"Neither of these siblings is a good piece of flesh, especially Fang Qi, who gets beaten up almost every day to protect his sister..."
The villagers started talking all at once.
Although they live in the same village, they can't interfere in other people's affairs. They can't possibly take these two children into their own home and raise them.
Firstly, they don't have the ability to do so. Secondly... the child has parents; what kind of behavior is it for them to take the child away? They will definitely report it to the authorities, and they will inevitably face legal trouble.
These two children are really pitiful. Even the village head has reprimanded Fang Dayong several times. That coward promised the village head that he would stop hitting the two children, but after being scolded by this woman, he immediately became obedient.
Such a bastard father is truly rare.
"Come with me," Ye Xianya said softly, turning to look at Fang Qi and Fang Chunxi.
"Thank you, sister," Fang Qi said quickly.
As soon as he returned, his stepmother, Wang, called him to the kitchen to light a fire, saying that she was a little hungry and asked Fang Qi to cook some food for her.
It's been cold lately, and it snows frequently. The woodshed is damp, and the fire in the stove produces a lot of smoke. When Wang came in to get some water, she choked on it. Without saying a word, she grabbed a fire poker and started hitting him. The first blow hit him on the head. Although it didn't break his skin, Fang Qi felt dizzy and collapsed to the ground. Unlike usual, he couldn't escape quickly, which is why he was beaten so badly.
Normally, when the brother and sister were beaten, if someone came to protect them, after the person left, Wang and her father would feel ashamed and would beat them even more severely.
But he couldn't take it anymore today. He was still feeling dizzy and lightheaded. If he didn't leave with this woman, he was sure to die.
After all, the fact that someone predicted his impending doom and came to protect him shows that today is his day of reckoning, and staying would be tantamount to courting death.
He didn't want to stay in the Fang family anymore.
He didn't actually want to come back today, but he couldn't bear to leave his sister.
As long as he can be with his sister, as long as he can take her away, even if it means becoming a beggar and wandering the streets, he doesn't want to come back.
Ever since my mother passed away, my father married this woman. For the past two years, he and my sister have not had a single good day. They have been beaten and live in constant fear.
"Stop!" Madam Wang rushed over and blocked Ye Xianya and the others' path, shouting, "Fang Qi and Fang Chunxi are members of our Fang family. How dare you take them away as you please?"
Seeing that Ye Xianya was dressed in fine clothes, he smiled and said, "If this noble lady wants to take them away, that's fine too, just give her fifty taels of silver."
Anyway, these two little bastards are just wasting food by staying at home. Since someone wants to stand up for them and take them away, then let them get lost.
However, you can't just take them away for free; you have to pay!
“Zhang has only been gone for two years, and you’ve already sold her child. You’re a real scoundrel,” the old woman standing to the side couldn’t help but say.
"This is a matter for the Fang family, what does it have to do with you?" Wang said with a sneer. "This young lady is not related to us, yet she wants to bring our Fang family's child with her. How can this be allowed? How am I supposed to explain this when her father comes back? Of course, we'll give her money."
Wang looked at Ye Xianya with greed on her face: "You look like a rich girl. It's only fifty taels of silver. You can easily afford it. If you don't have the silver, that's fine too. Just give me the hairpin in your hair, and you can take her with you!"
"You have a good eye!" Ye Xianya's face was full of coldness: "I'm afraid you can't afford it. This hairpin of mine was made by the Imperial Household Department. If it is not a gift from the palace, it is a capital offense for an ordinary family to keep it."
Upon hearing this, Wang's face was filled with astonishment, but it quickly turned into fear: "You...who exactly are you?"
"They're just fortune tellers. I'm taking them away today. If you try to stop me... you'll die!" After saying that, Ye Xianya suddenly waved her hand, and the stone table in their courtyard suddenly shattered into a pile of rubble.
Wang was so frightened that she fell to the ground, clutching her stomach and crying out in pain.
"You are also about to become a mother, yet you are so cruel to these two children. This karmic retribution will fall on the child in your womb. You should take heed of your actions." After Ye Xianya finished speaking, she was about to leave with the brother and sister when she noticed a tall and burly man carrying a hoe rushing over.
"My wife... my wife, are you alright?" The man rushed over, helped Wang Shi up from the ground, his eyes full of tenderness.
He was Fang Qi and his sister Fang Dayong, their father.
"Fang Dayong, these two little brats, I don't know where they found a backer. Not only are they taking them away, but they're also bullying me. You have to stand up for me," Wang said, leaning against Fang Dayong and wiping away her tears.
Upon hearing this, Fang Dayong didn't say a word, picked up a hoe and started hitting Fang Qi and his sister.
Ye Xianya raised her hand, and the hoe flew out, landing on the roof and smashing through the roof of the Fang family's main room. After falling, it knocked down several ancestral tablets that were placed on the altar.
In the scene she envisioned, Fang Qi was smashed in the head by Fang Dayong with a hoe and died from his injuries.
Fang Dayong's eyes widened in anger, and he was about to curse when Ye Xianya kicked him away, sending him crashing to the ground.
"They say even tigers don't eat their cubs, but you're willing to kill your own children for a vicious woman. You're not worthy of being human!" Ye Xianya said, and was about to kick him when Zhengzheng suddenly grew bigger and swatted Fang Dayong away with one wing.
Fang Dayong smashed a large hole in the roof and fell into the house. He struggled for a while but couldn't get up.
The room fell silent.
Even the incredibly arrogant Madam Wang was stunned when she looked at Zhengzheng.
"Let's go!" Ye Xianya turned to look at Fang Qi and his sister, and said softly.
Seeing their father beaten like this, the brother and sister didn't feel sorry for him; instead, they were somewhat excited.
Although he was their biological father, he was a wicked ghost who had been beating and scolding them every day for the past two years.
Countless days and nights, the brother and sister huddled in a corner, trembling with fear, afraid that he would beat and scold them if he was unhappy.
Although Wang was hateful, Fang Dayong, their biological father, not only did not help them, but also beat them even more ruthlessly than Wang. The two siblings hated Fang Dayong even more.
"Stop!" Fang Dayong, supported by Wang, limped out.
“If you step out of this door, you will no longer be a member of the Fang family,” Fang Dayong roared at his two children.
Upon hearing this, Fang Qi took his sister's hand and followed Ye Xianya, leaving without looking back.
"Chunxi, don't be afraid. With your brother here, I can raise you even if we have to beg for food," Fang Qi said to his sister, wiping away his tears.
He couldn't accept that his father, who used to love him and his sister dearly, was now beating them like a madman.
That's their biological father!
"Come with me to Peach Blossom Residence first. My aunt will take care of you. In less than six months, Fang Dayong will come to our door, begging you two siblings to come back," Ye Xianya said softly, looking at the two children.
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