Chapter 454 Xiaocao
When they returned to school five days later, all the other girls had come back, except for a few girls from Shannan Village who were still not back.
"Sir, could it be that he has been detained by his family?" Xie Qingyun and others looked around at the village entrance, feeling worried.
The villagers of Shannan Village had been punished by the county magistrate and were quite hostile to the official school, so it would be difficult for the girls to fare well if they returned.
"Wait a little longer. If that doesn't work, I'll go to Shannan Village!" Su Ying soothed.
Being beaten with a stick and then forced to mine was not enough to calm people down. It seems that Shannan Village is not simple.
Since he was able to deal with a group of Feng family elders in Shanghe Village, why would he be afraid that he couldn’t deal with a few reckless men?
This official school for women faces many obstacles. Now she is just studying. What should she do after graduation?
As a manager in a textile factory, I was afraid that those people would come to cause trouble every few days, or they would try to place their relatives in the factory.
They treated the factory as their own, taking things as they pleased and stuffing them in with the help of their relatives and friends.
Su Ying understood the difficulties Mr. Zhang faced in running a school in modern society, as not everyone's cognition was normal.
"Sir, look, it seems that Cen Hongying and others are coming!" Xie Qingyun saw an ox cart coming from the distance on the village road.
As I walked closer, I saw that it was indeed Cen Hongying and her group, but there were two more children.
"Sir!" As soon as the car stopped, Cen Hongying jumped out and knelt in front of Su Ying with the two little girls.
"Get up quickly, we don't do this here! What's going on?" Su Ying pulled up the two skinny girls on the ground.
Holding the child's arm, there was no flesh, almost just bones. The whole person seemed light and airy, with his shoulder blades protruding.
The thin neck made the head look abnormally large, and it was as thin as a skull, with unusually large eyes. It timidly pulled at Cen Hongying's clothes.
Then he timidly called out, "Sir!"
"These are my two younger sisters, Pan Di and Lai Di! My parents gave them to the Qiao family in Shanbei Village, my so-called in-laws, to pay off their debts.
The Qiao family was not human, they sold them to a pawnshop that very day, and the pawnshop then sold them to a wealthy family in the provincial capital…” Cen Hongying recounted what had happened in the past few days.
The owner of that house liked to play with young children and girls, and from time to time he would throw out a dead body that he had played with.
At first, parents of young children and girls came to our house, and we had to pay them some money each time, which was very troublesome.
To avoid trouble, they simply bought out the orphan child from a pawnshop.
The family that sold the two sisters to had several well-raised children before them. These two were too thin and could not withstand the hard work, so they were kept for a while before playing with them.
Cen Hongying went to the county government office to report the case. Song Xuanyu ordered people to arrest the Qiao family in Shanbei Village, and then followed the clues to find the pawnshop, and then chased to the provincial capital to find Hu Changshi.
Hu Changshi did not want to offend the local gentry, so Song Xuanyu clearly told Hu Changshi that the official school for women was under the name of Hongwenguan and was directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor.
The female student is half an official, whether it is true or false.
If the female student's family was tortured to death by the gentry, and this matter becomes a big deal, His Majesty will lose face! You, Hu Changshi, are incompetent in your administration!
Hu Changshi was frightened by these words, which were true and false. He called the local gentry and ordered them to release Pan Di and Laidi, otherwise everyone would be in trouble.
The landlord didn't expect that the goods he bought out actually had an owner, and the owner was very powerful. He couldn't afford to offend him, so he had to let the two children go.
He was so angry that he took people to Wu County and smashed the tooth shop.
The pawnbroker turned to cause trouble for the Qiao family in Shanbei Village. The Qiao family was beaten black and blue, and the few coins they had earned from selling their children were also confiscated.
The Qiao family turned to Cen Shitou, but Cen Shitou had learned his lesson. He knew that his family had no money anyway, and Zhaodi was a half-official. If he could beat her up, he would go to the government to sue her.
The Qiao family couldn't afford to offend either side, and they were beaten and had to pay compensation. How depressing!
They insisted that Cen Shitou return the two strings of cash and they would be even! Their Qiao family would never again dare to accept the Cen family's unlucky star.
Seeing that the Qiao family had given in, Cen Shitou suddenly opened up his Ren and Du meridians and continued to act like a rogue, demanding money but no money, and life!
The Qiao family was so angry that they left angrily. They couldn't afford to offend Cen Shitou, and there was really nothing to smash in his house!
In order to prevent Pan Di and Laidi from being sold again by their parents, Cen Hongying and her two sisters publicly severed their ties with Cen Shitou and his wife in front of the county government office.
It’s better not to have such cowardly, incompetent parents who only bully their own family!
Cen Shitou and his wife would not agree to this. They could give up their two little daughters, but they could not let go of Zhaodi, the golden phoenix who had already gained power.
The three sisters were determined to break off their relationship with their original family, even if it meant facing criticism.
In the end, County Magistrate Song approved the verdict, and Cen Hongying was able to take her two sisters away.
"Sir! We can do a lot of work!" Pan Di and Laidi looked at Su Ying anxiously, fearing that they would be driven away.
I heard from my elder sister that this little Su is very capable and knows many things that others don’t know. He can learn many skills in Huanggou Village, and he can also have enough food to eat and wear beautiful new clothes.
For poor children who have never known what it feels like to have a full stomach, it is simply heaven.
My sister gave them a piece of mint candy. It was so cool and sweet, it felt so wonderful. So this is what real sweetness feels like!
"Take Pan Di and Lai Di to eat first, and talk about it tomorrow!" Su Ying said to Cen Hongying.
"Yes, sir!" Seeing that Master Su did not chase his sister away, Cen Hongying felt relieved.
Together with several other girls, they entered the school.
"Are they going to recruit two more? The class has been going on for so long, and without any foundation, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up!" Xie Qingyun was conflicted.
These two children look so pitiful, living their lives like a blade of grass, and it is also sad for these three sisters to meet Mr. and Mrs. Cen Shitou.
No wonder Cen Hongying had such a strong sense of resistance. If she hadn't resisted, she would have starved to death or been tortured to death.
"If that doesn't work, put him in the village school and hang out with Xiaotao, Atang and the others. It won't be too late to enter the official school next year!" Su Ying pondered.
"Xiao Tao, Atang! Can you give us two of your old clothes? Two young ladies are here." Su Ying found her two sisters when she returned home.
"Miss, can you put it on?" Xiao Tao asked.
"They are very thin, very skinny, they should be able to wear them!"
Pan Di, who is almost nine years old, and Lai Di, who is seven years old, are thin and small, and are about the same height as Xiao Tao, who is seven years old, and Atang, who is six years old.
"Okay then!" The two sisters opened the box and found old clothes.
They are all about 60% to 70% new. I have grown fast in the past two years, so many clothes are out of season and the sleeves and trouser legs are too short.
Poor families would naturally just take a piece of cloth and continue wearing it, but the Su family was not short of money, so they naturally made new clothes.
So the two little girls collected a lot of old clothes.
"Wow, so many?" Su Ying didn't expect that the two girls had sewed so many new clothes without realizing it.
"Yes! Sister, I want to wear that new scarlet dress, ride on a big ship, and see the sea."
Atang was obsessed with it and cleared out all the old clothes he didn't like just to buy the new scarlet dress.
"Atang!" Xiaotao was reluctant.
"Okay! We'll ask Mother and Third Aunt to make new clothes for us later!" Su Ying moved Atang's little head.
In Su Ying's eyes, the crimson brocade was worthless. Compared with the natural colored silk brocade she had, it was nothing special.
The color is not as rich and glossy as before, and this kind of dyeing will fade over time, so it will be wasted.
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