Chapter 416 I Raised Him for Fifteen Years

"No, absolutely not!" Chu Ang was like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He immediately said excitedly: "Miss, please don't try to match me up with other people. I'm fine being alone now."

Xiao Jiuyue looked at him with a half-smile and said nothing, then got on the carriage and said, "Chu Ang will end up in the crematorium if he chases his wife in the future."

"Crematorium?" Luo Kui asked doubtfully, "Didn't Chu Ang say he didn't like it?"

Lian Xin, who was standing by, said, "Luo Kui, if he really wasn't interested in her, why would he have traveled thousands of miles to bring her seafood?"

"Didn't he say he wanted to thank her?" Luo Kui scratched his head and said, "Just now, Chu Ang said categorically that he didn't like her."

"How about a bet?" Lianxin asked with a smile.

Luo Kui was about to agree, but hesitated again. She looked at Xiao Jiuyue for help and said, "Miss, do you think we can gamble?"

Xiao Jiuyue: “…” Luo Kui really only cares about eating and not about beatings. He has lost to Lian Xin so many times, why hasn’t he learned his lesson?

Xiao Jiuyue simply closed her eyes. Luo Kui rolled her eyes and said, "I don't want to gamble."

"Luo Kui, don't you think Chu Ang will definitely not like it? How about betting five taels of silver?" Lian Xin asked in a low voice.

"No." Luo Kui shook her head quickly. The lady even closed her eyes. That expression probably showed that she didn't want to gamble, right?

With this thought in mind, Luo Kui leaned against the carriage with a determined look on his face.

Lianxin curled her lips. It seemed that Luokui had become a lot smarter.

The carriage slowly drove towards the county town. Xiao Jiuyue thought that she hadn't seen Lei Yan for a long time. Lei Yan had been sending things to the Xiao family one after another. This time, he got some good things such as dried black fungus, dried shiitake mushrooms and fish cakes from Jiutouzhai. He had to send some back.

Xiao Jiuyue would never admit that she was just there to watch the fun and see how Chu Ang would get slapped in the face!

Before they even reached Lei Yan's grocery store, they heard a noisy sound outside. Xiao Jiuyue opened her eyes. Luo Kui quietly lifted the curtain and said, "Miss, we've arrived at the county town. Many people outside are going into the city."

Xiao Jiuyue took a look and saw horse-drawn carriages, horse-drawn carriages, donkey-drawn carts and carts. There were a lot of things on them, and people were carrying large and small bags. It was obvious that they came from far away.

There were guards outside the city, so it wasn't chaotic. People lined up quietly and orderly to enter the city.

"Look, we don't even have a place to live now. If we had known earlier, we might as well have stayed in Jincheng."

"A fight is about to break out in Jincheng. If you don't run, are you waiting to die?"

"We live in the city, can we still fight?"

"Who knows? Hong can't fight anyway."

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The carriage passed slowly, and Xiao Jiuyue could hear similar conversations clearly. Many of the people were wealthy families who had begun to flee Jincheng, and most of the real ordinary people were reluctant to leave their land.

Unlike Boss Qi and his men, they were right in the middle of a war. If they didn't run away, they would either be drafted into the army or be beaten.

Xiao Jiuyue was silent for a moment. The fight had just started. If it lasted longer, it would not just be these people who would be affected. There would probably be more refugees!

After entering the city, Luo Kui and Lian Xin could clearly feel that there were a lot of people, especially the pawnshops. The pawnshops not only sold maids, servants and old women, but also houses and other things!

The brokerage houses were crowded with people, and the prices of houses kept rising.

"Miss, if this goes on, there will be chaos here, right?" Luo Kui looked at Xiao Jiuyue worriedly. She had been in Lancang County for two years and had never seen so many people here!

"Probably not." Xiao Jiuyue shook her head and said, "Let's go to the city today and buy some more things to bring back to the village."

No matter how chaotic it is or how cold it is, it’s better to come to the county town less often.

"Oh no, Miss, there's a fight going on in Lei Yan's grocery store?" Luo Kui couldn't sit still and kept poking her head out. Seeing the entrance to Lei Yan's grocery store crowded with people, she couldn't help but say, "Is this Lei Yan's father causing trouble again?"

"I said, I have severed the father-daughter relationship with him. This is the official document. He owes you money, and it has nothing to do with me." Lei Yan was holding a kitchen knife in her hand. In front of her were the crying Lei mother and the arrogant Lei father.

"Erhuo, your father is about to die. No matter what, you just help him one last time, okay?" Lei's mother choked with sobs. She knew that her daughter had a hard time, but these people in the gambling house would kill Lei's father if he didn't give them money.

"Sanhuo is still young. What if, in the future, he can't become an official because of his father? Wouldn't that be..."

Before Lei's mother could finish her words, Lei Yan rushed out, holding a stick in his hand. He stood in front of Lei Yan and said, "Mother, have you forgotten how he beat you? How did he sell my eldest sister? My second sister finally opened a grocery store and can eat well now. Why is she paying him back? Why?"

"Second sister, I didn't go to school to become an official. I want to be an accountant and work for you!" Lei Yan was taller than Xiao Jiayuan and was already as tall as Lei Yan. Lei Yan looked at his father and said, "Dad, don't worry. When you die, I will definitely collect your body!"

Lei Yan looked at his father coldly. His eldest sister was sold by him, and his mother was beaten to the point of being bedridden by him. If his second sister hadn't been making medicine for his mother, she would have died long ago!

And he, whenever Father Lei gets drunk, he beats people. He and his siblings have been beaten since they were young!

"You bastard, you've read so much that it's all gone to waste!" Lei's father thought that Lei's mother cried, and Lei Erhuo would soften his heart. After all, the person she cared about most was her mother.

Who knew that Lei Yan would appear.

"Giving birth to this son would be worse than drowning him in a bucket of urine. What's the point of having a son?" Father Lei sat down on the ground and said, "I don't recognize any documents. I only know that you are my daughter. You run such a big grocery store, but you don't even want your biological father. You will be struck by lightning!"

"And you, a scholar, why are you still studying when you don't even want your own father?" Father Lei pointed at Lei Yan and looked at his son who was growing up slowly. The hateful look in his eyes made him panic. What if Lei Erhuo really was not like before and didn't care about him anymore? Wouldn't he be dead then?

The crowd watching the excitement had all kinds of comments. Some who knew the inside story felt that whatever Lei Yan siblings did to their father was not excessive, but those who did not know the inside story began to blame them.

"A parent's kindness is greater than heaven. No matter how bad your father was in the past, you can't just watch him die!"

"That's right, your grocery store seems to be making money, so what's wrong with taking some money out?"

"My son is a scholar. If he doesn't even want his biological father, why should he study? It's better not to study at all."

"A woman holding a kitchen knife, no wonder no one wants to marry her."

Accusations followed one after another. Lian Xin and Luo Kui were so angry that they wanted to rush forward: "Miss, they don't know anything, it's too much!"

Knowing how Lei Yan and his sister grew up, it would be impossible for them to say anything blaming them.

"If you think what I did was wrong, you can take him home and raise him, and use the money to pay off his debt." Lei Yan held a kitchen knife in his hand, refusing to give in, and stared at those who were accusing him.

"He's not my father and he didn't raise me, so why should I give him money?" a woman said bravely.

Lei Yan glanced at her and said, "He didn't support me either. I supported him for fifteen years!"