Jiang Shiyan’s eyes nearly split with rage. Shen Jiaqi, that bitch, actually dared knee him in the crotch…
Shen Jiaqi drew her knee back. A pity, her ankle hurt, so she hadn’t been able to bring out her real strength.
Otherwise, one kick would have guaranteed the end of his line!
“Jiang Shiyan, call you fat and you start puffing. You really think you’re a lump of gold that everyone’s fighting over.”
“Shen Jiaqi, you…” Jiang Shiyan couldn’t even straighten his back, he felt like his thing had snapped.
“You what? Haven’t you been telling everyone that I used tricks on you?”
“Take a good look. This is what my tricks, Shen Jiaqi’s tricks, actually are.”
As she spoke, Shen Jiaqi flicked her leg, and Jiang Shiyan clenched his buttocks in fright.
“From now on, every time I hear it, I’ll kick you once. After all… I can’t just let people throw dirt on me for nothing, can I?”
“You… you shrew, I’m going to report you to the brigade…” Jiang Shiyan was beside himself, propping himself on the wall to go and lodge a complaint.
“Go ahead. As long as you don’t mind the shame, by all means go to the hospital for an examination and prove that I kicked your family root broken. Whatever the compensation should be, I, Shen Jiaqi, will pay the full price. But… if you really do that, finding a wife in the future is going to be hard…”
Shen Jiaqi gave him a veiled stare and shook her head in relentless disdain.
She was certain Jiang Shiyan wouldn’t dare make it public, and would dare even less to admit he was no good in that department.
Going by the original book’s timeline, Jiang Shiyan and Ye Zhaozhao had already been carrying on in secret.
Ye Zhaozhao was the village Party secretary’s daughter, and Jiang Shiyan was waiting to become the favored son-in-law.
If he were no good in that department, how could someone as shrewd as Ye Zhaozhao possibly marry him?
Sure enough, Jiang Shiyan’s face went deathly pale, a mute eating goldthread, bitterness he couldn’t speak of.
As if afraid others might misunderstand something, he straightened up slightly, put on the look of a man who was perfectly fine, and deliberately raised his voice.
“Enough of your nonsense. As if someone like you could hurt me…”
As he spoke, the corner of his eye glanced toward the alley.
Following his gaze, Shen Jiaqi saw a blurry orange figure slip quickly into the alley.
In all of Daxing Village there was only one person with a bright orange dress, the female lead, Ye Zhaozhao!
No wonder Jiang Shiyan was so bold, daring to take on several of her brothers alone, every word in and out of his mouth a provocation. So he’d been trying to goad the fourth brother into raising his hand.
The moment he did, Ye Zhaozhao would be the witness, and then the fourth brother would have a stain on his record and lose the recommendation slot for good.
That slot would naturally flow to Jiang Shiyan.
Heh, what a vicious plan!
It seemed Ye Zhaozhao had done no small amount of scheming behind the scenes on this.
Ye Zhaozhao snatching this dead scumbag away, that didn’t matter!
But daring to scheme against her family, Shen Jiaqi couldn’t stand for it in the slightest.
From what she knew of Ye Zhaozhao, if this plan failed she would certainly hatch another, and would not stop until she got what she wanted.
The fourth brother had dodged it once, who knew if he could dodge it a second time.
She couldn’t just sit and wait for death any longer…
Shen Jiaqi was weighed down with thoughts, her face drawn long, and that murderous look in her eyes made Jiang Shiyan’s heart flutter with panic.
What was wrong with Shen Jiaqi?
Normally she obeyed his every wish and didn’t dare say one harsh word to him. Ask for money, she brought money, ask for grain, she gave grain. As long as it would make him look at her one more time, she’d have dug out her own heart.
Today the heavens had turned over, she actually dared kick him… Could it be that he really had broken her heart?
Or was she blaming him for not going into the river to save her today, deliberately picking a fight with him?
It must be that!
Jiang Shiyan put on a cold, aloof, high-minded air. “Shen Jiaqi, I know you blame me for not going into the river to save you.”
“I did mean to save you. I was at the riverbank taking off my shoes and my jacket when Lu Zheng got there first.”
“But it’s just as well. You and I have already broken off the engagement, so we’d better have as little contact as possible, to spare people any misunderstanding…”
Shen Jiaqi rolled her eyes hugely. Thank goodness he hadn’t gone into the water, otherwise, where would she have gotten to feel those eight-pack abs?
Thinking of that bulging yet smooth texture under her hand, Shen Jiaqi couldn’t help swallowing.
“In short, stop clinging to me. There’s no longer any possibility between you and me! If you make trouble again, don’t blame me for reporting you for indecency…”
Jiang Shiyan muttered out one last line and, terrified this tigress would kick him to death, ducked hastily into the alley.
Shen Jiaqi’s narrowed gaze followed Jiang Shiyan’s retreating back.
Run?
He thought he could get away?
Today’s business was just her collecting a little interest, the real show hadn’t even started!
When it did, she would definitely make Jiang Shiyan cough up on his own every bit of the money he’d squeezed out of the original owner, and make him regret ever provoking her, Shen Jiaqi!!!
Shen Jiaqi was mulling it over privately, not noticing in the least the way her four brothers were looking at her.
The eldest was crying and laughing at once, utterly overcome: little sister had finally stood firm for once, so, so, so satisfying…
The second was laughing so hard his eyes disappeared: that heir-ending kick of little sister’s was really something! He’d have to learn it from her one of these days.
The third brother’s eyebrow twitched: what was going on, it was clearly Jiang Shiyan who’d been kicked, so why did his own flesh ache too?
As for the fourth, his smile was a little twisted: tsk tsk, he’d seemed to hear the sound of eggs cracking just now… Jiang Shiyan would likely be a eunuch for the second half of his life… serves him right!
“I re-really didn’t expect… little sister would ac-ac-actually be willing to kick… him…” The eldest brother’s voice was thick with a sob as he spoke.
“Don’t speak too soon. With little sister’s temperament, she changes faces faster than turning a page, who knows if she’ll be stuck to him again tomorrow.” The second brother said worriedly.
The third brother stroked his chin. “I don’t think so, but if need be let’s observe her first, guard her without leaving her side for a step, and absolutely not let her do something stupid again.”
“If you ask me, we should just beat that Jiang fellow to death. Every time we see him, we beat him, until he’s afraid.” The fourth brother rubbed his fists, still regretting that he hadn’t gotten to hit that animal.
“Fourth brother, you’re normally so clever, so how do you turn muddled the moment it concerns little sister? Do you know why little sister came?” The third brother rolled his eyes at him.
The fourth brother snorted coldly. “For that Jiang Shiyan, what else? Surely not for me?”
“You’ve actually got it right, it was for you! Little sister said she was afraid a fight would leave you with a record and you couldn’t be recommended for the worker-peasant-soldier university, and that’s why she rushed over to stop you…”
The third brother’s words woke the dreamer in a single line.
Shen Huaiqing stood there stiffly, and his brain, muddled with rage, gradually cleared.
That was close!
If he had struck Jiang Shiyan just now, with that boy’s character he would never have let it drop.
By the end of the row, naturally it would have been him who was disciplined.
With a stain on his record, he’d have no chance at the worker-peasant-soldier university for the rest of his life.
Heh! He’d nearly walked right into Jiang Shiyan’s trap!
Shen Huaiqing’s face darkened as he easily worked out all the twists and turns in it.
“I understand. I’ll be careful next time. This time… it’s all thanks to little sister…” His eyes reddened slightly.
He really didn’t expect little sister to care about him this much, to see through Jiang Shiyan’s scheme at a glance.
Was this still that unreasonable, elbow-turned-outward, brainless little sister of his?
But how did little sister know the village would have a worker-peasant-soldier university slot?
And how did she know that he would definitely be the one chosen?
He shook his head with amusement, and put it down to little sister daydreaming again.
Still, what she said wasn’t wrong, he really couldn’t leave a record and get tangled up with that bloodsucker Jiang Shiyan!
How was Shen Jiaqi to know what her brothers were muttering about? She saw Jiang Shiyan off the whole way with knives in her eyes.
When she turned around, her four brothers all took a step back in unison, their movements perfectly synchronized, instinctively clamping their legs together.