latelenovela Chapter 445 Jun Qirui's Memories
Chapter 445 Jun Qirui's Memories
It turns out he was a fraud, a scheme that had been plotting against the Jun family for twenty years.
Chen Jingshan schemed against his mother and his maternal grandfather.
He swindled the entire Jun family's fortune, and even his name, Chen Jingshan, was fake.
Not only was her engagement broken off by the Huang family, but her "father" also owed the Huang family a considerable amount of money.
Even the servants in the house were bribed by the "father," and he was owed a lot of wages.
In order to seek justice, he went to the prefectural government to file a complaint, but unfortunately, the prefect had been punished and transferred because of his case.
The newly appointed prefect made numerous excuses, citing his new position, and refused to accept the case.
He went to the academy to find the teacher, and his former classmates and friends testified for him.
To his surprise, those people not only avoided him like the plague, but also kicked him when he was down, and slandered him with vicious words.
Disheartened, he returned home and learned that his sister had committed suicide; his heart sank into an ice cellar.
Unwilling to accept defeat, he decided he had to seek justice and prevent his sister from doing something rash again, so he packed his bags.
He embarks on a long journey to Guanglin Prefecture with his mother and sister in search of "Chen Jingshan".
Because of his terrible sense of direction, he led his mother and sister astray many times.
He, who had only ever studied, was forced to become strong in the face of this upheaval.
What should have been a month's journey took him more than two years to reach Guanglin Prefecture.
During those days, in order to make a living, he had to rely on writing letters and copying books for others to take care of his mother and sister.
They were also searching for their "father's" whereabouts.
During their time of displacement, the mother and her two children lived the most ordinary of lives.
Upon arriving in Guanglin Prefecture, due to language barriers and unfamiliarity with the area, they had no choice but to find a small inn to stay in temporarily.
Fortunately, perseverance pays off.
One day, while he was out, he visited an elderly man who was writing a letter to his son who was doing business in another city.
On that same day, he unexpectedly encountered his "father," who walked into a house.
Even if that person were reduced to ashes, he would still recognize them.
After making careful inquiries, he discovered that this was another home of his "father".
To avoid alerting the enemy, he often followed "Chen Jingshan" and recorded all the places he went during those days.
Keep it as evidence for future lawsuits against him.
Only after confirming that "Chen Jingshan" had returned to Yongchang County did he take his mother and sister to Yongchang County.
Upon arriving in Yongchang County, in order to obtain more evidence, he took his mother and sister to stay at a small inn.
Unexpectedly, when the innkeeper, Mr. Lin, heard that he was a scholar, he took great care of them.
After hearing about their family's plight, he offered to help, which undoubtedly did him a great favor.
Because he visited many places and secretly inquired, he found no one named "Chen Jingshan".
With the help of Manager Lin, he finally found a suitable person: the head of the Chen family, who lived in the northern part of Yongchang County.
But his name isn't Chen Jingshan, it's Chen Ping.
Chen Ping's hometown is Chenjia Village, Honghe Town, Yongchang County. He has six siblings.
He was the third child in his family; his older brother and sister were born to his father's first wife.
He has two younger sisters and a younger brother.
Although Chen Ping came from a farming family, he had a knack for business from a young age.
From the age of twelve, he gradually built his business by going from street to street as a peddler.
The Chen family moved to Yongchang County five years ago.
Hearing this reminded him of his father, who rarely came home throughout the year.
He used to ignore it, thinking that his "father" was just doing business and that he was a decent person.
In retrospect, his repeated departures from home, telling his mother that his grandmother was seriously ill and that he was taking care of her, were all pretexts to mislead them into transferring the Jun family's assets.
After the shopkeeper led him to confirm where the Chen family lived, he finally met them.
After confirming repeatedly, this Chen Ping is indeed "Chen Jingshan's" father.
After he returned home, at that time, he didn't know how to hide anything.
Upon seeing her mother, she immediately told her and her sister that she had found out where her "father" lived.
Looking back now, he was really just a bookworm who only knew how to study and didn't understand any flexibility.
To his surprise, his mother actually went to the Chen family on his back.
He only realized something was wrong when he couldn't find his sister.
When he heard from the waiter that his mother and sister left the inn one after the other, he suddenly realized that his mother must have gone to find "Chen Ping".
When he arrived at the Chen family's house, his mother and sister were indeed there.
The mother and sister are confronting Chen Ping.
As he approached, he heard "Chen Ping" say to his mother, "Madam, you've mistaken me for someone else. I don't know you or your daughter, and I'm certainly not your man."
"But since you two are quite attractive, how about you become my concubines?"
Hearing this, he was furious.
How dare he say "Chen Jingshan"?
We've been married for twenty years, and my mother bore him two children, yet he utters such insulting words.
Come to think of it, he hasn't spent much time with his mother in the past twenty years.
When my maternal grandfather was alive, he often took him along to do business.
After his grandfather passed away, he was often away from home. Now it seems that he has been gradually transferring the Jun family's assets since his grandfather's death.
Upon closer reflection, their marital relationship wasn't very good, and it didn't resemble how other couples usually get along.
At that time, he didn't understand and thought that it was normal for husband and wife to treat each other with the same respect as parents.
Since he moved into the Gu residence and saw Gu Chenglin and Dongfang Jin, Sun Xing and Yang Zhu, and other couples getting along.
He then realized that the relationship between his "father" and mother was not a true model of a married couple. Just as Dongfang Jin had said, his mother was a "living widow."
At first, he thought that his mother looked down on his "father," who often went out to do business and wanted to expand the family business in order to be worthy of his mother.
Now it seems……
Afterwards, he saw Chen Ping's female relatives rush out and verbally abuse his mother and sister with foul language.
After rescuing his mother and sister, he was furious and did not take them back to the inn.
Instead, he went directly to the county government office to beat the drum and appeal for justice.
He thought that with his complaint and the injuries his mother and sister had sustained, he could win the case.
Even if we can't get back all of the Jun family's assets, we can at least get back a portion.
Unexpectedly, he lost the case, and lost completely, because the county magistrate ruled that they had falsely accused the Chen family.
The claim in the lawsuit that the property was seized from another person's family is completely fabricated.
He disagreed and argued with the county magistrate.
However, the county magistrate told him that if the contents of the petition were true, they should go back to Guangling Prefecture and ask the prefect to come and confirm it in person, and he would act according to the law.
Ha ha……
What a fine example of acting in accordance with the law!
Absolutely absurd!
Ah! Please summon the Prefect of Guangling Prefecture?
If their family could clear their name in Guangling Prefecture, would they still be able to travel all the way to their "father's" hometown to file a complaint?
Ever since his incident at the academy, those people have suffered a setback.
Both the academy and the prefectural officials shirked their responsibilities.
If even one teacher had come forward to testify, would he have brought his mother and sister all the way here?
Moreover, they did not have any "documents" given to them by the new prefect of Guangling Prefecture when they came to Yongchang County.
Fortunately, he had a Xiucai (a degree in the imperial examination system) diploma, so he didn't need a travel permit when he went out.
He lost the lawsuit, but because he was a scholar with the degree of Xiucai, he was exempt from being flogged. However, his mother and sister were not, and each of them received ten strokes of the cane.
These ten solid strokes of the cane, delivered to the mother and sister, were nothing short of adding insult to injury for them.
If it weren't for Manager Lin of the inn arriving with people and money, the three of them would probably have fared even worse.
Is this slander against the Chen family?
Don't you recognize them?
Haha ...
Okay, very good. He just doesn't believe there's no place in the world where reason prevails.