Xie Ming didn't intend for the Chen family elders to dream of any immense wealth and honor, not even in their wildest dreams.
So he simply made the two of them dream about the part where Chen Sinian takes Zhou Lingxi to find his uncle in this life.
When they woke up early in the morning, they were still groggy. They assumed that their grandson had suddenly disappeared after being beaten, and that they, as grandparents, had fulfilled their wish to have a child and grandchild they had worried about. They thought they had done their best.
They had completely forgotten what the people in their dream said, but they remembered clearly that their grandson sold the girl to a filthy place and made a lot of money.
Initially, the two elders of the Chen family simply thought it was an ordinary dream, and they didn't discuss it with them. After all, it's not uncommon for people to dream of strange things in their lives.
They found it truly frightening that a 9-year-old could do such a thing. However, when they thought about the money they would get, they felt it was the right thing to do.
But the two elderly people had the same dream on the second and third days in a row, which made them feel more and more uneasy.
Both of them guessed that something extraordinary must have happened for Heaven to send down this instruction. So, when they finally woke up one day, they couldn't help but tell each other about the strange dreams they had had recently.
Now that their testimonies match, things are really going well. They both had the same dream, so maybe that wolf cub really did get a lot of money.
Blinded by the sight of piles of silver in their dream, the two had no idea what would happen to the person who was sold. They both thought that God couldn't stand seeing that brat Chen Sinian hogging all the spoils, so He sent them this dream.
What angered them even more was that he shared the benefits with his uncle's family but didn't benefit from the Chen family at all; he was simply an ungrateful wretch.
So Chen Sinian and his mother, who hadn't even gotten out of bed yet, were tied up by the Chen family.
Several people from the family, armed with sticks and brooms, began to "torture" and interrogate the two.
Chen Sinian's father stood there with a blank stare, like a wooden stake, watching his wife and children being beaten.
Meanwhile, Xie Ming, who was spying, was quite satisfied with what he saw. He hadn't expected that the ways the Chen family tortured people were not much different from the tortures the Xie clan members suffered after being imprisoned.
To make the mother and son suffer more, Xie Ming didn't hesitate to shut them up.
Even though the Chen family came up with all sorts of tricks, the two of them didn't utter a word and endured a whole day of torment.
When it got dark, the two, who were finally able to speak, could no longer bear the pain and vomited up everything they had hidden the money in.
Fearing they would suffer losses, the Chen family members all went to explore the back mountain, leaving the young children at home.
When they found 30 taels of silver behind a rock, the whole family was overjoyed.
The Chen family could never save that much silver even in a lifetime.
Lost in their ecstasy, the group of people were completely unaware that many pairs of eerie blue eyes were staring at them. By the time they came to their senses, their screams could be heard throughout the entire back hill.
Chen Sinian, whose right hand had been broken, lay on the ground in the courtyard, smiling coldly. That was a place he had carefully arranged. Although he had lost his memories of being an official, he still remembered some of the recipes.
The Beast-Attracting Powder was something he had a master prepare; the Seventh Prince later had so many offspring. How could Zhou's nephew have ultimately risen to power without some tricks up his sleeve?
Weren't all those dirty deeds orchestrated by their in-laws? However, Chen Sinian didn't expect that after returning, the medicine would be used on his own family first.
The Chen family is just too vicious. If he doesn't take action soon, he'll surely die in their home.
As for the 30 taels, he didn't care anymore. If he couldn't even earn a little money, then he shouldn't bother becoming an official in the future.
Overjoyed by his small victory, Chen Sinian was filled with excitement, his breath almost soaring into the sky.
Xie Ming was not surprised by Chen Sinian's ruthlessness; after all, someone who had experienced the "repaying kindness" package knew his character very well.
Xie Ming felt that something was missing if the Xie family's feud wasn't personally resolved by a member of the Xie family.
Chen Ssu-nien is now in a dead end, and the rest will depend on his adoptive father.
So when Xie Chunlin received the news that the Chen family had suffered a great calamity, he was both surprised and delighted.
If it weren't for his grotesque expression when he fainted from laughter, everyone would have thought he was a heartless and ruthless person.
When he slowly regained consciousness, the people from Chenjia Village and Xiejia Village who were surrounding him praised him for his kindness and righteousness.
He was praised for his dedication to the Chen family, even when his wife was delirious from illness and the Chen family frequently came to him to beg for money.
Now, upon suddenly hearing the devastating news, I fainted from grief; the pain is no less than that of a blood relative.
Xie Chunlin secretly thanked Heaven for cutting off Chen Sinian's escape route, but he still had doubts about whether Chen Sinian was protected by Heaven.
After all, he knew better than anyone what kind of life the person led after returning home.
It wasn't until he went to the Chen family and smelled the strange odor emanating from the Chen family members' corpses that Xie Chunlin realized his chance for revenge had arrived.
The smell made him instinctively feel that something was wrong.
Don't ask! The answer is that he was given a similar drug when he was being taught a lesson during his imperial examination.
If he hadn't been lucky enough to encounter a truly skilled itinerant doctor, he would have been the first novice scholar in the dynasty to be raped by livestock.
This is why he never had the courage to go into the examination room again.
Now, smelling the same scent on the Chen family members, he couldn't help but think of Chen Sinian, who was currently lying in the inner room recovering from his injuries.
Xie Chunlin's mind raced. If the Chen family fell, Chen Sinian and his mother would be the most powerful figures in the entire Chen family.
Those children below didn't grow up, and in terms of status, they were inferior to Chen Sinian's mother.
Since Chen Ssu-nien was a male, and a learned one at that, his brothers and sisters from other branches of the family all had to make a living under the care of the mother and son.
If he were to plot further, he might just drag the entire Chenjia Village onto his boat.
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