Chapter 424: Chapter 422: Call the Police
"Damn it, watch how I deal with you today."
Liang Hongmei struggled desperately, struggling and shouting, hoping someone might pass by.
Li Fugui wouldn’t give her that chance. He lifted his hand and stuffed his smelly sock into Liang Hongmei’s mouth.
A strong sour and rancid smell nearly made Liang Hongmei faint, and her stomach churned with nausea making her feel like dying.
She clawed at Li Fugui with both hands and feet. After all, a woman couldn’t overpower a big man. Liang Hongmei’s struggling was about to make Li Fugui lose his patience. To make her behave, Li Fugui used clothes to tie her hands behind her.
The winter temperature here was only seven or eight degrees, but wearing a thin cotton-padded jacket was fine.
Liang Hongmei was wearing a thin cotton-padded jacket, with a beige thermal shirt underneath.
With the smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, Liang Hongmei could only struggle with her legs, but now even her legs were restrained by Li Fugui.
In a moment, Liang Hongmei was already preparing to bite her tongue to end her life.
Just as Li Fugui continued, Lin Yinghui hurried over and kicked Li Fugui fiercely.
Li Fugui, caught off guard, rolled away from Liang Hongmei after being kicked twice.
"Mom..." Lin Yinghui’s face was extremely cold at this moment, and he quickly removed the smelly sock from his mom’s mouth, untying her hands.
Once Liang Hongmei’s mouth was free, she couldn’t hold back any longer and vomited relentlessly.
Lin Yinghui’s eyes darkened. He stepped forward, grabbed Li Fugui, and punched him several times.
Li Fugui howled in pain. How could a middle-aged man like him withstand a strong young man?
Lin Yinghui’s punches were powerful, each hit left Li Fugui reeling. In no time, Li Fugui’s face was bruised and swollen, and blood flowed from his nose and mouth.
It was clear that Lin Yinghui was venting all his accumulated grievances against Li Fugui over the years, hitting him with all his might.
"Ah Hui, stop, don’t beat him to death." Liang Hongmei had vomited everything out of her stomach clean. Seeing her son beating Li Fugui into immobilization on the ground, she feared he might kill him.
If he died, there wouldn’t be much to pity, but her son going to jail would be a significant loss.
After hearing Liang Hongmei’s words, Lin Yinghui stopped after a couple more punches. He stood up, walked over to his mom, and, seeing she was okay, hugged her with relief.
Mother and son comforted each other briefly. Lin Yinghui glanced at Li Fugui, who was curled up on the ground, and said, "Mom, let’s call the police. We can’t let someone like him go unpunished."
Liang Hongmei nodded, "Report, we must report it." Although this matter was disgraceful, she wasn’t afraid of people gossiping behind her back. Anyway, she never planned to remarry in this life, her children were grown, and soon she would be a grandmother. That’s enough for this life.
"Mom, can you walk?" Lin Yinghui worried about Liang Hongmei. The matter was his oversight.
In the past, when home, whenever going out, mom would always take him and his little sister along, not daring to go far alone.
Being away from home for two years, he had forgotten this, giving Li Fugui the chance.
Just now, as he walked over and heard Li Fugui’s voice over here, he knew something was wrong with his mom.
Fortunately, fortunately, he arrived in time.
"Mom, it’s okay, I can walk. You grab him first, and I’ll go call for someone from the village."
Liang Hongmei tidied her clothes while walking, and also adjusted her hair.
She didn’t want the villagers to see her in such a mess; if she appeared in the village disheveled, even if nothing happened, she’d be misunderstood. Appearing clean and tidy in the village, discerning people would understand. Liang Hongmei didn’t run back to the village but went into the fields of their village. She shouted twice, attracting a few people from the village. Among them was Liang Jian Country and his wife.
Seeing it was his sister, Liang Jian Country hurriedly went up to ask what happened.
Liang Hongmei quickly recounted what just happened, "He’s over by our family’s ancestral grave, Ah Hui is watching over that villain."
Over the years, the mountains haven’t been peaceful. Many scoundrels used to grab girls and wives from the roadside at night, taking them into the mountains and ruining them. Some vicious ones even killed to silence.
These past two years, nothing like that had happened, but today, they encountered one again, threatening the village’s security.
Several young and middle-aged men, grabbing hoes, headed to where Liang Hongmei mentioned.
Liang Jian Country, worried about his sister, asked Cha Zhenfang to take Liang Hongmei back home. Liang Hongmei didn’t want to go with them; she felt very nauseous and wanted to return home the next second to clean herself up.
Cha Zhenfang walked home with Liang Hongmei. In the fields, not only men but many women from the households were also there. It wasn’t the busy season for crops, but managing the field vegetables or picking some for visiting relatives. Unlike S City, where people seldom went to the fields during winter.
"What’s the matter exactly?"
"I don’t know when that villain was there, seems he hid for a while. I initially went with Ah Hui to pay respects to my father and mother, didn’t expect this to happen. Luckily, Ah Hui arrived in time." Liang Hongmei didn’t disclose who it was.
When she arrived, she saw her son re-tie the black cloth that had fallen from Li Fugui’s face. That was good. They pretended not to know.
To expose his black cloth in front of so many villagers, Li Fugui wouldn’t remain as village chief this time.
The women in the village were also frightened; if something had happened, how would they face anyone? They kept casting glances at Liang Hongmei.
Liang Hongmei wasn’t in the mood to ponder their gazes. With a cold face, she returned home and started brushing her teeth.
The toothbrush pushed to her throat almost made her puke again. Cha Zhenfang, who had been with her, seeing her brushing her teeth repeatedly at home, presumed that the villain had kissed Liang Hongmei’s mouth. She felt awful too. She was aware of the hardships Liang Hongmei had endured over the years. Just as life seemed to get better, her reputation was ruined by a villain. How could she withstand the saliva and gossip of the villagers in the future?
Thinking, this incident must not be known to outsiders.
Cha Zhenfang feared that Liang Hongmei would brush her mouth raw, so she quickly tried to stop her, "Ah Mei, it’s just that the villain kissed you, it’s like being nudged by a pig, don’t brush anymore. Look, you’ve almost brushed your gums raw. Once the villagers see this, who knows what they might say."
Liang Hongmei frowned, rinsed her mouth, and naturally laughed, "Saozi, what are you thinking? The villain stuffed my mouth with socks; it’s disgusting." As Liang Hongmei spoke about the socks, she could still feel the stench surrounding her.
She couldn’t help but gag again. After vomiting for so long, she had emptied her stomach, not even able to spit out any sour bile.
"Saozi, let’s not talk about this anymore, it makes me nauseous just thinking about it."
Seeing Liang Hongmei not having an extreme reaction, able to smile, showed she hadn’t suffered any major loss.
Cha Zhenfang was relieved.
Soon, the village became bustling and noisy.
Several people had already captured that villain back. By this time, the cloth on Li Fugui’s face had been removed by someone.
Covered in blood, in a pathetic state, without his shirt just taken off, head down, being held, gone was his former village chief demeanor.
Now, like a rat during a festival, everyone wanted to hit him. The little grandmother, hearing the news, came and began hitting Li Fugui with her cane.
"You shameless beast, watch me beat you to death, after bullying our Liang Family, now it’s not the time of communal meals, you are not the local despot anymore, see if I won’t beat you to death!"
"Beat, beat that beast to death!" The villagers were already dissatisfied with him, now caught red-handed, doing such a sordid thing. The villagers found their outlet for anger. Instantly, those with grudges got their revenge.
Especially those families bullied by Li Fugui, they picked up shovels and directly hit Li Fugui.
Li Fugui quickly became the target of a mob attack. If not for his people protecting him, he would have been beaten to death within minutes.
Lin Yinghui went to the brigade to call the police using the phone.