Behind Shen Guoliang were seven or eight soldiers armed with live ammunition.
Although they carried their guns on their backs, their sheer power still made Ding Changsheng immediately deflate.
Ding Changsheng threw the hunting rifle to the ground with a thud, and turned around tremblingly: "General, you...you've come here?"
"If I hadn't come, you probably would have turned Dingjiatun upside down, wouldn't you?" Shen Guoliang sneered, then gestured to Xiao Zhao beside him, "Cuff him!"
Ding Changsheng was dumbfounded. While he was handcuffed, he looked at Su Qiaoqiao beside him and said, "Su Zhiqing, you can't just stay silent! I'm doing this to stand up for you!"
Shen Guoliang also looked at Su Qiaoqiao.
The villagers were in an uproar:
What's the relationship between these two?
"Who would have thought that Ding Changsheng, who looks so good you wouldn't recognize him if he fell into a coal pile, would actually be so cunning?"
"Poor Song Donghua! She even brought a quilt to this Su educated youth last night!"
"That Su Qiaoqiao is so cunning and seductive, she's definitely not a good person!"
...
Listening to the murmurs and seeing the eye-rolls from the crowd, Su Qiaoqiao was completely confused: "Captain, what... what do you mean? Don't talk nonsense!"
Ding Changsheng said urgently, "Su Qiaoqiao! Aren't you General Shen's savior? Didn't this Su Ruyi bully you to the point that you couldn't stay in the educated youth compound? I only targeted her to avenge you! Su Qiaoqiao, you can't just stand by and watch me die!"
The crowd erupted in uproar once again:
"This Su educated youth, she saved General Shen?!"
"I heard that General Shen was seriously ill, but now he seems fine. Could it be that Su Qiao George is the one who's cured?"
"Come on, I'd believe you if you said Su Ruyi, but Su Qiaoqiao? Humph! I'd never believe it! She's a brainless idiot!"
...
Su Qiaoqiao was completely dumbfounded: "Huh? Who is General Shen?"
Ding Changsheng slowly turned his head to look at Shen Guoliang: "General, this..."
Shen Guoliang ignored him and walked to Su Ruyi's side: "Dr. Su, I'm sorry I'm late. Did I scare you?"
Su Ruyi smiled and said, "My forehead just hurts a little, it's nothing!"
Ding Changsheng stared at the scene before him, blinking hard. "Su..."
Shen Heping stepped forward: "Captain Ding, the one who saved my second uncle was Su Ruyi, not Su Qiaoqiao. You've made a small mistake—you've got the wrong person!"
After saying that, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
After laughing for a while, he asked again, "Didn't you tell me to wait? I'm waiting here. Didn't the brigade leader want to send Su Ruyi to the study class? What are you going to do with me now?"
“Su…Su Ruyi…your second uncle…you are…” Ding Changsheng’s expression was strange.
A few seconds later, everyone saw that his pants were soaked.
"Take him away, don't offend Dr. Su's eyes!" Shen Guoliang waved his hand, and two soldiers were about to drag away Ding Changsheng, whose legs were as weak as noodles.
"Wait!" Shen Guoliang called out to them again, using a wooden pipe to lift Ding Changsheng's chin. "I remember, you were recommended to me by your son, right? Xiao Zhao, what's his son's name? Where does he work?"
Xiao Zhao immediately replied, "His name is Ding Chunyu, and he works as a clerk in the Sanhe County Commune!"
"Investigate!" Shen Guoliang moved the wooden gun barrel away, and Ding Changsheng's head drooped.
Shen Guoliang waved the gun in his hand: "As the saying goes, if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too! With a father like this, his son can't possibly be without problems! Investigate thoroughly!"
"Yes, General!" Xiao Zhao stood at attention.
Shen Guoliang waved his hand, and the soldiers dragged Ding Changsheng away.
"Master!"
Song Donghua suddenly wailed and rushed out of the crowd, "It's all my fault, my old eyes are failing me and I didn't recognize people! It's all my fault! I've gone blind!"
Ding Changsheng's eyes were glazed over, and he showed no reaction to these words.
He knew that from the moment he mistook someone for someone else, his life was over.
Not only him, but also his second son.
The entire Ding family is finished.
Ding Changsheng was mechanically dragged away.
Suddenly, Song Donghua lunged at Su Qiaoqiao, pinning her to the ground and straddling her, scratching her relentlessly: "You heartless little bitch, I'll teach you to impersonate General Shen's savior! I'll teach you to lie to me! I'll teach you to harm my man!"
Song Donghua weighed twice as much as Su Qiaoqiao, and Su Qiaoqiao, who was pinned down, had no power to resist.
She shouted, "I'm not lying! Although I didn't save General Shen, my grandfather is the most famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Haicheng! My grandfather has saved countless lives in his lifetime! I'm not lying to you!"
In her panic, Song Donghua didn't care what she was crying and screaming about; she just frantically scratched her face and pulled her hair.
No one went up to stop them.
Even Feng Hui, the male educated youth who came to the countryside with Su Qiaoqiao, and Li Wenjuan, the female educated youth, silently stepped back.
A few minutes later, Su Qiaoqiao stopped struggling and just held onto her clothes tightly, preventing Song Donghua from tearing them off.
Her face was covered in bloody streaks, and several clumps of her hair had been pulled out.
Exhausted, Song Donghua rolled over and got off Su Qiaoqiao.
Her eldest daughter-in-law ran over, helped her up, and they went home.
Her eldest son, however, remained in the crowd and never dared to step forward.
Su Qiaoqiao also stood up, straightened her clothes, and walked towards the educated youth compound.
During this time, Shen Guoliang did not stop Song Donghua at all. He just talked to Su Ruyi and apologized in a low voice again and again.
Su Ruyi smiled and said, "It's alright. Anyway, he didn't cause me any real harm. Besides, moving to Master's courtyard will make everything more convenient!"
Shen Guoliang picked up the gun barrel that Ding Changsheng had thrown on the ground, ejected it, and found two bullets inside: "So they were duds... Dr. Su, you're really lucky! I'm... really lucky too!"
Needless to say, Su Ruyi quickly inserted those two bullets using her divine sense.
"Yes, people say that those who survive a great calamity are destined for good fortune. General, you are blessed, and I am just basking in your good fortune," Su Ruyi said politely.
Shen Guoliang found the conversation very comforting. Seeing the murmurs subside, he stepped into the middle of the crowd, gestured to quiet them down, and when all was silent, asked, "Fellow villagers, may I ask which one is Ding Youliang?"
Two men stepped forward at the same time.
One of them was Ding Sihou's father, and the other was a hunched-over, white-haired old man.
Shen Guoliang looked at Ding Sihou's father: "You are... Zhang Mancang's younger brother?"
Ding Youliang hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "I am, but my older brother has already..."
“He sacrificed himself many years ago…” Shen Guoliang interjected, “He was my father’s bodyguard, during that battle…”
Both of their eyes welled up with tears.
Shen Guoliang patted Ding Youliang on the shoulder: "Zhang Youliang! All these years! I've been looking for your family for so long!"
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