Chapter 219: Bangeng's backstab, the eldest aunt is the murderer

Compared to Jia Zhangshi's loss.

Qin Huairu, on the other hand, was very excited.

The resentment of being schemed against by Jia Zhangshi and unable to remarry, with Bangeng's few complaints, ceased to be a problem; Qin Huairu felt boundless excitement from the depths of her heart.

Bangeng truly is her good eldest son.

At the critical moment, not a bit containing lake.

His gaze carried a hint of faint provocation.

Behind the night curtain.

It fell upon Jia Zhangshi's body.

Want to see Jia Zhangshi's joke.

After all, Bangeng, in front of the neighbors, pierced Jia Zhangshi's illusory disguise.

But worldly affairs are unpredictable.

Jia Zhangshi's joke wasn't seen; Qin Huairu's joke followed right after.

Bangeng, in a panic seeking medical help, seeing Jia Zhangshi ignore him, quickly turned his idea to Qin Huairu, asking her to save him.

Bangeng relied on two great supports in his heart, which he considered all-powerful.

The first support is Jia Zhangshi.

Qin Huairu is the second reliance.

"Mom, save me, I am your son, I am a male member of the Jia family, I don't want to go in, I don't want to be laughed at by my classmates, save me; if you don't save me, I will hate you forever, I won't support you in your old age, just like my grandmother, I will drive you out, give you no food, give you no water, let you starve, let you freeze."

These years of Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's dalliance.

Besides awakening the Thief Saint Skill, Bangeng also gained another piece of knowledge, understanding the importance of support for the elderly; he believed that Jia Zhangshi held him in her palm and Qin Huairu held him in her embrace, all for the sake of future old-age support, and he spontaneously came up with the idea of using old-age support to threaten the Jia family's two widows.

The Jia family's grand play of maternal kindness and filial piety.

It let the neighbors all exclaim in delight.

The Jia family's five members, each trying to outdo the other in beastliness; the old widow Jia Zhangshi is shrewish and uncomprehending, the young widow Qin Huairu feigns pity, and little Bangeng has become the byword for a white-eyed wolf.

At three years old, one can see the adult.

At seven years old, one can see the old.

Bangeng is ten years old this year.

If you don't save me, I will hate you forever, I won't acknowledge you as my mother! If you don't save me, when I grow up I will drive you out of our Jia family and starve you to death!

These are the harsh words Bangeng leveled at Qin Huairu, this mother, and Jia Zhangshi, this grandmother.

Pair with Bangeng's icy cold gaze.

It's absolute.

Shazhu's mood, unknown whether joy or indignation, his body slightly trembling.

Bangeng's method of threatening Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu with beastly words touched Shazhu's deepest, most sorrowful secret; he had once suffered the beastly tactics of the white-eyed wolf, and because he had no more use value, Bangeng, Xiao Dang, and Huaihua—the three great beasts—threw him into the wild countryside, where he froze and starved to death.

Toward Bangeng.

Shazhu still understood.

As the strongest white-eyed wolf of the courtyard, he never lets you feel disappointed.

In the previous life.

Having been poisoned by Qin Huairu, he lavished all his affection on this thing, even neglecting his own son; no wonder he ended up being driven out.

In his cold hands, a pair of warm little hands suddenly slipped in.

It was Yu Li.

Yu Li, noticing that Shazhu's condition was off, expressed her concern for him through her own actions; her warm hand soothed Shazhu's heart.

Like the dark clouds of an overcast sky suddenly pierced by sunlight, his sorrowful, indignant mood improved considerably under Yu Li's comfort.

He turned his head.

He smiled at Yu Li.

Taking advantage of the night's cover, he grabbed Yu Li's hand.

The two leaned together, their faces full of happiness and delight.

……

During the time Shazhu and his wife showed off their love.

Bangeng came up with another mischief.

Not knowing what Qin Huairu said, Bangeng appeared inexplicably with a hint of madness.

"How did I end up stealing things? Who says I stole things? My grandmother said, our family is poor, so we can go to their house and take things; it's taking, not stealing. They're not home, I go to their house to take things—why should I be caught? Who let them have things we don't have?"

Jia Zhangshi's face was already deathly pale from Bangeng breaking through her defenses.

Now it turned completely pallid.

Some words.

Can only be understood intuitively.

Cannot be spoken outright.

Just as Jia Zhangshi had Bangeng steal the neighbors' things, when Bangeng got caught misbehaving, they could use the excuse of a child's mischievousness to smooth things over.

If Jia Zhangshi truly participated, directing Bangeng to steal things.

Grandmother teaching grandson to steal.

This reputation.

It truly sounds bad.

Is Jia Zhangshi still alive?

When Bangeng eventually takes a wife, will that family's daughter be willing to marry over?

When Xiao Dang gets married, would that family's parents-in-law be willing to take in someone of bad character?

"Bangeng, don't talk nonsense."

"How come I'm just talking nonsense? You told me, saying we're hungry, they have food, go to their house to get food, this isn't stealing, it's survival. You told my father, saying Yi Zhonghai took my father as an apprentice, in order to let my father help Yi Zhonghai support his parents in their old age and see them off, their house is our Jia Family's house, their money is our Jia Family's money, Yi Zhonghai buys meat for Long Laotaitai to eat, you still scold Yi Zhonghai, saying Yi Zhonghai, on what basis, uses our Jia Family's money to buy meat for Long Laotaitai to eat."

Everyone really didn't know what to say.

Bangeng repeatedly broke through their bottom line.

"You still scold the neighbors as beasts, clearly knowing how difficult it is for our Jia Family's orphans and widows, yet you refuse to donate to our Jia Family; they deserve misfortune, they deserve to be robbed."

The expressions on everyone's faces.

Were not very pleasant.

As it turns out, there were also their matters involved.

Donating to the Jia Family.

Jia Zhangshi really dared to think that.

None of them are stupid.

Nor are they talking nonsense.

Given Jia Zhangshi's plump appearance, the Jia Family children's sturdiness, and their clothes having few patches, how could they possibly be a struggling household?

Look again at the neighbors: that family's children have no patches on their clothes, and their faces show no signs of malnutrition.

Hostile gazes gathered on Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu.

Feeling the neighbors' icy stares.

Jia Zhangshi felt overwhelmed.

She hurriedly rushed to explain to the neighbors.

"Neighbors, don't listen to Bangeng's nonsense; Bangeng is a ten-year-old child who knows nothing."

"Jia Zhangshi, I'm speaking nonsense; these words were all said by you to my face, and some you said behind my back, which I overheard."

Even Grandma didn't call out.

They directly addressed Jia Zhangshi.

Describing Bangeng as a beast's son is itself an insult to beasts.

"You say Shazhu is an idiot, Yushui is a money-losing commodity, the He Family's genes are born to beg, Shazhu wanting to send Yushui to university is just a daydream; the little money and goods spent on Yushui's schooling would be better given to our Jia Family, which took Shazhu's things and went out to make a name for him."

The lovey-dovey couple Shazhu and his wife.

They could no longer afford to be lovey-dovey.

They hadn't heard Bangeng say that Jia Zhangshi had set her sights on their own family.

"You scold Shazhu, saying Shazhu married a wife when he should stay single his whole life, his earnings should go to our Jia Family, Yushui should also never marry, her earnings should go to our Jia Family, and their house is an ancestral home where I could get married someday."

Jia Zhangshi really wanted to faint.

But she couldn't.

It was taking a toll on her life.

"You're still forcing my mother to go to Upper Ring!"

Everyone present.

There was one.

Counting as one.

Their head buzzed and exploded like a pot.

Upper Ring.

This matter could also be explained away.

But as a widow going to Upper Ring, it cannot be explained, nor can it be justified; going to Upper Ring is a preliminary sign of intending to do something.

Doubting gazes.

They moved back and forth between Jia Zhangshi's and Qin Huairu's faces.

Jia Zhangshi didn't know how to respond.

Qin Huairu didn't know how to bring things to a close.

They even had the thought of killing Bangeng in their hearts.

Everything, all of it.

With Bangeng's broken mouth, everything turned illusory.

The Jia Family's eldest son.

Truly the eldest son.

"You even told my mother, saying my father is gone, Yi Zhonghai has no one left to support in his old age, so you could have my mother negotiate with Yi Zhonghai: our Jia Family will support Yi Zhonghai in his old age, on the condition that he must give us his family's money and house, otherwise we will cut off his line."

Jia Zhangshi rushed hastily toward Bangeng.

She needed to cover Bangeng's mouth.

Otherwise he would keep speaking.

Who knows what unpleasant facts he might spill.

Now that these matters have been exposed, Jia Zhangshi doesn't know how to bring them to a close.

"You even had me go to Long Laotaitai's house to take things, saying Long Laotaitai fell out with Yi Zhonghai, Yi Zhonghai no longer cares for her, the items in Long Laotaitai's house, our Jia Family must act first, otherwise if the beasts in the courtyard react, they will get there before us and consume Long Laotaitai's line."

"Click."

Shining handcuffs.

Were placed on Jia Zhangshi's wrist.

Laoqianpo's body suddenly went limp, collapsing like a dead pig on the ground, and was immediately dragged out of the Siheyuan by two comrades, also like dragging a dead pig.

In a vague moment.

From afar came Jia Zhangshi's pleading voice.

"Comrade, I didn't kill Long Laotaitai; I just had Bangeng go around her room—it was Yi Zhonghai who killed her."

"Jia Zhangshi, you sent me to Long Laotaitai's room, causing me to lose a notebook, and today I was punished to stand."

……

In the dark crowd.

There was a pair of sparkling eyes.

Under the cover of night.

From a great distance, watching Bangeng being led away by the comrades.

A conversation between grandmother and grandchild.

With the help of the night wind.

Heard it clearly.

On the night Long Laotaitai met with misfortune, Bangeng had been to her room.

No wonder that night, during the process of killing Long Laotaitai, I constantly felt a pair of eyes not belonging to her watching me silently from inside the house.

At the time I mistakenly thought I was having a hallucination.

Now it seems.

It was clearly Bangeng.

His fists clenched unnaturally.

An idea rose in his mind.

Bangeng cannot be spared.

That night, she carried out a certain disguise, intending to let Long Laotaitai die with understanding, and she revealed her own cheek.

Long Laotaitai also saw her cheek and let out a cry filled with infinite terror and reluctance.

"Old Yi's wife!"

No fear of ten thousand, only fear of the one chance.

What if Bangeng said something?

Then Yi dama would have no way to survive.

……

Shazhu's speculation about Yi dama.

Quite correct.

The true murderer of Long Laotaitai was not Yi Zhonghai, but Yi dama.

A very clichéd frame‑up of stealing goods.

Long Laotaitai exposed Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's affair, and the secret that Qin Huairu had borne Yi Zhonghai a daughter, Huaihua, deeply wounded Yi dama's heart.

Yi Zhonghai's actions prevented Yi dama from being a mother; the two had initially signed an agreement stating that, regardless of who, they could not continue to quarrel over children, but must walk hand in hand down the road of extinction.

As a result, Yi Zhonghai played a "dark under the lamp" move.

He staged a grand "bright road, dark passage" performance, which felt utterly real.

He schemed against Qin Huairu, having her bear him a daughter, and kept it hidden from Yi dama; without Long Laotaitai, Yi dama would never have known, and she felt betrayed by Yi Zhonghai.

At night.

Tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

Feeling he had suffered a great loss.

Later, seeing Yi Zhonghai sleeping soundly, he impulsively conceived a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

Kill Long Laotaitai, then put the feces‑filled chamber pot on Yi Zhonghai's head to seize the opportunity to take his life.

Resent Yi Zhonghai.

Yet also resent Long Laotaitai.

Quite a perfect plan.

But he didn't expect a Bangeng hiding in the house; if Bangeng heard Long Laotaitai call out "Old Yi's wife," Yi dama would die.

Yi dama did not want to die; she wanted to live well.

The premise of living.

Is to establish a persona.

A persona of an adult who does not hold grudges against petty people.

After calming her mind, Yi dama stepped forward to Qin Huairu, took her hand, and began to talk with her gently.

"Qin Huairu, Huaihua is Lao Yi's child; this child should be raised by me."

Qin Huairu's heart turned cold.

She stared blankly at Yi dama.

Not knowing what Yi dama had in mind.

In her heart.

Yi dama should resent herself, resent the bloodline of Yi Zhonghai, Huaihua.

What does that mean?

Raising Huaihua.

"Bangeng has been ruined by your education, running to Long Laotaitai's room to steal things." Said with a hint of probing, "If Huaihua stayed with your Jia family, who knows what she'd become; I hate Lao Yi, but the child is innocent."

The neighbors all felt that what the eldest aunt said made sense.

Bangeng became a despised thief, hated by countless people in the Siheyuan, which is largely due to Jia Zhangshi's neglect and deliberate indulgence.

Qin Huairu also bears some responsibility, for she raised but did not educate.

Huaihua, being Yi Zhonghai's bloodline, was entrusted to the eldest aunt for upbringing.

The logic is explained clearly.

Just now, Bangeng could give an explanation.

She said Jia Zhangshi scolded, scolding the Siheyuan neighbors for not donating to the Jia Family.

Since the pot can't be opened, naturally they can't support Huaihua; handing Huaihua over to the eldest aunt to help raise her is a great thing.

A bunch of beasts.

From a moral standpoint, they all agreed with the eldest aunt's proposal.

Liu Haizhong felt he had come back to life.

He painstakingly carried out ideological work on Qin Huairu.

"Huairu, what the eldest aunt said makes sense; we all live in the same courtyard, the eldest aunt never said she would raise Huaihua, so not letting you, Qin Huairu, as a mother, see Huaihua's words is as good as not giving them; according to the Second Elder's opinion, you hand Huaihua over to the eldest aunt—on one hand fulfilling the eldest aunt's dream of being a grandmother, on the other hand lightening the burden of your Jia Family; your mother-in-law, Jia Zhangshi, could have said the pot can't be opened."

"Qin Huairu, what the Second Elder said makes sense; this matter must be done this way."