Chapter 700 Sorry for the long wait
The video about Shen Qing has been circulated throughout Wanshou Village.
It’s a small place, so I just distributed some posters, randomly stuck them on the wall, and found someone who knew Shen Qing to pass them around, and it would be like the wind blowing through the entire forest.
As soon as Shen Qing got out of the car, someone recognized her.
Shen Qing noticed that they were looking at her with strange eyes, but she didn't have the energy to think about it. She walked towards a mountain road with the urn in her arms. Lu Tingchuan followed behind her and wanted to go up with her.
Passing by a house, Shen Qing borrowed a hoe and a sickle, and went to the mountain. Shen Qing saw a grave covered with weeds. It was her grandmother's grave.
She used a sickle to carefully clear the weeds around the grave. A grave in the countryside is just an ordinary dirt hill, without even a tombstone. Such a grave cannot withstand the ravages of time. If no one comes to clear the weeds, after a long time, no one will even know where the grave is.
Lu Tingchuan, who had never done any heavy work, also came to help and moved the weeds aside. Shen Qing stood quietly in front of the grave, looking at the hill of earth. After looking for a while, he picked up a hoe and dug a deep hole next to the grave, buried the urn in it, and covered it with the grass he had just cut.
Shen Qing took the incense, candles and paper money that had been prepared earlier and lit them until a little smoke appeared. He knelt on the ground and looked at the smoke and said.
"Grandma, I'm gone now. Please take good care of my children in heaven."
She really missed them very much, but soon... she would be able to see them again, not only her grandmother and the children, but also Jiang Yiming.
A relieved smile appeared on his originally calm face.
Lu Tingchuan knew his own limitations and only helped to clear the weeds in front of the grave. He stood far away and did not dare to stand in front of the grave facing Shen Qing's grandmother, even though she was now a dead person, just a handful of soil.
After Shen Qing finished praying, the two of them walked down the mountain side by side. Before they reached the bottom of the mountain, they heard a loud quarrel coming from below.
"I didn't expect Shen Qing to have the nerve to come back. She's done so many dirty things. I feel ashamed just looking at her. I didn't expect she was so shameless."
"Sister Wei, you're here. Your daughter is back, Shen Qing. She just went to the mountain to pay her respects to her grandmother. She should be coming down soon."
"It's different when you're hooked up with a rich guy. Whenever she comes to the countryside, she drives a luxury car. My son just said that car is worth at least tens of millions. There was also a man following her up the mountain. He looked so handsome."
"Such a rich man might be your son-in-law. You won't have to worry about your future. When you get rich, don't forget this country when you go to the big city. Lend me some money to help you get by."
This group of people were arguing with each other, and Wei Xueqin felt dizzy, with her hands being pulled.
She was filled with rage whenever she mentioned Shen Qing. This damn girl had brought shame to her family. Three years ago, she said she wanted to be an actress. After she was given 300,000 yuan, she said she would sever the mother-daughter relationship. She had really thought she could make a name for herself in the entertainment industry, but she didn't expect that she would go on to make adult videos.
Not only did she embarrass herself by filming the video, but she also brought the embarrassment here, causing unrest for her entire family. People pointed fingers at her wherever she went.
"Okay, she dares to come back." Wei Xueqin gritted her teeth, holding the carrying pole in her hand, "I'll beat her to death!"
As they were talking, they heard some movement on the mountain. The people around them subconsciously fell silent and looked upwards. When they saw that it was Shen Qing and Lu Tingchuan, they all showed an expression of anticipation for a good show.
But the next second, Lu Tingchuan glanced at them with a cold and solemn look, and frightened everyone with just a glance.
"Who are you going to kill?"
Wei Xueqin wanted to say something, but when she met Lu Tingchuan's sinister eyes, she instantly stiffened like a piece of wood.
Shen Qing has already walked down. Facing this insulting gaze again, she will never dodge again.
The people Shen Qing feared most in the past were her own family. They were more terrifying than the most vicious villains. They controlled your freedom under the guise of doing good for you and squeezed out everything they could from you, even if it meant losing her body and life.
Shen Qing is a person who longs for love, but there is too little "love" in her world, and her only relative is her grandmother.
Perhaps it was because she thought that her grandmother was behind the mountain, Shen Qing was not afraid at all when facing this person who was nominally her mother.
She raised the corners of her lips in a mocking manner and walked away.
Wei Xueqin was unwilling to give up. She could see that the man next to Shen Qing was very rich. If she could get some money from him, she could live in a big villa, own a luxury car, and her son could also marry another wife.
I heard that the cars this man drove here were worth tens of millions. She had never seen such an expensive car before, nor had she ever ridden in one.
The man's eyes were all on Shen Qing. He walked cautiously behind her. It was obvious that he was very fond of her. This kind of look was not the look of a sponsor looking at his lover.
"Stop!" Wei Xueqin shouted as she saw them about to leave.
Lu Tingchuan stopped and turned to look over: "What else?"
"You're just going to take my daughter away like this?"
"Your daughter?" Wei Xueqin's words made Lu Tingchuan laugh. He knew Shen Qing and naturally her family. Wei Xueqin was the least worthy person to be called Shen Qing's relative.
Wei Xueqin didn't care what his tone meant. She said in a shrill voice, "We have to give a betrothal gift when we marry our daughters here. Since you are so rich, why don't you give me 100 million? After you give me the money, you can take my daughter away. I raised her for 18 years. This little money is not much."
"Giving money is what I should do. One hundred million is nothing. I should give you one hundred million, one billion, one hundred billion..."
As Lu Tingchuan opened and closed his mouth and spit out light numbers, Wei Xueqin couldn't help swallowing her saliva, and her eyes were shining with gold.
"You have so much money, it's not impossible for you to give it to me."
"Of course, I'll burn it for you on an auspicious day."
What are they burning? Of course, they are burning paper money. They can burn not only tens of billions but also hundreds of billions. But who are they burning the money for? The dead. Isn’t this person just calling her a dead person?
"Hey, how can you be like this?" Unable to convince Lu Tingchuan, Wei Xueqin scolded Shen Qing: "You stupid girl, you let him talk to your mother like that. You have no manners. Now make him give you some money, otherwise I won't let you go."
It is not just a saying that poor and bad places produce bad people. Even now, there are always such people. They are extremely vicious, ignorant, short-sighted, and eager for quick success... It has nothing to do with age, it's just that the bad people have grown old.
Seeing that Shen Qing was just looking at her with a calm expression, Wei Xueqin felt that she was mocking her and did not take her as a mother seriously. She was so angry that she wanted to arrest her.
Before they could even touch each other, Lu Tingchuan kicked her to the ground. The force was not light, but not very strong either. Wei Xueqin fell to the ground and couldn't get up. She cried out at the top of her lungs, "You hit me! Is there any justice in the world? You hit me here! Pay me money, pay for my medical expenses, or I'll sue you."
It was the first time that Lu Tingchuan had seen such a shrew. He frowned and thought that Shen Qing had grown up in such an environment for so many years. His heart felt as painful as if it were being stabbed by needles.
When Shen Qing finally escaped from this home, she must have had a blueprint in her mind, right? Like a bird, she longed for freedom, but before she could fly out, she was trapped in another cage. Not only were her wings broken, but her legs were also broken.
Wei Xueqin's crying attracted more people, and some even called Shen Qing's father and brother.
Shen Qing didn't want to see her family, she just felt disgusted.
"let's go."
Lu Tingchuan made a phone call and arranged for someone to come and handle it. The village couldn't compete with the city, and it would take at least an hour to wait for the order to come down.
Seeing Shen Qing about to leave, Wei Xueqin blurted out a curse: "Shen Qing, you have no conscience. You forgot your mother when you had a man. I worked hard to give birth to you and raise you, but you played with men and sold your body. You really brought shame to the family. You got involved in those dirty things, accompanied men, made pornographic films, and became a mistress. The whole village knows about it. Because of your little thing, our family has lost face. We are pointed at every time we go out. What's wrong with asking for some mental damages now? I am your mother!"
"I don't have a mother like you." Shen Qing, who had been quiet all the time, finally spoke.
"How unfilial! How could I have given birth to such a beast? You don't want your mother. I should have strangled you to death and thrown you into the cesspool."
Shen Qing felt cold all over. Sometimes she even doubted whether she was her mother's child. From childhood to adulthood, she had never received a bit of respect, let alone any preference.
She thought that if she grew up sensible, she would be liked by her family. However, that was not the case. If they didn't like you, they just didn't like you. No matter how much she did, it would be in vain.
She started helping with housework when she was five years old, weeding in the mountains and cutting grass for pigs. Even if she was busy until dark, no one would come to find her. After her grandmother died, she took on the laundry and cooking. When she had some strength left, the heavy work at home was thrown to her.
She had no pocket money and no new clothes. All her clothes were left over by her brother. The phrase she heard most often was, why do girls need to study so much? Just find someone to marry.
So before she turned eighteen, her mother was already planning how to marry her off in exchange for a dowry.
Her father looked on coldly from the side.
Her brother tied her up with a rope, and couldn't stand her crying, so he slapped her.
These were her relatives, like blood-sucking worms, eager to strip off her skin and flesh and suck every drop of blood from her body.
"From the moment you forced me to marry a 40-year-old man, you are no longer my family. Besides, I have already bought out the family relationship between us with 300,000 yuan."
Wei Xueqin argued: "How can family affection be bought off with money?"
"That's not what you said when you accepted the betrothal gift and forced me to marry. You said you were my mother, but how do you act like a mother? Where were you when I was bullied? Where were you when I was sick? You said that my video embarrassed you. If you had seen that video, you would have known that none of that was my own will. I was asking for help, did you hear me?" Shen Qing almost shouted the last sentence, and tears rolled out as soon as she stopped talking.
She said this not only to Wei Xueqin, but also to everyone around her. They laughed at her and said that she was selling her body and making videos to make money.
But anyone who watches the video carefully will see that she was forced and it was not her own will. She was crying and begging for help. She was a victim, but who saw it?
Did they really not see it? No, it was because the victim was not dead. Not only was he not dead, he was alive and well, living a better life than any of them.
So now it's victim blaming.
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