Chapter 281 Brother Shen goes to find out the truth
How come he can't feel it?
Shen Yunyi looked at his elder brother who was crying like rain, and his heart was so upset that he didn't know what to say.
He returned home in a daze, but heard Shen Qianxue calling at the stairs.
"What? You said my sister hired a private detective to go to Niutougou to investigate Chen Wan's past? I'll give you money, and you must stop the private detective, give him the previous investigation information, and let him give it to my sister. I will transfer the money to your account..."
Shen Yunyi’s expression changed slightly when he heard Shen Qianxue’s different tone.
In his heart, Shen Qianxue has always been a gentle and delicate girl.
Her tone just now was filled with a different kind of ruthlessness and decisiveness, which immediately broke the gentle and lovely image of her in his mind.
Shen Yunyi suddenly remembered what his elder brother said, and what his mother said that day that those experiences were all fake...
He couldn't help but feel more confused and curious about Shen Wan's experiences over the past seventeen years.
Thinking of his inner uneasiness and his elder brother's stubbornness in the past few days, Shen Yunyi gritted his teeth and drove to Niutougou.
This was his first time to Niutougou. After leaving the city, there was the national highway, and after the national highway was the mountain road. The further he drove, the more rugged the mountain road became.
His butt was sore from the bumps, but he endured the ride all the way and finally arrived at Niutougou at daybreak.
In order to avoid being noticed, Shen Yunyi put on a baseball cap and held a camera, pretending to be a photographer who came to the mountains to collect materials.
He remembered that the information he had investigated stated that Shen Wan's adoptive father, Shen Dazhuang, lived at No. 245 Niutougou.
Shen Yunyi went over and found the door was locked.
He deliberately stayed at the door and took various photos of the scenery.
Some villagers passed by and saw him dressed like this and greeted him curiously.
Shen Yunyi simply explained that he was a photographer and that he had come here to collect materials and wanted to go in and take a look.
The villagers laughed and said, "You mean Shen Dazhuang's home? There's no one there!"
"No one? Is he out?" Shen Yunyi pretended to be ignorant.
"Shen Dazhuang fell into a pond and drowned not long ago." The villagers thought of how Shen Dazhuang had turned into a water ghost and brought disaster to Niutougou. They looked a little panicked and said in a low voice, "You'd better stay away from this family. This man was a gambler when he was alive. He would beat and scold children whenever he drank. He was very vicious!"
Beating and scolding children...
Is that child Shen Wan?
Shen Yunyi's heart tightened, and he quickly said, "Auntie, I'm actually a writer. I came to the mountain area specifically to collect stories. I'll give you some money. Can you tell me about Shen Dazhuang's family?"
When the old lady heard that she could get paid for telling gossip, she was of course happy about it and enthusiastically invited him to her home to tell gossip.
Shen Yunyi sat in the yard, pretending to drink the low-quality tea poured by the old lady, and asked impatiently, "Shen Dazhuang drowned, what about his children?"
The old lady said truthfully: "The child's name is Shen Wan, but he is not his biological child. I heard that when his wife gave birth in the hospital, the nurse took the wrong child."
"Shen Dazhuang is very cruel to his wife and children, especially Shen Wan. She was so pitiful when she was little. She went hungry nine times out of three days. She was so hungry that she went looking for wild fruits to eat. She almost died of poisoning. Shen Dazhuang was reluctant to spend money on medical treatment, so he gave her a bucket of feces to induce vomiting, which saved her life. She was only three or four years old at that time."
Shen Yunyi almost spit out his tea. "Shit, shit water?"
"Yes, it's pig manure mixed with water to induce vomiting." The old lady continued to talk about Shen Wan's childhood experience, "Chen Wan is a very well-behaved child. She has to take care of her father since she was young. Shen Dazhuang never cooks for her, but she still wants her to cook!"
"This child is not even as tall as the stove. She has to cook every day after school. She and her adoptive mother usually go up the mountain to chop firewood."
Shen Yunyi felt a little heavy, "I heard that Shen Wan didn't study for a few years because he played with gangsters?"
The old lady didn't notice that he knew Chen Wan, and rejected him on the spot: "What little gangster? It was Shen Dazhuang who didn't let her study."
"Chen Wan is a very good student. No other child in the surrounding villages is as smart as her."
"The teacher came to our house several times to persuade her, but Shen Dazhuang wouldn't let her go, saying that girls are money-losing goods, and there's no point in studying so much."
The old lady lowered her voice and said, "Actually, it was Shen Dazhuang who was planning to sell Shen Wan to that old Guanghun in the village as his wife."
"Chen Wan cried so hard, she knelt down and begged her father not to sell her. She was even beaten so severely that she passed out. Her adoptive mother secretly sent her to the hospital without telling Shen Dazhuang. I heard that when the hospital did a blood test, they found out that Shen Wan was the granddaughter of the richest man in Jiangcheng."
The aunt sighed with emotion: "Chen Wan is such a miserable child. She has been so obedient and sensible since she was a child. She would even call me when she saw me. But fortunately, I heard that she has returned to her grandfather's side. That is the richest man's family. Now she must be spoiled like a little princess by the richest man. It can be said that she has finally gotten her happiness after all the hardships..."
After hearing the last part, Shen Yunyi lowered his head in shame, feeling mixed emotions and guilt welling up in his heart.
It turns out that the truth of the matter is actually like this.
There was no such thing as Chen Wan disrespecting her adoptive parents, no such thing as her being addicted to stealing, no such thing as her hanging out with hooligans and having an abortion, and no such thing as her sleeping with an old man for money...
It turns out that all the times he looked down on Chen Wan were fake!
Mom and big brother are right, these are all lies told by Liu Meifang!
They could obviously come to Niutougou to investigate in person.
They didn't. They believed the information Liu Meifang provided and believed that their own sister was a despicable girl.
Shen Yunyi felt waves of pain in his heart, as if a pair of invisible hands had torn a hole in it.
Seeing that he looked unhappy, the old lady asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"
Shen Yunyi shook his head palely, "Auntie, thank you for telling me so much."
The old lady waved her hands. "Oh, if Shen Dazhuang wasn't dead, I wouldn't dare to say anything, for fear that he would come to take revenge. You don't know, when this man gets mad, no one can stop him. Many people in the village are scared of him."
Shen Yunyi felt even more upset.
So, is this why Shen Wan was afraid to return to his adoptive father's house?
"Auntie, I want to go to Shen Dazhuang's house to see if you have a ladder?"
"Yes, there is, but..." The old lady hesitated.
Shen Yunyi directly handed her a thousand yuan and said, "I'm not going to steal anything. I just want to go in and take a look."
The old lady took the money without saying anything and said, "Come on, come on, I'll take you over the wall from the back."
Shen Yunyi followed the aunt into Shen Dazhuang's house.
Shen Dazhuang's family conditions are very poor, worse than many families in the village.
They lived in an adobe house with a medium-sized yard. In addition to the main house and the ear room, the pigpen was next to the ear room.
The old lady pointed at the pigsty and said, "Shen Dazhuang used to lock Shen Wan in the pigsty to sleep. This scared the child so much that he has been afraid of the dark since he was a child..."
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