Chapter 91: Chapter 89: Xiao Chenye: Oh Mama, Fine

“Enough!”

The team leader stopped the farce, looking at Tian Sanzong and Li Lihong sitting in the courtyard, he sighed, “Explain, what’s going on here?”

Tian Sanzong met the team leader’s gaze, feeling a bit flustered inside, but then he thought of his father’s and sister’s words, and excitement outshone his panic.

What his parents said was right; without Li Lihong, who knows what kind of person he could end up marrying.

This one is pretty good.

Her family is powerful and rich, and his own job isn’t tiring; he puts away the farming tools in the morning and collects them in the afternoon, leaving plenty of time to help with chores at home.

If he goes out for small gambling and runs out of money, he doesn’t believe Accountant Li, a person who cares about face, would leave him high and dry!

Maybe he’d even get some money to spend!

“Nothing happened.

I was supposed to propose, but things got delayed, and I got found out.”

He didn’t blink and exaggerated without a second thought.

Everyone: “!”

The crowd erupted, the noise like popcorn popping, suddenly exploding.

“No way, Lihong is a proud kid; she wouldn’t be interested in the Tian family like this.”

“Who’d say otherwise~ I heard that this one gambles too; my goodness, to have someone like him, the Tian family is really cursed.”

“What? Gamble?”

“Indeed, once you touch it, the family breaks up, people scatter, the wife leaves the kids; you’d better keep a tight leash on your second son, hanging around with those unreliable folks all day is bound to lead to trouble sooner or later.”

“Hey! What do you mean by that?”

“Nothing, just a kind reminder…”

…

The noise was deafening, the team leader’s head was about to explode; he shouted, “Stop all the noise! Another sound and you’re out of here!

This good day for pig slaughter stew, whoever’s causing trouble, I’ll make sure they don’t have a good time! Then…”

The team leader’s words carried weight.

The crowd quieted, and the team leader finally had the strength to question Li Lihong, “Lihong, tell me, what’s going on?”

Li Lihong knew if it wasn’t clarified today, her life was over.

Thinking of Tian Sanzong’s sleaziness, and lack of class, she was close to tears.

Li Lihong couldn’t imagine what her life would be like trapped with this person in the future.

She broke free from Mrs. Li’s embrace, rushed forward to Xiao Chenye, knelt down, and clinging to ’his’ leg, started to bawl.

“Brother Chenye, I’m begging you, save me!

Wuuu, please marry me? I’ll give you children in this life, and in the next, repay your kindness by being a beast of burden!”

Holding onto the leg, with a bowl in hand, Wen Ran was bewildered: “…?”

Uh, big sister, didn’t you notice you’re crying at the wrong grave?

Besides, the heights don’t match, right?

She chewed the tough pork in her mouth, turned to look at Xiao Chenye hiding behind her, speechless, “Hey! Aren’t you going to do something?”

Xiao Chenye was stunned, do something?

With what?

Just now, seeing Li Lihong charging over like she was possessed, he had swiftly maneuvered and seamlessly hid behind Wen Ran.

Turns out, he had indeed foresight!

If Li Lihong had held him firmly, he’d have drowned in spit!

Peering over the crowd, he even saw his mother and sister giving him a thumbs up with a solemn expression.

This was praise.

Well done!

Xiao Chenye crouched, afraid to show his face, “I don’t know her well, why should I marry her? A bit rude, really.”

Wen Ran was dumbfounded by Xiao Chenye’s words, Li Lihong couldn’t believe it and raised her head, letting go upon realizing her mistake.

She weakly sat on the ground, crying like a neglected orphan cabbage, “Wuuu, how can you be so heartless!”

“We don’t know each other well, hardly spoke since we grew up, you’re putting me in a bind with this.”

Xiao Chenye said seriously, “I don’t like you, besides, you have trouble all over you, why involve me?

If you have grievances, find the team leader; as we’re all in the same team, as long as the team leader commands, we’ll uphold justice for you too.”

Wen Ran glanced at him as Xiao Chenye got more excited, babbling, “I think I’m doing pretty well, how can you repay kindness with betrayal!”

Li Lihong’s world collapsed!

Inevitably, marrying Xiao Chenye meant betraying his kindness?

“Brother Chenye,” she pleaded, tears streaming, “Please don’t be like this, wuuu, save me, I don’t want to marry Tian Sanzong, someone like him is really unworthy of me.”

Behind her, the Tian family’s members looked like they could flay Li Lihong.

Xiao Chenye scratched his head, realizing she wouldn’t listen to sense, decided to just end it, “I think you’re unworthy of me.”

Accountant Li was almost furious with how shameless Li Lihong was.

He grabbed her, delivering two hard slaps, shouting, “Enough, you disgraceful thing!”

Mrs. Li hurriedly jumped in, crying, “You old jerk, how can you be so cruel, our daughter’s been wronged, why hit her?”

The team leader interjected with words to reconcile. With this scene, the spectators crowded three deep inside and outside, eager to surround the small yard completely.

No other choice, the people had to be cleared out first.

When it came to Wen Ran’s turn, standing behind Xiao Chenye, she finally stepped out, fighting to keep her spot as a bystander.

“I’m also a victim, she can’t leave, she just protected me and I need her to keep protecting me.”

Wen Ran: “…”

Brother, you sure can waffle.

But, she wanted to see where this would lead.

With a stern face, holding the bowl seriously, “Yes, that’s right.”

The team leader looked up at Xiao Chenye, then glanced level-headed at Wen Ran, smiling.

Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Chenxing exchanged glances, hurried over to Wen Ran, “Yes, my son is a victim too; we need to stick around to protect him.”

“Yes, yes, exactly.”

The team leader took a deep breath and let it go.

If a fight breaks out later, with Wen Ran and Xiao Chenye here, he could relax a bit.

As for Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Chenxing, the team leader thought, when he hides later, he’d better bring the duo along too.

The courtyard finally cleared, leaving the Li family, Tian family’s immediate elders, and brothers, plus the Xiao family’s trio as outsiders, and Wen Ran as a fellow onlooker.

“Alright, can we talk now?”

Tian Sanzong glanced coldly at Li Lihong, then smiled flatteringly, “Uncle, it’s just uncontrollable feelings that led to this mistake before the wedding.

No need to make such a big deal, it’s quite frightening.”

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