Chapter 54: Someone is looking for you outside, and he is very fierce.
Wen Ya failed to get the answer she wanted from Song Jin, so she just winked at the person next to her, and the servant immediately let go of Song Jin's hand.
Just as Song Jin's body was about to stagger and fall forward, she was hit in the stomach by a club, and the pain made her whole body almost collapse.
She wanted to squat down to protect her body, but another blow had already landed.
The sticks had no eyes, but the servants had eyes, and they hit her stomach, back, and legs.
The stick was clean, leaving no marks on the clothes. Only the bones under the skin were left, screaming in pain.
When Song Jin fell to the ground, he vaguely saw two figures rushing in, followed by a burst of pleading and crying.
My vision gradually blurred until it became completely dark.
When Song Jin woke up, he first felt waves of severe pain, as if the bone reorganization in his body had not yet healed, followed by warmth and coldness.
Her back was cold, her cheeks were warm, and she was held in Chunyun's arms.
Not only Chunyun, Hongxing Caiwei were also huddled in the corner, the four of them huddled together.
Song Jin was in an even worse situation. Her ropes were untied and her thick outer coat was gone. She was shivering with cold. If Chunyun hadn't held her in her arms, she would have frozen to death.
"Why are you here too?" Song Jin rolled his eyes. Although the light was not good, he could still see the scene clearly.
They were all in the woodshed.
"How dare you ask!" Caiwei's voice was filled with anger. "You can get rid of your citizenship if you want, but why are you still implicating us? Grandma sent people to look for the silver, and when she couldn't find it, she scolded us. Arong was even worse. He was involved in the score with you, and now Grandma says he is an accomplice. I don't know how many beatings he will receive."
"If it weren't for you, Si Niang wouldn't have asked Chun Yun to start the fire. If you didn't point the finger, why would Grandmother punish Si Niang? We've all been living well in this courtyard. Now, you can't get rid of your membership, and you've implicated everyone."
Song Jin pursed his lips and asked, "Where's the silver?"
She remembered that Wen Ya didn't find the silver, and she gave it to Chun Yun.
Chunyun sobbed and said, "I... I was scared, so I found a secluded place and threw the silver away..."
Song Jin felt his eyes go dark and he almost fainted.
Seeing this, Chunyun quickly added: "Let's look for it after we get out. Maybe it's still there."
Song Jin didn't say anything else. Without money, he could do nothing.
Did she fail completely?
Now she can only gamble that Mrs. Chai will not let her go.
However, it was not easy for Song Jin to survive until the next day.
My warm clothes were gone, I was hungry, and I was covered in wounds. It hurt so much that I could hardly even turn over.
Looking at the young Chunyun, she suddenly thought of someone: "Where is my mother? Where is my father?"
Are those two blurry figures them?
Hong Xing gave her the answer: "Your parents were sent to work on the farm."
Song Jin moved his head, feeling excruciating pain.
The woodshed was dead silent until late in the evening when a sound was heard from the door.
"Grandma asked me to come and question her."
It's cuckoo.
The door of the woodshed was opened, followed by a gust of strong cold wind, and Song Jin shrank back.
Du Juan entered the room and looked around. Each of the four people looked miserable in his own way.
She walked quickly to Song Jin: "Vegan..."
Song Jin just rolled his eyes.
"Your parents were sent to the village, and Arong and the others were also beaten."
Du Juan paused for a moment before continuing, "Do you want to hand over the silver? I have begged for mercy from my grandmother. If you are willing to hand it over, you won't have to worry about it anymore. No matter where you are in the future, you can at least keep your life."
Song Jin suddenly opened his eyes.
Stay alive?
Du Juan noticed her change and continued, "Now that things are going on like this, it's hard for everyone. Can you hand over the silver?"
A feeling of grief and indignation surged from Song Jin's chest, the intensity of which almost overwhelmed the severe pain in her body. She suddenly sat up and asked, "Could it be that Grandma wants to kill me?"
Du Juan looked embarrassed: "Actually... you know too much, and you have the idea of leaving the country. Grandma is worried about you, and I'm afraid you will be a disaster if you stay."
Suddenly, a whimpering sound was heard in the woodshed.
If Song Jin died, how good would the lives of these "accomplices" be? Now they have already begun to feel sad in advance.
"She wants to kill me?"
Song Jin had never expected to see murder. All she had in her mind was exploitation and oppression, but she had never expected that murder would occur.
Du Juan didn't say anything, but just glanced at her, and Song Jin suddenly understood.
In this weather, without any outer clothes, locked in the woodshed, without food or water, she would die in three to five days.
There was no need for planning or poisoning, just a serious illness, just like what happened before.
Silently, no one cares.
It's that simple to get rid of a house slave without any suspicion.
Song Jin was not sure about the fate of others, but Wen Ya's plan for her was very clear.
As for the possibility of survival by handing over the silver, she did not believe it.
"If you were still a servant, Grandmother would at least trust you a little bit. But if you were no longer a servant..."
Du Juan advised carefully, and Song Jin understood a little bit without having to explain the reason.
Unless the charge is treason, a domestic servant cannot sue his master. Otherwise, regardless of whether the master is guilty or not, the servant will be punished first.
The so-called loyalty of slaves in ancient times was nothing more than slavery under a strict system.
Loyalty is only superficial, the system is the root cause.
If Song Jin was a house slave, she would never dare to report Wen Ya, but if she was stripped of her status, that might not be the case. No matter how much Song Jin emphasized that she was also an accomplice, Wen Ya was unwilling to take the risk.
"Give it up."
Du Juan tried to persuade him, but Song Jin was choking with sobs and unable to speak. He just bit his lips tightly, tears streaming down his face.
"Give it up and hand over the silver, otherwise no one will be happy."
Caiwei also tried to persuade her, but Song Jin refused. Since she didn't find it, then it didn't exist. She insisted that she didn't have the silver.
"I can give up my citizenship, but I don't have the money."
Du Juan frowned. She knew that the amount of silver was not small, but Song Jin refused to hand it over, so she could do nothing about it.
"Under the current situation... I can only help you up to this point. As for Arong..." Du Juan lowered her eyes: "I can't see him yet, and I don't know how he is doing. I hope nothing happens to him."
Everyone knows that it was all because of Song Jin.
Du Juan finished her words and glanced at the door. Seeing that the servant didn't look inside, she quickly took out a stack of rolled-up pancakes from her sleeve and threw them to her. Chunyun grabbed them and put them inside her clothes.
"I'm leaving now, you can handle it on your own."
Song Jin nodded and watched Du Juan's figure disappear out the door.
"What are you thinking? There is no hope of escaping citizenship right now. Just save your life first."
Caiwei was a little dissatisfied, but she was telling the truth. Saving her life was the most important thing.
"If the silver is not found, then there is no silver. If I give up the silver, you will really become accomplices. Then I am afraid that you will not be able to escape responsibility either."
Caiwei was speechless. She didn't say that she didn't know where the box had gone. And no one said anything at that time because they thought Song Jin was nice to them. They were all slaves, so why should they make things difficult for each other?
As for why Wen Ya was not found, they actually didn’t know, they just suspected that she was hidden.
Song Jin took out a pancake from Chunyun's arms. It had no filling, but it was enough to resist hunger.
It was already dusk and everyone had just eaten dinner, so they were drooling at the sight of the pancakes.
Each person was given a pancake, but there was no water, so they just ate it.
Maybe it was because of the cold, or maybe it was because the pancake broke the ice, the four people who were originally separated by twos squeezed together.
"What will happen tomorrow?"
Hong Xing looked at the faint light outside the window and asked in a low voice, but no one could answer her.
Just as they were silent, a faint voice came from outside the door.
"Er Niang asked Mancao to buy some things outside. Now that she is back, Er Niang wants to ask her for the things."
It’s Dongzhi, in Erniang’s room.
Zhao Yiliu has always been kind, and Song Jin knew that she had given things to them, so this must be a reason, and she must have come to help them.
However, the results were disappointing.
"Go, go, go, what are you asking for? I've searched your body, but there's nothing. Go back."
Zhao Yiliu is an honest man, even the reasons he gave were honest.
When the four heard Dongzhi's footsteps receding, they all sighed.
As the last ray of light outside the window was about to disappear, the few people became more and more desperate. This night was unbearable.
However, at this moment, a familiar voice was heard.
"I'll come and take a look."
It turned out to be the fourth sister Ye Wenfu.
"Grandma said she won't show it to you."
"I can't see the girl who went out of my yard? It's not like I'm meeting a strange man. I don't think any of you dare to stop me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the wooden door being kicked open and Ye Wenfu walked in directly.
It was the boldness that Song Jin was familiar with.
Ye Wenfu came in without saying a word. She paced back and forth in the woodshed with something wrapped in cloth in her hand, staring at Song Jin's face with her eyes, which made people feel creepy.
"Okay, all four of them left my room. It seems that we are of the same lineage and are not welcome. Especially you!"
Ye Wenfu's eyes widened: "You are restless in my courtyard. I thought you had flown to a higher position. It turns out that you can also be a drowned dog. It's really refreshing."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at the door and saw the servant staring inside. Ye Wenfu cursed:
"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen me scolding people? Don't think I don't know how you slaves laugh at me behind my back. You can laugh at me all you want. Don't say that you act like dogs every day. Even if you have the ability, I won't even look at you."
Ye Wenfu was a hot-tempered woman, and everyone in the family knew it. Seeing this, several servants shook their heads slightly and hid away. Instead, no one was watching the woodshed. Ye Wenfu then turned around and looked at the four people.
"You are like drowned dogs. If you have the guts, keep on arguing with me. I want to see how you die."
After saying that, she threw the thing in her hand heavily at Song Jin, who screamed in pain. Ye Wenfu immediately started scolding him.
"You still dare to scream? Why didn't the elder sister beat you to death? People like you who are greedy for more should be beaten to death. If she doesn't beat you to death, I will beat you to death too."
Ye Wenfu was cursing, but Song Jin found that the heavy object was very hot. He was a little greedy and it burned his hands on time.
It is a hot water bottle wrapped in cloth.
Hong Xing understood and grabbed the hot water bottle and stuffed it under her body to avoid being discovered by the servants.
Ye Wenfu cursed a few more times before leaving a sentence "I'll continue to deal with you guys tomorrow!" and then left the woodshed.
Perhaps because the servants had just been scolded so harshly, no one looked at her at the moment, so they didn't even notice that something was missing in her hand.
With this hot water bottle, the four of them managed to get through the night safely.
Song Jin was half asleep and half awake because of the pain in his body. The next day he was in a daze and couldn't wake up. Chunyun was so worried that she hugged him in her arms.
But she was too small to hug Song Jin, so Hong Xing took him over and hugged him. Cai Wei pushed aside her sleeves to see that the scars were already visible through the bruises, which were extremely tragic.
It was not until the afternoon that a noisy sound came from outside. Chunyun Caiwei leaned against the door and window to listen. Suddenly, Caiwei turned around and said:
"Mancao, someone is looking for you outside, and he's very fierce."
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