Aunt Song cooked for Xia Qingran for a month and found out that there was only one maid in the house, and it seemed that this maid was used to a life of having everything provided for her, so she hired her to cook.
Moreover, the little girl was very picky about her cooking skills, but because there were no adults at home, she chose to accept it temporarily. It had been a month, and seeing that the food stored in the kitchen was almost consumed, she could no longer suppress the thoughts in her heart.
Aunt Song had two sons. The eldest son was conscripted into the Meng family army to guard the border. However, the eldest son was unlucky. He died in the battlefield after he had just earned the rank of centurion. When Aunt Song heard the bad news, she fell ill.
Fortunately, she had a younger son, and because her eldest son died in the war, there was only one adult man in her family, so he was exempted from military service.
However, even though he didn't have to perform military service, he still had to pay taxes and do corvee labor. Her youngest son was born thin and weak, and couldn't carry anything with his shoulders or hands. She even thought of letting her youngest son find a wife to marry into in order to save his life.
But now that a little girl with no background has appeared, Aunt Song has other ideas. Just when she was about to make further inquiries, the little girl's mother came back, but she was quite ill, and the blisters on her face looked a little scary.
Lang Huan was not Xia Qingran, so she naturally saw the calculation in Aunt Song's eyes and frowned, knowing that her daughter was probably being targeted. She fired the person on the day she returned, and immediately went to the property agency to put the yard up for sale, and agreed to hand over the house on the same day.
When Aunt Song went to the house on the pretext of leaving something behind, the house had already changed hands. Aunt Song cried out that it was a pity, thinking that if she had acted earlier, she would have gotten her son's wife. She could only return home dejected.
Aunt Song's son is called Song Shanshi. Although his name sounds strong, he is actually very thin, but he is smart. He hangs out outside all day and can earn three or five copper coins every day.
Seeing his mother sighing that day, he asked a question and only then did he know the whole story. Song Shanshi also felt a little resentful towards his mother. If he had told him earlier, maybe he would have gotten together with that girl and even got a small courtyard for free. But it was too late to say anything now.
But some things cannot bear to be talked about. When Song Shanshi went to the carriage dealership to look for work the next day, he saw Xia Qingran and her daughter who had rented a carriage and were preparing to go to Jiangnan. After hesitating for a long time, he went home to get a bag of medicine powder, then rented a carriage himself and followed the mother and daughter from a distance.
Lang Huan didn't know yet that because she felt sorry for her daughter, she asked Aunt Song to help with cooking, which brought disaster upon herself and her daughter. Less than a day after leaving the border town, mother and daughter returned to their original place.
But this time fate took a different turn. Lang Huan was sold by Song Shishan, and Xia Qingran's innocence was directly ruined by Song Shishan. All the money of the mother and daughter was also looted and became the property of the Song family.
After Song Shishan got this unexpected gain, he took his mother to Yucheng to settle down. He used the money in his hand to buy a two-story courtyard in Yucheng. The household registration of Cuizhu on Xia Qingran's body was changed to the Song family, and she became Song Shishan's wife.
Although Song Shishan had money, he also knew the principle of living beyond his means, so he bought two storefronts in Yucheng. He did not run them himself, but rented them out to collect rent, and then lived a carefree life behind closed doors.
Xia Qingran also lived a miserable life. She used to be a homely woman, but now she was ordered by Aunt Song to do laundry, cooking, and serving her and Song Shanshi every day. She hated this old woman who used to be so kind to her, and she hated Song Shanshi even more because he was the culprit who ruined her innocence and separated her from her daughter.
It was all her fault for being too naive and not seeing through the scheme in Aunt Song's eyes sooner. Although Lang Huan saw through it, they did not have enough force to protect themselves, and in order to save money, they did not hire a bodyguard to accompany them, which gave Song Shanshi an opportunity to take advantage of and capture them mother and daughter with a packet of sleeping pills.
But it was too late to regret now. Xia Qingran knew that if she resisted now she would only be beaten or even work on an empty stomach, so she chose to endure and lie dormant until she began to feel sick and confirmed that she was pregnant, then she finally found an opportunity to leave.
After Aunt Song and Song Shanshi confirmed that Xia Qingran was pregnant, they were extremely happy and prepared a table of delicious food to celebrate that day. The Song family now had an heir. Song Shitou even drank too much and was finally helped back to his room by Aunt Song and Xia Qingran.
In the middle of the night, Xia Qingran opened her eyes and smashed Song Shanshi's head with the porcelain pillow, causing him to bleed and die. Then she quietly sneaked into Song Shanshi's room and killed her with a kitchen knife.
After doing all this, Xia Qingran sat on the ground and cried bitterly. After venting enough, she began to search the whole house and found all the silver bills hidden by the two. Then she calmly took a bath, changed into a clean dress, made some dry food, and then set the yard on fire.
Then he swiftly left the two-story house and hid in a tree in the back alley, waiting for dawn.
Because it was the middle of the night and it was pitch dark all around, the fire was not discovered until a long time after it started by the night watchman, who struck the gong, which woke up the nearby families. Everyone took pots and pans and started to put out the fire, but the fire was already out of control. When the fire was put out in the morning, only a ruin was left.
Xia Qingran then jumped down from the tree and asked people along the way to find the largest escort company in Yucheng. The company happened to be escorting a batch of goods to the border. Xia Qingran used the excuse that she had married far away and wanted to return to her parents' home to attend the funeral. She gave the silver and then followed the escort team back to the border town.
Fearing that something might happen in Yucheng, she returned to the Xia Mansion immediately.
Xia Meng looked at his haggard second daughter in front of him and asked in disbelief:
"Why are you here?"
"Father, you must save your daughter!"
Xia Qingran knelt down and started crying.
"Don't cry first, explain the situation clearly."
Xia Meng is not stupid. He intuitively knows that something is wrong.
By the time Xia Qingran explained the whole cause and effect, Xia Meng was already stunned. His own daughter and concubine were trying to kill him, and they had actually set him up silently.
He thought that his married daughter had been defiled by someone, and now he had killed the culprit and escaped back. However, the maid Cuizhu, who he had let go, was married into the royal family under the identity of General Meng's daughter. It was too absurd no matter how he thought about it.
Xia Meng even wanted to kill Xia Qingran, at least this way there would be less chance of the truth being exposed.
"Father, if you don't save me, General Meng will know that you asked the maid to marry in my place."
Xia Qingran saw the anger and murderous intent in his father's eyes and immediately gritted his teeth and said.
After going through all this, she is no longer the simple girl she used to be. Her hands are stained with blood, and she wants to live, live for herself.
"Okay, I'll help you! But don't ever think of living as my daughter for the rest of your life!"
My dears, today I have four chapters to share. Tomorrow Feng Ling has an appointment to get a manicure and eyelash extensions, two of the three-piece pre-holiday package, so tomorrow's update will be a little late, but I promise to have three chapters! See you tomorrow!
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