Reborn in the 80s: Divorced and Spoiled by the Military Man - Chapter 152

Chapter 152: Lu Zhixing Wants to Remarry

Xie Yunshu only had two family members. Xie Mingcheng had gone to school, and Li Fenlan was busy collecting money and selling meals. Hardly anyone knew she had contracted the canteen at the Construction Site. She had not even told the people in the communal apartment block; aside from Auntie Zhao, no one even knew which Construction Site she was selling meals at.

At that moment, outside the Construction Site, Li Shenggen sat on the ground, panting. He narrowed his eyes and sneered, “So this is the fine daughter you raised. She gets to live the good life, eating well and drinking well, but she won’t even care about her own parents or her younger brother!”

In truth, after Xie Yunshu had overturned the table at the Li house last time and picked up a kitchen knife, Li Shenggen had given up on trying to squeeze money out of his eldest daughter. He had originally thought that since Xie Yunshu had become a worker and married up into the Lu Family, she must have money in hand. Who would have thought she had divorced Lu Zhixing and lost her job?

A widow and her children, still supporting a college student-their days had to be miserable and poor. A daughter and granddaughter like that were better off ignored.

Unfortunately, two days ago, he had fallen and injured his arm. When he went to Haicheng Hospital for treatment, he actually ran into Lu Zhixing! The Old Li family had always been humble and fawning toward this grandson-in-law.

That was because in the year or so since Xie Yunshu got married, whenever they went to the hospital for treatment, they would always try every possible way to ask him for some medicine. Lu Zhixing, however, had always been cold and arrogant toward them. Now that Xie Yunshu was divorced from him, by all rights he should have ignored them even more.

But what Li Shenggen never expected was that this time, Lu Zhixing was surprisingly attentive. He ran back and forth to help with registration and medicine, and even paid the medical fees!

Lu Zhixing’s thinking was simple. Deep down, he used to look down on Xie Yunshu’s family, finding them vulgar, greedy, and petty. Now, however, he hoped to get a little closer to them so they could put in a good word for him with Yunshu.

Before he had divorced Zhou Xinyue, he had not had the courage to appear in front of Xie Yunshu. He was afraid of the disgust in her eyes…

Now that he had finally run into her family, he expressed, with great “sincerity,” his desire to remarry. He also told Li Shenggen that he had been paying attention to Xie Yunshu all along and knew that she had now contracted the canteen at the Construction Site…

Li Dayong stood off to the side, craning his neck to look inside. “Dad, is Xie Yunshu really running the canteen in there? This Construction Site is huge. With so many people eating here, she must be making a fortune!”

Li Shenggen remained seated on the ground. “She was so arrogant when she came home last time because she was deliberately trying to cut ties with the family. Even your eldest sister has learned to side with outsiders now. She wouldn’t even take out fifty yuan for her own nephew to go to school! This time, I don’t want fifty. I want five hundred!”

Li Dayong remembered the way Xie Yunshu had held that kitchen knife and was still a little afraid. “Eldest Sister is easy enough to handle. The problem is that damned girl Xie Yunshu…”

Li Shenggen kicked the old woman sitting beside him. “In a bit, you cry as hard as you can. This place is full of Senior Leaders. Let them all see how unfilial Xie Yunshu is! If we don’t settle Wengang’s matter of going to high school in the city, then these two old bones of ours aren’t leaving!”

Their eldest grandson was the old couple’s very life. For their grandson, they were willing to throw away their dignity without fear.

It was already one in the afternoon. At this time, Xie Yunshu should have been happily counting money and celebrating the smooth opening of their first day of business. She did not tell Li Fenlan about this. When she walked out alone, her expression was dark to the extreme.

As soon as she came out of the canteen, she ran into Ji Siyuan, who was getting ready to go home and sleep. He was startled by Xie Yunshu’s expression. “Are you going to slaughter a chicken or something? Why is your face so dark?”

Xie Yunshu took a deep breath. “I have something to deal with. I’m leaving first.”

At the entrance, Li Shenggen and his wife had already begun their performance. They were crying so miserably it made people wince, calling Xie Yunshu unfilial and an ungrateful wretch with every other breath. The two gate guards were getting headaches just listening to them. At this hour, people were trickling in and out of the Construction Site gate, and leaders passed by from time to time as well.

The guards wanted to drive them farther away, but the old woman would collapse and roll all over the ground the moment anyone touched her. One moment she said her arm hurt, the next she said her leg hurt, and all the while she kept shouting Xie Yunshu’s name.

They all knew the owner of the canteen, so for the moment, they truly had no way to deal with these two shameless old troublemakers. All they could do was coax them politely. “Please stop making a scene. Boss Xie will be here soon. If there’s anything you need, talk it out properly. This is a Construction Site.”

Boss Xie?

That only made Li Shenggen and his wife even more excited. If people were calling her boss, then she must be making a fortune! Thank goodness they had run into Lu Zhixing and he had told them, or they would still be kept in the dark!

Besides, whatever else could be said about that damned girl Xie Yunshu, she did have a pretty face. To think Lu Zhixing was still thinking about her even now! Tomorrow, they would have Li Fenlan marry that damned girl back into the Lu Family. Wouldn’t Lu Zhixing have to thank them properly then?

Maybe they could even solve Dayong’s job problem!

The old couple were lost in their beautiful fantasies and crying with even greater vigor. By the time Xie Yunshu arrived, quite a few people had already gathered at the entrance to watch the commotion. When she saw the three members of Li Shenggen’s family, she did not waste words. She grabbed one in each hand and dragged them outward. “If you want to cry, get lost and cry at home!”

She did not have a kitchen knife in her hand now. And in front of so many people, would she, a granddaughter, really dare lay hands on her own grandparents?

Li Shenggen shot a look at the old woman, Li Xiulian. Rolling on the ground and making a scene was women’s work.

Li Xiulian raised her voice and refused to leave. “Yunshu, you’re out here making big money. You can’t just ignore your grandparents! When you were little, Grandma watched you grow up too. How could you make your mother cut ties with her own family? That’s the kind of thing that gets you struck by lightning!”

The people around them whispered among themselves. Not a single person stepped forward, but the way they looked at Xie Yunshu had become somewhat subtle.

Filial piety outweighed everything. Outsiders did not know all the dirty business within their family. Even if it were explained, it would just amount to the old couple favoring sons over daughters and valuing their eldest grandson. But wasn’t that normal in any family? Wasn’t it only natural for an older sister to help her younger brother?

For a granddaughter to make her own mother cut ties with her grandparents-no matter how one argued it, Xie Yunshu was in the wrong.

More and more people gathered. Xie Yunshu could not drive all three of them away by herself. She gritted her teeth. For something like this to happen on her first day contracting the canteen, the leaders of the Project Department would definitely form an opinion of her.

These bastards!

Seeing that she said nothing, Li Shenggen knew he had gained the upper hand this time. “I know you rented a place too. Let Dabao live at your home. You feed him well, take care of him, and pay his tuition. I guarantee I won’t come make trouble again.”

Xie Yunshu could only agree. “Fine. You leave first.”

She would get rid of them for now and think of a solution once she got back.

Unexpectedly, Li Shenggen pushed his luck. “I know you’ve got money now. Give me a hundred yuan first.”

Xie Yunshu clenched her fists and took a deep breath. Before she could speak, she heard a great commotion behind her, as if a large group of people had arrived.

Li Shengli had come with a gang of brothers. In no time, they surrounded Li Shenggen and the other two. “Yunshu Little Sister, which blind fool is bullying you?”