Chapter 10 The Qin Family's Vicious Scheme
Qin Lanlan felt sleepy after eating, and she lay on the bed with her eyes half-closed. "What can I do? That widow Jiang treats me like an enemy now. I dare not go back and provoke her again."
"Don't worry, your mother has a way."
I've been looking for a partner for my daughter recently, and yesterday the highest-paying old widower came. He's the old man who's in charge of collecting sewage in this area.
He's over fifty years old and looks honest and simple, but in reality, he's focused on tormenting and beating his wife. His previous wife was driven away by him, and he's been single for over ten years without children. He's managed to save up five hundred yuan by living hand to mouth.
I heard that young, chubby girls are good at giving birth, so I took a liking to Lanlan. I asked someone to mediate, and if she could marry Lanlan off, I would not only give her a dowry of 500 yuan, but also give her family 10 yuan a month for living expenses.
If Lanlan gives him a son, he will give her an additional 100 yuan as a reward, which makes Li Fen very tempted.
But I'm afraid Qin Lanlan won't agree. Now that I've thought of Shen Shuxin, isn't this a perfect match?
They tricked Shen Shuxin into coming out, and she slept with the old widower, profiting from the affair.
Even with a high dowry, the Shen family couldn't keep her. As long as she and her son made a scene, all that money would eventually be hers.
When Li Fen shared her idea with Qin Liang and Qin Lanlan, their eyes immediately lit up.
"Okay, let's do it this way." Qin Lanlan was no longer sleepy after listening to this. Tomorrow she would go home and trick Shen Shuxin into coming out.
snort!
Jiang Ruzhen, aren't you your precious daughter?
I'll let you see your own daughter rolling around with an old man who collects latrines. How painful will your expression be then?
Qin Lanlan became more and more excited as she thought about it; she couldn't wait to see the live performance tomorrow.
After the Qin family finished discussing their plan, the three of them turned off the lights and went to sleep.
In the shadows, Shen Zhuoyi slowly got up and rubbed his numb calves. He stared at the dark window, his eyes filled with sinister ruthlessness.
Qin Liang! Li Fen! Qin Lanlan!
Unexpectedly, this family is not only disgusting and shameless, but also ruthless.
If it weren't for his mother's repeated warnings not to ruin the plan, he would have loved to grab a kitchen knife and go in and kill that family of three.
But thinking of his father's wrongful death, he swallowed his anger and turned to disappear into the night.
Jiang Ruzhen was half asleep when she heard someone pushing the door open with a loud bang. She was instantly awakened and quickly came out of her spatial dimension to open the door.
The second brother, exuding a menacing aura, walked in with a gust of cold wind.
"Mom, the Qin family is going too far."
The roar nearly ruptured Jiang Ruzhen's eardrums, and also startled the two brothers and Shen Shuxin.
The three of them rushed into Jiang Ruzhen's house in a panic, without even putting on their shoes.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened to Mom?"
"Shen Lao Er, what's wrong with you? If you're angry, take it out on me. Why are you yelling at Mom?"
The fourth brother has a terrible temper when he wakes up; he even dares to fart at his second brother, Wu Wu. The second brother was already holding back a lot of anger.
At this moment, seeing that the fourth brother didn't waste any words, he raised his Iron Sand Palm and slapped the person.
"You're such a dutiful son of a bitch. Is that a tumor on your neck all the time? Your mother told you not to feed or drink Qin Lanlan, that wretched girl, but you turned around and went to be a dutiful son in the middle of the night."
Mom said no one is allowed to let her run away, and you've been ignoring her. Do you know how Qin Lanlan schemed against our family with her own mother and brother after she came home?
Although the fourth brother wasn't as close to his second brother as he was to his eldest brother, and his second brother was often taciturn, he was still a very good older brother and took good care of him when he went out to work.
What kind of epilepsy is this, that you hit him so hard?
"Second brother, did you encounter some evil spirit when you went out? Why are you hitting me?" Shen Zhuohang covered his face and looked at Shen Zhuoyi in astonishment.
Shen Zhuoyi couldn't contain his anger when he saw the fourth brother and wanted to go up and beat him up, but the eldest brother came over and stopped him.
"Second brother, say what you have to say. We're all brothers, what are you doing?"
Seeing his elder brother's expression, Shen Zhuoyi sneered, "Eldest brother, don't think that just because you're hiding in the shadows and letting Fourth Brother do what he's done, no one knows. Our mother has known all along what you've been up to."
After hearing what the second brother said, the eldest and fourth brothers both looked at Jiang Ruzhen awkwardly.
Jiang Ruzhen knew what the two were thinking, and she also knew that the two children were kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see them suffer. It seemed that they wouldn't come to their senses without being taught a lesson.
"Second brother, tell me everything you saw and heard today."
Shen Zhuoyi felt like his chest was about to explode. He recounted the conversation he had overheard outside the Qin family's window in detail.
As soon as he finished speaking, the room became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
No one spoke for a long time. Suddenly, Shen Shuxin's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground.
The eldest and fourth brothers looked horrified, their eyes filled with disbelief.
"How could Qin Lanlan do this? She's been with our family for twelve years, she..." The fourth brother was heartbroken and squatted down, banging his head repeatedly.
The eldest brother swayed, his face turned pale, and he almost fell to the ground, but Jiang Ruzhen pulled him back in time.
Feeling the thin, bony wrist beneath her hand, Jiang Ruzhen's earlier anger subsided somewhat.
The eldest son has always been steady and responsible. Since losing his father, he has taken on the role of a father, not only protecting her from the wind and rain, but also treating his younger siblings with utmost care.
He treated Qin Lanlan the same way, but he never expected that Qin Lanlan, whom he thought he treated like a younger sister, was actually a wolf in sheep's clothing.
She didn't treat the Shen family as relatives at all, and even maliciously conspired with her mother and brother to frame her own sister.
He truly couldn't bear this heart-wrenching betrayal.
With a "whoosh," the eldest brother finally couldn't hold back and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Jiang Ruzhen quickly helped the man sit on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), and told her brothers to take care of him. She then went to the outer room and retrieved a cup of water from her spatial storage to feed the eldest brother.
Once his condition improved slightly, Jiang Ruzhen offered some words of comfort.
"Eldest brother, it's easy to draw a dragon or a tiger, but hard to draw their bones; it's easy to know a person's face, but hard to know their heart. Besides, Qin Lanlan's surname is Qin, and she inherited the viciousness of the Qin family. It's not surprising that she plotted against our family."
"But you and Fourth Brother, don't let yourselves be blinded by family ties and made fools of. Remember this: she will always be surnamed Qin, and she's not one of us in the Shen family."
The eldest brother nodded with his eyes closed, a tear sliding down his cheek; he was truly hurt.
Jiang Ruzhen felt sorry for her; hadn't she herself only understood this principle after living a whole life?
At this moment, she didn't want to force the eldest brother, so she turned around and looked at the fourth brother. The fourth brother knelt down with a thud, grabbed Jiang Ruzhen's leg, and started howling.
He was both scared and aggrieved. He had been so confused that he mistook his enemy for a relative and almost harmed his third sister.
If it weren't for his second brother's shrewdness in following Qin Lanlan home, he wouldn't know what he would do after his third sister's accident tomorrow.
If something really goes wrong, he'll have no choice but to atone with his death.
"Fourth brother, do you want to atone for your crimes by doing good deeds?" Jiang Ruzhen asked coldly.
The fourth brother raised his swollen eyes and nodded quickly. Jiang Ruzhen then helped him up and pulled the fourth and second brothers outside for a whispered conversation.
Afterwards, Jiang Ruzhen told Shen Shuxin to take good care of the eldest child at home, and then took the second and fourth children out with a bag of things.
In the dead of night, the entire road was quiet as the three of them hurried toward the city with their heads down.
Arriving at a secluded courtyard on the outskirts of the city, Jiang Ruzhen opened the package and began to do her two sons' makeup.
The two brothers were tall and strong, and they looked about five or six points like her husband, Lao Shen. With her skillful hands, they could almost be mistaken for the real thing.
After doing the makeup, I dressed my two sons in the old clothes that belonged to Old Shen, and then I doused them with chicken blood.
With everything settled, the three of them quietly made their way to the small courtyard.
Jiang Ruzhen originally planned to intercept Hao Youde this afternoon, but as soon as he left the factory, she sneaked off in another direction with a shifty look on her face.
She followed him all the way and learned that this guy actually owned a house in this area, which he may have bought with the money he had obtained through dishonest means back then.
She was just wondering how to scare him upstairs that night when fate gave her the chance.
Jiang Ruzhen watched as the two brothers swiftly climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, so she peered inside from the top of the wall.
At that moment, she was focused on watching the two brothers go off to "do something bad," completely unaware that a black Santana sedan was hidden in the darkness at the end of the path.
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