When they saw a strange man suddenly appear, Xu Xiaolan and Du Baolin were both stunned for a moment, but quickly pretended to know nothing about it.
“Aunt, don’t be polite to people who are so stubborn. They’ve lied so much that they’ve lost their minds.”
Nie Fantian bent down, picked up the wooden bucket that was half-filled with leftover tea from under the eaves, and slowly walked to Xu Xiaolan and Du Baolin's side, pouring the water over their heads.
Although there was no wind or snow in the dead of winter, the damp cold unique to Ba County was everywhere.
Jiang Zhi, sitting on a soft cushion under the eaves, still felt her bottom was cold, while Xu Xiaolan and Du Baolin were still lying on the ground. The bucket of water poured from their heads down their collars only made them feel completely chilled.
Xu Xiaolan, who had been pampered her whole life, had never suffered like this except for being slapped by her sister-in-law from her own family. She immediately screamed repeatedly, "Madman! Madman!"
Du Baolin couldn't bear the embarrassment, so he stubbornly kept quiet, only wiping the tea dregs from his face and staring at Nie Fantian before saying in a hoarse voice, "It's you!"
Just now, Nie Fantian's use of the word "aunt" directly revealed her identity.
“It’s me, the person you wanted to kill, I’m not dead!” Nie Fantian squatted down and stared coldly at Du Baolin.
Xu Xiaolan, whether from the cold or fear, began to sob, "Sister-in-law, I don't know anything! Someone else asked me to hold that child, I don't understand."
They're all husband and wife, birds of a feather, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately. Before even asking any questions, Xu Xiaolan was already trying to distance herself from the situation.
Jiang Zhi ignored her. Xu Xiaolan's words were no longer important. Once Nie Fantian dealt with Du Baolin, she, as an accomplice, would follow him.
Du Baolin knew he wouldn't be in any danger; this was a teahouse in the bustling city, and he was betting that this little beast wouldn't dare to hurt anyone.
He tried to keep his voice steady as he said, "You should be thanking God you're alive... Ugh!"
Before Du Baolin could finish speaking, Nie Fantian grabbed his fingers and twisted them. With a crisp sound, the two fingers were turned at an odd angle and placed directly on the back of his hand, forming a playful orchid finger gesture.
Du Baolin stared in disbelief at his hand adorned with a jade ring. A scream was about to escape his lips when it was immediately choked by a wad of cloth, the sound stuck in his throat, causing him to convulse in pain.
Once he calmed down, Nie Fantian calmly removed the cloth: "I'll give you one more chance. Who am I?"
Du Baolin was sweating profusely. He gasped, "You dare to commit patricide! This is an outrage against humanity!" He was no longer pretending!
Nie Fantian said indifferently, "You're not worthy to be my father. Then where is my mother?"
"Your mother? Hahaha, she's been dead for ages!" Du Baolin tried to laugh to show his bravado, but his laughter sounded worse than crying. "She's dead, so it's no use for you, you little beast, to know!"
Without me, the Nie family wouldn't acknowledge you; you'd still be a bastard…
"Snap!"
The fingers that had been bent to the back of his hand were bent back, and the previous orchid finger became three crooks.
Du Baolin gritted his teeth so hard he could barely suppress his scream.
Nie Fantian turned to look at Xu Xiaolan: "What do you want to say?"
Xu Xiaolan was terrified and crawled on her knees toward Jiang Zhi: "Sister-in-law, I was wrong, sister-in-law, save me!"
Before she even arrived, Qin stopped her, saying, "Oh, oh, oh, Madam, don't be afraid. Your sister-in-law hasn't even settled accounts with you yet! And you're already begging for help."
Xu Xiaolan cried, "Sister-in-law, I am a member of the Xu family, you must help me."
Qin was very happy at this moment: "No, we don't recognize you. Last time, Sister Liu said that the Xu family no longer recognizes you, and your name is no longer in Xu Family Village."
Jiang Zhi said, "If you tell me everything you've done, you'll suffer less. If you want to keep lying, you'd better stop using those fingers."
The couple had planned everything meticulously, but they hadn't anticipated that Nie Fantian would be so straightforward, kidnapping him without any hesitation.
At this point, the fire was already burning their eyebrows; lies were completely useless.
Xu Xiaolan cried as she said, "I didn't mean to kill her. She was just upset and caused a miscarriage and postpartum hemorrhage."
I followed Sister Nie's advice and helped raise the child for her.
Xu Xiaolan is truly still harboring malicious intentions. She's quite adept at using diplomatic rhetoric, portraying herself as an innocent and kind person, claiming that Nie died of anger and that she raised the child out of kindness.
Hearing this, it seems that not only is there no guilt, but there is merit.
Qin was stunned and furious. She slapped her own face hard: "Look, look! You deserve to be bullied for decades and can't even express your grievances."
Look at how well this little Lando can talk. She clearly drove the first wife to her death, but she became someone else because she couldn't think straight and died of anger.
Xiao Tian was raised with great difficulty by Sister Jiang, who also lost her son Da Rui. Yet, in the next sentence, it's said that she raised the child herself.
Beside him, Du Baolin held his fingers, which had been twisted into a pretzel, and looked at Nie Fantian with hatred, saying, "Even if I didn't raise you, I'll still give you my life. If you dare to disrespect your father, may you be struck by lightning and die a horrible death."
Nie Fantian sneered. He pulled Xiaoman, who had been silent all along, over and ripped open her clothes, revealing a long scar on her waist: "Look at this. This scar is evidence that you wanted to kill your son."
A kind father leads to a filial son; an unkind father leads to an unfilial son.
I've already repaid the life you gave me! Thunder will only strike you, you scum who murdered your wife and abandoned your child!
Xiaoman added, "The person you sent treated me like Brother Tian. When he attacked me, he said that he had given me eighteen more years of life and that he was here to take my life today. He was truly loyal and wanted to kill me with every strike."
Du Baolin also saw the wound, and his face turned ashen.
The guards he sent died in Pear Blossom Town and almost got themselves into trouble, but all he managed to kill was this farm boy.
Now that we've arrived in Jincheng Prefecture, as long as I can live, I absolutely cannot let these peasants go back.
Xiaoman was about to re-tie her belt when she suddenly heard a shout from the tea room: "Wait!"
The tea room door opened, and Li Laoshi, who had slipped in at some point, was now helping Old Master Nie and his wife out step by step.
Grandpa Nie walked to Xiaoman's side, lifted his shirt and looked at the crooked scar on his waist, and said in a low voice, "This is the knife I took for my grandson!"
The old lady was already sobbing uncontrollably. She couldn't bear to look at the scar, and just hugged Xiaoman, crying, "Good child, the Nie family owes you a life. We want to thank you!"
At this moment, Du Baolin, who had been so assertive just moments before, was stunned when he saw the two elders of the Nie family suddenly appear. He looked at the old man Nie and asked, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, what are you doing here?"
The elderly couple had tears streaming down their faces, and their gazes toward Du Baolin and Xu Xiaolan were filled with venom.
Old Master Nie gritted his teeth and said, "If I weren't here, how would I know about your wolfish ambitions, how would I know the injustice suffered by my deceased daughter, how would I know that my own grandson was almost killed by you..."
The old man was so excited that he had to catch his breath before continuing, "I want to get justice for Sister Yin and return all those shops to her."
Du Baolin immediately knelt down, ignoring the pain in his hand, and rolled over: "Old man, I have been more filial to you than my own son all these years. Even if I was wrong, you should still consider my decades of hard work in running the shop. Even if I didn't make any great contributions, I still deserve some credit. You can't just take it back like that."
Neither his son nor his wife could compare to the blow he suffered from the old man's decision to close the shop.
Twenty years of painstaking planning, all vanished in a single day!
It would have been fine if they hadn't run the shop, but the old man remembered that it was Du Baolin's idea to send his pregnant daughter to Pingchuan County to manage the shop, which resulted in the old man being unable to return home and then the accident happened.
He wanted nothing more than to kill those two venomous snakes: "You two just wait! This score will be settled one by one."
At this moment, he, who was originally old and frail with a full head of white hair, suddenly became energetic, as if he had returned to the time when his daughter, Yin Jie, was still young and needed his care and protection.
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