Tian Ligui, holding his arm, walked to his two silent nieces.
"In a few days, you go ask your Aunt Jingtang. She won't take the money," he said.
"Today your Third Uncle and Third Aunt have spread your affairs. You won't be able to get married in your home anymore."
"As soon as you get the money, leave. The Tian family is a fiery pit. Once you jump in, you can't get out. Only the girls can still struggle."
"I have a premonition that the three sisters, Da Ya, will definitely live better than ordinary people."
"Go, leave far away. Even if you really get rich, don't come back. The poverty and greed in this family, no one can change."
Tian Daxue looked up. "What about you, Third Uncle?"
"Me?" Tian Ligui smiled wryly. "What can I do? I'm not a woman. I still have to wait for Mao Jin and Mao Yin to come back. I still have my responsibilities."
Tian Daxue persuaded him. "You leave too. If you can't let go of Second Uncle and the others, take them with you."
"Aunt Jingtang doesn't want our money, and she certainly won't want yours."
Tian Ligui was a little moved, but hesitated. "I have to wait for Mao Jin and Mao Yin."
Tian Xiaoxue said, "You can wait until they are settled, give them a new address, or go pick them up."
"If Brother Mao Jin and Brother Mao Yin return to the Tian family after coming out, they will still be ruined."
"Everyone in this family is psychologically twisted."
Tian Ligui pondered. "Let's all think about it carefully."
...
Tian Jing went to the county town and handed her broken bank card to the bank for processing.
The bank said that broken cards had to be handled at the issuing branch.
Tian Jing pointed to the part with the intact magnetic strip and said to the teller, "Don't make excuses. Call your duty manager to handle it."
The duty manager arrived. Tian Jing asked why the magnetic strip was intact but could not be processed.
The duty manager did not recognize Tian Jing, so he naturally defended the teller.
Tian Jing frowned. "I want to withdraw the money. I don't need a replacement card, so why do I have to go to the issuing branch?"
The duty manager asked how much money.
After Tian Jing stated 200,000, the duty manager still refused.
Tian Jing called her husband in annoyance and asked him what to do.
After Li Zhengguo clarified the location of the bank, he told her to wait and he would call the branch manager.
Not long after, the desk phone in the counter rang, looking for the duty manager. The duty manager kept saying "yes, yes, yes" into the phone.
After hanging up the phone, the duty manager personally came to serve Tian Jing.
Tian Jing asked the duty manager to check if there was 200,000 in this bank card.
After receiving confirmation from the duty manager, she asked the duty manager to withdraw 70,000 and deposit the remaining money into a new card.
Withdrawing only 70,000, the duty manager breathed a sigh of relief.
After processing this card, Tian Jing took out another card to check.
After the duty manager confirmed the amount of 500,000, Tian Jing opened two more new cards and transferred 250,000 to each.
With three bank cards and 70,000 yuan, Tian Jing went to the town government to settle the account of 70,000 yuan for Tian Ligui.
Then she asked Mayor Li how to deal with the remaining money.
Li Zhengguo looked at the three bank cards and shook his head, chuckling. "Don't you already have a plan?"
Tian Jing sighed. "If it were up to my temper, I would have confiscated this money from them."
"But this includes the money from Da Xue and Xiao Xue's selling themselves, and the money Tian Ligui swindled through his cunning tricks. It's hot to hold."
Li Zhengguo thought of what his wife had just relayed from Tian Ligui. "Tian Ligui seems different."
Tian Jing nodded. "He's over forty, and both his sons are in reformatories. It's impossible for him not to change."
Li Zhengguo gave his opinion. "Then wait. Wait for them to come find you."
It could only be this way.
...
Seeing his mother return, Li Weibo asked about the situation at the Tian family.
Tian Ligui had taken the lead of the Shen and Yu families, and Tian Jing would not sympathize with Da Xue and Xiao Xue's experiences; instead, she would use them as examples.
Therefore, she told them everything that had happened in the Tian family.
"...Many girls who went to work in the south became infatuated with the glamorous world there, using their bodies to take shortcuts."
"Under the money and deception of those bosses, those girls thought they were unique and could hold the boss's heart."
"Foolishly bringing the boss back to their home was undoubtedly revealing everything they had done outside to their villagers."
"But they didn't know that when the boss tired of them, everything he had previously given would be taken back by various means, leaving them with nothing in the end."
"When men have money, they turn bad. When women turn bad, they have money."
"Money is a good thing when used well, and a bad thing when used poorly. Therefore, one must have a correct view of money."
Yu Ziyu clenched his fist. "Those bosses should all be castrated."
Li Weibo suddenly squeezed his legs.
Yu Ziyu turned to him. "Are you planning to turn bad too?"
"No, no, no." Li Weibo waved his hand. "I was just startled by my wife's 'chivalry'."
Tian Jing pointed at the two of them. "I'm telling you this because I hope you will educate your children well."
"If it's not your money, don't take it. If you take it once, there will be n times."
Li Weibo nodded seriously. "I understand. My children are not allowed to have even a single crooked thought."
...
On the 29th, the two bathrooms had been drying for three days. Tian Jing asked Brother Niu, Lin Si, Li Liguo, and Chen Suozhu to go to the quadrangle courtyard to tile the bathroom walls and floors.
She could help with collecting seeds in the nursery.
This time, five people were busy, and they finished tiling the walls and floors in one day.
The precast slabs on the roof were just casually placed, allowing the newly tiled tiles in the bathroom to dry. The roof would be completely sealed the next afternoon.
On the morning of the 30th, Tian Jing instructed her second son to buy various fixtures needed for the bathroom, as well as the bathroom door and water heater.
Then she drove away from Kūshān.
Jiang Lin was waiting at the entrance of the county government. Seeing Captain Tian arrive, she hurried forward. "I'll take you to the conference room."
Tian Jing nodded and followed Jiang Lin into a building on the east side of the outer courtyard.
The external conference room of the county government was on the second floor. When they reached the door of the conference room, Jiang Lin reached out and pushed it open.
In the conference room, Zeng Jingrong and Li Weixin were confronting five foreign ability users.
The door opened, and Zeng Jingrong and Li Weixin knew that Tian Jing had arrived.
Their momentum slightly eased, and the pressure of the confrontation from the other side suddenly pressed down, squeezing into their chests. One more step, and it would enter their bodies.
Tian Jing, who had a calm expression, immediately changed her demeanor and waved her hand.
"Bang!"
The five ability users leaned back in their chairs, tasting a salty, fishy taste in their mouths.
Tian Jing walked to the head of the conference table and sat down, looking indifferently at the five ability users, saying nothing.
However, the aura emanating from her grew stronger and stronger, pressing down on the five ability users.
The one closest to Tian Jing, the leader, felt the heaviest pressure.
He struggled to raise his hand and cupped it towards Tian Jing.
Tian Jing remained unmoved, maintaining the same intensity. Then she asked Zeng Jingrong, "How long have you been confronting them?"
"More than half an hour," Li Weixin answered quickly. "They attacked us as soon as they arrived. Captain and I were caught off guard and were bullied by them."
Li Weixin was very unhappy. He and the captain were both level five.
These five ability users had two level five and three level four.
Tian Jing glanced at her younger son. "Your punishment is set for the 6th."
Li Weixin pursed his lips tightly.
Captain Zeng pointed to the person closest to Tian Jing and said to Tian Jing, "This is Matvey, the president of the Southern Branch of the Russian Ability User Association."
Tian Jing looked indifferently at Matvey. As Zeng Jingrong had guessed, he was level five, and a high-level five.
Below Matvey sat a beginner level five. The other three were intermediate level four.
Tian Jing turned and glanced at her younger son. These people's levels were all revealed. She didn't believe her younger son hadn't seen them.
Li Weixin lowered his head.
Captain Zeng was mid-level five.
He had just reached level five, which was the result of his diligent cultivation recently as he prepared to accept his punishment.
The other party was only trying to intimidate them, not to harm them.
Otherwise, he and Captain Zeng would not have been able to confront them for more than half an hour.