"No way! I meant kick them out of Yangshu Street! What are you thinking, boss?" Guo Er said, somewhat annoyed. He might be a hoodlum, and a beating was possible, but he'd never killed anyone! He was a hoodlum with principles!
"What's the big deal? If the enemy wanted to kill you, killing them would be considered self-defense, and it's understandable. Even the government can't pursue it!" Qin San Niang said nonchalantly. But these days, she wasn't quite sure whether the government would pursue legitimate self-defense.
Guo Er sighed, thinking to himself, "Judging from my boss's appearance, he must have been involved in murder before, but he just didn't dare to ask! Wouldn't that be courting death? I wonder if it's too late to back out now?"
"Where did you take her?" Qin San Niang asked, frowning. She figured Guo Er wouldn't just sit idly by and let Chen Shi spout nonsense.
"If I were to go back to the master, I couldn't let that crazy woman slander you like that, so I locked her in the woodshed at the back of our house! But she hasn't missed a single meal, and she's doing just fine!"
He was still somewhat uneasy about locking up Chen without the owner's permission. He wondered if he would be in trouble if the woman really was the owner's sister-in-law.
However, the strategist Ergen said that they should just tie her up. The master wouldn't have a sister-in-law who would kick someone when they're down. Even if they were sisters-in-law, their relationship would probably be like oil and water! Guo Er thought this made sense, so he simply locked her up!
At first, when Chen was locked in the woodshed in the backyard, she was terrified and regretted it so much that she thought she shouldn't have acted so impulsively. At the very least, she should have asked the old woman in the house to step in!
She cursed, made a scene, and cried, but then she saw that someone was bringing her food three times a day, and the food was pretty good. And even though the place was a woodshed, they had made a bed for her!
Chen wasn't stupid. After the initial shock subsided, she calmed down and figured it out! That Steward Guo wouldn't dare do anything to her! Perhaps in a few days he would go and question Qin San Niang to see if she was really her sister-in-law!
Moreover, there was a whole family waiting for her outside. She had made an agreement with her mother-in-law, Qin Shi, that if she didn't receive any news from her for more than three days, something must have happened! At that time, Qin Shi could come and demand her, and at the same time, bring everyone over. This would not only make Qin San Niang lose face and have to admit their relationship, but also allow her to extort some money from that bitch's sugar daddy.
If they don't do as he says, Qin and the others will go to the government and accuse him of abducting a respectable woman! Then they'll have to pay compensation! That would mean losing all face and dignity! Unless Guo Er is a fool, he should know what to do. If Qin San Niang is rejected by Guo Er because of this, humph, that would be even better! A shameless woman doesn't deserve anyone's love!
In short, once Chen figured everything out, she no longer felt upset and instead began to live quite cooperatively in the woodshed, eating and sleeping all day long. Life couldn't be better!
Guo Er was getting anxious when he saw that Qin San Niang was silent. They couldn't keep the woman locked up forever. After all, they didn't belong to the government and didn't have the right to detain prisoners. Moreover, Chen Shi wasn't a prisoner. If she shouted and someone heard her, it would inevitably cause trouble and harm innocent bystanders. All of them would have to go to the yamen!
"Boss, what do you think we should do? In my opinion, why not beat her up to shut her up?" Guo Er had been thinking about this for a while but couldn't come up with a good plan. He thought that this simple and brutal method would be more effective.
"Alright, don't worry! I'll handle it!" Qin Sanniang shook her head, rejecting Guo Er's idea of beating someone up.
"Could she really be your sister-in-law?" Guo Er knew that Qin San Niang was a widow, but given her intelligence, how could she have been so blind as to choose such a family?
"It's possible. Take me to see him first," said Qin San Niang.
When they arrived at the backyard and saw Chen Xiaoyun, Qin Sanniang slowly pieced together the image of the woman before her from the original owner's memories. Back then, this woman had been quite beautiful, but now she truly looked like a middle-aged woman! It seemed she had suffered quite a bit along the way!
"Sister-in-law? Oh my, you really are my sister-in-law!" The door opened, and Chen Xiaoyun looked out into the light. She saw a beautiful woman standing in front of her, wearing a moon-white narrow-sleeved top and a light blue ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress). The cuffs and hem of the skirt were embroidered with peach blossom patterns. Her skin was fair and her eyes were slightly upturned. Although her hair was simply tied up in a bun, she wore an exquisite silver hairpin with a begonia flower design!
Seeing that Qin San Niang looked much younger, Chen Xiaoyun was furious, but she still didn't forget her purpose.
She pinched her thigh hard, trying to force herself to cry, and burst into tears as if she had met a kindred spirit too late.
"We've finally met! Where did you take the three kids? My parents and I were so worried! Now that we've found you, how could we face our deceased brother? He's only been dead for less than a year!" Chen Xiaoyun's voice was loud, and soon a crowd gathered around.
"So they're sisters-in-law! Oh my, no wonder they were so excited to see each other."
"Oh my, that young woman is actually Chen's sister-in-law! She looks much younger and prettier than her!"
"That lady knows our Steward Guo. No wonder Madam Chen keeps coming up to him. I thought she had her eye on Steward Guo!"
The speaker was an older woman. Now that they understood Guo Er's temperament, they could even crack a few jokes! However, the woman felt that Chen Shi was not a good person, and her words were perhaps a subtle reminder to Guo Er!
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Madam Chen became even more tearful, wishing she could reveal everything about Qin San Niang and see how she would handle the situation. She thought that when Qin San Niang couldn't take it anymore, she would beg Madam Chen not to say anything, and that would be the time for Madam Chen to take control.
However, before Chen Xiaoyun could speak, Qin Sanniang angrily slapped her, and then clutched her chest and cried to everyone.
"These are my own siblings! I've finally met them! Today I want to ask you, how could you be so heartless as to abandon us three and secretly flee?"
Do you know how many hardships we encountered along the way? We even died several times! If it weren't for meeting a benefactor, we probably wouldn't even have left ashes!
As you all know, my husband died not long ago. That heartless stepmother, unable to squeeze any money out of our family and fearing she would become a burden on the road, abandoned us four and ran away with all our wealth in the middle of the night!
And what about my son's own grandfather? Those are his three own grandchildren! How could he abandon them all? He ran off with his second wife and her son and daughter-in-law? Doesn't he fear that my husband, if he knows this in the afterlife, will return as a vengeful ghost to haunt you!"
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