Chapter 181 - 176: Luo Zhiming’s Treacherous Scheme
Zhiming Luo didn’t dare to speak up, but Luo Dashan, who was holding Luo Zhiyong, tensed up and looked at Luo Zhiming and asked, "Trouble? What exactly happened here?"
Luo Zhiming stood in the corner, silent.
"You won’t talk, eh? Then I’ll say it for you." Luo Zhiyong recounted every detail of Luo Zhiming’s time in the provincial city, "Luo Zhiming only spent a little over a month in the provincial city. First, he argued with a boss on the construction site because he wasn’t working properly and lost someone’s bricks. All the boss did was scold him a few times, and he almost got into a fight."
"After that, I got him a job at the lumber mill, and he ended up getting involved with a woman who had divorced. Now, she’s pregnant and is asking him for money for an abortion. He doesn’t have the money, so he wrote an IOU, and he even gave her my military unit’s address, suggesting that she should go there every month to ask me for money, US$ 50 a month, until the debt was paid off."
"Luo Zhiming, are you even human? We sent you to the provincial city to work, but not only did you fail to earn any money, you even dragged your older brother into this mess." After hearing everything, Zhou Yunmei was furious, and she hit Luo Zhiming on the head several times while scolding vehemently, "If you really mess up your big brother’s work in the military, do you want your dad and me to live off the wind for the rest of our lives?"
Seeing that Zhou Yunmei completely missed the point, Luo Zhiyong interrupted her, "Mom, stop talking about those irrelevant things."
Then, he pointed at Luo Zhiming again and asked, "Luo Zhiming, tell me, what do you plan to do about this?"
Luo Zhiming swallowed nervously, muttering in a low voice, "Big brother, I just don’t have any money. Even if I die, I can’t cough up that much."
Luo Zhiyong replied with a laugh borne of extreme anger, "So, you think it’s easy for me to come up with US$ 500?"
"US$ 500?" Zhou Yunmei reacted to the mention of money and went ballistic, grabbing a rolling pin from the stove and hitting Luo Zhiming hard, "I’ll beat the life out of you, you waster! US$ 500 could build a house in our countryside, and you’ve just gone and spent it on someone else!"