Chapter 127: Making Trouble Again
Lian almost pointed at them and cursed, "You're so confused... How can they be considered a wealthy family? What wealthy family would be so short of maids that they would buy dozens of them? They're not buying maids, they're clearly buying prostitutes!"
"Ah!" Li Xiucai fell to the ground, his face pale. "It's over, it's over. If people knew that I have a daughter who works as a prostitute, how would I live my life——"
"You bastard!" Xu Qingying raised her hand and slapped Li Xiucai in the face. "Li Zhaodi was sold to a brothel, and you didn't worry about her safety, but only worried about your own reputation. You..."
Xu Qingying had never been so angry before. That anger was like a ferocious beast running wildly in her body. She wanted to pick up a knife and kill the man in front of her immediately.
Fang Xun reminded him, "Sir, don't be impulsive. Go and find Miss Zhaodi. It will be too late if you are late!"
Xu Qingying pointed at Li Xiucai and cursed, "Just wait, I'll deal with you when I come back!"
Cao Qin'er was frightened by Xu Qingying's aura. She waited until she had hurried away before she dared to complain, "Xu Qingying is so overbearing. There are so many people selling their children here, why does she only care about our family?"
Aunt Hu also said, "That's right, when did it become Xu's turn to dictate matters in our Li family's affairs?"
"Bitch!" Li Xiucai lost face and slapped Aunt Hu again. "It's all your fault. You said those who buy people are rich, but Lian said they bought prostitutes! Our Li family has been clean for generations. If we had a prostitute, how would I explain it to our ancestors?!"
Aunt Hu felt very aggrieved, but she didn't dare to refute at this moment. She could only cover her chest and cry.
Xu Qingying and a few others quickly pushed through the crowd. She watched the carriage drive into the city gate. As the curtains fluttered, she vaguely saw Li Zhaodi's face.
She was anxious and shouted from a distance: "Li Zhaodi!"
The man turned his head and gave her a distant smile, which seemed to contain some nostalgia, reluctance, and sadness, but then he turned around without hesitation.
The figure entered the city gate along with the team that was sold.
Until you can no longer see it.
"Li Zhaodi!" Feng'er, Qian Zhenniang, Fang Ruyu and others behind him also rushed over, crying and calling Li Zhaodi's name.
They felt the same way and seemed to feel a deep sense of powerlessness from Li Zhaodi.
Li Zhaodi is just the beginning. If they don’t find a solution, there will definitely be more girls in their team who will be sold by their parents and never seen again.
The girls were all crying and silent, just holding each other's hands, as if trying to draw strength from each other.
For Li Zhaodi, for myself, and for this damn world.
Xu Qingying suddenly turned around, wiped her tears and left!
Seeing Xu Qingying's frighteningly gloomy expression, Feng'er quickly said, "It's over! The young master is going to kill someone! Hurry up, stop him!"
But Xu Qingying was so angry that she walked very fast.
The girls couldn't catch up at all. They watched Xu Qingying walk straight up to Li Xiucai and then kick Li Xiucai hard on the shoulder.
The food in Li Xiucai's arms scattered all over the ground. The refugees around him looked at him with bloodshot eyes. If they hadn't been concerned about the dagger on Xu Qingying's waist, they would have rushed over!
Cao Qin'er and Aunt Hu shouted, "Master!"
Cao Qin'er stopped Xu Qingying and yelled in tears, "Xu Qingying, what does my Li family's affairs have to do with you, a Xu?! We're all starving to death. Other families can sell their children, so why can't my Li family? You, Xu Qingying, are so overbearing. Whatever you say goes, 'I won't sell Li Zhaodi, so why don't you give us all some food?' You can be kind, but it's not your family who's starving to death anyway!"
Aunt Hu also said: "Miss Xu, Li Zhaodi was sold voluntarily. Only by selling her can we survive! Why do you blame us? If you want to blame someone, blame this world. It is this world that is inhumane. It is this world that forces us to sell our children. We don’t want to do this... Zhaodi has entered the city. At least she can have something to eat and drink. It is better than starving and freezing to death with us! My dear girl, what’s the point of forcing us——"
Xu Qingying laughed in anger. She was on the verge of collapse, with unprecedented anger, grievance and sadness in her heart.
The anger almost consumed her.
She couldn't tell whether it was for Li Zhaodi, for the other girls who were sold with tears in their eyes, or for this terrible world!
This cannibalistic world is actually eating her, Xu Qingying?
Okay, then let her fight against the sky!
Let’s see who can beat whom!
Xu Qingying's chest heaved as she tried to calm herself down. The people around her all stepped back in fear, as if they were afraid of provoking the furious Xu Qingying.
Miss Xu was so angry that no one dared to step forward and say a word of advice to her.
"You're right. I won't argue with you. I'm just a tyrant. This world is a jungle of the weak. I'm strong, so I can crush you! From now on, you and your family get out of my team! If I see you again tomorrow morning, I'll stab you and make you accompany Li Yinzhang!"
Everyone looked at each other.
Miss Xu wants to drive Li Xiucai and his family away?
It was freezing cold outside and there was chaos and war everywhere. The three of them were unable to carry anything on their shoulders or hands. If they left their team, they would not be able to hold on for long.
Driving them away at this time would be tantamount to killing them.
Some people couldn't bear it. Although they all couldn't stand the Li family's actions, they had been exiled together for so long, and had been through life and death together. They had a friendship that was worth life and death. How could they just watch them die?
"You have no right to chase us away!" Li Xiucai's face flushed. He flicked the dust off his collar and motioned Cao Qin'er and Aunt Hu to pick up the food. He then stood up and slowly walked over to Xu Qingying. "If you chase us away now, you're going to kill us. Since you want us to die, then I'll take everyone with me. Don't you want to settle down and become good citizens? I'll tell them you're all a bunch of exiled prisoners!"
The people who had just wanted to speak up for him were furious. "Li Xiucai, how could you do this? We've been through life and death together, how could you do something so detrimental to others and yourself?"
Li Xiucai smiled coldly, "I'm almost dead, do I still care about your life or death?"
"No wonder Miss Xu wants to expel them. Such heartless villains will only harm us if they stay in our team!"
Li Xiucai's family didn't care. Li Xiucai was sure that Xu Qingying would be controlled by her, so he was fearless.
"Okay, okay, very good." Xu Qingying waved her sleeves and left. "You'd better not fall into my hands, otherwise I will make you wish you were dead, but you can't live."
Only after Xu Qingying left did everyone dare to breathe a sigh of relief.
Someone said in fear: "Miss Xu has such a bad temper. I almost gave up when I saw her."
Someone glared at Li Xiucai and laughed, "Your family isn't the only one in our group that's short of money and food, but you've sold your daughter. Add to that the little Yinzhang who died earlier, and you can't even protect your two daughters. Now you've even offended Miss Xu. I'm afraid you won't have a good life in the future."
"That's right. Let's stay away from him so as not to be burdened by his family."
Cao Qin'er turned a deaf ear to him and just focused on digging up the food on the ground. With a scoop of her hands, the food, dust, and dirty snow water were all poured back into the bag.
Only Li Xiucai sneered, "You're just jealous that I have food. You said I was selling my daughter, but that's because you don't have a daughter to sell. If you had a daughter, you'd probably run away faster than me. What's the point of being jealous of me now? If you can't sell your daughter, you can sell your wife. Although your wife is a little old, she's the daughter of Xu Laobanniang. Maybe she can still be sold for a high price!"
"You!" The two men started fighting instantly.
When Jiang Yongkang found Xu Qingying, he saw her sitting on the steps of the moat with her head buried between her knees like an ostrich.
There were faint snowflakes floating in the sky, and a small snowflake fell on her hair, like a crystal clear white flower inlaid in it.
Jiang Yongkang rarely saw Xu Qingying lose her composure like this.
Xu Qingying was always unspeakably calm, no matter if she was leading them to escape, or taking in refugees along the way to get here, no matter if it was a scene of war like in Zhangjia Village, or being locked up outside the city due to lack of ammunition and food, the Xu Qingying Jiang Yongkang saw was always steady and powerful, calm and indifferent, and there seemed to be a kind of otherworldly indifference in her eyes.
It is for this reason that Jiang Yongkang has such an urgent desire to follow.
Now she was sitting there alone, as if there was an invisible wall behind her isolating her. The disputes outside had nothing to do with her. She seemed to have been abandoned by the whole world.
She had acted too childishly just now.
In fact, it's very unlike her.
Jiang Yongkang sat down next to her calmly.
Xu Qingying raised her head from her knees.
Jiang Yongkang thought she would cry, but he didn't see any tears. Her eyes were just red, and there was a trace of sadness in her eyes that had not yet faded away.
But the moment their eyes met, she seemed to have returned to her indifferent and distant look.
"Miss Xu, actually... I can help you kill the Li family." Jiang Yongkang stared at her, as if secretly admiring her strength and rationality. "As long as you ask."
Xu Qingying's voice was a little hoarse, and her eyes were slightly blurred. "Li Zhaodi is still alive. If I killed her parents, I don't know if she would blame me."
Jiang Yongkang was stunned. He never expected that Xu Qingying decided to let the Li family go for this reason.
"In my opinion, parents selling their own flesh and blood is an unforgivable crime. But for you, it's something that can be forgiven." Xu Qingying pointed at a little girl being held down by her parents while washing her face. "Look, she'll be sold too. But there's no resentment on her face, only joy. Just as you said, by selling this girl, she'll be saved, and her family will be saved. The traffickers are happy too. It seems like everyone is happy, and no one loses. But... maybe I'm just weird, I'm very angry..."
Jiang Yongkang looked in the direction of her finger and saw a very young girl with a childish face, but also a happy face.
A girl, in exchange for a bag of rice, also for the hope of survival.
As Miss Xu said, no one suffered any loss.
"Xiao Miss Xu, you are angry with yourself, angry at the world, right? You are angry at them for being abandoned without knowing it, angry at the world for not giving them any other way out, angry at them for being forced into a situation of their own."
Xu Qingying was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but look at Jiang Yongkang.
Jiang Yongkang sighed and looked up at the sky. "To be honest, I'm also very angry..."
Xu Qingying interrupted him, "I'm not interested in why you're angry."
Jiang Yongkang raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised that Xu Qingying would interrupt him in such an atmosphere.
"Why?"
"Because you'll use your story to convince me to rebel. But I don't want to rebel. The investment is too huge, the potential returns are too small, and it's laborious. If you're not careful, you might even lose your head. Jiang Yongkang, you might not know... I'm a very afraid of death, so I'll protect my life well."
Jiang Yongkang's eyes lit up. He really knew that Xu Qingying knew everything about his intentional or unintentional instigation before!
This woman is really amazing!
Jiang Yongkang knew that everything should be done in moderation. Since Xu Qingying already knew his feelings, even if she didn't agree now, there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.
He infiltrated silently, not believing that Xu Qingying would not change her mind.
Xu Qingying is born rebellious and lacks respect for the emperor. She is smart, resourceful, and calm enough. Even in her rage just now, she did not lose her mind. It would be a pity for such a person not to rebel!
Jiang Yongkang stopped there and didn't dwell on the rebellion. Instead, he asked, "What about Mr. Li's family? Miss Xu, are you going to let them go? Or do you want me to teach them a lesson?"
"No need." Xu Qingying stood up, brushing off the snowflakes that had fallen on her shoulders. Her voice was a little cold. "As long as I'm here, I'll never let them have it easy. For Li Zhaodi, I won't take their lives, but I'll make their lives worse than death. As long as they're in my team, I'll have plenty of ways to deal with them."
Seeing Xu Qingying turn around and leave, Jiang Yongkang thought she was going to cause trouble for Li Xiucai, so he quickly asked, "Didn't you say to let them go for now?"
"This matter can be put aside. But some things cannot be delayed."
"for example?"
"For example, attacking the city. For example, retrieving Li Zhaodi."
Jiang Yongkang was stunned, but when he saw Xu Qingying turning around and leaving without hesitation, he couldn't help but feel happy. He thought that Xu Qingying had already thought of a way to attack the city, so he hurriedly followed her.
Feng'er, Qian Zhenniang, and the others were already waiting at the bank. Seeing that Xu Qingying had calmed down, they all went to greet her, "Master Xu."
"Call them Da Zhuang, Ming Xiao Shuang..." Xu Qingying then remembered that Zhao Bantou and the others had left, and from then on she would be fighting alone. The number of people she could use had been greatly reduced, which made Xu Qingying feel quite stretched, especially in the current situation, when it was time to use people.
Feng'er looked at the silent Xu Qingying with some curiosity, waiting for what would happen next.
"Call Dazhuang, Xu Huijia, Fang Xun, my brother, and the others. Oh, and you too."
Feng'er's heart was pounding.
This lineup is going to cause trouble again——
Feng'er was so excited that she couldn't express it in words. She responded happily and went to call someone.
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