After staying in the county town for three days, Zhou Laoda and Zhao Guihua took the children back to the town. Since they were going to go back to school in the town, Ruru also came back with them.
This time, I brought a few more people with me, all of whom I bought from the brokerage: a manager, his wife, and a son and two daughters.
Speaking of which, Xingxing had previously asked Zhao Guihua and Zhao Guizhi, intentionally or unintentionally, "Mom, Aunt, do you have any other relatives?"
Both Zhao Guihua and her sister subconsciously shook their heads, saying no, that only the two of them remained in their mother's family, and that everyone else was gone. Xingxing didn't ask any further questions.
But when we went to the dental clinic a couple of days ago, Xingxing pointed at a woman sitting blankly on the ground and said, "Mom, Auntie, look at that auntie, she's staring at you like she knows you."
Zhao Guizhi thought Xingxing was just talking like a child and didn't pay attention to the fact that she was calling her aunt.
But Zhao Guihua took Xingxing's words very seriously and immediately said she wanted to go and see. She asked the slave trader and learned that the silly woman and her family had been sold off.
The shopkeeper's name was Li Qian. He was originally the shopkeeper of a merchant's shop in the neighboring county. When he was seven years old, he was sold to a wealthy family as a slave. However, he was clever and knew how to flatter his master. He had the opportunity to learn to read and do arithmetic, and was promoted to the position of shopkeeper.
Later, he fell in love with a maid in the mansion and begged his master to let him marry her.
Looking at it this way, Manager Li's life wasn't too bad. If that merchant's son hadn't harassed his two daughters, he might have spent his whole life honestly working as a shopkeeper in that wealthy household.
His two daughters are twins, but the two sisters look nothing alike. However, they are both pretty and pleasing to the eye, and they are at the age of blossoming flowers. The fourteen-year-old girl will be of marriageable age in another year.
Both girls worked as maids in the master's mansion. Somehow, they caught the eye of the master's most favored illegitimate son. That illegitimate son spent his days indulging in debauchery and was good for nothing. He had ruined countless innocent girls. That day, this vile creature reached out his lewd hands to Li Qian's two girls.
The illegitimate son had the two girls tied up, uttering vile and disgusting words. He said that Li Qian's two daughters were nothing but lowly servants, and what was wrong with letting him sleep with them? He even said that it was a favor he was doing for Li Qian's family, and that he just wanted to taste what the twins were like.
He almost succeeded that day. This illegitimate son, despite being just an illegitimate son, dared to be so arrogant and cause trouble everywhere because his mother was as beautiful as a flower and was the master's most favored concubine. That concubine was also cunning, and the master always spoiled the mother and son without distinguishing right from wrong.
Li Qian's wife knew this matter was unlikely to end well, but for the sake of her two daughters, she was determined to protect their chastity even at the cost of her own life. So she went to the principal wife and pleaded for a long time, but the principal wife remained unmoved, as she really didn't want to confront that concubine. Her husband was bewitched by that woman, and no one dared to provoke that vixen.
Don't be fooled by Li Qian's apparent status as a manager; in the eyes of the master, he's just a useful servant. A servant's life is in the master's hands, and a servant's children are just servants' children. What's the big deal if he loses his innocence? The principal wife has no intention of standing up for them.
She would love for that illegitimate son to cause someone's death. That good-for-nothing was better off killing himself, so he wouldn't have to fight her son for the family fortune later.
Knowing that pleading for help was useless, Li Qian's wife made a desperate decision and rammed her head against a pillar in the main wife's room. She was determined to use her own life to clear her daughter's name, even though dying in front of the main wife might not be enough. She was just taking a gamble.
The result was that the gamble was won. The principal wife had people carry Li Zhongshi, whose head was covered in blood and whose life or death was unknown, to the concubine's son's courtyard. Fortunately, they arrived in time, and Li Qian's two daughters had not been defiled. Their clothes were torn, and they were only wearing a bellyband.
Her reputation is ruined, but the legitimate wife doesn't care. All she needs to do is find an opportunity to teach her illegitimate son a lesson.
What happened to the Li family, the son of the concubine, Li Qian, afterward, is unknown.
Within two days, the family was sold off by their master. They were sold several times and eventually ended up in the hands of human traffickers. The family's miserable state was also the work of that master. In addition, Li Qian's wife had hit a pillar and injured her head, remaining unconscious for a long time. When she finally woke up, her mind was not normal.
If he had received timely treatment, he wouldn't have ended up in this situation.
Back to Zhao Guihua and the others, after learning about the Li Qian family's plight, they couldn't help but feel sorry for them.
Zhao Guizhi saw that Li Qian had been a shopkeeper and was good at accounting, so she wanted to buy him.
However, buying him would mean buying his whole family. Nobody wants his wife. Who would want to buy such a crazy woman? She'd be causing trouble all the time.
Zhao Guizhi hesitated for a moment, and originally wanted to give up, but then Li Qian's wife suddenly grabbed her and called her like a little girl, "Big sister, Guizhi sister, I am Da Ya sister, don't you recognize me? I am your aunt's Da Ya sister."
Daya, Zhong Daya?
Isn't this a fool? How did she suddenly become sober?
Then, the foolish woman sat down on the ground again, still looking as crazy as before.
Zhao Guizhi seemed to be deep in thought, and became more cautious. She stared at the thin woman in front of her and vaguely saw a familiar shadow in her face. With a sudden thought, she carefully asked Li Qian about his wife.
"Where is your wife's family from? What is her name?"
"My wife's name is Zhong Daya, and her family is from the north..."
After learning about Zhong Daya's background, and seeing that Li Qian's eldest daughter looks exactly like Zhong Daya when she was a young girl, and that Li Qian's son also looks very much like Zhong Daya when she was a child.
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