Chapter 130 Going Home
"Second brother, you're her own brother too. She was very attached to you when she was little. Couldn't you have stopped your father and given her something to eat?"
Lu Changshun's face stiffened, and then he became angry.
"Where am I supposed to get food? You, my own mother, don't even care! Why should I care? Just give me some money, and I'll go buy her a big meat bun right now!"
Chen Cuihua gripped his hand even tighter.
Her heart ached.
After hearing what Lu Qingqing said, that Qiaoxiu might be sick, she couldn't bring herself to be cruel.
"Second brother, bring Qiaoxiu out."
"Don't think about it, Mother. If you don't want to take it, then forget it. Father will go out and find a buyer tomorrow."
You'll regret it later if you choose money over your daughter!
Lu Changshun turned to leave.
"Second brother!"
Chen Cuihua clenched the hem of her clothes tightly.
The silver was sewn into her clothes, but should she really give it to her?
If they give it to him, the second son can give Qiaoxiu a few more meals of steamed buns.
"Second brother, go home and discuss it. I'll give you ten taels of silver, and you can give Qiaoxiu to me."
"No need to discuss, fifty taels! Fifty taels and you can take Qiaoxiu away!" Lu Changshun's eyes gleamed with greed.
"Where would I get so much money!" Chen Cuihua shouted.
"Mom, you don't have it, but Lu Xingwang does! Go ask them for it, go borrow it!"
Chen Cuihua was so angry that she slapped him across the face.
This was the first time she had ever hit her son.
"Dream on! I don't have any money, and even if I did, I wouldn't give it to you!"
Qingqing is right, she played too late, far too late!
These heartless and cruel things!
"Heh, heh heh, Chen Cuihua, you slapped me today, so our mother-son relationship is over. You can just wait to die without a son to see you off!"
Lu Qingqing walked out and sneered coldly, "That's right, all the sons she raised died before her, so she's left without a son to see her off in her old age."
"you……"
Lu Changshun shrank back without any backbone; he had heard that Lu Qingqing was capable of uprooting willows!
He ran away without uttering a single word.
“Qingqing…” Chen Cuihua’s eyes were red, and she didn’t know what to do.
Lu Qingqing gestured for her not to rush.
“You can’t let them know you still care about your daughter. Now, go to their house and hurl all your insults at them.”
Insult their entire family, including Qiaoxiu, her two daughters-in-law, and all her grandchildren—don't let a single one of them get away with it!
Leave no way out, show no mercy, the harsher the insults, the better! Go now!
Chen Cuihua didn't know Lu Qingqing's intentions, but she trusted her!
I ran there right away.
"Lu Xingde, you son of a bitch! You useless coward who lives off women!"
"Lu Changfa and Lu Changshun are both unfilial, ungrateful, and heartless. They would even sell their own mothers. They should have been drowned when they were born!"
"Sun and Peng, you two have taught your grandson to be disrespectful to me. Sooner or later you'll end up like me!"
"Lu Qiaoxiu, you're no good either! We feed you, give you water, and buy you clothes, but you can't even be bothered to call us 'mother'! No one would dare marry a lazy woman like you!"
...
Chen Cuihua truly lives up to her name, displaying her former prowess once again.
He didn't pause while cursing; he cursed everyone in turn, not even sparing the chickens in his house.
May this cursed hen never lay eggs again, and may it die tomorrow, leaving its entire family of bastards with nothing to eat.
Lu Changfa, Lu Changshun, Madam Sun, and Madam Peng all rushed out to chase the person away, but when they saw what was happening, they were dumbfounded.
Chen Cuihua was surrounded by a group of people who were cheering her on.
There were older women involved in the cursing.
A group of young men stood in front of Lu Changfa like bodyguards, and Lu Changshun stepped forward.
Lu Qingqing called for help with all of this.
Lu Xingde dared not show his face, and roared helplessly at home.
He gets angry and wants to hit people, but now that there's no one at home, he can hit people as he pleases.
Even with a broken leg, I still can't catch up.
Even his grandson laughs at him for standing on one leg like a rooster.
My daughter has already been beaten; I can't beat her anymore. I need to find a family to sell her to for a good price.
Chen Cuihua has really gone mad; she's completely neglecting her son and daughter!
Chen Cuihua cursed for half an hour, but she couldn't curse anymore.
My throat hurts.
Strangely, after cursing for so long, she didn't feel upset at all.
My chest doesn't feel stuffy anymore.
It seems these things are what's bothering her, and she needs to rant about them all the time!
"Lu Xingde's grandson will never be able to find a wife!"
The older women were still shouting enthusiastically.
"No one dares to marry Lu Xingde's lazy daughter and granddaughter!"
"Lu Xingde won't have a wife to rely on anymore!"
"A family of lazy bums will starve!"
The group fled back home and naturally unleashed a torrent of vicious curses at Chen Cuihua.
"It seems that Chen Cuihua is determined to sever ties with us."
Calling her by her given name means she doesn't even call her mother anymore.
The eldest son's wife was starting to regret it.
"Father shouldn't have divorced Mother. She's so capable!"
Now she knows how much work Chen Cuihua did.
Not to mention going up the mountain to cut grass or going out to do other work, just the fact that she was taking care of a few children was enough for her to find out in just two days.
Before, my child's face was always covered in snot and his clothes were always muddy.
They've all become filthy ghosts now!
Feeding the chickens and ducks, doing laundry and cooking—it all fell to her. The second son's wife only knows how to cheat and shirk her responsibilities!
"Back then, my sister-in-law was yelling that she was coughing up blood and was about to die," the second brother said sarcastically.
The eldest son's wife was furious.
"You'll kick her out just because I told you? She's your own mother!"
"Damn it! Now you're not saying she's an old hag who's wasting her breath?"
The group almost got into a fight again.
In the end, they all blamed Lu Xingde.
"Father is indeed too heartless!"
"How could he sell his mother!"
"Now look what's happened, Cheng and He are divorced, and Cheng even took two pigs with him!"
The thought of pigs sent a shiver down their spines.
Money!
Now they have no land and no money, how will they survive in the future!
"We'd better find that brat a husband by tomorrow, or we won't even get ten taels of dowry if her lazy reputation gets out!"
...
A day has passed.
Sun and Peng used their family connections to find a husband for Qiaoxiu.
But when people came to my house, they took one look.
The fifteen-year-old girl was not as tall as the thirteen-year-old girl. She was sallow and thin, and seemed silly and quiet.
This is a piece of junk that I'm stuck with!
After searching for three days without success, Lu Changshun went to Chen Cuihua.
He said he would take Qiaoxiu away if he gave her ten taels of silver.
Chen Cuihua didn't even lift her eyelids: "Get lost! You bunch of ingrates, I feel like I'm wasting even a tael of silver on you!"
It was too late for Lu Changshun to regret it.
In the end, the group decided to sell Qiaoxiu to a slave trader.
The human traffickers are so shrewd; they could tell at a glance that Qiaoxiu had a problem. A limp would be one thing, but someone like her wouldn't even be wanted as a slave!
"One tael of silver. Sell and keep the person; don't sell and take them away!"
What? Only an ounce!
Lu Changfa was unwilling, but in the end he found that his sister was indeed a fool.
They're about to sell her, and she didn't even cry out.
Since they still needed to eat at home, Lu Changfa sold Qiaoxiu.
I sold one or two ounces.
The sale had just been completed, and the slave trader hadn't even put the indenture away yet, when Lu Qingqing arrived.
“Pick someone to go back and wash my mother’s feet. They don’t need to be anything special. My mother likes quiet, so it’s best if they don’t talk much.”
"Oh dear, what a coincidence! How about this one? This girl is tight-lipped!"
Lu Qingqing spent two taels of silver to buy the person.
She had originally planned that if the Lu family found a buyer for Qiaoxiu, she would take more money and snatch the deal away.
Surprisingly, not a single person has taken over.
That's true.
Qiaoxiu now looks dull, thin, and covered in injuries; she doesn't seem like someone who can be cared for for long.
Lu Qingqing took Qiaoxiu's thin hand in hers.
"Come on, let's go home with your sister."
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