Reborn As Lucky Star-Chapter 175 - : Seeing Is Believing
Chapter 175: Chapter 175: Seeing Is Believing
Things hadn’t developed as she predicted, and Yu’s mother’s breath hitched.
The doors of the Yue Family swung open once more, and Lin Chunju and others emerged one by one, but the last to step out was a face unfamiliar to most.
Tao Huamao’s complexion dramatically changed, and he couldn’t help but take two steps back.
The newcomer had fairly regular features, except for his eyes, which looked odd.
One was wide open and angry, while the other drooped as if it couldn’t close, squinting into a mere slit.
This person stared at Tao Huamao and took steps toward him.
With each step he took, Tao Huamao stepped back, as though he had seen a ghost.
Indeed, Tao Huamao had once been forced by this man to sell all the valuables from his and his sister’s homes, nearly losing his house and his worker’s quota as well.
In Tao Huamao’s eyes, this man named Gun Ming was far more terrifying than any specter.
“It’s been nearly three years, hasn’t it, Tao Huamao? Do you still recognize me? When you blinded one of my eyes, I only made you pay three thousand yuan; considering that, you got off quite cheaply.”
Tao Huamao didn’t dare say a word, for fear that Gun Ming might bring up the past and ask him for money again.
The villagers were astounded when they heard the figure of three thousand yuan.
“Three thousand yuan? How could Tao Huamao come up with such an amount? Is that what he earns as a worker in the city?”
“Impossible, his salary is only about sixty yuan a month, isn’t it? It’s higher than what people in the village earn, but he couldn’t possibly have that much money.”
The Yu Family was thrown into disarray upon unexpectedly encountering Gun Ming; even the quick-witted Yu mother was left speechless.
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The shadow Gun Ming had cast over them was indeed too deep.
Lin Chunju stared straight at Yu’s mother, “Three years ago, the Yu Family sold all their valuables to scrape together money for Tao Huamao, and then came up with the idea of a deceitful marriage, knocking on the Yue Family’s door to be their scapegoat.”
“For the past three years, it was Yue Jiannan who paid for Yu Yaxian’s education and living expenses. Now, with their daughter about to attend college, they have the audacity to spread rumors in the village, using such low tactics to break off the engagement.”
“Tch, every person in the Yu Family has a heart blackened through and through. If it weren’t for the third brother visiting the school and just so happening to witness Yu Yaxian getting cozy with someone else, we would’ve been kept in the dark still.”
Yu’s mother’s face turned iron blue, “You’re spouting nonsense, don’t try to pin this on my family.”
But seeing Tao Huamao’s cringing demeanor, the crowd felt that the story was very likely true.
Just a moment ago, he had come busting in full of bluster, but now he wished he could shrink away like a turtle retreating into its shell.
That was precisely why Yue Jiandong had insisted on bringing Gun Ming to the village.
Disputing with mere evidence, the Yu Family might have retorted sharply.
But faced with the person they had wronged three years prior, it would be difficult for them to lie with their eyes open.
Yue Jiandong started to tally the debts with the Yu Family.
“Not counting what my brother sent to your family over these three years, just the money spent on Yu Yaxian’s schooling and living amounts to three to four hundred. Not to mention all the gifts he brought each time for Yu Yaxian and the Yu family. Now, with a mere mention of a three-hundred yuan engagement gift, you think you can wipe the slate clean? Where in the world does it work that easily?”
The house of the Yue Family used high-quality materials, and the furniture inside was made from expensive wood, not to mention the presence of a refrigerator and washing machine.
Thinking of this shifted the villagers’ sympathies slowly toward the Yue Family.
The neighbors of the Yu Family suddenly had a moment of clarity, recalling that no one had actually witnessed the rumors they initially heard.
Including the time they went to inquire by themselves, they had only noticed the bruises on Yu Yaxian’s arm that she purposefully revealed.
But as for the actual truth, nobody really knew.
It was the evasive attitudes of the Yu Family that had led everyone on.
Gathering her courage, Yu’s mother attempted to justify, “Even if we did pay someone three years ago, what does that have to do with our engagement to your family? You even dare to slander my daughter’s reputation; you’re utterly heartless.”
“Slander your daughter’s reputation?”
Yue Jiannan suddenly burst into laughter and pulled out a stack of photographs from his chest,
scattering them into the crowd like confetti.
“They say seeing is believing, so let’s let everyone take a good look for themselves!”
