Chapter 224: It’s all Dahei’s fault

“This matter has nothing to do with me. I’ll take my wife away first, and you guys can fight slowly.” Xie Hushan stood up, took Taozi from Da Qiao’s hand and walked out quickly.

Da Qiao had no intention of stopping Xie Hushan, but just glared at her mother angrily. Xie Hushan walked in the corridor and asked Taozi, “Why did you run out with this psychopath?”

Taozi said to Xie Hushan, “She came to me and asked me to contact you. The three of us secretly went to Secretary Xiao Yang to complete the divorce procedures. I told her that my father went to the city for a meeting and my mother was suddenly taken away by a car. Then she got anxious and drove me here in a hurry.”

“Go home and stay away from them. After she finishes fighting with her mother, she will naturally come to Zhongping to find us to handle the paperwork.” Xie Hushan said with a smile as he looked at Taozi, whom he hadn’t seen for a while.

After taking a few steps, Taozi suddenly broke away from Xie Hushan’s hand and stood still.

Xie Hushan looked at Taozi in confusion: “What?”

“I heard what her mother said outside. I shouldn’t have come up with such an idea. And you, Third Brother, wrote about it in the newspaper. We have ruined Sister Yanni’s reputation…”

“She deserves it. She should be more careful next time.” Xie Hushan glanced at the office expressionlessly and said:

“Why, do you want to stay and help her quarrel with her mother?”

Taozi stared at Xie Hushan with her big eyes, and the expression on her little face was extremely serious:

“Third brother, she did something wrong. She listened to my advice and made up for it by faking a marriage, but then… it was… you did something wrong. You didn’t even ask her if she agreed, but you published the marriage in the newspaper. At the beginning, she, Secretary Yang and I had an agreement that it couldn’t be spread out. We could only use it to scare the Xu guy.”

“Alright, alright, I’ll talk to her for you. When I send her away, I’ll give her some money and tell her to remember this. This is for my wife’s sake.” Xie Hushan smiled and said to Taozi, “Is this okay?”

“Do you know that ever since the news that Sister Yanni was married was published in the newspaper, many people have called her a female hooligan behind her back, pointing to the date of your marriage registration, saying that she had a husband a year ago, and that she was still flirting with single young men under the guise of blind dates all day long…”

Xie Hushan looked at Taozi, who was as serious as an adult, and laughed, “What should I do? I will marry this psychopath with great fanfare? And then break off the engagement with you? What are you thinking? She and her mother are just that kind of people. Besides, words like female hooligan are new to everyone now. In another ten or twenty years, when the society becomes more open, the crimes of hooliganism and adultery should be abolished.”

“I’m talking to you, Xie Hushan!” Taozi saw that Xie Hushan always had a coaxing smile on his face and didn’t take what she said seriously, so she suddenly spoke.

He had called Taozi “Third Brother” for more than a year, but when the three words “Xie Hushan” came out of her mouth, he felt very uncomfortable. However, the next second, she smiled and stretched out her hand to pinch Taozi’s face:

“Are you angry? Let me tell you…”

The next second, Taozi raised her hand and slapped Xie Hushan’s hand away, pointing at his nose and scolding him:
“Thank you, Hushan! I’ve put up with you for the entire first month of the New Year! If there weren’t so many relatives on the second day of the New Year, I would have gone crazy that day!”

“If you hadn’t run back and beat up the guy named Xu, there would be no need to publish the newspaper!”

“Qiao Yanni did make a mistake, but she paid it back! She suppressed the matter, and you beat her up! Then you shot her, and you caused it yourself! You cleaned up the mess you caused, but you ruined the girl’s reputation in the newspaper. What can you give her back?”

“I originally wanted to swallow my anger and wait until we got married before settling accounts with you, but after hearing what you said in there today! I can’t hold it in anymore! I won’t wait any longer!”

“You keep saying that everyone else is a scoundrel, but you! You say scoundrel things to Fourth Sister! You give Fourth Sister a bellyband! You have a mistress in Hong Kong Island! Do you remember that you are an engaged man? Tell me, what kind of good thing are you?”

“She deserves it. She’s a bitch. I was the one who came up with the idea. Am I a bitch? I’m asking you a question! Can’t you live a useless life by just opening and closing your mouth? Speak!”

Xie Hushan looked at Taozi, who was like a cat with its fur standing on end, and immediately shook his head like a rattle: “Not cheap, not cheap, I am cheap.”

Taozi’s series of roars echoed throughout the corridor. People in every office opened their doors and stuck their heads out to look into the corridor. Even Da Qiao and her mother Xiao Su, who were supposed to be swearing at each other in Xie Hushan’s impression, were actually standing at the door, watching Taozi raging at her.

Taozi took a deep breath, turned around and scolded those curious people: “Have you ever seen a woman disciplining her man! What are you looking at? What’s the matter? Come over here and take the scolding for him!” When the people from various departments saw that Deputy Director Xiao Su did not say anything to stop them, they immediately withdrew their heads after being glared at by Taozi.

Taozi’s roar seemed to have exhausted all her strength. She held onto the wall with her hands and panted violently. Her chest kept rising and falling. Her black eyes stared at Xie Hushan. Xie Hushan looked at her and said with a smile:

“It’s not easy to come to the city. How about I take you to a restaurant for dinner? Order some food you haven’t eaten before and eat while you curse. It’s too tiring to just stand here and curse.”

“…” Taozi glared at Xie Hushan: “After you finish scolding me, at most we can cancel the marriage, but… don’t point your finger at my family to cancel the house.”

Xie Hushan gently poked Taozi’s soft spot with his fingers, making her feel itchy. She twisted her body and could no longer maintain her shrewish aura.

Xie Hushan acted as if he couldn’t hear her and continued to ask in a questioning tone:

“Why don’t we go to Xiaoshan? There are many snack shops there. You can buy freshly fried fried cakes there now. You must have not eaten anything since you came here with her at this time. Before the New Year, you said you would come to Xiaoshan with me when you were free. Do you want to eat fried cakes now?”

“I’m not hungry and I don’t want to eat!”

“Sugar-roasted chestnuts are fine. If you don’t eat them now, wait until last year’s stock is finished. If you want to eat them, you have to wait until this year’s chestnut harvest.”

“…Why aren’t you angry when I scold you?”

“Why are you so angry? You haven’t even entered the house yet. When you enter the house, I will abuse you every day.” Xie Hushan said, and looked at Xiao Su:
“You’re going to have a wedding to save face, so there’s no chance. If you want to go to Hong Kong Island, have your daughter and the people you’re sending off go to my Hong Kong Island office in Yanjing and wait. I’ll send someone to Yanjing with an invitation to pick her up. After a few months, I’ll let her come back and complete the divorce procedures. As for the money, for my wife’s sake, I’ll pay 50,000 yuan. I’ll buy your daughter’s reputation. If she’s not satisfied, feel free to challenge me again. Although Zhili Province is more peaceful these days than in previous years, killing a few people is still nothing new.”

“Fuck you…” Qiao Yanni was so angry at Xie Hushan’s words that her body was shaking. She opened her mouth to curse, but Xie Hushan’s eyes narrowed and a fierce look appeared:
“I’ll fuck you…!”

He wanted to yell at Qiao Yanni with a curse, but when he said it he realized Xiao Su was standing next to him. It was too much for him to yell at Qiao Yanni and tell her to fuck her mother in front of Xiao Su. He could only hold back the last word and pointed at Qiao Yanni:
“Let’s leave it at that. If you curse me one more word, I’ll move out overnight and have your entire family buried the next day. If you’re really awesome, curse me one more word and I’ll hear it! You’ll be done for if I collapse!”

Qiao Yanni wanted to argue with Xie Hushan, but Xiao Su, who saw that Xie Hushan had lost his temper, pulled her back to the office. Xie Hushan stared at the closed door of the office and finally finished his curse words:

“Fuck you, the common people have spoiled you into having bad habits.”

After no one dared to speak in the corridor and it was completely quiet, Xie Hushan continued to look at Taozi, still calm and gentle, with a smirk on his face:
“Look, I paid her back for what I owed her. It’s rare that my wife gets angry with me. I’ll give her a Hong Kong Island account plus 50,000 dollars.”

Taozi turned her head away. She wanted to be tougher and criticize him by using what Qiao Yanni had said to her when they were together, that Xie Hushan did not respect women…

But when Xie Hushan said without blinking an eye that he wanted 50,000 yuan plus a Hong Kong Island account…

Taozi’s heart twitched. Does this mean that a man doesn’t respect women?
Fifty thousand yuan can buy many lives in Yaoshan, not to mention Xishan.

“Or…” Taozi slowly turned her head to look at Xie Hushan, lowered her head and muttered softly.

She wanted to say, why not have a wedding with the other party and then divorce, and destroy Qiao Yanni’s reputation in Yaoshan, but don’t give her the 50,000 yuan…

Xie Hushan interrupted Taozi and continued to name the dishes: “Why don’t you eat some sesame candy? You definitely didn’t get to eat it during the Chinese New Year. The little I sent over must have been given away by your mother to relatives for the New Year’s greetings, right?”

Taozi was like a defeated quail, feeling that she had lost her temper and exposed her true colors before marriage. She used all her strength to attack but hit a cotton ball instead. She didn’t dare to look Xie Hushan in the eye and could only lower her head and nodded slightly.

Xie Hushan smiled and led Taozi out of the archives, explaining to Taozi as they walked:
“Don’t listen to what others say. Listen to my explanation. There’s really nothing wrong between me and Fourth Sister. As for the bellyband… I want to say that Dahei stole the bellyband. I’m just returning it to its original owner. Do you think you can believe it? If you don’t believe the truth, I’ll make up another story. Actually, I’m telling the truth. Dahei really did it. It’s all his fault. It has nothing to do with me.”

(End of this chapter)