allonlinenovel Chapter 208 Tragedy
Chapter 208 Tragedy
As time passed, the second dawn came quietly.
That day, the boy's sister, a gentle and quiet woman, met you inadvertently.
Her eyes were gentle, but when she saw the shocking scars on your body, a hint of pity flashed in her eyes.
Without saying a word, he just gently took out the ointment for healing the wound from his arms and applied it carefully to you.
Her words are as gentle as the spring breeze, and every caring word is filled with love and reluctance to part with you.
At that moment, you felt for the first time the feeling of being surrounded by tenderness. It was a kind of happiness that you had never experienced before, of being treated gently by the world.
However, as the memory continued, the murderous aura of the female ghost became stronger, and the cold wind around her became more biting.
Her originally sharp and piercing voice suddenly became low and frantic, as if countless anger and unwillingness were rolling in her chest: "They all deserve God's punishment! They all deserve to die! Ah——"
Faced with this sudden outburst, Yang Shengming could no longer suppress his curiosity and blurted out, "What on earth happened in the meantime? How did it become like this?"
An indescribable sadness flashed across Sheng Junwei's eyes: "People often say 'poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people', and this saying is sometimes not without purpose."
"It turned out that the brother and sister's father was a fourth-rank official. After they witnessed the tragic experiences of Jiang Zhaodi and other girls, they felt deep sympathy and decided to lend a helping hand and change their fate. Unfortunately, their good intentions were not implemented quietly, and the plan was accidentally discovered by the villagers."
"And the one who accidentally discovered this secret was Jiang Daqiang. Jiang Daqiang had a useless son who was idle all day long. His family was very poor. People from all over the country would shake their heads and sigh when they mentioned him. No woman was willing to step through that door."
"In order to continue his bloodline, Jiang Daqiang revealed the rescue plan for the kind-hearted brother and sister to the village chief. The latter, out of fear of high-ranking officials and fear of causing trouble, actually came up with an extremely stupid countermeasure - forcibly detaining the brother and sister!"
"The reason why the village chief dared to do this was because during the conversation, the siblings revealed that they had made full preparations for this escape, and the family members were unable to track their whereabouts at all."
"As a result, this pair of kindhearted siblings fell into a difficult situation. The sister was forced to marry Jiang Daqiang's son, who had a long history of bad deeds, while the brother suffered inhuman torture. In the end..."
Hearing this, Yang Shengming couldn't help but gasp and asked in disbelief, "What happened to these people? Just because they wanted to save those poor girls, they were killed like this?"
Pei Yu's thoughts were even deeper: "You are talking about what happened thirty years ago, that fourth-rank official, and his missing children... Are you referring to the former Minister of the Honglu Temple, Mr. Fan?"
Sheng Junwei nodded slightly, confirming Pei Yu's guess.
When Sheng Junwei was looking through the past files, the disappearance case of Mr. Fan's children particularly caught his attention.
However, the disappearance of the siblings and the female ghost incident spanned several years in time and space. On one side was a remote and impoverished village, and on the other was a prominent family of high-ranking officials in the capital. Almost no one would have thought that there would be an intricate connection between these two seemingly unconnected worlds.
"After her brother died, Sister Fan was imprisoned by Jiang Daqiang's family. Although the shabby hut they lived in looked shabby, in the early days, Jiang Daqiang and his wife and their son kept a close watch on the new bride, with someone always watching over her every step of the way."
"The situation was slightly relieved until Sister Fan gave birth to a baby boy, continuing the bloodline of the Cao family. However, this did not mean the return of freedom. Sister Fan was still trapped in that dilapidated hut day after day, with no hope in life."
"For many women, the arrival of a child often means more constraints and weaknesses. Sister Fan is constantly wavering between the desire to escape and silently enduring for the sake of her child, and her heart is full of contradictions and struggles."
"At that time, she didn't know that her brother was no longer alive. In order to prevent her from doing something stupid out of despair, the Cao family deliberately concealed the truth from her and used it as a means to control her."
For the sake of her brother who was stuck in the quagmire and her son who was innocently involved, she gritted her teeth, held back her tears and humiliation, and stole a glimmer of hope for survival on the edge of despair day after day.
The turning point lurked after five years of passing. In the spring when Jiang Zhaodi was seventeen years old, she relied on her extraordinary wisdom and keen observation to cleverly avoid those ubiquitous eyes. Like a civet cat in the night, she quietly approached the fence of Jiang Daqiang's house.
Under the moonlight, she whispered to Sister Fan the unspeakable sad news - her brother had passed away. In her eyes filled with shock and grief, she firmly promised to help her escape from this land that restricted her freedom.
At that moment, two broken hearts were connected by their shared grief and defiance.
When Sheng Junwei was recounting this past event, the emotions surging in her heart were complex and indescribable.
He knew very well that unpredictable changes were most likely to occur in the cracks of human nature.
This woman who once held hope was ultimately unable to escape the shackles of fate, and never had the chance to kill the enemies for her beloved brother.
The torrent of fate also dragged Jiang Zhaodi into a more turbulent and unknown road.
It was a stormy night. The village was immersed in sleep, but the silence was broken by a sudden cry - "Oh no, Daqiang's wife ran away!"
It turned out that a villager went to the simple outhouse due to gastrointestinal discomfort. He accidentally witnessed two women hurriedly leaving in the night and shouted in panic.
The news spread like wildfire, instantly igniting the entire village. Villagers picked up torches and spontaneously organized a search operation.
As expected, the two women, exhausted but stubbornly holding each other's hands, were soon surrounded by an angry crowd.
Sister Fan, under the double torture of despair and the loss of her loved ones, the walls of her heart collapsed.
When the villagers began to relax a little, she made a decisive choice. She used all her strength to crash hard into the old locust tree at the entrance of the village that had witnessed countless stories, leaving behind a heart-wrenching loud noise and a heartbreaking ending.
As for Jiang Zhaodi, due to the villagers' fear and vigilance, she was quickly isolated and controlled to prevent any further accidents.
In anger, Jiang Daqiang blamed everything on Jiang Zhaodi's parents, blaming their daughter for provoking the trouble. This eventually forced the helpless couple to push their only daughter into another tragic abyss - becoming the bride of Jiang Daqiang's son Jiang Guangyao, to continue the broken marriage.