Chapter 157 Madness
"Then you can take it!"

Jiang Anning's voice seemed to be possessed, carrying an irresistible temptation.

Everyone looked at the thick stack of banknotes, their eyes turned red with excitement, and they wished they could rush up immediately, snatch the banknotes from the hands of others and put them in their arms, not allowing anyone to covet them.

But even though they thought so, when the step really came to asking them to take a step forward and take the banknotes, everyone looked at each other, and no one was willing to move first. They looked at the others carefully and cautiously, waiting for whoever rushed up first, and then they would rush up, beat that person until he had a bloody head, and then divide the money among themselves.

Jiang Anning raised the corners of her lips slightly and looked at them with indescribable sarcasm.

"Take it!"

"Didn't you say you all wanted it? Why are you unwilling to take it now that I give it to you?"

She took two steps forward and handed the banknotes to the crowd again.

For no apparent reason, everyone took a few steps back subconsciously.

Why do I always feel that An Ning’s smile is a little creepy?
Her smile was apparently quite gentle, but why could they not help feeling a chill on their backs?

The smile on Jiang Anning's face became even brighter.

"Uncles, what's wrong?" She took two steps forward again: "Didn't you say you wanted these banknotes? Take them! Why don't you take them? Why don't you take them?"

How can you give money to others like this?
If you don’t know, you might think that what was given was not silver notes but paper money.

As everyone thought about this, they couldn't help but tiptoe and take a closer look at the stack of banknotes in Jiang An Ning's hand.

I want to confirm whether it is really paper money or ghost money.

"If you want to see, uncles, you may come closer and take a closer look to see whether what I hold in my hand is real banknotes or something to burn for the dead."

Jiang Anning seemed to see through the person's thoughts. He casually pulled out a banknote from the thick stack of banknotes and handed it to the person.

"Patriarch, can you take a closer look? Uncles, can you take a closer look?"

Everyone felt more and more frightened, and couldn't help wondering in their hearts: What on earth is this girl up to?
Could it be that he really made a fortune and has become so rich that he no longer regards money as money?

Listen to the opera, how rich can a rich man be?

The silver bills and Jiaozi are all used as toilet paper to wipe your butt!

Jiang Anning thought these people were quite interesting.

Before she gave them the things, they were all worried about it like black-eyed chickens.

Now she openly took out the things and gave them to them, but these people were too timid to reach out and take them.

Suddenly, Jiang Anning thought of what the previous comment said.

[Someone had planned this beforehand and wanted the villagers to bully Jiang Anning...]

Her eyes suddenly fell on the faces of Patriarch Jiang and others, and she looked at them inconspicuously: Maybe, what was said in the barrage was right?
These people are shouting and calling for war and killing, seemingly wanting her money, but what money does she actually have?

Even she herself didn't know where her money was or where it went.

How would outsiders know?
Is it all based on conjecture?

So……

Jiang Anning looked down at the thick stack of banknotes in his hand, as if thinking about something.

Could the person who delivered the silver note be the one who controlled the villagers behind the scenes?
Could her death in her previous life have anything to do with the person behind this? -
"What's wrong with you?"

Jiao Niang looked at the man who ran out for no apparent reason, gave Jiang An Ning a large stack of banknotes, and then ran back for no apparent reason. At this time, the man was lying on the couch in the carriage in a sloppy manner, and she was furious.

"What on earth do you want to do?!"

"Why did you give Jiang Anning so much money for no reason?"

"Didn't you keep warning us before not to alert the enemy? Why are you... you're not alerting the enemy now, are you?"

"You're beating the grass to pieces and scaring the snake to death."

"What exactly do you want to do? Wang Shang, can you please tell me clearly what you want to do!"

Jiao Niang couldn't suppress her anger and roared hysterically: "Before you did anything, did you ever consider the lives of those of us who followed you?"

"Or do you think that our lives are worthless in your eyes?"

"You have never considered us as comrades, brothers, or friends who fought side by side with you!"

Jiao Niang felt that if she continued to follow Wang Shang like this and watched him go crazy for no apparent reason from time to time, she would really go crazy.

It will really drive you crazy!
She couldn't see through this man more and more.

Wang Shang, however, seemed to be unaware of the human madness. He lay lazily on the couch with an unprecedented sense of relaxation, holding a bunch of green-purple grapes in his hand, and occasionally plucking one, as if he was tasting some delicacy.

"Isn't it good for me to be like this?"

"Why are you so excited?"

Wang Shang smiled with an ambiguous tone: "In the past, didn't you always hope that I would kill Jiang An Ning as soon as possible so that I could take you back to Beijing to enjoy wealth and honor, high positions and generous salaries..."

"Now that the day of departure for Beijing is just around the corner, what are you upset about?"

While Jiao Niang was stunned, Wang Shang approached her unexpectedly, stretched out his hand and pinched her chin hard. She had been pampered in the past few years, no longer having to live on the edge of a knife, and had lived a life of hardship and hardship. Her face, which was as white as a peeled egg, was deformed by the pinch.

"I'm going to kill Jiang Anning, are you unhappy?"

"Ok?"

"speak!"

“Aren’t you happy?”

Wang Shang's eyes suddenly became fierce. He pinched the girl's cheek and lifted her up.

Jiao Niang:......

Hey!
How can I speak when you are pinching me!!!

Jiao Niang wanted to break free from Wang Shang's control, but Wang Shang didn't give her the chance at all.

No matter how she slapped and used tricks, trying to use the force to remove the man's arms that were restraining her, she could not move him at all.

...How come this man has so much strength?

It was obvious that eight years ago, when they had just come out to do this mission, this man was on par with them.

How come after eight years, he not only didn't regress like them, but made great progress instead?
This is unreasonable!
It was clear that everyone had been enjoying themselves for the past eight years. From the beginning, when they had just left the capital, they were full of pride, but gradually lost their fighting spirit and high spirits in the long and boring wait. Until now...

Most of the time, I have accepted my fate.

Although no one said it explicitly, everyone was prepared to never have the chance to go back in this lifetime.

Some of them even secretly settled down in Tianzao Village next to Jiangjia Village under an assumed name, got married, and now even have a daughter and a son!
Although this matter was done in secret, it was not a secret. As long as Wang Shang wanted to know, he could easily find out everything.

But Wang Shang seemed to be completely unaware of this.

Everyone has a scale in their hearts and knows that he is planning to turn a blind eye.

At the same time, my chance of returning to the capital was completely wiped out.

At that time, everyone felt that they would most likely die of old age in this remote area.

There is no chance to go back.

I just gave up.

From time to time, he would verbally provoke Wang Shang, do some insubordination, and secretly make small moves, trying to use Zhao Hai to disrupt Wang Shang's plans...

This is mostly due to unwillingness.

In my heart, I really never had any hope for these things. Of course, if I could succeed and kill Jiang Anning smoothly, then everyone would be happy.

But, I don't have any expectations.

But it was obvious that everyone was playing badly, and they looked at Wang Shang, who was playing badly even more, the worst of the bad...

How come, in just eight years, there is such a huge difference between me and them?

Let go, let go...let go!
Jiao Niang didn't have time to think any more. She just felt her breathing was becoming more and more difficult, as if she was about to die.

Well……

"Cough, cough, cough!" Jiao Niang was suddenly thrown against the car wall, and soon fell on the car board. She lay on the ground in a mess and powerless manner, coughing violently.

"You..." Are you crazy!

Jiao Niang wanted to curse, but she swallowed it back in dismay at the man's cold gaze.

very scary.

This man...why does he seem to have become his previous inhuman self again?

Jiao Niang is still frightened.

In the past two days, because of the incident of "the first embroiderer in Jiang'an County", Wang Shang acted out of character and took her to the shabby place of Jiangjia Village. Like a stinky rat in a gutter, he hid in the dark and watched Jiang Anning's every move.

Although his behavior was strange, he treated her very kindly, as if...

We are back to the past, and everyone is still fighting side by side. We are all small soldiers with low rank. Even if we die, no one will remember us or collect our bodies.

Even though they were down and out, they still supported each other.

They were all together, having crawled out of the mountains of swords and seas of blood, and had slept together on a pile of dead bodies.

Wang Shang at that time was not like he is today, with no distinction between him and them in upper and lower classes.

I would even tell them jokes to make them happy.

Then when did things start to become different?
Jiao Niang couldn't remember much.

It was as if they had suddenly gone from being brothers and partners to superiors and subordinates.

It seemed as if nothing had changed, yet it also seemed as if there was always a huge, insurmountable chasm between them.

They can never go back.

That’s what Jiao Niang thought at that time.

But not long ago, when Wang Shang came to Jiangjia Village because of the "No. 1 Embroiderer in Jiang'an County" incident, she seemed to see again the warm, flesh-and-blood Wang Shang who could cry and laugh.

But just now, everything that happened in a flash made her realize...the feelings of those two days were probably just an illusion.

Wang Shang was still the cold-blooded Wang Shang, the "adult" whom they had to treat with respect at all times... The Wang Shang who used to play and joke with them was long gone.

Jiao Niang raised her head inadvertently, her eyes falling on Wang Shang's face, which was no longer recognizable from its previous appearance.

perhaps……

The former Wang Shang disappeared in the repeated face-changing, right?
Jiao Niang smiled bitterly.

She found that she really... couldn't remember what Wang Shang looked like at the beginning.

The man who was so close to them, who used the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed, who drank and chatted with them, and who was extremely crazy, seemed to have disappeared.

From her memory.

Or maybe it's in their shared memory.

"You..." Jiao Niang wanted to ask, what's wrong with you.

The words came to his lips, but he swallowed them back quietly.

She thought, maybe Wang Shang really didn't want to kill Jiang An Ning?

Maybe it’s not because I’m in love with someone…

After all, how old was Jiang Anning eight years ago?
But now, I have to kill him.

"Don't worry, I know Jiang Anning."

Wang Shang restrained his anger and looked indifferent, as if he was not the same violent and brutal man just now.

At this moment, he was sitting on the couch with a dignified look on his face, as cold and calm as a mountain snow lotus. It was hard to tell which face was his true appearance.

"Even if I gave her the money, it would return to me intact very soon."

“She doesn’t know how to spend it.”

Wang Shang curled his lips slightly, smiling in an ambiguous way: "She is not born to be the kind of person who will eat pie."

"Even if you throw more pies from the sky to her, she will just run away in a panic, and would rather go hungry than take a bite of the pie that fell from the sky."

His eyes were somewhat distant, as if he was reminiscing about something: "She..."

"I've always been so cautious."

Wang Shang chuckled softly, and the pretty girl next to him got goose bumps all over her body.

This man is really crazy, right?

Could it be that he and Jiang Anning are very familiar with each other?

Don't tell me you're suffering from hysteria?

Wang Shang easily understood Jiao Niang's thoughts from her eyes, but he just smiled indifferently.

He doesn't need anyone to understand him.

"Just wait and see. In half a day at most, Jiang An Ning will go out and ask where the most effective temple or Taoist temple is nearby."

"When the time comes, she will definitely treat those banknotes as disasters that need to be eliminated, and throw them into the merit box as incense money."

"We just need to follow her quietly, and after she leaves, we can secretly take the money back."

Jiao Niang was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth: "You dare to steal even the money given to the Buddha, Bodhisattva and the ancestors?"

"Do you still believe in these mysterious things?"

Wang Shang glanced at the man lightly.

Jiao Niang was silent for a moment.

She... naturally didn't believe it.

People who lick blood from the tip of a knife always only believe in themselves.

But even if you don't believe it, there's no need to be so offensive, right?

What's the matter with taking the money donated by others?
and also……

Since you need to get it back, why go through all the trouble to give the money to Jiang An Ning?

Aren’t you afraid that facing such a huge sum of money, Jiang Anning will become greedy and will not send the money to any Taoist temple or Buddhist temple?

Jiao Niang thought about it in her mind and asked it casually.

Wang Shang actually also wanted to know whether Jiang Anning... was still the same Jiang Anning as before.

"I did this just to put on a show for the people in the village."

"With Jiang Anning suddenly returning to the village, those old dogs in Jiangjia Village will definitely want to take advantage of Jiang Anning for the promise they made that year. Even if they don't learn from Zhao Yuanshan and rob her, they will definitely instigate other people in the village to accuse Jiang Anning in the name of morality and filial piety, and want her to pay money to support the bloodsucking of the entire village. In this way, they can be regarded as fulfilling the promise made that year."


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