Chapter 57: Demanding Compensation
The backyard was silent. Several officers on guard at the gate were drowsy. Xia Xing'er kindly sprinkled some sleeping pills on them to help them sleep better. She also threw some more matches into the basin in front of them to prevent them from freezing to death.
Only after leaving the hospital did she realize that she still didn't know which room Xuanyuan Yi lived in.
Xia Xing'er called out to the system in her heart: "System, come out and work."
The system's mechanical voice sounded: "Host, here, at your service at any time."
Xia Xing'er: "Hurry up and find me which room Xuanyuan Yi lives in."
System: "OK, host, please wait."
Xia Xing'er always felt that something was wrong with the system today, and the sound was too mechanical.
But she couldn't care less about that now. She just wanted to know which room Xuanyuan Yi lived in.
System: "Host, he is in Room 1, Tianzi Building."
Xia Xing'er: "System, can you give me a map? There are so many rooms, and I don't know which one is Room 1, Tianzi."
System: "Host, the map has been placed in the system space, please check it!"
Xia Xing'er found Room No. 1 of Tianzi Building according to the map given by the system.
Just as I was about to knock on the door, Liu Xing came out from the darkness and asked seriously, "Miss Xia, what's the matter that brings you here so late?"
With the system's reminder, Xia Xing'er had already known that there was someone in the dark, so she was not surprised by the appearance of the meteor!
"I have something to do with your family, please let me know."
Liuxing had already imagined a lot in his mind: Miss Xia came here so late, is she trying to climb into the bed of his prince?
This is too hasty!
How shameless!
Although his prince is now paralyzed, he still feels that Xia Xing'er, a divorced and abandoned woman, is not worthy of him!
He has to take good care of his cabbages and not let the pigs eat them, even if the pigs are good-looking!
Yes, in Liuxing’s heart, Xuanyuan Yi is the cabbage, and Xia Xing’er is the pig.
Liu Xing said politely and distantly, "My prince has already gone to bed. If Miss Xia has anything to do, you'd better wait until tomorrow! Besides, it's not a good idea for you to come to the prince's mansion so late!"
This was already quite impolite, and Xia Xing'er was not a fool, so of course she could hear it!
Xia Xing'er didn't want to waste any more time talking to him, so she just pointed at his acupoint and walked in.
Liuyun stood in front of Xuanyuan Yi's bed, holding a sword in his hand, looking at Xia Xing'er vigilantly.
Xuanyuan Yi said, "Liuyun, move aside and let Miss Xia come over. She won't hurt me. If she wants me dead, she won't help me this morning!"
Liuyun also knew that this was the truth, but he was still worried and had to listen to the prince, so he finally stepped aside.
Xia Xing'er walked towards the bed and said, "Your prince is really sensible. You should really learn from him."
He walked to the bed and looked at the pale person on the bed. He had never looked at the Prince of Zhennan carefully before, but now he did.
This man is really good-looking, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a high nose bridge, slightly thin lips, slightly upturned corners of the mouth, and a healthy skin color, which makes him look more manly. He completely meets Xia Xinger's aesthetic standards.
Xuanyuan Yi looked at his beloved girl who was staring at him without saying a word.
Is it because I am too handsome and I am fascinated by him?
Then I thought, how could she be fascinated by me or like me in my current state? It was just my delusion after all!
He suppressed the bitterness in his heart and said with a smile: "Miss Xia, you must have something to ask me so late at night!"
Xuanyuan Yi said an affirmative sentence instead of a question!
Xia Xing'er raised her eyebrows slightly and a playful smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. This guy is really smart.
"Just as the prince thought, I came to see you so late because I really have something to do, but it is a good thing for the prince!"
He took out an exquisite porcelain bottle from his sleeve, shook it gently, and the fragrance of medicine filled the bottle.
"By chance, I got two pills. There's an 80% chance that the prince can stand up. I wonder if the prince trusts me and is willing to try!"
As she spoke, she opened the bottle cap, and a strange and refreshing medicinal fragrance instantly filled the entire room.
Xuanyuan Yi's eyes lit up slightly, he could feel that this medicine was extraordinary.
"Do you really believe what Miss Xia said? I still have a chance to stand up."
"This pill is very effective in repairing meridians. If Your Highness trusts me, please try this medicine." Xia Xing'er's words were full of confidence and unquestionableness, which made Xuanyuan Yi feel an inexplicable trust and expectation in his heart.
"I believe you!"
Just three simple words made Xia Xing'er feel inexplicably better.
"But I have to tell you in advance, after taking this medicine, it might be very painful, like all the bones in your body are being broken and reassembled. You have to stay awake the whole time and not faint. If you can make it through, you will be reborn. If you can't..."
Xuanyuan Yi understood what Xia Xing'er hadn't finished saying. As long as he had the chance to stand up, he would be able to hold on no matter how painful it was.
"Thank you, Miss Xia, for the gift of medicine!"
Xuanyuan Yi took the pill and swallowed it in one gulp without any hesitation.
In an instant, a warm current spread from the throat to the limbs and bones, as if hundreds of tiny insects were wandering in the meridians, bringing indescribable numbness and tingling.
He clenched his teeth, and beads of sweat instantly oozed out of his forehead, but his face was slightly rosy because of this sudden vitality.
Xia Xing'er didn't want to stay and smell that smell, so she told Liuyun and left.
"You'd better find a way to get some bath water. Your prince will definitely need it later. I'm going back to bed. I have to travel tomorrow."
Liuyun didn't quite understand why he had to prepare bath water for his prince, but he soon understood.
Xia Xing'er returned to the yard, sprinkled the night watchman with sleeping pills, took away the formation plate, returned to the room, lay down and fell asleep.
The next morning, Xia Xing'er was awakened by Wang's crying and her husband Xia Chengwen's scolding.
"My son became like this yesterday because he ate the chicken butt you gave him. You are such a heartless family! My son is so young, how could you have the heart to do this to him? Xia Chengsheng, you are unworthy of being a human being!"
When she pushed the door open, she saw Xia Chengwen's fingers about to poke Xia Chengsheng's face, and he was still talking without stopping!
He was furious and looked like he wanted to eat Xia Chengsheng.
"My son is the same age as your grandson. You are not afraid of being struck by lightning for doing this. You are my good son. Qingping, my son, please open your eyes and look at me, your father!"
"It's all because of Daddy's incompetence that you were poisoned by them!"
Xia Chengsheng clenched his hands, looked coldly at the man in front of him who was spitting all over the place, and said in a deep voice: "Just tell me your purpose. What do you want?"
The three little guys looked at Xia Chengwen, who was spitting everywhere, and their grandfather, who had a gloomy face, and felt very nervous.
"Aunt, we didn't put medicine on Xia Qingping's chicken butt yesterday. Why did his father say that?"
Xia Ziyu said indignantly, "I felt sorry for him yesterday and put two extra pieces of meat in his bowl. I really fed it to the dog!"
Xia Xing'er comforted the three little ones, "Okay, this has nothing to do with you. The adults are here, so you don't need to worry about it. Be careful not to grow taller!"
When the three little ones heard their aunt's joking words about not growing taller, they immediately straightened their bodies, as if they could grow a few inches taller immediately.
Xia Xing'er was so amused by what she saw that if it wasn't the wrong time, she would definitely have laughed out loud.
"It's not about what I want to do, but what should you do? My son, who was alive and kicking yesterday, ate the chicken butt you gave him, and now he has a high fever and is unconscious."
Xia Chengwen finally got this opportunity. If he doesn't tear off a layer of skin from Xia Chengsheng and others, he will not be named Xia!
"How about this, we don't ask for much, just compensate us with one thousand taels of silver."
He saw that when the Prince of Zhennan broke off the engagement, he also gave compensation to that bitch Xia Xing'er. Also, Liu's family was an imperial merchant, so they must have given silver as well. He only wanted one thousand taels, not a bit more.
It is not certain whether this one thousand taels will be enough for the journey of exile.
He felt a little regretful that he had asked for less. He should have asked them to compensate him with the donkey cart as well. He had been coveting it for a long time.
Xia Chengsheng smiled instead of getting angry: "You want one thousand taels, right?"
He casually picked up a stick and hit Xia Chengwen directly: "I'm going to break your legs today and give you a thousand taels. You shameless guy, you actually tried to blackmail me. If I don't break your legs today, I'll take your surname!"
Xia Chengsheng forgot that even though he had the same surname as Xia Chengwen, his surname was still Xia.
"My grandson was so kind as to give your son a chicken butt to eat, and he got into trouble. We ate meat cooked in the same pot, and we were fine. But your son is so precious, and he got into trouble after eating it?"
"Bah! You even drugged us! Have some shame! That drug is worth more than a chicken butt. Is it worth it for your son?"
"If I really had medicine, I would poison you to death first!"
Xia Chengsheng was indeed skilled in martial arts. When he caught up with Xia Chengwen, he hit him with several sticks. Xia Chengwen screamed in pain!
He kept cursing, "Xia Chengsheng, you old bastard, how dare you hit me? Stop it now, or I'll call the police!"
Wang was originally holding Xia Qingping and crying, but when she saw her husband being chased and beaten by Xia Chengsheng, she forgot to cry and stared blankly at Xia Chengwen who was running around the yard like a monkey.
They originally thought that Xia Chengsheng and his men would be cautious and would definitely spend money to avoid disaster, but they didn't expect that they would actually dare to beat them up.
Xia Chengsheng kicked Xia Chengwen's hook twice: "Don't you want money? I'll beat you to death today and give you more, do you want it?"
"Don't run if you dare. I'll get you some silver."
Xia Chengwen ran around the yard like a headless fly. Everyone was just watching the fun and no one offered to help.
At this time, he was sharp-eyed and saw Liu Dameng walking in from the courtyard gate, so he ran straight over.
"Master, help me! Xia Chengsheng is going to kill someone! Please save me! If you come any later, I will lose my life here!"
Officer Liu Dameng looked displeased as he looked at the man jumping up and down in front of him and said, "What are you doing so early in the morning?"
Xia Chengwen looked at Liu Dameng as if he had seen a savior, and cried, "Master, the Xia family poisoned my son, and he's still unconscious. I came to them looking for an antidote, but they wanted to kill me to silence me. Please, Master, help me!"
He secretly slipped a fifty-liang silver note to Liu Dameng.
"Yesterday they gave my son a chicken butt, but he refused. The three boys from his family forced him to eat it. He couldn't handle three of them, so he had no choice but to eat the chicken butt he gave him!"
"They were humiliating my son and our family. We didn't care and just endured it at first, but we didn't expect that in the middle of the night, my son started vomiting and having diarrhea, a fever, and became unconscious. In desperation, I came to them to seek justice, an antidote or some compensation so that they could treat my son!"
"But...but I never expected them to be so unreasonable. Not only did they refuse to compensate me, they even threatened to break my legs. How could they be so cruel!"
"Such a cancer remains in the team and threatens the safety of the entire team. The officers have taken great pains to escort us and protect our safety. By doing this, they do not take our hard work to heart and challenge our authority. They should be severely punished to serve as a warning to others!"
It has to be said that Xia Chengwen is a good talker and a discord sower. After hearing what he said, Liu Dameng's face became darker and darker.
He looked at Xia Chengsheng fiercely and said coldly, "Who gave you the right to beat other prisoners for no reason?"
He was not there yesterday when Xia Xing'er and Xia Qingfeng showed off their skills and killed the man in black, otherwise he would not have dared to speak to Xia Chengsheng like that.
When Xia Chengsheng was beating Xia Chengwen earlier, Xia Xing'er and the three little ones didn't go over, but watched the fun from the side. They only went over now.
"Sir, he just insisted that we harmed his son and made him unconscious, and he even tried to extort money from us. This is just empty talk and slander. Beating him up is the least he can do!"
She was just standing by and saw it all clearly as Xia Chengwen stuffed the banknotes into Liu Dameng's hand.
Liu Dameng looked at Xia Xing'er with lustful eyes. This former daughter of the Marquis's mansion, former young lady of the General's mansion, and former fiancée of the Prince of Zhennan was first-class in both status and appearance. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he could press her under his crotch and let her enjoy himself?
"Isn't what he said right? Didn't your family feed his son chicken butts? Or did his son not have a fever and fall into a coma? Or did Xia Chengsheng not beat Xia Chengwen?"
He asked three questions in a row, seemingly inquiring, but in fact he was already certain that this was the fact.
Xia Xing'er looked him straight in the eye and said word by word, "If I can prove that his son's fever and coma weren't caused by eating chicken butt, then doesn't that mean he deserves this beating?"
Liu Dameng looked at Xia Xing'er with great interest: "How are you going to prove it, Miss Xia?"
He had to give some face to the beautiful lady so that he could carry out his future plans.
She had been interested in Dong since the first day she beat her, and she was always worried that she would never have the chance.
It’s fun to play with such a fierce woman.
Xia Chengsheng noticed the look in Liu Dameng's eyes as he looked his daughter up and down, so he pulled Xia Xing'er behind him to block Liu Dameng's sight.
Liu Dameng shrank back when he saw Xia Chengsheng's cold eyes.
Then he thought, they are just a group of exiles, what is there to be afraid of? He is the officer escorting them, they have to listen to him along the way, if they dare to disobey him, he will just kill them. Anyway, it is normal for people to die on the road of exile!
He looked at Xia Chengsheng with contempt, as if saying: I'm going to sleep with your daughter, what can you do to me?
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