Grandpa, your granddaughter and her grandson-in-law are wearing it back.

"Brother Jianjun, I am sorry for you in this life, and I have delayed you." The woman burst into tears before she finished speaking.

"What nonsense are you talking about? You haven't let me down, I've let you down. If I hadn't been away from home for so long, you wouldn't have encountered all this. You've suffered all these years." The man stroked the woman's back with heartache, his tone painful.

The more Ye Jinhua listened, the more confused he became. What on earth was going on? In his confusion, the two men finally talked about their pasts, and Ye Jinhua remained silent.

It turned out that this was also a poor person harmed by Wang Chunsheng. The woman's name was Liang Aifang. She was only 37 years old this year, but she looked haggard and looked like she was 57. The man's name was Gu Jianjun, 42 years old, and his face looked older than his actual age.

Both of them are locals, and their homes are located in the center of the county town. The people living there are all from well-off families in the county town. The dilapidated house now is the old house of Liang Aifang's family.

Liang Aifang's family, the Liangs, had been in the cloth business for generations. The county town's textile factory had originally been her family's property. The Liangs and Gus were old friends and partners. The Gus, a garment manufacturer, owned the original factory. Each family owned some shops and real estate, and their wealth was comparable.

Because their families were close, the two grew up together. As both were only children, Gu Jianjun, being a few years older, had always been very caring and loving towards Liang Aifang. When Gu Jianjun reached marriageable age, the Gu family discussed finding him a wife, but Gu Jianjun refused, saying he wanted to wait a few more years.

At that time, Liang Aifang from the Liang family also made a fuss at home when she heard that the Gu family was going to arrange a marriage for her brother Jianjun. Only then did the two families realize that the two had already fallen in love.

The two families were old friends and knew each other well, so they were happy to see the two of them get married. They happily arranged a marriage for them and agreed to hold the wedding when they reached the required age.

Since then, the two families have become as close as one family. The family population was originally declining, so both sides were very satisfied with the two families becoming one.

Later, when the domestic situation became bad, Gu Jianjun wanted to join the army. Naturally, both elders disagreed. Liang Aifang became the only person who supported Gu Jianjun in realizing his ambitions.

After Gu Jianjun promised to come back and marry Liang Aifang, he resolutely left his hometown under the earnest gaze of his lover, leaving Liang Aifang alone to withstand the pressure from the elders of both families.

Later, the situation became worse and worse, and the plight of the two families became worse and worse. After discussion, they donated their family property to the organization, leaving only a small amount of money for their families to live on.

After Gu Jianjun left, there was no news of him. Liang Aifang held on hard. It was not that no one was interested in her, but she was very beautiful, so she attracted many people's covetousness. Fortunately, both the Liang and Gu families had some power and were able to protect her for a while.

This wait lasted for more than ten years, until Liang Aifang became an old girl in her 20s. No matter how her family forced her, she refused to agree. When she was forced to do so, she wanted to hang herself or jump into a well, saying that she would rather die than wait for Brother Jianjun to come back.

People said that Gu Jianjun died on the battlefield, otherwise there would be no news at all. Liang Aifang didn't believe it and firmly believed that he would be alive and would come back.

Over the past ten years, Liang Aifang had sent off two elderly people who had passed away due to illness. In the end, Liang Aifang was left as an orphan. In the world at that time, it was already difficult for women, let alone an orphan with a small fortune and good looks. It was simply a hellish situation.

She painted her face and messed up her hair every day, acting crazy and foolish. Late at night, she secretly packed the valuables of the two families and the remaining money into boxes and buried them in the basement of her home. She wanted to protect herself as much as possible and keep the family's wealth until Gu Jianjun returned.

But things in this world always go against one's wishes. A hemp rope breaks at the thinnest part, and misfortune only strikes upon the unfortunate.

On a rare peaceful afternoon, Liang Aifang, with her messy hair and muddy face, sat on the threshold of the main hall of her home in a daze. A group of people rushed in. Liang Aifang was about to get up and go crazy like usual, but she was held down by two people. Her face was pressed against the ground. She watched helplessly as her home was smashed and turned into ruin bit by bit. She could not make a sound, and only the wailing of her soul was left.

"Tell me, where are all the feudal dregs in your family hidden?" The devil's voice exploded in her ears, shaking her whole body and making her speechless.

"If you don't want to tell me, then come here." The devil grabbed her hair viciously and dragged her into the house. As the door slammed shut, her world turned into hell from then on.

The teasing from the people outside the door and the brutality of the people around her became a deep mockery of her short 20-odd years of life. She could not resist, nor did she have the strength to resist.

She didn't know what she had been holding on to all these years. Her family was gone, her home was gone, and her lover was probably gone long ago. What else could she hold on to?

After a long time, the devil pinched his chin and said, "I've been watching you for a long time. It's no use pretending to be crazy in front of me. Don't think about escaping or dying. From now on, I have the final say in your life." The devil was Wang Chunsheng.

Wang Chunsheng tried everything to find out the whereabouts of the remaining money from the Liang and Gu families, but he was forced to believe that they had really donated it all. He imprisoned Liang Aifang to satisfy his lust, humiliating and torturing her.

Liang Aifang was tied to the bed and could not move. She had no choice but to refuse to eat or drink. Wang Chunsheng pried open her mouth and forced food into it. After a few years, she no longer had the energy to resist. She felt that she had died the day they broke into her house, and it didn't matter how she lived in the future.

Wang Chunsheng saw that she no longer resisted and was just silent, so he thought she had accepted her fate. Coincidentally, Wang Chunsheng's wife in the village fell into the water and died, and she became the devil's wife.

A few years later, Gu Jianjun miraculously returned. After learning about Liang Aifang's experience, he almost went crazy. He urgently wanted to kill people and destroy everything, but he couldn't let himself go crazy. It turned out that he had already joined the organization's underground work and had been carrying out very difficult tasks abroad in recent years. He came back this time with a mission.

Liang Aifang's heart has been dead and numb over the years. When she saw Gu Jianjun coming to see her, she didn't react much. She just said lightly, "You're back." Then there was a long silence. After that, she stared at Gu Jianjun's face intently, and tears started to flow as she stared.

Liang Aifang touched her cheek as if she woke up in shock: "Oh, it turns out I still have tears." She thought her tears had dried up long ago, but unexpectedly, they came again.

Gu Jianjun suddenly wanted to rush out, wanted to kill, wanted to see blood, he seemed to have turned into a bloodthirsty monster. Only blood could soothe his manic heart at this moment.

Liang Aifang held him back and said, "Brother Jianjun, I'm dying. Can you come pick me up when the time comes? Let's go home."

It was like a bucket of ice water was poured over my head, chilling my blood from head to toe. Gu Jianjun seemed to have exhausted all his strength before he pursed his lips and managed to utter a hard "OK."