Shock! Sister-in-law's True Identity!

"Since you put it that way, Sister-in-law."

"Then you must have a way to help me break out of this deadlock, right?"

Jiang Wangzu asked.

"Do you know what my surname is?"

Xu Zhenzhen said with a smiling look.

"Of course your surname is Xu, Sister-in-law, isn't it?"

"Holy fucking shit!"

"The Canal Gang's leader, Xu Shanyue, is also surnamed Xu. Don't tell me...?"

Jiang Wangzu could not help sitting up straight, sizing Xu Zhenzhen up again.

Could this Xu Zhenzhen be the daughter or younger sister of the Canal Gang's leader, Xu Shanyue, or something like that?

But that was not right.

If she really had that kind of identity, she would not have gone so far as to marry a small-time punk like Chen Tai!

Oh, of course, Chen Tai was not quite the same as an ordinary small-time punk.

He was a martial artist who had achieved great success in strength training, and he was also the boss of Rongsheng Street, with a hundred or so underlings beneath him.

If he made some contributions and took one more step upward, he would be an elder.

Looking at it that way, it was actually normal for Xu Zhenzhen to marry Chen Tai.

"My Xu is indeed the same Xu as Xu Shanyue's Xu."

"But my relationship with Xu Shanyue isn't as close as you're imagining."

"My father and Xu Shanyue are paternal cousins just on the edge of the fifth degree of mourning, so I call Xu Shanyue Uncle."

"Three years ago, a great flood struck our hometown, and the fields yielded not a single grain."

"There were too many brothers and sisters in my family. Everyone ate one meal without knowing where the next would come from."

"As the eldest sister, I could only be forced to leave and begin fleeing famine."

"It was also then that I came to Shen City, carrying the letter my father gave me, to seek refuge with this uncle I had never met before, Xu Shanyue."

"Because I was no longer young, my father asked Uncle to help me find a marriage. He didn't ask that I marry into any great glory, only that I have a mouthful of food to eat."

"Chen Tai had ambitions back then and wanted to climb higher. He took a fancy to my identity as Xu Shanyue's niece, so he had his immediate superior, Third Master Cao, Cao Rongsheng, come propose marriage."

"Later, Uncle Xu agreed to the marriage and promoted Chen Tai to become the boss of Rongsheng Street, one of the major bustling commercial streets in the Lower District."

"After that, Chen Tai being able to sit firmly in the position of boss of Rongsheng Street really was his own ability."

"But if not for me, who knows which shantytown he'd still be circling around in right now."

"It's just that I didn't like Chen Tai, so I never let Chen Tai touch me."

"And because of my identity, Chen Tai didn't dare force himself on me."

"That was why he stayed out all night. On the rare occasions he came back, he holed up in the training room in the rear courtyard, studying that tattered fist manual of his."

Xu Zhenzhen slowly explained her background.

Jiang Wangzu had not expected that Chen Tai's reason for staying out all night would actually be this.

He had thought as much. Those seductive cheap goods outside were all common rouge and vulgar powder. How could any of them compare to Sister-in-law's fragrance?

That old brat Chen Tai had been sitting on a mountain of gold yet running outside to pick up garbage. Jiang Wangzu really could not understand it.

He had thought Chen Tai had eaten too many delicacies from mountain and sea, too much big fish and rich meat, and so wanted a change of taste, occasionally going outside for a little plain congee and pickled vegetables.

But he had not expected that it turned out he had never gotten to eat the big fish and rich meat at all.

No wonder the first time had felt especially extraordinary.

He had thought Sister-in-law had gone too long without being watered.

Or perhaps Chen Tai was a fuzzy little caterpillar.

He had not expected it to be like this.

He, Jiang Wangzu, was the one Sister-in-law Xu Zhenzhen had recognized as master by a drop of blood!

"Sister-in-law!"

"My dear Sister-in-law!"

"Then you even said I was 'bigger' than my big brother. I thought you and Big Brother had long since known each other's depths and shallows, lengths and shorts."

"Look at what this has turned into. This really makes me happy."

Although Jiang Wangzu did not have that particular fetish, the thought that Sister-in-law was his inside and out still made him unable to hold back his joy.

"Tch!"

"Don't all you men like hearing that?"

"The madams I play cards with told me that."

His sister-in-law, Xu Zhenzhen, gave Jiang Wangzu a coquettish eye-roll.

Though she had little practical experience, she had a great heap of theoretical knowledge.

On ordinary days, when she played cards with the wives and concubines of the Canal Gang's middle and upper ranks, the things they talked about were truly enough to make one's face flush and ears burn.

Over time, she had accumulated a profound store of theoretical knowledge.

Now she put it all into practice on Jiang Wangzu.

"Then according to you, Sister-in-law, you can get a word in with Gang Leader Xu?"

"You want to introduce me directly to Gang Leader Xu?"

Jiang Wangzu asked.

"What are you thinking?"

"My relationship with Uncle Xu only goes this far."

"If I recommend you to him, perhaps he'll promote you, but from then on, my friendship with him will be completely severed."

"And after he promotes you, he still may not put you in an important position. He'll only think you're a pretty boy who relied on a woman to slip in through the back door."

It had to be said that although Xu Zhenzhen was a woman, and from the countryside at that, after three years in Shen City, she truly had undergone a rebirth like shedding her bones and changing her flesh.

As the saying went, understanding the ways of the world was learning, and being versed in human relations was literature.

Though Xu Zhenzhen had not read many books, after three years of immersion in Shen City, she had gained a deep understanding of worldly affairs.

If even she understood it, how could Jiang Wangzu not understand?

"Then what do you mean, Sister-in-law?"

Jiang Wangzu continued asking.

"Quite a few of the Canal Gang's higher-ups still know me as the gang leader's niece."

"I also know a very secret promotion route within the Canal Gang. That is, with an elder's recommendation, if you help the gang resolve certain thorny problems, you can be promoted by exception and become a core gang member."

"As long as you pay respects to the founding patriarch and enter the gang register, you'll be one of the Canal Gang's own."

"Then you can receive an assignment. As long as you do well, you can be promoted to a minor leader."

"When you first asked me to help you steal Chen Tai's boxing manual, I knew you weren't someone who would keep to your place."

"But I didn't expect you to actually succeed, and in such a short time, to possess strength no weaker than Chen Tai's."

"Of course, I hope what you said is true, because if you don't have enough strength, going to help the gang resolve thorny problems may get you killed."

"If you've thought it through, I can move around on your behalf and have an elder recommend you to help the gang deal with some thorny problems."

Xu Zhenzhen said.

"Don't worry, Sister-in-law."

"How could I fool you about something like this?"

"Although I haven't fought a martial artist who has achieved great success in strength training, I firmly believe that with my current strength, I am absolutely no weaker than them."

"I also have my own opportunities. I received guidance from a martial arts expert, and on top of that, I have just that little bit of talent myself, which is why I have my present strength."

"Of course, none of this could have happened without your help, Sister-in-law."

"If you hadn't helped me cultivate, Sister-in-law, I absolutely would not have been able to do it."

Jiang Wangzu's tone suddenly changed, and then he smiled as he looked at Xu Zhenzhen, his restless big hand wandering over her body.

"How... how did I help you cultivate?"

"How... how are you able to go again?"

"No, I can't. I really can't anymore."

"Good little brother, dear little brother A-Zu, please spare your sister!"

"..."

Xu Zhenzhen naturally did not know what Jiang Wangzu meant by those words.

But the core reason Jiang Wangzu had been able to rise so quickly was still because of her.