Liu Zi’s eyes suddenly widened.
His trembling fingers pointed to Ke Jialing, who was shocked and embarrassed to hear this, and looked at Lin Shiheng with his head tilted. He stammered, “Shi-ge, are you serious?”
“Can this be a lie? Have I been lying all day, trying to get those people to arrest me and convict me of hooliganism?”
Lin Shiheng impatiently stretched out his hand and slapped him on the head. After he finished, he pulled back his hand and rubbed it on his clothes.
He urged quickly, “still not hurrying to greet?!”
Liu Zi gulped.
Although he always thought Shi-ge was the best, he looked at the Lin Shiheng in front of him, who was scolded as a hooligan and dressed in shabby and unkempt clothes, and looked at Ke Jialing, who was completely different from them, even though the clothes were not very new, but the washing was clean and neat.
You would think that these two people weren’t people of the same level.
Although very puzzled on how Shi-ge managed to make Ke Jialing his girlfriend, Liu Zi stammered under Lin Shiheng’s urging and squinting, as if he were about to feed him to a tiger.
“Sister-in-law, hello sister-in-law.”
Ke Jialing’s white hands almost twist the corners of her clothes. Her beautiful eyes were full of embarrassment and shame.
But she still looked up and quietly looked at Lin Shiheng with her, eyes standing in front of her first. Only then did she reply, “hello.”
Mama ah! She actually agreed.
And looking at this appearance, it didn’t look like Shi-ge forced her.
These two people are really dating!
Liu Zi simply thought he was dreaming.
“All right, now that you have greeted, you know what to do.”
Lin Shiheng looked at Liu Zi’s untidy hair that wasn’t shampooed for days. This time he didn’t slap it.
“Eh, er… I know… I know.”
Liu Zi was shocked by the huge news, but he didn’t go to gossip. He hurriedly launched his own small brain and repeatedly responded, “after that, I’m very sure she is sister-in-law. And I will take good care of her and will not let anyone bully her.”
“Just take care of your sister-in-law.”
“Yes, yes, and Old Ke… no, Uncle Ke and Aunt Zhang, I’ll be sure to take good care of them.”
Seeing Liu Zi think like this, Lin Shiheng nodded with satisfaction and held out his hand to pat him on the shoulder. He didn’t look down to see what sticky and dark things were on the shoulder. He abruptly took back his hand and hung it down as if nothing had happened.
“I can leave it to you guys, later take more care of my father-in-law and mother-in-law, you help is indispensable.”
“Eh, er… thank you Shi-ge.”
Liu Zi’s flattering smile immediately became sincere, but he still had to wait for orders. Lin Shiheng added, “you know this now, you know in your heart, just take good care of it, and don’t spread nonsense.”
“If I hear about it from others.”
Lin Shiheng grabbed a piece of ground brick and chopped it off with his bare hand.
The brick was not only split in half, but also broken to bits. Just as a gust of wind blew, some dust was blown up in front of Liu Zi.
Liu Zi: “…”
Shi-ge has always been known to have the ability.
But he didn’t expect, he had such incredible ability.
Liu Zi, who was originally thinking of taking the incident as a big news and sharing it with his fair-weather friends, immediately slumped down. He only wished his mouth had a zipper, and he couldn’t say a word once he closed it.
Fortunately, Lin Shiheng did not forget to give a carrot when he knocked down the stick. He hooked his finger at him, waiting for his silly head obediently lean closer. He charged to a low voice, “Lao Zi will enter the city next week, can’t do it without you.”
(TNote: Lao Zi = a way of saying “I” in an arrogant manner. Like saying “this boss here”.)
Liu Zi’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Eh, thank you Shi-ge, thank you Shi-ge.”
“All right, get busy.”
Lin Shiheng waved at him and watched him leave happily.
Ke Jialing got close and heard his words clearly. Her eyes immediately took on a bit of nervousness and worry: “What are you going to do in the city? I heard that the city is cracking down on things, if you go, you will be caught.”
“Cracking down is to catch bad people. Do you think I look like a bad person?”
Lin Shiheng raised his eyebrows at her. He had a face full of sharpness and ruffianism, his smile was full of naughtiness.
It was indeed a bad face, but in the eyes of Ke Jialing where beauty lies in the eyes of the lover, only the beauty of this face was felt.
Ke Jialing was confused by her smiling heart and looked down at a loss, but she still remembered to answer “no, very different.”
“That’s fine, I am a person who behaves well. If I go to the city, what reason would those people use to catch me?”
Lin Shiheng smiled like a riffraff and raised the corner of his right lip slightly. “You feel free to study, you don’t have to worry about these things. When you reach that age, we’ll get married.”
Ke Jialing blushed and nodded cleverly until Lin Shiheng left, and the agitation in her heart failed to come back for a long time.
She always thought that Shiheng didn’t want to tell anyone about their relationship.
She didn’t even consider it.
Thinking of the scene when her lover asked others to call her sister-in-law, Ke Jialing’s already blushing face became even redder.
She sat down slowly and continued to read the book, but only this time, she couldn’t concentrate on it.
***
Lin Shiheng was walking back. His physical prestige is very high in the area. Along the way, ordinary people stood away, and gangsters come to say hello respectfully.
It’s just that his prestige didn’t last long.
Ke Jialing was right before, the original owner never wanted to tell anyone about their previous relationship.
If someone else could have such a good-looking, gentle and considerate person who was a good student, they would certainly tell the world; But the original owner himself could be regarded as a terrible figure in this small county. Of course, this was amazing, that’s only what he thought of it.
This was still a novel and a world made up by the author. The timeline has not yet completely entered the era of science and technology, it was more similar to the period of reform and opening up of China, but many details were different because of overhead settings.
The original owner was the male lead, and his father died when he was 7 years old. At the age of 8, he was driven out by his own grandparents together with his mother, this was called a separation, but the only property he got was a broken quilt.
It was his maternal grandmother who loved her daughter and gave a dilapidated house to the widowed daughter to live in. She also gave a little subsidy from time to time, so that the original owner and mother, who knew nothing but farming, survived with her son.
The original owner got into all kinds of fights when he was 9 years old, and once made a brilliant record of winning a fight against two adults.
He was born with great strength and a deadly temper. As he grew older, he gradually made a name for himself. Until one day, he was reported. He was locked up in the public security station for a few days and suffered a lot. He realized, he couldn’t go on like this any longer.
The original owner’s brain was also flexible. He quickly gathered up his brothers in this small county town, and he also took care of the public security station from time to time, and didn’t steal or rob things. After all, he was strict in managing these kind of affairs, and didn’t hate his fate. He directly collected the protection fee. The younger brothers took the money one by one and gave it to him. He took some of it himself and distributed the rest to everyone.
Those who have paid the protection money were safe. As for the ones unwilling to pay, their location and name would be recorded and handed over to others, to spread widely. The loafers who rob and steal knew that these places were not covered, so they would do it again and again. Until the other side can’t bear, and had to pay the protection money. What he did was beautiful. He didn’t do anything after receiving the money, and he didn’t force people to pay the money. When asked, he could say that the other party voluntarily sent him money, and when someone reported it, he would know who did it. He himself was very cooperative and stayed in the public security station, but his brothers took vengeance to the whistleblower. If they opened a shop, the storefront of the whistleblower will be patronized by a group of thieves until the original owner came out.
After so many times, no one dared to do anything to these gangsters. As the eldest brother, the original owner has always been cool and unrestrained.
With power in his hand, he wanted to do bad things, but it so happened that the original owner, was a bastard. He was filial to the mother who brought him up singlehandedly. Unlike the son that had bad thoughts, the mother had a conscience. She always talked to her son every day, to never do bad things. If he does bad things, she will feel uneasy for a lifetime, and she would be too ashamed to live as his mother.
The original owner who had no conscience didn’t care, but he still cared about the life and death of his own mother, so he always saved some face in doing things.
He felt that he had a conscience, and he never did anything bad, so he always felt justified in front of people. As for letting his little brother collect protection money, it was so that he could blame it on them. If he didn’t say anything, who would know?
***
The worst thing he has ever done is to Ke Jialing.
Although Ke Jialing’s parents were fishermen and the two of them were tanned, they have always kept their only child in a delicate condition and it made her look fresh and beautiful. Coupled with her reading and love of learning, she had an attractive temperament, which in the eyes of many people, was the most beautiful woman in their small county.
The original owner also thought that she was good-looking and had evil thoughts in his heart, but these days the crime of r*pe was heavily punished, and he thought about his own mother, so he didn’t do it.
He didn’t do it, but someone in the next county did, taking advantage of Ke Jialing’s holiday and dragging her to do something on some section of the road. Ke Jialing shouted for help and happened to bump into the original owner who was accompanying his mother to the city, to see a doctor.
If it was the usual him, even if she screamed, the original owner didn’t bother to care, it would be enough for him to not commit r*pe himself, and he didn’t have to stop others from doing anything.
But his own mother was there.
His own mother was worried when she heard a girl call for help, and hurriedly urged him to see what was going on and whether someone was hurting a girl.
The original owner was unwilling to go, and then saw that the disheveled girl who was desperately crying for help was actually Ke Jialing, and immediately went up with a stick to beat up the gangster who wanted to do something bad to her.
His idea was simple.
I want to do it, but I never dared to do it! You son of a bitch dare to do it?!
I could kill you!