"That year, Chen Lu was just fifteen years old. She had parents who loved her and a cute and well-behaved sister. Although her life was not rich, she lived a peaceful and happy life. Until that night, when she was waiting for her sister who was on duty to go home together, she met the county bully on a deserted road. He was the son of the deputy secretary of the county party committee. He had just had a drink with a group of bad friends and was used to being lawless. What else could happen when he met two beautiful girls?"
At this point, Yan Huangyan was silent for a while, and continued: "In order to let Shenxue escape, Chenlu stayed behind to block him, but she was powerless to resist and was insulted. Afterwards, in order to avoid Shenxue's worry, she had to pretend that nothing had happened, lied that she had gotten rid of the man and escaped safely, and told her not to tell her family. Chenlu's parents are honest and ordinary people. Even if they knew, it would be useless. Not to mention a deputy secretary of the county party committee, even a street thug would be out of their reach. I thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly, two months later, Chenlu found out that she was pregnant. She was pregnant, and her belly was getting bigger day by day. In such a small place, such an incident immediately caused a sensation in the city. Chen Lu couldn't stand her parents' questioning, so she could only tell them everything that happened that day. Her father was so angry that he went to the deputy secretary's house to ask for an explanation. The other party first denied it and humiliated him and drove him out. Then when he went to the unit to petition again, he was arrested by the police station on the charge of disturbing public order. However, only three days after he was arrested, Chen Lu and her mother received a notice saying that he had a sudden heart attack and died in the detention center. His body had been cremated overnight..."
"Chen Lu and her mother refused to give in. They went to the county and city many times to appeal, but either no one paid attention or their appeals fell on deaf ears. They were looked down upon and humiliated. When they failed to appeal again, they were beaten by a group of people on the way back to the county from the city. Chen Lu had a miscarriage on the spot and almost lost her life due to heavy bleeding. Her mother also became mentally ill due to the heavy blows and drowned in the river near the city not long after. Even her body was not found. But for her, maybe it was better to die than to live..."
His gentle eyes were full of pity, but he did not feel furious because he knew clearly that similar experiences, or things ten times more cruel than these, were happening every day in many different places in the country. However, the anger of a common man could not solve any problems. If the system is not improved, the legal system is not sound, and the national situation where people are more powerful than the law is not reversed, it would be fine if nothing happened. Once something happened, they would understand how small, helpless, and pale the power of ordinary people is!
Therefore, since you have chosen the difficult mode, you must work hard to climb up and make yourself relatively strong, and then you can protect yourself and the people you love!
There is no other way!
"At that time, the boss and Qingqian were already familiar with each other. They agreed to go out of Beijing for a trip. They happened to pass by here and met Chenlu and Shenxue who were kneeling alone by the river to commemorate their mother's seventh day. Qingqian was kind-hearted and got along well with Shenxue. After hearing about their experiences, she asked the boss to bring them back to Beijing... Ten years passed in a flash. Shangguan Chenlu's name was known to everyone in Beijing, but no one knew that the majestic Shangguan Chenlu had such a tragic past..."
"After leaving the county, Chen Lu worked for her boss while secretly planning revenge. In fact, it was only a piece of cake for her boss to bring down the deputy secretary of the county party committee, but Chen Lu insisted on doing it herself, so she delayed it for five years. The former deputy secretary had been promoted to deputy mayor, and he was in a high position in the local area with a complicated network of relationships, so he was not so easy to deal with..."
Wen Liang interrupted, "So you helped him, and from then on, you and Captain Shangguan became close friends..."
This is not difficult to guess. Shangguan Chenlu is indeed powerful. Five years of experience with a figure like Yan Qixiu is enough to equal twenty years of time for others. However, she is not known for her wisdom. It is not easy to bring down a deputy mayor in a fair and open manner. And only Yan Huangyan can easily do this kind of invisible killing method.
Wen Liang still remembered that the reason why Shangguan Chenlu came to him for help was mainly because of Yan Huangyan's words. Now that Shangguan Chenlu is dead, Yan Huangyan is trying his best to save Shangguan Shenxue. The friendship between the two is really extraordinary.
Only after experiencing such a thing together, Shangguan Chenlu's heart, which had been closed off after the disaster, will be open to another person!
Yan Huangyan nodded and said, "Although Chen Lu and I have completely different personalities, we get along very well. She wants revenge, so I can't just stand by and watch."
"With your help, the deputy secretary, no, the deputy mayor will not be able to escape..."
"Whether it's the deputy secretary or the deputy mayor, if they really acted unintentionally, no one can escape the retribution they deserve. I won't go into the details. I spent three months setting a trap and got evidence of the deputy mayor's corruption and bribery. He wanted to lobby for a suspended death sentence, so he sent his cronies to Beijing with a large sum of money to lobby for him. I found a broker I knew well, and not only swindled all the cronies' money, but also got more evidence from him, so he was sentenced to death at the first instance, and executed immediately..."
"After we brought down the deputy mayor, the next thing to do was to touch the other relatives of the little bully, including his mother, brother, sister-in-law, two uncles, and one uncle. They all relied on the deputy mayor to make money and lived a lawless life. They bullied the people in the village. Some worked in the government, some in the police department, some in the mines, and some in business. We spent nearly a year to make them suffer one by one. Some lost their jobs due to breaking the law, and some were imprisoned for economic or criminal offenses. The whole family was completely broken up... The only one who was not touched was the little bully. All the things were deliberately not implicated on him. At that time, he had been arranged by his father to work in the Municipal Finance Bureau and was preparing to be promoted to the deputy section level. According to what he said later, he already felt that someone was deliberately targeting their family. He was worried all day long, not knowing when it would be his turn. He felt that he was in danger of losing his life at any time. However, he never thought that the cause was the little girl he had insulted many years ago. He had done so many bad things that it was inevitable that he would forget it..."
"Putting the little bully aside and letting him be suspicious, we found the gang of thugs who beat Chen Lu to a miscarriage. The leader has become a well-known figure in the county. This time we didn't waste any more time. We directly used the resources of the public security and sent people from the province to wipe them out as a gang. The leader was shot dead by Chen Lu while escaping. It was a light death and a lucky one."
"After doing all these things, almost two years had passed. Xiao Ba Wang finally didn't have the courage to stay in the local area. He didn't even care about his wife who he had just married. He resigned and left the local area, quietly running to the south. Chen Lu kept watching him, letting him experience the many hardships of the world little by little, step by step. He lost his money, power, and couldn't find a job. He was betrayed by his friends. He couldn't do hard labor and had no skills. At the worst time, he could only find food in roadside trash cans. He was also imprisoned several times... When he was completely inhuman and fell to the lowest point in his life, he was completely desperate. Chen Lu arranged for someone to give him a lifeline, making him feel that his luck had changed and began to rekindle his passion and desire for life. Chen Lu finally appeared in front of him and took him to a deserted wild ravine in the northeast. In front of his parents' spirit tablets, she skinned him alive piece by piece..."
Listening to Yan Huangyan telling the stories of Shangguan Chenlu's past, Wen Liang had a more three-dimensional understanding of this deceased woman, as if he could avoid the interval between life and death and walk into the depths of her heart, where loneliness and despair were intertwined, pride and inferiority co-existed, her love for her sister, her guilt towards her family, her indifference to this corrupt world, her viciousness in seeking revenge, the horror and complexity of human nature, the difficulty and powerlessness of life, all were vividly displayed in this woman during these ten years.
She was unfortunate, having experienced such pain in her prime, but she was also lucky, because when many people experienced the same thing and could only swallow their anger, she was able to finally kill her enemy in front of the spirit tablets of her parents.
However, the unfortunate may also be lucky, at least as long as they have hatred, they still have a reason to live, and the lucky is also unfortunate. After revenge, Shangguan Chenlu has lost the meaning of life. The only reason why she can continue to live is to protect Shangguan Shenxue!
Wen Liang's heart moved, as if he had touched something. Yan Huangyan glanced at him and whispered, "I think Young Master Wen has understood the connection between the two stories. That is Shangguan Shenxue! The reason why Yu Qingqian was so concerned about the two little girls she saw on the roadside was of course her kindness. On the other hand, it was just because Shangguan Shenxue was 60% similar to her. Later, after ten years of getting along, this similarity was not only in appearance, but also in temperament and character. The boss always joked that Yu Qingqian was a little fish, and Shangguan Shenxue was even younger, a small fish fry!"
Wen Liang opened his mouth slightly. He vaguely guessed that it was related to Shangguan Shenxue, but he didn't expect it to be such a relationship.
He recalled the photo he had seen in Lei Yu's secret room in Yanshan District of Beijing. It was his mother, Yu Shuying. At the time, he thought she looked a bit like Shangguan Shenxue, and Yu Shuying was Yu Qingqian's sister. (For a brief introduction, see Chapter 84 and Chapter 431 of Volume 4)
Lei Yu transferred all his thoughts about his mother to Shangguan Shenxue, and even dressed as a woman to get close to Shangguan. People are the same. When it comes to people who are always extreme in love and hate, there is actually no essential difference between them, whether it is the young Lei Yu or the scheming Yan Qixiu.
So the answer to the original question is obvious!
(I don’t know how the main plot turns out, I hope it’s not too abrupt. Actually, I didn’t intend to write about Shangguan Chenlu’s past in detail, but now that things have come to this, if I don’t write it clearly, the subsequent plot cannot be advanced) (To be continued)