Chapter 011: I sold you to my horse
The carriage that the shopkeeper prepared for her was very gorgeous.
The house is decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and is covered with brocade and satin. Four golden bells are hung on the eaves.
Each bell is as big as a fist, and makes a clear and pleasant ding-dong sound when the carriage moves.
After they set off, Uncle Hu disappeared.
Wen Yan knew that Uncle Hu was protecting them in secret.
After a day's journey, we arrived at our destination the next afternoon.
This is an inconspicuous small town.
Wen Yan called over Uncle Tian and Uncle Shitou, who were the most skilled in martial arts, and gave them a note: "Uncles, go to this place and help me find a woman named Hui Niang."
After reading the content, the two uncles burned the note and went out to do their business.
As dusk fell, the two uncles brought back news.
"Hui Niang's husband was addicted to gambling, which not only angered his parents to death, but also caused his only brother to disown him.
He just owed a gambling house ten taels of silver the day before yesterday, and was afraid that the gamblers would come after him to collect the debt, so he stayed at home every day, beating his wife and daughter to vent his anger, and even threatened to sell Hui Niang to a brothel to pay off his gambling debts.
When they went over, the woman had been beaten beyond recognition and had fainted on the ground.
But the man did not give up and continued beating her with a stick.
Uncle Shitou and Uncle Tian, two grown men, couldn't bear to see this and were afraid that he would accidentally kill the woman, so they used stones as hidden weapons and knocked the man unconscious before they dared to come back to report.
The two maids were furious when they heard this: "How could there be such a man? He is worse than a beast!"
Wen Yan tapped the tabletop lightly with his fingers, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I'm going out for fun tomorrow. You can let him ram my carriage."
They looked at each other and knew that Wen Yan wanted to save people, and they immediately became full of energy.
The next morning.
After packing up, just as they were about to leave, Uncle Tian suddenly came forward with a frown and reported: "Miss, that man went gambling again last night and was just kicked out of the gambling house."
"Hasn't he already lost everything? Where does he get the money to gamble?" Wen Yan had a bad feeling in his heart.
He wouldn't have sold Hui Niang already!
In his previous life, in order to take the imperial examination, Huo Yaoxing asked Wen Yan to find a way to help him become a disciple of Fang Daru.
Fang Daru was devoted to learning, had a strange temper, and didn't like to socialize, so he was difficult to approach.
After many twists and turns, Wen Yan finally found out that Fang Daru loved collecting all kinds of rare ink sticks.
Wen Yan started looking for it everywhere.
At that time, Hui Niang had already been sold into a brothel. She accidentally learned about this from a peddler, so she tried her best to escape and find Wen Yan.
Hui Niang offered a pair of ink sticks, and asked Wen Yan to help her redeem herself and save her daughter.
Wen Yan agreed without thinking.
That ink stick also made Huo Yaoxing get what he wanted.
Hui Niang's abilities go far beyond this.
Not only can she make ink, she can also develop her own ink recipes, which makes Wen Yan's bookstore earn a lot of money.
Unfortunately, Wen Yan never found her daughter.
Hui Niang's health was severely damaged due to long-term abuse and torture, and she passed away within a few years.
Until her death, she never saw her daughter again.
It’s not that Wen Yan has deep feelings for her.
She just wanted to repay a favor, and didn't want the person who had helped her in her previous life to have a miserable ending in this life!
It is unknown whether her early intervention could have changed her fate and saved her daughter.
Wen Yan urged them to set off quickly.
Although this town is close to the capital, it is not rich.
The gorgeous carriage and strong horses attracted envious glances from the people.
When passing by a gambling house, a man suddenly rushed into the middle of the road, startling Wen Yan's carriage.
Uncle Lin, who was driving, quickly pulled the reins.
The carriage stopped, Wen Yan lifted the curtain and looked through the gap.
I saw a man in neat clothes but with a mean face rolling on the ground with his legs hugged.
He is Hui Niang's husband.
He screamed, "Ouch, ouch!" "Someone's been hit! Help! The rich are bullying the poor. I'm going to be bullied to death!"
Pedestrians gradually gathered around.
The more people there were, the louder the man howled: "My leg is broken, I'm going to become a cripple, I need to see a doctor to heal my leg!"
At this moment, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a lady with a kind face and dressed in silk came out.
Passersby thought she was going to pay money to settle the matter.
But she didn't even look at the man and walked straight to the front of the horse.
Then, her face darkened and she pointed at the man and shouted, "You bold idiot! You scared my BMW so much that it rolled its eyes! What is your punishment?"
The man was dumbfounded.
This was not the first time he had committed fraud, but it was the first time he had been fraudulently scammed.
He was about to make an excuse.
The kind woman pulled out a whip from her waist and swung it in the air. With a "snap" sound, the man felt a burning pain on his cheek.
I reached out and touched it, and my hands were covered in blood!
His face was hurt!
Although it hurt, he was happy in his heart: If you dare to hurt me, I will peel off a layer of skin from you!
At least get a golden bell.
Not only will he be able to pay off his gambling debts, but he can also buy two beautiful concubines to give birth to his sons!
Thinking of the happy life in the future, he howled even harder.
However, Aunt Shuang didn't play by the rules at all. She pointed at him and ordered fiercely, "Beat him, beat him hard. Then sell him to the quarry and use the money to buy fodder for BMW to calm him down."
"Yes!" Uncle Lin and Uncle Shitou each took a wooden stick as thick as their arms and started greeting them.
In a short while, he was beaten so badly that his face was bruised and swollen that he could not recognize his original appearance at all.
When Uncle Shitou tried to tie him up with a rope, he realized that he had hit a wall.
Working in the quarry was tiring and hard, and he didn't have enough to eat. With his fragile body, he wouldn't survive more than a month.
He regretted it so much that he knelt down and kowtowed, begging for mercy: "Don't sell me, I can give you money!"
Aunt Shuang: "Twenty taels, not a penny less!"
Then he took Wen Yan and his group back home.
After a while, he grabbed a woman's hair and dragged her out of the house.
The woman was like a rag doll, offering no resistance.
"My wife is pretty and literate, she is definitely worth twenty taels." As he said this, he lifted up the woman's hair, revealing her face which was bruised and swollen and deformed.
This person is Hui Niang.
Uncle Shitou slapped her in the face: "Who the hell are you trying to fool? You have the nerve to call yourself beautiful when you're this ugly. Am I just too good-looking to be fooled?"
The man spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with two teeth, and his head was buzzing.
Uncle Shitou said, "Don't you have another daughter at home? Call her over, maybe we can make up the number."
The man shuddered: "She...she has been sold to a brothel by me."
Yesterday afternoon, he heard that a fat sheep had come to town, so he started to think of blackmailing him.
Thinking that he could get the money soon, he sent his daughter to a brothel in exchange for fifteen taels of silver. He wanted to extort the money today and then redeem her.
Unexpectedly, he hit a wall!
Now he has lost all the money from selling his daughter and owes a huge gambling debt to the gambling house.
It's really a bad year!
The man burst into tears!
Hui Niang, who had been as if dead, got up like crazy when she heard the news that her daughter had been sold, and started tearing and beating the man: "You beast! Pei'er is your own daughter, how could you have the heart to do that to her!!"
"Why don't you just die? Why are you harming my daughter? Go to hell!"
In anger, she bit the man's ear and pulled hard.
The man screamed in pain, his left face covered in blood, and his ear was gone.
Hui Niang spat out a mouthful of blood, mixed with a bloody ear.
Hui Niang wiped the blood from her mouth, turned around, and knelt in front of the carriage: "Sir, I am willing to sell myself as a slave for a penny, just to help me save my daughter."
The neighbors all knew what kind of person the man was, so they immediately called the village head to help Hui Niang escape from her suffering.
Hui Niang packed two sets of clothes and followed Wen Yan's carriage towards the only brothel in the area.
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