Chapter 1039: Enduring Humiliation and Bearing Heavy Burdens: Dancer of the Republic of China (End)
Not long after, Chen Daofa was reported for corruption, bribery, and disregard for human life, and was arrested. At first, his interest group wanted to get him out from the relevant people, but before they could do anything, they were caught in one fell swoop and sent to prison to reunite with Chen Daofa.
After Chen Daofa passed away, the Lincheng County Magistrate was soon replaced. Shi Chu's business indeed went much more smoothly, so there were fewer things that needed her to handle personally, and she finally had some free time to take a break.
During this free time, she finally remembered her own life experience and her adopted brother Wan Dingjun whom she had almost forgotten.
Without his sister, who endured humiliation and worked as a dancer to earn money to support him as a young master, Wan Dingjun's life will not be as glorious as in the original world. Are those two loyal servants still loyal to him? Do they still think that no matter how much they sacrifice for the young master, it is worth it?
Wan Dingjun, who was remembered by Shi Chu, had a much more miserable life than the original owner who was taken advantage of, because when they first came to Shanghai, all their money was stolen and they were left on the streets. Lao Wang and Lao Zhou had to work as laborers at the docks and carry bags to earn money to support Wan Dingjun.
However, they were unfamiliar with the place, and the laborers at the Shanghai docks were divided into gangs. The easy work with extra money was naturally assigned to their own gang members. Only the heavy and tiring work was assigned to Lao Wang and Lao Zhou, who had just arrived and had no identity.
As a result, the two of them suffered a lot, but could only get enough food and clothing, and they worked very hard to build a thatched house for the three of them to live in.
Just this alone was enough to make them work their hardest, so they had no spare energy to support Wan Dingjun's studies. Wan Dingjun himself was less than ten years old, and he couldn't work to earn money without studying. Gradually, he was led down a path of depravity by the homeless children nearby.
No matter how many schemes and ambitions he had, he was so hungry every day that he forgot all the schemes and ambitions. He only thought about how to get food to fill his stomach, so he joined the street vagrants to steal, rob, and run errands for the masters and ladies of Shanghai. Over time, he slowly turned into a smooth-talking gangster.
When Lao Wang and Lao Zhou learned that their young master had done such dishonorable things just for a bite of food, they felt heartbroken and remorseful, and tried their best to persuade Wan Dingjun to stay on the right path and not learn bad things from the homeless kids outside.
But will Wan Dingjun listen to them? Although he is somewhat scheming, he is still young after all, and his behavior can be easily changed by the environment.
In the original world, there was Wan Xuer, the unfortunate sister, who worked as a dancer and earned enough money for Wan Dingjun to continue to be his young master safely. At that time, he had no worries about food and clothing and did not have to rack his brains to fill his stomach, so he could naturally maintain his gentle, steady, intelligent and elegant appearance. He did not have to expose his true face for the sake of food and clothing, so everyone who saw him thought he was very promising and said that he would definitely have a bright future.
But now he no longer has this blessing, and has become an idle and sneaky little hooligan. Without money to go to school, he is uneducated; without money to maintain his dignity, he cannot be elegant, and he has become the gangster that can be seen everywhere on the street.
His appearance naturally made Lao Wang and Lao Zhou very sad, so they could only work harder to earn money, hoping to save enough for him to go to school, so that he could find a good job to support himself in the future. As for the further future, such as revenge for the Wan family, they no longer dared to think about it...
However, Lao Wang and Lao Zhou were already quite old, and the heavy physical work they were doing was a way of overdrawing their health and future income. When they tried too hard, they overworked, and their bodies could no longer support them, and they both fell ill.
Naturally, they had no money to see a doctor, and wanted to rely on their own bodies to tough it out. However, because they ate too poorly, they were unable to provide the nutrition to repair their overworked bodies. As a result, not only did they not recover gradually, but they became sicker and sicker. Finally, after lying in bed at home for several months, Lao Wang died first, and Lao Zhou followed a month later.
In the end, Wan Dingjun became a complete orphan, but fortunately he grew up to be fourteen or fifteen years old and could support himself even if he had to steal and rob. He just had to be beaten and scolded from time to time.
But at this time, he no longer felt that being beaten or scolded was a big deal, as it would not be more painful than being hungry.
Wan Dingjun had fallen, so it was naturally impossible for him to meet any noble person again, let alone meet his future sweetheart Liu Wanru, who had killed his father.
In fact, they had met before, but unlike the original world, where they fell in love at first sight at a romantic party, in this life, they met on the street, but one was a gangster who had just robbed an old lady's handbag, and the other was a noble and elegant young lady sitting in a luxurious car. When the gangster was escaping, he ran across the road and was almost hit by the car the young lady was sitting in. Fortunately, the driver braked in time, and the gangster smiled playfully into the car, while the young lady cursed with disgust, "This is really a scum of society!"
With a different occasion and identity, the love at first sight that can make one feel at ease for the murder of one's father is no longer reliable. How ridiculous.
Later, when Shi Chu was escorting a batch of precious medicines to Shanghai, she met Wan Dingjun on a street. If the original owner had not remembered Wan Dingjun's appearance as he grew up, she would not have recognized that the pale and thin man with tattered clothes, who was nodding and bowing to a man in a suit and tie and kneeling on the ground to polish his shoes, was actually the young master Wan Dingjun in the original owner's memory, who was dignified and elegant in his every move.
Seeing Wan Dingjun like this, Shi Chu felt that the anger in his heart had finally dissipated. Look, without the original owner's sacrifice and humiliation, Wan Dingjun would have been in such a miserable state that he couldn't even fill his stomach, let alone avenge his parents.
After watching it, Shi Chu did not deal with him. After all, it was more satisfying to let him live miserably like this than to let him die.
But even without Shi Chu's revenge, Wan Dingjun did not live long. He hit a wall during a robbery. The rich lady who was robbed was carrying a pistol. He had not run far when he was hit by a pistol and died on the street. His death was similar to that of Wan Xuer in the original world. It really shows that there is a cycle of karma.
Shi Chu had not originally thought about doing anything to the family of Wan Dingjun's official wife Liu Wanru. After all, it was Wan Dingjun, not the Liu family, who directly led to the original owner's tragic fate.
But unfortunately, Shi Chu discovered that the Liu family was actually reselling opium, which crossed her bottom line. So she joined forces with the Red Party to plan a plan to make the Liu family get what they deserved. Liu Wanru did not end up well. After her family fell into poverty, she became the concubine of a warlord in his sixties. In the end, she failed in the family feud and died at a young age.
At the beginning of this life, he had been working as her pharmaceutical dealer, occasionally donating to the Red Party and the orphanage. He had peacefully passed through the turbulent old years and ushered in a stable and peaceful new era.
(End of this chapter)
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