The middle-aged man suppressed his anger and glared at the woman with cold eyes: "Jiang Shufen, don't go too far."
Seeing the man angry, the woman swallowed back the curse words that were about to be hurled. Looking at the child in her arms, she said decisively: "No, I can't let my son live with that family."
"You can't stay with the old woman either!"
Seeing the argument getting more and more intense, Arya interrupted tremblingly: "I can take care of my brother. Really, I will take good care of my brother!"
The woman stepped forward, grabbed Erya's hair, and stared at her with wide eyes: "You? You damn girl must have thought that I was not around and bullied my child!"
Erya's scalp was numb from being pulled, and tears came to her eyes in pain.
But no matter how she told the woman in a tearful voice that she could take care of her, she just refused to accept her request.
In the end, the old woman stepped forward and held Erya in her arms. She was so angry that she looked like she was going to attack her in the next second: "You bitch, let Erya go!"
The middle-aged man didn't seem to expect that a woman would bully his offspring under his nose. Even if it was a girl, it was still his offspring.
"Jiang Shufen, let me go!"
The woman was so frightened that she let go of the hand that was holding Erya's hair, and protected the child who was crying softly in her arms. She hid as far as she could by the door. "What do you want to do? You want to hit me? If you dare to hit me, I will take my son away and make your family extinct!"
The man frowned helplessly, rubbing the vein on his forehead that was slightly protruding from anger, and said word by word: "You'd better not make me angry again, otherwise, it doesn't matter to me whether there is a future or not!"
With a clang, the man slammed the wooden spoon in his hand to the ground, then glared at the woman, making it clear that if she said anything unpleasant or threatening again, she would not be able to leave the door today.
Erya was also startled. She shrank into the old woman's arms, not daring to say a word, but her eyes moved back and forth between the two of them.
"Erya, take your little brother away."
The woman's eyes widened as she fiercely protected the child. "No, you can't send him there. No... Ah Zhen, can't I take him with me? Why do you have to... why do you have to?"
The man snorted. "Do you think this time will be like the last time? We could die. We could end up in jail."
After he finished speaking, he realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, but the words had already been spoken and there was no reason to take them back.
The old woman was so upset when she heard this that she quickly asked, "Zhen'er, what do you mean by this? What are you going to do? You can't abandon your mother!"
"Mom, this time I'm transporting a batch of good goods by water with Brother Dashang. Although it's quite dangerous, it's not a big deal. Brother Dashang promised to return safely."
At this point, he patted the old woman's shoulder soothingly and continued, "Don't worry too much. Just doing this once will earn you twenty taels of silver, enough for our family to live for a year."
The old woman gasped: "Are you going to die for those twenty taels of silver? I won't allow it!"
Erya was so frightened that she experienced three or four frights in one night, and she became completely dazed.
This farce lasted for half an hour.
Finally the woman had to agree to hand the child over to the old woman.
I would never send her to that family no matter what.
The man had no choice but to agree.
Arya thought it was just a normal trip out of town. Although it was dangerous, her father had said nothing would happen...
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