Chapter 37037 Never Be a Concubine
After Yuan left, the nine Du sisters sat in the main hall. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and no one spoke.
Recognizing Yuanshi's character is one thing, but whether they can accept that they will no longer have a mother from now on is another.
Du Erya recalled the scene where Yuan Shi walked into the sedan chair without looking back. She was overwhelmed with grief, tears welled up in her eyes, and she choked with sobs and said, "From now on, we have no father and no mother."
Du Qiya rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "As for our treacherous mother, she's as good as dead. People who don't know her would think Yuansheng is her biological son. If you ask me, we're able to grow up alive thanks to our eldest sister."
Before Du Daya got married, she took care of everything inside and outside the house and raised her younger sisters with great difficulty.
To be frank, compared to Yuanshi, Du Daya is more like their mother.
Du Si Ya was annoyed by her second sister's crying and covered her mouth with her hand: "If you keep making noise, get out of here and go back to the Zhou family!"
Du Erya is the most cowardly person in the Du family, no doubt about it. Upon hearing this, she hiccupped and dared not say another word.
Du Sanya snorted, "Second sister, you're already a mother, why are you still so soft? How can you control your second brother-in-law like this? It's only because you don't have any parents-in-law above you, and most of your close relatives in the Zhou family are dead. Otherwise, you would be bullied to death by your in-laws."
Du Daya had a look of disappointment on her face. Her second sister had always been a softie since she was little, never knowing how to resist when anyone rubbed her. When she was asked to be more assertive, she would agree with him, but when she was wronged, she would just cry.
Unlike herself, she had her husband and her parents-in-law under her control in the first year after getting married. Every month, her father-in-law earned money from work and took the initiative to support their family of three.
"Come here!"
Du Daya pulled Du Erya aside and taught her the art of controlling her husband.
Seeing her second sister nodding and shaking her head, Du Sanya muttered, "Big sister is always worried, and second sister is not a child."
Du Si Ya held her chin in her hand and said, "Compared to the soft persimmon that allowed herself to be beaten and scolded at the beginning, Second Sister is much tougher now - here, look."
Everyone looked at Du Erya. Du Daya said something, but Du Erya frowned and said unhappyly, "I don't want it."
"I don't want to~" Du Si Ya pinched her throat and imitated her second sister's speech, clicking her tongue. "Now she dares to talk back to her eldest sister. Do you dare to do the same? I wouldn't dare anyway."
After a brief silence, several girls burst into laughter and began to parrot the voice in their pinched voices.
"I don't want to~"
"I don't want to~"
“Hahahahahahaha!”
Du Erya was listening to her elder sister talking. Her elder sister said that one should be on guard against others, not only the villagers of Ping'an Village, but also one's own men. The poorer some men are, the more they tend to be unfaithful.
Du Erya was not happy to hear this: "He treats me very well, I don't want to..."
Du Daya was so angry that she fell backwards. This sister forgot about her after she got a man. She couldn't keep her anymore!
Feeling helpless, I heard my younger sisters laughing and imitating my second sister's speech in a strange accent.
Du Daya couldn't help laughing, and Du Erya became angry and said, "Well, you all laughed at me, I'll show you what I can do!"
As she spoke, Du Erya rolled up her sleeves and pounced on him fiercely.
The sisters rolled into a ball.
"Hey, second sister, why are you tickling me?"
"Hahahahahaha it's so itchy, I was wrong, second sister, I won't say it again, hahahahahahahaha I don't want it!"
“…”
The dullness in the air was swept away, replaced by laughter.
At this moment, they forgot all the sadness and laughed happily.
Du Qingtang sat against the wall, away from the main battlefield, with a smile on his lips that he didn't even notice.
Du Daya originally wanted to step forward to stop the fight, but she retreated in the end.
Forget it, just make a fuss.
Everyone has been unhappy these days because of their mother's affairs. It's hard to be happy now, so there is no need for her to be the bad person.
......
After a while of playing around, Du Daya walked over, straightened the messy hair of the fifth and sixth sisters, and said angrily, "You guys are either mothers or have reached marriage age, and you are still so naughty. I really don't know what to say to you."
Du Liuya rubbed her face, which was pinched red by Du Erya, and pouted her mouth so hard that it could hang an oil bottle: "It was obviously my second sister who started it first."
Du Erya frowned and huffed, "Who told you to laugh at me?"
Du Si Ya argued: "I didn't laugh at you, I just imitated your way of speaking."
"That's right." The other girls echoed.
Du Erya stamped her feet: "I will fight you!"
Seeing that another quarrel was about to break out, Du Daya quickly changed the subject: "Fifth and Sixth have been married for more than a year. It's time for them to meet someone else. Third and Fourth should pay more attention to them. They don't need to be rich, but they must be down-to-earth and able to endure hardships."
After all, they were girls, and when they heard their elder sister talking about her lifelong event, Du Wuya and Du Liuya blushed and fled into the kitchen under the pretext of making dinner.
Du Si Ya chuckled: "You have to have a good temper too. A man who beats his wife is not a good person."
Du Sanya nodded in agreement: "I'll go and find out tomorrow."
Du Qingtang said, "There's no rush for the marriages of the fifth and sixth sisters. I plan to get married in February next year. If I can pass the examination and become a student, I'll have more choices."
"Is Tang Ge'er planning to take the imperial examination?"
"Well, then, you should study hard and strive to pass the exam. Then Wu Ya and the others can find someone better, and they will have someone to rely on after they get married."
"After Fifth and Sixth get married, it will be Seventh's turn. Time flies. When Seventh was born, she was so tiny, like a red-skinned monkey, and she has grown so big in the blink of an eye."
Du Qiya listened to her second sister's emotional words and thought about her own marriage, which naturally reminded her of the rich man Wang that Zhu mentioned.
A few days passed and Zhu never contacted her again, as if the conversation that day was just an illusion.
Why don’t you ask Zhu?
Or should I pretend nothing happened, marry the down-to-earth and capable man that my elder sister described, and live my life in poverty?
The feeling of unwillingness grew like a vine, wrapping her heart tightly. Du Qiya felt depressed. She ignored her second sister's teasing and stood up suddenly, almost knocking over the stool. "I'm going to the old house to pick some vegetables."
After saying that, he left in a hurry without looking back.
"What happened to Qiya?"
"I'm just shy."
Du Qingtang looked at Du Qiya's slender figure blending into the night, and a hint of darkness flashed in his eyes.
But Du Qiya came to the vegetable garden behind the old house with a bamboo basket and squatted down to pull vegetables.
"Qiya."
A sneaky voice sounded behind her. Du Qiya screamed in fright and grabbed the bamboo basket to smash it over.
"Ouch! It's me! Look carefully before you hit me!"
Du Qiya paused, opened her eyes wide and looked carefully. Her hand trembled, and the bamboo basket fell to the ground, spilling the food inside. "Aunt!"
That’s right, the person who came was Zhu.
Seeing that Yuanshi was marrying into the Hu family and got one hundred taels, it was Du Qiya's turn next.
After Du Qiya signed the contract to sell herself, and then sold the other three virgins by weight, not only could she collect the three hundred taels, but she would also have quite a bit left over.
"What do you think?" Zhu asked angrily, rubbing her chest which was hurt by the blow.
Seeing that no one was around, Du Qiya bit her lip and asked, "Is everything you said true?"
Zhu said sincerely, "Of course it's true. If I tell even a single lie, I'll be struck by lightning and die a miserable death!"
Du Qiya clutched the corner of her clothes and whispered, "But I'm worried that my elder sister and the others won't agree..."
"What's the point of them disagreeing? I've already told your mother, and she said this is the perfect marriage. You'll be in luck if you marry her." Zhu changed the subject, "Or would you rather marry a peasant than become a madam in the Wang family?"
Of course Du Qiya is willing.
Every time her mother scolded her for being a money-loser, and every time the villagers looked at them with sympathy and pity, Du Qiya became more and more determined. Sooner or later, she would jump out of the deep pit of the Du family and fly into the nest of wealth, making those who looked down on her in the past regret it.
The opportunity was right in front of her, and she didn't want to miss it.
Zhu Shi saw that Du Qiya was obviously wavering and added fuel to the fire: "If you are worried that Daya and the others will not agree, I have an idea for you."
Du Qiya: "What's the idea?"
Zhu leaned close to her ear and said, "It's a done deal."
Du Qiya's heart skipped a beat and she shook her head repeatedly: "No, this is an unmediated affair..."
Zhu grabbed her hand and dug her nails into her flesh. The pain made Du Qiya calm down.
"Rich Man Wang will definitely follow the rules and take you in as his concubine, but let's not tell your sister yet." Zhu sighed, with a helpless expression as if she really couldn't do anything about you. "How about this, come to my house tomorrow night and I'll take you to see Rich Man Wang. Once the matter is settled, you can come back and admit your mistake to them, and this matter will be over."
After that, there was a long silence.
Du Qiya didn't say anything, and Zhu was not in a hurry.
She knew that Du Qiya would definitely do as she said.
As expected, after a struggle between her conscience and her desire for wealth, Du Qiya realized that her desire for wealth outweighed her awe of her sisters.
"Okay," she said.
......
When Du Qiya returned home, the yard was quiet and empty.
She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She had just made a rebellious decision that could get her beaten to death, and she didn't dare face her eldest, third, and fourth sisters who were shrewd and perceptive.
Avoid it tonight and tomorrow daytime if possible. After tomorrow night, everything will be settled.
"Seventh Sister."
A clear voice suddenly sounded, and Du Qiya shuddered and almost screamed.
Looking back, Du Qingtang was standing under the eaves of the southwest house wearing a blue-gray short jacket.
The night was pitch black, and the moonlight was like a silk thread, casting a hazy glow over her.
Du Qiya couldn't see Du Qingtang's face clearly, and she felt uneasy for some reason. She swallowed her saliva and said, "Tang, Tang brother."
Du Qingtang stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes fixed on Seventh Sister's face, which was clearly filled with guilt. "Seventh Sister, why did you come back just now? Did you meet someone?"
Du Qiya was shaking her hands like a rattle, cold sweat oozing from her palms, her heart pounding so hard it was about to burst out of her throat. "No, it was already dark, and the vegetable garden was pitch black. I couldn't see anything clearly, so it took a little longer."
"I see." Du Qingtang walked forward slowly and brushed off the mud on Du Qiya's sleeves. "Fifth and Sixth Sisters haven't prepared dinner yet. Seventh Sister, why don't you just take the dishes to the kitchen?"
Like a herbivorous animal sensing approaching danger, Du Qiya's scalp went numb, her brain going on a frantic alarm, causing her to avoid Du Qingtang's hand as if she had been electrocuted, and she almost fled: "I know, I'll go right away!"
Du Qingtang's hand paused for a moment after missing the target, and then he withdrew it slowly.
"Tang'er, why are you standing in the yard? It's cold outside, come inside quickly."
Du Baya popped her head out from the main room and waved to her with a smile.
"I'm coming." Du Qingtang took a deep look in the direction of the kitchen and stepped into the house.
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The next day, the four married sisters left one after another.
Although the sisters had a deep affection for each other and had their own house at home, they would have been fine to stay there, but they missed their own men and children, so despite their sisters' repeated attempts to persuade them to stay, they still left resolutely.
Du Wuya felt reluctant to let her sister go, and tearfully watched her go: "Is it always like this after you get married?"
Du Liuya threaded the needle and prepared to do some embroidery: "They say a daughter who is married off is like spilled water, but after all, it's not as convenient and free as at home. Everything I do is restricted. After having a child, I am even more restricted and can't leave for a moment."
The two sisters looked at each other and sighed deeply.
Du Qingtang finished his morning exercise and wiped his sweat with a towel: "You can also stay at home without getting married."
Du Wuya didn't even think about it: "Tang Ge'er, what are you talking about? Women are going to get married."
Du Liuya nodded: "If you don't get married at the age of 18, you will be an old maid and will be laughed at by others."
Du Qingtang: “…”
She thought it was time to find something for them to do.
The more a girl sees and experiences, the more knowledge she has. She will be more rational and clear in dealing with people, and will not be deceived by others. She will also have more choices in life.
But before that, there's one unpleasant thing to deal with.
.......
As night falls, the bustling Taoyuan Village gradually becomes quiet.
Lamp oil is expensive, and the villagers are used to being frugal. They save as much as they can. They go to sleep in the pit after dinner, and except for going to the toilet at night, they are determined not to waste a drop of lamp oil.
When the moon reached its zenith and the last oil lamp went out, the whole village fell into complete darkness. From a distance, it looked like a giant beast lying dormant in silence.
Du Qiya opened her eyes and looked at Du Baya beside her with bated breath. She looked peaceful in sleep and breathing deeply, obviously she was fast asleep.
Du Qiya got up quietly, put on her clothes, tiptoed to the door and opened it.
"Crack—"
A harsh sound was heard, and Du Baya snorted, which frightened Du Qiya so much that she froze in place, not daring to move.
Fortunately, Du Baya just turned over and continued to sleep.
Du Qiya breathed a sigh of relief, tiptoed out of the west room and headed straight for the courtyard gate.
His hand was already on the door bolt, and he was only one step away from leaving, reuniting with Zhu, and pursuing her dream of wealth and glory.
"Where are you going, Seventh Sister, in the middle of the night?"
Du Qiya's eyelids were twitching wildly, and she continued to pull the bolt. It was as if a basin of cold water was poured over her head, freezing her in place, and she was freezing from head to toe.
She didn't need to turn around to know who was talking to her.
"Tang, Tang brother..."
Du Qingtang's expression was cold, and her eyes were so sharp that people dared not look directly at her: "Are you going to be a concubine of the wealthy Wang?"
“Gudong——”
Du Qiya swallowed her saliva: "I, I didn't."
Du Qingtang sneered and approached her step by step. Du Qiya was caught on the spot and felt guilty and uneasy. She retreated repeatedly with rapid breathing.
"Bang!"
Her back hit the wall and Du Qiya suddenly came to her senses. She found that she was no longer in front of the courtyard gate, but was forced into a corner by Du Qingtang.
"Seventh sister, I don't like people lying to me." Du Qingtang raised his head slightly and stared at her. "I'll ask you again, are you going to become a concubine in the Wang family?"
Du Qiya had never been so aware as now that Tang Ge'er had grown up.
The fierce aura emanating from her was like a sharp blade, cutting into her body inch by inch, making it difficult for her to breathe and almost suffocating. Her legs and feet also became weak uncontrollably, and she had to hold on to the wall to avoid sliding to the ground.
Du Qiya gritted her teeth, looking quite desperate: "So what? If I don't become a concubine to the wealthy Wang, then am I going to marry a dirt-poor peasant?"
"Du Qiya!" Du Qingtang shouted, his icy voice echoing in the courtyard, "If you dare to take even a single step out of here today, I'll break your legs!"
Then go and break Zhu and Yuan's legs.
In her previous life, Du Qiya, at the instigation of Zhu and Yuan, ran away without their knowledge to become a concubine of that damn rich man Wang.
When she reached the age of 15, she was pregnant for ten months, but was framed by Lady Wang for having an affair with a servant.
In a rage, the wealthy Wang kicked Du Qiya in the stomach. Du Qiya gave birth to a son with great difficulty. After that, she bled profusely from her lower body and was sent back to the Du family by the wealthy Wang, who thought she was unlucky.
Du Qiya struggled for half a month, but still couldn't make it and passed away on a winter night.
Yuan Shi marrying another woman was the only unexpected thing for Du Qingtang after her rebirth. She knew that Yuan Shi would not have a good life if she married into the Hu family, and she was happy to see it happen. However, for Du Qiya——
"I knew she was going to die, so I had to save her."
When Du Qingtang came back from the academy this time, she found that Du Qiya was worried. Not long ago, she followed her secretly and found that Du Qiya and Zhu met in the vegetable garden. She knew that Du Qiya had returned to her old ways.
So she just sat back and waited, determined not to let Du Qiya die tonight.
Du Qiya didn't expect Du Qingtang to say something like "break your legs." Her nose felt sore. "Isn't the Wang family good? Mr. Wang is so rich. If I give him a son, there will be endless wealth and glory."
Endless wealth and glory?
You have to be lucky enough to enjoy it.
"Studying doesn't cost a lot of money. When I marry into the Wang family, I will definitely support my family. You won't have to live frugally anymore. You can buy whatever books you want. The villagers will respect and praise our family."
"I'm not Yuan Ping. I'll fight for what I want. If I have to use you to get what I want, then I'm unworthy of being a man." Du Qingtang said righteously, "In short, you are not allowed to go to the Wang family."
Du Qiya glanced at the sky. Time was almost up and Zhu couldn't wait any longer.
She stamped her foot and said in a somewhat aggressive tone, "No, no, no, is that all you can say? If you don't allow me to marry into the Wang family, you have to give me a reason!"
Du Qingtang spoke each word with a powerful voice: "Because the daughter of the Du family will never be a concubine."
......
"That's right, a girl from the Du family will never be a concubine!"
Du Qingtang looked back and found that Du Wuya and Du Liuya had come out of the house at some point.
In the moonlight, their eyes were bright, filled with flames of anger, and their cheeks were flushed with excessive emotions.
Their bodies were stretched like a bow, trembling and so fragile that they could break at any moment.
Du Qiya was immersed in the deep shock of Du Qingtang's words "No girl from the Du family will ever be a concubine", when she suddenly heard the voice of her fifth sister. The blood drained from her face, it was over!
Not only will she be unable to marry into the Wang family again, but she will also have to face the wrath of her sisters.
"Du Qiya, are you so bold? You actually believed that evil woman's lies and sneaked out in the middle of the night to become a concubine for some lousy rich man?"
Du Wuya rushed forward and rained slaps down on Du Qiya.
"ah!"
She hit her so hard that Du Qiya cried out in pain.
"What are you yelling about? Shut up!" Du Wuya used all her strength to slap Du Qiya's shoulders. "Be a concubine? Be a concubine! Is that what a girl from a good family is made of?"
Although it is not ruled out that there were women who were sold as concubines by their families, Du Qiya's situation was different from theirs. She was eager to be a concubine.
Du Wuya was almost angry to death.
She was sleeping soundly at night when she suddenly heard faint voices coming from the yard. Thinking that a thief had climbed over the wall to steal something, she woke Du Liuya up. The two sisters held up the wooden sticks they had hidden in the house for self-defense, intending to teach the damn thief a lesson.
She never expected to hear such a conversation after opening the door.
Qi Ya was actually instigated by Zhu to become someone's concubine!
If Tang Ge'er hadn't noticed it early and stopped them in time, by the time they woke up, Qi Ya would have already... already...
Du Wuya didn't dare to think further. Big tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes. She choked and trembled. Despair and anger almost drowned her.
She was nearly two years older than Du Qiya. Children from poor families tended to be sensible at an early age. She knew that her mother did not like her sisters, so since she could remember, she acted like a little adult and loved her three younger sisters very much.
After her four older sisters got married, she took the initiative to assume the responsibilities of the eldest sister, and did her best to discipline and care for her younger siblings.
Unlike the well-behaved Du Liuya and Du Baya, Du Qiya has been naughty since she was a child. Du Wuya spends the most time and effort on her. Usually, she would just scold her lightly and would never bear to hit her.
But now, she had to do it.
"If I don't beat you to death today, I won't be called Du Wuya!"
Du Wuya was furious. Seeing the situation was not good, Du Qiya was about to run away, but Du Liuya grabbed her and said, "Why are you running? Where are you going? Fifth sister, don't hurt your hands, use this!"
As Du Liuya spoke, she handed over a branch that was as thick as two fingers. Du Wuya hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth, took the branch, and hit Du Qiya hard on the back.
"ah!"
The shrill howls echoed through the night sky, startling the birds perched on the branches and waking up countless villagers.
"What the hell is going on?"
"Who beats a child in the middle of the night?"
"Never mind, just go back to sleep."
Du Baya was sleeping soundly before and did not wake up, but Du Qiya's screams were so loud that they woke her up. She put on her coat and came out. When she saw the scene in the yard, she was so scared that she dared not move.
"What's going on? Why did the fifth sister hit the seventh sister in the middle of the night?"
Still using branches this thick.
Du Wuya finally couldn't bear it, so she stopped after hitting him about ten times. Without even looking at Du Qiya who was curled up on the ground and crying, she explained the whole story in a few words.
After hearing this, Du Baya was shocked beyond words. She looked at Du Qiya, then at Du Qingtang, and said in a soft but serious voice, "Seventh sister, being a concubine is not good. You should apologize to Fifth sister and don't do such foolish things again."
Du Qiya cried bitterly, but she still didn't think she had done anything wrong. While she was sobbing, she retorted: "What do you mean by foolish? Marrying a peasant who digs for food in the fields is not foolish? As long as I have money, what's wrong with being a concubine?"
Du Wuya was so angry that she fell backwards, raised the branch and pretended to hit her, which scared Du Qiya so much that she quickly shut her mouth.
Her body was in great pain, a piercing pain. Du Qiya felt extremely wronged and couldn't stop crying.
Du Qingtang couldn't bear to watch this anymore, so he took out his handkerchief to wipe her tears, but Du Qiya dodged him: "Who asked you to be so hypocritical?"
"Qiya!"
"Seventh Sister!"
Du Qiya turned her head away and refused to look at Du Qingtang.
Du Qingtang didn't care and stood up expressionlessly: "I know you are blaming me for being nosy, but if I had to do it again, I would still do the same thing."
To be honest, after experiencing many reincarnations, all the family affection and love have disappeared like the clouds of the past, leaving nothing behind, except hatred and unwillingness.
In this life, she only wants to go as far as possible in her official career and stand as high as possible. If there is a chance, she also wants to make those scumbags pay the price.
The reason why I saved Du Qiya was just out of responsibility.
She couldn't just stand by and watch Du Qiya die knowing what would happen to her.
At this point, she has done her best and doesn't care whether Du Qiya holds a grudge against her.
If a person cares about too many things, he will be very tired.
"I'm going back to the academy tomorrow. Please ask Fifth Sister, Sixth Sister, and Eighth Sister to keep an eye on her. If she tries to run away again, either tie her up or break her legs."
Du Qingtang's words were harsh and ruthless, and Du Qiya felt a faint pain in her legs and couldn't help but shudder.
It was not until this moment that she felt scared and lowered her head while biting her lip.
Du Wuya wiped her face hastily, her tone still tearful: "I understand, Tang'er, go back to your room and sleep first. We have to travel early tomorrow morning. I'll go out with your Sixth Sister and Eighth Sister."
Du Qingtang guessed what she was going to do and did not stop her. He just said, "Be careful."
Du Wuya grinned, a smile uglier than crying. She turned and went into the kitchen, and when she came out, she had three knives in her hands. "I, Du Wuya, have plenty of means and strength. Today, I will let that bad woman know that the girls of the Du family are not someone who can be calculated and bullied by anyone!"
Du Liuya and Du Baya were originally a little timid, but after hearing these words, courage from nowhere poured into their bodies, making them as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they clenched the kitchen knives in their hands.
Before leaving, Du Wuya didn't forget her annoying sister lying on the ground: "Get up, go to the main hall and kneel down. I'll settle the score with you when I come back!"
Still need to settle the bill?
Du Qiya secretly glanced at the shiny kitchen knife in her fifth sister's hand, and she felt like crying but had no tears. She went to the main hall and knelt down obediently.
The three girls went out angrily with knives in their hands, leaving Du Qingtang standing alone in the yard, breathing in the cold air of the long night.
After a long time, she slowly turned around.
Du Qiya thought she was coming over, so she snorted and turned her head, giving Du Qingtang a dark slap on the back of her head.
"Crack—"
Du Qingtang closed the gate and went back to the house.
Du Qiya waited for a long time but no one showed up. She looked outside the door and saw no sign of Du Qingtang in the yard. Instead, there was a figure swaying in the southwest room.
Du Qiya: “…”
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At the Yuan family, Zhu started waiting after dark. After two hours, Du Qiya still didn't show up.
She paced back and forth anxiously, muttering, "Is that damn girl not coming?"
Yuan Ping was lying on the kang, smoking a pipe, the smoke curling around him. Hearing this, he said nonchalantly, "That girl has loved money since she was a child. Every time her mother gave her money, she had that fierce look in her eyes! I guess she's been stuck on something. Just wait a little longer."
As he was speaking, there was a knock on the door.
Zhu's spirits perked up, but she didn't open the door rashly: "Who?"
A low, crisp female voice came from outside the door: "It's me, Qiya."
Yuan Ping whistled: "I told you she would come."
Zhu ran over to open the door, and when she saw who was coming, she screamed in surprise, "Why are you here?"
Du Wuya said with a forced smile: "I heard that you introduced a good marriage for my daughter Qiya, so I came here specially to thank you."
Thank me?
Zhu's eyelids twitched wildly. She knew something was wrong and was about to close the door, but she was still a step too late.
Du Wuya pulled out the kitchen knife hidden behind her back and chopped it down on Zhu's face: "Old hag, go to hell!"
"ah!"
Zhu made a sharp noise and jumped up and down in the room to avoid Du Wuya's kitchen knife.
But she was fat and not as flexible as Du Wuya. She felt a chill on the back of her neck and Du Wuya cut off the hair on the back of her head with a knife.
"ah!"
Zhu's eyes rolled back and she fainted on the spot.
Du Liuya and Du Baya acted separately, chopping at tables, chairs, cupboards, pots, pans, and utensils.
Yuan Ping was already frightened by the three girls' reckless behavior. He hid under the quilt and trembled, not daring to make a sound, for fear that the crazy girl would chop him to death on the spot.
Yuan Xue next door was woken up and found her cousins smashing and hacking things in their own house. Between stepping forward to stop them and calling for help, she chose to turn a blind eye.
She retreated back into the house and closed the door quietly.
The noise made by the Yuan family was so loud that it woke up the neighbors, who came over cursing.
When they saw the mess in the house, they thought they were dreaming, but they pinched themselves hard and realized that this was real.
"What's going on?"
"Is the Du family's daughter crazy?"
"Is it because of Yuan Ruyi's matter?"
"No matter what the reason is, go find the village chief right away! If they keep going like this, they're going to tear down the Yuan family's house!"
When Fang Honghai rushed over, the outside of the Yuan family was already full of people.
He looked at the chaotic scene in the room and felt a headache: "Stop it!"
Du Wuya was waiting for Fang Honghai to come. She sat down on the ground, crying and shouting about how Zhu had instigated Du Qiya to be her concubine.
"They married my mother off to Dahe Town, leaving us motherless. They also instigated Qiya to run away from home and become someone's concubine. They're trying to force us sisters to death!"
"It's better to die than to be plotted against by them!"
Du Wuya was pretending to cry at first, but then she thought about what had happened in the past few days and couldn't help but feel sad. She cried uncontrollably and got up and banged her head against the wall.
The villagers were frightened and quickly stopped her.
Du Wuya beat her chest and stamped her feet, tears streaming down her face: "I no longer have a mother, and you still want to sell my sister. Where is justice? Where is fairness?"
"Dad, if you were still here, these people wouldn't dare bully us!"
This scene is so heartbreaking that anyone who hears it will cry.
"The Yuanping couple are such a piece of shit."
"If this continues, our village's reputation will be ruined by these two troublemakers. Who will dare to marry a girl from our village in the future?"
"That's right. This morning, when I went to the market in the city, people from Ping'an Village next door asked me about the ghost marriage of Tang'er's mother as if it were a joke. I felt so embarrassed for them."
Fang Honghai pondered for a long time, then said to Yuan Ping, who was hiding in the house and dared not show his face, "Da Ping, I have told you many times before that you should always leave a way out so that we can meet again in the future. But you ignored my words and instead intensified your bullying of the Du family's orphans and widows."
"In just two months, you've caused so much trouble, making Taoyuan Village a laughing stock for the surrounding villages. As the head of Taoyuan Village, I cannot allow you to continue causing trouble in the village."
Yuan Ping had been hiding on the kang pretending to be dead, but upon hearing this he jumped up and said, "Uncle Fang, it was all that bitch Zhu Cuihua who did this. I know nothing about it!"
"I was born and raised in Taoyuan Village. I'm related to dozens of people in the village. How could you chase me away?"
Fang Honghai laughed in anger: "Are you threatening me?"
Yuan Pingtou shook his head like a rattle: "I just think that after so many years in the village, the old uncles in the clan will not..."
"Let's see who dares!"
Sacrifice others for Yuanping and don't be afraid of being drowned in spit.
"Stop talking nonsense, pack your things quickly, and get out of Taoyuan Village tomorrow morning!"
Fang Honghai left with the girl from the Du family, and Yuan Ping slumped on the kang, his face as pale as death.
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