I was killed by domestic violence, and I went crazy with barrage

Chapter 268 Follow-up
Wang Shang thought back to everything that had happened since Jiang An Ning brought Zhao Hai to court.

I always feel that things are changing unexpectedly and unbelievably.

He thought about it over and over again, but still couldn't figure out the trick.

It was as if something very important had been overlooked by him.

Just like, he still doesn't know why Zhaomei drowned in the river mud.

What exactly happened in this?
Why did Zhou Ran die?
Who on earth killed Zhou Ran so cruelly?

Are you looking for a girl?
Or someone else?

Could the person who killed Zhao Mei be the same person who killed Zhou Ran?

Where did Zhao Hai go?

Did he really disappear into the crowd, making it hard to find him... or was it actually that Zhao Hai was already dead?

It’s just that they haven’t found Zhao Hai’s body yet?
Behind all this, was it coincidence, accident, or... someone secretly manipulating the chessboard, bringing all of them together, seemingly unintentionally but actually intentionally?
They were about to set off and return to the capital with Jiang An Ning.

But there are still so many mysteries that have not been solved, and they are difficult to sort out.

But it was obvious that their people had never relaxed for a moment in their surveillance of Jiang An Ning.

It's really a headache.
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In the Taotie Tower.

Jiang Anning ignored her stepmother's sobbing and complained about her grievances.

If it were in the past, she would have certainly softened her heart when she saw the beauty crying, with her eyes wet with rain and her pitiful look on her face.

but……

As long as I think of it, on a rainy night, Wan Niang, with one shovel after another, pushed a tall man into the riverbank.

He simply drowned the person in the river mud without showing any fear.

She could no longer feel any heartache.

It’s not because she has any opinion about Wanniang.

It is really……

Whenever she thought of what happened on that rainy night, she would feel that all the grievances and pity of the person in front of her were pretended.

It's not worth believing at all.

Well, that night...

Jiang Anning's hand, which was flipping through the menu, paused slightly, and as he recalled what happened that night, his gaze gradually drifted away.

It was a rainy night with thunder and lightning.

There were lightning and thunder in the sky, and from time to time a bolt of lightning would strike, which was extremely scary.

The doors and windows of every household were closed and no one dared to come out.

I was afraid that I would be unlucky and get caught in lightning and fire, and lose my life in vain.

Jiang Anning was originally the same.

She even planned to go to bed early that day.

I had just finished washing up and hadn’t had time to take off my shoes and get on the bed when suddenly many red bold [Wan Niang is in danger] appeared on the barrage.

She didn't know what happened, but she didn't have time to think about it.

In a hurry, following the instructions on the barrage, he ran at almost the fastest speed in his life and found where Wanniang was.

At that time, the tall and ferocious man was strangling Wanniang's neck, his face was hideous and his clothes were disheveled.

Jiang Anning didn't even think twice as he quickly looked around. After locking onto his target, he bent down, picked up a stone, and smashed it hard on the back of the person's head.

I don’t know what the man’s head is made of.

She used a lot of strength and hit him twice so hard that a dent was formed on his body and blood was oozing out, but he did not fall down.

But it made people angry.

He threw his stepmother out, squinted his eyes and looked back, and saw clearly that it was another young lady. The man walked towards her with a hideous and disgusting smile on his face.

That obscene and evil smile makes people feel sick.

There is no need to guess, everyone knows that this man is not thinking of anything good.

He stretched out his hand towards her with contempt, as if he was mocking her, a weak woman who dared to try to shake a tree and meddle in other people's affairs without knowing her own limitations.

Even though she was far away, Jiang Anning could feel the malice coming from the man.

At one point, she even felt that this ugly and ferocious man's face overlapped with Zhao Hai's.

They are all useless people who only know how to bully weak women by relying on their strength, and they take pride and enjoyment in doing so.

Jiang Anning's eyes turned cold, and he clenched the stone in his hand, wanting to throw it at the man's disgusting face and disgusting eyes.

There was a bang and the man's eyes widened in disbelief.

Then he fell down limply.

"Wan Niang?"

Jiang Anning looked at her stepmother in shock, who only revealed her figure after the man fell down.

She was still holding the shovel that had just knocked down the man, and her eyes were cold without a trace of warmth.

Wanniang just glanced at Jiang An Ning and didn't say anything.

He just walked to the man and hit him twice more on the neck with the shovel.

Jiang Anning felt a little pain when she saw the hatred.

After that, Wanniang still didn't say a word.

One person, alone and with great effort, dragged the disgusting man to the river.

Face down, he sank into the river mud.

The strong wind blew the river water, which kept hitting the river beach.

The cold and muddy river water splashed under Wanniang's knees, soaking her dress.

It also buried half of the disgusting man under Stepmother's feet.

As Wanniang swung the shovel, she slammed people into the river mud again and again.

Jiang Anning saw the man's weak struggle.

But soon, he stopped moving.

The man was finally drowned before he bled to death.

Jiang Anning watched from afar, and it wasn't that he didn't want to go up and help.

It was really because of Stepmother's appearance at that time that she felt that going forward to help would be troublesome.

After she was sure that the person was dead, Wanniang seemed to have her nerves completely broken. She fell to the ground and let the river water wash over her body over and over again.

She sobbed every night and cried inconsolably.

She cried for a long time, from silent to loud, and from loud to silent again... Finally, when the rain was about to stop and the day was about to dawn, she said to Jiang An Ning the first words of the night: "An Ning, he killed my mother."

At that time, Jiang Anning didn't quite understand who the mother that stepmother was talking about was.

It was not until later that she vaguely remembered...it was Wu Niang, the former owner of the painting boat.

It can be said that Wanniang has a love-hate relationship with the owner of the pleasure boat.

He hated her for treating him as a cash cow and for preventing her from redeeming himself.

It also broke her fantasy and made her realize that all the vows, promises and guarantees made by men were bullshit!
They all lied to her.

But she didn't know who her parents were since she was a child.

She only knew that the person who had taken care of her, taught her skills, beat her and scolded her, but also ensured that she had no worries about food and clothing and grew up peacefully was Wu Niang. She wanted to hate her, but she couldn't.

Until, until after Wu Niang died, she was helping someone sort out her belongings and accidentally saw a letter written in blood.

Only then did I realize how ridiculous my life experience was.

She was the child born to a little sister Wu Niang had on the painted boat.

The little sister, because she believed the lies the man told her about her belly, risked being beaten to death and secretly gave birth to her.

He also took out all his savings to support the man's studies and imperial examinations.

I thought that once the man became successful, he would take me away from this worldly place and we could live an ordinary life together.

did not expect……

The man had already remarried and not only abandoned her, he even wanted to kill her.

The man who used to speak sweet words to her, flirt with her, say that she was extremely pure and beautiful, felt sorry for her because she had to live with an unscrupulous uncle, and sold her to a pleasure boat before her mother had completely died, a man who lived in darkness and never saw the light of day, now regarded her as a stain on the mud...

I want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

He even wanted to strangle their daughter to death.

When Wu Niang and her men found the mother and daughter, her mother had already passed away.

If it weren't for the bumpy ride on the funeral procession, which helped to smooth out the breath she had been holding, she would have been possessed by the King of Hell with her face already turning blue and purple.

From then on, Wu Niang adopted her.

And named her Wu Wan.

Wu Niang said that she had never thought of following her mother's old path.

Letting her learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting is so that she can have the opportunity to marry into a good family in the future, live a stable life, and raise children with her husband.

Wu Niang had not read many books, but she felt that successful people must have read a lot of books.

Those good families would definitely like to marry a girl who is well-read and can speak sensibly.

But they forgot that she was born in a pleasure boat, her father was unknown and her mother was dead. Those families of poetry, literature and etiquette looked down on her background.

Even if there were people who had feelings for her, they were just attracted by her good looks and figure and wanted to keep her in a house outside as a mistress.

Pamper when needed.

If it is no longer useful, just throw it away like a worn-out shoe.

The only thing people can do is to condemn her, saying that she is willing to be humiliated and that she deserves it.

The instigator always manages to disappear beautifully in the end.

Wu Niang was furious at the time and beat all those dirty bastards out.

She was young and energetic at that time, so she said she didn't want to get married, so as to avoid being picked and chosen by others like an object.

Wu Niang disagreed.

No matter what, I must find her a good family with a clean record.

But in the end, he was once again poured cold water on by others, who thought that she was too thin, could not do farm work, and could not even cook soup, so there was no point in marrying her.

Wu Niang was extremely angry.

She said that the girls in her family were not born to do rough work.

He yelled at people so hard that they dared not say a word.

I don’t know what’s going on in my mind, I just keep cursing.

Wanniang's face, which looked like a withered flower, broke into a smile, and she said to Jiang Anning, "Actually, I still had a way out at that time."

"Go to a wealthy family and be a maid. After a few years of hard work, you may even be able to become a head maid."

“That means we have really made it through.”

"From now on, I will have a respectable and decent identity."

"I heard that even the scholars would scramble to marry the maids of the wealthy families, not to mention the small merchants."

"But I was born very beautiful..."

Wanniang laughed at herself a few times, and gradually burst into laughter: "Hahahaha, I'm beautiful! If only my face was a little less beautiful, perhaps this road would really be my final destination."

"It's fate that God gave me a beautiful face, but I don't have the force, means, identity, status, or power to protect this face intact."

"It's a nice way of saying it, to add fragrance to someone's sleeves."

"To put it bluntly, it's just something you use to help people through the night. It's something that breathes."

“No one will treat me as a human being.”

"But everyone will envy and covet my face..."

Wanniang sneered a few times: "Later, I also figured it out. Instead of going to someone else's house, where my life and death are all in the hands of others, it is better to stay on the pleasure boat and live a life of drunkenness and dreams, enjoying life in time."

Wu Niang beat him and scolded him.

But my stepmother has a stubborn temper.

Once a decision is made, even ten oxen cannot pull it back.

At that time, Wu Niang was not yet the owner of the painting boat.

She was just working for someone else.

Over the years, he was able to raise his stepmother in the painting studio, and as the owner of the painting boat at that time, he was particularly tolerant of her.

Wu Niang did not agree with Wan Niang putting up a sign to receive customers.

Wanniang then found the owner of the painting boat herself.

"...After I really took in the customer, Wu Niang seemed to have aged a dozen years in an instant."

"She was angry and didn't want to see me. She didn't talk to me for more than half a year."

"I even thought that our relationship would end there and then."

"Unexpectedly, Wu Niang, who is taciturn and does her work quietly every day, has quietly become the new owner of the painting boat."

"At that time, she told me in a very stern tone that if I embarked on this path, I must learn to fight."

"Strive for the top spot, for status."

"If I can't make money one day, she told me to fend for myself and not to expect her to give me charity."

"But I know she is just hard-mouthed and soft-hearted."

"She became the new owner of the painting studio, just to protect me a little more."

"I know."

"I know it all."

Wan Niang burst into tears: "When the owner of the painting boat that I found myself went to receive customers without her consent, she must have hated herself for not being the person with the most say on the painting boat."

"She must be blaming herself for not protecting me well."

"But I never blame her."

"I chose this path myself, and I have never regretted it."

"Life is only real if it is in your own hands."

Jiang Anning listened to her stepmother talking about her troubles and remained silent for a long time.

She didn't know how to comfort anyone.

I also feel that at this moment, no matter what nice words I say to comfort people, they all seem too pale and too futile.