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328: All deceived

Shen Zian looked at the thief in his hand. It was a boy, about 18 years old, very thin, with ragged clothes and a dark face, but his eyes were bright. He was caught by him and couldn't run away. He looked pleading, as pitiful as a little mouse. But now he told him that he wanted to tell him a secret, and his expression seemed as if this secret was very important.

After the boy finished speaking, he looked at Shen Zian. Seeing that there was still no expression on Shen Zian's face, as if he had no interest in what he said, he became a little anxious.

"Uncle, I really have a secret to tell you! You just need to ask a doctor to see my brother and buy him some medicine! We don't want any money. Just treat the disease! It's a good deal to buy a secret with this little money!"

"I'm not interested in your secrets."

Shen Zian carried the boy and walked out of the alley. He thought that the boy might have some secrets to tell him, or he might want to deceive him and take the opportunity to escape. He was not very interested in the secret. He actually didn't want to bother with such a thief, but the thief wanted to use a secret to negotiate with him, and Shen Zian was too lazy to pay attention to him.

Shen Zian believed that as long as he took the boy out, the boy would tell him the secret unless he made any conditions.

Sure enough, when the boy saw Shen Zian carrying him out of the alley, he screamed in fear and struggled with his hands and feet, not wanting to go out.

"Uncle, please let me go! I don't want to go to jail! If I go to jail, no one will take care of my brother. He's sick! If no one takes care of him, he'll die! Uncle!"

The boy screamed and cried anxiously.

"Uncle, I'm telling you a secret. I don't want you to hire a doctor for my brother. Please let me go! I beg you! My secret is related to your wife!"

The boy was floundering with his hands and hooking his feet on the ground, not wanting to move forward as if he would die if he got out of the alley. But the entrance of the alley was getting closer and closer. When he was getting anxious and desperate, the uncle who was so strong that he could carry him stopped.

When Shen Zian heard the boy mention Su Zhi, his heart moved and he squinted his eyes at him. The light in his eyes was as cold as a knife flashing with cold light, stabbing the boy non-stop.

"What did you say? Is it related to my wife? Say it!"

Shen Zian valued Su Zhi. He wanted to know everything related to Su Zhi, no matter good or bad. Now, a little beggar who he didn't know and who knew how to steal things actually told him a secret about his wife. Moreover, the boy just said that he wanted to use this secret in exchange for the condition of hiring a doctor. This showed that this was really an important secret. He wanted to know what the secret was.

The boy was originally happy that Shen Zian cared about the secret he was talking about, and thought that he could ask him to hire a doctor for his brother. But when he saw Shen Zian's sharp eyes, he shrank his neck in fear and dared not make any requests. He began to talk about what he knew like a bamboo tube pouring out beans.

It turned out that today the boy was really hungry, so he wanted to steal something to eat from the restaurant, but he was discovered. He ran away and ended up outside the private room of the teahouse where Shen Zian and his friends met Aunt Yue. There was a window above the private room, and you could see the scenery from outside before, but later a house was built, leaving only a small alley there, which was later blocked. The boy ran into this alley, which was blocked at both ends. He also turned over. No one chased him anymore. He was very tired, so he sat there to rest. Then he heard someone talking.

The boy not only heard what Shen Zian and Su Zhi said when they were there, but he also heard what Aunt Yue and the Zhao family said after they left.

The boy looked inside through the gap and saw everyone in the room clearly, so he naturally recognized Shen Zian.

Shen Zian frowned, thinking that it was no wonder that he felt something was wrong at the time, as if someone was peeping at them. At the time, he thought that there were too many people in the room, so he had this feeling, but he didn't expect that someone was peeping outside. But he didn't have time to pay attention to this, he was attracted by the boy's next words.

"What did you say? Aunt Yue called the old couple in the house "Dad and Mom"?"

Shen Zian was very surprised. How could Aunt Yue call his father-in-law and mother-in-law "father and mother"? This was too surprising. It was simply a huge joke!

Just now, Zhao Daxi and Zhao Yangshi were still calling Aunt Yue "Mrs. Yue". Although Aunt Yue was very polite to call Zhao Daxi and Zhao Yangshi "Dad Zhao, Aunt Zhao", she was not polite, no, she was not close enough to call them "Dad and Mom", right?!

Is there something going on here that he doesn't know about?

Shen Zian had no impression of Aunt Yue, nor a good impression of her. She was just a concubine of Master Zhang whom he had only met a few times. No matter how pretty she was or how polite she was, she was a little uneasy. For a conservative and down-to-earth man like him, he would stay away from such a woman. Now Su Zhi's parents had such an inexplicable relationship with such a woman, which made him feel uneasy.

The boy was delighted to see that Shen Zian cared about him. He thought that as long as Shen Zian cared, he would not be arrested and thrown in jail, nor would he be beaten.

"Yes, yes, that Yue Yi Niang calls the old man and the old woman father and mother. I find it very strange. Aren't the old man and the old woman your wife's father and mother? Why does Yue Yi Niang call them father and mother? If they are in this relationship, why doesn't she call them father and mother in front of you? From the look on your face just now, you don't know about this. Why did they hide it from you? I don't think that you and your wife would ask anything of her just because you acknowledged her as your relative. But Yue Yi Niang, she has been begging you to help her, right?"

The boy spoke fluently. Although he was not very old, he spoke in a very organized and smart way, not like a little beggar at all.

Shen Zian glanced at him, and then he used more force with his hands, and said coldly: "Go on."

"Uncle, uncle, please be gentle! My shoulder is going to break!" The boy cried out in pain. He thought the uncle was too strong and ran too fast, so he didn't plan to run away anymore because he knew he couldn't. Moreover, he saw that the uncle was very interested in his secret.

"Uncle, think about it, if Aunt Yue wanted to ask you for something, wouldn't it be better for her if she told you directly about her relationship with your father-in-law's family? But she didn't say it, and she and your father-in-law's family kept it a secret from you. There must be something going on! Later, I really heard that the old woman called her little sister, and Aunt Yue was unhappy. She told her not to call her little sister. She also said that it would be troublesome if others heard it... Ouch! Uncle, why are you pinching me again!"

The boy screamed in pain. He felt as if the uncle's strength was about to crush his bones. He wondered what he had said to make him angry. He was sweating coldly from fear, and it might also be because of the pain.

Shen Zian's heart was in turmoil. His eyes widened as he looked at the boy and asked, "What did the old woman call Aunt Yue? Little sister?"

"Yes, that's right, I call her little sister. Aunt Yue said we shouldn't call her little sister, saying it would be bad if others heard it. Then the old woman said Aunt Yue was her sweetheart. Uncle, can you be gentler? I'm sure I didn't lie. If I lied, I would die a miserable death and I would no longer be able to take care of my brother."

Shen Zian's expression was so scary that the boy who was caught just now was afraid to speak. He thought that this uncle was really powerful, even more intimidating than those officials who showed off their power everywhere. Could he be trying to hit himself?

"Uncle, I'm not lying. You saw it just now. The old woman scolded your wife so harshly, as if she was picked up for nothing. Aunt Yue is the old woman's sweetheart and dearest daughter. I'm not lying. I'm not deceiving you."

When Shen Zian heard the boy's words, "It's as if your wife was picked up by someone", his face became even gloomier. He suddenly realized that what the boy said unintentionally was the truth. His wife, his Su Zhi, the woman he loved the most, might really have been picked up by someone. And that Aunt Yue should really be called Zhao Daxi's parents. He and his wife were all deceived by this family!

Shen Zian thought of what his wife had said about her illness, and she couldn't remember some things clearly, even her parents, and only remembered some knowledge. No wonder those people in the Zhao family were not good to his wife. When his wife was seriously ill, they threw her to him. When she was sick, they never came to see her. They only came to her after the family had money, and kept asking for money. They didn't act like relatives at all. It turned out that they were not his relatives at all.

"Don't tell anyone else what you told me today, especially not my wife, got it?"

Shen Zian told the boy that he didn't want to hide it from Su Zhi, but he felt that this matter was a bit sudden, and he had to think about it carefully and find a suitable time to tell Su Zhi. Although he also knew that his wife was not so close to her family, he knew that his wife was also dedicated to the Zhao family, otherwise she would not think about how to make their family live a good life when that family was asking her for money like leeches. He didn't want to make her too uncomfortable.

"He doesn't need to tell me, I've heard it."

A soft voice rang out, and Shen Zian turned around abruptly, and found Su Zhi standing at the entrance of the alley. Not only her, but also Sister Shugen and Sister Li were standing there with shocked looks on their faces. Compared with them, Su Zhi's expression was the calmest.