With the added advantage of marriage ties with the Xie family, he might live a more comfortable life before passing the imperial examinations than he did in his previous life.
Xie Chunlin dared not underestimate the vicious wolf who dared to poison his entire family, even though he was just a 9-year-old child.
With such ruthlessness and cunning, he might very well use two villages as stepping stones for him.
He didn't know where Xie Chunlin got those bad people's things from, but Xie Chunlin was certain that the Chen family had been framed.
Without hesitation, he made a decision immediately and reported it to the authorities.
When the constables arrived at the Chen family's house, the bodies of more than a dozen adults in the Chen family had not yet been laid to rest.
Chen Sinian, who was tightly bound, was in a panic. He never expected things to change so quickly.
Everything was fine before, so why is it suddenly turning against me?
Aren't all the villagers ignorant and naive? Why would anyone have any doubts?
When he learned that it was Xie Chunlin who reported him to the authorities, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
He forgot that Xie Chunlin had experienced something like that, something Chen Hehua had even joked about. It was because of those memories that he sought out a master to prescribe the medicine.
Suddenly he had a feeling that karma was a cycle.
After the person was kidnapped, the entire Chenjia Village was in an uproar.
The villagers all knew that the Chen family didn't like this grandson. But every family beats their children like this. If the Chen family beat the mother and son like that, wasn't it because they stole from their house?
If their daughters-in-law and grandsons were like that, they wouldn't even bother to beat them; they would simply expel them from the family register.
So when the officials said it was Chen Sinian who had done it, they tied up his mother and drove her away too. Who would dare leave such a vicious woman in the village?
The government acted quickly, and the matter was actually easy to investigate. All they had to do was go to the pharmacy, bring in Chen Sinian's maternal uncle and mother for questioning, and everything would be clear.
In feudal times, a villain like Chen Sinian, who killed his grandparents, father, uncles, and an entire extended family, was utterly appalling. His sentence was handed down quickly; he was executed without even needing an official document from the higher authorities in the autumn.
Once inside the prison cell, Chen Sinian knew he couldn't escape death, so he didn't resist, hoping to make his last few days as easy as possible.
However, his "glorious deeds" were so shocking that the prisoners and guards would take him out for a stroll from time to time, which really wore them out.
By the day of his execution, he was no longer recognizable as a human being. Finally, when he thought he was free, Xie Ming restored his complete memories.
Remembering everything, Chen Sinian watched in disbelief as the broadsword swung down.
He realized that it wasn't just people in the capital who had been reborn; Xie Chunlin had also been reborn.
Everything that happened to the Chen family and to him seemed to be inextricably linked to that kind uncle. He hated himself for not remembering everything sooner.
I hate Xie Chunlin even more for being so ruthless.
In his past life, he merely seized Xie Family Village and drove the people away. When he was in a bad mood, he would cause trouble for the exiled Xie family members.
Why would Xie Chunlin go so far as to harm Chen Jiaquan?
If there is an afterlife! If there is an afterlife… Before he could finish his wish, Xie Ming crushed his soul and returned the last bit of life force to the sleeping Little Heavenly Dao.
With the matter settled, Xie Chunlin finally devoted himself entirely to his studies, even neglecting time with his children.
Xie Ming was happy to have some free time, as he knew why his father was so determined to pass the imperial examinations.
He was unaware that Zhou Lingxi had been sold to the lowest brothel, and still thought he was going to take down a huge mountain in the future.
Xie Ming, that vicious woman, wasn't going to let Xie Chunlin handle things anymore. The male lead was already dead, and the female lead wouldn't live much longer either. What can you do when that book is a male-oriented novel?
So one night, when an old pervert tried to harm Zhou Lingxi, Xie Ming made his move.
He never expected Zhou Lingxi to be so reckless, agreeing to be a signboard at only 7 or 8 years old.
Xie Ming, disgusted by their dirty play, stripped them of their very souls. The exposed duo became the city's biggest news figures, surpassing even Chen Sinian.
A couple who were highly respected and renowned in their past life disappeared from this world with an infamous reputation in this life.
12 years later,
The scholar Xie Ming, dressed in a coarse cloth shirt and with his trousers rolled up, was digging at the huge sweet potatoes in the field.
The prefect, standing to one side, kept yelling at him, "You little brat, watch your step! What are you doing? What are you doing? Ouch!"
The father's love vanished before the vast fields of high-yield crops. No single seedling could compare to the piles of clods of earth in the field.
"Each mu of land should yield 30 shi (a unit of dry measure)." Xie Ming made a rough estimate after digging out the last piece of land.
These lands are the result of years of slow and careful cultivation. Ten years is indeed a long time, but it's really not long for a child who started studying land at the age of five.
"Well done! My Xie family is finally going to rise above our circumstances!" Xie Chunlin stroked his beard and laughed heartily.
Xie Youlin rolled his eyes at him. His brother had only cared about his career for more than ten years, leaving the child entirely to his wife and him.
After he passed the imperial examination and became a third-ranked scholar, Old Master Xie took his third and fourth wives with him and passed away, leaving only his family in the Xie family.
Although everyone in the village is of the same clan, it is still inevitable to feel lonely.
He originally thought his brother would remarry, but he never expected that his brother would support that crazy wife for so many years. Not only did he support her, but he also took her with him everywhere he went.
Many people praised him for being loyal and righteous, but his older brother saw through the trickery.
His younger brother would never have treated his beloved woman so cruelly unless something terrible had happened to her. One could guess that the woman must have done something wicked that would bring disaster upon her descendants.
The reason the brother is still supporting that woman is simply so that his son, who is focused on doing research in the fields, can focus on his studies.
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