Boss Liu was even more panicked than his mother. He led his family back and forth until the soldiers guarding the gate stopped staring at them. Only then did he wipe the cold sweat from his sweat and said, "I, I'll go ask the postmaster for help."
After settling his family under a big poplar tree far away from the post station, Liu Lao Da went around to the back door and asked someone to help him deliver a message to the postmaster.
At the same time, the Zhang family members who got the news rushed over in a hurry under the instigation of Zhang Niangzi's brothers and sisters.
The postmaster got wind of the matter and immediately told Madam Zhang, who was talking to the postmaster's wife, "How do you plan to deal with this matter?"
Madam Zhang pondered for a moment and said, "I'll go and explain things to them right away, so they don't come to the post station to cause trouble again in the future."
The postmaster was thinking the same thing. He said to Madam Zhang, "Don't worry. Before you go, why don't you go and ask the prince or your Mr. Jiang for help first?"
Madam Zhang was not the type to be eloquent or articulate, and since neither of the two families was willing to reason with others, it was necessary for her to use the situation to defeat the majority with the minority.
"This..." Madam Zhang was hesitating when her daughter Liu Ping'an's voice suddenly came from outside the house, "Mom!"
The little girl trotted over to Madam Zhang and said, "Mother, the prince told us to go find Mr. Jiang and ask him to send a few guards to reinforce us."
The postmaster and his wife were both surprised when they heard this. The postmaster's wife grabbed Madam Zhang's hand and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's go."
Listening to the vague noise coming from outside, Yu Zizhen asked Xinghua to help him lie down.
Although she was not sick, she still had to make every effort to "recuperate".
The tiny apricot blossom did as it was told immediately.
As Yu Zizhen said, although Xinghua has the mind of a child, whenever Yu Zizhen asks her to do something, she always obeys his instructions and does it skillfully. She is so considerate that she doesn't seem like a child at all.
In the room, the master and servant, one of them closed his eyes and secretly ate melons while relying on the real-time broadcast of the system, while the other blinked his big black eyes and kept stuffing food into his mouth slowly.
Outside the house, Mr. Jiang gave face to Yu Zizhen and generously sent twenty people to accompany Madam Zhang and Liu Ping'an to the entrance of the post station.
As soon as this grand display was made, the Zhang and Liu families immediately realized that Madam Zhang and Liu Ping'an had hooked up with a wealthy family that they could not afford to offend.
They didn't dare to start making trouble right away, so Madam Zhang said what she wanted to say smoothly.
"You don't have to come to the post station to make trouble anymore. Thanks to you, Ping An and I can no longer stay here."
"I have sold myself and Ping An to another family as servants. We will be leaving here in a few days."
The Liu family was shocked, but this shock could not cover up their inherent greed.
Boss Liu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Ping An is our Liu family's child. What gives you the right to sell her? Even if you want to sell her, the money you get from selling her should belong to our Liu family!"
The other members of the Liu family immediately echoed the voice, clamoring for Madam Zhang to hand over Liu Ping'an, otherwise they would have to give them the silver worth Liu Ping'an.
Madam Zhang was so angry that she just spat.
"Have you forgotten that my daughter and I were kicked out by your Liu family? You only remember that my daughter's last name is Liu. Why didn't you think of her last name and that she was your child when you kicked us out? Now that I've raised her to this age, you're thinking of picking peaches!"
"Are you guys assuming I don't know what your little calculations are? Don't you just want my daughter to go back and be your slave for a few years, so that when she's old enough to get married, you can use her to make some money as a bride price? Pah! A bunch of black-hearted bastards, you have a nice idea!"
It can only be said that Madam Zhang underestimated the evil of human nature. She never dreamed that the Liu family would have found a husband for her daughter by now.
However, she could not have imagined that the wife her younger brother married was a well-informed person.
"What? Big sister, don't you know? The Liu family has already found a husband for Ping An!"
Madam Zhang's sister-in-law twisted her slender waist and walked to her elder sister-in-law. "It's Wang Defa from Xiaowangzhuang. Isn't his son dying? I heard that they gave the Liu family a betrothal gift of 20 taels of silver. Look, tomorrow he will be married off safely to bring good luck to his sick son."
Madam Zhang: ???
Madam Zhang:!!!
She looked incredulous, and her gaze quickly turned to Old Lady Liu and others present, seeking confirmation.
Old Lady Liu and the others felt guilty when they saw her stare at them.
Madam Zhang was so angry that her whole body was shaking violently. She pointed at the Liu family and said, "You... Ping'an is only eight years old! Are you still human?"
Old Lady Liu's rebellious nature suddenly surfaced after being yelled at by her. "What's wrong with being eight years old? I'm sending her to get married, not to give birth to a child right away! If she does, will her in-laws not give her a single meal in the future? Isn't it better for her to be someone's daughter-in-law and be a quiet daughter-in-law than to follow you around, being so shameless and being picked up and sent off at this post station?"
"You old hag!" Old Lady Liu spoke so harshly, without any regard for her and her daughter's reputation. How could Madam Zhang be polite to her?
She roared and rushed towards Old Lady Liu, "If it's really that good to go to a wedding to bring good luck, why don't you let your eldest granddaughter, second granddaughter, and youngest granddaughter go?"
The old woman also said that even if her daughter was well prepared, her in-laws would only give her a bowl of rice to eat, but what if it was the other way around? What if it was not well prepared?
There are many brides who were killed and buried with their loved ones because their wedding attempt failed!
He traded her daughter's life for money and felt so righteous about it. In order to accomplish this, he even slandered them by accusing them of running an illegal business!
This is a post station. Not to mention the mother and daughter who have no one to rely on at home, even the post station chief's wife and daughter, don't they also work at the post station?
Madam Zhang has been doing rough work all year round, so she has a lot of strength in her hands. In addition, she is younger than Old Lady Liu. When she attacks in anger, Old Lady Liu is no match for her at all.
The former mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a fight at the gate of the post station. Old Lady Liu's son and daughter-in-law wanted to use their numbers to bully the minority, but the wife of the post station chief, who was slandered in the process, brought people to stop this group of unscrupulous people.
"Who are you calling shameless?"
"Bah! Is there anyone more shameless than your family?"
"You bastard, you keep coming to our post station to cause trouble. I've been wanting to beat you up for a long time!"
"You even coveted the pension money for soldiers who died in battle, and after taking it, you drove the wives and daughters out of the house. Your family lacks virtue!"
"That's right, now you're selling someone else's daughter again. Aren't you afraid that they'll come looking for you wicked bastards in the middle of the night to settle the score?"
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