Chapter 74: It Is Not Easy to Take Advantage

Li Meng quickly stepped forward. “Fang Yuan, I am your sister-in-law. We will not talk about what happened before, but I am your sister-in-law now. We are relatives no matter what. How can you do this?”

Fang Yuan said, “You are their relative, not mine. I have not even acknowledged the eldest brother’s family. What kind of sister-in-law are you? Do I acknowledge you just so you can make me lose face with you? Or so your whole group of shameless people can come and take advantage of me?”

From behind the fence, the onlooking Sun sister could not help muttering, “She talks way more forcefully than I do.”

Sun brother said, “Is it just that she talks forcefully?” She is also forceful in action. You cannot afford to provoke her.

Sun sister had already seen it clearly. Fang Yuan was not soft when she acted either. “I will never provoke her in the future, you can rest assured.”

Hearing his wife say this, Sun brother truly felt relieved. Otherwise, with her mouth, she might one day get cleaned up by Fang Yuan.

Li Meng tried every possible way to talk it through, but Fang Yuan did not even bother with her. In any case, the bicycle was not going anywhere.

Li Meng’s sister-in-law’s clumsy tricks did not work on Fang Yuan. She was completely stubborn. No payment, no leaving.

A whole village of idle people stood by watching the joke, and even people from neighboring villages came to watch the spectacle.

The show was even given a name: tigress suppressing old rogues.

Only when people from the commune arrived did Li Meng’s sister-in-law and mother see their saviors and rush over crying, grabbing them and shouting that they had encountered bandits and been robbed.

Everyone around was stunned. The commune officials were invited by the Lu family, not for these rogues.

Fang Yuan remained extremely calm. When resolving problems, you cannot just listen to one side. She pointed at the two crying women. “Can I drag them to my house myself? I rarely see people delivering themselves to be robbed like this.”

That left the commune officials completely speechless. This girl really does not sound reasonable.

It was finally Lu Chuan’s turn to step in. He first asked everyone not to leave and helped bear witness, explaining everything from beginning to end.

Only then did he let the crowd disperse and invited the commune officials and the village Party secretary into the house to resolve the matter. commune

The aura of control from Lu Chuan made even the village Party secretary and commune officials take a second look. They all felt the young man was impressive and handled things very well.

Of course, things would have been even better if they had been handled like this before the commune arrived.

However, they also noticed that with such a capable man, he seemed unable to control his own wife’s situation.

The commune officials were privately thinking that they did not know how he ended up marrying such an unreasonable wife. The old saying about a good man not necessarily having a good wife seemed true.

The village Party secretary also provided testimony that Li Meng’s family had not gained anything from making trouble.

However, Fang Yuan insisting on compensation and holding the bicycle was not reasonable.

The commune officials tried to reason with Fang Yuan, but she refused. She insisted on compensation, otherwise no one would leave.

Her home was not a place where people could come and go as they pleased.

The commune officials patiently persuaded her, and could only criticize Li Meng’s family morally, saying they had behaved badly. Confiscating the bicycle was not acceptable.

While the commune officials were persuading Fang Yuan to return the bicycle, they themselves drank two bowls of cold water.

It took a great deal of effort. In the end, they even had to rely on the village Party secretary before Fang Yuan gave a little face.

To be honest, even the village Party secretary did not expect to have so much influence. He felt quite proud.

Even Li Meng’s sister-in-law did not expect that even after the commune arrived, Fang Yuan still would not back down. She had truly met a hard opponent.

In the end, Fang Yuan finally relented. She said she would let the matter of her own losses go for now, but the previous incident where the Lu family had their house smashed had already been filed with the commune. That could not be ignored and must be handled with compensation.

Li Meng’s face turned green. Her sister-in-law was not the type to willingly take money out. If money could really be squeezed from her, it would become Li Meng’s lifelong debt.

Originally, Li Meng had not cared about a few dozen or a hundred yuan, knowing money would be worth less in the future. But now it was different. After two months of hardship here, she realized that a few dozen or a hundred yuan determined their standard of living. It was not easy to earn.

She did not want to pay anymore.

Even the village Party secretary nodded. Fang Yuan’s condition was reasonable.

Lu Chuan also nodded secretly. Well said. You always had to hold onto something. People like Li Meng’s family would not learn unless they suffered.

Li Meng’s sister-in-law, who had never suffered such a loss, refused to accept it. “Breaking off an engagement, who handles that politely? It got smashed, so it got smashed.”

Everyone frowned when they heard this. Who would want to deal with such a family?

Lu Chuan said, “You were the ones who proposed breaking the engagement. Then you came to our house to cause trouble? Lu Feng, say something.”

At this point, Lu Feng could not hide anymore. That was his in-law family.

Li Meng pulled at Lu Feng, full of pleading. Lu Feng looked at Li Meng, then at her mother and sister-in-law, and finally forced out a sentence. “Let this matter be over.”

Even the village Party secretary almost spat on the ground. Over? Easy for you to say. You dragged your whole family and even me, the Party secretary, into this mess.

Lu Chuan did not want to interfere much originally. If Lu Feng himself felt he could live with it, fine. But not today. He had to protect Fang Yuan and clean things up for her.

Lu Chuan stepped forward. “Over? How can it be over? This woman was matchmaking with a township worker, you say it is over and it is over, we have no say. She was messing around with others, and you are willing, we have no say either. But her family smashed our house, that cannot be over. This is not your private home.”

His words were clear and logical, though they also pulled Lu Feng directly into it.

If Lu Feng had cared even slightly about the family, Lu Chuan would not have pushed him like this.

When Fang Yuan spoke earlier, Lu Feng and his wife were not present, so it could still be glossed over. Now it was all filled in. There was no way to avoid it.

The village Party secretary’s expression improved. Well said. If this is let go, they will only come back and cause trouble again.

Li Meng’s face turned ugly green. “What are you talking about? Who is messing around? I am being wrongly accused. I cannot live like this!”

For the sake of her future life, she could not let this stain be pinned on her head. She went all out.

She rushed over to grab Lu Chuan. “You little brother-in-law are trying to kill someone!”

Her behavior was exactly the same as her mother’s. Truly a family trait.

Fang Yuan blocked in front of Lu Chuan and kicked Li Meng away. “If you do not want to live, get lost somewhere else and die. Do not come here ruining things.”

Then she said, “Wrongly accuse you? Nonsense. What part is wrong? Do you think your dirty little affairs are unknown to anyone except Lu Feng? When I choose a marriage, do you think I do not investigate first?”

Li Meng immediately fell silent.

When the Fang family and Lu family arranged the engagement, they would naturally investigate everything clearly.

The Fang family must have known about what happened in the township.

Everyone now understood this was not slander. It was based on facts.

Li Meng felt the situation was getting out of control and simply closed her eyes, pretending to faint.

Her heart was full of grievance. Why was life so hard, why were there traps everywhere, why was she always being controlled?

If only she had come back earlier, before the engagement was broken, that would have been better. She even started thinking about how to coax Lu Feng again, and whether her position as a future rich wife was still stable.

Mother Lu sighed. “Second daughter-in-law, the eldest daughter-in-law’s family is unreasonable. Let’s talk about compensation for our family instead.”

Otherwise, what could they do? At this point, there was not much face left for the eldest daughter-in-law to lose anyway.