A girl looked at Xu Yuehuai gratefully.
Another girl looked at the ground and said, "I came here to seek refuge with relatives, but when I arrived I found out that my aunt had died long ago, and now I have nowhere to go."
"Good girl, don't be discouraged, the world is your home."
The girl seemed to want Xu Yuehuai to take her in.
But Xu Yuehua sighed, "We are also wanderers, but our little family is not peaceful. It's better if we each go our own way."
That little girl was also extremely clever; she glanced at Jiang Qianqian beside her.
It seems I've figured something out.
The two knelt down and kowtowed, expressing their gratitude profusely for a long time before reluctantly leaving.
Xu Yuehuai breathed a sigh of relief after watching the two walk away.
Zhou Wan smiled and said, "My mother is truly kind-hearted."
Xu Yuehuai turned around.
Ancient buildings are mostly constructed with mortise and tenon joints, making them easy to start and difficult to extinguish. In just about fifteen minutes, the flames engulfed everything.
Even though many people from the brothel and Wu Hou were present, they could only retreat in the face of the raging flames.
The madam sat on the bluestone slab outside, crying out loudly, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, what am I going to do?"
Xu Yuehuai watched as the flames melted away the Tianxiang Tower, and felt extremely happy.
On the way back, she looked at Zhou Wan.
Have you done everything I asked you to do?
"Whatever Mother asks me to do, I will naturally arrange it in the best of my ability."
"That's good. Your mother's love for you wasn't in vain."
It turned out that Xu Yuehuai and Zhou Wan had discussed it beforehand. In order to expose Liu Cuiming's true colors, they replaced a bag of money they got from Grandpa Zhou with pebbles, but still kept it under Zhou Wan's pillow.
Inside the house, Zhou Wan had shown off on several occasions.
So much so that soon, some envious guys saw it.
After Zhou Wan left, Liu Cuiming hurriedly took away the things Zhou Wan had hidden under her pillow.
She didn't even know if it was a clod of dirt or something else.
Overjoyed, she was so excited that the heavy weight of the money bag indicated its considerable value. She was even worried that Xu Yuehuai and Zhou Wan might return in a surprise attack, so she grabbed the money bag and hurriedly went down the stairs.
She didn't know where she would go next.
She ran and walked.
Finally, they arrived at what seemed like a safe place, a pine forest. Under the cover of night, the forest was quiet. At first, Liu Cuiming thought it was a graveyard. She wasn't afraid of ghosts, so she sat down to rest under a tree.
While resting, I took out my spoils to look at them.
But when Liu Cuiming opened the money bag and saw what it contained, she was immediately dumbfounded.
"This...how is this possible?"
She had clearly seen Zhou Wan put the money bag under the pillow, but now that she had it, she was shocked to find that the bag was full of clods of dirt and stones.
He got up incredulously, grabbed a stone, and brought it close to the moonlight to look at it.
"Ah!" Liu Cuiming broke down, throwing the stone far away and screaming hysterically, "Big liar, you lied to me, you lied to me!"
In the darkness of night, the scream was extremely piercing.
Just as Liu Cuiming realized she had been tricked and was about to leave, she suddenly smelled a strong, fishy stench. The stench was complex, and she seemed to hear rustling sounds coming from the branches.
Liu Cuiming looked up in surprise, and in that instant, he saw a majestic and powerful tiger.
The tiger had colorful fur and gleaming fangs.
After a heart-wrenching scream, Liu Cuiming was dragged by the tiger into a distant cave.
Back at the inn, Xu Yuehuai took Jiang Qianqian to find Jiang Mingfu and his wife.
Knowing they were in the wrong, Jiang Mingfu sighed and fell silent upon seeing Jiang Qianqian return. Zhou Qionghua, however, maintained her usual sharp tongue and pointed at Jiang Qianqian.
"Second son, why did you bring this jinx back? The Tianxiang Restaurant is looking for us, how are we going to explain this?"
"Don't worry, with me here, no one can find us."
Xu Yuehuai stared at Jiang Mingfu and said, "You good-for-nothing, how desperate for money are you that you sold your daughter? Don't you know how filthy that place is?"
"I……"
Jiang Mingfu knew he was in the wrong and understood that Xu Yuehuai was determined to uphold justice for Qianqian, so he didn't dare to say anything more.
Seeing that Jiang Mingfu, that good-for-nothing, remained silent, Xu Yuehuai shifted his target.
"Even tigers don't eat their cubs. What are you if not beasts in human clothing? She is your own flesh and blood, your daughter, to whom your blood is thicker than water. How could you have such a heinous and wicked intention as to send your daughter to a brothel?"
Xu Yuehuai became increasingly furious as she spoke.
Zhou Qionghua adopted a "what's the worst that can happen?" attitude, letting Xu Yuehuai say whatever he wanted. Xu Yuehuai understood that this was like casting pearls before swine, so he simply revealed his purpose.
“From now on, she will be with me, and I will educate and raise her. She will have nothing to do with you anymore.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Qionghua slammed her hand on the table and stood up angrily: "What does my selling my daughter have to do with the second wife?"
"This time, you've broken the law by buying and selling dead people. You'll lose your head." Xu Yuehuai said arrogantly, which frightened Zhou Qionghua, who was worried that Xu Yuehuai would expose the matter.
She looked at Jiang Qianqian and said, "Even if you want to take her with you, we have no objection, but you can't just take her away without a word."
"what would you like?"
“Money,” Zhou Qionghua said matter-of-factly, as if it were her right. This kind of mother frightened the naive Jiang Qianqian once again. She never dreamed that her vicious mother would use her for business again and again. “Why are you arguing with me about this if you don’t have money?”
Xu Yuehuai had anticipated this.
"Where is Chen'er? Where is the written agreement?"
It turns out that Xu Yuehuai had foreseen this and had already prepared the contract.
The contract was drafted by Jiang Shichen. Aqi brought it over and said in a menacing manner, "Madam, you'd better take a look at it yourself. If there are no problems, Qianqian will follow us from now on. We won't treat you badly. Here's thirty taels for you."
Zhou Qionghua was overjoyed, but feared that Xu Yuehuai's contract was a complete fraud.
Xu Yuehuai pointed, "It's all in black and white, two copies, for our records. Take a look for yourself."
When Jiang Mingfu heard that Xu Yuehuai would give them thirty taels of silver, his eyes lit up. He grabbed the document and read it. It said, "On such and such a date, Jiang Qianqian is adopted as a daughter. From this day forward, all ties with her parents are severed. There is no dispute between the parties."
Jiang Mingfu was extremely anxious, worried that Xu Yuehuai would break his promise.
"Where's the money?"
Xu Yuehuai gathered up all the money he had extorted from Grandpa Zhou and his own savings, barely scraping together thirty taels, and sent it over.
Jiang Mingfu prepared to snatch it, but Xu Yuehuai snorted coldly.
"It's all in black and white, you haven't even signed or sealed it yet, and now this money is just being given to you for no reason?"
Zhou Qionghua hurriedly grabbed a brush and inkpad, and hastily signed her name.
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