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Aunt Zhang raised his head and asked angrily: ”What are you shouting about so early in the morning for?”

He did not know where the little lady went or where she ran off to, but she was nowhere to be seen upstairs or downstairs. The woman was determined to flip through the entire inn, and the Aunt Zhang said angrily: ”You really think too much of yourself.

The woman insisted, ”Don't you have children that need to be fed? How can you raise two children? Did you leave my daughter-in-law as a wet nurse? ”If you hand her over to me and refuse to hand her over, then give me a hundred taels of silver. I'll send her to a rich family to be their wet nurse, and they will only give me a hundred taels of silver.”

Sure enough, he was going to send his daughter-in-law away to be a wet nurse. Aunt Zhang guessed right, whether his grandson could eat his fill or not, and even treat his daughter-in-law as a money lender. Moreover, which family would spend a hundred silver taels to invite a wet nurse?

”Go to the office!” Uncle Biao walked over from behind with a pig slaughtering knife in his hand. The blade of the knife was still stained with blood.

The woman was naturally intimidated. She sized up the inn once more, thinking that her daughter-in-law had probably run away. If she went to chase after her now, perhaps she might be able to catch up.

Xiaowan heard the commotion upstairs and thought about the girl standing at the foot of the stairs last night. She must have missed her child so much that she would want to hug him when she saw his baby.

There were countless pitiful women in the world, so why were women the ones who used their lives to reproduce, and the pitiful and lowly women too?

Xiaowan said to the little girl in her arms: ”Little Fei, mother will definitely protect you well and won't let anyone bully you.”

The little kid who had just eaten his fill was contented as he looked at his mother with a smile. Naturally, his brother in the room woke up, and immediately started crying as well.

Downstairs, Ling Chaofeng took some hot water to go upstairs. He took a glance at his own inn and said to Aunt Zhang: ”Search again, maybe, you really are hiding somewhere.”

The Aunt Zhang agreed. When Ling Chaofeng returned to his room, Susu also came, and the two of them followed him. One blocked the stairs, and the other searched upstairs.

In fact, she didn't run or hide anywhere else, probably because she knew her mother-in-law. She hid under the bed, shivering when she was dragged out, and her clothes were soaked.

”Save me …” ”Save my child …” The little woman sobbed without a sound. She was extremely pitiful.

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Susu came upstairs to tell the Xiaowan that the little married woman came from a faraway place and was going to a merchant's house in Li Prefecture to be a wet nurse.

In fact, she had been there for two months, and because she missed her children too much, she had snuck home, been beaten up by her mother-in-law, and had to be sent back by boat.

The most pitiful thing was that when she ran home this time to take a look at her child, she discovered that her daughter had actually been sold by her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law and her husband stubbornly refused to tell her where her child had gone and wanted her to treat it as though it had died.

”She said she doesn't have a name, and is ranked third in her family. The villagers call her Third Lady.” Susu sighed, ”It's really pitiful, if my sister was sold, I would probably kill someone.”

The Xiaowan sighed and asked Susu: ”Then what do we do now?”

Susu said: ”She's begging us to temporarily take her in, don't make her mother find her, she wants to hide away for a while before thinking of a way to find her own daughter.”

”But she doesn't have any leads, her Daqi is so huge, where can she find her child?” The Xiaowan said with a pained heart, ”Her man is really not worth anything. His own flesh and blood can be sold at any time. This kind of man is not worthy of children.”

Susu said: ”The laws of our Daqi do not allow people to kidnap or sell children, but in the countryside, there are no laws.

The Xiaowan said with a startled look: ”Isn't Ershan at the Ministry Of Justice? Let's write a letter to him and let him think of a way, alright?”

Susu asked: ”Help Third Lady find a child?”

Xiaowan shook her head, ”They are helping all the women who are mothers. Somewhere else, someone must have had their flesh and blood stolen. Now that I have become a mother, I really can't bear to see things like this anymore, catching each one of them, what do you think? ”

Susu laughed: ”Tell the shopkeeper that you need him to write a letter to little brother. Ershan will listen to his big brother the most, it might work.”