Liu Liangjie's words opened up a past event, and his tone was a little heavy: "
Of course, no one here knew about it, but back in Kuoshan City, it was a turbulent time. The Ren and Shen families had been at odds for generations, supposedly because of an ancestral land dispute. The hatred had been passed down through the generations, as if ingrained in their bones.
Both families were large families, with quite a few members, even though they lived in the same village and their children grew up together. However, due to family issues, they were always fighting and arguing with each other. Shen Shigen's life in the Shen family was not easy. He lost his mother at an early age, and with a stepmother and a stepfather, his peers in the Shen family were not friendly to him.
In private, he actually got along quite well with Jingze's uncles. At least he didn't look for trouble when he met them like he did with other people.
Alu has a good relationship with him, mainly because once Alu fell into the water and he passed by and rescued Alu, so Alu has always been grateful to him.
Shen Shigen reached the age to get married, but his family was so poor that he couldn't get married. His father and stepmother didn't care about him at all, so they came up with an idea: a marriage alliance, to make the Ren family and the Shen family shake hands and make peace. They proposed that the candidate from the Ren family was Ren Xingqi, Jingze's mother.
Why was Ren Xingqi chosen? Because her parents were deceased, and her older and younger brothers were poor, lacking ambition and support. The elders in the clan exploited this orphaned girl, concluding the engagement even though the five Ren siblings disagreed. Aqi's branch was actually the eldest son, but by then, it was no longer viable.
It’s not that Shen Shigen is a bad person, it’s that his family and the people in his family are really not very nice to him. If his family treated him well, he would have been married a long time ago when he was about the same age as Ren Maike.
Given this situation, how could he treat his wife well? And could this so-called marriage really resolve the years of hatred between the two families?
Aqi and Ren Shigen have known each other since childhood, but they don't have that kind of love. Ren Shigen probably likes Aqi, but doesn't want to be manipulated by his family like this. He thinks Aqi will not be happy if she marries him, and he really wants to leave there. He feels that if he stays here, his life will be like this.
Ren Shigen decided to leave secretly. Before leaving, he went to find Aqi to explain everything and asked Aqi if she wanted to leave with him. Aqi refused, but gave Ren Shigen the money she had saved with great difficulty as travel expenses. The money was still too little, so she asked Alu for some money. So Alu also knew that Ren Shigen was leaving.
She told Ren Shigen that if he stayed here, he would probably be bullied by his half-siblings in the future. The people in the Shen family knew about your situation over the years, but they were indifferent and didn't care. If you want to go out and fight for your life, go ahead. I want to stay here and go with you. My brothers and sisters will no longer have to live as human beings.
However, Ren Shigen's departure still affected Aqi. The rumors of breaking off the engagement came not only from outsiders, but also from some people in the Ren family. They said that it would destroy the friendship between the two families, that she had no ability and could not keep a man's heart, and that she was not clean. There were many unpleasant words.
The most infuriating thing is that some people in the Ren family want the Shen family to find someone else to marry Aqi. Who do they think Aqi is? Moreover, most of the people in the Shen family have hated the Ren family since childhood. How could they be nice to Aqi?
Because of Aqi, Alu's marriage was uncertain, so Alu thought about going out to work hard and earn more money for himself and his sister.
With Alu's help, I met Aqi. I was attracted to her at first sight, but her brother did not agree with her marrying far away. You have to know that there were no cars back then. It would take almost a day to ride a bicycle and three days and two nights to walk a distance of about 400 kilometers.
A Lu honestly told me about A Qi and Ren Shigen, and that it was he who persuaded his three brothers to agree to let A Qi marry me, for three reasons:
Firstly, his sister's reputation was ruined locally, so it was difficult for her to find a good family. Marrying far away meant starting over.
Second, the Ren family was really poor back then, and the Liu family's conditions were relatively good compared to the Ren family.
Third, the Liu family has a small population and is not as troubled as the Shen family, a large family.
Fourth, she was afraid that the elders in the Ren family would force her to marry someone even worse.
Just like that, I married Aqi, and I felt really happy at that time.
The first time I met Ren Shigen was when Aqi was six months pregnant. At that time, Ren Shigen had left the Ren family for more than three years. He was sick. After he came back, no one in the Shen family paid any attention to him. His father even kicked him out of the house and even proposed to remove him from the family tree. None of the elders in the family stood up for him.
Some in the Ren family mocked him, saying he was cuckolded and his fiancée had run off to marry a stranger. It was Ren Mailu who paid for his medical treatment, and it was he who begged Ren Mailu to bring him to see Aqi. I was there when they met, and Ren Shigen said he was incompetent and had wronged Aqi. He only wanted Aqi to be happy and asked me to treat her well.
On Jingze's second birthday, he came to see Aqi and asked Ren Mailu to bring him, saying that this way he wouldn't be afraid of me misunderstanding him. He said that if he had married Aqi as his family asked, he didn't know how his life would have turned out, but since he had chosen this path, he had no choice but to continue on.
At that time, he was with his second wife, who was pregnant and about to give birth. It was said that his first wife had run away long ago because she thought he was incompetent.
At that time, he liked Jingze very much. He said that Aqi was virtuous. Jingze was good-looking, and she dressed him up beautifully. He looked like a young master in the city, not a country boy.
Later, he came once every two or three years. He just came to see me. Aqi was afraid that I would be unhappy, so every time they met, either I was there or Alu was there.
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