Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 53 - 0. Reporting the News, Misjudgment

Mistaking a water paddy weed for a snake and wetting his pants in public. It’s a shameful incident for any man, so embarrassing that he’d wish to bury his face in his crotch forever and never resurface.

And when it was spread openly and secretly by those few troublemakers who love to fan the flames, Lin Yuanzhi, the pants-wetting brigade leader, became famous, didn’t he?

Previously, when someone asked about the Liu family village, the response would definitely be: Yes, before liberation, the cemetery of the big landowner Liu family was there. And the story of a man who called his first wife a disgrace and insisted on divorcing her, as well as the disgraced wife, all originated from that village!

But now, when asked, eight out of ten people would respond with a sly smile: Ah, Liu family village, where the brigade leader who got scared by a few reeds and wet his pants is from! Haha, the village might be small, but let me tell you, there are quite a lot of genuine stories there...

Because of these rumors, Lin Yuanzhi was psychologically shadowed, almost like trauma.

He couldn’t stand anyone laughing in front of him because any smile, no matter what kind, seemed to carry a hint of mockery to him.

He couldn’t stand anyone speaking to him, especially when their gaze shifted below the second button from his chest. It would remind him of his wet pants, making him even more suspicious that the gaze was a different form of disapproval or even ridicule...

No matter how his family comforted and reassured him, he couldn’t get over that psychological hurdle. Until Dai Honghua told him about Shuzhen and Lianshan’s intention to marry, with the date set for a few days later. That’s when he finally let go of his worries, hurriedly put on his shoes, went to town, and planned to use the town government office phone to call his wife’s younger brother and inform him.

To hear his opinions, should he let Liu Shuzhen and Lianshan get married!

Or should he use every means to mess it up so that Liu Shuzhen, who married into the Dai family and bore a child for the Dai family, even after divorce, couldn’t marry anyone else.

To inform his backing, Lin Yuanzhi wasn’t even afraid of being laughed at!

After all, as his wife said: as long as he still firmly sits as the head of Liu family village, who would dare to mock him to his face?

His reputation was already mostly lost when the laughter started. Now the key thing is to save face, strive to make the inner foundation stronger, and then the lost reputation would naturally return.

Han Xin back then was so downcast that he crawled through someone’s legs, but once he made it big, wasn’t he praised as someone who bore humiliation with perseverance?

History, after all, is always written by the victors.

As long as he succeeds, those embarrassing matters will naturally disappear from everyone’s memory.

After reassuring himself for a while, Lin Yuanzhi could once again walk proudly down the path to town.

The town magistrate Fang Wenjing, with his straight moral compass and strong sense of justice, didn’t think much of Dai Weiguo, who left his first wife, nor of Lin Yuanzhi, who rose to power through connections.

However, with Dai Weiguo transforming from an ordinary person to someone important, backed by the prominent Bai family in the Capital City, Fang Wenjing wasn’t keen to risk smashing his egg against this stone over trivial matters and potentially incur the Bai family’s wrath.

Because of this, when Lin Yuanzhi came to borrow the phone, Fang didn’t flatly refuse by insisting public assets couldn’t be used privately. He just asked Lin to pay fifty cents per minute for the call and an additional one yuan for renting the phone, making it official that he rented the phone and didn’t take advantage of party and state assets.

Knowing the magistrate was unyielding, Lin Yuanzhi didn’t argue over this trivial matter.

He simply slapped a bill on the table without waiting for Fang Wenjing to walk away, and started anxiously dialing.

With a few beeps, Dai Weiguo’s deep and magnetic voice came through the phone.

No wonder he could attract the chief’s daughter as a second-marriage husband; even his voice sounded so appealing!

Lin Yuanzhi marveled inwardly but didn’t dawdle since it was fifty cents a minute after all, right?

As he relayed the incident in a crisp manner, the other end fell into a long silence.

And on the other end, Dai Weiguo felt as if his head had been struck by lightning, leaving him utterly stunned.

Was Shuzhen really planning to remarry so soon?

And with their child?

Since the day of the divorce, Dai Weiguo knew his ex-wife would definitely remarry.

But he never thought this day would come so quickly, so suddenly.

Originally, he figured letting go meant completely letting go. Divorce, after all, meant the man and woman would go their separate ways.

Yet, upon hearing the news that his ex-wife was remarrying, that the once-intimate tenderness would be shared with another man, and that the son he had longed for would call someone else dad, it felt as though he had swallowed a fly. His heart ached as if there was a gaping hole in his chest, spreading pain with every breath.

Before he could sort out his thoughts and give Lin Yuanzhi a clear response on the other end.

His remarried wife Bai Jing entered the room with a playful laugh: "Who are you calling and chatting so happily with? Mind if I listen in?"

Dai Weiguo quickly composed himself, gently tapping Bai Jing’s nose with endearing affection: "Why such distant words! We’re husband and wife; what secrets could there possibly be? It’s a call from our elder cousin’s husband from the Dai family, just chatting a bit. By the way, he told us the happy news of Comrade Liu Shuzhen deciding to step out from the shadow of feudal arranged marriage and remarry."

"Happy news? Really, Weiguo considers it happy news that his former wife, once sharing the same bed, is remarrying?" Bai Jing raised an eyebrow, her eyes scrutinizing him intensely, almost as if they could see right through him like an ultrasound.

Dai Weiguo’s eyes flickered at her words, and his smile took on a tinge of bitterness: "It is happy news, truly felt from the bottom of my heart. Because only when she remarries and lives well will the guilt in my heart gradually lessen and eventually disappear. From then on, erasing her completely from my memory, I can solely focus on living sweetly and happily with you."

Bai Jing mockingly chuckled inwardly: Was this his way of fearing I’d trouble Liu Shuzhen, implying that if she didn’t do well, he would keep thinking about her, feeling guilty, and be unable to forget her?

Oh, men, always wanting more — truly greedy!

Acting like a Chen Shimei while still yearning for a reputation of broad-mindedness and benevolence. If he were so kind, family-oriented, and responsible, why couldn’t he hold firm back then, withstanding temptations, remaining upright and unyielding?

Bai Jing lowered her eyes to hide the sarcasm within, softly allowing Dai Weiguo to embrace her, asking no questions about whether Shuzhen had terminated the pregnancy. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel-com

In her view, anyone who could swiftly decide to remarry less than a month after divorce must have a decisive character like hers, being ruthless to others and even more ruthless to themselves.

Once decided on remarriage, there would surely be a complete severance from the past. There’s no way she’d let her ex-husband’s child become an obstacle in her future marital life or let his/her existence affect the future well-being of her own children.

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