Chapter 225: If you can’t do anything to others, can you do anything to your wife? [3400]

Although I don't want to get involved in this mess.

However, China is a society based on personal relationships, especially in the rural areas of the south, where clan concepts are the norm. Even after 30 years, many people still believe in this.

Blood ties are not as easy to sever as one might imagine.

When one prospers, all prosper; when one suffers, all suffer. This is not just talk.

Let’s put it this way, if anyone was being unreasonable and went to the village committee to make a scene about what happened today, it wasn’t Lu Yang’s aunt.

Will the old village party secretary close the doors and windows and let her do whatever she wants and just indulge her?

Would Secretary Li hide away and not even dare to make a sound?

Obviously impossible.

He is not a pushover. He did good things but was framed for no reason.

Well, even though the final result has not come out yet, we still don’t know whether it was this Director Li who hit Lu Yang’s uncle.

So assuming that he was really the one who hit it, then he should try every possible way to reduce the impact of this incident.

A formal clerk in a county investment promotion office, barely a section-level cadre, plus his father-in-law who has been the village committee secretary for 30 years, together they can't deal with an ordinary rural old woman in the village?

Do not make jokes.

People are just waiting for Lu Yang, the one who can truly be the head of the Lu family, to come back from afar to see how Lu Yang will react, whether he will support his aunt or choose to believe that they are innocent and suppress the matter. In the end, they will decide based on the circumstances, instead of being afraid of this tantrum-throwing old woman.

Let me put it this way. Now that Lu Yang is back, if he chooses to turn a blind eye, the old village secretary, Secretary Li, and Lu Yang's classmate, Yin Zhuangzhuang, will probably come to visit him overnight, at the latest tonight or tomorrow afternoon, after his uncle has been buried.

At that time, how to deal with this troublesome matter in the end will still fall on Lu Yang's head.

Moreover, it will be more passive than it is now.

Because all the information Lu Yang got about the specific truth came from others, and he himself did not really understand it. In this case, how could he be a good referee without being 100% sure?
Do we really have to support one side blindly?
Even now, it is basically 80% certain that the person was wrongly accused in this matter, and it was this aunt who was throwing a tantrum, being unreasonable, and trying to extort money from others, but isn't that... not % yet?
This call was made to everyone in the Lu family present.

It is used to shut up these Lu family members.

Don't blame yourself for siding with outsiders later.

It is also used to calm your mind.

No matter how small the chance is, one cannot think too well of people's hearts. What if the culprit is let go, and the truth is finally revealed, it was really this Director Li who tripped his uncle on the road, causing his uncle to fall and die of the disease. He was playing a trick and deliberately waited until the person was dead before coming to the village to report the news. By then, wouldn't the so-called richest man of the Lu family who was brainless and sided with outsiders be laughed at for the rest of his life by those who knew the truth?

So from Lu Yang's point of view:

Either you just do nothing and let them do whatever they want, or you must be absolutely sure that they are innocent and have no suspicion in the death of your uncle.

Only then will he feel at ease to intervene in this matter.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to get to the bottom of this matter.

Lu Yang has been to the county investment promotion office many times and is very familiar with the rules of the county investment promotion office when it goes out on field trips.

This woman, Du Lingling, manages the clerks in her office very strictly. They cannot come and go as they please. All the people in this office do not have as much leisure time as those in other county government offices.

I can help you if you have any problem.

Ask for leave.

And it must be in written form.

Even if it is serious business, like Secretary Li, who acts as a liaison between the village committee and the county investment promotion office, he must greet his immediate superior, Section Chief Jia, and obtain Section Chief Jia's permission before he can go out.

In fact, there is no need to call Du Lingling about this matter. It is the same to call Section Chief Jia. You can just ask and you will get the result.

However, what Lu Yang did makes sense. The truth of a matter will certainly be more convincing when spoken by the second-in-command of a unit than when spoken by the top leader.

Lu Yang wanted to characterize this matter, so naturally he had to let an authoritative person speak authoritatively. Only in this way would no one dare to question the result, otherwise it would be a provocation to authority.

Du Lingling came to Shanghuai Village to attend a meeting, representing the county party committee. When she came, there was a grand ceremony. Regarding the unblocking and reorganization of the Chashan Coal Mine in Shanghuai Village, she alone suppressed all the bosses in the county who dared to raise objections and kept them silent. She was a real iron lady.

Presumably, the aunt-in-law who likes to throw a tantrum, and the fifth brother Lu Youli who now dares not to say a word, should have already figured out the result. Once the result comes out, even if it is not to their liking, they will not dare to make trouble again and provoke the real leader, right?
Unless there's something wrong with your brain.

"Ding-a-ling, jingle-a-ling."

Probably less than five minutes of waiting.

Everyone was actually in agony during those five minutes, but finally the phone rang.

Lu Yang picked up the phone and pressed the answer button:
"It's me, please say."

"Okay, I understand. Please, Director Du, I will take care of this matter. I will invite Director Du for tea another day."

"Apologise?"

"No need. Secretary Li did nothing wrong. Even if he had come earlier and saw my uncle fall, he might not have been saved. We, as the family members, should apologize to him."

"How about this, I'll set up a table some other day, and Director Du and this Officer Li can come, and by the way, invite Chief Jia as well, and we can discuss both personal and official matters?"

"Okay, that's it, goodbye." Lu Yang hung up the phone decisively.

Then he looked around and said, "The truth has been revealed. This Officer Li is innocent. He did not have the time to commit the crime. There is a leave slip, the attendance register of the section staff, and Section Chief Jia of the County Investment Promotion Office who can personally testify for this Officer Li.

If you still have objections, you can go to the county admissions office and interrogate Section Chief Jia, and ask them to show you their leave application and the staff attendance register. You can even call the police, but if there is no evidence, I hope some people can shut up and stop bringing shame to the Lu family, OK?"

Sorry, I spoke English.

Lu Yang was also excited for a moment, and he blurted out some of his speaking habits before and after his rebirth.

Fortunately, everyone can understand the word "ok".

It is also commonly used by actors in movies.

"I know everything now. You've worked hard, cousin. It was you who made it clear to me. I don't think they dare to do that anymore, right? Mom? If you continue to mess around, I won't allow it."

No one spoke, until Lu Yang's eldest cousin, Lu Youren, stood up.

Lu Yang's aunt had already turned her head away. She was mumbling something in disappointment. If you listened carefully, it sounded like "What a pity, what a pity. It's all my money. My money is all gone, gone..."

Apart from these, there is nothing else. They will probably admit defeat and dare not cause trouble again.

Where is Lu Youli?

The boy was pretending to be an ostrich at the moment, covering his injured eye socket with his hand and lowering his head very low, for fear that Lu Yang or anyone else in the room would cause trouble for him.

For example, I just punched him, and the guy on the opposite side, Lao Liu, was now grinning and wanted to scold me several times.

He was stopped by his second sister and brother-in-law.

"Alright, alright, now that the truth is out, everyone calm down. There are villagers waiting outside, don't let them laugh at you. Today is the day for our father's coffin parade. If you have anything to say, wait until we finish the funeral procession tomorrow before we come back."

Lu Yang's second cousin also inherited the tall genes of the Lu family. She has been doing farm work all year round, so her skin is a little dark. She is very strong and she grabbed Lao Liu's hand, who couldn't break free for a while.

So, I just obeyed and remained quiet.

But his eyes were staring fiercely at the brother of Old Five, Lu Youli, who was standing opposite him.

It made the young couple feel uneasy.

Coincidentally, the fifth brother's wife, who was pregnant, also had the surname Guo. She had the same surname as the third brother Lu Youyi's wife, the girl from the Guo family who was in charge of cutting fabric in the factory. They were from the same village and probably had the same ancestor, but they were already five generations apart, so they could barely be considered sisters.

These days, her husband is not welcome in the Lu family. Except for the old mother who is easy to coax, no one else wants to pay attention to them. Her life is actually quite hard, and she is pregnant. If it weren't for this sister from the same clan, who is now her sister-in-law and is willing to talk to her, she really doesn't know how she would have endured this life.

At this time, she felt a little guilty and complained as she tugged at her husband's sleeves, whispering, "Didn't we agree that our goal is to return to the Lu family and get along well with everyone? What are you doing? You've only been back for two days, and you've caused so many problems. Do you still want a future?"

This sentence is not wrong.

But the mistake was that he shouldn't have said it in this situation. Lu Youli was already embarrassed enough and now he could only play the ostrich. But his wife kept bringing up issues that were not relevant to the topic. How could he continue to pretend?
Besides, here comes the point. In the beginning, it was all because of her that I fell out with my family and stole their money.

Because the cost of marrying this daughter-in-law is too high.

His father-in-law and brother-in-law kept raising the price in order to get money from him and make him pay willingly. They even made him get on the car in advance, so that he had to obey the orders of his father-in-law and brother-in-law. In the end, he had no choice but to take this risky move.

After marriage, fortunately he was smart and used some tricks and did not continue to obey the orders of his father-in-law and brother-in-law.

When my brother-in-law was actively approaching the people in Chashan.

He did the opposite.

He took his wife to work in a garment factory. He would rather work himself to death, getting up early and going to bed late to make clothes on a sewing machine, than get involved in their mess.

It turned out that he made the right bet.

My brother-in-law lived happily for less than half a year before he was put in jail. This time he will definitely not be able to get out for another three to five years.

And now my father-in-law's family can only rely on him.

He was so happy at that time that he could even eat several bowls of rice just because of his wife's tears because she was worried about her brother.

These things are all in the past. His brother-in-law is now in jail, so he doesn't care much about them and has almost forgotten about them.

But the thorn is still there.

It's just that she hid it very well. Lu Youli didn't bother with her because his wife was pregnant.

Today, you're helping outsiders to blame him, right?
There are no good people in this whole house.

One, two, three, everyone's eyes were either disappointed, looked down upon, or had a mocking look on their faces...

Thinking of my own grievances, the pain in my eyes, the misunderstanding of everyone, even my wife complained...

Who am I doing this for?

With the new hatred and old grudges added together, Lu Youli, who was not broad-minded and narrow-minded, finally exploded and pushed his wife aside fiercely: "Get out, you jinx."

(End of this chapter)