Chapter 152 Settling the Score

Had Lei Baoguo's leg not just received stitches, fearing the wound would split open if he exerted himself, he would have hobbled to the theater troupe on crutches. He couldn't wait another moment and had to find that woman to get his money back.

Fortunately, the young nurse Li Jing soon arrived with a wheelchair. Lei Baoguo finally sat down in it.

"Hero Lei, keep it up! (ง•̀_•́)ง"

The nurse cheered Lei Baoguo on. If she weren't on duty, she would have gone to scold that shameless woman too.

If you don't like someone, you should say so earlier. Cheating someone's feelings and money is definitely wrong.

"Thank you, Comrade Li."

Lei Baoguo gave Li Jing a grateful look. She had helped him borrow a wheelchair and offered encouragement; of course, he was grateful.

"This is all I should do. You are a great hero, you can't let anyone bully you."

Li Jing clenched her small fist. When she first heard that a hero who had defeated eight thugs had arrived at the hospital, she was more excited than anyone.

Now she was a nurse who had lent a wheelchair to a hero!

"Brother, please push me to the theater troupe. If it weren't for you today, I really wouldn't know what to do."

Lei Baoguo didn't say many words of thanks, but he remembered everything.

If it weren't for Chen Yang today, with his personality that couldn't even muster a sound with a stick, he would have had to swallow his pride and bear the injustice.

If he couldn't bear it any longer, it would be a life for a life.

What would his parents do then? Who would take care of them in their old age?

Lei Baoguo couldn't bear to think what would have happened to him without Chen Yang.

This kindness was a huge debt.

"Brother Lei, you dared to risk your life for us with knives against eight thugs on the train, what is this compared to that?"

"After all, we've fought side-by-side, we're comrades. If you speak to me so politely again, don't blame me for ignoring you."

Chen Yang pushed the wheelchair with Lei Baoguo, heading straight for the theater troupe. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and unlike other units that had the day off, as usual, the theater troupe typically had a performance.

This saved them from waiting until after the festival. They could go find the matchmaker today and get Zhao Shufang to return the money!

Pushing a wheelchair wasn't fast. It took almost two hours, and Chen Yang, sweating profusely, and Lei Baoguo finally arrived at the Jinling City Theater Troupe. Lei Baoguo only remembered that the matchmaker, whom he addressed as grandaunt by seniority, was named Lei Chunping.

As for which troupe she belonged to, he wasn't sure. Chen Yang and he asked many people before finally finding this grandaunt.

"Baoguo, is what you're saying true?"

When Lei Chunping was called out by her colleagues and heard Lei Baoguo's words, she was stunned.

Throughout the theater troupe, Zhao Shufang's reputation was impeccable. She was exceptionally warm and generous towards people. Although Lei Chunping wasn't in the same troupe as her, she often heard that the young girl was good.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have thought of introducing her to Lei Baoguo, a fellow villager, back then. Lei Baoguo's uncle had sacrificed his life in a foreign land in the 1950s.

When Lei Baoguo enlisted this time, he joined his uncle's former unit. Everyone knew that as long as Lei Baoguo wasn't too useless, he would have no problem becoming a volunteer soldier later.

Volunteer soldiers in those days were no less than city workers. The two were considered a good match.

But Lei Chunping never imagined that the outwardly warm and generous Zhao Shufang would be such a person in private.

Not only did she cause Lei Baoguo to give up his chance to become a volunteer soldier, but after they were engaged, she was involved with another man and even refused to return the betrothal money.

Who in this world could be so shameless?

"Grandaunt, would I come to you with such a disgraceful matter if it weren't true? I'm too ashamed to even say it."

Lei Baoguo gritted his teeth. If it weren't for Chen Yang, he wouldn't have come to Lei Chunping today.

"Baoguo, come with me. I'll take you to the Kunqu troupe to find Zhao Shufang. I'm not done with her about this matter."

"A person with such moral character doesn't deserve to enter our Lei family village. She must return this money. If she dares not to, I'll tear her face apart."

Lei Chunping was furious. This woman had ruined Lei Baoguo, a nephew with a bright future, and how could she face Lei Baoguo's parents upon returning home?

If this matter wasn't resolved today, she would owe Lei Baoguo's family a lifetime of debt.

Lei Chunping led Chen Yang and Lei Baoguo, charging straight into the Kunqu troupe. Zhao Shufang had already returned and was applying makeup inside. From Sudan Novels.

Seeing Lei Chunping and Lei Baoguo enter, Zhao Shufang immediately panicked.

She had counted on Lei Baoguo's honest nature and knew he wouldn't cause trouble, which was why she had gone to break up with him.

She had only recently learned that Wu Cheng, who had been pursuing her, was the son of the deputy director of the Cultural Bureau.

Initially, she hadn't planned to dump Lei Baoguo so quickly. He could still earn money after retiring from the army, and she could ask him for some, saying it was for her dowry when they got married.

But upon learning Wu Cheng's identity, coupled with his possessiveness, he forced her to break off the relationship when he found out she had a fiancé.

Zhao Shufang then took him to the hospital, intending to take this opportunity to please Wu Cheng, have him take her home, and make an impression on his father.

The head of their Kunqu troupe had retired years ago and should have passed the leadership to younger people. If Wu Cheng's father became her father-in-law, wouldn't the position of troupe leader be hers?

Compared to Lei Baoguo, a "mud-legged peasant," Wu Cheng was her ideal husband. But she never expected that shortly after leaving the hospital with Wu Cheng,

Lei Baoguo, still limping, would actually chase them to the theater troupe.

"Zhao Shufang, you bitch, get out here."

"Everyone, listen up! I was blind to introduce this Zhao Shufang to my nephew. This bitch took 280 yuan in betrothal money from my nephew two years ago and got engaged to him."

"Later, my nephew enlisted in the army. After two years of compulsory service, he could have become a volunteer soldier, but he gave it up for her and retired from the army."

"But today, this bitch brought another man to the hospital to say she has someone else and wants to break up with my nephew."

"Everyone, please judge. Should she return the betrothal money?"

Lei Chunping was much more fiery than Chen Yang and Lei Baoguo. After entering, she didn't give Zhao Shufang any chance to step forward and obstruct her.

Standing at the door, she shouted out the entire story. Hearing her words, Zhao Shufang's face turned ashen, completely drained of color.

If this matter got out, her reputation would be utterly ruined.

Wu Cheng's family would definitely not want a woman with such a tarnished reputation!

"You're slandering me, I didn't."

"Lei Chunping, don't defame me here. When did I take his family's betrothal money? What evidence do you have?"

"There's no such thing as having to get married just because you're in a relationship. I already said I don't like him, but he insisted on pestering me and even came back after retiring."

"Now that I have someone I like, you're coming here to make trouble, right?"

However, Zhao Shufang wasn't entirely unprepared to go to the hospital. She just stuck to her claim that she hadn't taken the betrothal money and hadn't been engaged. After all, only she, Lei Chunping, and Lei Baoguo knew about this.

As long as she insisted she hadn't taken it, what could they do!