Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

"I...I'm warning you...don't lay a hand on me! If you dare lay a hand on me, we'll call the police and have you arrested and put in jail!"

Facing the menacing Cai Er and his group, Feng Cuilan panicked and her voice trembled as she spoke, but she still forced herself to remain calm and spoke with a strong voice.

"If you don't want us to take action, then get out of here."

Cai Er raised his fist and said bluntly.

Zhang Sange and the others also looked at Feng Cuilan and Wang Yuanchao with hostile expressions.

"Don't do it, don't do it, we're leaving now, we're leaving now."

Feng Cuilan glanced at Cai Er and the others, then saw that Huang Zhifang and Li Yunmei both had grim faces. She couldn't help but recall the scene of being slapped hard by Huang Zhifang and Li Yunmei yesterday, so she immediately cowered.

After saying that, he took Wang Yuanchao's hand and left.

"Oh, Mother, are we leaving already?"

Wang Yuanchao didn't want to leave yet. He hadn't managed to appease Li Yunlan, and if he left now, yesterday's plan would be ruined. And what about the new thirty-six legs, and the Li family's money...?

"Go, hurry up and go."

Feng Cuilan tugged at Wang Yuanchao forcefully.

"oh!"

Wang Yuanchao had no choice but to follow Feng Cuilan.

However, before they had gone far, and before they had even left the entrance of the commune clinic, Feng Cuilan suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. The thermos she was carrying was thrown into the air, then fell high down and crashed to the ground.

The soup inside spilled all over the ground when the thermos broke, and a rich aroma spread out, which you could immediately smell as stewed chicken soup.

"Ouch, my back!"

The moment she fell to the ground, Feng Cuilan screamed in agony. Her swollen, red face twisted into a pretzel shape, and she lay on the ground like a maggot, moving slightly.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

Wang Yuanchao quickly put down the pears and apples he was holding.

"My back... I think I hurt my back!"

Feng Cuilan groaned in pain.

"Oh? You twisted your back?" Wang Yuanchao panicked and quickly called for a nurse from the health center.

With the help of a nurse, Feng Cuilan was finally helped into the doctor's office.

The doctor examined Feng Cuilan carefully, his expression grave.

"Doctor, what's wrong with my mother?"

Seeing the doctor's strange expression, Wang Yuanchao had a bad feeling.

"The elderly woman fell and injured her back; the preliminary diagnosis is a herniated lumbar disc."

The doctor said calmly.

"Oh? Doctor, is my mother's condition serious?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Yuanchao was startled and immediately pressed for details.

"I'll have to ask the old lady for some information before I can make a judgment."

The doctor said.

Immediately afterwards, the doctor asked Feng Cuilan a few questions.

After asking the question, the doctor said, "The old lady's problem isn't very serious, but it's not minor either. She needs to be hospitalized for observation for a period of time. Even if she goes home afterward, she'll need to rest for a while."

Hearing the doctor say that, Wang Yuanchao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But when Feng Cuilan heard this, she turned pale with fright.

"What? Hospitalization? I'm not going to the hospital."

"Auntie, your condition isn't serious, but it's not mild either. You'll need to be hospitalized for IV fluids and medication, and observe for a few days."

The doctor said seriously.

"No, I don't need to be hospitalized. Just give me some medicine and I'll take it home."

But Feng Cuilan refused to be hospitalized no matter what.

The doctor had no choice but to prescribe some medication.

Wang Yuanchao went to get the medicine and carried Feng Cuilan home on his back.

"The doctors in the hospital are all liars. Their goal is to make us spend more money. I just fell and hurt myself. I don't need to be hospitalized at all. I can just take some medicine and rest at home for a couple of days."

Clinging to Wang Yuanchao's back, Feng Cuilan shamelessly said that she also harbored resentment towards Li Yunshan and others.

Last night, she and Wang Yuanchao spent half the night thinking about how to coax Li Yunlan back. They thought that they would have a new 36 legs and get their hands on the Li family's money. But when they cooked chicken soup, bought fresh pears and apples, and arrived at the commune health center today, they didn't even get to see Li Yunlan. Li Yunshan blocked them at the door of the ward.

This thwarted all their plans from last night.

What new thirty-six legs, what Li family's money, none of that has anything to do with them.

Judging from Li Yunshan's attitude, it's clear that Li Yunlan is determined to get a divorce.

"Mom, just stay home and rest well, don't think about so much."

Wang Yuanchao said.

"How could I not think about my thirty-six legs, my money..."

Feng Cuilan said irritably.

Based on current market prices, building a set of thirty-six legs would cost at least two hundred yuan, which is a significant sum for their family.

When Li Yunlan married into their family, she received a set of thirty-six legs as part of her dowry, but now they have been burned to ashes.

Li Yunlan was determined to divorce Wang Yuanchao, so if the family wanted to buy another set of 36-legged furniture, they would have to pay for it themselves.

"Li Yunlan is determined to get a divorce, what can I do?"

Wang Yuanchao said helplessly.

In the past, when Li Yunlan went back to her parents' home, he rarely went back with her, and he had little contact with Li Yunlan's family and was not familiar with them.

Now, after this incident, he has also witnessed the power of Li Yunlan's family.

Huang Zhifang and Li Yunmei dared to hit his mother as soon as they saw her. Li Yunshan even kept his word and threw his mother into the latrine. This family was no pushovers; they were all ruthless.

Moreover, Li Yunlan now has a large and powerful force, with several hunters from the same village supporting her, in addition to her family.

Besides his mother, who else would help him?

The neighbors in the alley had all been offended by my mother before, and now they were all eager to see them make a fool of themselves.

His relatives... like the neighbors in the alley, had also been offended by his mother.

"She wants a divorce, but you refuse to go through with it. Just keep her waiting and see what she can do."

Feng Cuilan slapped Wang Yuanchao with exasperation, her triangular eyes filled with resentment: "I don't believe her brothers can support her for life. Humph, sooner or later she'll have to slink back to our home."

Wang Yuanchao thought about it again and realized that Feng Cuilan was right. Even if Li Yunlan went back to her parents' home, could her brothers support her for the rest of her life?

Putting everything else aside, if she dared to live at her parents' house for the rest of her life, her sister-in-law would have objections, and her nephews would also have objections.

So in the end, we still have to come back.

Soon, Wang Yuanchao carried Feng Cuilan back to Kuanshi Lane.

At this moment, people were coming and going in the alley. When they saw Wang Yuanchao carrying Feng Cuilan back, they all looked at the mother and daughter in surprise.

But no one stepped forward to lend a hand.

After all, most of the residents in this alley had been scolded or offended by Feng Cuilan. Who would be kind enough to help someone who had scolded them? So everyone was just watching the show and gloating.

Although no one knew why Feng Cuilan had been carried back by Wang Yuanchao, everyone couldn't help but start discussing it as soon as the Wang family's gate closed.

"What's wrong with Feng Cuilan?"

"I don't know. I saw her go out this morning looking very happy and bought an old hen. I was wondering about it too."

"Not long ago I saw her carrying a thermos at the grocery store. Wang Yuanchao also bought a bag of pears and apples. According to what you said, the thermos must have contained stewed old hen soup. The mother and son must have gone to the commune health center to see Li Yunlan."

"Visiting Li Yunlan? I find that ridiculous. Li Yunlan was beaten so badly that she was hospitalized, all because of Feng Cuilan and Wang Yuanchao. Now that Li Yunlan's family has given her a beating, she's backed down, making chicken soup, buying fruit, and visiting her at the commune clinic? It's really laughable."

"That's right. If you really wanted to treat her well, why did you bully Li Yunlan so much before?"

"However, Wang Yuanchao carried that old hag back; did he get beaten up again at the commune clinic?"

"It doesn't look like it to me. If she had been beaten, that old hag would be whimpering by now."

"Who cares if she got beaten up or not, I'm really happy today. Tonight I'm going to cook a couple of good dishes and have a couple of drinks."

"..."

While the neighbors in the alley were gossiping, Wang Yuanchao had already carried Feng Cuilan into the house and put her on the bed.

"Mom, how are you feeling?"

Wang Yuanchao poured a glass of water, gave Feng Cuilan the medicine prescribed by the doctor once, and then asked her about it.

"I'll give it a try."

Feng Cuilan tried to turn over on the kang (a heated brick bed) before saying, "It's nothing serious. I reckon it'll be fine in a couple of days. So, you see, I told you the doctors at the commune clinic were quacks. They made me hospitalized and gave me IV drips—it's all just for money."

When Wang Yuanchao heard Feng Cuilan say this, his previously anxious heart was finally at ease.

"Mom, if there's nothing else, I'll head to work at the grocery store now."

Wang Yuanchao said.

"Go ahead, I can take care of myself. You go and do your work well," Feng Cuilan said.

Soon, Wang Yuanchao left home to work at the commune's grocery store.

"Hey, Wang Yuanchao, didn't you go to the clinic to take care of your wife?"

The people at the grocery store were all somewhat surprised to see Wang Yuanchao.

As the saying goes, family ugliness cannot be made public.

Originally, very few people knew about Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan's domestic violence against Li Yunlan; even many neighbors in Kuanshi Lane were unaware of it.

However, as Li Yunshan, Huang Zhifang, and others took action, beating Feng Cuilan until she was bruised and swollen, and even throwing her into the latrine, more and more people quickly learned about Wang Yuanchao's domestic violence against Li Yunlan.

Sure enough, early this morning, after Wang Yuanchao bought fruit from the grocery store and left, someone spread the word about it to the grocery store.

When Wang Yuanchao bought fruit, his colleagues asked him why. He only said that his wife was not feeling well and had been hospitalized, so he bought some fresh pears and apples for her to try.

However, as soon as Wang Yuanchao left, someone told the employees of the grocery store about how he had abused Li Yunlan and how his mother had been reprimanded by Li Yunlan's family.

Who would have thought that Wang Yuanchao, who usually seemed honest and kind, would actually hit his wife?

This was quite an eye-opener for the employees of the grocery store.