Yonghe Road

Chapter 45 Public Outrage

Wang Zian and Zhong Ziqi flew out of town to deal with Zhong Ziwang's accident. The Baile Village basketball team lost two outstanding players and had to regroup to participate in the prefecture-level city basketball game. Unfortunately, they failed to enter the provincial competition.

The "White Tea Town" team did enter the provincial competition, but was eliminated in the top eight and failed to qualify for the national competition, unfortunately missing the opportunity to enter the village BA.

Compared with the accidents in Zhong Ziwang's life, these small setbacks and failures are really not worth mentioning.

Compared to a basketball game, the people of Baile Village are naturally more concerned about Zhong Ziwang's accident.

However, no matter how tragic Zhong Ziwang's accident was, it was merely a topic of conversation among the people. People mostly gossiped about it, and even those with a good conscience could only offer a few words of sympathy. After all, if the whip hadn't fallen on you, you couldn't empathize with the pain. The ones who felt the most pain were your loved ones.

Huifang cried all day long, worrying about Zhong Ziwang's injury while taking care of Lin Yingying who was about to give birth.

My son has already gotten into trouble, so nothing must happen to my daughter-in-law and grandson.

Huifang is a traditional woman, and continuing the family line is her top priority. If her grandson can be born safely, the Zhong family's incense will be continued, and when she dies in the future and meets her husband and the ancestors of the Zhong family, she will have an explanation.

It’s hateful that the Lin family still came to make trouble when the Zhong family was in the most difficult time.

Upon learning that Zhong Ziwang was injured and his life or death was in danger, his brother-in-law Lin Dangdang did not come to the Zhong family to express his condolences. Instead, he came in the name of Lin's parents to force Lin Yingying to make plans early. He even said that if something happened to Zhong Ziwang, it would be difficult for Lin Yingying to remarry with a burden, so it would be better to induce an abortion as soon as possible. Huifang was so angry that she couldn't stop crying.

Fortunately, Lin Yingying argued with her elder brother, saying that she was about to give birth, and her elder brother didn't want to kill a life. But Lin Dangdang was a scoundrel, and he said that as long as the baby was not born and did not open its eyes to see the world, it did not count as a human life.

He even took action directly and wanted to take Lin Yingying away from the Zhong family. Fortunately, Lei Sheng appeared in time and drove Lin Dangdang out of the Zhong family.

Lin Dangdang stood at the gate of the Zhong family and cursed Lei Sheng for not marrying Zhong Chunshui, and for really thinking of himself as the son-in-law of the Zhong family. He was meddling in other people's business, which attracted a group of villagers to watch.

Lei Sheng said that although he was not a member of the Zhong family, he was a She ethnic group like the Zhong family. Lin Yingying married Zhong Ziwang and became a She ethnic group daughter-in-law. Lin Dangdang bullying Lin Yingying was bullying the She ethnic group. The She ethnic group had to help the She ethnic group...

Such remarks immediately aroused the emotions of the onlookers. The She ethnic group elders led by Lan Dafeng and the Han ethnic group young wives led by Huang Yunzhi all accused Lin Dangdang of bad behavior.

First, Elder Lan Dafeng rebuked Lin Dangdang in a loud voice, "Lin Dangdang, you are so heartless! Yingying is about to give birth, and you want her to have an induced labor. This is a living being! As her eldest brother, not only do you not protect her, but you say such heartless words. Are you still a human being?"

Then, Huang Yunzhi, a young Han Chinese wife, escalated the situation to Lin Dangdang: "Lin Dangdang, do you think this is just a small matter within your Lin family? You are destroying the harmony of our Baile Village and smearing the solidarity and friendship between the She and Han ethnic groups!"

Other villagers also echoed the voices of accusation.

"That's right, how can you even say something like inducing labor on a full-term baby? How immoral!"

"The Lin family had already forced Lin Yingying to abort two children for the sake of the betrothal money. The Zhong family took away hundreds of thousands of yuan in betrothal money, leaving them with nothing for the dowry. Now they're forcing Yingying to abort the child, ignoring both the child and his own sister. Is he still a real brother?"

Public anger is hard to offend.

Lin Dangdang's forehead was covered in cold sweat, his face a blur of confusion. He tried to retort, but found himself powerless to deal with so many angry villagers. Pairs of angry eyes shot arrows of contempt and hostility at him. Lin Dangdang finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned around in disgrace, and fled.

Lin Yingying was approaching her due date, and after Lin Dangdang's disturbance, she had a miscarriage that night. Fortunately, Lei Sheng was a caring person. After Lin Dangdang left, he stayed at the Zhong family because he was worried that Lin Yingying would suddenly give birth and Huifang would be unable to cope with it alone.

Xie Anmin had prepared the delivery bag for Lin Yingying long ago. Lei Sheng took the delivery bag, picked up Lin Yingying and Huifang, and rushed to the city hospital. That night, Lin Yingying safely gave birth to a big fat boy.

At dawn the next day, Lin's parents showed up at the hospital to visit their daughter and grandson.

Fortunately, Lin Dangdang did not show up to upset Lin Yingying.

Lin Yingying knew that her parents were honest people and might not know about the excessive things Lin Dangdang did or said. Even if she knew, she couldn't do anything about it. In the Lin family, her brother Lin Dangdang was a devil, a bit like Xue Pan in "Dream of Red Mansions". It was a pity that she didn't have the rich and noble fate of Xue Baochai.

The birth of a new life temporarily diluted the shadow that Zhong Ziwang's accident brought to the Zhong family.

In another place, Zhong Ziqi soon received the good news from his mother Huifang, and his exhausted body and mind from running around for Zhong Ziwang finally relaxed a little.

On the phone, Huifang couldn't help but ask Zhong Ziqi what happened to Zhong Ziwang.

Zhong Ziqi didn't dare tell his mother about Zhong Ziwang's true condition. His sister-in-law had just given birth, and his mother had to save her energy to take care of his sister-in-law during the confinement period and the newborn baby. Therefore, Zhong Ziqi only told Huifang the good news on the phone and not the bad news. He said that Zhong Ziwang had recovered well and had no missing limbs. He also said that the compensation matters were progressing steadily and the party responsible for the project would not shirk its responsibilities.

Huifang then hung up the phone with relief and conveyed the good news to Lin Yingying. Lin Yingying looked at the baby sleeping soundly in the crib, and her heart was finally at ease.

As long as Zhong Ziwang is safe and sound, it doesn't matter if life is a little tight. Does it matter how much money one has as long as the family is together?
After Zhong Ziqi ended the call with his mother, he immediately sent a message of thanks to Lei Sheng.

No matter what, they had to thank Lei Sheng for his contribution to the Zhong family during this period. Zhong Ziqi even thought that when Zhong Chunshui came back, he would speak well of Lei Sheng in front of Chunshui.

In the past, he disliked Lei Sheng's personality, thinking that he was unsteady and unreliable, a slick businessman and a showman. Now it seems that he was narrow-minded and biased.

When Lei Sheng replied with a bunch of sweet words, Zhong Ziqi burst out laughing: There's nothing wrong with such a character, but he himself is too obsessed with face and suffers in vain, he is a male chauvinist and has no ability. For example, when it comes to the work injury compensation for his elder brother Zhong Ziwang, he has no negotiation skills at all and can only rely on Wang Zian to negotiate with the responsible party.

Zhong Ziqi took a look at his elder brother Zhong Ziwang, who was lying on the hospital bed with bandages all over and an IV drip, and sat down dejectedly beside the bed, cursing in his heart: Zhong Ziqi, what use are you?
The phone rang, it was Xie Anmin.

"Is your brother okay?"

"not good."

"Is the compensation matter going smoothly?"

"Not smooth."

At this moment, under Xie Anmin's concern, Zhong Ziqi completely exposed his face.