"Are you here to add to the chaos?" ng Yuhuai glanced at him coolly, "How are we supposed to intervene in this matter? Zhou Qing is Yunyun’s biological father. If Yunyun were still an apprentice, perhaps Xiaomai could say a thing or two, but now that she has completed her apprenticeship, are we not to allow her father to seek another path for her? I thought that if nothing else works, we’d have to pay out of our own pocket to buy Yunyun’s indenture contract and imdiately give it back to her, so she wouldn’t enter into servitude, thus it wouldn’t affect her at all—but do you really feel comfortable giving Silver to a man like Zhou Qing?"
ng’s mother ca out with a dish of braised at and placed it on the table; hearing this, she gave ng Yuhuai a stern look, as if blaming him for his lack of tact, shook her head, and turned back into the kitchen.
At this, Great Saint burst into laughter and pointed at him: "I always say you’re a straight arrow, always thinking straight, never crooked. Actually, this matter is very simple. I have a solution that is both easy and cheap, but I’m afraid you won’t agree."
Xiaomai’s eyes suddenly lit up, no longer caring about ng Yuhuai’s reaction, she stared intently at Great Saint and eagerly said, "Great Saint, do you really have a solution?"
"Yes!" Great Saint nodded without hesitation, stood up, and walked out of the hall before motioning Xiaomai over, "Co here, Xiaomai, let tell you privately, don’t let your man hear."
Xiaomai indeed dropped her chopsticks and rushed over, looking at him full of hope.
"The broker who deals frequently with Zhou Qing, no one else, must be Tian Da from the neighboring village, who whenever they have ti, gamble together."
Great Saint said with a chuckle, "Old Man Liu is useless, always bullies the soft and fears the hard. It’s no use appealing to him in this matter. If you trust , leave this matter to , we..."
He whispered thus.
ng Yuhuai restrained himself from joining them, but his ears pricked up. Unfortunately, they were too far away and spoke too softly. After listening for a while, he could only make out the sentence "You have Chun Xi and La i, those two chatterboxes ready at hand, aren’t you afraid that things won’t blow up?" He saw Xiaomai nodding happily and couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
His wife had now ditched him and turned to discuss things with soone else; how could his heart not feel bitter?
That evening, after seeing Great Saint off, Xiaomai was in their room, soothing little Walnut to sleep. ng, having washed up, tiptoed in, closed the door, saw that the little kid was already snoring, and couldn’t wait to grab Xiaomai.
"What exactly did you and Brother Great Saint talk about? Are you really not going to tell ?"
Xiaomai put her finger to her lips and shushed him, then chuckled softly: "Great Saint was right, you’re too straight-laced, you’d never take the crooked path. If you knew what we were planning, you would definitely not agree. So, I advise you not to ask, just turn a blind eye, pretend you don’t know anything; that way, your conscience can be clear, and this matter can be smoothly resolved, isn’t that good? Rest assured, I know what I’m doing."
ng Yuhuai knew she would not tell, and having no other choice, pretended ignorance, sighed deeply, grumbled "Don’t go too far," and sowhat reluctantly turned in bed, hugging little Walnut for a while, finally feeling a bit better.
...
So, three or four days of calm passed.
Zhou Yunyun, after listening to Xiaomai, indeed did not return ho. Night after night, after closing up the shop, she kept company with Xiao Feng in the garden.
Her mother had co to visit her twice, pleading earnestly for her to co ho, but she had steeled her heart and sent her away.
Zhou Yunyun’s mother, bullied by Zhou Qing her entire life, had long been scared into submission, not daring to disobey. But... could it be that even when it ca to selling her daughter, she was willing to stand by and let it happen?
In March, the fields were lively with working farrs under the bright spring sunshine, bustling about with great enthusiasm.
Near the threshing floor, where Fire Knife Village’s fields were most concentrated, beca the busiest area during the farming season. Amidst the constant calls from the fields, as people took breaks to wipe sweat and catch their breath, turning around inadvertently, they saw Great Saint leading a group of robust n, dragging two n tied tightly together with hemp rope onto the threshing floor, and with a thud, thrown onto the ground like sacks of broken cloth.
At that mont, Xiaomai was at ho, wholeheartedly playing with little Walnut, when suddenly she heard a loud sound at the door, the rapid footsteps approaching quickly, rushing to the door.
"Master..."
Outside ca Zhou Yunyun’s voice, sounding mixed: "Master, my dad got beaten up!"
Xiaomai curled her lips in a smile, walked over to open the door, and with a friendly face gestured her to co in, pretending to be surprised: "How could that be? Why would your dad get beaten up out of nowhere?"
"I don’t know either!" Zhou Yunyun’s expression looked a bit complex, "I only heard it from Brother Xu who ca to deliver fish, shouting that my dad and a man who always gambles with him had been taken to the threshing floor, beaten up so badly they couldn’t stop crying. I just went there, but didn’t dare to get close, just glanced from afar, that really was my dad!"
As she spoke, a sudden insight struck her: "Master, the man who was beaten with my dad, wasn’t he the broker? Today’s incident..."
Xiaomai looked at her face, seeing she didn’t seem too worried, almost as if relieved, and pursed her lips: "I’m not too sure about that, I..."
Lying on the bed, little Walnut, having just filled his stomach, was sucking on his fingers making smacking sounds, but sohow, suddenly, with a "giggle," he laughed out loud. (To be continued. If you like this work, we welco you to visit Qidian (qidian) to cast your recomndation ticket and monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian to continue reading.)
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