Chapter 37: Chapter 37: The Wen Family’s Downfall 3

The crowd quickly pushed past the packed neighbors, surging to the Wen Family’s door.

“Wen Damao?”

Mr. Wen trembled for a long time and nodded, “That’s me.”

“We’ve received reports that you have issues with your personal conduct, and you’ve previously stolen quite a few things from the cotton mill. We need you to come with us to assist with an investigation.”

What?

A report?

Who reported it?

His eyes stared blankly as he scanned the crowd.

Suddenly, he spotted a familiar face, surprised and delighted, “Lin! Lin, what’s going on here?”

Upon hearing, Lin covered his face and turned his head sideways, “Oh, you, don’t talk to me right now, it’s embarrassing to even listen.”

Mr. Wen was unwilling to give up, “This must be a mistake!”

“Whether it’s a mistake or not, investigation will find out.”

Recalling the report with detailed allegations, insiders knew that Mr. Wen was definitely in trouble this time.

And his position…

Oh, better not think about it, just the thought makes one’s heart burn.

Mr. Wen was unceremoniously taken away, Wen Tianyang huddled in the corner shedding tears, and as for Yuan Mei, she was already dazed.

The official from the Zhiqing office took this opportunity to slip away, still not forgetting to throw out a sentence, “Oh, don’t look for me! That subsidy was given at registration. Now it’s definitely gone! Don’t be late for the 5 o’clock train the day after tomorrow.”

As soon as he finished, the official disappeared like a fish entering water.

Li Minmin wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. After a long while, the neighbors dispersed like a tide, leaving just the three of them in the empty house.

In desperation, Yuan Mei asked Li Minmin in a panic, “Minmin, what should we do now?”

Li Minmin sneered with sarcasm, “How would I know?”

“What kind of attitude is this?”

“What kind of attitude?” Li Minmin was also unreserved, “When you were asking people for money just now, didn’t you think about what you were doing?”

Yuan Mei was taken aback, then recovered and said with an awkward smile, “You saw it?”

“Ha,” she once thought her mother cared for her, now it seems, what a joke.

“I’m not blind; of course, I could see it.”

Li Minmin turned to leave, but Yuan Mei grabbed her, “Where are you going?”

“What’s it to you?” Li Minmin shook off Yuan Mei’s hand, mocking, “Enough already, still want to act out the mother-daughter love scene?”

“What do you mean act?”

Yuan Mei was also angry, “I gave birth to you after all the pain, raised you so hard, do I owe you?”

Li Minmin refused to stay silent, “Did I ask you to give birth to me?”

“Smack!”

A slap, loud and crisp.

Before the quarrel between mother and daughter could escalate, a disheveled woman lunged towards them.

Yuan Mei jumped in fright, screaming, “Who are you?!”

“Who am I?” The woman snarled with resentment, “See who I am!”

Seeing the woman’s face clearly, the string named reason snapped in Yuan Mei’s mind.

She stammered, “It’s, it’s you…”

The woman was the mother of the fool who spent 500 yuan to buy Wen Ran, “What have you done? Why was our man taken away?”

Sensing trouble, Li Minmin silently slipped away, leaving Yuan Mei to fight with the woman.

Money?

Sorry, the house has been cleaned out, nothing is left.

The woman also broke down, grappling with Yuan Mei; they stumbled to the staircase, and with a slip, tumbled down together.

After a loud bang, the woman sat dazed downstairs, touching the warm and sticky blood on the back of her head, glancing at Yuan Mei, who lay motionless with wide eyes, and fainted.

“Ahhhhh~”

“Someone died!”

No one died, just knocked unconscious. After being sent to the hospital, it was found that Yuan Mei had a broken leg and a mild fracture in her arm, while the woman was slightly better, with just some ribs fractured.

Then, taking advantage of no one noticing, she slipped away.

Yuan Mei, with a broken leg, unable to run, could only eagerly wait for her daughter to come find her.

Unbeknownst to her, Li Minmin had already completely given up on this family.

Watching her brother wailing in the corner, Li Minmin packed up the remaining bedding at home and slipped away without a sound while no one noticed.

At this time, she even felt a bit grateful.

Grateful that Wen Ran registered to go to the countryside for her, otherwise, she wouldn’t know how to escape the quagmire.

Thinking of the job tied to Wen Ran still in her hand, she sneaked into the black market, found someone, and demanded a high price, a thousand yuan.

“An accountant at the steel plant! An iron rice bowl hard to find for any price,” Li Minmin’s heart ached as she spoke, “If I hadn’t been set up, I’d never give it up.”

“Are you sure?”

Li Minmin nodded, “Yeah,” she waved her hand expansively, “You can check, my sister’s job, her name is Wen Ran.”

The buyer was skeptical and sent someone to inquire.

This person had connections and found out mixed news at the steel plant.

The good news was, there indeed was a Wen Ran working as an accountant there.

Li Minmin wasn’t lying to them.

The bad news was, the job had already been taken by someone else.

Qi Chenggang cursed under his breath, grabbing Li Minmin’s collar, “You liar, you tricked me?”

Li Minmin was baffled, “What, what did I trick you out of? There’s really such a job!”

“There is, but the job has been sold to someone else,” Qi Chenggang squinted, “You’re quite something, trying to sell one job to two people.”

Li Minmin: “?”

She felt like her brain was about to explode.

“N-no, it’s not like that, I…”

Qi Chenggang still had some principles; he didn’t lay hands on her, just humiliated her verbally and threw her out.

However, the people waiting outside weren’t so ethical.

They thought Li Minmin, unremarkable as she was, had made a big deal with Qi Chenggang and were eager to rob her.

Throughout, Li Minmin was robbed three times, from initially pleading to finally becoming numb.

Li Minmin felt she had grown…

When she got on the train, Li Minmin boarded with empty hands.

She was heading towards her unknown fate, about to face an even more tragic end than the original owner.

Yuan Mei, with no one to care for her and no money to pay hospital bills, was kicked out after three days in the hospital and sent back home.

Wen Tianyang had lost a lot of weight in just three days. Upon seeing Yuan Mei, he cried and snot flowed as he rushed to his mother.

Subsequently, upon entering the hospital for the second time and coming out again, their home had been repossessed.

Mr. Wen was sent for reform and to start anew, probably spending the rest of his life on a farm.

The mother and son ended up on the streets; perhaps misery doesn’t adequately describe their state…

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