"Oh my, you scared me to death! Sun Kaicheng, quickly open our luggage and let this grandma see. We really don't have anything good. Please don't worry about us so much. We are just ordinary people. We can't go against those former princes and nobles."
Everyone stepped back again. Could these two really be princesses or something from before? Otherwise, why would they keep talking about the law?
Upon hearing this, the old lady couldn't sit still. Her family had been poor for eight generations, and they were oppressed poor people. She couldn't let anyone put such a big label on her.
"You little bitch, what nonsense are you spouting? We are good people, good people who have been oppressed. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart."
"What? You're a good person!!!"
“A good person would let his granddaughter pick fights with others, calling them ‘country bumpkins’ all the time. What’s wrong with us country folk? Have we eaten your rice or spent a penny of your money? I’m a farmer and I’m proud of it. Without us farmers farming the land, what would you people eat?”
"Oppression? You didn't use this identity to escape your noble status, did you? I see your hands are even more delicate than mine. If oppressed people can keep their hands this well-maintained, it's obvious they haven't suffered even the slightest hardship. Everyone would want that kind of oppression."
The old lady tried to tear Qian Xiao apart to shut her up, but Qian Xiao did as she pleased, weaving through the crowd while chattering away. The old lady's fingernails had already left marks on the faces and arms of several people.
Watching the excitement is fine, but getting hurt is not. The injured women immediately protested. Men shouldn't lay a hand on an old woman, but women don't have so many reservations. They knocked the old woman down and pinned her to the ground.
"You old hag, why are you so agitated if it's not true?"
"Exactly. Your granddaughter just said that they have capitalist practices, and they didn't even have any evidence to refute it. It's clear that they're not confident because they haven't done it. You got angry as soon as you mentioned your identity. It's obvious that someone guessed right."
The old woman screamed like a madwoman: "Shut up, shut up! You're all bad people, you're the reactionaries!"
Well, now these people are even more unhappy. What kind of good people are reactionaries?
This was an attempt to pin a label on them all. Someone grabbed a piece of cloth and stuffed it into the old woman's mouth. Now that was enough, she couldn't make a sound anymore, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The old woman could only struggle with all her might, making muffled noises, clearly showing her strong resentment.
This time, the old lady could only stand there and twist, and everyone could finally see what she looked like. And you know what? What the little girl said might actually be true. Look, this old lady is dressed better than everyone else; she doesn't have a single patch on her clothes.
Looking at her silly, dazed granddaughter, the old lady must be quite old to have such a big granddaughter, yet she has very few wrinkles on her face, and her skin is even better than that of these cadres. And her hands are as delicate as a young girl's; they definitely don't belong to an ordinary person.
These days, which woman doesn't do housework? Even young girls have thin calluses on their hands. But this old lady's hands have none at all; they're white, tender, and smooth. It's obvious she takes great care of her hands and has spent a lot of money on their maintenance, otherwise they definitely wouldn't be so delicate.
After Qian Xiao finished laughing, the old lady put her down and walked over to the woman who was still sitting on the ground in a daze. Looking into the woman's eyes, she asked, "Why do you always cause trouble for us for no reason? I'm thinking, we eat the same cornbread as everyone else."
"We're dressed like everyone else. This is one of the better clothes we picked out before going out, but it's still patched on top of patched. You can't tell we're rich at all."
The onlookers were also curious. Yes, these three young people looked very ordinary. The only difference between them and everyone else was that they were good-looking. Why were they targeted by this grandfather and grandson?
The woman had calmed down a bit by now. Seeing her grandmother being arrested made her nervous. She was being unreasonable and would be at a loss if something serious happened. All of this was taught to her by her grandmother; she wouldn't know how to do it herself.
Qian Xiao urged, "Tell me."
His tone was casual, but to the woman, it was like a heavy hammer striking her brain. She wanted to shut up and say nothing, thinking it would all be over soon, but her mouth seemed to have a mind of its own, blurting out her truest thoughts.
“My grandma said that you two don’t look like children from poor families. Children from poor families can’t afford to go to school. You’re all reading books and eating very politely. You must be pretending to be poor. You must have a lot of money on you.”
“If I cause trouble and you run into me, I’ll extort money from you. To put it more seriously, maybe that handsome man will even compromise and marry me, and our family’s life will be better in the future.”
Qian Xiao turned back to look at the handsome man Sun Kaicheng with a complicated expression. It was all because he was too good-looking. Luckily, he was dressed in tattered clothes, otherwise, he would have attracted so many women along the way, which would have been a disaster.
Sun Cheng almost died laughing. He never expected that his little brother would be involved here, especially since his little brother was still very young!
The onlookers... ugh... what a vicious mind! But these three children seem very well-mannered. Can you really tell if someone is poor or not just by looking at them? Are these three really faking it?
Qian Xiao's expression was extremely complicated and somewhat amused: "Well, this handsome man you're talking about isn't even sixteen years old yet."
"Are you sure someone this young can get married, and that he'd marry you because of your scoundrels? You don't look young at all, you must be over twenty."
How could you bring yourself to do it?
Snickers rippled through the crowd. The child was just a kid, and they were trying to scheme against him just because he was a little taller and better looking. This grandfather and grandson were really despicable.
As soon as Qian Xiao finished speaking, the woman sitting on the ground narrowed her eyes sharply, and then the words from the bottom of her heart came out.
"What's there to be afraid of? I can wait until he grows up. Besides, he's young and easy to fool. Wouldn't that make it easier for me to send things back to my parents' house later?"
Wow, you've got some ideas!
Qian Xiao chuckled and pulled a small mirror from his pocket, holding it up directly in front of the woman's eyes: "Have you never looked in a mirror since you were a child? Come on, take a good look at yourself. Do you think you're worthy of even thinking about her? Who gave you the courage? Don't you know that being forced into marriage by a minor is illegal?"
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