There are no secrets that stay hidden forever. Bai Jiaojiao went to Bai Shiqing's place for a quick look and heard about Shen Heng's father's grave. She was both amused and exasperated.
When Bai Jiaojiao asked Shen Heng, he just shrugged indifferently: "It's not a big deal, but I was annoyed by their shameless behavior during the day, so I brought it up with her. Otherwise, what does it have to do with her if I want my parents to be buried together?"
Bai Jiaojiao said, "It's really strange. What did my sister do to offend Chen Hui? He actually used so much force to bump into her!"
"How would I know? That widow is no good. The last thing you can afford to offend is a petty person. Your sister is usually very outspoken, so she might offend her with something she said."
Shen Heng had absolutely no good impression of Widow Zhou and Shen Hui, and felt that nothing they did was surprising.
"My sister is afraid to go out now."
Bai Jiaojiao was a little worried that if one thing happened, another would happen. Right now, everyone was hibernating, so it was fine. Bai Shiqing would always have someone around. But when spring came and everyone went back to work next year, who would have time to take care of her?
Shen Heng didn't want to see Bai Jiaojiao frown, so he touched her brow with his fingertip: "That arrogant brat, you wait, I'll go talk to him."
Shen Heng was about to get off the kang (heated brick bed) and go out when Bai Jiaojiao stopped him. "Where are you going?"
"I may not be of any other use, but I can certainly find fault, can't I?"
Shen Heng wondered if his wife had forgotten what she used to do.
Shen Heng insisted on returning to the Shen family, so Bai Jiaojiao had no choice but to wrap herself in a cotton-padded coat and go with him.
Widow Zhou was busy taking care of Shen Hui, who was still unconscious, while crying to Shen Heng's uncle, Shen Guangsheng: "It's okay if Xiao Heng didn't raise me. He hates me, but tell me, his father has been gone for so many years. How could he do such a thing?"
When Shen Heng's father passed away, it was Widow Zhou who refused to let him be buried with his mother, so that she would have a place to go after her death. Shen Heng's actions were like stabbing Widow Zhou in the heart.
Shen Guangsheng said, "Don't worry, it's not up to him to decide what to do with our Shen family's ancestral graves."
Because of Shen Guangsheng's arrival, this widow and her orphan family left their door wide open to avoid gossip. Shen Heng, who had no moral standards, walked straight into their courtyard.
Upon hearing Shen Guangsheng's words, Shen Heng said, "I can't say for sure. It's uncertain where I'll move Shen Liquan's bones next time."
"You!" Shen Guangsheng was so angry at Shen Heng that he almost fell over. Although they had lived in the same village for years, they seemed to have a tacit understanding and had no contact with each other. This was the first time Shen Guangsheng had faced Shen Heng so directly.
Shen Guangsheng, as an elder, felt extremely offended by Shen Heng's reckless and unruly attitude.
Shen Heng arrived uninvited, bringing Bai Jiaojiao into the house. He glanced at Shen Hui lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) and sneered.
"Xiao Heng, what are you doing here? Your brother also had your aunt hire someone to mess with him like this. Shouldn't this matter be put behind us by now?"
Widow Zhou looked like she was enduring humiliation, and Shen Guangsheng immediately said to Shen Heng, "One should be lenient when one can, and besides, this matter has little to do with you, so why are you interrogating me?"
Shen Heng kicked the stool that Shen Guangsheng was sitting on, and Shen Guangsheng instinctively jumped up. Shen Heng then hooked the stool with his foot and made it available for Bai Jiaojiao to sit on.
Bai Jiaojiao readily agreed and sat down. Since Shen Heng had come to cause trouble, she couldn't let him get in the way, could she?
"Is this the attitude of a junior? Shen Heng, don't you remember the oath you swore never to set foot in the Shen family again? Look at the state of your family you've ruined! Your father, your mother, your grandparents, they all died at your hands. How dare you even step into this house now?"
Shen Guangsheng, relying on his seniority, pointed at Shen Heng's nose and cursed him.
Shen Heng was used to hearing these words, but they cut into Bai Jiaojiao's heart like a knife.
"You can say that to the brigade leader yourself, promoting feudal superstition... How many years was Liu Ying sentenced to?"
Bai Jiaojiao stared at Shen Guangsheng, as if she were earnestly asking a question.
Shen Heng smiled slightly, gently placed his hand on Bai Jiaojiao's shoulder, and said, "I didn't come back for anything else, I just came to settle accounts."
"What accounts do we have to settle with you?!"
Shen Guangsheng immediately glared at him.
Shen Heng glanced at him: "I'm not settling accounts with you, I'm settling accounts with her. When you divided the family property, I remember there was a written agreement, right? It shows how much my grandfather gave my father. I want to see the details now."
"What business is it of yours how much stuff your father owns? You're no longer a member of the Shen family!"
Shen Guangsheng rebuked.
Shen Heng gave him a cold look, and Shen Guangsheng couldn't help but shiver.
“I told you this has nothing to do with you. I’m dividing my father’s assets. I don’t want more. My father has two sons, so it’s half for each of them.”
Looking at Widow Zhou's unpredictable expression, Shen Heng curled his lips and said, "What's wrong? You don't want to give it to me, do you? You can deny that my father left you anything, but you know me. I'm not someone who cares about sentiment. If I expose what my father secretly left behind, you and the other families won't have an easy time."
Seeing that Shen Guangsheng's expression had clearly changed, Shen Heng didn't rush to finish his sentence, giving them time to think.
Shen Guangsheng was indeed panicked. His family had some wealth back then, and his father had secretly passed down quite a bit of it. When the brothers divided the family property, each of them received two golden peanuts.
At first, no one dared to make a move, but in the last two years, as the situation gradually loosened up, they secretly sold the stuff, making nearly a thousand yuan and living a comfortable life.
This is no small amount. If it's discovered and they're reclassified as landlords, then they're finished.
Shen Guangsheng didn't expect Shen Heng to know about this, but now that Shen Heng knows, this matter can no longer be ignored.
Everyone knows that ever since Shen Heng married Bai Jiaojiao, he has been spending money extravagantly, buying his father-in-law a wheelchair and building a brick house. Even if he were a black marketeer, he couldn't afford to spend like that.
Chen Heng must be short of money.
Shen Guangsheng thought for a while before saying to Widow Zhou, "No matter what, he is Liquan's son, so it is only right for him to ask for the family property."
Widow Zhou was shocked that Shen Guangsheng had turned against her so quickly. She said to him with a wronged expression, "Brother, I... I've waited so many years for Liquan, raised his son, and in the end... how am I supposed to live with Xiaohui from now on? Waaah..."
Widow Zhou gasped for breath after each sentence, her sobs trembling.
"Stop with the nonsense, just tell me if you're going to give it to me or not."
Shen Heng felt that he had been too lenient with this family before, which allowed them to bully him.
Bai Jiaojiao is his wife, and her family is also under his control. This mother and son don't care about his face at all, so Shen Heng simply came over and made things even more ugly, so that they would know that they should think twice before doing things in the future.
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