Chapter 391: The Fiancé Ran Away with the Most Beautiful Girl in the World (16)
"Also, my father never wore good clothes in his life. When he died, he was still wearing tattered clothes. As a daughter, I can't let him die in such an undignified way, otherwise he will be bullied by other ghosts in the underworld... So I have to prepare decent burial clothes and shoes for him... Auntie, if I want my father to die decently, won't I have to spend more money? I am penniless and I am the only one left. I have no choice but to sell my body for a high price!"
The filial daughter cried even harder. When the others heard what she said, any doubts in their hearts disappeared immediately. It was explained so clearly that the money for selling her body was so high, and it was all for her father. What a good child!
The lady who was trying to persuade her couldn't help but sigh, "You are really thoughtful and have planned everything for your father."
"Yes, she is truly a rare filial woman in the world!"
Others also praised it.
Shu Shichu watched from the side and found it ridiculous. Are people so easily deceived nowadays? Did they really believe what this girl said and fail to see that she was wrong?
She observed the crowd in shock and found that they really thought the girl was a filial daughter. They were full of emotion and said that although she was pitiful, she was willing to sell her body to bury her father properly, which was worthy of admiration.
Shu Shichu: ...People back then were so naive.
She didn't know whether she should expose her.
Shu Shichu wanted to see if anyone would really be willing to buy her, so he waited on the side.
"Miss Zhan." Just as she was eating candied chestnuts intently, someone suddenly patted her shoulder and she heard a voice behind her.
A tall figure walked up to her and said, "Miss Zhan, what are you looking at here? Are you watching a circus?"
Shu Shichu looked at Mu Changqing who suddenly appeared and said meaningfully, "Yes, let's watch the acrobatics."
Mu Changqing saw the girl who sold herself to bury her father and heard Shu Shichu's pointed words. He couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Miss Zhan thinks selling herself to bury her father is a sideshow? Isn't that a bit cold-blooded?"
Shu Shichu looked at him inquiringly, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Don't you think this is just a circus?"
Mu Changqing took a look at the girl and understood the situation after listening to the discussions of the people around him. He laughed out loud and said, "I think it's more like a well-rehearsed drama."
Shu Shichu looked at him in surprise. Mu Zhangqing said with a smile, "Am I such a fool in the eyes of Miss Zhan?"
Shu Shichu shook his head: "I thought you were used to being kind to women. You would be so eager to show sympathy to a poor little beauty, so how could you doubt her?"
Mu Changqing sighed helplessly: "It seems that Miss Zhan has a deep misunderstanding of me."
Shu Shichu coughed lightly and did not continue the topic. Instead, he asked, "Do you think anyone will buy this girl?"
"There will definitely be one." Mu Changqing said confidently.
"Why?" Shu Shichu asked curiously, "The price she set for her body is not low. Ordinary people can't afford it. Fifty taels of silver is enough for a family of five to live on for a year or two."
"So her target is not ordinary people." Mu Changqing said with a smile.
Shu Shichu thought about it and understood: "You are right."
Mu Changqing continued:
"Anyone who can afford to spend fifty taels of silver to buy a maid must be from a wealthy family who doesn't care about such a small amount of money. And the one who is willing to spend fifty taels of silver to buy her must be generous and not stingy. He might even be a bit kind-hearted. If she becomes his, her treatment will not be too bad. If the man buys her purely for her beauty, with the girl's scheming, she can make good use of her beauty to climb up the social ladder... No matter how you look at it, she has more advantages than disadvantages."
When Mu Changqing was talking to Shu Shichu about these things, a young man with several servants, dressed in rich and luxurious clothes, who obviously did not come from an ordinary family, walked up to the girl who was selling herself to bury her father and started asking questions.
"Oh, there really is a fool who took the bait." Shu Shichu said gloatingly.
"Will that young man buy her?" Shu Shichu asked Mu Changqing.
"Probably. Men of this age tend to have the great dream of saving the world. Now that he happens to meet a girl with a tragic life, shouldn't he help her?" Mu Changqing said with a smile.
I get it, it's just the second year syndrome. Boys who are seventeen or eighteen years old like to pity the poor and the weak, and the "weak" girl looks very pitiful, as if she cannot survive if he doesn't save her. Which young man who loves love can refuse to become a savior god for a weak girl?
"You're going to be slaughtered like a fat sheep." Shu Shichu said without any sympathy. Maybe that young man even thinks he is very great.
"Oh! Can't they see the clean embroidered shoes on the girl's feet? And the sleeves exposed under the linen clothes, although not made of good material, are clean and intact. Wouldn't these people be suspicious about why a girl whose father died and had no money to bury him, a girl who fled from her hometown penniless, has clothes and shoes intact and clean?" Mu Changqing said with great confusion.
"Yes, even if we didn't see her shoes and clothes, we could at least see the linen clothes she was wearing, right? Wasn't she penniless and her father was naked before his death? Then where did she get the linen clothes she was wearing?" Shu Shichu also found it amazing why everyone turned a blind eye to these obvious flaws.
"Are we going to expose her?" Shu Shichu asked Mu Changqing.
Mu Changqing's face suddenly hardened and he said, "There's no need for us to expose it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd suddenly fled in panic, screaming as they fled: "Murder! Murder!"
Shu Shichu was shocked and looked towards the place where the incident happened. He saw the girl who sold herself to bury her father raising a knife to stab the rich man. The rich man was so scared that he peed his pants and begged for mercy while covering his wound: "Don't kill me, don't kill me... I'll give you money!"
Several servants brought by the rich man wanted to go forward to rescue the people, but were stopped by another person. That person was the "dead man" who was previously wrapped in the torn straw mat. Unexpectedly, he was alive and could run back to kill people.
"You bastard who killed my sister! I'm going to make you pay for my sister's life!" The girl who sold herself to bury her father said with hatred as she stabbed the rich man viciously. Her movements were sharp and swift. After a few stabs, the rich man she caught was covered in blood, his eyes wide open, and he collapsed to the ground.
And his lackeys were also killed by the old man disguised as a dead body.
Shu Shichu watched all this unfold in amazement. He never expected that this was not a circus or a drama, nor was it about a scheming woman trying to curry favor with the powerful. Instead, it was a story of revenge!
(End of this chapter)
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