She is no longer a female supporting character in period novels

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Chapter 2 The Wife of the Fifties (2)

  The living room was finally quiet. The door of the house creaked and a tall man walked in with a sullen face. He looked at the woman with a chapped face, wide eyes and puffed cheeks like a toad, and felt disgusted. "Zhu Yun, I know I have wronged you all these years. I apologize to you on behalf of my family."

  "But Lin Jin and the baby in her belly are innocent. Can you please stop making trouble?"

  "Now I will give you two choices. First, I will send a telegram to my family and ask my mother to adopt you as my daughter and marry you off in style. Second, you find someone to marry here and live a good life."

  "If you take the money from home again and do something bad to Lin Jin, I will not care about our friendship for so many years and will directly send you to the police station!"

  Zhu Yun glanced at him, her voice hoarse after a high fever, and sneered: "You look like a human, why don't you do anything human?"

  "Zhu Yun! This is a machinery factory, not a village, you can talk freely." Wang Xianbing clenched his fists in anger. This woman was so vicious in front of him, and he didn't know what she said to Lin Jin behind his back.

  "Oh, you have been outside for more than ten years, and you really think you are a city person. You are so delicate that you can't stand a word of truth? Your mother curses my ancestors every day," she said lazily, "You don't need to scare me, no matter how much power you have, I am not happy about what your wife's family does, and I will report it to you!"

  "Unless you kill me!" It is

  not a time of turmoil yet, but the higher-ups are very strict about the atmosphere and ideological education, and will not tolerate the emergence of bad apples.

  Wang Xianbing was very angry and asked in a rough voice: "What do you want? I've already married Lin Jin and have a child. It's impossible for me to be with you."

  Zhu Yun was so angry that she laughed, "You are so shameless. You really know how to flatter yourself. Do you really think you are a pile of cow dung, attracting countless flies?"

  Seeing that the veins on the man's forehead were bulging and the muscles on his arms were throbbing, she was afraid that if she said a few more harsh words, he would be beaten to death by an iron fist.

  She knew when to stop and said calmly: "As the saying goes, it's easier to invite a god than to send him away. I've worked like a slave in your family for seven years, but I haven't grown any height and I'm getting taller. I've been deceived, my reputation has been ruined, and the best years of a woman's youth have been wasted. My health is even worse than your old lady's. You can't send her away with a big dowry."

  "To put it bluntly, you want money?" Wang Xianbing's face was gloomy. "Just say it, but you have to promise that you will have nothing to do with our Wang family in the future, and you will not cause trouble for Lin Jin and my child!"

  Zhu Yun's eyes turned slightly and she stretched out her finger. "Three things, as long as you agree and do them, then I will agree to your conditions, but the premise is that your family doesn't cause trouble for me."

  "You say," Wang Xianbing nodded and looked at her coldly.

  "First, I want to buy a house and settle down here. Second, I want to have a formal job that's easy. These two points are your compensation to me. Third, although we haven't obtained a marriage certificate, we have a real marriage. In the past seven years, you should give me half of your subsidies, wages and bonuses, and I won't pursue your hard work over the years."

  "If you miss any one of these conditions," Zhu Yun sneered, "I will definitely turn your two families upside down. Just wait and see!" Wang Xianbing

  frowned, patiently and with a very serious attitude, he said sincerely, "Your conditions are a bit harsh. I can help you arrange a job and settle down, but it's difficult to buy a house. Now every household lives in welfare housing issued by the unit, and there is no right to buy and sell privately."

  "But I can help you apply for a dormitory for single employees."

  "The school didn't subsidize much during the four years of college. After graduation, I married Lin Jin. Apart from the money I mailed home, the rest was used for daily expenses, so I shouldn't have much left."

  "I will try my best to borrow money from everywhere and get you 500 yuan."

  She raised her eyebrows and chuckled, "Okay, I understand. Are you laying off the long-term workers?"   

  "The farmhands can get their wages every month, and have food and accommodation provided, but I haven't seen a penny, and I have to feed your whole family at my own expense!"

  "I'll go to the leader myself to seek justice. I want to see if you two, one of you looks down on the nanny who is filial to his parents, and the other interferes in other people's marriages as a third party, can survive in this machinery factory?"

  "The leaders will protect you, so I will go to the newspaper. I believe they are more willing to criticize some people with ulterior motives. They rely on eliminating feudal dregs, but in fact they do it to satisfy their selfish desires. They despise their old and ugly wife at home and marry a young and beautiful woman from the art troupe."

  "Don't talk about love all the time, it's disgusting!"

  "Anyway, I'm a barefoot man who is not afraid of wearing shoes. I don't know if you dare to bet your future."

  "Believe me, as long as you are sent back to your hometown, your wife who you claim to love you but can't will definitely divorce you and turn around and marry someone else with your child!"

  Wang Xianbing was once again so angry that his muscles tensed up, and he wished he could strangle this ugly and vicious woman to death.

  He was born a farmer, and climbed to this position with his own efforts and strength.

  How could he allow others to destroy all this?
  He didn't expect a village woman to say such a thing, and even used the newspaper as a threat, but he really didn't dare to take any risks.

  Wang Xianbing took a deep breath and looked at her with a dark face: "Do you keep your word? As long as I meet your conditions, you go and explain to everyone that there is no real husband and wife between us. You get a generous compensation, and you have nothing to do with my family from now on."

  Zhu Yun smiled and nodded, "Okay, okay, I have money, a house and security, how can I be so narrow-minded to cause trouble for myself?"

  Wang Xianbing thought about it, and it was true. A rabbit will bite when it is cornered.

  Zhu Yun has no man now, and she doesn't want to go back to her hometown to be bullied,

  so she can only stay here. When she explains the situation to everyone and breaks off relations with him, she will have to be cautious after joining the work.

  It is estimated that she was greatly stimulated this time, otherwise how could a village woman who has been oppressed for seven years become a different person? When the matter is resolved, she should live an honest life.

  Then she would ask her sisters-in-law to introduce a date to her, and then Zhu Yun would be completely separated from the Wang family!

  After everyone left, Zhu Yun fell asleep in a daze. When she woke up, she didn't know what time it was, and it was already pitch black outside.

  Although the high fever had subsided, she felt sore and weak all over. She felt dizzy lying on the bed, sweating all over, and her nose was full of sour and smelly. Her stomach began to rumble.

  She turned her eyes, picked up the teacup on the table and threw it hard at the wooden door.

  In the night, this sudden bang, in the poorly soundproofed building, sounded like a drum beating next to her ear, startling the people next door so much that they quickly sat up.

  (End of this chapter)