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Chapter 566: Chapter 556 Freak
Afterward, Shen Yunfang went to see Li Hongqi, and was met with his resentful gaze.
"Are you satisfied now?" Li Hongqi said grimly. He had had a rough time these past two days in there, but he still made an effort to maintain his dignity, not wanting to be looked down upon by anyone.
"What are you talking about? What does your being in here have to do with me? Did I make you scam money?" Shen Yunfang chuckled as she sat down on the chair.
"If you hadn’t refused to give me money, why would I have thought to scam donations?" Li Hongqi smacked the wooden table in front of him with a smack.
"Keep it down." The male officer behind warned.
"Heh, Li Hongqi, there’s something I’ve been wondering about and I want to ask." Shen Yunfang laughed, feeling no pity for Li Hongqi’s current predicament, "Back when I was in our hometown, you wrote an anonymous letter to report me. I don’t recall offending you, so why did you want to mess with me then?"
Shen Yunfang really couldn’t understand, and had thought it might be because she gave him too little money, so he took revenge. But on second thought, that couldn’t be right; there were plenty of relatives who hadn’t given him a penny, and Li Hongxing hadn’t given him anything. Why hadn’t he taken revenge on them but targeted her specifically? Now that she had the chance to hear the truth, she wanted to know how she had offended him.
Li Hongqi was silent for a while, and just when Shen Yunfang thought he wouldn’t answer, he spoke up.
"Do I even need to say it? Because you looked down on me."
"How did I look down on you?" Shen Yunfang was perplexed, "When you needed to give someone a gift, wasn’t the fifty I got for you enough?"
"How could that little bit of money be enough? Don’t think I don’t know; you had at least three hundred in your hand at the time, and you only gave me fifty. If that’s not looking down on me, what is?" Li Hongqi shouted out his inner thoughts.
"Just because of that?" Shen Yunfang pressed further for confirmation.
"Yes, just because of that, and that’s enough for me to hate you for a lifetime," Li Hongqi said venomously, looking at the woman opposite him.
How dare she look down on him, why not provide him with money? She was already a daughter-in-law of the Li Family; she should sacrifice everything for him, the only college graduate in the Li Family.
"But the eldest sister didn’t give you a penny either." She was not trying to incite him, just truly baffled.
"Hmph, she’s just a rural woman, how can she compare with me? I don’t need her to look up to me," Li Hongqi arrogantly declared.
Shen Yunfang smacked her lips, thinking he must be quite the oddity.
"Alright, I have nothing more to say." Shen Yunfang had no desire to continue conversing with someone who was mentally disturbed.
People like Li Hongqi are both inferior and arrogant. In front of those lesser than him, he feels arrogant, above others, unworthy of their company. But in front of those better than him, he’s extremely inferior, with schemes and mischievous ideas lurking in his dark heart like a venomous snake, waiting for an opportunity to bite. In such contradictions, he harbored unexpressed deviance.
"Remember this, the moment I get out, I will never let you go," Li Hongqi yelled at Shen Yunfang’s back.
Shen Yunfang didn’t bother with him; right now, he couldn’t contend with her, and in a few years’ time, they would be worlds apart.
Shen Yunfang’s jail visit ended there. As for the Zheng Family mother and daughter, she felt it better not to associate with people she didn’t know well.
After such an incident occurred in the Capital, the dedicated police officers responsibly informed the Li and Zheng Families by phone and also notified the workplaces of Li Hongqi and Zheng Guilin.
A few days later, people from both the Li and Zheng Families arrived together.
The visitors from the Li Family were Old Li and Li Hongqi, while the Zheng Family was represented by Father Zheng and one of his nephews.
Shen Yunfang saw the two men from the Li Family at the police station, where they appeared haggard and worn out.
She was annoyed by these two men, but the feeling wasn’t strong, so she took them into the siheyuan to stay.
"Yunfang, what on earth is going on? Your mother might be a bit muddle-headed, but she doesn’t have the guts to do anything illegal." It seemed Old Li knew his wife quite well.
"Dad, don’t worry. Take a seat first, have some hot water, and let me explain it to you slowly." Shen Yunfang’s face was gentle, but inwardly she was filled with complaints. Qiu Shuping might not have the courage to break the law, but didn’t she have a son who was bold enough? With such a son leading the way, it would be difficult for her to stay out of trouble even if she wanted to.
Shen Yunfang then gave him a detailed account of the matter, naturally mentioning the conflict and disputes that had arisen after her mother-in-law and a few others had come.
After hearing everything, Old Li was silent for a long time before finally sighing, "A misfortune for the family, truly a misfortune!"
Shen Yunfang didn’t care whether their family was fortunate or not—after taking care of her responsibilities, she continued with her own routine life.
Oh, right, she also inquired why her sister-in-law Wang Dan hadn’t shown up. Based on her understanding of Wang Dan, she would definitely want to join in on such events.
Li Hongxing cleared up her confusion.
Their family had just started dividing the property between households, so someone needed to stay home. After some discussion, it was decided that Wang Dan would stay behind to oversee the division of the land before dealing with anything else.
Shen Yunfang nodded in understanding when she learned about this; it seemed that back in her hometown, they had already started dividing land among households. That meant Gaijiatun must be beginning to divide the land as well.
Alas, her household registration was no longer in Gaijiatun. Even if land was being divided, it had nothing to do with her anymore.
She could only wait until the division of the land was completed before looking for a suitable plot to lease.
After getting a handle on the situation, she temporarily put these thoughts aside, since the timing wasn’t ripe yet and she needed to wait a bit longer.
No matter what, life had to go on. Shen Yunfang was busy teaching classes and taking care of her two children every day. She couldn’t afford to run back and forth to the siheyuan three times a day, so she briefed Old Li on her circumstances, gave him twenty yuan, and told him and Li Hongxing to light their own fire and cook meals.
There was enough grain in the siheyuan; they just needed to go to the market and buy some vegetables to be set.
Shen Yunfang would occasionally bring her children to visit, and seeing their increasingly gloomy faces every day, she felt helpless.
In the meantime, another piece of news broke out.
Not long after Father Zheng arrived, he proposed a divorce from Mother Zheng. Everyone understood his intention: he didn’t want his reputation tarnished by association with a wife who had been detained. As a government official, if he had a wife who had been in jail, what future could he have?
Of course, understanding does not mean agreement. After so many years of marriage and raising a daughter together, Father Zheng’s callous decision to divorce took many people by surprise and was hard for them to accept.
Mother Zheng was the first who couldn’t accept it, causing a scene inside the detention facility, adamantly refusing to divorce.
Initially, Shen Yunfang watched the drama unfold with great amusement, but she soon lost interest because of the news she received about Li Hongjun.
