Read Novel Full Chapter 735: Are You Really That Unwilling?
Chapter 735: Chapter 735: Are You Really That Unwilling?
"Hey, Guangyuan, I’m talking to you, why are you ignoring me?"
Li Guangyuan finally looked up and smiled at the person, "It is quite lively."
The person felt uneasy at Li Guangyuan’s smile, finding it odd, shrugged, and went back to tending to their vegetable stall.
Li Guangyuan sat on a vegetable crate, looking at Lin Jiayi busy not far away, and suddenly sneered.
"The city is so bustling today, you should really go have a look."
Lin Jiayi paused in her movements, didn’t say a word, and continued to handle the vegetables with her head down.
Li Guangyuan’s voice continued, "Why aren’t you talking? Haven’t you always been condescending, looking down on me, a mere vegetable seller? Lin Jiayi, to be honest, being here selling vegetables with me every day, it’s really beneath you, I even feel wronged on your behalf."
"You look down on me selling vegetables yet eagerly flung yourself to the rich, divorced me without hesitation when you acknowledged a rich woman as your mother, not even wanting your son. Now you’re back here groveling. Lin Jiayi, you’re really something, I almost admire you."
"That scene earlier was really something, so many officials, even the county mayor was trying to ingratiate himself smiling at her, probably city officials too. In my whole life, it’s the first time I’ve seen such a scene. You should have watched it, to see if you’d still have delusions after."
"If I’m not mistaken, you were the one who got that foreign woman to buy the old vegetable station back then, right? You made her buy the old vegetable station, wanting to become a strong woman, a lady boss like Lin Chuxia. But after buying it, you were clueless and couldn’t do anything while that woman, before exposing your trick, was helping Lin Chuxia set up a clothing factory. She’d rather help an outsider than you, her so-called biological daughter. Lin Jiayi, tell me, how much of a failure are you in life? Can people see at first glance that you’re a waste?"
"And now look, the vegetable station you insisted on buying, that woman built such a large building and gave it to Lin Chuxia. Aren’t you resentful? Everything ended up being a wedding dress for Lin Chuxia."
Lin Jiayi continued sorting vegetables, her eyes dim, and after a while, replied, "I’m not resentful."
"Ha..." Li Guangyuan sneered, "You can fool others but not me, we’ve been married for so many years, I know exactly who you are, Lin Jiayi. I told you before, people have to believe in fate; you’re just cursed with a bad fate, how do you compete with others? But then again, with what I know about you, how did you agree to Lin Chuxia’s arranged marriage back then?"
He suddenly laughed loudly, "Look at that, Lin Jiayi, this is your fate. There was a road to heaven that you didn’t take but you willingly walked into hell. You’re only fit to sell vegetables with me here..."
Lin Jiayi bowed her head, not saying another word to him.
She was long used to Li Guangyuan’s humiliations, waiting for him to tire of talking.
There had been no news of their son, and they reported it to the Public Security Bureau.
But it’s been so long since their son went missing, finding the child is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Without her son, she and Li Guangyuan got their divorce certificate; her status in the Li Family was shaky, and she felt insecure.
She no longer expected Li Guangyuan to achieve anything, choosing to run a small vegetable business diligently. As long as Old Mrs. Li and Li Dongmei didn’t cause any trouble, the days were manageable.
Fortunately, Li Guangyuan had come to his senses, no longer allowing Old Mrs. Li and Li Dongmei to leech off them.
Just as she was thinking this, two figures arrived at their vegetable stand.
Seeing the visitors, Lin Jiayi’s face subtly changed.
It was Old Master Zhang and Mrs. Zhang.
Since the fight before the Spring Festival when Li Dongmei and her mother-in-law came to the market demanding money, the Zhang family had quieted down significantly.
Later, she heard that Zhang Wenbin was incarcerated, and knowing Li Guangyuan’s nature, he looked even less favorably upon the Li Family.
Even when Li Dongmei came back later with a sob story, claiming they were out of food, begging for money from the Li Family, Li Guangyuan refused to lend her any.
Old Mrs. Li, ever since learning that Genbao was lost, was constantly throwing fits, and would scold her on sight, eventually working herself into an illness.
She had been weak and sickly, with no energy to meddle in her daughter’s affairs.
If not for seeing this family, even with Li Guangyuan causing her some annoyance, she found life better than before.
At least the money she earned from selling vegetables was hers, not just going into someone else’s pocket.
But seeing these two geezers today, it was clear they were up to no good.
Are they short on money again, coming to their vegetable stand?
She had never seen an in-law family so shameless, daring to go to their daughter-in-law’s family to demand money where they sold vegetables.
Watching Mrs. Zhang walking with a limp, Lin Jiayi felt a cold smile rising inside her.
After that visit before Spring Festival, Mrs. Zhang and Li Dongmei encountered Zhang Wenbin’s ex-wife and were harshly taught a lesson by her ex-wife’s mother-in-law and the Qin Family, she heard about it on the same day.
She even inquired about it later, learning that Mrs. Zhang injured her back, and it took a long time to heal.
When she heard the news, she couldn’t have felt more satisfied.
Mrs. Zhang is crippled yet still comes to demand money?
When Li Guangyuan really started arguing with them, she planned to specifically target Mrs. Zhang.
Since she’s crippled yet insists on coming out, she might as well make her bedridden, so she no longer dares to cause them trouble.
While Lin Jiayi was thinking this over, Old Master Zhang had already started speaking to Li Guangyuan.
"Where’s Li Dongmei? Where are you hiding her?"
Seeing the visitors, Li Guangyuan grew more vigilant.
Upon hearing the question, he frowned, "Li Dongmei is your Zhang family’s daughter-in-law, why are you asking me?"
Li Guangyuan previously felt inferior in front of the Zhang Family, after all, they were city people.
But after all these years, he no longer had any regard for them.
What city people? If they lost their jobs, they couldn’t even afford to eat without relying on a rural person like him.
Li Guangyuan looked down on the Zhang Family, and Old Master Zhang looked down on Li Guangyuan even more, being just a peasant.
"Don’t pretend you don’t understand, Li Dongmei left early yesterday morning, she told us she was going back to her family, but she hasn’t returned yet. We sent someone to Xiaoqingshan Village to look for her, your mother told us she never went home, and even accused us of not returning her. Don’t think I can’t see what kind of trick you’re playing, you think just because Wenbin is locked up, you want to back out? You begged to marry into my family in the first place, wanting to marry my son you married him, and now you want to back out? No way, if you don’t hand her over today, I’ll go to the police station."
Lin Jiayi couldn’t help but detect a hint of irony in Old Master Zhang’s words.
Li Guangyuan had just said something similar to her, though Li Guangyuan’s words were: "You want to leave, you leave; you want to come back, it’s not that easy."