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

"Hehe, she doesn't need me to take care of her. She said she wants me to come to the store and work hard."

Faced with his colleague's question, Wang Yuanchao chuckled awkwardly and said...

But his words probably wouldn't even fool a child, let alone his colleagues at the commune's grocery store. They could tell from his unnatural expression that things were not as simple as Wang Yuanchao had described.

"Sister Zhao, if there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

As the saying goes, "the more you talk, the more mistakes you make," so Wang Yuanchao didn't want to talk too much about his family with his colleagues. After telling Sister Zhao, he went to change into his work clothes.

"Hey, Sister Zhao, do you really believe what Wang Yuanchao said? 'She doesn't need me to take care of her, she said she wants me to come to the shop and work hard,' he said. He beat his wife so badly, I heard her head was broken and she needed several stitches. Later, his wife asked the neighbors to call her parents, and her brothers brought over a dozen people, traveling over a hundred miles through the night to come here. When they got here, they first beat Wang Yuanchao's mother up and then threw her in the latrine. After all this, he finally thought of buying some fruit and making chicken soup to try and appease her. I think Wang Yuanchao and his wife should get a divorce."

A short, plump female saleswoman at the grocery store couldn't help but lean closer to Sister Zhao and whisper something to her.

"If you ask me, even if Wang Yuanchao bought fruit and stewed chicken soup, he probably wouldn't get away with it at the commune clinic. Just think, his wife's family heard that more than a dozen people came, beat his mother, and threw her into the latrine, so they've made an irreconcilable enemy. I know a bit about Wang Yuanchao's mother; she's sharp-tongued, mean, and vicious. She's quite notorious in Kuanshi Lane, and it's said that all the neighbors are afraid of her."

Sister Zhao smiled slightly and said.

Although they were all colleagues working at the grocery store, Sister Zhao was a long-time employee, and her family had connections and influence within the grocery store system. Therefore, Sister Zhao wasn't afraid at all that Wang Yuanchao would hear her chirping behind her back.

"Hehe, Sister Zhao, you're late for work today. You have no idea what Wang Yuanchao's mother's face looks like, all red and swollen from being slapped."

"Really? It's a pity I had something to do this morning and was a little late. What a shame."

Sister Zhao was still somewhat regretful.

Meanwhile, Wang Yuanchao quickly changed into his work clothes and started working at the grocery store.

However, some customers who came to the grocery store always looked at him with strange eyes.

"Is that Wang Yuanchao? I really can't tell. He looks like a very honest person, and he's an employee of a state-owned enterprise. How could he do something like domestic violence against his wife by his own mother? He's really a disgrace to state-owned enterprises."

"That's right. I heard that his wife was beaten twice by him and his mother. As for the reason, people in Kuanshi Lane said that his wife went back to her parents' home a while ago and brought back some good things, including malted milk powder, scarves, and some private money given to her by her brother."

The first time he hit his wife was because his mother wanted to keep the malted milk powder and scarf for herself, and his wife and mother had an argument. The second time was the day before yesterday, when his mother stole all the money his wife had brought back from her parents' home, and then they started fighting. That's when his wife was hit on the head and was taken to our commune clinic by the neighbors. I heard she needed seven or eight stitches; it was terrible.

That evening, his wife's family—her mother, sister, and two brothers—arrived with several men from the village. The next morning, Wang Yuanchao's mother, Feng Cuilan, was beaten by his wife's mother and sister, and was even thrown into a latrine by his wife's brother.

"Wow, his wife's family is really something else, daring to throw someone into a latrine?"

"I heard that his wife's family are hunters in the village, and they often deal with wild beasts in the deep mountains. If they weren't skilled, how could they go into the mountains to hunt? Moreover, I also heard that one of his wife's brothers is Li Yunshan, the tiger hunter who was featured in the newspaper before."

"So Wang Yuanchao didn't call the police?"

"They called the police, and his mother even took the police to the commune clinic, but the police at the local police station didn't care at all. They said it was a family dispute and that we should go to the neighborhood committee to resolve it."

"If someone hits another person's daughter, it's normal for them to hit back. Wang Yuanchao and his mother are not in the right either."

"His brother only hit his mother; he didn't even hurt him, which is considered showing mercy."

"..."

The elderly customers who came to the commune's grocery store didn't care whether Wang Yuanchao could hear them or not. They would stare at Wang Yuanchao from afar, pointing and gossiping about him.

Listening to the discussions around him, Wang Yuanchao gradually became irritated.

He was puzzled. He had only bullied Li Yunlan a little, so why had things gotten so big, like it was causing a huge uproar?

But he didn't understand that if he and Feng Cuilan bullied Li Yunlan, and Li Yunlan eventually put up with it, the matter would probably just be forgotten. At most, it would become a topic of conversation about "so-and-so beating his wife," and the neighbors would talk about it for a while before everyone gradually forgot about it.

But the truth is that Li Yunlan did not choose to endure it. Instead, she asked her neighbor, Aunt Ma, to call her family back to her parents' home and invite them to Xinghuo Commune.

Li Yunlan's family members were also busy when they arrived at Xinghuo Commune, and what they did was absolutely outrageous.

Li Yunlan's mother and sister held Feng Cuilan down and slapped her hard across the face. Li Yunshan even threw Feng Cuilan into the latrine.

Immediately afterwards, all thirty-six legs that Li Yunlan had brought with her as part of her dowry were burned.

Since we don't intend to take it back, we can't let the Wang family benefit from it.

Then, they took back all the money that Feng Cuilan had stolen from Li Yunlan.

Each and every one of these incidents demonstrates the toughness of Li Yunshan's family.

The neighbors, seeing such a spectacular scene, spread the word, and even people outside Kuanshi Lane knew about it.

"Hey comrade, I heard that you and your mother bullied your wife, and your brother-in-law threw your mother into the latrine. Is that true?"

However, what was unexpected was that while others were whispering or pointing around, a young man actually stood right in front of Wang Yuanchao and asked with a grin.

This finally enraged Wang Yuanchao, who grabbed the young man by the collar: "What did you say? Say it again if you dare."

"So what if I say it again? Hehe, comrade, I heard you and your mother bullied your wife, and your brother-in-law threw your mother into the latrine. Is that true?"

The young man, despite being grabbed by the collar by Wang Yuanchao, remained unfazed and continued to smile, seemingly intent on provoking Wang Yuanchao.

However, as soon as the young man finished speaking, the anger that Wang Yuanchao had been holding back was instantly ignited.

He's been holding in a lot of anger these past two days.

He could bear the fact that his own mother was slapped across the face and thrown into the latrine, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Because the people who slapped his mother were his mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and the person who threw his mother into the latrine was his brother-in-law.

The other side had a large number of people and was powerful, so even though his family was in the right, he couldn't do anything to them.

After reporting the incident to the police, the police at the local police station, after understanding the whole story, simply passed the matter on to the neighborhood committee, telling him to find the neighborhood committee to handle it.

Besides, Wang Yuanchao knew that he and his mother were in the wrong in this matter.

The plan he and Feng Cuilan devised yesterday also failed. The reconciliation with Li Yunlan that he had envisioned did not materialize. He even bought fresh fruit and his mother stewed old hen soup, and brought them to the door of the commune health center ward, but they could only see Li Yunlan's face through the crack in the ward door, where she was lying on the hospital bed.

Throughout the entire process, Li Yunlan didn't say a word, and they were blocked outside the ward by Li Yunshan.

Now, he can tolerate people who come to the grocery store to chatter about crickets behind his back.

But when someone actually asked him that question to his face, Wang Yuanchao couldn't stand it anymore.

The young man's question was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, shattering Wang Yuanchao's Dao heart.

He suddenly grabbed the man's collar, staring fiercely at the young man with eyes blazing with fury, like a wild beast ready to devour its prey.

As the young man spoke again, Wang Yuanchao's fist landed on the young man's face.

With a "bang," the young man was punched in the face and let out a scream.

However, the young man was no pushover either. After taking a punch, he quickly retaliated, landing a punch on Wang Yuanchao's chest, and then lunged at him. The two began to fight.

During the fight, the grocery store also suffered damage, with items being smashed and shelves being knocked over, causing things to fall to the ground, shattering and scattering everywhere.

"Oh no! There's a fight!"

"Help! The grocery store clerk has assaulted someone!"

With a loud shout from a customer who came to buy things, the grocery store was thrown into chaos in an instant.

The shop assistants at the grocery store were stunned when they saw Wang Yuanchao rolling on the ground and fighting with a customer.

"I'll go."

The shop assistant, Sister Zhao, couldn't help but swear.

"What are you all standing there for? Quickly separate Wang Yuanchao and that young man."

At this moment, the manager of the grocery store ran out of his office and was also at a loss when he saw that Wang Yuanchao was actually beating up a customer.

However, the manager of the grocery store reacted quickly and immediately kicked a male salesperson next to him. Then, the two of them, along with two female employees of the grocery store, used all their strength to separate Wang Yuanchao from the young man who was being beaten by Wang Yuanchao.

"Wang Yuanchao, what the hell are you trying to do? Beating up a customer, do you have any sense of work discipline?"

Looking at Wang Yuanchao who had been separated, the manager of the grocery store pointed at Wang Yuanchao's nose and yelled.

At this moment, after being separated, Wang Yuanchao calmed down immediately.

Looking at the person whose eye was bruised from his own beating, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.