Ever since Shen Zhiwei was drowned in a pond, Miao Qiuduo's family left Shiqu Village as if they were being chased by dogs.
"You say this Qing Ge'er is really weird! How can he be so brave that he dares to beat his own father and force his own uncle to death!" Huang Wulang patted his chest with lingering fear. Clan concepts and filial piety are very strong these days. Shen Qing's behavior undoubtedly subverted their cognition, and someone was killed, which made Shen Qing seem even more cruel.
"You said your sister was easy to talk to, but I don't think she takes you seriously!"
Miao Qiuduo's teeth were almost broken: "I didn't expect my brothers and sisters to flatter the powerful and look down on the weak, without any regard for family affection at all!" And her mother! Every word was directed towards his sister and Qing'er. Isn’t it just that he is successful now and his family is prosperous?
But she didn't mention that she hadn't had any contact with her parents' family for the past ten years. That's really selfish of her.
Huang Jinbao snorted twice beside him: "Cousin is not that bad... His uncle killed cousin Zhang, who was cousin's biological brother, and caused aunt to have a miscarriage and unable to have children. It is not right for cousin to take revenge on him... His father was also cut off from relatives a long time ago, he is not a good guy..."
Even though Shen Qing had already rejected him and hadn't given him a good look, Huang Jinbao was still thinking about Shen Qing. He didn't want to hear his parents say bad things about Shen Qing, and couldn't help but want to say good things to excuse Shen Qing.
"Shut up! No one likes you, but you're still being so stubborn!" Miao Qiuduo kicked Huang Jinbao in frustration: "You're really a failure. You're actually attracted to that ugly guy!"
Huang Jinbao wanted to say that his cousin was not an ugly boy, but he touched his leg that was hurt by the kick, looked at his mother with fierce eyes, and swallowed the words in grievance.
How could Miao Qiuduo not know that Shen Zhiwei deserved his punishment? But it's not just her, many people in Lantang Village think that Shen Zhiwei deserves the punishment and can die, but he cannot be forced to death by Qingger!
If Miao Xing and Miao Wang stood up for the Miao family and asked Shen Zhiwei to pay with his life, it would be only natural. If it were Shen Qing, it would be considered as forcing someone to death, which is a heinous crime!
Because Qingger can force Shen Zhiwei to death, he can be merciless to her, his aunt. Others may follow suit, being disrespectful to their elders and ignoring their so-called family affection! Whether Shen Zhiwei is right or wrong is not so important. What is important is that they actually share the same position as Shen Zhiwei. No one is perfect, and no one can guarantee that they have not done anything wrong. So should they be treated like this by the younger generation?
The butt determines the head, so these people naturally dislike Shen Qing's behavior.
Isn’t that the case now? Shen Qing was so ruthless even to his own father and uncle, so how could he indulge her, his aunt? Miao Qiuduo was naturally angry.
When they came back this time, they originally thought that they would succeed, but all the grocery stores in the city were closed. They were very reluctant to go back now: although they had been living that kind of life to begin with, they had already mentally allocated Shen Qing's property to their own home and had imagined how they would spend and enjoy it in the future. Going back now would seem like a huge loss. Shen Qing refused to let them take advantage and seemed like he owed them something. He felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought about it.
In addition, when Huang Sanlang was temporarily staying at Huang Sanlang's house, he had hoped that his sister-in-law would help him negotiate and ask the workshop in Lantang Village to give him a preferential price for starch sausage. However, he did not expect that his brother's wife had offended everyone at once, and his wish was dashed. Huang Sanlang's family could not help but speak in unpleasant ways.
Life is not going well at all! Miao Qiuduo blamed all of this on Shen Qing. Her emotions grew more and more intense, and she hated Shen Qing to the core.
Just when Miao Qiuduo's family was struggling over whether to return to the city, they unexpectedly met the owner of the pawnshop. Anping County is so small and there are so many people doing business there. I know them all more or less. Even if I don’t know them, I’ve at least heard of them. Huang Sanlang's family has been running a grocery store in the county town for more than 20 years and has some friendship with the shopkeeper.
At first, Miao Qiuduo used Shen Qing to raise her own status, fearing that the shopkeeper would look down on her. But she was upset, and she talked about Shen Qing's affairs as gossip in a few words, and the sour taste was suffocating: "We really took family affection too seriously this time, thinking that since we are all real relatives, they will definitely help us. Who knew that they didn't think so, so we ended up with nothing."
When Miao Qiuduo said this, Huang Sanlang felt a little uncomfortable, and Huang Sanlang's wife rolled her eyes in annoyance.
Family love? No one in this family cares as little about family affection as the fifth family, and yet they have the nerve to criticize others!
"My nephew is obsessed with money now. He doesn't care about his family except money. I won't say much. I don't know where he got all that money. It's dirty for me to get my hands on it. He dresses up as a man in the county town every day, hanging out with this guy and that guy... Tsk."
Miao Qiuduo originally wanted to make up some dirty rumors about Shen Qing to vent her anger, but she didn't expect that the pawnshop clerk would match the person. When he met Shen Qing at the Kaihua Sausage Shop that time, he felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was. After hearing what Miao Qiuduo said, he suddenly had an epiphany and cried out in surprise: "Ah, it's him! Is it Mr. Shen from the Flowering Sausage Shop?"
Miao Qiuduo curled her lips: "It's him, what young master? He's my sister's little brother. He puts on some decent clothes and covers up his mole, and dares to pretend to be a man! Bah, a brother is a brother, and he can't be the prince even if he wears a dragon robe!"
She felt very happy when she belittled Shen Qing like this, as if by saying that Shen Qing was worthless, she herself felt superior to Shen Qing and had a sense of superiority.
Seeing Miao Qiuduo's attitude, who would still consider her as Shen Qing's relative? An enemy is more like an enemy. The shopkeeper and the clerk rolled their eyes and pulled Miao Qiuduo to ask about Shen Qing's background. When the two pieces of information were put together, the mystery surrounding Shen Qing became even bigger: Old Lady Miao and Miao Qiuduo said that Shen Qing's current fortune was all due to the favor of a noble man from outside the area. The nobleman had just arrived in Anping County from another place and was short of people, so Shen Qing seized this opportunity.
The people in the pawnshop have been immersed in the county town for a long time. Where did the noble people from other places come from in Anping County? Isn’t that Mr. Shen?
He pretends to be his own benefactor? Since that noble person doesn't exist, where does this guy get the money?
The pawnshop owner thought of the exquisite jewelry that Shen Qing had taken out.
"Will his family buy him a dowry? Just listen to his story!" Miao Qiuduo immediately exposed Shen Qing's excuse: "My sister's mother-in-law is very stingy and she looks down on me the most. Not to mention buying him a dowry, she might as well sell him off and let him go to another man's house naked."
Miao Qiuduo knew Old Lady Shen quite well.
"Then the source of his money must be unethical." The pawnshop owner's eyes sparkled, the matter he had been thinking about for so long finally had some clues. As for other guys, they may rely on doing sex trade to accumulate capital, and then do some small business to make a living. But it is absolutely impossible for that guy to look like that. Those jewellery must have another origin.
An ancient tomb was dug up in the mountains? Or some treasure? This was the most likely scenario they could think of. But no matter which one it is, Shen Qing's wealth today is enviable. The pawnshop owner and Miao Qiuduo hit it off immediately and planned to expose Shen Qing's identity, making him too embarrassed to stay in the county. After that, they would force him to tell the source of the money and split it 50-50, with each family getting half.
At that time, she would use this handle to force her sister to marry Qing'er to Jinbao and lock Shen Qing in the inner house, and then Shen Qing's several workshops in the countryside would all belong to their family.
Not to mention, although this set of ideas is not in compliance with many regulations, the possibility of success of such operation is actually very high. For example, if a powerful family takes a fancy to someone else's heirloom craft, they will frame the husband of that family, either killing him or putting him in jail, and then force his wife to be a concubine in order to obtain the family's secret recipe.
In this era, being a concubine is not just a sexual relationship, but also a legal means of turning this woman or this boy into one's own "property".
There are many illegal aspects in this. For example, why would the wife agree to be a concubine? But if she was forced into the mansion or her innocence was ruined, she would have no choice but to become a concubine. Now that the man who is in charge of the family is gone, who will care about the wishes of the women and the boys? After all, under power, there is a lot of room for maneuver. Even the owner behind the pawnshop has succeeded countless times.
Bullying others by taking advantage of their power has become a habit for them, so they naturally regard Shen Qing as someone who can be manipulated in this way. What's so scary about a country boy bluffing and pretending to be a powerful person?
So Miao Qiuduo took advantage of that day to come forward and expose Shen Qing's identity in the street.
What they didn't know was that Shen Qing had been thinking about this question since the day Miao Qiuduo threatened him at Miao's house that she would reveal her identity.
But what he was thinking about was not how much trouble it would be after being exposed, but that Shen Qing himself began to have the idea of revealing his brother's identity.
He disguised himself as a man at first because he was weak. He was threatened and intimidated when he tried to be a tool, and was looked down upon when he tried to buy something. Who makes this world a place where men are valued and boys are despised? Everyone looks down on me! At that time, Shen Qing could not gain respect or be treated normally by others as a boy, so he could only pretend to be a man to protect himself.
But what is borrowed is borrowed after all.
Is it Shen Qing himself, or his manly appearance, that others respect? It was not until the day when he was threatened by Miao Qiuduo that Shen Qing suddenly realized, is he still afraid of being exposed today?
Shen Qing not only pretended to be a man, but he also had many moments in his heart when he wished he was really a man, especially shortly after Shen Zhang's death.
If he was a man, he and Miao would not have suffered so much unfair treatment in the Shen family. He could protect his mother and support Miao. If he were a man, he wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to set up his own business.
If he was a man, Wang Liuzi and the others would not have bullied him when he was a child.
But that was Shen Qing a long time ago. As time goes by, Shen Qing looks back today and realizes that what he hopes for is not to become a real man, but to have equal rights and treatment as men. It is an awareness and initial awakening of unfair treatment.
No one guided or told him what fairness was. When Shen Qing first began to have some sense of fairness, he believed that the only way to obtain fairness was to become a man.
Now, if boys and girls can get the same power and treatment, who would care whether they are a boy or a girl, and who would care whether they have that extra ability to "carry on the family line"?
The women he met at the end of the world, Qu Weiwei, Ge Bingbing, Chen Jiaqian... None of them had ever felt inferior because they were women, none of them felt that they were half a head shorter than men, and none of them hated their identity as a woman... They were women, but they were no worse than men.
Including Yu Le, who had encountered bad things before.
Shen Qing also learned a lot from them. She learned to face up to her gender, learned not to blame herself for the mistakes of society and environment, and learned not to desire to be a man anymore, because now Shen Qing, as a young man, is already a thousand times stronger than the average man.
He also wanted to take off this manly skin. After all, with this skin on, his success and excellence still seemed to be shrouded in the shadow of worldly views. He doesn't want this shadow. He can be successful as a man and get respect from others.
The respected and even feared owner of the Flowering Sausage Shop may not be Mr. Shen from another place, but the upright one is the young man Shen Qing.
Shen Qing had been thinking about this for some days, but he just kept procrastinating and didn't think of a suitable opportunity to reveal it. After all, what he was facing was not only a change in his identity, but also the numerous lies he told to the people around him... These lies made Shen Qing even more distressed and he didn't know how to deal with them.
And today, Miao Qiuduo and the pawnshop clerk just happened to give him a push.
So he took off his disguise, stood in front of these people with the identity of Shen Qing, and asked them openly: "I am a brother, so what?"
Miao Qiuduo and the pawnshop clerk were both stunned for a moment. Shen Qing's reaction was totally beyond their expectations. How come he wasn't afraid or panicked at all?
He shouldn't be so flustered that he can't walk, hiding his face with his sleeves in shame, or refusing to admit that he is a brother. They could rush over and catch him, and expose his identity more thoroughly, making it impossible for him to survive in Anping County, and never show up on the streets again...
Why does he seem proud of it instead of ashamed of it?
The pawnshop clerk was stunned for a moment, a little intimidated by Shen Qing's momentum, and stammered: "You, you are a country boy, how can you pretend to be Mr. Shen and deceive so many people? How can a country boy like you have the money to open a shop? Your money must have come from an illegal source, you'd better tell the truth..."
However, before he could finish his words, Shen Qing had already walked slowly forward.
Buddy:! ! ! Why isn’t he afraid and instead comes over?!
The next second, he was slapped in the face by Shen Qing, and a buzzing sound came from his ears.
He looked at Shen Qing in disbelief.
"It's the second time." Shen Qing looked at him coldly, turned around and slapped the man at the pawnshop counter.
Counter man:? ? I haven't spoken yet! !
Shen Qing kindly explained his doubts to him: "Last time I went to your pawnshop to pawn something, you slandered me for not getting the stuff from legitimate sources. You still dare to bring it up now? I don't think you feel you're in the wrong at all, right?"
Miao Qiuduo was stunned. After a while, she screamed, "How dare you hit someone? Do you have any sense of law?"
"The king's law?" Shen Qing sneered, "Aunt, don't you think it's ridiculous to hear you say this? They can slander me at will, but can't I teach them a lesson? Look at the scene you are in, you don't just want to shout a few words, do you? But have you forgotten whose territory this is? Whose house is this?"
Just as he finished speaking, the back door of the shop was suddenly kicked open, and Ruyi, accompanied by six or seven boys and four tall and strong men, rushed in with various sticks in their hands and surrounded the group of people.
Miao Qiuduo was dumbfounded. Things were not going at all as she expected. She had never seen such a scene before. The boys and strong men who broke in looked ferocious and glared at people as if they wanted to eat them. Miao Qiuduo was so scared that she screamed loudly and hid in Huang Wulang's arms, not daring to look up.
Huang Wulang hurried to see the pawnshop owner and clerk, but saw that they were also terrified and had no idea how to deal with the situation. The few people they brought with them were even softer than noodles and were defeated by Shen Qing's men in no time.
Total defeat. Huang Wulang regretted it very much. He should have known earlier that the brother who forced his own uncle to death could not be a good person. ! He must be confused to think that the pawnshop owner has deep roots in the county. Mr. Chen is not an ordinary citizen!
"Qing'er, Qing'er, this is all a misunderstanding. We are real relatives... Your aunt just thinks it's too hard for a boy like you to show up in the county town... I, we were also deceived!" Huang Wulang made a few excuses without thinking, hugged Miao Qiuduo tightly and huddled in the corner.
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"Don't be so arrogant. How dare you hit people?" The man at the counter covered half of his face and said in a timid manner. He had just been slapped by Shen Qing, his teeth were loose, and his mouth was full of salty taste: "I'm going to sue you in the government office!"
Shen Qing smiled coldly and moved closer to the gentleman at the counter. The man at the counter looked stubborn, but when he saw Shen Qing approaching, he took several steps back in fear. Shen Qing grabbed his collar and dragged him over, threw him to the ground, and stepped on his face: "Go and sue. Which chief clerk or which clerk is your family close to? Let me see how this slap is worth mobilizing troops. If you don't go and sue, I will probably go too."
"I didn't know what secrets your pawnshop was doing back then, do you think I don't know now? Go and report to the police quickly. I want to see whether my slapping you is more serious or your pawnshop's collusion with the petty officials to secretly receive the stolen goods is more serious!"
The man at the counter was stepped on by him. He kept saying "you, you" for a long time but ended up not saying anything.
"Brother Jin." Shen Qing glanced outside. The sausage in the Gold Tooth Man's hand fell to the ground, he was completely stunned. But when he heard Shen Qing's voice, he hesitated for only two seconds, and then he immediately made a decision. He walked over as usual and said respectfully, "Mr. Shen."
"I rented this shop to them. Can I cancel the contract?" At that time, the shop was rented out through the Gold Tooth People. Now Shen Qing does not plan to rent it to these people, which will only cause trouble for himself.
"Oh, oh, okay!" The man with gold teeth forced himself to recover from the shock and get into working mode. “At that time, we signed a one-year lease. As long as Mr. Shen returns the rent and compensates them for one month’s rent, he can cancel the contract!”
Shen Qing nodded, "Then help me to cancel the contract. I feel sick to rent the house to these people." He took out a piece of silver from his pocket and handed it to the gold-toothed man: "The extra is for you. Help me deal with it."
He then said to his own servants, "Throw out everything in this shop, and these people too."
A group of boys immediately started fighting, and Brother Tieshan also joined in angrily. It's said that they were throwing things out, but it's almost the same as smashing the store. They just threw whatever they had out the door. The people watching the excitement outside the door were a little afraid at first and didn't dare to step forward, but soon the brave ones picked up the things on the ground and ran away.
The owner of Cuihua Shop was heartbroken: "I didn't say I wanted to cancel the lease, why did you do that? Is there any law..." He really regretted getting involved with the pawnshop owner. They were just an employer behind the shop, but this shop was his achievement, and the pawnshop would not compensate him for such a huge loss!
Shen Qing just looked at them coldly and said, "If you want to scheme against others, you must be prepared to hit a wall. Others will not let you scheme against them and do whatever you want. To this day, you still regard me as the farm boy you used to be. You think I am easy to bully and manipulate. You are too stupid."
He retracted his foot and kicked the man at the counter a little further away. The people in the pawnshop were still a little unconvinced, and the counter gentleman who was stepped on by Shen Qing glared at Shen Qing with resentment, deeply hating this great humiliation.
However, the man with the gold tooth whispered a few words in their ears, and they finally lost their temper.
They can't afford to offend the Chief Clerk and Secretary Yang. Even if they go to the government office to sue, they probably won't stand a chance of winning. Even if we don't consider the forces behind them, if you go to the government to complain after getting slapped, even if you report such a trivial matter to the authorities, the officials will only think that you are making fun of him, and it's good enough that he doesn't beat you with a stick!
After bullying others for a long time, this is the first time they are bullied by others. These people feel depressed and unwilling, but they can do nothing about it!
Lin Ning looked around and quietly tugged at Shen Qing's sleeve: "If they really sue you, I will testify for you that they were the ones who sent people to surround you first, and then you fought back. My father will definitely believe me!"
Shen Qing was stunned, then he remembered that Lin Ning and Lin Zaoer were still beside him. Lin Zao'er was already stunned, but Lin Ning was still staring at him with bright eyes: "You were so powerful just now! So amazing!"
It seems... my small mirror was not given away in vain? Shen Qing didn't think of borrowing Lin Ning's power at first. He acted with discretion and only slapped the two people who slandered him. The others just surrounded them to scare them: the people in the pawnshop always wanted to scare him, so why couldn't he scare them back?
Throwing things away is just the termination of the contract, it does not mean that you don’t have to pay compensation. At most you can pay more and buy something you are satisfied with. Even if he was reported to the government, he would not be punished for what he had done. At most, he could give a generous gift to the chief clerk and Yang Shuban.
But now that Lin Ning had spoken, Shen Qing began to think. The chief clerk and the clerk were certainly good, but couldn't he get in touch with the county magistrate?
He just smiled at Lin Ning, and saw that Lin Ning's face was red again. She lowered her head and said shyly: "I didn't know before, but you are also a brother... I am also a brother, then, can we be friends?"
Shen Qing:? I always feel that Lin Ning is weird.
But, being friends?
Shen Qing was stunned for a moment. He...is a man without friends.
Especially in the past. He couldn't play with the boys and girls of the same age in the village, and ran in the mountains every day. In fact, he doesn't have the free time like others to make friends and maintain relationships. He spends all his time filling his stomach.
Later...does Lian Rong count? Obviously Lian Rong is more like a little sister. In fact, he and Ou Ge'er were not very familiar with each other, but he just saw their relationship with Aunt Lian Er.
At the end of the world... Maybe at the beginning, he regarded Song Kaiji as a friend, but later they quickly became together. Qu Weiwei, Tang Wenjie, Chen Jiaqian and the others are friends, but compared to friends, they are more like subordinates.
Or they are Song Kaiji's friends, and Shen Qing and them just developed some bonds through Song Kaiji, and then developed some feelings for each other.
Shen Qing realized later that there seemed to be a lack of friends and friendship in his life. He was too anxious. He was always weighing whether this person was useful to him before deciding to invest time, emotions and other costs in him, including Song Kaiji, Qu Weiwei and others at the beginning.
He didn't open his heart to another person without any reason at the beginning, nor did he feel the need to do so.
Shen Qing looked at Lin Ning who was looking at him with bright eyes. At this moment, Lin Ning seemed to no longer have the aura of a county magistrate's son, and his eyes were full of sincerity. It seemed that what he extended to Shen Qing was not just an invitation to be friends, but an opportunity to help him improve his personality and complete his life, and to move to the next stage.
Shen Qing scratched his head. The man who had just killed decisively was now a little dazed. He said to Lin Ning embarrassedly: "I... haven't made many friends, so there may be some things I haven't done well. If you don't mind, please take care of me."
Lin Ning pinched his thigh hard under the cover of his sleeves, trying to make his smile look less strange. He looked at Shen Qing with curved eyebrows and said solemnly: "Okay."
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