"Then you'd better think this through. If you go back today, you might not be able to get out again. Do you understand what a bloody disaster is? At best, you'll be injured and bleed; at worst, you'll lose your life. And your bloody disaster is one of the more serious ones. Do you still want to go back?" Ye Xianya asked.

"Yes." The boy gritted his teeth and nodded, his face resolute. "I'm worried about my sister. If I don't protect her, she'll definitely get beaten up."

"Then you should go back!" Ye Xianya nodded.

Aunt Zhou felt sorry for the boy, so she gave him a bundle containing a cotton coat and some food, and had the manor's coachman take the boy away in a carriage.

After Ye Xianya finished her divination and was about to leave, Zhou Shi said, "Xianya, you said that Fang Qi will definitely have a bloody disaster within three days. Is it related to his stepmother?"

"Yes!" Ye Xianya nodded.

“Then… could we help these two siblings? If helping them won’t cause trouble for the Ye family, I’ll send someone to bring them to Peach Blossom Residence right away. After a few days, once Fang Qi has avoided the bloodshed, I’ll send someone to send them back.” Zhou said hurriedly.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xianya glanced at Zhou Shi with some surprise.

She knew her aunt was kind-hearted, but she didn't expect her to be willing to help Fang Qi and his sister so much.

"To be honest, my aunt felt sorry for them because they lost their mother and were beaten by their stepmother. Fang Qi is a very hardworking child, even though he is young. We took him in this morning and gave him food and drink. He worked hard all day. It was heartbreaking to see him like that!" Zhou sighed.

She looked at Ye Xianya with a complicated expression: "Looking at Fang Qi reminds me of many things that happened when I was a child. I lost my mother when I was very young. Ever since my father married my stepmother, my two siblings and I were often beaten. Until that year... my second brother was beaten so badly by that vicious woman that he vomited blood and did not survive. My eldest uncle took my brother and me into his home to raise us. Otherwise... how could I have survived until now?"

As Zhou spoke, she smiled sadly: "Although my eldest brother took over the household after my father died and starved that poisonous woman to death, I still can't sleep at night when I think about what happened in my childhood, and I feel sorry for these two children."

When she and her older brother were young, their uncle helped them escape their suffering and saved their lives.

Fang Qi and his sister were not so lucky.

They didn't have any direct uncles or aunts; the others were all from collateral branches of the same clan, so they wouldn't interfere in their affairs.

"Okay." Ye Xianya nodded: "Helping them won't affect the Ye family, so Aunt doesn't need to worry!"

Upon hearing this, Madam Zhou was about to send someone to fetch the brother and sister, but Ye Xianya shook her head and said, "I'd better go now. I just did a divination, and Fang Qi will be in danger soon. By the time my aunt sends someone over, it will probably be too late."

Fang Qi has been gone for an hour. He will be severely beaten when he returns. It will be too late for Zhou to send people to chase after him.

While figuring out Fang Qi's residence, Ye Xianya took Zhengzheng out.

When she arrived at Santang Village on the outskirts of Beijing, Fang Qi's stepmother, Wang, was chasing after him, beating him with a fire poker in her hand.

The muffled thuds made Ye Xianya frown and feel a surge of anger.

She waved her hand, and an invisible force surged out, pushing Wang aside and saving Fang Qi, who was crouching in the corner with his hands covering his head.

Upon seeing this, the little girl who was crying behind him quickly ran over and hugged Fang Qi: "Brother... Brother..."

"Which damned bastard dares to meddle in my business?" Wang cursed angrily, holding a fire poker.

Ye Xianya floated down from the roof, startling Wang Shi.

Wang frequently beat and scolded Fang Qi and Fang Chunxi, a fact known to everyone in the village.

Hearing Wang's cursing and the brother and sister's crying, people naturally came to watch the commotion.

In the past, some people tried to stop them, but Wang was like a shrew. Whoever dared to stop her, she would go to their house and yell and throw a tantrum until no one in the whole village dared to protect the brother and sister anymore.

So, although some people stood around watching and occasionally shouted at her to stop, no one dared to intervene.

After all, Wang is pregnant. If they come to stop her and accidentally bump into her, and something happens to the child in her womb, they might even be extorted!

Ye Xianya noticed that the woman was heavily pregnant, probably four or five months along, which is why she held back; otherwise, the woman would have been sent flying long ago.

"Why are you meddling in other people's business when you're just a young girl?" Wang was known throughout the village for her shrewishness and was always quick to curse.

However... Ye Xianya's clothes were extremely gorgeous, and the hairpins she wore were also exceptionally luxurious. She was clearly not an ordinary person. In addition, she actually flew down from the rooftop. Her strength was too great, so Wang Shi did not dare to curse her.

"If you keep hitting him, you'll kill him. Murder is punishable by death," Ye Xianya said coldly.

Fang Qi immediately recognized Ye Xianya as the older sister who had told his fortune not long ago. He quickly grabbed his younger sister's hand and stumbled over, hiding behind Ye Xianya.

“He is my son. I can beat him whenever I want. Even if such an unfilial son is beaten to death, what can others say?” Wang sneered. “You are just a young girl. You don’t need to scare me. Since ancient times, there has never been a case where parents who beat an unfilial son to death should pay with their lives.”

An elderly woman in the crowd couldn't stand it any longer and shouted, "Wang Guihua, you're just their stepmother, not their biological mother. Besides, what kind of mother are you, treating the two children so harshly?"

“The stepmother is also their mother. The two siblings are so lazy. I worked so hard to carry their Fang family’s child, but they can’t even cook a meal for their mother. They can even suffocate people by lighting a fire. It’s too lenient to beat them. Fang Qi, that little brat, even lost the family’s cow. If the cow hadn’t found it on its own, his father would have beaten him to death long ago.”

Wang sneered, "The old woman who hit them was actually being lenient. If you meddle, when their father comes back, he'll really beat them to death."

"It's rare to see a stepmother as cruel as you, and it's even rarer to see a idiot like Fang Dayong who indulges you, this vicious woman, in beating the child."

After the old woman finished speaking, she looked at Ye Xianya and said, "Young lady, you are clearly no ordinary person. We are just ordinary people and can't take care of these two children or save them. Since you have stopped Wang Shi from beating the children, why don't you take them away?"

"That's right, a father who beats the child along with his stepmother is better off without."

"These two children are so pitiful. Ever since that wicked woman moved in two years ago, they've been beaten every day. That bastard Fang Dayong is completely blinded by greed; not only does he not stop her, he even joins her in beating the children..."