C171 (1/2)
After being at home for half a day, it finally stopped. Madam Xu cried until she was covered in tears, trembling while hiding in a corner while covering her face with her hands, Aunt Wang was also drenched in sweat and her clothes were all messed up.
After gasping for breath, she grabbed Madam Xu's clothes and said: ”Do you know how I managed to get the Village Chief to loosen up and save my man and you?”
Madam Xu shook her head and looked at her in fear.
”A relative of my family, the county magistrate.” Lady Wang panted as she said, ”You also know that the county magistrate doesn't care about the rules of the village, but this time he's made an exception for us.”
Madam Xu looked at her blankly: ”Did you spend a lot of money? I, I will compensate you.”
Aunt Wang said hatefully: ”Of course I want silver, but there is one other thing, the person my relatives promised to the county magistrate is not silver, but a woman.”
”Woman …” ”People?” Madam Xu was stunned.
”The county magistrate wants a beautiful young concubine. I've already promised my Xiaowan to the county magistrate.” Aunt Wang's gaze turned vicious as she said, ”In a few more days time, it will be a lucky day. Liu Qingping wants us to send Xiaowan over.”
Madam Xu trembled as she nodded her head, but she rolled her eyes and said, ”That won't do, Ling Xiao Inn has already given the betrothal gift, this …”
Aunt Wang said: ”Do you want to die or do you want face? What a shitty betrothal gift. You're being polite if you want to return it, so what if you don't? Now that the county magistrate wants the Xiaowan to be his concubine, can we stop him? You call yourself Ling Xiao Inn, if you have the ability, go and fight with the county magistrate. ”
”Yes, yes …”
”I will do everything I can to ask the village chief to let go of this matter. The county magistrate also said that if this matter were to become known, he would tie you all up and dry you in the fields for three more days.” Aunt Wang said fiercely, ”If you want to live, then watch over Xiaowan. If you tell her to run, then you won't live anymore.”
Madam Xu looked out of the window and saw the Xiaowan and Wen Juan sitting in the courtyard. She trembled as she said to the Aunt Wang: ”Her sister-in-law, don't worry. However, this little girl is different from before. If she knew, she would definitely run. If she ran halfway that day, would she count as us? ”
Aunt Wang muttered to herself for a while before saying, ”No matter what, we have to send her into the county magistrate's house, it is still our fault. We should indeed guard against her escaping halfway. ”Do it this way, tie her up that day, or feed her a bowl of soup and let her sleep.”
The two of them came up with an idea. No matter what, they could not reveal half a word during these few days.
Madam Xu would continue to lie down and pretend to be dead, then Xiaowan would continue to stay behind to take care of her brother and sister. Even if someone came to pick her up from the inn, she would have to wait for her father's return.
”It'll only take three days. After sending the person away, you'll be able to live.” As the Aunt Wang spoke, she warned the Madam Xu a few more times, then pulled on her clothes and walked out.
Xiaowan and Wen Juan stood up as Wen Juan cried out, ”Aunt, please stop hitting my mother.”
Aunt Wang ignored her and glanced at Xiaowan. Seeing that the girl had lived for a few good days, she became more and more beautiful, the skin on her face was white and tender, her figure was like a willow branch, the county magistrate would definitely like her.
Of course, what kind of 'Three Virgins Nine Herbs' was this? If the county magistrate broke the melon, then she would have to obediently follow him for the rest of her life. With that in mind, the Aunt Wang shouted towards the house, to let the Madam Xu remember her name, and walked away peacefully.
Xiaowan did not know that she had been sold out by these two women. If no one came to pick her up in three days, and if she did not leave her home, she would be sent to the county magistrate's bed.
A gust of wind blew past. It was Little Pei who had just left, and he had been watching his mother from midair. He had learned that these two vicious women wanted to sell his mother to the county magistrate.
He knew that only his father could save his mother, so he wanted to go to the capital to tell him the news. However, before he could even fly out of the Li Prefecture realm, Little Pei stopped.
In this life, the things he could do for his parents were very limited. Sending off a disaster and creating a chance for them to get along with each other. These things were things that any mortal could do, so he could do it.
However, if he were to use his magic power to deliver the news or to rescue his parents, he would unknowingly change his parents' fate. He could not do so.
The reason why Bodhisattva sent him into this world with his mana was because even the love between mother and son, the gods and gods, could not be sever.
He could not be like his grandmother, whether it was out of good intentions or ill intentions, and change his parents' fate. Everything that happened after that, even his entire life, would be affected.
The worst result would be that his parents would die a horrible death and their whole life would be a wasted one.
He told his grandmother that there were many difficulties in the human world. If his parents could survive through their entire lives, they would not be able to survive. Their fates were only temporary.
Little Pei went back, he hoped that his parents could survive, and he hoped that they could survive through all sorts of hardships in this life by relying on their own strength.
In the capital, after receiving the orders from the higher-ups, the originally incompetent yamen runners began to interrogate the several chefs and maids captured from Prime Minister's Estate.
How could they endure the torture? They admitted it after beating a few boards and found the cause of death of Mrs. Bi from more than ten years ago. They sent people to find a servant from a place far away from the capital.