Chapter 366: Severing Ties (Part 2)
Chapter 366 Severing Ties Part II
"Stop, don’t go!" Xiao Zhu shouted.
They left—whom would his uncle marry? If his uncle was unsatisfied, could he still marry Ru Yi?
Xiao Hua turned back: "Xiao Zhu, you selfish man to the extreme, you are not my brother, you have no right to stop me."
Mr. Xiao said indifferently: "Then do I have the right to stop you? If you want to sever ties with us, that’s fine. I have provided for your food and clothing, and your education all these years, now return all these to me!"
Mrs. Xiao looked at Mr. Xiao in disbelief: "Father, how can this be, Xiao Hua is the daughter I carried for ten months, how can we sever ties?"
However, Mr. Xiao ignored her and just kept his gaze on Xiao Hua.
In fact, he thought deeper. He felt it might be good if his daughter severed ties with him; that way, Tian Xianhua would have no reason to force him to marry off his daughter to him.
For this reason, he stopped his daughter to settle accounts, aiming to finalize the severance of their relationship.
Xiao Hua did not expect her father to actually settle accounts with her!
But Mengyu saw Mr. Xiao looking at his daughter and then at Tian Xianhua, and seeing the pain in his eyes, she suddenly had an idea.
This Mr. Xiao was not entirely heartless towards his daughter. He severed ties with her for her good.
Indeed, she dared to confront Tian Xianhua because she had the confidence. Even if she couldn’t overcome, she could just leave.
But their home was here, and Tian Xianhua was a local thug with significant influence. If he retaliated against them, they were utterly helpless given the remoteness.
Perhaps they were selfish, but they were also helpless.
Her heart softened a bit, and she said to Xiao Hua, "If your father wants to settle accounts, then settle with him. No matter how much it is, your elder sister will help you pay!"
Saying this, she even gestured for her to look at Mr. Xiao.
Listening to Mengyu’s words, and seeing the pain in Mr. Xiao’s eyes, Xiao Hua understood that her yelling about severing ties was just out of anger, but her father severing ties was for her good.
She lowered her head and thought for a moment, then said, "I can’t calculate exactly how much money I used, but I think on average, I must have used about fifty yuan a year?
"I’m seventeen this year, let’s count eighteen years, nine hundred yuan total, let it round up to one thousand yuan."
She turned to Mengyu: "Please elder sister, help me pay first, I will pay you back later."
Mengyu thought for a moment and said: "Let’s call the leader of your village to witness this."
Xiao Hua knew that indeed there needed to be a witness for such matters.
Many onlookers had already gathered around, and someone quickly ran to call the leader.
The leader, also the captain of the production team, was over fifty years old. Hearing that Xiao Hua wanted to sever ties with her family, he was extremely shocked; such a thing had never happened in Red Stone Village before.
But after hearing the full story, he understood Father Xiao Hua’s intentions. He didn’t want to marry his daughter to Tian Xianhua, who insisted on being related by marriage, so he intentionally drove his daughter out.
"Isn’t this amount of money too much?"
At that time, the production team hadn’t been disbanded yet, and each family’s annual share wasn’t much. After deducting shared food, a household with one hundred yuan was countable on one hand.
One thousand yuan was indeed a huge sum.
Xiao Hua said: "This is what I calculated. My father and mother raised me, fifty yuan each year, rounded up to one thousand yuan."