Chapter 396: Chapter 396: Neither Money Nor Life to Give Chapter 396: Chapter 396: Neither Money Nor Life to Give Hao Fang watched as Liu Baoguo washed his hands of the matter, hate burning in her heart.
When it was Bai Yue’s turn to be bullied, the village chief would swing his staff and beat people up, irrationally shielding Bai Yue. But when it came to their Bai Mei, a few light words and that was it—such a disparity in treatment.
This was just too oppressive.
Liu Baoguo didn’t know what Hao Fang was thinking. If he had known, he probably would have thrown out a phrase, “Serves you right, you troublemaker.”
Did she really think she could be treated the same as Bai Yue?
It would be strange if the treatment of close and distant relatives were the same.
As if he wanted to deal with their family’s mess.
Hao Fang went over to pull Bai Jianguo, not daring to hold on without letting go. Bai Jianguo didn’t care for her now, mainly because no one in the family cared for her anymore. Everyone looked at her with disgust. If she hadn’t shamelessly gone around to other people’s houses at mealtime to scrounge for food, she probably would have starved to death without anyone caring.
“What do we do now, Dad? Just leave Meizi like this?” She wanted to bring Bai Mei back; what good could come to a woman out there alone?
But she didn’t know where to start looking.
Bai Jianguo cursed irritably, “All thanks to this wonderful daughter you gave birth to, isn’t it humiliating enough? Haven’t you heard? Meizi ran off with someone. Fang Xiaoshan came to demand her. Let me tell you, don’t ever bring this up again. Insist that we’ve never seen Meizi. Just say it was the Fang Family who lost our Meizi. Otherwise, with our family’s situation, what could we possibly offer as a dowry?”
Bringing up this daughter filled Bai Jianguo with irritation. Life could be good, yet she just had to create these messes.
It wasn’t just embarrassing; it was also bringing trouble to her own family.
That wasn’t good at all.
They all might end up suffering because of it.
“Now you turn around and blame me? Did I raise this daughter alone, or don’t you have anything to do with it? Meizi ran away, and if she’s gone, shouldn’t you, her father, be blamed? Every time she got beaten, those two times by Fang Xiaoshan that left Wu Xiaoyue bruised, did you ever step up to defend her? Always telling her to endure, just because you were afraid they’d come to ask for the dowry money. Now she’s run off, you don’t even care if your daughter is dead or alive, you just worry about the money.
Are you even human? Aren’t you her father?” Although Hao Fang was never that good a person, when it came to caring for her children, she was more attentive than Bai Jianguo.
Bai Jianguo was already furiously upset, and scolded by his detestable wife, with both his sons still in the house and able to hear her words, where could he put his face as the head of the family?
Sure enough, Wu Xiaoyue’s voice was heard from the next room.
“How can you blame Dad for this little sister running off? Her legs are on her body, not a toddler to be tethered by your side. She just wants to be wild. Haven’t you heard what the Fang Family said? She ran off with some man from another village. If that weren’t true, why would Fang Xiaoshan, a grown man, allow himself to be cuckolded?” The insinuations in her tone were infuriating.
Basically, it meant that Bai Mei was unchaste.
Bai Jianguo immediately jumped up in anger.
With one kick, he knocked Hao Fang down. “I’ll have you know I, Bai Jianguo, do not have such a disgraceful, shameless daughter. Stop bringing her up in front of me, or I’ll hit you every time you do. Our family will pretend she doesn’t exist. Got it? If the Fang Family comes making trouble, we bite the bullet and say they lost our girl. No money given, no life owed. If the Fang Family can, let them find Bai Mei themselves.”