The already lively Changhe Brigade became even more chaotic.
Noisy sounds could be heard from many households.
However, these were all baseless rumors, and the matter passed quickly after a couple of days of mutual suspicion.
But one problem after another has arisen.
Because of Sun Changsheng's situation, his wife has been listless these days and doesn't even want to go out.
These past two days I've finally calmed down, and I've started cursing Sun Changsheng in all sorts of ways.
Because of him, his whole family was implicated.
All the family's property was confiscated, leaving only an empty shell that could provide shelter from the wind and rain.
The eldest daughter couldn't hold her head high in her husband's family, and the younger son couldn't go to school.
Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast.
This shameful incident spread far and wide, and some of my son's classmates also found out about it, making it a hot topic at school.
The days of being pointed at and gossiped about were unbearable, so he simply dropped out of school and went home.
The mother and son are now not only facing criticism, but their quality of life has also plummeted, making their lives truly difficult.
To pay off Old Liu's debts, they even incurred a famine. There was absolutely no hope for their future.
I accidentally discovered that the mother and son next door were eating white flour, and all my frustration and irritability seemed to find an outlet.
Grandma Sun went next door and, without thinking twice, started smashing and robbing like a bandit.
He was still spewing vulgarities, pointing at Wang Xiuli's nose and calling her shameless, a slut, and accusing her of seducing her brother-in-law.
"All these years, it's all thanks to your seductive charm that you managed to lure Old Sun into your bed. I knew everything in the house was after you, you slut; turns out you were just seduced by lying down with me..."
They unleashed a torrent of offensive and offensive language, as awful as it could possibly be.
Wang Xiuli was not a talkative person and usually didn't say much.
Hearing these insults, he trembled with anger, tears streaming down his face, but he couldn't utter a single word.
Sun Ziqiang not only didn't say a word in defense of his mother, but even felt ashamed and looked at her with resentment.
Wang Xiuli was heartbroken and hanged herself at the front door next door that very night.
At this moment, Sun Ziqiang was filled with regret again. Suddenly, he became hot-blooded and went next door with a kitchen knife.
He slashed Granny Sun several times.
Fortunately, her youngest son was home at the time and saved her life.
And so, Sun Ziqiang was also arrested.
At this time, the results of the investigations into Sun Changsheng and Zhang Yuping were also announced.
Sun Changsheng wanted to eat peanuts, and Zhang Yuping wanted to send them to the Northwest Farm.
Before the execution, Sun Changsheng heard about what had happened at home and asked to see Sun Ziqiang one last time.
This was considered a dying wish, and the police granted it.
The two met at the police station.
"Am I really your son?"
Sun Ziqiang asked the question that had been troubling him recently.
Sun Changsheng looked at him with a complicated expression, and finally said, "I don't know either."
He then slowly recounted what happened back then.
"We were all drunk on your parents' wedding day..."
The events of that year were not as Zhang Yuping claimed; he did not force his younger siblings. He simply drank too much, entered the wrong room, and slept with the wrong person.
This matter was originally known only to the parties involved, and the two of them tacitly pretended that nothing had happened.
But when Sun Lao Er discovered his wife hadn't bled after their wedding night, he concluded she was an immoral woman. He would beat her up for no reason.
Knowing he was in the wrong, Sun Changsheng often protected her.
One beats and scolds, the other protects.
Over time, Wang Xiuli developed feelings for him beyond gratitude.
Sun Changsheng was the same; his wife was shrewish and rude, while his sister-in-law was gentle, considerate, and beautiful.
Adding to the delicious food that night, a different kind of feeling arose in my heart.
The two confessed their feelings for each other and secretly made love several more times.
Not long after, Wang Xiuli discovered she was pregnant. She didn't know who the father was.
But ever since Sun Lao Er concluded that she was immoral, he has never touched her again.
She felt there was a high probability that the child was Sun Changsheng's.
Sun Changsheng also longed for the child to be his, and since he only had a daughter and no son at the time, he was convinced that Sun Ziqiang was his son after he was born.
As for Sun Lao Er's death, it was truly an accident.
He fell off a cliff while hunting in the mountains and being chased by wild boars.
Wang Xiuli hasn't remarried all these years, and Sun Changsheng is indeed a factor in that. The two have been secretly seeing each other.
He was the brigade leader, and by using the name of the child's uncle, he took extra care of the widow and her orphan, so no one could say anything.
He openly and secretly helped them, enabling the mother and son to live a better life than most people. If they had remarried, they might not have been able to live like this.
I never imagined that he would be finished.
He realized that if he came in, life would be difficult for the mother and son.
But unexpectedly, Xiuli walked ahead of him.
At that moment, he felt that she had hanged herself because of love for him.
Anyway, he was so self-satisfied that he cried buckets.
"Ziqiang, you shouldn't have acted so impulsively."
"Perform well, try to get out as soon as possible, and live a good life."
Sun Ziqiang was very confused. How could someone who didn't even know his own background live a good life?
"It's all gone, everything's gone," he muttered to himself.
His mother is dead, and even if Sun Changsheng is his biological father, he's about to die too.
He was all alone, and had to squat by the fence.
What hope could someone who has lived in a fenced area possibly have when they go out?
"Ziqiang, you're not without anything. You still have a house. Once you get out, you must protect the two houses you and your mother share."
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