Divorce with three kids? I'll build a house and eat meat, driving my in-laws crazy.

Chapter 168 Waiting for the Chen Family to Fall into the Trap
The wind and rain were heavy, and although Lü Da's shouts were not loud, they startled everyone.

It's been a long time since I've seen the village head so angry.

He didn't get angry, but He Dajiao seemed to have forgotten that he was the village head, the highest-ranking official in Chenjia Village.

Realizing this, he quickly backed down and whispered, "Fix it, fix it, I'll fix it, okay?"

Lu Da snorted coldly and turned to ask the others, "Does anyone else have any other opinions?"

If there are no objections, get to work quickly; time waits for no one.

After waiting for a while without anyone speaking, just as Lü Da was about to assign tasks, he heard a timid female voice coming from the corner.

"The Li family is wealthy; she can pay for it and repair the bridge as well. Li, you wouldn't object, would you?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Feng Yuzhu stroking her belly, speaking calmly.

Seeing that someone was kicking Li Ruru when she was down, He Dajiao felt he was in a good position again. He said, "That's right, she's rich. Her family has dug up all the konjac on the mountain. Everyone in our village gets a share of the money she earns."

In all her years, Li Ruru had never heard such absurd logic before. Just as she was about to speak, Lu Da sneered, "Most of the konjac was dug up by my family. Do you have a problem with that?"

He Dajiao, with her straight neck and stubbornness, said, "Am I wrong? The mountain belongs to the whole village, and the konjac is naturally everyone's share."

He paused, glanced at Li Ruru, and said, "Village head, you're always protecting the Li family, you two aren't having an affair, are you?"

Snapped--

what--

He Dajiao was slapped, and he cried out and fell to the ground.

The person who hit someone was neither Li Ruru nor Lü Da, but Hai Shi.

Hai said with his hands on his hips, "You despicable person, stop slandering people here."

Before, when your cow broke its leg, you went around telling everyone that it was my daughter Aru who caused it.

Now you're popping up again to slander the village head. You're like a mosquito from a cesspool—you're both disgusting and repulsive.

He Dajiao was hit by the woman, and he was full of resentment and wanted to hit back, but when he saw the three sons behind Hai Shi, he took a few steps back.

He couldn't beat them, so he just said, "She's been kicked out of the Chen family, what does it have to do with you? You're meddling too much."

Hai looked at him like he was an idiot and said, "What's it to you? Why would you spread rumors about me if I didn't go along with you?"

He Dajiao dared not say anything more, while Lü Da's eyes were already blazing with fury: "He Dajiao, are you spreading rumors about me?"

He laughed in anger as he spoke, then turned to Hai's three sons and said, "Take him away and deal with him according to village rules."

Before He Dajiao could react, she was pinned down on a large rock by three burly men.

One of them yanked off his pants, grabbed a smelly shoe, and started hitting him on the buttocks.

ahhh-

Amidst He Dajiao's screams, Lü Da continued to convene the canal repair meeting.

Li Ruru stepped forward and said, "He Dajiao's words are complete nonsense. If we follow his logic, then his cow eats the grass in the village and poops in the village, does that mean his cow belongs to all of us?"

"In that case, the livestock raised by each household will belong to everyone. Also, our mountains are numerous and high, and there are not only konjac plants, but also various herbs and wild game."

Would you be willing to share some of the things we've worked so hard to dig and hunt with others?

Li Ruru spoke with great logic and reasoning, but everyone shook their heads vigorously.

"That won't do. Those were dug up with great effort by my family. How can we share them with others?"

"The livestock are all raised by my family. What does it have to do with anyone else?"

"He Dajiao is really talking nonsense."

He Dajiao was being beaten and screamed, so she didn't have time to argue back.

Having resolved He Dajiao's problem, Li Ruru turned to Feng Yuzhu and said, "Feng, what did you just say? You asked me to build a bridge for the village for free?"

Feng Yuzhu thought that everyone had forgotten her and only remembered He Dajiao.

Unexpectedly, Li Ruru suddenly called on her again. She touched her belly and thought that the village head couldn't do anything to her now.

He couldn't very well pull down her pants and spank her in front of so many people, could he? "Yeah, repairing the bridge won't cost you much. If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Feng Yuzhu's greatest skill is to offend people first, and when the other party gets angry, she says she didn't mean it that way, and that it's okay to pretend she didn't say anything.

Lu Da said speechlessly, "Nobody's money comes from thin air. They have no obligation to repair the bridge for free."

Li Ruru said, "Uncle Da, I'm willing to repair the bridge for everyone for free, but I have one condition."

Upon hearing that she was truly willing to repair the bridge for the village for free, Lü Da was deeply moved and said, "If you pay for the bridge repair, then there's no need for men to repair the canal."

"Thank you, Uncle Da, but that's not what I'm asking for."

"what is that?"

Lu Da thought that as long as her requests weren't too unreasonable, he could agree to them.

Li Ruru pointed at Feng Yuzhu and said with a smile, "My request is very simple: no one from the Feng family or the Chen family can cross the bridge I repaired in the future."

Upon hearing this, Feng Yuzhu immediately became agitated: "You're deliberately targeting us, how can you be so petty?"

Li Ruru shrugged: "Yeah, it's targeting you guys, and you're only just realizing it? You're so generous, why don't you pay for the bridge repairs yourself?"

Zhao was so angry that her nose twisted. She quickly said to Lü Da, "Village head, you can't listen to a woman's nonsense. She's no good."

“Aren’t you a woman?” Lu Da retorted.

Zhao was so angry that her nose was crooked. She slapped her thigh and was about to sit on the ground and throw a tantrum.

Seeing the mud and water on the ground, she shouted, "Everyone come and see! My son divorced her, and she's been going against my family in every way. She just can't let go of my Sanbao."

Zhao kept mentioning Chen Sanbao, and Li Ruru leaned closer and whispered, "That's right, I just can't let go of Chen Sanbao. I want to watch him get his comeuppance. I want to see your Chen family members all suffer a terrible death."

Feng Yuzhu shivered, too frightened to speak, and nervously touched her stomach.

Unable to make a decision immediately, Lü Da asked the crowd, "Do you agree with Li's request? She's building the bridge for everyone for free, but the Chen family can't cross it."

No one cared about that; after all, it wasn't his house that was being blocked from passing.

They all expressed their agreement, saying, "We agree, we wholeheartedly agree."

Hai said, "What if they insist on crossing and then try to renege on their promise?"

This kind of thing is very likely to happen. There's no one watching over the bridge, so the Chen family figured they could still get across.

Lu Da thought for a moment and said, "After the bridge is repaired, everyone else can go for free, but the Chen family will have to pay 5 coins per visit!"

Since they couldn't stop them, they decided to charge a fee. The Chen family were all stingy; they'd rather take a long detour to save a few bucks.

He added, "I will send someone to guard the bridge. The five coins collected after catching the Chen family will belong to the bridge guard."

Upon hearing this, many people expressed their desire to do the job.

It's so easy to make money, and you don't even have to leave the village. This is awesome!

Many elderly people, especially, have plenty of time but can't help at home, so they simply go to the bridge to wait for the Chen family.

Li Ruru is not a saint; she built the bridge more for her own benefit, as she had to cross that bridge every day to do business in the county town.

Furthermore, Chu Xiu had to pass through there to get home.

The bridge in the village isn't wide, and it wouldn't cost much, which is within her budget.

Just then, He Dajiao, who had just been spanked, pulled up his pants and said indignantly, "Village head, you're actually letting a divorced woman lead you by the nose. If this continues, I think our village is doomed."

Just as the village head was about to leave, he heard his words and stopped, saying, "The He family will also have to pay a toll to cross the bridge from now on."

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County government.

Chu Xiu was lying on the table, staring blankly at two cherry tomatoes and two cucumbers.

That was what Chaochao and Peipei gave him when he left Chenjia Village. He ate it for a few days, and now there's only this left.

He turned to Xiao Wu beside him and asked, "Has Constable Xing returned?"

(End of this chapter)