Country Love: Xie Dajiao, 37, is pregnant!

The villagers all ran out and stood at their doorsteps watching, but no one dared to step forward to stop him. Lin Chen was truly enraged this time, and his aura was terrifying.

Li Fu ran while looking back, his voice trembling with fear, stubbornly begging for mercy:

"Lin Chen, stop chasing him! This is a society governed by law! Hitting someone is illegal! Don't do anything reckless!"

Lin Chen's temper flared as he chased after him, his voice echoing throughout the village road as he ran.

"Breaking the law? I'll kill you and you'll pay with your life, I'll damage you and I'll pay you back, I'm rich! You bastard! Just you wait until I catch you! I'll make you unable to understand human language!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Chen suddenly sprinted forward and kicked Li Fu hard in the lower back!

"Oh my god!"

Li Fu screamed in pain, completely losing his balance and falling face-first into the mud, his face slamming into the scorching yellow dirt road, covered in dust.

He tried to prop himself up on his arms, but was struck hard on the calf with a stick. The pain made him convulse, and he collapsed back to the ground, too afraid to move.

Lin Chen wielded the stick with great restraint, targeting fleshy areas like the buttocks and thighs with each blow, delivering powerful blows that caused pain but no serious injury.

"Run! I'll let you run!"

Lin Chen hit and cursed at the same time, his temper flaring.

"You think nobody can handle you? You think you're so great?!"

Li Fu curled up on the ground, clutching his head and howling in pain, trembling all over, completely surrendering:

"Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! I was wrong! I'll get a divorce! I'll divorce Big Feet right now! I'll never cause trouble again!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen immediately stopped, leaning on his cane and slightly out of breath, coldly looking down at him:

Did I tell you to get a divorce?

The atmosphere at Wang Changgui's house was very quiet; no one spoke, and everyone was smoking with their heads down.

Wang Changgui sighed:

"Sigh, that's the situation, that's the situation. Even the police station can't handle this. What can we do..."

Another silence fell. Everyone was at a loss, unsure of what to do, since the two weren't divorced yet.

Zhao Yutian ran over at this moment, panting, and said:

"No...something terrible has happened! Brother Chen has gone looking for Li Fu with a stick!"

"What the hell!" Xie Dajiao suddenly stood up and ran outside without saying a word. The men on the kang (a heated brick bed) sensed that something bad was about to happen! They all jumped down, put on their shoes, and ran out.

Only Xie Guangkun was there, and I don't know what happened; he didn't hear clearly just now.

"Huh? Huh? What's wrong? Why are you all running away?"

……

Lin Chen pointed the stick at Li Fu:

"You're not allowed to divorce me unless I tell you to! You can only bring up divorce again when I give the hint! Do you understand? By then, it won't be any use if you don't want to!"

Li Fu was stunned, his whole body aching terribly, looking wronged but not daring to argue back, stammering:

"Huh? No... no separation?"

The next second, he simply gave up, sat down on the ground, slapped his thigh, and started wailing and crying, his face covered in snot and tears, looking utterly pathetic.

"Is there any justice in this world?! They're only bullying me! Are they forcing me to be a living turtle?! What kind of life do I have?!"

More and more villagers gathered around to watch, and Xie Dajiao, Wang Changgui, Wang Laoqi and their group also came over.

Xie Dajiao looked at Li Fu rolling on the ground, then at Lin Chen with his imposing aura. She wanted to say a few words of advice, but when she met Lin Chen's cold gaze, she swallowed her words.

Wang Changgui stood aside, rubbing his hands together, secretly relieved and hoping that Li Fu would be taught a lesson, but on the surface he could only pretend to be helpless and dared not say a word.

Seeing his embarrassing state, Lin Chen was filled with impatience and kicked him in the butt:

"Alright! Stop wailing! You're a grown man, don't you feel ashamed crying like this? Get up!"

Li Fu sat up, wiping away tears, feeling stifled and unable to lash out.

Lin Chen pulled out ten hundred-yuan bills, a total of one thousand yuan, and slapped them across his face in front of everyone.

"Everyone's watching, here's a thousand yuan for your medical expenses."

Lin Chen's tone was icy:

"Take the money and get out of the village right now! Never come back. If I ever see you wandering around the village again, I'll break your legs!"

Li Fu immediately forgot the pain, hurriedly grabbed the money, spat twice on his fingers, wiped the mud off, counted it twice, and stuffed it into his pocket like a precious treasure.

He looked up and pleaded cautiously:

"Lin Chen, I beg you, please let me get a divorce. I really can't take this anymore. I promise I'll never cause trouble again! I'm too ashamed to stay in the village anymore, and I'll never come back!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen's face instantly darkened:

"You think you're so great? I told you not to get a divorce, so you can't!"

Before he could finish speaking, he kicked him to the ground, the stick whistling through the air as it was swung, striking him hard, mainly his big buttocks.

No one dared to step forward to stop them. If anyone dared to go up at this moment, they would definitely be hit with a stick, which made a whooshing sound.

"I won't get a divorce! I won't get a divorce!"

Li Fu was beaten until he covered his head and screamed in agony, desperately begging for mercy:

"I'm leaving right now! I'll never go back to the village! I was wrong! I really know I was wrong!"

Lin Chen then stopped, holding the stick and looking down at him, coldly warning:

"Remember what you said today. Try going back on your word!"

Li Fu scrambled to his feet, his buttocks aching so badly he was limping, and even so, no one was there to help him up.

Once Li Fu was completely out of sight, Wang Changgui quickly approached, his face beaming with smiles:

"Lin Chen, thank you so much today! Li Fu is such a tough nut to crack; no one in our village can handle him, only you can keep him in check! You've been a huge help today!"

Xie Dajiao stepped forward, her tone complex, a mixture of relief and worry:

"You hit so hard! What if you really hurt him?"

Lin Chen tossed the stick aside and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I'll target the fleshy parts, so it won't hurt your bones or muscles, it'll just hurt for a few days."

Lin Chen became famous overnight. Everyone in the village knew that this young man had a tough temper and was ruthless, and that they shouldn't offend him in the future.

After everyone had left, Xie Dajiao asked in a low voice:

"Why won't you let him divorce me?"

Lin Chen whispered something in her ear, and Xie Dajiao immediately widened her eyes and slapped Lin Chen's arm.

"You naughty boy, why are you thinking so far ahead? But it's a good idea, and the village won't gossip about it..."

……

Inside the grocery store—

The broken glass shards on the ground had long been swept away by the villagers, making the ground look much neater, but the smell of beer still lingered in the air.

The crowd that had been packed together had dispersed. After watching the excitement, most people went home to get busy. Only two older women remained, leaning against the door frame of the grocery store, chatting in hushed tones about the commotion, occasionally glancing inside to help watch the stall.

Li Fu, who had been severely beaten, returned limping.

He bent down and dragged his tattered woven bag from the end of the kang (a heated brick bed), and put all his belongings into the bag.

After tidying up, he straightened up, looked around the small house, and sighed. This life had finally come to an end.

Li Fu knew perfectly well that after Lin Chen's beating today, he could no longer stay in Ivory Mountain. He had lost all face, his reputation was ruined, and the whole village would laugh at him.

Let's go, and never come back. Let's stop here.

Li Fu, carrying a woven bag, left without looking back...

Xie Dajiao had already returned. She watched him walk away step by step until his figure disappeared at the end of the dirt road at the village entrance.

She let out a long breath, her body, which had been tense all day, finally relaxed. She felt genuinely relieved and relaxed, finally free.

Before she could finish her reflections, the people in the room urged her to get down to business.

Inside the convenience store, several long benches were arranged around a table. The group of people who had just been having a meeting at the village office hadn't left at all; they had moved directly to the grocery store to continue their discussion, which revolved around one main issue: preventing Li Fu from returning to retaliate.

Wang Changgui cleared his throat, adopting the airs of a village head:

"To be fair, don't think this matter is over. That kid Li Fu got beaten up in public today and lost all face. He definitely won't swallow this insult."

"I don't think so. I think he was really beaten into submission."

"I'm just...I'm just afraid he'll hold a grudge and sneak back in the middle of the night to smash windows, block keyholes, and cause trouble. It's not safe for a woman like me to be alone in such a big shop at night."

"Do you think everyone is like you?"

"Zhao Si, what do you mean?"

Xie Guangkun shouted loudly:

"We have to be careful! What kind of despicable things won't scoundrels do? I think the safest thing to do is for Big Foot to go stay at a relative's house for a few days to lay low and wait until this matter is completely over before coming back."

Zhao Si, nestled in a corner, said slowly and deliberately:

"I think... there's no way to avoid it. This grocery store is Big Foot's territory. Li Fu has lived here for several years and knows it inside and out. If he really wants to come back and cause trouble, there will be loopholes no matter how you try to prevent it."

Wang Laoqi shook his head slightly and sighed:

"That's right. It's not the theft itself that's scary, it's the thief's eye on you. You're on edge every day, and you can't even sleep soundly. You can't just leave the door open and stay up all night guarding it, can you?"

The group chattered on and on, but all they said was useless nonsense and couldn't come up with a single decent idea.

Xie Dajiao wasn't afraid at all. After all, she had been married to Li Fu for so many years, and judging from Li Fu's state just now, he would definitely not come back.

Just when everyone was at a loss, the sound of a car braking suddenly came from outside the courtyard.

Immediately afterward, the curtain was lifted, and Xie Xiaomei rushed in, followed closely by Liu Yishui, who quickly entered the room.

The two men heard about the drama in the village while they were at the farm. Knowing that Li Fu had returned to cause trouble, they were worried and immediately drove over.

As soon as Xiaomei entered the room, she rushed to Xie Dajiao's side, grabbed her hand tightly, looked her up and down carefully, and asked urgently:

"Auntie! Are you alright? Did that bastard Li Fu bully you or make things difficult for you?"

Xie Dajiao patted her hand and forced a smile:

"Don't worry, Auntie is fine. Lin Chen helped me get revenge, so I didn't suffer any losses."

After listening to everyone's chatter, Xiao Mei realized that they were worried that Li Fu would hold a grudge and come back to cause trouble in the middle of the night. Her eyes darted around quickly, and she immediately had an idea.