister-in-law say anything wrong? Not studying properly, learning nonsense from those people outside! If it was before, could you do such things in public?"

The old Liu Li cared about face, was especially good at pretending, outside the house her mouth was sweet, delicate and polite, everyone would praise her, now Liu Li is causing trouble among neighbors, getting disdainful looks.

Liu Li stomped angrily, "I knew all men are the same, once they marry they forget their mother, once there’s a wife no longer need me, the sister! Since you all disdain me, I’ll leave!"

Liu Li stormed out of the ward in fury.

Ma Cuihua was once again breathless in anger, pounding her legs and crying, "What grave sins have I committed? One by one they’re here to collect debts!"

The next day, Ma Cuihua just got discharged from the hospital and returned home.

Liu Fang came around carrying a child.

The Liu family looked on bewildered at the stranger Liu Fang and the two men behind her, faces full of suspicion, "Who are you? What do you want?"

Liu Fang elbowed aside Xu Manzhi blocking the door, walked into the yard, looked around, finally set her gaze on Liu Yongming, "You’re Liu Yongming? Meixiang’s man?"

"You... Who are you people?" Liu Yongming saw the child, guessed Liu Fang’s identity, just didn’t want to admit it.

Liu Fang sneered, "Let’s talk inside, you don’t want neighbors to laugh at you anymore!"

Ma Cuihua’s curses reached her lips but swallowed back down, stomping into the main room angrily.

Liu Fang holding the child, glanced at the Liu family, said leisurely, "I think you’ve already guessed who I am, let’s not beat around the bush. This child is Liu Yongming’s daughter. Meixiang got caught and can’t care for her, so I’ve brought her back to you."

"Why should we?" Ma Cuihua angrily slammed the table, "That worthless woman swore she was carrying a son, if not for considering the grandson, I wouldn’t have let her in! Now, her education is fake, person is fake, and she’s in jail, birthed a worthless child and wants to dump her on us, dream on!"