Chapter 1293 The Daughter Abandoned During Escape (5)
Thinking of this, Chang Gui immediately made a decision. There was no need to even compare a daughter with whom he had no feelings for, with the wealth and glory of the entire family. Therefore, he immediately decided to give up this daughter completely.
"You're right. We can't let the third girl influence our entire family." Chang Gui rarely agreed with the eldest wife's words.
The eldest wife saw her hypocritical appearance and couldn't help but sneer. Look at this man who is only interested in profit. It is obviously his own cold-heartedness, but he wants to put the blame on others. How hypocritical and shameless...
But his decision now is in the interests of herself and her daughter, so she won't say much. As for the poor third girl? If she wants to blame someone, she should blame her bad luck. Her mother died early and her father is a beast. It has nothing to do with her as a stepmother, the eldest wife thought coldly.
"Wouldn't this be a bad idea?" Chang Shuzhen said with a worried look on her face, like a good sister who cares about and loves her younger sister.
"What's wrong with that? This is the best way to handle it!" Chang Gui made the final decision, saying coldly, "Just say that she got sick and died on the way to Shanghai with us."
This way he could cover up the fact that he left one of his daughter behind when he escaped, killing two birds with one stone.
"Don't you dare mention the third girl again. Even if you do, the truth is what I just said. Do you understand?" Chang Gui said as he stared at everyone in the room. He meant to make everyone shut up. "Don't say anything you shouldn't say in the future. Be careful with what you say and do. Do you understand?" He warned again.
The others nodded quickly: "I understand."
Chang Shuzhen wanted to say something but hesitated. In the end, she said nothing and just sighed deeply.
The second young lady at the side rolled her eyes when she saw her like this, and sneered in a low voice: "Pretending, hypocritical!"
So after that, the Chang family justifiably forgot about Chang Shichu completely. Even if outsiders who were unaware of the situation asked about her, everyone would just assume that she didn't exist. Even the fourth young lady was moved up one place in the ranking to completely erase her existence.
Chang Shichu had no idea that the Chang family was so ruthless, but even if she knew, she would hope that they would draw a clear line between themselves and her.
She has hired people to plant many unowned fields in the suburbs, and even reclaimed a lot of wasteland on the mountains. Now, many people from Qing'an City wait in front of the Chang family every day, waiting to be hired by her.
Of course, there are also many people who want to fish in troubled waters or take advantage of others by being lazy. As for these people, Chang Shichu will of course fire them without hesitation and never hire them again.
Some people saw that she was young and a girl, and thought she was easy to bully, so they wanted to take her out of the picture and take over the land she had already cultivated. Or some people with more superficial vision wanted to do what the brothers Li Da Jiao and Li Da Shou did, take away all her money and sell her off...
For such people with bad intentions, Chang Shichu naturally didn't mind giving them a leaf of the golden-skinned tree so that they could enjoy the same treatment as the two brothers of the Li family.
After several ruthless punishments, everyone finally realized that she was not an easy person to bully. Not only was she not easy to bully, she was also very cruel and ruthless - because they had seen the fate of those who had offended her, all of whom had howled in pain and begged her to let them go.
Thus, her prestige was quickly established by relying on her intimidating means. When people mentioned Miss Chang, they no longer said that she was stupid, courageous, naive, etc., but that she was powerful and ruthless...
This was an unexpected surprise. Chang Shichu didn't care at all that others thought she was powerful and cruel. On the contrary, she was very satisfied because this reputation saved her a lot of trouble. After all, there were always some men who had no self-awareness and wanted to take over all her property by marrying her.
Not to mention whether Chang Shichu was worried about her property being taken over by others, how could these men be so sure that Chang Shichu would happily marry them as long as they were willing? Where did their confidence come from? This was really a question that puzzled Chang Shichu.
Fortunately, after she gained a reputation for being ruthless, the men who often intercepted her on the road and volunteered to marry her, "protect her" and "become her support" disappeared, making Chang Shichu feel that the air was a lot fresher.
After the nearby fields were planted, Chang Shichu did not sit idle. She went to other places to sell grain. Next door was a major grain-producing province, and she planned to buy some grain there and bring it back to Qing'an City to sell.
Although Qing'an City gradually regained its popularity and the population increased, food was still scarce.
Chang Shichu also planted a lot of rice and wheat in her own companion space, which was enough to feed all the people in Qing'an City for a year, but she couldn't create food out of thin air, so she could only go to the neighboring province to purchase food as a cover.
Fortunately, there were no surveillance cameras in those days, so she could put all the purchased grain into the space, which made transportation much more convenient and faster. Of course, she also had to ask someone to escort a batch of grain back to Qing'an City in a fair and honest manner, so as to conceal it from others.
Chang Shichu went to the neighboring Shangzhao City alone on horseback, so she became a big fat sheep. Along the way, she encountered several waves of robbers and two groups of human traffickers who wanted to abduct her. She killed them without mercy. These people were evil and unforgivable. Chang Shichu simply destroyed them physically to prevent other victims from being harmed by them - after all, not everyone has her skills.
She rode for more than two days before she reached Shangzhao City. As soon as she entered the city gate, the noisy and bustling sounds of people came to her face. The streets were bustling with people, street vendors were shouting loudly, and naughty children were running and playing...
This is the kind of bustle that Qing'an City has never had. When Chang first saw this scene, he felt as if he was in another world. It was true that human joys and sorrows were not shared. Qing'an City was massacred, devastated and with corpses everywhere; while Shangzhao City, thousands of miles away, was a scene of peace and bustle. Although there were many beggars and skinny people on the streets, they had not experienced a war after all, so everyone's faces did not show panic and caution like a frightened bird.
Chang Shichu sighed and began to walk around the street with her horse, paying attention to the merchants selling grain.
After all, Shangzhao City is a major grain-producing city, so there are many merchants selling grain in the city. Chang Shichu saw two rice shops after walking two hundred meters.
She went in and asked about the price. The price was reasonable, probably because there was no shortage of rice here. In fact, if it were in the countryside, the price would be even lower and it would be more cost-effective to purchase in bulk. However, it was already past the harvest season and most of the farmers in the village had already sold their excess grain to merchants. It was impossible for her to buy much at this time.
(End of this chapter)
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