Ye Qinggang watched from afar and could vaguely hear what they were saying.

"Leng Yan, where's your money?"

The man, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, spoke to Leng Yan.

"Brother, could you please delay me for a few more days? I really don't have any money right now," Leng Yan said in a trembling voice.

The man snorted and pinched Leng Yan's chest a few times: "Spend one night with me, and I'll give you one more day. If you don't pay me back by tomorrow, I won't be able to do anything. Our casino isn't a charity. You should be as quick to pay me back as you were when you gambled so happily back then."

"Why don't you lend me some more money? I'm sure I can make it all back!" Leng Yan didn't avoid being groped on the chest; instead, she went to meet him and said, "I found an idiot. He said he'd give me the money today, but he didn't. And I had to pretend with him for so long!"

......

Ye Qinggang couldn't hear anything more after that, and didn't want to hear it at all.

Just from those two or three sentences, Ye Qinggang understood; he understood everything.

Just as Hu Dahai said, it was all an act for him, all an act. Leng Yan was indeed after his money.

In that instant, Ye Qinggang's mind was buzzing. He leaned against the wall and slowly collapsed.

Besides disbelief, what filled my mind was mostly lingering fear.

Fortunately, he went to see Hu Dahai, fortunately Hu Dahai reminded him, fortunately he hadn't given all the money to that woman. Fortunately, he hadn't divorced Zhou Xiaofeng yet.

If it weren't for Hu Dahai's reminder, given his current pace, he would have been devoured by Leng Yan sooner or later, leaving not even bones behind. What would happen to his family then? What would happen to his children?

This woman's acting skills are just too good. I actually thought I had met true love, but it turns out she was just trying to please me. If this continues, she might sell me out and I'll still be obediently counting money for her!

A gentle breeze blew by, brushing against him. Ye Qinggang felt a chill all over his body.

He then realized that, without realizing it, his entire body was drenched in cold sweat.

As Ye Qing stood up, he took one last look at Leng Yan's retreating figure as she walked into the guesthouse, his eyes filled with coldness and hatred.

He resolutely got up and returned home. As soon as he entered, he saw his wife, Zhou Xiaofeng, was still awake, dozing against the table. There was food Zhou Xiaofeng had left for him on the table.

Ye Qing just remembered that she hadn't told Zhou Xiaofeng that she wasn't going home for dinner, so she went straight to Leng Yan's place.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Xiaofeng had been waiting for him to come home for dinner and hadn't even gone to her room to sleep yet.

At this moment, Ye Qinggang truly felt like he wasn't human, but an animal. He had such a loving wife at home, yet he didn't cherish her, even finding her ugly, and thought other women understood him.

He ran outside and slapped himself hard across the face several times.

Leaning against the wall, he silently told himself, "Ye Qinggang, you can never let Zhou Xiaofeng down again in this life, or you'll really die a horrible death!"

He returned to the room, took off his coat, and draped it over Zhou Xiaofeng.

"Ah, you're back?" Zhou Xiaofeng was startled awake. Seeing Ye Qing just returned, a smile appeared on her face: "Sorry, I fell asleep while waiting."

"The food's all cold, let me heat it up for you!" Zhou Xiaofeng rubbed her eyes, picked up a bowl, and prepared to heat up the food.

Zhou Xiaofeng didn't have the same enthusiasm as Leng Yan, who rushed up to hug Ye Qinggang, nor did she shower him with sweet words, and she didn't pretend to be hypocritical.

Their words, actions, and appearance all exude a simple and unpretentious quality.

If it were Ye Qinggang from a few days ago, he would definitely have looked disgusted and said: "No, I'm going to sleep."

But today, when Ye Qinggang saw Zhou Xiaofeng like this, it was as if he had seen Xi Shi (a legendary beauty in Chinese history).

He smiled broadly and said, "Okay, let's go heat it up together. You must be hungry after all this time. Let's eat something together."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaofeng paused for a moment, then her face lit up with joy.

The two of them ate a simple late-night snack.

Ye Qing got up and went into the room, taking out a bankbook: "Xiao Feng, starting tomorrow, all the money in the house will be under your control. This is all the money on my end, please keep it for me."

Zhou Xiaofeng was taken aback: "What's wrong with you? Didn't you say that it's only natural for a man to manage money, and that you'd kill me if I touched your money?"

“Those were just things I said before, how could I bear to kill you?” Ye Qing interrupted, stuffing the bankbook into Zhou Xiaofeng’s hand.

Looking at the amount in the bankbook in her hand, Zhou Xiaofeng felt her heart pounding. She had a bad feeling: was Ye Qinggang going to give her all the money and then divorce her? Make her divorce him?

In fact, Zhou Xiaofeng had already guessed some things during this time. Women are very perceptive, and she could tell that Ye Qinggang was definitely having an affair. However, she didn't dare to say it, nor did she want to, for fear that if she broke the ice, the family would fall apart.

"You..." Zhou Xiaofeng hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.

However, Ye Qinggang seemed to have seen through Zhou Xiaofeng's thoughts and said in advance, "There's something else I need to tell you."

Zhou Xiaofeng tensed up, and her rough and somewhat wrinkled hands clenched tightly involuntarily.

“Starting tomorrow, let’s go to your brother-in-law’s place to help with some work. He told me earlier that he wanted us to come and help him. His business is booming now, and he needs his own people to help him.”

“From now on, we’ll go to my brother-in-law’s place together. I’ll take you on my bicycle, and we’ll go to and from get off work together every day.”

As Ye Qing was speaking, he looked at Zhou Xiaofeng and began to look forward to this kind of life.

Zhou Xiaofeng suddenly loosened her clenched fist.

Her voice trembled slightly as she said, "You, this is what you wanted to tell me?"

"Yeah, why aren't you going to work for your brother-in-law?" Ye Qinggang joked.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhou Xiaofeng was so excited that she became somewhat incoherent.

That night, Ye Qing had just taken one of the two blankets off the bed.

Starting today, sleeping in separate beds is not allowed!

Zhou Xiaofeng secretly took advantage of the opportunity to go outside to pour out the water for washing her feet to hide a bottle of pesticide in the kitchen.

......

In the Qunyi Brigade, Hu Dahai was unaware that his words had completely changed the fate of Ye Qinggang's family.

At this moment, he was communicating with the brigade leader, Li Wude.

"What? You're going to sell Hu Guanbao's house, which is already partially built? And let someone else build it?" Li Wude exclaimed in surprise.

Today, Hu Dahai has already approved the land for Hu Wangfei's household registration at the brigade.

However, Hu Dahai did not decide on the spot where the house would be built. Instead, he asked Li Wude to come to his house that evening so that he could have a face-to-face talk with Li Wude.

When Li Wude arrived, Hu Dahai stated his requirements.

Hu Dahai wanted to give Hu Guanbao's land to someone in the brigade who wanted to build a house, while he himself would take Hu Wangfei's land and Hu Guanbao's new land to build a house in a new place.

Moreover, the house will not be built where Hu Guanbao built his house, but on a piece of land in the east of the deserted brigade that almost no one wants.

Li Wude was completely stunned when he heard Hu Dahai's request.

He couldn't help but touch Hu Dahai's forehead with the back of his hand, wanting to see if Hu Dahai had a fever.

"Do you know how unlucky that land is? You actually want to build a house there?" Li Wude couldn't help but ask.

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