Chapter 16 Reveals the Truth
"What?! There's something like this going on?! Li Fen, you actually tried to harm my Xin Xin from the very beginning! I'll fight you to the death!"
Jiang Ruzhen's face turned ashen with anger. Even though she already knew about this beforehand, hearing these words from Qin Lanlan still made her furious.
Jiang Ruzhen grabbed Li Fen's hair again and started hitting her, causing Li Fen to scream in pain.
"Qin Lanlan, you bastard, Wen Dazai, what benefit did you get from betraying me? And you still criticize me, it was clearly you who came back to discuss this with me."
"You said you wanted to steal Shen Shuxin's university acceptance letter, and Jiang Ruzhen objected and even hit you. So you came back and urged me to help you get rid of Shen Shuxin. Your brother heard everything, so don't try to deny it."
When Qin Liang saw Li Fen being beaten, he wanted to go and help, but he was stopped by the others.
He had no choice but to nod and admit, "That's right, Qin Lanlan is a beast. Just because Widow Jiang always did what she wanted, she's now doing this because her own daughter didn't agree to give her a university spot."
She held a grudge and went home to ask us to help her find an old, ugly man so she could give Shen Shuxin to him to abuse, and then he could take her place in university.
Whoosh—
Upon hearing this, everyone was in an uproar.
Their angry shouts nearly blew the roof off the brigade headquarters.
What kind of people are in the Qin family?
To call them human is an understatement; they're a bunch of ruthless monsters who devour people without spitting out the bones!
"You bunch of damned bastards, how can you be so heartless?"
"Heavens above! Quickly send down lightning to strike them dead! Why doesn't the heavens take away these idiots?"
"I'm ashamed for you people, with your shriveled heads and your whole family is a mess."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Ruzhen felt dizzy and her vision went black as she collapsed to the ground.
She looked at Qin Lanlan with utter disappointment in her eyes, "Qin Lanlan, I never thought that after the Shen family treated you with all our hearts, this is how you repay us?"
Qin Lanlan panicked at this moment. She did not expect that her own mother and brother would turn the tables and smear her with all the blame.
She tried to argue, but the old women around her wouldn't let her, especially Liu Guihua and Du Xieyan, who thought they had a close relationship with Jiang Ruzhen.
One by one, they transformed into messengers of justice, leading several old women and charging forward wielding the Nine Yin White Bone Claw.
Some pulled her hair, some pinched and tied her, some kicked her ribs and slapped her, some slapped her hard across the face—all the dirty tricks old women use when fighting are used on her.
Qin Lanlan struggled desperately but still took many blows, making her scream in pain.
The dirty tricks these old women used on her caused her even more pain than the blows Jiang Ruzhen had given her.
She couldn't take it anymore and suddenly shouted.
"Stop! I have a huge secret to tell you. Stop!"
Who listens to her? That shrewish old woman from the countryside only knows that the people in her village are being bullied by outsiders, and that's unacceptable to her.
Even if they usually disapproved of Jiang Ruzhen's actions, they could only bully the people in their own village; it was none of the outsiders' place to cause trouble.
Seeing that the situation was about right and the atmosphere had been built up to this point, Jiang Ruzhen knew that Qin Lanlan was about to go all out.
She grabbed the thermos from the table and smashed it to the ground with a bang.
"Stop it, I want to hear what else she has to say."
Xiao Changgeng's eyelids twitched a few times as he glanced at Jiang Ruzhen, who was seething with anger.
What a spendthrift woman! That thermos cost over two yuan, why did she smash it? Couldn't she have smashed those broken stools instead?
There's plenty of wood; we can make it again for free!
Hearing Jiang Ruzhen's roar, the old women all stopped what they were doing and stared at Qin Lanlan with hostile eyes, wondering what other nonsense she could possibly spout.
Qin Lanlan was also caught up in her emotions at this moment. In this situation, it was obvious that her mother and brother didn't care whether she lived or died and were determined to push her into a fire pit.
Then don't blame her for being heartless. She straightened the torn and tattered sheets and gave Jiang Ruzhen a mocking smile.
"Jiang Ruzhen, you may not know this, but there's a huge secret behind the deaths of your son Shen Jun and my father!"
She's here, she's here! Qin Lanlan is finally coming with her biggest secret!
"Qin Lanlan, are you crazy? What nonsense are you spouting? Shut up your nonsense right now." Qin Liang looked somewhat flustered.
"Qin Lanlan, if you dare to say it today, I'll beat you to death with a hammer." Li Fen looked at Qin Lanlan in a panic.
But Qin Lanlan suddenly threw her head back and burst into laughter, as if she had gone mad.
"You want to kill me? Go ahead and kill me today if you dare. It was clearly my dad who was drunk and mishandled the machine, causing himself to get caught in it, and Shen Jun had to go and save him."
Seeing that he was about to die, he clung desperately to Shen Jun, dragging him into the machine. Shen Jun was crushed and covered in blood. When the body was finally pulled out, it was as thin as a sheet of paper.
But when you went there, you showed no sadness whatsoever. Instead, you gave Hao Youde fifty yuan and told him to lie and give false testimony. You also promised him two hundred yuan of my father's pension after the matter was settled.
You two colluded to distort the truth and caused my Uncle Shen to suffer injustice for twelve years.
Don't you feel ashamed? Don't you dream every day that Shen Jun is coming to take your life?
Every time you use the excuse of being saved to come to the Shen family and smash and rob them, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?
Upon hearing what she said, everyone present was stunned into silence.
They all stared at Li Fen with their mouths agape and their eyes wide open, as if she were a demon crawling out of hell.
That scoundrel has such a vicious heart!
"You're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense, Qin Lanlan, you're completely insane, you're a fucking idiot, what good will you get from saying these things to frame me?"
"If I gain nothing, I won't let you gain anything either. Now that I'm ruined, you won't have an easy time either. Let's all go to hell together! Hahahaha..."
Qin Lanlan's wild, bizarre laughter echoed throughout the room. Everyone around her stared at her, bewildered. Apart from Qin Lanlan's laughter, everyone else in the room exchanged silent glances.
More than 30 years have passed since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Apart from the stories of the White-Haired Girl and Dou E that the elders often told us, the biggest miscarriage of justice they knew of was the case of the Shen family.
The truth is heartbreaking and deeply regrettable.
Everyone turned their gaze to Jiang Ruzhen, their eyes revealing deep pity and sympathy.
This young woman, once as beautiful as a flower, now carries the heavy burden of her husband's murder and struggles to make a living in their small fishing village.
She also has five children with her, the oldest being ten years old and the youngest only four.
Thinking about all the hardships she had endured over the years, they suddenly realized that their own messy situation was nothing compared to hers.
Xiao Changgeng and his wife Liu Guihua exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with deep shock.
Unexpectedly, there was a huge hidden story behind the death of his good brother. So, all these years, their disdain for Jiang Ruzhen and their inaction on the surface were really inhuman.
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