Lin Wan raised the kitchen knife, ready to hack it down onto Li Xinghua. The villagers saw Lin Wan’s fierce demeanor, not like she was just trying to scare Li Xinghua. Seeing the situation was wrong, they quickly rushed to intervene.
"Xiao Wan, knives don’t have eyes, you can’t really chop down with it!"
"Put down the knife, let’s talk things out properly."
"What’s there to talk about? Isn’t he a village chief? It’s already bad enough he doesn’t do good things for the village; now he constantly slanders us, orphans and widows, pushing us to a dead end. How are we supposed to live?" Lin Wan said as she resisted, unwilling to let it pass just like that.
"Xiao Wan, don’t be angry. Anger won’t help, take a look at your mom first."
"Yes, it’s the village chief’s family that’s in the wrong."
"You... you’re actually siding with their family. Don’t forget, their family always does things without a conscience." Li Xinghua was displeased when she saw the villagers siding with Lin Wan and them.
"What they do for business is upfront and honest, much better than you all being rascals."
"Now it’s fine, people can develop independently, those who don’t do real work should be jailed. The village chief hasn’t hesitated to take things home over the years. We’ve all seen it."
"The village chief is like a fascist, now it’s all about elections by the masses, if Li Fugui continues , we definitely won’t elect him next time."
"Yes, we need to elect a village chief who can do real work for the village."
"Now, several nearby villages have electricity, only our village still uses kerosene lamps, while Li Fugui spends his days drinking."
Li Xinghua and her son didn’t expect their troublemaking for Liang Hongmei to spark public outrage in the village.
Li Hongqi’s face reddened from what was said by the villagers, indeed, none of the things his father did were good.
"Xiao Wan, quickly come see your mom, her stomach hurts terribly." Aunt shouted anxiously from there.
Lin Wan hurriedly ran over, found Mom’s face pale, her whole body sweating coldly.
"Quickly take your mom to the health center." Little Grandmother said while calling her son, "Quickly take your sister to the health center."
Liang Jian Country hurried over and carried Liang Hongmei on his back to the town’s health center.
Villagers who had good relations with the Liang Family helped look for a cart.
Lin Wan went into the house to fetch money and came out, seeing Li Xinghua trying to slip away, she quickly went forward and grabbed her, "You injured my mom without cause, don’t even think about leaving . Come with me to the health center, if anything happens to my mom, your family can forget about having peace."
"I’m not going, it wasn’t me who hit her."
"You and your son both have a part, so many villagers watched. Walk." Liang Zhi pulled the nearby Li Hongqi towards the town.
Liang Hongmei suffered from abdominal cramps and had an IV drip for three days, more than thirty yuan paid by Li Fugui’s family at the town health center.
Li Fugui originally didn’t clearly see who hit him that night, the next day upon waking up he thought it might be Liang Hongmei, but he knew Liang Hongmei wouldn’t have the guts. She managed to escape from him and certainly wouldn’t return to be caught by him.
Not knowing who the hell did it at the moment, and resenting Liang Hongmei for having escaped multiple times, when Li Guihua asked who did it, he casually said Liang Hongmei.
He initially intended for Li Xinghua to teach Liang Hongmei a lesson, who knew she created such a huge mess, the villagers had been discontent with him privately complaining, now it was public outrage with one person standing up, so there were more following.
He realized his role as village chief was about to end, even if he didn’t want to pay Liang Hongmei’s medical expenses, he had to obediently fork it over.
Liang Hongmei’s condition wasn’t mild, the doctor said so too, there may be lasting health issues in the future, especially cautioning her to avoid heavy labor.