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The adults of Sheng Fuqiang’s kneeling family watched as all ten-plus children had their mouths gagged, crying in pain and rolling on the ground, but they didn’t dare say a word.
At the same time, they finally understood—Sheng Chunxiang and her little pretty boy had no intention of playing fair. If they annoyed them, they’d be beaten for sure.
Especially Sheng Fuqiang. He hung his head, lost in calculations.
That little pretty boy—did he really have connections in the police force?!
Ah?!
This matter must not be blown out of proportion—if it does, it won’t do them any good and could bring disaster upon their entire family!
But should they let Sheng Chunxiang know the truth?
Wouldn’t she beat them to death?!
The others remained silent. As long as their father was still conscious and hadn’t been beaten unconscious, this matter had nothing to do with them.
Sheng Chunxiang watched them all, their minds working like abacus beads clicking right in front of her face.
“You’re really asking for it!” Sheng Chunxiang lashed out with a whip, striking Sheng Fuqiang’s three sons, making them all collapse to the ground, wailing in pain.
In reality, she had only hit one of them—the other two were simply scared out of their wits.
As for the three daughters-in-law of the Sheng family who hadn’t been hit, two of them had already fainted in terror!
It was too horrifying! They had never seen such a terrifying woman before.
Wang Jinfeng didn’t faint, but she was so scared she wet herself, trembling like a sieve, unable to stop.
“Still won’t talk?!”
“Then you can all go to the police station! I don’t have the patience to waste words with you.” Sheng Chunxiang cracked her whip again, knocking Wang Jinfeng unconscious.
Dear heavens!
Could someone save her? She was about to be scared to death!
The little brats who had just been wailing moments ago all shut their mouths instantly.
Seeing this, Sheng Fuqiang no longer dared to hide the truth. He confessed everything: “I’ll talk, I’ll talk…”
However, his confession was a complete distortion of the truth.
After eating and drinking their fill, Sheng Fugui’s family had regained their strength. The moment they heard something off, they immediately started arguing.
After twenty minutes, Sheng Chunxiang finally understood.
So, Sheng Fugui and Sheng Fuqiang weren’t related by blood at all—Sheng Fuqiang had been picked up by Old Master Sheng.
Old Master Sheng had poured his heart and soul into raising him, even finding him a wife and starting a family for him. But upon realizing his twisted nature, he had driven them out of the house.
Out of resentment, Sheng Fuqiang had secretly reported Old Master Sheng for colluding with enemy spies, forcing the old man to flee overnight.
By a stroke of luck, Old Master Sheng had ended up working at a steel mill.
As for Old Master Sheng’s inheritance, only Sheng Fugui was entitled to it. Among the Sheng family, the only one with a decent brain was Sheng Chunxiang.
Having failed to scheme their way into the inheritance, they turned their sights on Sheng Fugui instead. After all, he was overly sympathetic and easy to manipulate.
Sheng Fuqiang had lent out an old, sick ox. When the ox died, he demanded compensation from Sheng Fugui.
When selling their land wasn’t enough to cover it, they had to mortgage their house, forcing Sheng Lao’er’s entire family to move in.
After that, they kept playing the victim, acting pitiful, and Sheng Fugui ended up taking on more debt. Eventually, they had to work like cattle to pay it off.
But that still wasn’t enough for Sheng Fuqiang. His family lived lavishly, eating and drinking well, even borrowing money outside and pushing all the debts onto Sheng Fugui’s family.
New debts piled on top of old ones—no matter how long they lived, they’d never be able to repay it all.
Sheng Fuqiang even had the audacity to claim, “Back then, I was falsely accused by Father! I wasn’t a bad person! If he had given me a chance, I would have taken care of him in his old age!”
Seeing how furious Sheng Chunxiang was, Pei Qingyuan swiftly walked over and kicked Sheng Fuqiang, sending him flying.
“You ungrateful beast! Without Old Master Sheng, you would have starved to death long ago! You bit the hand that fed you!”
Sheng Fugui also lost his temper, grabbed a stick, and broke Sheng Fuqiang’s leg.
Min Yuanyang and her children were stunned.
Where did her husband suddenly get such strength?!
Sheng Chunxiang, however, wasn’t surprised in the slightest—she knew it was the effect of the spirit spring water.
She had picked up a father, and now he was getting stronger.
“Sheng Fugui! You broke my leg! You still owe me money—you’ll never be able to repay it in this lifetime!”
“Somebody, go find the brigade leader! Sheng Chunxiang is going to kill me!”
As he was kicked into the air, he saw some villagers watching the commotion. He desperately screamed for help, hoping someone would come and save his family.
Indeed, some villagers rushed off to fetch the brigade leader.
The brigade leader arrived, bringing several village cadres with him, including a male educated youth.
This male educated youth had his eyes on Sheng Chunxiang’s eldest sister, Sheng Chunxia. Knowing she was mentally impaired, he had tried multiple times to lure her into the cornfield, but had always failed.
As the seven or eight men stepped into the house and saw the scene before them, their eyes widened in shock.
Was this…
Was this a bandit’s den?!
Sheng Fuqiang’s entire family—around a dozen or twenty people—were all tied up. Some were kneeling on the ground, while others were unconscious.
Not a single person was unscathed—every one of them was covered in whip marks, some even bleeding.
It was terrifying.
The older generation even thought they had walked onto a battlefield.
And at the center of it all, the mastermind behind this scene—Sheng Chunxiang—sat calmly on a chair, her expression serene.
For a moment, the brigade leader doubted his own eyes.
Was that really Sheng Chunxiang?
The timid, submissive youngest daughter of the Sheng family?!
“Chunxiang, this is…” The brigade leader forced a smile, unsure why, but feeling an inexplicable sense of fear.
He couldn’t bring himself to put on a stern face in front of Sheng Chunxiang.
Sheng Chunxiang gave her parents and siblings a look, and they immediately understood.
One after another, they dropped to their knees before the brigade leader.
“Brigade leader, I can’t live like this anymore! We can’t go on!”
“Our whole family has been tricked by Sheng Lao’er!”
“They wanted me to sell my daughter to an old man and my son to work in a dangerous coal mine!”
“I never owed them that much money—they made us work like slaves!”
…
The spirit spring water was truly miraculous.
The four of them spoke with reason and clarity, no longer stammering like before, only able to say, “I didn’t! I’m not! I was wronged!”
Pei Qingyuan was surprised as well. He had just seen those four barely hanging on to life—now they looked like they had been reborn.
The brigade leader had the same thought.
Was this really the same sluggish Sheng Fugui and his two foolish children?
With someone backing them up, they sure spoke more fluently now.
Seeing that their act was convincing enough, Sheng Chunxiang finally stood up.
“Brigade leader, I came back specifically to bring merit to our brigade.”
The brigade leader and the others were trembling inside.
She had beaten these people so badly that he didn’t even know how to wrap things up, yet she was talking about “delivering merit”?
If this was the kind of merit she wanted to send, maybe she should send it to the commune—they might actually appreciate it.
Sheng Chunxiang: “Brigade leader, Sheng Fuqiang is a spy sent by the Little Days!”
“They’re hiding among the people, stealing our agricultural secrets. If I hadn’t come back in time, they would’ve already escaped.”
Accusations?
Fabrications?
As long as she could talk, that was easy!
She was experienced in this—she had even bought trending searches to expose shady businesses before!
This nest of beasts in human clothing—only if they were executed would she truly feel at ease.
She had already sworn that everything the original owner’s family had suffered, these people would pay back a hundredfold.
Sending them to prison? Making them live in cowsheds? Parading them through the streets?
No, no, no.
That wasn’t enough to quell her fury—they had to die!
Boom!
With just a few words, it was like a thunderclap exploding over the Sheng family!
A spy from the Little Days?!
Everyone in Xiba Village knew Sheng Fuqiang was adopted.
But no one had ever thought about it from this angle.
Sheng Chunxiang and that male comrade had both come from Forty-Nine City—they must have seen and experienced a lot.
Otherwise, why would they say this?
The brigade leader’s mind was racing, and he had already accepted Sheng Chunxiang’s claim.
Sheng Fuqiang bullied Sheng Fugui, and when he was called out for it, he had even tried to report him.
This whole family was full of scheming people—they should have been executed long ago.
Sheng Fuqiang never expected Sheng Fugui to reveal the truth, or for Sheng Chunxiang to outright frame him.
“That’s not true! I didn’t—Brigade leader, I didn’t do anything! I swear I didn’t!”
Sheng Chunxiang sneered: “Words alone don’t prove anything—I have evidence. Brigade leader, let’s go search.”
The brigade leader instantly caught on and quickly followed her inside, with Pei Qingyuan trailing behind.
They entered the cellar and hauled out a large trunk. A quick glance inside revealed that it was full of documents written in the Little Days’ language.
The brigade leader’s face changed drastically!
There really was something?!
He had thought Sheng Chunxiang was just bluffing!
Pei Qingyuan was also puzzled—how had Xiangxiang known about this?
