Even so, Qian Fen, who had lost interest in Xie Ming, no longer put her heart into her fiancé and secretly started a relationship with a movie theater worker in the county.
Xie Ming's parents were heartbroken that their son had been sold by his own grandfather, and they had a falling out with him.
The couple couldn't understand why it wasn't enough to marry their son off to some unknown girl, but to send her to the countryside to be abused.
They didn't realize that Master Xie's twisted behavior of using others to fill the hole was merely a way of demonstrating his status and benevolence.
After enduring for several months, Xie's father found an opportunity before the autumn harvest to bring his son back to the city.
But when they saw their handsome and refined son become dark and thin, the couple felt like killing someone.
So they made up their minds not to let their son go to the countryside again.
Xie Ming had already hesitated; he really didn't like the girl from the countryside.
He wasn't good-looking, but he was arrogant. In fact, after he arrived there, he could feel that people disliked him.
This further confirms that Qian Fen's insistence on marrying him was merely because she was attracted to the image the Xie family had cultivated of him.
Fearing he would put his parents in a difficult position, Xie Ming returned to the Xie family and mentioned his desire to annul the engagement to his father. Unexpectedly, the old man raised a cup and smashed it over Xie Ming's head.
They also said that he was crooked in body and mind, couldn't endure hardship or suffering, was ungrateful and didn't cherish the past, and was just an ingrate who could never be truly tamed!
Xie Ming knew that his family was not favored by his father, but he never expected that his family would be so much of a nuisance to him.
He became the ingrate in the eyes of his whole family—oh! No! His entire little family became the ingrate.
The Xie family had many children to begin with, and they were all rivals vying for resources. When Master Xie showed displeasure towards his branch of the family, his so-called brothers no longer held back.
His parents had stable jobs, so it was too easy for his brothers to make things difficult for him. Realizing his parents' hardships, Xie Ming quickly gave in and went back to the countryside after only a few days at home.
After returning to the countryside, he became even more silent, and the last bit of pride he had left vanished.
He seemed to have lost all his energy and couldn't attract Qian Fen's attention at all. What's even more ridiculous is that while Xie Ming was returning to the city, she and the guy who showed the movie in the woods took their final step.
The Qian family saw everything, but they clearly stood on their own side, regardless of whether their daughter was an outsider or not.
But they dared not easily break off the engagement. It's not easy to offend a high-ranking leader. If they were to casually slap him, wouldn't they be asking for trouble?
So, as a last resort, they resorted to the most despicable and simple method: accusing Xie Ming of having an affair with a widow in the village.
The widow, unable to overcome the humiliation of being tricked, hanged herself at the Qian family's doorstep.
Qian Youdong's move was undeniably ruthless; he had Xie Ming completely outmaneuvered.
He still has control over Xiangyang Village. If the Xie family hadn't run into trouble, Xie Ming's affairs in Xiangyang Village would have become a handle for the Xie family. As long as Qian Youdong shows weakness and goodwill, Master Xie will only become more entangled with him.
Coincidentally, after Qian Youdong schemed against Xie Ming, Master Xie was suspended from his post due to a major mistake at work, and the entire Xie family fell into decline.
When the news reached the village, Qian Youdong quickly reported Xie Ming's situation, clearly separating himself from the Xie family.
Xie Ming was quickly taken away. The Xie family was already under suppression, and with his trial, their rivals immediately used the case as a model to set an example.
The Xie family, which had been barely surviving, was instantly crushed and left with no chance of recovery. It is said that Old Master Xie was also furious. Xie Ming's parents, upon learning of their son's severe sentence, committed suicide at home.
After the loss of the family of three, the Xie family's situation did not improve. Due to the mistakes made by Master Xie at work and Xie Ming's incident, the Xie family became a key target of the Red Squad.
Those who are still alive curse Xie Ming every day, calling him an ingrate. If it weren't for him, the Xie family wouldn't have ended up in that situation.
Knowing he had arrived in this world, Xie Ming's first thought was to teach certain people a lesson. He entered the forest, looked around to make sure no one was watching, and then disappeared into the woods.
When he reappeared, he was standing in a conference room, staring at the old man sitting at the head of the table giving a passionate speech. Xie Ming felt that even hitting him would be too dirty for his hands.
Walking to the front of the conference room, he drew a black line from thin air and placed it on the old man's head. The black line embedded itself into the old man's scalp like a hair.
After doing everything, he disappeared from the office and returned to the woods. The people in the office had no idea what had just happened.
"Aunt Chunhua, how about I go to the team and call someone over? I'm afraid your body won't be able to handle the second half of the journey."
Xie Ming traveled from the village to the city in the blink of an eye. Xu Chunhua, who was already feeling unwell, could not detect anything unusual at this moment. So he said, "Xie Ming, why don't you go and call my eldest daughter-in-law over?"
"Okay! Auntie, wait here. I'll be right back." With that, he took off running towards the village.
The village he lives in now isn't too far from the county; it only takes about an hour for an adult or young man to run back and forth.
The village was originally called Xianlai Village. After liberation, it was renamed Xiangyang Village. A few years ago, it was incorporated into the commune during the land reform. Now, Xiangyang Village is also called Xiangyang Production Brigade.
When Xie Ming was sent to Xiangyang Village, the whole village was engaged in the Great Leap Forward's steelmaking campaign. All the able-bodied men in the village went to the factories to work on steel, leaving only the women, the elderly, and the children at home.
Xie Ming was originally going to go too, but he wasn't considered a local, so the factory didn't have a quota for him. Therefore, he stayed in the village to work on the steelmaking process.
Yes, they also practice it in the village.
Women hold up half the sky. At the end of the village, a 3-meter-high furnace was built. Everyone threw in whatever they could find at home, such as pots and locks, just waiting for the molten iron to be produced.
But what Xie Ming and Xu Chunhua were just carrying wasn't some lump of iron, but rather seeds they had just applied for.
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