Chapter 767 Hindsight is always 20/20

"Not ancestors, but beasts!"

The idea that human nature is inherently good is absurd; a person's goodness or evil depends on the kind of people they encounter. The saying "one is influenced by one's company" is more apt.

With parents as fierce as tigers and wolves, and a son as unfilial and vicious as a child, what outcome will Hong Niangzi get by bringing these three people to threaten Qiu Niang?

Yu Qiuniang had seen a lot of things, and Lin Yuesha didn't think Hong Niangzi would successfully threaten anyone.

"Qiu Niang, your parents were wrong before, we shouldn't have sold you, but you can't just watch us die. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been arrested."

The old lady said with tears in her eyes, "Back then, given our family's situation, what could we do if we didn't sell to you? Your eldest brother is getting on in years and still single, and no one wants to marry into our family. The Yu family can't let its lineage end with your eldest brother!"

Yu Qiuniang remained silent, showing no emotion whatsoever.

Many years have passed, and she thought she could forget everything from back then, but when facing her own parents and son, she still felt a little resentful. Now, she only feels hatred.

"Mother, please rescue me quickly! They won't give me any food!"

The chubby boy, now in the hands of the matchmaker, was fearless in his ignorance. He threw a tantrum on the ground, cursing, "You've killed so many people, what's a few more? Hurry up and kill them all!"

Yu Qiuniang stood up, looked at Hong Niangzi and sneered, "Is this all you've got? You can't even find the right person to threaten. You still want to be the chief of the Forty-Eight Villages?"

Besides the sisters from the first village, she only had one important benefactor: the old woman who lived next door to her husband's family back then. Without that old woman, she would probably be emaciated and starved to death long ago.

On the day she committed the murder, the cornbread she had the strength to eat was also dry food given to her by her aunt.

Fed up with that kind of life, she didn't want to live anymore, but little did she know that she would be the one who survived to the end.

"You can do whatever you want with these three people. If you want to kill them, I won't say a word."

After Yu Qiuniang finished speaking, it was Hong Niangzi who didn't believe it. The person he had captured with great difficulty had been eating him for ten days and had no use for him at all.

"Yu Qiuniang, these are your own mother and son, look carefully!"

Hong Niangzi had her men push the three people forward and let Yu Qiuniang confirm again that he was a man of his word, and would act without hesitation.

"Then hurry up, don't delay our fight."

Yu Qiuniang urged, "If anyone dies, I will kill Hong Niangzi to avenge the three of them."

If I'm lucky enough to be reborn in the next life, I hope my parents aren't parents, my son isn't a son, and we don't even want to be related to each other.

"Kill this old man first!"

Hong Niangzi was furious and ordered her men to take action. Yu Qiuniang thought he was someone who was just playing around with her.

The henchman swiftly brought down the knife, and the old man had no chance to resist before his head fell to the ground.

The old woman stared wide-eyed at the scene before her, her voice trembling as she stammered, "This...this is..."

She and the old man weren't captured; rather, they were asked by Hong Niangzi's people to help them, with the promise of covering their travel expenses and giving them a hundred taels of silver as a reward.

Upon hearing that there was money to cover travel expenses, the elderly couple had no reason to object and immediately nodded in agreement.

“You old fool, if Yu Qiuniang doesn’t save you, you’ll be on your way soon, joining your dead old man.”

Hong Niangzi continued cursing, still unable to believe that Yu Qiuniang could be so heartless, and shouted at Yu Qiuniang again, "Your father has been killed by me, as well as your mother and your son..."

"I already told you to continue, otherwise how am I supposed to get my revenge?"

Yu Qiuniang gave Hong Niangzi a disdainful look and said, "You talk too much."

This sentence immediately enraged Hong Niangzi, who was about to order the old woman and the child to be killed when the old woman cried out, "Qiu Niang, how can you be so heartless? I am your own mother. I almost died during childbirth when I gave birth to you. I don't ask you to be filial, but you can't be so heartless!"

"Yeah?"

When her parents sold her to her older brother for a large sum of money, they said that as long as she obeyed, it would be a way of repaying their kindness in raising her. As for how she would fare in her husband's family, that would depend on her own abilities.

Because she demanded a large dowry, her in-laws looked down on her and constantly beat and verbally abused her. She was forced to live in a leaky cowshed.

She went home for help, but what did her parents say? They said that wherever she lived was her fate, and since she was sold for the price of an animal, she couldn't expect to be treated like a human.

The parents received fifty taels of silver as a bride price, which was exactly the price of a calf.

Later, she was abused and couldn't take it anymore, so she ran back to her parents' home. Her parents locked the door and splashed water all over her.

By then, kinship had long been severed. Now, facing death, if you were to speak of the debt of gratitude for giving birth to her, Yu Qiu Niang would rather have never been born than suffer in this world.

Lin Yuesha felt heartbroken listening to this; she had brought it all upon herself!

Hong Niangzi thought she could take the first stronghold without losing a single soldier, but she miscalculated. He cursed and ordered his men to cut off the old woman's head.

Two useless old men, in the end all they had left was a little brat!

The chubby boy burst into tears, and in the end, he looked at everything in horror, unable to utter a sound.

"You gave birth to this son, are you really going to disregard his life?"

Seeing that Hong Niangzi was still not giving up, Yu Qiuniang became very impatient. "Hong Niangzi, you dead homosexual are not as quick as a woman. Are you going to make a move or not?"

If we don't act now, it will be dawn.

"Chop them down, they're all useless!"

Hong Niangzi waved her hand, and as soon as she finished speaking, a carrier pigeon came up the mountain. She pulled the letter tube off the pigeon's leg, opened it, and cursed angrily.

"Chief, has something happened down the mountain?"

The underlings were startled; otherwise, the chieftain wouldn't be so angry.

"Shameless little thief, how dare you!"

Hong Niangzi was so angry that she spoke without thinking. Just a short while ago, their mountain village was robbed by a group of inexplicable men in black. Those men rushed up the mountain, killed hundreds of pigs, sheep and other animals in the village, and then used baskets to carry them down the mountain.

Only a few people were left on the mountain, while the rest of them came down to the First Village to cause trouble, only to find their own stronghold had been attacked!

"Chief, it must have been the seventeenth chief who did it!"

Upon hearing this, the henchman said with certainty, "The Seventeenth Chieftain and you have been at odds ever since you fought over a man. When you sent someone to persuade him, he readily agreed. I sensed something was amiss and suspected there was a trap. Who knew that person was so cunning, waiting here all along!"

"Screw your hindsight!"

Hong Niangzi almost fainted. She couldn't catch her breath and kept rolling her eyes. The pigs, cattle, and sheep in the village were her life!

What's the use of becoming the chief of the stronghold if you lose all your possessions?

"What are you all still arguing about? Get back to your hideouts!"

After thinking it over, Hong Niangzi realized that it was indeed possible that the people from the Seventeenth Village were responsible. Those villains were waiting for her to raid the Seventeenth Village; she absolutely could not let them go!