Fu Xingcheng pointed at the woman with tattered clothes on the ground and said, "This girl said that her stepmother abused her at home. She came to us and wanted us to buy her and take care of her."
As soon as Fu Xingcheng finished speaking, the tall and strong middle-aged woman put her hands on her waist and angrily scolded: "This little girl is talking nonsense. I feed her with good food and drink every day, but she is slandering me outside!"
When Chu Chenyin saw the woman in tattered clothes lying on the ground, his brows furrowed. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell who was telling the truth.
She asked the man who lowered his head and said nothing seriously, "Are you the owner of this house?"
The man nodded timidly, "Yes."
Chu Chenyin asked him sternly, "Since you are the master of this house, you are the father of this girl. You and your parents-in-law are dressed neatly, but you let your daughter wear tattered clothes. And you told me that you didn't abuse them."
The city has its own rules, and not every rabble can be protected by the Fu family.
The man was trembling all over, with his head lowered, still not daring to say a word.
Looks like a guilty person.
The woman kneeling on the ground heard Chu Chenyin's voice and quickly knelt down in front of her, crying and saying, "Madam, please save me."
Chu Chenyin looked down at the woman and was startled to see a few knife cuts on her face.
Just then, an old man with a cane walked in.
He quickly said, "Madam, these two husband and wife are just beasts."
Chu Chenyin looked at him in confusion.
The old man continued, "Before coming to Mobei, I was a neighbor to them."
The middle-aged lady became nervous, "Old Zhang, don't talk nonsense."
The old man knocked his two crutches and said, "I'm not talking nonsense. I used to be their neighbor. This Qian family was a famous merchant in our area and had some money. Mr. Qian's wife died many years ago, so he married this woman. Later, she gave birth to a daughter. In order to marry into the local family, she cut her stepdaughter's face with a knife and let her daughter marry him."
"Later, there was a famine, and the daughters she married met bandits on the road with the family of the wealthy. Some died, some escaped, and no news was ever heard from again."
"It's retribution."
"Now that the family has come to Mobei, this woman still won't let her stepdaughter go. She forces her to eat and sleep with the sheep every day, and even beats and scolds her on weekdays. She puts the blame of her own daughter's death on her stepdaughter."
When the crowd heard the old man say this, they sighed in amazement.
Fu Xingcheng was even more angry and said: "How heartless!"
As he spoke, he looked at Chu Chenyin and said, "Sister-in-law, don't take them in anymore. It's a waste of food to keep people like them alive."
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