Seeing Jin Yu's appearance, she immediately picked up the letter.
I skimmed through it.
"Stop crying, a real man has a big butt, ah, ah, ah, a real man, why are you crying?"
"Huh? I didn't cry, Sister Xia. I was just thinking about how to bring them down. Sigh, I'm so useless. If it weren't for you helping me, Sister Xia, I would still be stuck in the brothel. My parents and older brother would definitely think I'm useless."
Jin raised his head in a daze.
She said softly.
"I think your family probably wants you to live a good life. Trying to fight against overwhelming odds is just overestimating your own strength. You might end up with your whole family reunited. Just wait and see. Evil will be punished by heaven. No one can be lucky forever. Let's see when that person in the capital stops being blind."
Yan Xia's words startled Jin Yu so much that he stood up.
He quickly covered Yan Xia's mouth.
"Shh, Sister Xia, you must never say such treasonous things outside. If someone hears it, your whole family will be executed."
The scene of his home being ransacked that day was still vivid in his mind. He was afraid that if someone overheard Yan Xia's words, she would suffer the same fate as him.
"Don't worry, I'm only saying this to you. I'm not stupid. Besides, the emperor is far away and can't even control corrupt officials, so how could he possibly control me?"
Yan Xia slapped Jin Yu's hand away and whispered.
If the emperor on the throne were to actually confiscate her entire family someday, she would use her spatial teleportation to his bedside and kill him.
Then he would take his family to live a life of hardship in the deep mountains and forests until the dynasty collapsed.
What's there to be afraid of?
"Xia-jie, I forgot to ask you, where did you get this letter from?"
Jin Yu's words left Yan Xia completely dumbfounded.
Goodness, she forgot about that.
"Um, I have someone downstairs."
Yan Xia thought for a long time before coming up with this sentence.
Jin nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.
He imagined many things, thinking that Yan Xia had secretly hired bodyguards.
That's how I managed to get these letters.
As for the theft at the Xu residence, he didn't think about it. After all, the people of Jiangnan County only knew that Xu Wenyan's jewelry box had been lost, but they didn't know that he had lost his letters.
"Alright, go back to sleep early. Leave the letter with me, it's safer that way. Everyone's exhausted today, we can talk about it tomorrow."
Yan Xia fled in panic with the letter, fearing that Yan Xia might ask too many questions.
This hurried figure led Jin Yu to misunderstand, thinking that Yan Xia was very sleepy.
Baihua Village at this time.
The villagers had all returned to their homes long ago, except for Zhu Qiumei.
Because she targeted Yan Xia at the full moon celebration, Jin Yu made things difficult for her. He deliberately arranged for Zhu Qiumei to be sent in an oxcart, lying that the horse-drawn carriage in front was full.
He even privately told the oxcart driver to go slower, the slower the better.
The driver, having received half a tael of silver, naturally obeyed. He drove the cart slowly, while the crowds walking on the roadside moved faster than the oxcart itself.
Zhu Qiumei originally wanted to get off the bus and walk by herself, but then she thought about how far she would have to walk.
She still backed out.
He could only urge the driver on and on.
The driver ignored her urging.
Zhu Qiumei didn't arrive at the village entrance until the moon was high in the sky.
"You old ox, hurry up and kill it! What a piece of junk! It's so slow! I can walk faster than you drive a cart! Bah!"
"What a despicable bastard! He wouldn't let me ride in a horse-drawn carriage, he insisted I ride in an oxcart! You rotten-hearted wretch! Is it because I mentioned Yan Shi that you're holding a grudge? You little bastard, just by looking at him, you know he's got a thing with Yan Shi. No wonder you bought a house in town, you're keeping a gigolo! You two adulterers, ptooey ptooey ptooey—"
Only after the oxcart had disappeared from sight did Zhu Qiumei dare to shout and curse.
She stood at the village entrance, the night wind was a little chilly, and it made her shiver.
Coupled with the sound of unknown insects chirping, Zhu Qiumei realized she was scared after she finished scolding her. She quickly ran home without daring to look back.
"Bang bang bang—"
"Open the door, I'm home!"
When she arrived at her doorstep, Zhu Qiumei pounded on the door loudly.
"Why are you back so late? Come in quickly, don't let the villagers see you and think you've been doing something shameful, otherwise you'll embarrass the Zhu family."
The person who opened the door was Zhu Qiumei's biological mother, Madam Tian.
Tian had a son and a daughter. Because the family was poor, she married off her younger daughter, Qiumei, early in order to help her eldest son find a wife.
They received a betrothal gift of three taels of silver.
Because the maximum bride price in the village is two taels, Zhu Qiumei married someone from far away.
He only comes back once every few years.
Unfortunately, fate was cruel. Five years ago, her eldest son caught a cold after being caught in the rain and passed away.
Her daughter-in-law, having given birth to nine children in a row after marrying into the family, was exhausted and passed away along with her eldest son.
He left her only one grandson, the only son of the Zhu family.
Zhu Guijiu.
10 years old this year.
As for the eight granddaughters, some drowned in chamber pots, some were thrown onto high mountains, and some are now resting in the river.
In the end, none of them were alive.
It was precisely because their son had died that they allowed Zhu Qiumei to return to her parents' home.
After all, they will need to rely on others to support them when they get old, and their grandson is only 10 years old. If they suddenly pass away, their grandson will be left without anyone to rely on.
With the idea of having their daughter and grandchildren support their grandson, the elderly couple from the Zhu family allowed Zhu Qiumei to return to live with them.
Tian's cheekbones were prominent, and her stern face made her already harsh features look even more terrifying.
Tian put on an outer coat, wearing her sleeping clothes underneath. She closed the courtyard gate and stood in the courtyard cursing Zhu Qiumei.
“Where have you been? Did you go off to fool around with some random guy? If you embarrass the Zhu family, you’d better take your trotters and move out. Your father doesn’t know anything. If he’s still awake, he’ll probably be yelling at you. Go back inside right now. Get up early tomorrow and get to work. The autumn harvest is in half a month. Don’t go anywhere. The crops in the fields still depend on you. Your father and I are old and our health isn’t good. Xiao Jiu is only ten years old. How can he do farm work? The burden of the family still depends on you. You’re a widow. Behave yourself. Otherwise, the villagers will gossip about you behind your back, understand?”
Tian's eyes were bulging.
The eyelids were too loose and drooped.
They look like they have triangular eyes.
"Mom, I didn't do anything. I went to town. Yan Xia was having her granddaughter's one-month celebration today. You really don't know? It was such a grand affair! The entire front yard was packed. Even the county magistrate's wife gave Yan Xia a gift. Oh my, I don't know how she's so successful. I was thinking that I used to be good friends with her when we were kids, so I went to try and get closer to her. She has two daughters, right? If my family could marry one of Yan Xia's daughters, we'd never have to worry about food or drink. Yan Xia's house in town is huge. I heard it has three courtyards. Good heavens, how many people can live there?"
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