Chapter 149: Chapter 149: Panicked
Liu Zheng’s face suddenly became very serious. He cast a stern look at Liu Baishun’s cousin, Liu Yimu, who had just spoken and said, "I call you ’uncle’ out of respect, given our family hierarchy. In our village, you’re considered a person of high virtue and respect. How could such low-level words come from your mouth?"
"You, Liu Zheng."
"What about me? I can see that you all didn’t come here for medical assistance or to find someone. You’re plainly here to cause trouble, aren’t you?"
"So what if we are here to cause trouble?"
The younger generation behind him even started yelling.
"Fine, if you’re here to cause trouble, I’ll see it through to the end. You may have a lot of people, but so do I."
Having said that, Liu Zheng picked up his phone and dialed a number. The people behind him started to panic because they knew the Liu Family had even more people. However, Liu Zheng hadn’t spent much time in the village, so they always thought he wouldn’t know many of his relatives and wasn’t close to them.
Now, Liu Zheng had picked up the phone and called Liu Yutong, which made them worry. After all, while Liu Yutong might not hold any significant position in the village, he was a well-known Clan Leader of the Liu side."
Seeing this, the younger generation behind then even grew frightened, but Liu Baishun showed no fear.
He felt it was the right time to challenge the authority of their major Liu surname.
After all, Liu Zheng was with his daughter-in-law, which in itself was dubious. This incident could indeed be blown out of proportion without evidence, and then the whole village would hear of it.
This way, Liu Zheng would surely not have an easy time.
At this moment, Liu Baishun nodded and said, "Okay, Liu Zheng, you know how to call for help now? Fine, then I’ll wait for your Clan Leader, Liu Yutong, to come over. No problem, I and old Liu are peers. Don’t think I’m younger than him; we are on good terms. If you truly want to provoke a feud between our two Liu branches, and something happens because of it, I won’t be able to protect you."
"Ha! Clan Leader Liu, you talk of protecting me, but it seems more like you’d rather devour me. You’d love for me to get the hell out of this village quickly, wouldn’t you?"
"Come on, Liu Zheng, are you implying that I’m slandering you with your words?
"I’ve never asked you to leave the village. You’re our village’s traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and I’d be glad for you to stay."
"But in this village, you have to follow the rules, understand? If you don’t abide by them, then even if it’s our own Liu Family, I won’t show any mercy."
After saying this, Liu Baishun glanced at Zhang Cuihua standing behind him.
At this moment, Zhang Cuihua said nothing and just sat there with her head lowered, not doing anything.
But she was braver than before; after all, this was the first time she defied her father-in-law.
"Liu Zheng, if your shadow falls crooked, even if your Clan Leader comes, you’ll still be in the wrong. Let me tell you.
How long you and my daughter-in-law have been in that room, what happened between you, one can guess. You calling your Clan Leader here, let me tell you, is like digging your own grave."
"Oh, is that so? Digging my own grave, that’s not necessarily the case. Nothing happened between your daughter-in-law and me. Did you see us? Or was it actually you who sent your daughter-in-law here?"
The moment these words left his lips, Liu Baishun became instantly flustered. His eyes swiveled left and right within their sockets, and he dared not meet Liu Zheng’s gaze.
At this point, Liu Zheng also noticed his panic. Now was the time to show him who’s boss. Today, he had to make sure the Clan Leader came over; otherwise, Liu Baishun might really start to think he was someone easy to push around.
In fact, Liu Zheng had a very good relationship with the Liu Family Clan Leader; he just didn’t want to bother the Clan Leader of his own family. After all, Liu Yutong was already 80 years old. To trouble the elderly man to come and deal with this matter was a bit unreasonable. However, now that things had come to this point, it was time to get the Clan Leader involved.
If not, Liu Baishun might really turn the tables on him here. The reason Liu Zheng dared to do this was because he had cleverly collected the security measures on the ground earlier, then threw them out of the window and flushed them down the toilet. Now, there was no evidence left. At that moment, Liu Zheng thought of another strategy: to feign yielding to catch the enemy off guard, to fight craftiness with craftiness.
If Liu Baishun really came looking for trouble today, then let him. But Liu Zheng had to negotiate a condition with him, and he had to make Liu Baishun lose face in public or give him something in return.
At that moment, Liu Zheng suddenly loosened up and said, "Our Clan Leader will be here in a bit. You can search then, but I do have a condition, and you have to agree to it."
"Alright, I agree to whatever condition you propose, as long as you let me in to see if you’ve been with my daughter-in-law or not?"
"Liu Village Chief, I call you Liu Village Chief out of respect, but you can’t just make wild accusations. How often do you say something happened between me and your daughter-in-law?"
"Your daughter-in-law is famously filial in our village.
She takes care of your son and then takes care of you; your family is indeed that sort of family."
Liu Zheng then gave a thumbs up.
"And yet you accuse her of having an affair with me? Wouldn’t that be ruining her own happiness?"
After these words were spoken, Liu Baishun’s body jerked suddenly, wondering if Liu Zheng really knew something.
This matter was already the talk of the town among the neighbors; it’s just that since he was the village chief, no one dared to say anything about him. Now that Liu Zheng had hinted at it so subtly, it was possible that in the end, he himself would be the one getting hurt.
But Liu Baishun was already too far in to back down. He could only raise his voice and shout, "Liu Zheng, you can’t just spout nonsense, what’s this about caregiving? Isn’t it perfectly normal for a daughter-in-law to take care of her son and me?"
However, as soon as Liu Baishun finished speaking, everyone felt a bit awkward.
Because the caregiving that Liu Zheng mentioned was exactly the imagery that they had conjured in their minds, yet Liu Baishun had fallen right into Liu Zheng’s trap.
He was defending his own twisted logic.
At this, Liu Baishun also felt that something was off and tried to explain, "Liu Zheng, what are you thinking? I didn’t mean it like that."
Liu Zheng just covered his mouth and laughed, saying, "Oh wow, Liu Village Chief, I didn’t mean it like that either. Which meaning did you think of? Oh my, don’t tell me you really can’t?"
At this time, Liu Zheng felt as if he were about to uncover a major scoop, staring wide-eyed and bending over to look at Liu Baishun, who was becoming increasingly flustered under his gaze.
Then, turning to his fellow clansfolk, he twisted his head and said, "Enough, enough, let’s stop it here for today. Talking to Liu Zheng any more about this and that, I don’t think it’s important. Let’s hurry back home."
