Chapter 180 - She could smell an affair from miles away~ (1)
Edited by Lulu
Tong Xuelu pulled the shoe out of Ma Mei’s mouth when she was done with the beating.
Ma Mei stared at her so hard that her eyes could crack at any moment. “Tramp, unless you kill me now, I will report you to the police!”
Tong Xuelu smacked her a couple of times with the sole of the shoe and said, “Why didn’t you ask why I am only beating you up and nobody else?”
Ma Mei’s face turned beet red. “……” Those were the exact words that she said to Tong Jiaming.
Tong Xuelu exclaimed, “Because you are such a tramp!”
Ma Mei’s eyes looked like they could poison somebody.
Tong Xuelu continued to mock her. “You want to report me to the police, huh? Go right ahead. Do you really think I would come and beat you up without having a plan first? If you dare go, I’ll expose all of the dirt I have on you, and we will go down together.”
Her words startled Ma Mei. She stared at Tong Xuelu viciously.
Had she found out her secret?
Ma Mei didn’t think that would be possible. She had covered up her tracks very well. Tong Xuelu must be bluffing.
With that thought, she forced herself to calm down. “What are you talking about? I have no dirt. So you want to go down together? Fine by me. Let’s do it!”
Tong Xuelu noticed the fraction of a second when Ma Mei became dazed. She had an idea.
Truthfully, she was bluffing.
However, she knew that everybody had dirt on them. Some were just meaningless little secrets, but others were major ones that they couldn’t afford for anyone to find out about.
Judging from Ma Mei’s expression, her secret belonged to the latter.
She looked down on Ma Mei, who was still propped up from the ground, while standing up. “You can try. The worst that could happen to me is to be sent to the reform camp for a short period of time. The same can’t be said about you though. Your life will be ruined, and you will be left with nothing!”
“! ! !”
Ma Mei’s face turned pale all of a sudden, and her limbs turned cold.
She had really found out!!!
Tong Xuelu was even more certain now.
What she still didn’t know was what exactly Ma Mei had done to be that terrified.
This was all very interesting.
Seeing that it was starting to get dark, she stood up and told Tong Jiaming and Tong Jiaxin, “Let’s go.”
Tong Jiaxin let go of Ma Mei’s feet and, as he walked past her, suddenly lifted up his foot and gave her a swift kick before he ran off madly.
Ma Mei was still in shock that her secret had been discovered, so she wasn’t prepared at all for Tong Jiaxin’s sudden attack.
Her waist hurt so much that she cried out loud, her face twisted up in pain.
Tong Jiaxin waited until he had run out of the alleyway before he said complacently, “Second Brother, I’ve avenged you. I kicked her!”
“Mmm.” Tong Jiaming gave him a look and acknowledged him, his lips curving upward.
Listening to what Tong Jiaxin was saying, Tong Xuelu told the two, “Do not tell anyone about what had happened today, okay?”
Both Tong Jiaming and Tong Jiaxin nodded.
Tong Jiaming never let his emotions show. However, one could tell that all the blues that he was feeling due the whole situation were gone from the bounce in his step.
Even though he couldn’t slap Ma Mei across her cheeks like she did to him, he was still very happy being able to give her a beating.
Before this, he became extremely angry every time he thought about how he was scolded and beaten without reason. For two nights in a row, he was so livid that he cried in his sleep.
Thankfully, he felt much better now.
Tong Xuelu only beat Ma Mei up for her two brothers.
She especially did it for Tong Jiaxin. Otherwise, this incident would scar him for the rest of his life, if it wasn’t resolved.
The additional information that she had obtained, however, was not planned.
She now had to figure out what exactly wasMa Mei’s secret and how to expose it.
***
Mother Xiao had always been an efficient person.
She phoned her Big Brother the day she met with Tong Xuelu and had him get her a thousand complete sets of high school mathematics, physics, and chemistry textbooks. Her Big Brother was a little baffled about why she wanted that many textbooks. Nevertheless, he still promised her he would get them for her.
Two days later, the textbooks were ready, so he called Mother Xiao to go and pick them up.