Chapter 102: Let's Just Call It Quits

"Yes, my classmate saw it. She ran from home to school without any pants on, and whenever she saw someone, she would ask them to return her child to her."

Jiang Zhi still felt a lingering fear as she said, "But I didn't see it with my own eyes. I went to the dance club that day; my deskmate told me. Anyway, she seems to be in a miserable state now, and everyone says she has a mental illness."

For a perfectly fine young girl to go mad, it was chilling to hear.

This was the normal pity one feels for their own kind.

Si Rong thought that perhaps everyone has their own karma.

Who is to say that the version of her from the future in another space and time ending up in the hospital for emergency treatment wasn't the handiwork of Shen Yuan and the others?

"It is quite miserable."

However, she could only sigh like a bystander.

The fact that Shen Yuan had gone mad was a heavy blow to both Shen Lan and Li Xuan.

Not to mention Li Xuan, but in the past, Shen Lan had been so glorious in front of outsiders, and his two children at home had been raised exceptionally well by Si Rong.

Shen Yuan, in particular, was a pampered little princess.

Although Shen Chi had dropped out of school, he had always been very obedient and sensible.

He truly did not know how things could have turned into this in such a short time.

Shen Yuan was mad; her words and actions were not like those of a normal person at all, and she only went out to embarrass them.

"How on earth did you act as a mother?" He felt like he was beyond tears, "You had to drive a perfectly fine child mad! It would have been better to agree to let her give birth back then! Things wouldn't have turned out like this!"

"Shen Lan, stop being a Monday-morning quarterback! Didn't you also think it was shameful and tell her to abort the child back then? Now you're putting all the blame on me; do you even have a conscience?"

After saying this, she burst into tears in a fit of desperation.

She had originally wanted to marry Shen Lan and become the wife of a County Magistrate; how could she have imagined that life would suddenly turn out like this?

Not only had she lost her job, but they were not as well-off financially as before, and Shen Lan was no longer as attentive as he had been when he would meet her in secret during his business trips.

She was truly fed up with this kind of life.

The two of them stabbed at each other, even dragging up old affairs from years ago.

"Conscience? You think you have a conscience? If you did, you wouldn't have schemed against the only good friend who treated you with sincerity!"

"Schemed? That's still not as bad as you. Even if you slept with a dog for over ten years, you should have developed some feelings, right? Didn't you put something in her food..."

Slap—

Shen Lan gave Li Xuan a fierce slap, and the room finally fell silent.

The mad Shen Yuan was standing at the bedroom door, foolishly watching them and laughing.

"Hahaha, fighting! I want to watch them fight!"

Shen Lan cast a warning glance at Li Xuan, "If you keep spouting nonsense, you'll bring about big trouble sooner or later!"

"Heh, what's the use of me keeping my mouth shut?" Li Xuan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "Shen Lan, Bureau Chief Shen, have you forgotten? She is already engaged to Jiang Cheng and has moved into the Jiang Family. They might have already slept together. How much longer can you hide that matter?"

"There will always be a way."

As long as he found that person from back then, everything would be foolproof.

"I'm going to find Shen Chi," Shen Lan put on his coat, "You watch our daughter at home."

Shen Chi was running a street stall.

After the great upheaval in the Si Family back then, Si Yan had relied on street vending to build his fortune.

Shen Chi was preparing to follow suit.

Upon hearing the news that his younger sister had gone mad, he was not too surprised, and he had no intention of going home with his father to check on her.

"That's fine."

Shen Lan looked at his son and felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, it's fine that she's mad." Shen Chi arranged the clothes in front of him, "Think about it, a madwoman can be locked up. That's better than her giving birth to some inexplicable bastard and being an embarrassment for a lifetime, right?"

From the moment he had taken action back then, he had already anticipated this possibility.

Hearing these words, Shen Lan originally wanted to scold him for being an older brother.

But after savoring the meaning, he felt that his son made sense.

Yes, if she was mad, she could be locked up, and then no one would know she was mad.

Shen Lan hurried home and met his good friend downstairs.

"How did things go?"

"Very smoothly. The wealth of the Si Family is too eye-catching. It's not just us who want to take them down; I hear there are people in the city who want to take them down too."

Shen Lan finally felt more at ease. Ever since Si Han forced him to divorce Si Rong, he had been planning for this day.

If the great tree that was the Si Family fell, let's see how the Si Family members could still be arrogant in front of him!

Fortunately, everything was going according to his plan.

Although being transferred to the Health Bureau made some things inconvenient to do now, his good friend still held an important position.

"Then let's do it!"

Shen Lan made a throat-slitting gesture.

The timing was perfect.

Now that Si Rong was only engaged to Jiang Cheng and not yet married, if something happened to the Si Family, would he still dare to marry Si Rong?

Marry the daughter of a capitalist who had committed crimes against the state? Did he not want his future anymore?

Si Rong received a call from the Si Family in the middle of the night.

At that time, she was sleeping hazily with her head on Jiang Cheng's arm, but she woke up immediately upon hearing the phone.

Worried that it was from her future self, Si Rong got out of bed on tiptoe, afraid of waking Jiang Cheng.

But Jiang Cheng is a soldier, and his vigilance far exceeds that of an ordinary person.

From the moment Si Rong left his embrace and got out of bed, he had already woken up.

Listening to her cautious footsteps, he found her extremely adorable.

The call was from home.

Hearing the voice of her second sister-in-law Tian Chang, Si Rong's heart skipped a beat.

Now in middle age, Si Rong feared nothing more than receiving calls from home in the middle of the night.

"Rongrong, you should come back for a visit!"

"Okay."

Si Rong agreed immediately, "Is it Mom, she...?"

"No, Mom is fine, and Dad is fine too; come back and we'll talk!"

Jiang Cheng, on the bed, had excellent hearing; before Si Rong hung up the phone, he had already gotten up from the bed and quickly put on his clothes, even preparing Si Rong's coat for her.

Something had happened at home, so Si Rong naturally had no heart to dress up; she put on her clothes from the day and threw on her coat, then followed Jiang Cheng into the jeep.

Along the way, she felt anxious in her heart.

The Si Family home was brightly lit.

From Si Father and Si Mother down to Wang Shu, who watched the door, everyone was awake.

Seeing that her family members were all perfectly fine, Si Rong finally breathed a sigh of relief; as long as the people were fine, that was all that mattered.

Her second brother Si Han, covered in the smell of smoke, told them what had happened in a concise manner.

Someone had reported the Si Family for greedily amassing ill-gotten wealth, intending to label them as Rightists.

That is to say, the same set of tactics used before the seventies.

Although that era had already ended, those terrors were still deeply imprinted in everyone's hearts.

"Can they just say whatever they want?"

Since the Reform and Opening-up at the end of the seventies, wealthy people had become as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river; their Si Family was merely a small fish in the long river of the era.

Furthermore, they had not earned any ill-gotten wealth.

On the contrary, they had donated many supplies when there was a natural disaster in the neighboring county, and this was all documented and verifiable.

"Don't worry, if they want to audit the accounts, let them audit them."

Si Yan was not afraid; from setting up a street stall to founding a company, he had never broken the law or violated discipline, so he was not afraid of an audit at all!

"I'm just afraid they will tamper with the accounts," Si Han said, expressing his worry; only the people who frame you know how wronged you truly are, "We still need to prepare for both possibilities."

The group discussed until the early hours of the morning.

Si Rong yawned, finished breakfast with Jiang Cheng, and returned to the Jiang Family.

"Jiang Cheng, if something really happens to our family, let's just call it quits!"

Si Rong spoke up suddenly.

The sound of a sharp brake echoed through the street.