FID – Chapter 387

  Chapter 387: Good Brothers Have Tacit Understanding

  Liu Zhiqiu immediately jumped back in shock: “Hey, I even helped you take revenge, so stop crying, ah. I will ignore you if you cry again!”

  Looking at the man whose eyes were rounded and was on the verge of bolting away, Li Junyue snorted in laughter, laughing freely.

  On the other side of the haystack where they hit Wang Jinhui just now, a figure slowly emerged.

  Looking at the motionless figure on the ground, and then in the direction where the three just left, Kang Ziyu’s eyes flashed with complexity.

  When Li Junyue told her she was going out to get some air, she got worried when she didn’t return for a long time, so she sought her out.

  Later, she spotted Liu Zhiqiu sneaking in the haystacks by chance and followed him out of curiosity.

  It never occurred to her that she’d witness such a scene.

  Liu Zhiqiu actually took Li Junyue with him to beat someone up.

  Li Junyue, in particular; if she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, she could have never imagined that the lovable, delicate, and weak Li Junyue, who usually couldn’t even curse, would hit someone and swing sticks at people. 

  At that time, her cold and hostile appearance made her just like a changed person. It was completely different from the usual.

  Kang Ziyu withdrew her gaze, and then glanced at the person lying in the damp and cold field, turned and left quietly.

  She also recognized the man. He was the famous fop of Xiangshan County. He visited brothels all day long, with a group of uneducated gentry in the city. He was absolutely not a good man.

  Most of the people in the village were now over at the winery to join in the fun. Moreover, it was late winter, so few people would venture to the fields. If nobody would find Wang Jinhui, he’d probably freeze to death there.

  She saw him, but she wouldn’t say a thing.

  This kind of scum…

  There’d be one less with him dead.

  The buzz in the winery lasted for a long time, but because Qian Wanjin and the others had to rush to the next few wineries, they could only say their goodbyes to the same crowd of gentry and merchants who came along.

  Visiting one was enough for them. There was no need to drag them with him and go through all the wineries. Plus, he didn’t want to continue being bothered by entertaining them.

  He got to have a break too.

  Only when he was with his family could he relax and be comfortable.

  It was only at this time that someone noticed the missing Wang Jinhui. 

  Then some village children rushed to the village and said they found an unconscious person in the middle of the haystack in the field.

  When the villagers helped carry the man over and ripped off the sack, the Wang family’s faces turned black.

  The person was indeed a member of their family, but with a beaten and bruised appearance, clotted and mottled nosebleed, it was almost impossible to see his original appearance.

  If it wasn’t for his too familiar dazzling garb, they wouldn’t have dared to recognize the person.

  Looking at the dirty sack thrown aside, who couldn’t understand that he fell under others’ trap?

  The indifferent gaze of the Wang family patriarch swept around the villagers. He wanted to take advantage of the presence of the magistrate and demand an explanation. Otherwise, the Wang family’s prestige would be nowhere to be put.

  ”Strange, why did Young Master Wang run over to the haystacks for no good reason?” Qian Wanjin’s brow wrinkled in wonder. 

  ”I know! We were playing on the roadside just now and saw this man walking past behind a girl!” A young child crowded in the crowd raised his voice to answer.

  ”…” A moment of silence settled.

  Anyone who was acquainted with Wang Jinhui knew what kind of virtue he had, so the young child’s statement was highly credible. It seemed that Wang Jinhui ended up in this state because his old habit struck once more. He wanted to take liberties with a girl, but in the end, he went for wool and came back shorn, suffering.

  The young child swore that he was telling the truth, so the Wang family, who wanted to seek justice for their dignity’s sake, carried the unconscious man to the carriage, and fled with their tails between their legs.

  On the carriage back to the city, Kang Ziyu sat alongside Li Junyue, observing her from the corner of her eye without a trace.

  Li Junyue was oblivious to it and seemed to be distracted. Kang Ziyu didn’t know what she was thinking, but sometimes inadvertently, a smile would appear at the corners of his mouth.

  ”Junyue, where did you go earlier?” Kang Ziyu suddenly asked.

  Li Junyue snapped back to her senses and smiled lightly: “I just stood in the open space in front of the winery and chatted with the Liu family’s grandson for a few minutes.”

  ”What did you talk about?”

  This kind of questioning was rare in the past. Li Junyue’s eyes flashed slightly, but still smiled. “We didn’t talk about anything. I just apologized for laughing at him previously on the table previously.”

  With her answer, Kang Ziyu did not ask any further and turned her head away.

  Kang Shiming and Mrs. Kang noticed the strange atmosphere between the two girls, but the children were already grown ups. They needn’t know everything they need to know, so they, too, kept their questions to themselves.

  It was mostly just a little disagreement. The relationship between the two was very good, and it usually didn’t take long for them to reconcile.

  Since their daughter’s accident, Li Junyue was the only friend left around her. Kang Ziyu cherished her very much. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have considered Li Junyue in everything. Even at this kind of banquet, she also specially asked someone to pick her up.

  Her anger wouldn’t last long.

  Meanwhile, interrogations were also underway in Qian Wanjin’s carriage.

  After several young people sat in a carriage, Qian Wanjin looked at the two people diagonally opposite him and leaned against the carriage wall and grunted, “Do you have something you’re hiding from me? Don’t tell me the matter just now is related to you.”

  Xue Qinglian did not even raise an eyelid. It was none of his business.

  He did not hit the man. He only set a sack.

  Liu Zhiqiu was even less afraid. Xiao Jinzi was his own brother; did he still not know his temper? He wasn’t even considered a paper tiger to his kin.

  He leaned over and winked at Qian Wanjin: “Xiao Jinzi, you did well earlier. We’re indeed good brothers; we have tacit understanding.”

  Qian Wanjin acknowledged his words: “I knew it must be related to the two of you. Looking at that person, he must have been poisoned by Xue Qinglian. He can’t wake up even after someone pinches him.”

  He guessed it, so before the head of the Wang family took time to find trouble, he preemptively took the opportunity to speak.

  Otherwise, there would have been a fuss.

  Liu Yusheng felt a headache.

  ”What’s going on?” She wasn’t trying to be accountable. Really, she was just wondering what kind of people were around her?

  How come they could get into trouble everywhere they went?

  Xue Qinglian lazily inclined his chin toward Liu Zhiqiu, “It’s your brother’s heroic deed of saving beauty.”

  ”Stop it! It has nothing to do with the hero saving the beauty!” Liu Zhiqiu immediately denied, “At best, I just taught a scum to cut off evildoers.”

  Worried about his sister’s misunderstanding, Liu Zhiqiu explained, “That man is really a scum. He tried to take liberties with a young girl in broad daylight. He bullied her into crying until she hiccupped. He should be taught, right?”

  ”Who did he m*lest?”

  ”Li Junyue.”

  Looking at her foolish Second Brother who was blinking for praise, Liu Yusheng once again rubbed her eyebrows, “Brother, you did the right thing.”

  He did do the right thing, but why did it involve Miss Li again?

  With her woman’s instuition, she didn’t even know if she should caution her brother to be careful.

  But looking at her brother’s look, he really didn’t seem interested in Li Junyue.

  She was overly worried.

  ”Don’t tell our grandparents and my parents about this, ah.”

  ”Why?”

  Liu Zhiqiu bristled; “If you tell them, isn’t that tantamount to finding trouble for me?”

  The whole family had been looking forward to him getting married and having a son right away. Hence, whenever a young girl stayed close to him, his grandparents would look at her as if she were their grandson’s wife.

  The best proof of this was letting that girl sit with them at the restaurant.