books44 Chapter 246 Can it be broken?
Chapter 246 Can it be broken?
"Well, sister-in-law, why don't you take the child to the inner room first?" Zheng Xiangqian didn't want to discuss adult matters in front of the child. They lived in such a repressive environment, and were already timid enough.
“Okay, cousin!” Gu Xiaomin wasn’t ungrateful, and quickly led the child inside. Her intuition told her that her cousin and aunt had come to help them.
Zheng Xiangqian didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Aunt, I understand your current situation. You definitely can't stay here any longer."
With tears in her eyes, Zheng Shujuan said, "Xiangqian, I know that if this continues, Ming'er will collapse from exhaustion, Minmin and I will go crazy, and the two children will have no future. We have discussed leaving here, but where can we go to settle down and make a living?"
Knowing her son well, Song Xiuying urged, "Xiangqian, what are your plans? Tell me quickly, don't make your aunt worry." Her sister-in-law had already told her everything she needed to know about the situation here; it was even more complicated than what they had faced before. Song Xiuying believed her son was different from before; he must be confident in his abilities to take on this task.
“Aunt, arranging things for you won’t be difficult. You’ve heard from my mother, right? I own a brick factory. Lei Ming is strong enough to work there. He just ate his sister-in-law’s cooking; she’s quite skilled. He can help with cooking at our factory. As for you, you’ll stay home and take care of the children. Da Bao and Xiao Bao are a few years old now; they should be starting school by now, right?” Zheng Xiangqian explained his arrangements methodically.
"Can we really leave here? Da Bao and Xiao Bao are six years old, can they go to school?" Zheng Shujuan couldn't believe it either. She looked ahead. This was a huge problem for their family. Could her nephew solve it so easily?
"Yes, Auntie, I promise to take you away. But before you leave, you have to clean up the mess and leave no trace."
Lei Ming stood up and said, "We don't want anything anymore—the house, the fields, the land, everything. We'll never go back here." It's good enough if we can get away from this place.
"Are you stupid? Why wouldn't you want it? You want to let them have it for free? What I mean is to separate from them, sever all ties, completely cut them off. What does that have to do with the house and land? Lei Ming, let me tell you, from now on, all of these things, including the real estate over at the red brick house, will belong to your family!"
"Cousin, how could this be? I don't want their stuff either!" Lei Ming still had a lot of backbone, otherwise he wouldn't have ended up in such a sorry state.
The father and son had approached him, giving him a choice: either have a child through surrogacy, or adopt one of the twins to Lei Long. Upon hearing this, Lei Ming didn't hesitate; he immediately gave Lei Long a sound beating. His son wouldn't accept being adopted by such a scoundrel; it would be a disgrace for him for life.
"I didn't tell you to take it now, so it's not like I'm giving it to you. Believe me, it will all end up in your two sons' hands later." Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Zheng Xiangqian said calmly, "Think about it, Lei Laogui and his two brothers will die sooner or later, leaving only one daughter who will get married. And you have two sons, so the Lei family's property will naturally be theirs in the future. Unless those two father and son have another son, do you think that's possible?"
"Of course not, they've both ruined their lives, how could they possibly have children? Cousin, you're really thinking ahead!" The single-minded Lei Ming was convinced.
“So you can’t give up these fixed assets now. Even if the house collapses, the tiles and mud bricks will still be piled up here; even if the fields and land are abandoned, you can’t just say you don’t want them. If you leave, you can rent them out to others to farm…” After instructing Lei Ming, Zheng Xiangqian asked Zheng Shujuan, “Aunt, are there any reasonable elders or young people in the Lei family?”
Zheng Shujuan nodded hurriedly, "Yes, most of them are actually on our side, but it's not very effective."
“That’s fine then, Aunt. Tomorrow, your whole family will dress in rags and go to Old Man Lei to discuss dividing the family property.” Zheng Xiangqian also called Old Man Lei “Old Man Lei”, just like the two old men. He didn’t deserve to be called ‘Uncle’.
Zheng Shujuan was a little scared: "Xiangqian, our family has already separated, are you going to suddenly bring up separating again tomorrow? Those two bastards will beat people up."