"They are a loving couple, we won't interfere."

They were chatting, but they were sewing very fast without being affected. When Wang Saozi got to the turning point, she asked Shen Zhizhu how to make the next stitch in order to complete the desired pattern.

Shen Zhizhu even demonstrated it directly.

"Oh~ So that's how it is. Such a small step can have such a big impact. It's really unexpected."

Mrs. Wang’s problem was solved. After just a few tries, she grasped the essence and continued with her gossip.

"Hey, have you heard that poor little Shen Ai Qiu got married, but we don't know who she married to."

The people who came with Mrs. Wang were not slow in their movements, but their ability to digest gossip was obviously weaker.

But she knew about Shen Ai Qiu.

"I know this. She married an old man in our village. Her family asked for a dowry of 400 yuan, which is quite high. It happened today."

Hearing this, Shen Zhizhu's hands that were weaving the scarf paused. In her previous life, Shen Aiqiu had always wanted to catch a rich husband, and at least she had not married anyone before her death.

The husband might be the old man that Shen Jianguo and Li Chunlan found for her in her previous life. In this life, she did not divorce Xu Haonan, nor did she escape back to his Shen family.

Changed the original destiny.

Aunt Li sighed for a while. She didn't expect that Shen Ai Qiu would get married just like that.

"I thought Shen Aiqiu was a person who would never give up. Even if she didn't pass the exam this time, she would still try again next time. If for no other reason, she would work hard just to compete with Xiaozhu and get into Kyoto University. I never thought that they would get married."

To be honest, when Shen Zhizhu and Shen Aiqiu were still young, they would feel pity for Shen Zhizhu when they saw him, and would show some kindness to him and give him something to eat.

But compared to the sweet-talking Shen Ai Qiu, everyone still prefers Shen Ai Qiu more.

It's hard to describe the feeling when I think about how the once lovely girl has grown up to be more and more crooked and even married a scoundrel.

Shen Zhizhu found it a little strange. Based on her two lifetimes of understanding of Shen Aiqiu, it was absolutely impossible for her to lower her standards and give up on a rich man in the big city just because she failed an exam.

"Didn't she cry?"

When it comes to gossip, even though she is shy and introverted, she relaxes a lot and tells everyone everything she knows.

"How could there not be noise? At the beginning, the bride was very quiet. She was sent back to the house without the wedding ceremony. She said she was shy. But halfway through the banquet, I heard a woman crying in the house. Then, the bride ran out. I could see clearly from where I was. Her hands were tied with ropes."

“Eh!”

"The old husband's surname was Wang. When he saw the bride run out, he was extremely angry. He stepped on his right foot, pulled the bride into the house, and gave her a good scolding. At first, he beat and scolded her. The bride screamed and cursed at Mr. Wang, but later, the noise became strange. They stayed in there for a long time before coming out. When Mr. Wang came out, he pulled up his trousers and pouted at the door, but the bride did not come out. After he came out, he went to drink with everyone again."

"I don't like that kind of environment, so I came to play with Sister Wang."

Shen Zhizhu and the other two looked at each other, and all of them showed some disbelief on their faces. Mrs. Wang was a straightforward person, so she just said "Puh" directly.

"What bad luck, we have the same last name."

Aunt Li is a mother, and she couldn't help feeling uncomfortable after hearing these words.

"I never thought that the old couple in the Shen family were so cruel. Their own daughter was... so heartbroken. They are simply crazy for money. Shen Xiaojie is already in jail, but they are so eager to sell their daughter's money. I don't know who to give it to."

Shen Zhizhu snorted coldly. She knew that Shen Jianjun and Li Chunlan were selfish, but she never thought that they could actually sell the daughter they had spoiled for so many years.

"I've seen Shen Aiqiu's grades, and they're not low. I guess they're worried that Shen Aiqiu will work hard next year and get admitted to another province, which would be hard to control."

Because Shen Ai Qiu had talked back to them before, and with this experience as a lesson, they were afraid that if Shen Ai Qiu became successful one day in the future, she would not respect them, let alone give money to Shen Xiaojie to get married.

If this is the case, it would be better not to let Shen Ai Qiu succeed. Instead, they would just sell him like an item for a good price. They would save the money and wait for Shen Xiaojie to come out.

Since they could send their own women away, there must be other families who, for the same reason of money, ignored the fact that Shen Xiaojie had been in jail and sent their daughters to their homes.

What a good calculation.

Aunt Li took a breath and didn’t want to knit the sweater she was knitting anymore.

"Although Shen Aiqiu gave us a lot of bad ideas behind the scenes, I still feel that she shouldn't be punished like this. But after all, she is not our daughter, so we can't control her too much."

Shen Zhizhu shook his head.

"Auntie Li, you can't say that. Our marriage is about mutual consent. It's not like a hundred years ago when we had to follow the orders of our parents and the matchmaker."

Then she asked about the friend that Mrs. Wang brought.

"Did you see the dowry Shen Aiqiu brought with her when she got married?"

The man thought about it carefully and shook his head.

"No, it was the bride's father who carried her over on his back, put her in the house and left. He didn't take anything with him."

Shen Zhizhu curled her lips and smiled. She knew that those two selfish guys said that they loved Shen Aiqiu, but they just wanted to show off their own virtues in the village. There was no real love at all.

Otherwise, Shen Ai Qiu's status would not have declined day by day after she left that home.

Dowry?

In their minds, Shen Ai Qiu has become an object, and how can an object be worthy of being a dowry?

"That's easy. We'll go to the city and file a police report that Shen Jianjun and Li Chunlan are illegally trafficking in human beings. We'll get the police involved. Their betrothal gifts are much higher than what ordinary families pay. According to what my friend just said, Shen Aiqiu must have been knocked unconscious and taken away. If we act quickly enough, the drugs may not have been thrown away yet, and we can find out what's in Shen Aiqiu's body."

Knowing that there was a deep conflict between Shen Ai Qiu and Shen Zhi Zhu, Aunt Li and Sister Wang looked at her with shining eyes.

This made Shen Zhizhu a little confused.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Xiao Zhu, you are the kindest girl I have ever met. The whole family treated you so well, and many of their ideas were from Shen Ai Qiu. Not only did you not care, you were also willing to help her. You are such a good person."

Mrs. Wang and her friends nodded on the side.

"And you were able to find a solution so quickly. That's amazing. Is this the brain of a scholar?"

Shen Zhizhu was a little amused.