The three men and Li Min had nothing to do with the meal, they just silently accompanied them.
After the meal, Shen Jianrong sat still. "I can't help with the washing up, I can't get up."
Shen Jianfang was a little better. As she was about to help, Li Zhengguo waved his hand:
"This is men's work, you girls don't need to do it."
To the astonishment of the Shen sisters, the three men washed pots and pans with tacit understanding and skillful hands.
Shen Jianrong smacked her lips. "I was wrong, I should have brought Jing Hai to see what a good man is."
"Forget it," Shen Jianfang retorted to her younger sister. "A person like you, who does nothing, dares to ask Jing Hai to wash dishes?"
"I should have brought Jing Hua to see what kind of man pampers his wife."
"It's not enough that he just says his wife works hard, that means he pampers his wife."
Li Zhengguo washed the rag and came to wipe the table. "You two are both wrong."
The Shen sisters asked in unison, "How are we wrong?"
"Our women make more money than our men. If you dare to compare your husbands to us, they will be speechless just on this point."
Li Zhengguo said this without blushing; he was stating a fact.
The Shen sisters chuckled sheepishly at Li Zhengguo's retort.
"Ziyu's mother, Ziyu's mother."
Sister Niu called out as she walked towards the kitchen. "Have you eaten?"
"We're done," Shen Jianrong quickly got up, lest anyone discover she was too full to move. "Is that Sister Niu? Come in quickly."
Sister Niu and Sister Guilan walked in together and were not surprised to see Li Zhengguo wiping the table.
"Ziyu's mother, shall I take you for a walk around the village? See the scenery in our Kushan, and understand the rough lives of us farmers."
Having already learned that these villagers were students brought out by Grandpa Xiao, Shen Jianrong was no longer surprised by Sister Niu's self-deprecating show of pride.
She pulled her elder sister, "Sister, let's go for a walk in the village."
Shen Jianfang quickly went to the backyard to get her camera and went out with Sister Niu and the others.
Tian Jing was relieved to have Sister Niu escort the Shen sisters. She took this opportunity to tell the three men in the kitchen about the disgusting things Lin Wan and her mother had done.
Li Zhengguo pondered. "Lin Wan and her mother's desired outcome is definitely more than just compensation."
Chen Suozhu thought for a moment and said, "I heard Lin Duo'er and Minmin talking, saying that Lin Wan wants to leave Kushan."
"She even persuaded Lin Man to leave with her, saying that if they stayed in Kushan, they would always have to serve their father like this, with no hope or prospects."
"Oh~" Tian Jing nodded. "No wonder Lin Wan's mother clung to Sister Shen's leg."
"This is an attempt to get Sister Shen to take them to Kyoto, or to extort money as travel expenses to Kyoto."
"If they encounter this license plate in Kyoto in the future, they can take advantage of this incident again to extort more money."
Lin Er'lai was recovering better and better. Although he could not work in the fields, he could take care of himself.
He had also taken control of all assets and was very wary of Lin Man and Lin Wan, fearing that Lin Man and Lin Wan, who shared the same mother as Lin Enhu, would be as vicious as Lin Enhu.
"It's possible," Li Zhengguo nodded. "Lin Wan's mother has always had big ambitions, otherwise she wouldn't have cultivated Lin Enhu's ambition."
Li Liguo beckoned to his brother-in-law. "Suozhu, Zhengguo and Tian Jing can't go, so let's you and I go see Lin Er'lai."
"A car that's less than half a year old, covered in blood, it's too disgusting. Let's see how Lin Er'lai plans to resolve this."
Chen Suozhu agreed. "Yes, we need to get an explanation from Lin Er'lai."
Meanwhile, at the Lin family.
After Zhou Chenbin had Sister Niu and Sister Guilan help Lin Wan and the other two back to the Lin family, he told Lin Er'lai about the matter.
Lin Er'lai raised his cane and was about to hit someone.
Lin Wan yelled up at her father, "If you want to hit me, kill me. Otherwise, I'll cause trouble for you every day."
Lin Er'lai's hand stopped.
Lin Wan's mother stepped forward to protect her daughter. "Er'lai, even if you hate me and Enhu, you can't take it out on Wan'er and Man'er."
"Look at how Man'er and Wan'er have become. For the past three years, you've kept them confined like animals. People can be driven mad by confinement."
"Even in prison, they made us read the news every day to understand the changes in the outside world. You didn't treat Man'er and Wan'er like people."
Lin Er'lai put down his cane and nodded at Lin Wan's mother. "Yes, you're right. It's because they were born to a wretch like you that I don't think they'll behave like people."
Lin Wan's mother had been waiting for Lin Er'lai's words. "I'm going to sue you. I'm going to get their custody back."
"As you wish," Lin Er'lai said indifferently. "If you want their custody back, you can. However, I won't pay a cent for child support."
"Otherwise, they can stay here. When they turn eighteen, I'll find them husbands and marry them off, and that will be the end of it."
Lin Wan glared fiercely at Lin Er'lai. "I'm not staying."
Lin Er'lai didn't care about his younger daughter's glare at all. He had been glared at every day for the past three years.
"You have no right to refuse, the decision is mine."
Lin Wan wanted to say more, but her mother stopped her. "Er'lai, I've just gotten out and I don't have any money."
"So, just pay me ten thousand yuan in child support for Wan'er and Man'er in one lump sum."
"Dream on," Lin Er'lai looked at Lin Wan's mother with disdain.
"Rice is only ninety cents a catty outside now."
"Two catties of rice a day is enough for them, and they don't need to buy vegetables."
"It won't even cost five thousand yuan to raise them until they're eighteen. You want ten thousand? Go dream."
Lin Wan's mother nodded. "Then five thousand."
"No," Lin Er'lai refused. "It's only a little over six hundred yuan a year, or a little over fifty yuan a month."
"The rest of the money, I'll keep it in the bank to earn interest slowly. I won't give it to you all at once."
"Er'lai," Lin Wan's mother softened her voice. "Can't you pity me for the sake of our marital relationship?"
"Did you pity me then?" Hearing Lin Wan mention their marital relationship, Lin Er'lai became angry. "When my son drugged me and left me like a living dead person, did you pity me?"
"When you protected your son and wanted to take my property with him, did you think about my plight?"
"Get out now! I'm not giving up custody!"
Saying that, Lin Er'lai called out to the two nannies standing by the side in the yard.
"Old Yu, Old Feng, get this woman out of here!"
Old Yu and his wife could only escort Lin Wan's mother out of the yard.
Seeing that Lin Er'lai had driven Lin Wan's mother out, Zhou Chenbin asked Sister Niu and Sister Guilan to escort Lin Wan's mother out of the village.
Lin Wan's mother desperately tried to fall to the ground. "I'm not leaving. I was once a villager of Kushan, why shouldn't I get the benefits of Kushan?"
"If you kick me out, I'll sue the Kushan Village Committee too, accusing you of colluding to bully married women."
"Your dividends are completely unreasonable, and should be distributed by population."
"Back then, during collective cooperation, the population grain accounted for sixty percent, and the work-point grain only forty percent."
Sister Niu and Sister Guilan couldn't drag the woman who was determined to sit on the ground.
Four other people came forward to help.
Lin Wan's mother shouted, "Murder! Help!"
Villagers watched from a distance, and no one came forward to support her.
Many people were still in fear about the Lin Enhu incident.
Thinking that in the future, even if they were to die out and have no offspring, they would not marry a woman who had been married before and had children.
Finally, Lin Wan's mother was taken out of the village by Sister Niu and others.
Zhou Chenbin warned the security team that from now on, underage children would not be allowed to pick up people at the bridge.