Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

Li Cuihua's mind went blank for a moment, and her hands and feet instantly turned ice-cold.

"Old...Old Wei?"

She swallowed hard, trying to force a smile that looked more like a grimace, but her legs moved backward against her will. "You... why are you here so early? I was just joking with Xiulan..."

"joke?"

Wei Baoguo squeezed out two extremely unpleasant, broken sounds from his throat, like the panting of a wild beast on the verge of death.

He stared intently at Li Cuihua, his mind filled with images of his own children pointing fingers at him and calling him senile, and of himself looking smug and foolish as he held his marriage certificate.

For this penniless, childless man who didn't even want his own son, he was willing to give up his home in the city!

"You old bastard? The rotten meat in the bowl?"

Wei Baoguo muttered these words through gritted teeth as he staggered over the threshold. His body, covered in foul-smelling mud, dripped onto the ground, his bloodshot eyes fixed intently on Li Cuihua.

"You heartless, wicked woman... You cheated me out of my money, you cheated me out of my house! You've caused my wife and children to break up, and I can't even go home!"

"Old Wei, let me explain, it's really not what you think..." Li Cuihua was so frightened that she backed away repeatedly, and accidentally bumped her lower back hard against the broken table where the radio was placed.

"I'll explain your mother!"

Wei Baoguo has completely lost his mind.

The pride he had maintained for decades was burned to ashes by anger in that instant.

Like a mad old wild dog, he pounced on her and grabbed Li Cuihua's neck tightly with both hands.

"Give me my money back! Give me back my pension!"

The two women wrestled violently, Li Cuihua scratching Wei Baoguo's face desperately, while Wei Baoguo choked her neck and pressed her down. They crashed heavily onto the broken wooden table, which was already flimsy, and it shook violently.

"Clang—"

A sharp, piercing sound.

The Red Lantern brand radio that Xiulan had just put down, which Li Cuihua had rented for five yuan to put on display, was slapped to the ground by Wei Baoguo during the struggle. It instantly shattered into pieces, with the outer casing cracking and internal parts scattered all over the ground.

"My radio!"

Li Cuihua stared at the shattered pieces on the ground, her eyes instantly turning red, and she let out a shrill scream. Thinking of Xiulan's harsh words before she left—that she would have to pay the original price for the broken item—her heart ached as if it were bleeding.

"You old bastard! I curse your ancestors for eight generations! You have to pay Xiulan back for the radio!"

Driven to madness by the exorbitant compensation, Li Cuihua was completely out of her mind. She was a peasant woman who had spent her entire life doing hard labor in the countryside, and her strength was nowhere near that of Wei Baoguo, a withered old man who had spent his entire life sitting in an office and was now hungry and exhausted.

Li Cuihua unleashed a burst of brute force, forcefully prying Wei Baoguo's hands off her neck with both hands. Then, she kicked Wei Baoguo hard in the stomach, knocking him to the ground.

Wei Baoguo's legs were already weak, and when he hit his back on the broken parts scattered on the ground, he screamed in pain. Before he could get up, Li Cuihua pounced on him like a mad sow, straddling his chest so hard that Wei Baoguo almost couldn't catch his breath.

"I'll let you smash it! I'll let you smash it!"

Li Cuihua's eyes flashed with ferocity as she slapped Wei Baoguo across the face with both hands, her rough, calloused hands whistling through the air.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

After a few slaps, blood and foam flew from the corner of Wei Baoguo's mouth, and his old face, which had originally maintained the airs of a cadre and considered himself shrewd, quickly swelled up into a purplish-red color.

Still not satisfied, Li Cuihua scratched Wei Baoguo's face hard with her sharp nails, instantly leaving several deep, bloody marks.

All she could think about now was the money she had to pay Xiulan back; it felt like her heart was being ripped out.

"You penniless old codger, how dare you come here and act tough! Hand over the money you owed Xiulan!"

Wei Baoguo struggled desperately, waving his hands wildly in an attempt to push Li Cuihua away.

But he was a lazy, hungry, and exhausted old man, weaker than even a rural woman. Li Cuihua pressed him down hard into the mud and broken radio parts, stabbing his back until it bled profusely.

"You wicked woman... let me go... I'm going to report you..."

Wei Baoguo gasped for breath like a broken bellows, his face streaked with desperate tears mixed with mud, looking utterly pathetic.

"Sue me? Go ahead and sue me!"

Upon hearing this, Li Cuihua not only didn't let go, but instead, like a mad wild boar, she lunged forward and spat a mouthful of yellow phlegm directly onto Wei Baoguo's face.

"We've already got the marriage certificate, it's in black and white with the official seal! You're my man now! You broke something I borrowed, so you have to pay for it!"

While screaming and cursing hysterically, Li Cuihua reached out and ruthlessly tore open Wei Baoguo's crisp Zhongshan suit.

With a "rip," buttons popped off everywhere.

Wei Baoguo trembled with fear, cowering in the mud like a plucked old quail, watching helplessly as Li Cuihua's mud-covered and calloused hands roughly reached into his inner pocket and began rummaging through it.

"Where's the money! Hand over all the money in your pockets!"

Li Cuihua gripped Wei Baoguo's pocket tightly, pulled out the remaining ten-odd yuan in change and grain coupons, and clutched them tightly in her hand. She even pulled out the neatly folded red marriage certificate and threw it at Wei Baoguo's face.

"Trying to run? No way!"

Li Cuihua straddled Wei Baoguo, her triangular eyes gleaming with a frenzied greed, staring intently at her long-term meal ticket, who was already half-dead from torture.

"I can't even count on my own son anymore, I'm counting on you for the rest of my life! You're mine in life and in death! Even if I squeeze every last drop out of you, you'll stay in Kaoshantun and be my slave! You'll have to give me back every single penny of your pension!"

Hearing Li Cuihua's vicious and cannibalistic declaration, and seeing the marriage certificate smashed in his face, his mind went blank, and he was utterly devastated.

He thought he was a cunning old fox taking advantage of the countryside, but little did he know that the marriage certificate he regarded as his talisman was actually a death knell he had tied to himself! For the rest of his life, he would be inextricably linked to this crazy woman and this drafty, dilapidated mud house, never to have a peaceful day again!

Wei Baoguo let out a short, bitter laugh, his eyes rolled back, and in his extreme anger, he finally lost his breath and collapsed on the muddy ground.