Chapter 103: Shen's Ending

　　The crowd that had been noisy just now suddenly became quiet. Jiang Youtao's mind suddenly exploded.

　　There was a stool next to her, and she picked it up without thinking and threw it at Shen Zhenjun who was closest to her. She was very strong and threw it hard, so Shen Zhenjun was knocked to the ground in one fell swoop.

　　Gu Nianwei raised her foot and kicked Shen Mingyuan's elder brother Shen Mingliang out.

　　Jiang Youtao picked up a stool and knocked down Shen Mingyuan's second brother Shen Mingwen. Shen Mingwen was hit on the face and fell to the ground. His head was dizzy and his eyes were full of blurs.

　　Jiang Youtao kicked them one by one: "Your mother is a beast, your whole family is a beast, old and young, all of them are beasts."

　　Jiang Youtao, who grew up under the red flag and in the spring breeze, has seen and heard many kinds of injustices, and things like this happen all the time. But those people are too far away from Jiang Youtao, and she can only vent her anger on the Internet at most.

　　The Shen family really existed, and it happened right next to her. She had all this strength, but if she didn't do anything, how could she justify it?

　　How could they do this, how dare they do this!

　　Jiang Youtao couldn't imagine how painful Ruan Manni's life was in her previous life, and what kind of mood Ruan Manni was in when she went back to her home to drink pesticide in her first life.

　　She was wondering how a larger world consciousness could appear in this world to correct the plot.

　　It must have found out about this matter before intervening.

　　It's so disgusting and infuriating. How can a scum like the Shen family and a bitch like Shen Mingyuan be reborn?

　　What happened to Little World No. 10? Is it blind?

　　The melon-eating system has already beaten No. 10. The Shen family is so evil that it can't stand it anymore.

　　Gu Nianwei was no less angry than Jiang Youtao. Zhang Dezhen also joined in with a stick. She hit Shen Mingliang, who was struggling to get up, back with the stick. Two streams of red blood instantly flowed from Shen Mingliang's nose.

　　The cries of pain from the three men of the Shen family were heard one after another.

　　As the protagonist, Ruan Manni had no place to use her talents. She looked at the three stranger women who fought for her and tears suddenly fell.

　　Ruan Manni seldom cried. After she realized that her crying would not earn her sympathy from others but would instead lead to her being beaten, she stopped crying.

　　She didn't cry the night she was raped by Shen Mingyuan. She didn't cry when Shen Zhenjun, Shen Mingliang, and Shen Mingwen sneaked into her room one by one. She didn't cry when she found out she was pregnant and Niu Dafang gave her an abortion.

　　But at this moment, she cried, and tears fell uncontrollably.

　　Ruan Manni turned around and knelt down towards the villagers who had come to watch the fun. "My dear uncles and aunts, you have watched me grow up, and you all know what kind of person I am. I want to report this to the police and the Women's Federation. Please help me."

　　Some people went there, and several women who usually had a strong sense of justice walked into the house and joined the group that beat up the Shen father and son.

　　No one dared to stop them.

　　They all heard what Ruan Manni said. Although the Shen family father and son were beaten, their mouths were not blocked. If they had not done something, wouldn't they have spoken out to refute it?

　　Since there was no rebuttal, it meant that they admitted Ruan Manni's accusation.

　　Beasts like the Shen family should be beaten to death. At this moment, even the people who had the best relationship with Shen Zhenjun did not say a word to help them.

　　Shen Mingyuan was stunned. He had never heard of this incident. He looked at his father and brother who were wailing in pain after being beaten, and his brain was overwhelmed.

　　Ruan Manni wiped her face and looked at him: "Do you know why I want to chop you, Shen Mingyuan?"

　　"You are such a disgusting person. When you were eighteen, you relied on my trust and told me late at night that you had something to tell me and asked me to let you into the room. Once in the room, you said you liked me, and then you forced yourself on me despite my rejection."

　　"In my life, the person I hate most is you. You ruined my life. If it weren't for what happened that night, I would have been married long ago. I would have a bright future, a husband who loves me, and one or two lovely children."

　　"Do you know what your brother and your father said to me? Your brother said, we are all brothers from the same family, born from the same womb, why can't they do what you can do. Do you know what your father said? He said, why can you, as sons, do it, but he, as a father, who worked so hard to raise you all, can't do it."

　　There was despair in Ruan Manni's words.

　　Shen Mingyuan retorted: "I didn't know you were unhappy at the time, I thought you were shy. I didn't know what you said, if I knew..."

　　Shen Mingyuan was a little confused. What would he do if he knew? He didn't know, and he didn't dare to think about it.

　　But Shen Mingyuan still remembers that night two years ago. That night, after he found out that he liked Ruan Manni, he had been thinking about how to tell her. It happened that a banned book was popular in their class at that time. The banned book wrote a lot about men and women. One of the passages said that women are double-minded. There is not a single truth in their words.

　　What they say they don't like is what they like, and what they say they can't is what they can do. The reason why he raped Ruan Manni that night was because the book also said that women are very strange animals. Once they give their bodies away, they will be bound to that man for the rest of their lives.

　　Shen Mingyuan regarded these words as golden rules. When he came back from school that night, he directly followed the methods written in the book to have sex with Ruan Manni.

　　Ruan Manni did say that she was not happy, did say that she wanted to stop, and did beg for mercy. Until now, Shen Mingyuan still thought that Ruan Manni was just shy.

　　Jiang Youtao picked up the broom beside her and hit Shen Mingyuan on the mouth: "Do you like me to hit you? You don't like it? Oh, why are you so shy? In fact, you really like me to hit you, don't you?"

　　Shen Mingyuan's mouth immediately swelled up, and he glared at Jiang Youtao: "Who are you?! Why do you care about my family's affairs?"

　　In Shen Mingyuan's memory, there was no such person as Jiang Youtao.

　　Zhang Dezhen snatched Jiang Youtao's broom and gave it to Shen Mingyuan: "Shen Mingyuan, Shen Mingyuan, you really disgust me. I was really blind before."

　　The more she listened to Ruan Manni's words, the more Zhang Dezhen felt disgusted with Shen Mingyuan. She remembered that after she started dating Shen Mingyuan, he wanted to kiss her within a month, and within half a year, he wanted to take her to the cornfield.

　　If she hadn't been taught by her parents to respect and love herself since she was a child, she would have been fine with dating, but she must not have any overly intimate actions with gay men before getting married.

　　Zhang Dezhen has listened to her parents since she was a child. Otherwise, with her love for Shen Mingyuan, she would have let Shen Mingyuan succeed long ago.

　　Zhang Dezhen couldn't help but thank her mother and then she became even angrier. She swung another broom at Shen Mingyuan's mouth: "How can you be so disgusting! Don't you know why your family adopted Manni? Why are you bullying her? Are you still a human being? Are you still a human being?"

　　From the time she heard that Ruan Manni was pregnant with Shen Mingyuan's child until now, Zhang Dezhen had never disliked Ruan Manni. Because she was too pitiful, and from the conversations of the Shen family, it could be heard that these people in the Shen family really didn't take her seriously.

　　How could she be angry at such a Ruan Manni? Now that she heard about Ruan Manni's tragic story, she felt even more sympathetic towards Ruan Manni.

　　Shen Mingyuan was speechless.

　　Niu Dafang was stunned by the chaos in front of her. After she came to her senses, she rushed to Ruan Manni: "You bitch, what nonsense are you talking about? Isn't it just that you are not allowed to marry your third brother? Do you have to make up such nonsense to frame your father and others?"

　　When Ruan Manni saw someone going to the commune, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. When Niu Dafang rushed over, she swung a kitchen knife at her. Niu Dafang dodged quickly and was not hit, but she was so scared that she fell to the ground, looking at Ruan Manni with horror in her eyes.

　　"I framed them? Isn't that ridiculous, Niu Dafang? You have lived with Shen Zhenjun for so many years, you really don't know who Shen Zhenjun is? After all these years, you didn't notice anything wrong with him?" Ruan Manni looked at Niu Dafang.

　　She smiled and said, "How could you not have noticed? When I was eighteen, Shen Mingyuan ran into my room and forced himself on me regardless of my will. You knew about it the next day. Later, Shen Mingyuan left and went to school. When your son and your man took turns entering my room, how could you not know?"

　　"You obviously know everything, but you helped your son deceive your daughter-in-law, didn't you? When any of them were in my room, didn't you always trick them away and send them away?"

　　"Niu Dafang, do you know what I hate most about you? I hate you and Shen Zhenjun the most. You say all kinds of things, saying that you raised me because you felt sorry for me, and that Shen Zhenjun and my father are very good friends and can't bear to see me being abused."

　　Ruan Manni looked at Shen Zhenjun: "Shen Zhenjun, you said you were my father's good friend. If my father knew about what you did to me, aren't you afraid that he would climb through your window to look for you at night?"

　　Shen Zhenjun was being beaten, he didn't dare to reply, nor did he know what to say. He and Ruan Manni's father were indeed good friends, but he had been dead for so many years, what was Shen Zhenjun afraid of? He occasionally thought about being sorry for his good brother in the past. But the young and beautiful Ruan Manni lived in the same house with him.

　　Shen Zhenjun's guilt only lasted for a short while. He really couldn't bear to part with such a young and lovely girl.

　　Ruan Manni continued, her words were full of tears: "Your family always told me how kind you were to raise me. Your family has a hard time now that I am the only one to feed. I should be grateful to you and work like a slave for you. You told me all these things. You also said that this kind of thing is normal."

　　"Take the wife of Zhang, the kidnapper next door for example. Before she married Zhang the kidnapper, she also slept with her brother. And Wang Mazi, he was a bachelor for so many years. His mother felt sorry for him because he had never tasted the taste of a woman, so she slept with him at night."

　　"I have something I really want to ask you, Niu Dafang. Do you think this is normal, even common? Do you sleep with your brother and your father at your mother's house?"

　　In the past, Ruan Manni really regarded Niu Dafang as her own mother. Ruan Manni still remembers that when she fell down that year, it was Niu Dafang who gently picked her up. When she just lost her parents, she cried all night long looking for her parents, and it was Niu Dafang who kept comforting her.

　　During the years when Shen Mingyuan didn't like her, the Shen family was normal. Niu Dafang was like a normal mother, strict with her but also occasionally kind to her.

　　Ruan Manni knew why they were so nice to her, because the Shen family wanted the house left by her parents. Although Shen Mingliang was living in the house now, the ownership of the house was still in her hands. The village had agreed that she would move back when she turned 18. The Shen family treated her so well, waiting for her to hand over the ownership of the house to them after she turned 18.

　　Ruan Manni was willing in the past. She grew up in the Shen family. Shen Zhenjun was not close to her like all fathers of this era were to their children. Although Shen Mingyuan and the other two were good to her, Shen Mingyuan would also share his things with her.

　　All the misfortunes started when she was 18 years old, when Shen Mingyuan took possession of her by force. Shen Mingliang found out that night, and he raped her when no one was home. Shen Mingwen was the third, Shen Zhenjun, whom she regarded as a father, also raped her after drinking during the Chinese New Year.

　　From then on, she became the bed-warmer for the men in the Shen family. Anyone who wanted to have sex could just go to her room.

　　How could Niu Dafang not know about these things? She knew that yet she didn't blame her husband and son, but took out her anger on Ruan Manni. Ruan Manni had to do all the work at home and outside, and she would be scolded if she didn't do it well. Whenever she was free, Niu Dafang would catch Ruan Manni and talk about some incestuous topics in someone's family, trying to make her obedient and sensible.

　　Ruan Manni once cried and begged Niu Dafang to marry her off and marry her off far away. Niu Dafang did not agree because she was afraid of being beaten, so Ruan Manni was beaten.

　　That was the first time Shen Zhenjun beat Ruan Manni, and it was also the first time Ruan Manni realized that a man who was quiet and taciturn could be so scary.

　　Ruan Manni didn't know whose child this time, but she didn't want it. When Shen Mingyuan said he wanted to marry her in his previous life, Ruan Manni thought it was ridiculous.

　　It's a joke that Shen Mingyuan knows nothing and is a fool. In the previous life, Shen Mingyuan finally married her, but after marriage, she was still being violated by the men of the Shen family.

　　It wasn't until 1980 when she and Shen Mingyuan moved to the city that things got better. Shen Mingyuan was really nice to her at that time, and it was precisely because of her past that she was particularly tolerant of Shen Mingyuan.

　　Until Shen Mingyuan hit her.

　　No one found this lively scene interesting; the captain of Sidaohe, the village party secretary, and the militiamen had all come.

　　On the way, they had already found out the whole story.

　　When they arrived, the Shen family father and son were covered in footprints, and the exposed skin was all bruised and swollen. Only Shen Mingyuan was better, but the cut on his arm was too deep, and the flesh was exposed. He seemed to feel no pain. He just sat there like a fool.

　　Niu Dafang sat on the ground, bowed her head and said nothing. Shen Mingliang and Shen Mingwen's wives and children were not at home. Today was a good day, and they all went back to their parents' homes to visit relatives before the autumn harvest.

　　The militiamen pulled the attackers away and helped the Shen family father and son up. They were extremely rude and didn't care at all. They grabbed wherever it hurt. The Shen family father and son dared not say anything.

　　After no one came out to plead for mercy after being beaten, they realized that no one in the village would speak for them.

　　The thing they were most worried about still happened.

　　Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei always pay attention to the Shen family, and they tacitly protect Zhang Dezhen and Ruan Manni.

　　The people from the Women's Federation of the commune arrived at the same time as the public security officers of the commune. Even though Sidaohe Commune was called Sidaohe (TL's Note: 'Die at the river' meaning 'to be on the brink of disaster '), such a bad incident had never occurred since the establishment of their commune.

　　After they arrived, they directly took away all the members of the Shen family, including Niu Dafang.

　　Someone also casually bandaged Shen Mingyuan's arm.

　　As the first people to attack others, Jiang Youtao and others were also taken away.

　　The person who came to interrogate Jiang Youtao and others was a male police officer in his forties.

　　"Tell me, why did you hit people?"

　　"I just don't like them." Jiang Youtao said.

　　Gu Nianwei said: "Everyone has the right to punish scumbags. Beating them is too easy for them."

　　Zhang Dezhen looked at Jiang Youtao, then at Gu Nianwei, and finally at the police: "I beat them for the same reason as them."

　　"Do you want to pay for medical expenses?"

　　To be honest, it was the first time for Zhang Dezhen to participate in such a group fight. She had to admit, it was really exciting, especially when she was beating those scumbags. If the militiamen hadn't arrived too quickly, she would have continued to fight.

　　The police officer who was interrogating them wrote a few words on a notebook and waved his hand: "Okay, you are all grown up, if you beat someone up, you have to pay for the medical expenses. Is this not embarrassing enough? You can go back now."

　　It's just a formality. What the men of the Shen family did was too bad. It's much more serious than hooliganism. Sidaohe can't handle it now and has reported it to the county public security bureau.

　　Judging from past experience, the men in the Shen family will probably have to eat peanuts.

　　The police who interrogated Jiang Youtao and others left.

　　Jiang Youtao and the other two followed him out. There was a crowd of people in the police station, all of them came to watch the fun.

　　Jiang Youtao and the others did not leave. The police drove away the people who came to watch the fun, and they pretended not to see Jiang Youtao and the others.

　　After more than ten minutes, Ruan Manni came out, followed by the director of the Women's Federation.

　　She stood in front of Jiang Youtao and the other two and said to them, "Thank you for your help today."

　　Jiang Youtao shook her head.

　　Zhang Dezhen opened her mouth but didn't say a word. She felt a little awkward being with Ruan Manni like this.

　　Ruan Manni looked at Zhang Dezhen with a particularly gentle gaze: "I'm sorry."

　　Zhang Dezhen was a little confused. She didn't know why Ruan Manni wanted to apologize to her. It was clearly not her fault.

　　Ruan Manni didn't explain. She said to Jiang Youtao and the others, "I'm going to the hospital with you. You don't have to follow me. That thing is too unlucky. You don't want to get involved with it."

　　In Ruan Manni's heart now, she feels it's unlucky if she touches anything from the Shen family, let alone the piece of meat in her belly.

　　As expected, Jiang Youtao and the others did not follow. Ruan Manni left with the director of the Women's Federation.

　　Ruan Manni walked to the door, turned around to look at Zhang Dezhen, and then left without looking back.

　　In her first life, Zhang Dezhen was the only person who treated her well. She was nice to her without any purpose, she's just nice because she wanted to treat her well.

　　After she died in her previous life, her soul did not actually dissipate. She knew what a disgusting thing Shen Mingyuan did after her death. She also knew that Zhang Dezhen had a miscarriage because of this incident, which damaged her body and made it impossible for her to get pregnant again.

　　The only person Ruan Manni owed in her life was Zhang Dezhen.

　　But in her first life, she just couldn't bear it anymore. Life in the Shen family was too hard. She couldn't bear it anymore. Life was too hard. It was so hard that she couldn't see any hope or end.

　　Jiang Youtao and the other two returned to the county town. Everyone was silent and no one spoke.

　　Back in the dormitory, Jiang Youtao silently opened the broadcaster that the melon-eating system had projected onto Ruan Manni.

　　Ruan Manni was lying on the hospital bed, her face as pale as paper, with sweat dripping down her forehead one drop after another.

　　She has been pregnant for almost three months, and the abortion this time is not the painless one in her previous life. The pain Ruan Manni endures is indescribable.

　　Jiang Youtao opened the mall and bought an analgesic pump that could relieve pain. The melon-eating system understood her more and more, and the moment she got the things, she gave them all to Ruan Manni.

　　Ruan Manni's tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed a little.

　　Jiang Youtao sighed.

　　[ Tongzi, I want to see the ending of the Shen family. I can't wait. ]

　　The melon-eating system has accelerated the flow of time in the current small world number ten.

　　The Shen family father and son's bullying of the orphan girl was extremely serious and could be considered a sensation in that era. It was different from ordinary hooliganism crimes.

　　After discussion and research by the county and city, it is decided that the death penalty can be carried out.

　　Two months later, on the day when the first snow of 1975 fell, the four of them, father and son, were shot to death.

　　Shen Mingliang and Shen Mingwen's wife only found out about this when they returned from her parents' home. For them, it was like a bolt from the blue.

　　On the third day after Shen Mingliang and Shen Mingwen were arrested, they filed for divorce with the county court.

　　The three brothers Shen Mingliang and Shen Mingwen had three children in total, two girls and one boy. They didn't take any of them with them and just left with the dowry they brought with them.

　　Niu Dafang didn't dare to stop it. She was first threatened by Ruan Manni, and then beaten by the families of her two daughters-in-law. Her body was completely broken and she couldn't move on the kang.

　　The property of the Ruan family that her family had once occupied was returned under the auspices of the village. The village also decided to give all the extra money found in her house to Ruan Manni as compensation.

　　The Shen family's reputation in Sidaohe Village was ruined, and no one was willing to do anything related to her family. Her grandchildren became the object of contempt of the whole village, and no one wanted to pay attention to her family.

　　Niu Dafang was in poor health and could not support his three grandchildren, who froze to death in the winter.

　　Her grandchildren became orphans, and the village learned a lesson. Her grandchildren took turns eating and growing up in the village. Because there was no one to discipline them, their lives were miserable. But even though they were miserable, they were not as miserable as Ruan Manni.

　　And this is not the end. After the death of the four Shen family members, they entered the punishment field specially opened up for them by the consciousness of the big world.