Chapter 81: Sell it if you can't afford it

Xu Muhua's words made the man hesitate. Xu Muhua walked into the yard with a swagger, and the man gritted his teeth and closed the door.

"Who are you and what do you want to do?"

Xu Muhua looked around the small courtyard and then turned back to look at the man, raising his eyebrows, "Didn't we tell you what we want to do? We want to find you to learn about what happened on the night of the Lantern Festival fifteen years ago. You saw a little boy alone on the street, followed him for a while, and found that he was separated from his family, and then you took him away."

"What I want to know is what happened to the little boy later? Did you adopt him or sell him?"

The man quickly denied it when he heard it: "I didn't sell him!"

Xu Muhua smiled, "Oh, then you admit that you did take the little boy back that year, right?"

The man's face turned ugly.

At this point, it was not his turn to not talk about it, and the man quickly explained what happened that year.

Xu Muhua looked at him coldly, "So you brought the little boy back home because you had been married for many years and had no children. You remembered what others said, that if you bring a child home to raise, you can have a child reincarnate. But after you raised him for a while, your wife got pregnant, and you regretted it, so you sold the boy?"

The man argued cunningly, "I didn't sell him, I gave him to someone to raise..."

"Oh, in name you gave him away, but in reality you confiscated their money? Didn't you take advantage of them?"

Xu Muhua slapped the table with all his strength, glared at the man, and questioned, "Since you don't want to raise him anymore, why don't you return him to his biological parents? Do you know that his family has been looking for him for so many years? You have prevented their family from being reunited for more than ten years. You are committing a sin!"

"You have a child because you brought him home to raise. This is a reward for your kindness! But you sold him off. This is a sin. Don't you worry that this retribution will fall on your child?" This

is simply stupid and evil!

The man didn't know what he was thinking about. His face changed, his lips turned pale, and he stammered, "I, I don't want to either. I really can't afford to raise a child..."

Xu Muhua sneered. If you can't afford to raise a child, just sell him off!

"Who did you sell it to?"

The man lowered his head and whispered, "I gave it to a peddler... The peddler didn't seem to be from the capital. I, I seemed to have heard the peddler mention that his hometown was in Jialin Prefecture, in Bao Village."

Firstly, he really couldn't afford to raise two children. Secondly, the peddler said that he and his wife had been married for many years and had not been able to have their own children, so they wanted to raise one. He knew about their family affairs, so he wanted to give it a try, and he also promised to raise the child well no matter whether it worked or not. So he gave the child to the peddler to raise.

Why not send him back? How can he send him back? It's been more than half a year. If he sends him back, the boy's parents will say that he kidnapped them. What if they report to the police?

Jialin Prefecture?

As an outsider, Xu Muhua certainly didn't know where Jialin Mansion was. However, she didn't reveal her true intentions. Instead, she looked at the man coldly and said, "You'd better pray that I can find this little boy smoothly. The peddler really took good care of him. Otherwise, you can wait for his parents to settle accounts with you and send you to the government!"

After getting the clues she wanted, Xu Muhua didn't want to stay any longer and left with Shi Liu.

As soon as she reached the door, it was pushed open from outside. A woman led a young man in. Xu Muhua could tell at a glance that this young man was probably the man's son.

She glanced at the man and walked out without stopping. She could faintly hear the woman's question behind her.

"Who are they and what are they doing in our house?"

"...asking for directions, they went to the wrong place..."

Xu Muhua sneered.

Shi Liu was in a daze from beginning to end. After getting on the carriage, she finally couldn't help asking, "Miss, that man just now..."

And what exactly did the young lady talk about with that man? Why didn't she understand?

"Shi Liu, are you loyal to your young lady?"

Xu Muhua looked at Shi Liu and asked seriously.

Shi Liu answered very seriously, "Of course, the world can see my loyalty to the young lady!"

She is not that dead girl Qiu Shuang. In front of the young lady, who knows where her heart flies to! She is loyal to the young lady! Once you are the young lady's person, you are the young lady's person for life, and you will be the young lady's ghost after death!

"Then this young lady can tell you my secret."

Xu Muhua told her about opening a shop. Shi Liu is her personal maid. She will go out often in the future. It is impossible not to bring a maid. It is impossible to keep it secret with a maid. Shi Liu trusted her very much.

As for Wu Er and Aunt Qian, they still needed to be investigated.

Shi Liu was stunned for a long time.

"Young lady, you opened a..."

What kind of store? Selling information? Is there such a store in this world? And where did the young lady get so much information to sell, would anyone believe it?

Shi Liu expressed deep doubt.

"Shi Liu, you have to believe your young lady! In short, you just need to keep your eyes open! But you have to keep this secret, and don't let my mother and grandmother know about it. Of course, when my father and eldest brother come back, they must not know about it, otherwise your young lady's career will be ruined, and I will settle accounts with you!"

Shi Liu closed her mouth tightly, covered her mouth with her hands, and shook her head with round eyes, indicating that she would definitely not say anything!

After a while, Shi Liu remembered something and asked in a low voice: "Miss, then... does Wu'er know about this?"

"Not yet."

Shi Liu was satisfied with what she heard!

Sure enough, she is the young lady's first confidant!

After returning to the mansion, Xu Muhua checked and found that Jialin Mansion was neither close nor far from the capital. It would take two days to go back and forth by riding a fast horse from the capital, and it would take time to find out the truth. Five days would be a bit tight.

Then let's split the troops into two groups!

She sent a message to the three brothers of the Feng family, asking two of them to rush to Jialin Mansion immediately, and the remaining one to stay in the capital to wait for news.

And she sent out her own little intelligence expert - of course not Xiaoban and Daban, because they are small in size, can't fly for a long time, and are not fast enough, but their friend, Crow.

I don't know how this family eats, but they are all fat and strong, bigger than the common crows. After the introduction of Daban and Xiaoban, this family is now a frequent visitor in Xu Muhua's yard.

Now Xu Muhua asks them to do things, and they are happy to do it!

Two-legged beasts ask them to do things! How strange!