Ruan Chengqian paid close attention to Ruan Hai, and was therefore very familiar with their family affairs.
This Lou Shi is the wife of Ruan Hai's youngest son, Ruan Kewei. Ruan Kewei was born late in life, when Ruan Hai was forty years old. Therefore, Ruan Hai and his wife, as well as Ruan Hai's older siblings, doted on Ruan Kewei.
In addition, Ruan Hai's unparalleled status in the village led Ruan Kewei to develop a spoiled and dissolute personality.
When he was fifteen, Ruan Kewei took a fancy to Lou, a woman from the same village, and wanted to marry her.
Although the Lou family was not as well-off as the Ruan family, they genuinely looked down on Ruan Kewei. Lou Shi was the daughter that the Lou couple doted on, so naturally they wanted to find her a reliable and ambitious husband.
Who knew that Ruan Kewei was a despicable person? He gathered a few cronies and deliberately ambushed Lou Shi when she went up the mountain to collect firewood. Then Ruan Kewei came out to play the hero and save the beauty.
At that time, Lou didn't know they were in cahoots; she only saw Ruan Kewei being beaten and bleeding. Regardless of Ruan Kewei's character, he couldn't just abandon him to save him.
So Ruan Ke pretended to be seriously injured and asked her to help him down the mountain. When someone passed by, he deliberately pressed his entire body against Lou Shi, knocking her to the ground. When others looked over, they thought there was something going on between them.
The Lou family's reputation was ruined, but they couldn't blame Ruan Kewei.
He did save his daughter after all, and the situation was unintentional at the time; it can only be said that fate played a cruel trick on him.
After that, Ruan Kewei sincerely went to Lou's house again to ask for her hand in marriage, promising to treat her well and to protect and cherish her.
The Lou family was too naive. They had indeed heard some rumors about Ruan Kewei, but seeing is believing. Ruan Kewei had risked his life for the Lou family, so perhaps he had really changed?
And so, Lou and Ruan Kewei got married.
At first, Ruan Kewei did cherish the Lou family for a while, but only for half a year. Once the novelty wore off, he started indulging in debauchery again, staying out all night and reverting to his old, reckless nature.
Lou once saw him with the same cronies who had ambushed her in the mountains. She understood immediately that this was all Ruan Kewei's scheme.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time, and the Lou couple finally saw through Ruan Kewei's true character, deeply regretting their actions.
However, that's not all. When Ruan Kewei first got married, he treated Lou Shi very well, so much so that the rest of the Ruan family treated her with courtesy. Now that things have fallen apart and Lou Shi no longer has Ruan Kewei's protection, the Ruan family's attitude has instantly changed.
Lou's life in the Ruan family became difficult.
If it were just some sarcastic remarks, doing more things would be fine, but as a wife, it's rare to be truly at ease. So, Mrs. Lou just endured it and it passed.
A year into their marriage, she still hadn't conceived. This made Ruan Kewei lose face in front of her friends, especially since they would jokingly say that she was impotent.
As a man, how could he stand being told he was no good, especially since Ruan Kewei was extremely concerned about his reputation?
Having lost face in front of his friends, he started causing trouble for Lou Shi when he got home.
At first, they just verbally abused her, but it escalated to physical violence, with them beating Lou Shi to death.
The Ruan family initially tried to stop them, after all, Ruan Hai was the village chief, and they didn't want to make a big fuss about it.
But after it happened a few times, the Ruan family got tired of it.
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