Chapter 58: The Evil Zhao Laoda (2/2)

The woman in black, lying on the ground, lowered her head submissively in silence.

“Fetch the thing for me.”

Following her father’s order, Zhao Xiaotao ran to the inner room before she returned with a stack of coarse paper in her hand. She laid the paper and a carbon stick before An Rushuang.

“Write.”

Sneering at An Rushuang, Zhao Laoda ordered, “Write a letter to Lord An if you want to return safe and sound. He pointed to Zhao Xiaotao and continued, “You keep an eye on him, in case he would play a trick! Do as I said, or I will kill you all!”

Zhao Laoda was illiterate, but Zhao Xiaotao, as weak as she was, dared not to disobey his father.

Zhao Xiaotao, her hairs tousled, nodded kneeling on the ground. Being satisfied, Zhao Laoda put his hands behind his back and turned to look at An Rushuang in chuckle. “Young boy, I have to remind you of how valuable your life is...”

Staring at him coldly, An Rushuang cut in without any expression on her face, “Ha-ha! I really want to know how much your life cost!”

A thug like him, maltreating his wife and daughter, never had any humanity in his soul! His sin couldn’t been atoned for even in the hell.

Chuckling happily, Zhao Laoda narrowed his eyes into a slit while retorting ferociously, “As humble as I am, my life is like a smelly stone, totally worth nothing. You are like a priceless jade which I must avoid touching, or you will cost nothing if badly injured, right?”

He sized An Rushuang up and gasped in admiration, “Such a handsome young boy could be sold for about 100 taels of silver as a male prostitute. Ha-ha. It is really a cost effective business.”

Even though the rope on her wrists had been cut off, An Rushuang, gritting her teeth, still kept silent. With his disabled wife and young daughter here, there was no chance for An Rushuang to defeat Zhao Laoda given they didn’t want to hurt him badly...

What should she do?

After a second thought in anxiety, An Rushuang had no choice but to say, “If you let me go, I will give you 100 taels of silver as a reward. I promise never to mention your doings to others.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Laoda spitted on her savagely.

“Young boy, do you think I am as naive as a three-year-old child! I am not a beggar. Even 1000 taels of silver is a small piece of cake for the An family!”

He then pretended to be kind when saying, “As for letting you go, never think of it before I get the money and leave the capital city safely!”

“What?!”

As An Rushuang couldn’t help crying in frown, Zhao Xiaotao was also staring at her father in shock. Obviously, she had no idea of his father’s plan.

“What? Do you think you are not worth 1000 taels of silver? It doesn’t matter. I can cut off one of your limbs, and get less money from your family...”

Suddenly, Zhao Laoda’s sneer stopped and his body froze, with his eyes and mouth wide open in surprise, blood trickling down from his mouth corner, reddening his clothes on the chest, as well as the ground below. “How... dare you...” His lips trembled.