Chapter 759 The Unlucky Sister Who Was Married in Exchange (4)

The old lady was very enthusiastic and insisted that Liu Shichu take her noodles. No matter how Liu Shichu refused, she insisted on giving it to him. Finally, Liu Shichu had to take her noodles.

"Eat quickly. You are young and have good teeth. Don't waste it. The pancake made by me tastes pretty good." The old man said to Lu Shichu with a smile.

The old lady also stared at her with sharp eyes: "Eat quickly."

The eagerness and excitement in their eyes betrayed them. Seeing how enthusiastic they were, Liu Shichu didn't want to let them down, so he put the pancake to his mouth and was about to take a bite when he suddenly stopped.

"Hurry up and eat! Why don't you eat anymore?" Seeing that she hadn't eaten yet, the old lady urged her impatiently, her voice breaking in her anxiety.

Liu Shichu smiled at her and said, "The noodles are too dry. I'd better drink some water to moisten my throat first."

"Drink quickly." The old lady urged again, staring at her with a strange and creepy expression.

However, Liu Shichu seemed not to notice her weirdness and anxiety. Under their gazes that were like searchlights, he did not tease them anymore. He calmly put the pancake into his mouth, took a bite, and began to chew.

Seeing that Liu Shichu finally ate their noodles, the old lady and the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other. The excitement on their faces was very obvious. They stared at Liu Shichu as if he was looking at gold.

Liu Shichu took a bite and tasted the expected smell of drugs. It turned out that he wanted to knock her out with the pancake. His method was too common.

Liu Shichu finished eating without changing his expression. The old lady and the old man could no longer conceal their joy, but they continued to fool Liu Shichu in a clumsy way: "Drink some more water, the bread is a little dry... Thank you here, don't worry..."

Liu Shichu smiled and drank a few more sips of water. As soon as she got on her old donkey, the old lady called her: "Hey, why don't you sit on my ox cart and have a rest? How can a donkey's back be as comfortable as an ox cart?"

"Okay, thank you, Auntie." Liu Shichu obediently sat next to the old lady.

The old man and the old woman continued talking to her for a while, but in fact they were both absent-minded and didn't care at all about what they said to Liu Shichu.

Finally, in their excited and expectant eyes, Liu Shichu finally "fainted" as they wished and collapsed on the ox cart.

"He finally fainted! Fortunately he was not sitting on the donkey's back, otherwise he would have fallen off and injured his face. He wouldn't be able to sell it for a good price if his face was disfigured..." said the old lady with great surprise.

"Okay, don't get excited. Let's move her to the middle and cover her with a quilt. When we enter the city later, tell the guards that we are bringing our seriously ill granddaughter to Beijing for medical treatment. Don't let anything slip." The old man said to the old woman, suppressing his inner excitement.

"I know, I know!" the old lady said impatiently. Then, seeing Liu Shichu's donkey chewing grass by the roadside, she reminded him again, "Don't forget to take the donkey with you. You can sell it for a few taels of silver!"

The old man then led the old donkey over and tied it to his ox cart. After a while, the two of them drove the ox cart again and lined up at the city gate.

Liu Shichu, pretending to be faint, lay comfortably on the slightly shaking ox cart, thinking that he had saved a penny for the city entrance fee, which was really good, as one penny could buy a vegetarian bun.

In less than half an incense stick of time, Liu Shichu was transported to the capital. The old lady looked at her in a "faint" state and said to the old man with great joy: "This is a very good product. It can be sold for twenty or thirty taels of silver."

The old man lowered his voice and said, "What's twenty or thirty taels? If you sell it to those places, you can sell it for forty or fifty taels."

"That's right. She looks pretty and young, and her bud is about to bloom. The madams of those brothels like her the most. We can definitely make a fortune this time!" The old woman could hardly hide her excitement.

"Keep your voice down!" the old man warned her.

The old woman had to lower her voice, but she was still very excited and couldn't help but nagging: "This silly girl is so stupid. She actually dared to go on a long journey alone. She really doesn't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. Isn't she just being sold for nothing? She has no suspicion at all... But it's better that she doesn't have suspicion. It's a bargain for us..."

"It's a windfall, we deserve to be rich this time." The old man said happily, "Now my youngest son has enough money to marry a wife."

"I have to marry someone who is good at giving birth. She can't be like my eldest daughter-in-law. She has only given birth to a skinny and money-losing baby in more than ten years. She is going to cut off the incense of our family!" The old woman was indignant and began to complain about her eldest daughter-in-law.

Liu Shichu felt a little bored. After about two incense sticks of time, the ox cart finally stopped, and it seemed that it stopped in front of a house.

"Boss, eldest brother's wife, please come out and help me. I brought my granddaughter to see a doctor. She can't move by herself now. Please help her in quickly..." the old woman shouted towards the door.

Two hurried footsteps suddenly came out of the house, and the first was a middle-aged man's voice: "Granddaughter? My daughter? Yes, my daughter is sick. She is such a money-loser. She has troubled you, my parents, to bring her to Beijing..."

"Take her in quickly, before she gets sick from the cold." A female voice with a little hoarseness added, and cursed the neighbors who were watching the excitement, "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a sick girl before?"

When the neighbors saw how fierce she was, they dispersed.

Not long after, Liu Shichu felt two pairs of hands pulling her arms and legs, and dragging her into a room.

"Mom and Dad, where did you find this good stuff? It's white and clean, and can be sold for a good price! It's much better than the yellow-haired girl last time." The middle-aged man seemed to see Liu Shichu's appearance clearly, and asked happily in a low voice.

"We met her on the way to the capital. She was riding an old donkey, looking silly. She said she was coming to the capital to visit her relatives. There was no adult with her. Wasn't it a good opportunity for her to be brought to us?" the old woman said proudly.

"There are still fools like this, tsk tsk." The middle-aged female voice sighed with emotion.

"Both her parents are gone, and she's a girl who knows nothing. She thought it was as safe outside as at home, and soon she ran into us. She deserves us to get rich." The old man was also happy.

"I have to ask more dealers about this item. I can't sell it cheaply." The old woman's son said shrewdly, "If I sell this item to a noble who likes this kind of innocent girl, it can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver!"

"So much? Hundreds of taels?!" The old woman's voice became louder with excitement.

Her son quickly asked her to lower her voice, and then said disdainfully: "Those high officials are rich, a few hundred taels are nothing. If it's a skinny horse from Yangzhou, it would cost thousands of taels!"

(End of this chapter)