CHAPTER 81: CHAPTER 80: I CAN’T JUST BULLY MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

He Chen was also very annoyed by Li Hongmei’s repeated disturbances, but he always thought too much and was bad with words, not knowing how to completely drive them away.

Ye Manman had just sorted out all his thoughts clearly, and he felt quite relieved, so naturally, there was no point in saying otherwise.

Moreover, he was particularly angry that Li Hongmei had upset Ye Manman. Her little face fell, and her pretty nose crinkled up. He Chen, heart aching, held her and said firmly.

"It must be paid back! We will go to the town to report them tomorrow!"

Li Hongmei was dumbfounded when she heard this.

"That won’t do!"

"He Chen! That money was voluntarily entrusted to us by you!"

Li Hongmei slumped, her previous spirit completely gone.

Ye Manman sneered.

"You yourself said it was to keep safe, where there’s keeping, there’s returning. Do you think keeping it means it’s given to you? How ridiculous."

In the middle of speaking, Ye Manman suddenly saw what seemed like a stumbling woman running madly towards the community house in the distance.

She squinted slightly, guessing that the person was probably the female intellectual Li Hongmei mentioned who supposedly "shared a mutual affection and had a great relationship" with Liu Tiejun.

So she looked over at Li Hongmei, who was lost in the fear of repaying money and of imprisonment, only after the woman had run out of sight.

"I think someone in your family will have to go to jail. It’s not even sure if that female intellectual really wants to marry into your family, but we will consider the betrothal gift as a gift to you, and you can pay back fifty less. How about that?"

Li Hongmei was almost in tears. She had thought it over at home for two days before daring to ask He Chen for the money because she thought He Chen was timid and she was justified.

Unexpectedly, this time she ended up owing so much debt, even though she didn’t have to pay back that money at all!

It was all because of that female intellectual!

If she hadn’t gotten married in, even if she wanted to show off, she wouldn’t have thought of going to He Chen for money!

Li Hongmei returned home, almost crying herself blind, not even knowing how she got there.

She initially wanted to come back and scold that intellectual, but she was afraid Liu Tiejun was with Gao Huifang doing business, so she even ran to the window to sneak a peek.

But there was no one in the room; Liu Tiejun was sleeping alone on the bed!

"Tiejun! Where’s your wife? Where did she run off to?"

Li Hongmei didn’t care about anything else, she rushed into the room, pulled Liu Tiejun up from the bed, panic all over her face.

This was terrible.

If she ran away and later accused their family of hooliganism against Tiejun, it would be over!

Li Hongmei was panicking, while Liu Tiejun was still dreaming about Gao Huifang’s enthusiastic service.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the room empty, no one around him, just a worried Li Hongmei staring at him, and Liu Tiejun panicked all at once.

"I don’t know! Mom, I just took a nap, she was just here!"

Liu Tiejun was a little incoherent, hurriedly got off the bed, and searched back and forth with Li Hongmei, but they didn’t see a sign of Gao Huifang anywhere.

Liu Tiejun was almost crying; he had managed to get such a beautiful wife, an educated intellectual. He thought with all the serving she was obviously devoted to him, but she still ran away.

He looked anxiously at Li Hongmei.

"Mom, what now? She was just serving me, saying she loved me! How did she just run away?"

Liu Tiejun was still dreaming of marrying a beautiful wife and having a chubby son, but now his dream was shattered, and he was devastated.

Liu Dongliang came back from working outside after they had searched everywhere, and seeing their mourning faces and that the female intellectual was not there, his face changed too.

"Tiejun, where’s your wife?"

Li Hongmei, hearing his question, became even angrier, going up to slap Liu Dongliang.

"It’s all your fault! You knew I was going to the He family for money, and you still went out to work, why didn’t you stay home to keep watch!"

Liu Dongliang, shocked and flushed, covered his face.

"How could I watch, I’m an elder, a man, it’s awkward to listen outside when the kids are doing things in the room, isn’t it?"

"When there’s one more mouth at home to feed, you have to do more work to ensure that when she marries in, she won’t have to starve with us."

Liu Dongliang was also helpless, he didn’t want to go out to work, it was that Gao intellectual who was too open, too loud; he is also a normal man, even though older, there’s still desire.

Plus, the Gao intellectual was much prettier, far better looking than Li Hongmei, he found it hard to resist the temptation hearing it every day.

The Gao intellectual had served Tiejun and didn’t wear her clothes properly, came out in front of him to boil water for a bath, he could not stand that impact, naturally, he had to go out to work to calm down.

He couldn’t wrong his daughter-in-law.

He dared not say these thoughts, no one knew what he was thinking inside, Li Hongmei and Liu Tiejun didn’t notice his dirty mind, they were panicking.

The three sat inside thinking of a solution, then Liu Tiejun suddenly remembered the matter of Li Hongmei going to the He family today.

"Right, Mom, did cousin pay you back any money? If I take the betrothal gift to propose again, the Gao intellectual should agree to marry me, right?"

"After all, she’s given her body to me, maybe even pregnant with my child, she can’t marry someone else, right?"

Liu Tiejun was still imagining, however, Li Hongmei’s face turned worse upon hearing his words.

"About that, I haven’t told you, He Chen said we have to pay back all the money he gave us before, or tomorrow they will report us in town, this is a criminal case! How do we have that much money, it’s all spent long ago!"

Li Hongmei leaned on Liu Dongliang and began to cry loudly, regretting deeply, hating herself for not suppressing the greedy thought about the fifty yuan and going to He Chen for money; otherwise, the Gao intellectual wouldn’t have run away, and they wouldn’t suddenly have to pay back so much money.

She hated and regretted it, crying with snot and tears.

But Liu Dongliang said he was unwilling to take the fall for her again, last time he went to jail because Li Hongmei stole something from someone, and he took the blame.

This time, if he was to take the fall again, with the added crimes, he might go to jail and never come out.

"I’m not taking the fall this time, you were the one who insisted on taking care of He Chen’s money, I didn’t manage the family finances, you did, if it’s jail, it’s you who will go."

As soon as he said this, Li Hongmei suddenly stopped crying, didn’t lean on Liu Dongliang anymore, and stood up pointing at his nose, starting to curse.

"You heartless man, now that disaster strikes, you’re abandoning ship? You never used any of the money He Chen gave? What do you mean I managed and used it? I spent it all on you and your son, and now you want me to go to jail? Dream on!"

At this point, Liu Dongliang also fired up with temper from fear of jail. He stood up and yelled at Li Hongmei.

"Anyway, I’m not going to jail for you again; I would die in there, never to leave. You brought it up, you did it, why must I always take the fall? This time, no way!"

With him getting tough, Li Hongmei was stunned for a moment, then she immediately scratched Liu Dongliang’s face.

"No way, no way! I can’t go to jail! You heartless man, won’t help me, why did I marry you?"

Her nails were long and sharp, she scratched Liu Dongliang’s face bloody at once, he couldn’t take it anymore and fought back.

The two scuffled, and the scene became a chaotic mess.

Liu Tiejun on the side tried to mediate but to no avail.

And just then, the team leader arrived at their home with people, followed by Gao Huifang, who was crying desperately.

Seeing the family fighting, the team leader’s eyes flashed with disgust, and he spoke loudly.

"Liu Tiejun! You insulted and raped a woman, now she’s pressing charges for hooliganism, come with us to the town now!"