northernbook Chapter 227 Hometown (3)
Chapter 227 Hometown (3)
Su Jinru learned from Ding Xiang that Qi Zhengyang and Du Mei had divorced.
After her divorce, Du Mei quickly married Lai Gou, a bachelor in his fifties from the village.
Qi Zhengyang, on the other hand, raised his two children alone.
In this day and age, getting divorced once is already considered very unconventional. Qi Zhengyang has been divorced twice. What good daughter would dare to marry a man who has been divorced twice?
Qi Zhengyang will probably live his life alone.
Based on Su Jinru's understanding of Qi Zhengyang, such a stubborn and selfish person must have a distorted mentality after so many trials in life.
Su Jinru reminded An Xin not to go out unnecessarily.
If you encounter Qi Zhengyang, don't get entangled with him too much.
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Back then, Du Mei was beaten and scorned by everyone. In order to get revenge on those women who insulted and looked down on her, she made baseless accusations. Anyone who dared to insult her to her face would be bitten back. Regardless of gender, they were all humiliated by her shameless act, but there was nothing they could do.
People despise her even more, look down on her even more, and even hate her, because they never know when she might turn on them, which could be fatal.
Many people, in order to protect themselves, could only stay far away from Du Mei.
Du Mei's actions perfectly illustrate the saying, "When a person has no shame, he is invincible."
When working, no one wanted to team up with Du Mei. Even Qi Zhengyang looked down on her, feeling that she was embarrassing him.
The team leader had no choice but to assign the task to Du Mei alone.
Others formed teams of many people, and with more people, they could work faster, so they completed the task quickly.
If Du Mei is assigned less work, the others will complain, and the person assigning tasks won't dare to give her less; they can only give her more. So, Du Mei is almost always the last person to leave work.
Du Mei didn't dare to leave early. If she didn't finish her work, the team leader would find out the next day, and she would lose her work points for that day.
One day, everyone went home for dinner, but Du Mei was still working in the fields.
Suddenly, someone darted out from the side.
He's a scoundrel!
He said with a grin, "Du Mei! Everyone else has left, why aren't you leaving? Oh, right, you haven't finished your work yet! Let me help you!"
Before, Du Mei would have given this old bachelor a good dressing down, but now she didn't have the energy to do so, nor did she think there was anything wrong with him helping her with her work.
She even felt a touch of emotion.
After all, at this point, even dogs would probably despise her, and everyone would avoid her like the plague. She knew that this scoundrel had ill intentions towards her.
But if there's no ulterior motive, who would be willing to help her?
Moreover, at this point, he wasn't afraid of her dragging him down; she was already very grateful to him.
"You scoundrel, everyone avoids me like the plague, aren't you afraid I'll defile you?"
“I, Lai Gou, am an orphan with nothing. What am I afraid of? Just because I work for you, does that mean others can condemn me?”
"Why are you helping me?"
"I feel so sorry for you!"
Du Mei bluntly said, "Lai Gou, I know you want to help me, but you're after my body. At this point, if people find out we're together, you'll be arrested."
While working, Lai Gou said with a grin, "As expected, you are a straightforward person, Du Mei. If you are not afraid, what am I, a man, afraid of? As long as you are willing to give me your body, I am willing to be with you even if I am the PD."
Du Mei squinted.
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Seriously, I think Qi Zhengyang is a real jerk. To clear himself of any wrongdoing, he pushed his wife into it. What kind of man is that? If you were my wife, I wouldn't let you suffer. Shouldn't a man stand up for you in times of trouble?"
Du Mei threw the hoe aside, sat on the ground, and watched Lai Gou work hard.
She had never paid any attention to this old man before, and would never have given him a second glance.
At this moment, when she was at her lowest point, he actually said such manly things to her.
Although she knew that these were just words spoken by a man who wanted to possess a woman's body, and that he wasn't entirely sincere, at least he still treated her as a person, or rather, as a woman.
"Lai Gou, you'll help me with the work today, but I can't give you my body just because of that. I'm not that cheap. Think it through before you continue working."
"Du Mei, stop pretending. Didn't you say you've been having affairs with a lot of men in the village? It's one thing to be with others, but why not with me?"
"You'd believe me if I said I'd slept with every man in the village?"
"Why do you say that if we haven't slept together?"
"Because they bullied people! You scoundrel, you don't really think I'm that kind of despicable woman, do you?"
"I don't know if you're shameless or not, but you dare to say anything, which is quite special. If you dare to say it, why don't you dare to do it? Come with me! I'll treat you well. It's better for you to be with me than with Qi Zhengyang!"
“You scoundrel, you can say whatever you want. When I said I was having an affair with so-and-so, I was just trying to scare them. Now, if I go to the commune right now and report you for molesting me, will people believe me?”
Even the dumbest of scoundrels knows what crime it is to be a hooligan—it's a capital offense.
Startled, he quickly said, "Du Mei, I was just joking! I felt sorry for you working alone, so I came to help. I didn't expect you to repay me with your body."
"Are you really that kind? You don't want anything in return, you just want to help me with my work?"
"No plans, no plans."
Du Mei thought for a moment.
"Then do you dare to work in my group?"
"How dare I? It's just working in the same group as you! Is that illegal?"
"Okay, if you dare to work with me for a month, I'll divorce Qi Zhengyang and marry you."
"Ah... what you said... is it true?"
"You're afraid? Or do you not want to marry me? You just want to secretly take advantage of me?"
“What…what am I afraid of? I, Lai Gou, have no parents, no brothers or sisters, just an orphan, with no one to rely on, no one to care for. It’s just because I’m poor that I’m over fifty and still can’t find a wife. I want women, I crave women’s bodies, is that wrong? As long as you dare to marry me, I dare to marry you. If you marry me, you will be my wife, and I’ll see who dares to bully me then.”
Ever since she became known as a "broken shoe" in other people's eyes, Du Mei's self-esteem and dignity have been trampled into the mud.
The one who took the first step was her husband, Qi Zhengyang.
Everyone treated her like a pile of stinking dog shit.
This ugly and old man, whom she had always looked down upon, still treated her like a woman.
Du Mei continued to probe.
"Are you telling the truth? I'm already like this, everyone dislikes me and wants to stay as far away from me as possible, so why are you still coming up to me? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"