Chapter 62 Letting Go of the Compulsion to Help Others
Ye Chenglei knew that he was just eager to show off, or wanted to use this incident to teach Gu Ruanci a lesson, but this plan was probably going to fail.
"Who told him to be silent?"
Ye Chenglei made a subtle argument, and his attitude changed.
Gu Ruanci continued, "Just now, so many people held him down and even hit him, but no matter how angry he was or how much he struggled, he never fought back. His anger was only directed at this woman. Haven't you seen that he is an honest man?"
The onlookers felt even more ashamed, as they had just insisted that there was something wrong with this man.
"Doesn't he have a mouth? In a situation like that, he didn't even explain what happened?"
Ye Chenglei's reason also made the person who had just felt guilty forgive himself a little.
"An honest man who is cornered cannot explain anything clearly at the critical moment. Ye Shizi, don't waste time making excuses and trying to make your mistakes look less low-level. He said that his sister was sold by this woman. Don't you like to be a hero and save the beauty? Then find a way to rescue that truly innocent woman."
After Gu Ruanci's reminder, they remembered the most important thing.
Seeing that there was no way to conceal the matter, the woman finally stopped pretending to be pitiful like she had just been. Instead, she sneered, "If I'm not doing well, then no one will be doing well. I've already sold my aunt to Mr. Liu as a concubine. I guess she's already favored by now..."
"Which Mr. Liu?" the man asked immediately.
The woman glared at him and said, "Of course it was Mr. Liu who came to propose marriage some time ago, but you scolded him and he left."
The man became even more angry and shouted, "He's old enough to be my father's father. How could you be so cruel? My little sister is only seventeen!"
The woman had already given up and said directly, "I don't want to support so many idle people. What's wrong? The little money you earn every month is used to buy medicine for your mother and support such a useless person. What will happen to my rouge and powder? Sell her and get some money, and the whole family will feel better."
Wen Haiyue was also fully awake. If Gu Ruanci had not stopped her, she would have become this woman's accomplice.
"Report to the police." Gu Ruanci said directly.
When the man heard this, he asked, "Will the government take care of this matter?"
"Who else do you want to take care of it? Although your mother is sick, she is still alive, so it is not your turn as a wife to sell your sister. On the contrary, you, as her husband, if you want to sell her to a brothel or even a dirtier place, there are many ways. After reporting to the authorities, they will go to the Liu residence to look for her."
After Gu Ruanci finished speaking, she looked at the man's hesitant expression and added, "If you can't bear it, then just pretend I didn't say anything. Continue to argue with her, and when you calm down, accept the reality. Use the money from selling your sister to continue living with this woman, and don't come out to disgust us. If you need to hesitate about such things, don't pretend to be a brother and sister in front of us. The fun is over, can we disperse? My carriage is stuck in the alley, please let me pass."
After Gu Ruanci finished speaking, she said directly to Wen Haiyue: "Sister, let's go. They can handle the rest of the matters themselves."
Wen Haiyue was stunned: "Do you really not need help with the following matters?"
Even though she said this, she still followed Gu Ruanci's footsteps.
"Soft words, thank you for your help today. But you clearly saw so much, and in the end you also confirmed that the woman was indeed not a good person. Why didn't you help her to the end?"
Nong Chun and Zang Xia also wanted to ask the same question as Wen Haiyue.
"Sister, that's someone else's family affair. We can't make any decisions on their behalf, even if you think it's the fate of an innocent woman. The man was furious at first and hated the woman to the core, but when he actually asked her to do what his sister had done to her, he didn't dare to do it again. In fact, from the beginning, he didn't know what he wanted; he just wanted to vent his frustration."
"That woman has become like this because of his daily indulgence. What you just said about helping him to the end is actually forcing him to accept our arrangements. He doesn't care about his mother that much, nor does he dote on his sister that much. Putting the whole family at the mercy of a woman is the sign of a coward. Such a woman is not a good person, and the man who indulges her is even more incompetent."
"So if you help him, he'll end up hating you."
"The final choice is up to him. Let go of your desire to help others and respect their fate."
"Is it possible that this man's mother and sister are not good people, and the woman has endured them for too long, so she exploded and came up with this idea?"
When Wen Haiyue asked this question, it was actually because she had seen many mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law like that.
Gu Ruanci said, "Sister, stick to the facts. Don't talk about who you've met, because everyone is the same. If you help others solve problems with assumptions, it's often easy to do something bad with good intentions, and even force good people to death."
After listening to her, Wen Haiyue felt that all his life experiences over the years seemed to be insufficient.
She stood there in a daze, not following Gu Ruanci, and watched the other party leave. She felt as if she understood, but she didn't want to do it again.
When helping others, shouldn’t we help them to the end?
In the end, after some hesitation, she chose to leave.
After successfully passing the intersection, Gu Ruanci's carriage was stopped again.
"Excuse me, is it the Princess of Chaoyang County sitting in the carriage? My young lady invites you."
The person who blocks the road uses a polite attitude and tone to cover up the impolite behavior of blocking the road.
"What's your young lady's surname?" Gu Ruanci asked directly.
"leaf."
The visitor seemed to have some sense of superiority. He knew Gu Ruanci's identity, but he was still confident that their young lady had enough face.
"Not interested." Gu Ruanci said directly.
Chang Song understood and raised his whip: "Get out of the way."
As a result, the man became anxious and said quickly: "County Lady, my young lady said that this is about your grandmother's tablet."
Changsong stopped what he was doing again. He knew that this matter was indeed not a trivial matter for Gu Ruanci.
"I don't care who your young lady is, you are not qualified to use my grandmother's tablet to negotiate with me. Even if Ye Keguan comes in person, he won't dare to use this to threaten me."
Gu Ruanci's tone was gloomy, and she was obviously a little angry.
At this time, a woman came over in a hurry, probably because she heard what Gu Ruanci had just said.
She should be about eighteen years old, tall and thin, and dressed very appropriately.
"Cousin, we haven't seen each other for ten years. I am your cousin Ye Lingyue."
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