I Became a Vicious Supporting Role in the '70s
Chapter 131 - 231: Don’t Pretend to Be Kind

Chapter 131: Chapter 231: Don’t Pretend to Be Kind

"I’m the one who’s humiliated? How am I humiliated? The ones who should feel ashamed are Lu Jiahe and Liu Suqin, those two shameless creatures. Don’t you dare say I’m talking nonsense. Look at this, what is this? This is my thermos. Back then, I was afraid someone at home would take the wrong one, so I specifically ground a flower on the base with a stone. It was a gift from my maternal family. What did you say back then, Lu Jiahe? You said it was broken. You said you lost it. Where did you throw it? Into your whore’s bed, huh?"

Wu Xianglan pushed her way past everyone, charged into Liu Suqin’s living room, picked up that green thermos and showed it around to everyone. Indeed, there was an ugly little flower on the bottom.

This really was irrefutable. Liu Suqin’s face turned panicked for a moment, but then she composed herself.

Lai Zi’s wife, who was watching from the side, jeered with a mocking laugh. Her family was also in chaos; worried about Daya and Xiao Ya being hit, she hurriedly took her children and ducked outside. She didn’t notice Shen Meng, who watched her with a raised eyebrow.

Being a home-wrecker is an ugly label. Zhou Jiaojiao looked pleadingly at Liu Sanjin and whispered in her ear, "Mom, hurry up and get my sister-in-law out of here. If this keeps up and Jiaxuan’s superiors find out, how can he keep working in his department?"

Thinking about her youngest son’s job, Liu Sanjin’s heart jolted, and she grabbed Wu Xianglan, trying to pull her outside.

Lu Jiahe was on the other side, dragging Wu Xianglan’s arm outwards. Lu Yongqiang and Yong Li also came running, and seeing their mother treated like this, both kids started crying a river of tears. They ran over and tried to pry Lu Jiahe off, begging him to let Wu Xianglan go.

Frustrated, embarrassed, and infuriated, under the strange gaze of the onlookers, Lu Jiahe lost his rationality. He lifted his foot and kicked at Lu Yongqiang. This kick mattered a lot; Lu Yongqiang failed to keep his balance and fell to the ground, his forehead hitting a stone, blood immediately oozing out.

This sudden turn of events shocked everyone. Even Lu Jiahe himself was scared; that was his own son, how could he not feel pained? But before he could rush over, Wu Xianglan had already broken free from him and run to Lu Yongqiang’s side, holding the child and wailing loudly.

Zhou Jiaojiao walked over, trying to get her to quickly hold the child and leave, or even to see a doctor—anything but to continue causing a scene here.

"Sister-in-law, Lu Yongqiang’s hurt, let’s hurry back and get a doctor to look at him."

"Yes, yes, my dear grandson, my dear grandson, come on, let’s go home quickly."

Having only two grandchildren, Liu Sanjin was extremely distressed by the wound on Lu Yongqiang’s forehead; she reached out to carry him, but he just kept wailing and burying himself into Wu Xianglan’s embrace.

"Scram, all of you scram! Don’t touch my son."

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, don’t panic. Look after the child first, seeing a doctor is what’s most important now."

"Slap!"

Zhou Jiaojiao hadn’t finished speaking when her face was struck and turned aside.

"Don’t pretend to have good intentions. You’ve known about their dirty deeds all along. I treated you so well, every time you wanted something from the elder sister-in-law, I helped you. And this is how you repay me, Zhou Jiaojiao? Compared to Lu Jiahe and Liu Suqin, you’re the most disgusting one."

Wu Xianglan ran off, holding Lu Yongqiang, followed by the sobbing Yong Li.

Zhou Jiaojiao was miserably aggrieved, holding her face and sobbing in defense.

"Wuuu... What are you saying, sister-in-law? What did I know? I didn’t know a thing, you’ve mistaken me for someone else, sister-in-law."

With one hand covering her face, Zhou Jiaojiao ran towards home. People who saw her just thought it was her bad luck to run into Wu Xianglan. Feeling too ashamed to stay, Lu Jiahe quickly fled home, his heart still worried about Yong Qiang.

Liu Suqin saw that the Lu Family was about to leave and hurriedly stopped them.

"Hey, don’t go just yet. You people from the old Lu’s family come to my place, stir up such trouble, and now you just want to slap your butts and leave? No way, you’ve smashed up so many things in our house and injured me; you need to pay up. If you don’t, I’ll report this to the County Government."

"You shameless hussy, you entice my son and you still think you are right?!"

Liu Sanjin, with trembling fingers, pointed at Liu Suqin’s face, wanting to curse her out. For so many years, her reputation had been impeccable, but in the past half year, everything seemed to go wrong, all the family’s dirty laundry aired out.

"Who saw it happen, who caught me doing anything—don’t just slander me with your baseless words. I’m telling you, I’m not afraid of you. If you don’t compensate today, don’t think of leaving."

Liu Sanjin couldn’t argue with someone who didn’t care about their own reputation, and immediately turned to Liang ManCang.

"Man Cang, what do you have to say for yourself, just watching your wife extort people like this?"

Liang ManCang looked indifferent. He snorted coldly, dragged his disabled leg back into the house, his youngest son, Liang Jiye, lending him a hand. His eldest daughter, Liang Jihong, looked expressionlessly at the people outside.

"It’s none of my father’s business; don’t come asking my father."

After saying that, she slammed the house door shut, acting as if the three family members didn’t know Liu Suqin at all.

Liu Suqin didn’t care about their attitude and stretched out her hand asking Liu Sanjin for money. The latter, infuriated and hopping mad, also worried that this woman might truly make a scene without care, potentially affecting her youngest son’s job. She turned around, fumbled a red underpants from around her waist, tore a hole in them, and pulled out three yuan, throwing it at Liu Suqin before quickly leaving.

Shen Meng watched with amusement and gleefully carried Lu Mingkai home. She didn’t feel the slightest bit of guilt about Lu Yongqiang’s injury. Considering the hardships her own little one in her arms had endured, just causing a little blood to flow from his forehead was already her being merciful.

Along the way, she also learned from the villager’s gossip about the affair between Liu Suqin and Liang ManCang.

Apparently, Liang ManCang and Liu Suqin had once lived a decent life together. However, Liu Suqin was beautiful and loved to joke around, often speaking freely with the men in the village without any reserve. Liang ManCang was unhappy in his heart, but seeing his wife upset, he had no choice but to swallow his grievances.

Later, when she was pregnant with their second child, clamoring for meat in the cold and meatless home, Liang ManCang went up the mountain; unfortunately, he had no luck in hunting and even injured his leg in the process, leaving him with a lingering ailment.

After laying in bed for half a year, Liu Suqin despised him completely and refused to come near. For the past six months, it had been the young Jihong who took care of him.

Liu Suqin wanted to live a good life, and gradually began to associate with some men in the village.

It wasn’t that there had been no commotions, just as Liu Suqin herself said, nobody caught her in the act, so without proof, no one’s words held weight. The village chief and the Secretary had also visited to admonish her—somehow, for the sake of the children, to be mindful of her influence.

But Liu Suqin continued to be defiant, her reputation couldn’t fill her stomach nor buy her nice fabric or give her money. She believed she deserved to live a good life.

Shen Meng, amused, followed some elderly aunts, munching on an abundance of melons, her stomach quite filled.