"You rebellious...rebellious girl, you were eavesdropping on our conversation and then went to dig up our ancestral graves?"

As Ruan Kangri was speaking, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His body went numb, and the half of his body that was still relatively intact gradually lost sensation. He stretched out a trembling hand...

"Third brother, third brother, restrain her and let's go together to the ancestral graves, quick, hurry!"

Standing on the second-floor escalator, Ruan Tai stared blankly at the scene below, propped up on one leg.

Even the most foolish person should understand that Dad handed over the Ruan family business to the third brother. The eldest sister overheard this and went to look for him, but found nothing.

His gaze was somewhat blank, staring aimlessly at his younger sister, covered in dust and dirt, his father, paralyzed on one side due to a stroke, his wife with a bruised and swollen face, and the broken... broken...

Shan Jing's appearance startled Ruan Tai. "What do you want to do? Push me down and kill me so you can elope with your lover?"

With her bruised and swollen face, Shan Jing rolled her eyes, stood next to Ruan Tai, placed her hands on the wooden stairs, and asked, "Shall we go?"

Ruan Tai was bewildered. "Where are you going?"

"Going back to the South!" Shan Jing tucked her stray hairs behind her ears, and her pale face, usually so affected, was now devoid of its usual pretense. It was unclear whether her face was blurred or if this was simply how she was.

Thirty years ago, I had a gentle mother and a loving father.

Later, an injured man hid in my house. When the Japanese invaders attacked, in order to survive, he used my parents as bait to create a diversion and eventually escaped.

My kind parents were brutally murdered by those Japanese devils.

Hiding in the cesspool, I witnessed firsthand the entire process of my parents being tortured and murdered.

Ruan Tai frowned. "You didn't say this when we got married. Now you're telling me this hoping I'll pity you and agree to a divorce? Let me tell you, don't even think about it..."

Shan Jing turned her head to look at him, her gaze like that of someone caring for someone with intellectual disabilities. "Do you know why I don't love the daughter I had with you?"

Before anyone could answer, she asked and answered herself: "Because she's just like you." Equally stupid.

So stupid, she's completely unsuitable for this family.

She didn't love Ruan Xianxian, the child she had with her enemy's son. She schemed to send her out of the Ruan family and to Yan Fenghua, who would give her love and a home.

But... life is unpredictable!

For the first ten years of his life, that little fool was consumed by the pain of not being loved by his mother.

Ha, doesn't she realize that without anyone secretly protecting her, how could she have grown up in the Ruan family, surrounded by wolves and jackals?

But the little idiot seems to have made some progress lately!

She didn't love her for the first eighteen years, and she won't love her again.

May that jade pendant given to her by her grandmother accompany her for the rest of her life in peace and health!

Dan Jing, carrying a small suitcase in one hand, turned around and asked one last time:

"Shall we go?"

He's stupid and selfish, and she's vicious and wicked. Yeah! They're both unfit to be parents. They don't deserve to dirty her hands. Let them live like this for the rest of their lives!

...

On the other side, Ruan Kangri, barely clinging to life, was led by Ruan An to the Ruan family ancestral tomb. When the empty tomb chamber, so devoid that even rats would spit out two grains of rice before leaving, opened...

The father and son were both dumbfounded!

Where is the money? Where are the gold bars? Where are the cultural relics and artifacts from five thousand years of history?

Ruan Kangri felt his vision go black and his blood rush to his head. With a loud "whoosh," he vomited several mouthfuls of black blood. His body fell straight backward, his head hitting the tombstone, and he lost consciousness.

Ruan An witnessed his father vomiting blood and falling into a coma, but he paid no attention to it. With bloodshot eyes, he kicked his own sister, who shared the same parents, to the ground.

"Tell me! Did you take all the money and hide it last night?"

Bang--!

Snap!

ah--!

"Speak! You bitch!"

When Ruan Xianxian received the call that Ruan Kangri was dying and being treated in the hospital, she had just finished drinking the last bit of wine in her glass.

"Compared to Maotai-flavored baijiu, I definitely prefer the light-aroma type!"

Just then, the brigade's loudspeaker came on, telling her to go to the brigade office to answer a phone call.

As they passed the front yard, the five were arguing fiercely about who had sold more and who had sold less. Ruan Xianxian reminded them:

"It's almost time!"

The five fell silent instantly. Finally, unable to gather enough food no matter what they did, they turned their attention to the food in the kitchen.

Ye Guo: "For sale?"

Wenrou: "Sell it! We can borrow grain from the brigade first, and if that doesn't work, we can pick wild vegetables on the mountain. We won't starve!"

The moon is exceptionally round tonight. As it shines through the green gauze curtain, I hear a few sounds of painful pleasure.

Even dogs that pass by would pry open their legs to check if a dog is male or female. Ruan Xianxian stopped and squatted down, curiously peering behind the tree.

"What are you doing, you little brat? What are you staring at here for?" A sharp voice, neither male nor female, suddenly rang in my ears.

Ruan Xianxian, who was no longer afraid of the strange noises she kept hearing, looked around with her eyes and finally met Huang Erda, a big-eyed and cute old man, at the bottom of the field.

Ruan Xianxian squatted down, afraid that the other party would ask her the next moment whether it looked like a human or a fairy!

Fortunately, what I imagined didn't happen!

Grandpa Huang said, "This two-legged creature looks rather dim-witted; it can fall to the ground even when it's just squatting down properly."

Ruan Xianxian picked up a small stick and poked at it, lowering her voice to ask, "Second Uncle! Do you know who the wild mandarin ducks behind the tree are?"

The weasel was extremely pleased by the call of "Second Uncle," and it pushed aside the branch that Ruan Xianxian had been poking at it, squatted down beside him, and peered out to observe.

"You mean her? Don't you know the famous pretty widow in the village? The Ai family's daughter-in-law, she married into the village from the city back then."

Unfortunately, her husband, who was serving in the army, died away from home less than two years after their marriage. Her family absolutely refused to allow her to return home, and so it ended up like this.

"Da Gui" refers to the practice of a married woman who, after being divorced by her husband's family or after the death of her husband, returns to her mother's family forever.

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