Chapter 73: Chapter 73 Accident (2)_1 Chapter 73: Chapter 73 Accident (2)_1 As she spoke, Liao Zhaoji just plopped down on the ground and began to wail bitterly, all the while voicing the hardships she had endured over the years.
Ruan Jiandang was afraid that her crying would summon the Ruanlin Family, so he tried to pull her up. However, Liao Zhaoji let herself go completely, shook off his hand, and with every breath, she cried that she did not want to live anymore, gasping for air in her sobs.
Ruan Jiandang had no other choice and could only say, “Alright, alright, stop crying—I’ll figure something out! I’ll find a way!”
“Really??” Liao Zhaoji’s face, still wet with tears, turned to look at him.
Ruan Jiandang nodded, his expression dark and heavy.
Liao Zhaoji’s face instantly blossomed into a smile. No longer needing Ruan Jiandang’s help, she sprang up from the ground on her own.
While patting the dust off her backside, she said, “Then you better be quick. Otherwise, it’s fine even if you go ask Mom for help. I think she definitely has…”
“Enough!” Ruan Jiandang glared at her, “I will figure this out, and you are not to set your sights on Mom’s things.”
“…” Frustrated, Liao Zhaoji wanted to say more, but seeing Ruan Jiandang’s unapproachable demeanor, and his dismissal of the matter, she swallowed her retort.
When Ruan Jiandang came out of the house with his hands behind his back, the three Ruan brothers were outside.
“What are you blocking the way for here?”
Ruan Chi’s expression was particularly angry, wanting to barge into the room, but Ruan Jun held him back. Ruan Jun looked at Ruan Jiandang with a rather solemn expression, “Dad, you shouldn’t have let Mom off so easily.”
Ruan Jun knew his mom’s character all too well.
If there was a first, there would be a second.
From a young age, she liked to take things from her parents’ home, even if it meant making them suffer, just to maintain her image there.
This time, she easily gave away a couple hundred yuan to them, sent all forty kilograms of meat over; the next time, she would dare to do the same or even worse! If she wasn’t taught a lesson, she would never know the severity of her actions.
“All you need to do is study hard; you don’t need to worry about these things.” Ruan Jiandang knew this as well, but after over ten years of marriage, it wasn’t something to actually divorce over.
Worst case scenario, he would earn money later on and not let her manage it.
“All right, as long as you’re aware of what’s happening, that’s enough,” said Ruan Jun, not dwelling on the matter further, and took the clearly discontent Ruan Chi back to their room.
Ruan Chi was angrily punching the wall inside the room.
He had always known about his mom taking things to her parents’ house, but he never imagined that one day she would even take out their tuition money! And as for the meat, she didn’t leave a single piece for them. When he asked about it one day, she said she had sold all of it and told him to freeload at his uncle’s house.
He didn’t say anything at the time, nor did he go freeload at his grandmother’s. He just thought that if it was converted to money, it was fine, but he had no idea that it was all given away to his grandmother’s house!
“Don’t talk about this to outsiders; let it rot in your stomach, got it? Same goes for Xiaowei—you better not say anything in front of Grandma,” cautioned Ruan Jun, who was more thoughtful than his two younger brothers, immediately instructing them.
Ruan Wei, admiring his brother who was five years his senior, nodded.
Ruan Chi, under the stern gaze of Ruan Jun, could only reluctantly nod in agreement.
Ruan Jun thought that the matter should just be left in the past, but he had no idea that because of this concealment, the incident the next day would occur!
The Ruan brothers returned to school, Ruan Jiandang did not come back for dinner that night. Liao Zhaoji thought he was still out in the fields and didn’t mind, as he often missed mealtimes, so she just left some food for him in the pot.
But by eight o’clock in the evening, when the sky had already been dark for a long time and Ruan Jiandang still hadn’t returned, she began to worry.