Chapter 1292: The Daughter Abandoned During Escape (4)
When Chang Shichu went out the next day, Li Dashou and Li Dajiao were no longer on the street. She thought that the two men would not give up and would kneel down to beg her to give them the antidote.
It would be fine if she didn't meet them, but if they wanted to seek revenge on her in the future, she would wait for them too.
Qing'an City is in ruins, and the once devastated city is slowly being repaired. Even if the speed is slow, it is still in progress. Now she is alone here and doesn't know what to do for the time being. She thought that there are many wastelands in the suburbs. The owners of the fields have either fled or died. It is a waste to leave them wasteland. So she planned to ask someone to plant crops in the fields. If the original residents come back in the future, she will go back. If not, she will continue to plant.
In those days, nothing was more precious than food. Although Chang Shichu did not have any great ideals of saving the world, he would feel compassion when he saw the ragged and skinny people on the streets, and would think about doing what he could.
Pu Qirui gave her a lot of silver dollars, and she was not short of money. She hired some people to farm and also helped those in need.
She has always been active and soon went outside the city to look at the fields and ask people to plant them.
Just when Chang Shichu was busy farming, the Chang family far away in Shanghai finally remembered that there was a third young lady who was like a transparent person in this family.
The eldest wife said to Chang Gui with a cold face: "As a father, you don't care about your own daughter. I am just her stepmother. Isn't it natural for me to neglect her? Who made her silent all day long, like a gourd with a sawed mouth? When she fled Qing'an City, everyone was in a hurry. It was her own fault that she was too stupid to follow everyone. Now there is no news. Isn't it her own fault?"
Chang Gui's face was livid with anger. He didn't care about Chang Shichu. In fact, he almost forgot what his daughter looked like. How could he care whether she had escaped here with him? He just cared about the fact that the eldest wife had offended him. What she said was almost a blatant mockery of him for not being worthy of being a father.
"Li Fupei! You are so cruel and vicious! The third girl has called you mother for more than ten years, don't you worry about her at all? Now she is gone, and you still criticize her harshly and say she is worthless. You are really not worthy of being a mother!" Chang Gui accused his wife in a cowardly manner.
"Whether I am worthy of being a mother is not for you, a sanctimonious hypocrite, to judge. She is not my biological daughter, so I naturally don't care about her. But she is my biological father. Do you remember her when you escaped from Qing'an City? If it wasn't for the second concubine reminding you, you would not have noticed that a daughter was missing until now, right? You are so hypocritical. In my opinion, the most unfortunate thing for the third girl is that she has a father like you!" The eldest wife retorted to Chang Gui sharply.
Chang Gui was so angry that smoke was about to come out of his head. He pointed at the First Wife and kept saying "you...you..." for a long time but couldn't utter any other words. Perhaps the First Wife had torn off his hypocritical face and made him feel guilty.
When the eldest wife saw him like this, she just rolled her eyes in a sneer, then picked up the tea and took a sip elegantly.
The others listened to the couple's quarrel and dared not breathe, for fear that their anger would spread to them. Even the fifth concubine, who was now the most favored, just lowered her head and stared at the tea, without any of her previous considerate appearance.
What a joke. The master and mistress of the household are quarreling over a "lost" child. Although none of them cares about the missing third daughter, she is a daughter of the Chang family after all. If outsiders knew that their family was fleeing and left a daughter behind, and forgot to take her with them, wouldn't it be a laughing stock and make people think that the Chang family is cold and heartless?
That's why the fifth concubine didn't want to get into trouble.
At this time, Chang Shuzhen spoke. She was the eldest wife's beloved daughter, dignified, noble and beautiful. The eldest wife loved her like a treasure. Chang Gui also wanted to use her for marriage because of her beauty, so as to have a good backer in this chaotic world, so he also attached great importance to her.
Chang Shuzhen frowned and softly persuaded her parents, saying, "Dad, Mom, please stop arguing. None of us wants our third sister to get into trouble. It's just that we were too nervous and in a hurry when we left Qing'an City, so we temporarily ignored our third sister, which led to her missing now. We can't just blame dad or mom. If we have to blame someone, we can only blame the enemy troops that invaded Qing'an City. They are the culprits who caused our third sister to be separated from us. Our third sister has always been sensible and filial. If she knew that dad and mom had a dispute because of her, she would definitely feel uneasy..."
Her words were very logical and reasonable, and she also subtly absolved Chang Gui and the eldest wife of the guilt of "losing" Chang Shichu. Who wouldn't like such a considerate daughter? Therefore, after hearing her words, Chang Gui and the eldest wife's expressions softened a lot, and they looked at Chang Shuzhen with approval: As expected, she is the daughter of our Chang family, and her words are so reasonable.
"Zhen'er, you are right. Your third sister would not want me to worry about her." Chang Gui said shamelessly, without any guilt for abandoning his daughter.
"Dad, we still don't know whether our third sister escaped or not... Should we send someone back to look for her?" Chang Shuzhen asked hesitantly.
Chang Gui's whole body froze. To be honest, he just hoped that his daughter would never appear again. It would be best if she died in Qing'an City. Otherwise, if he really found her and she stood in front of him all day, wouldn't she be reminding him every day that her father had abandoned her?
"Qing'an City has suffered a massacre by the enemy. I heard that no one in the city survived. Your sister is just a weak girl who can't even tie a chicken. How could she escape? In my opinion, there is no need to send anyone back to look for her." The eldest wife did not hide her dislike for her husband's concubine's daughter.
"How can I not look for her? She is my daughter after all!" Chang Gui couldn't help but confront the eldest wife when he heard her words. If she objected, he would agree. Therefore, he glared at the eldest wife and sang the opposite tune, "You just wish she was dead, right? How vicious!"
"Yes! I just wish she was dead! She's a girl, it would be fine if she really died, but if she's lucky enough not to die, then I don't know what kind of dirty things she must have encountered to survive in Qing'an City. She must have lost her reputation and chastity. What's the point of living? We still have several daughters in our family! Do you want her to come back and discredit the Chang family? And damage the reputation of the other daughters?" The eldest wife's words immediately hit the nail on the head for Chang Gui.
He didn't care about the daughter of an invisible person at all. He only cared about his own power and wealth. If others knew that he had a daughter who had been trapped in an enemy-occupied city, would it cause rumors? If it affected the reputation of the eldest daughter and made it difficult for her to find a good husband, wouldn't it be a loss of the greater for the less?
(End of this chapter)
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