sjar Chapter 397 I Will Return Your Life
Chapter 397 I Will Return Your Life
The two people were still talking to her last night, but today they turned into cold corpses.
Lu Shian's legs suddenly went limp, but luckily Lu'er was quick enough to hold him up.
Tietou knelt in front of Granny Nian and cried, "Aunt Qinghua said that we were ungrateful and watched Big Beard being bullied without daring to intervene. We were wrong. She gave her life as compensation to Big Beard. I hope Big Beard will not be angry anymore."
Everyone looked at the bearded man, and Lu Shian saw that the bearded man was also there.
He looked pained, and it was obvious that he didn't want to see anyone die.
I could hear the little girl crying in my ears. She kept shouting, "Mom, wake up, I'm scared, Mom, don't sleep anymore..."
Someone came over and hugged Xiaohua, but she struggled and held onto Qinghua's clothes desperately, refusing to let go.
She didn't understand what life and death were, but she had a feeling that if she let go this time, she would never see her mother again.
Lu Shian didn't know how she got back to the carriage. She recalled what she said yesterday and hated herself for being so cold.
"Tell me, if I had been nicer to her yesterday, would she not have died today..."
Lu'er put the hot tea in Lu Shi'an's hand and comforted him, "This world is too harsh on women. Yesterday, she publicly admitted that she was raped by the son of the village head, and was dragged to the street..."
"Didn't she say it herself? If it weren't for her daughter, she would have wanted to die long ago."
Speaking of his daughter, Lu Shian said hurriedly: "Xiaohua, she is so young, how are you going to live in the future?"
"The monkey said that Qinghua went to see Big Beard yesterday and entrusted his daughter to him."
Lu Shian nodded: "Big Beard doesn't look like a good person, but he is actually the most loyal. He is indeed a trustworthy person, but can a grown man like him take care of a child?"
I had originally planned to continue on my journey after dinner, but after something like this happened, it became impossible to continue on my journey.
The group buried Qinghua and Grandma Nian in a hurry, and then set off for Huainan City.
Before leaving, Lu Shian called everyone together.
"Here is a hundred taels of silver for you to use as travel expenses. You can divide the silver and choose to pursue your own careers, or you can take this silver to the county town to buy some things you need. When you arrive in Huainan City, you can find me at Shen's Restaurant."
After Lu Shian finished speaking, he got on the carriage. As for where these people should go, Lu Shian did not force them.
But Qinghua's daughter was with them, and Xiaohua was afraid of the bearded man, so Lu Shian simply let her sit in the carriage.
Shen Teng actually likes children very much, and soon became very familiar with Xiaohua. The two of them were chattering and laughing in the car, but Xiaohua would still ask about her mother from time to time.
"Why does my mother sleep in the dirt?"
"It's so cold outside. My mother will freeze if she sleeps in the dirt. Look, my hands are frozen..."
At this time, Shen Teng would find an excuse to change the subject: "Don't worry, your mother won't be cold. Xiaohua, do you want some candy?"
Xiaohua nodded: "Can you give me one more piece? I want to eat one when I can get out of the soil."
Shen Teng smiled bitterly: "Okay, then I'll give Xiaohua two candies."
"Oh, that's great. When mom comes out of the earth, she will have candy to eat."
The child's joke did not cause the people in the car to laugh, but instead made their eyes red.
None of them had the heart to tell her the truth.
royal palace.
Li Hongting came to pay his respects to the empress dowager as usual. After the two of them exchanged pleasantries for a while, the empress dowager asked, "Did you have a fight with that girl Shi'an?"
"Grandmother, you're worrying too much. Shi'an and I have never had an argument."
"If they didn't quarrel, why haven't we seen her come recently?"
"In reply to your Imperial Grandmother, the girl left for a long journey a few days ago. She left in a hurry for something and did not come to pay her respects to you, old lady."
The Queen Mother looked puzzled: "Going away? Why is she going away? The day for you to be crowned the Crown Prince is coming soon. As your future concubine, how can she not be here?"
"Shi'an said he would be back as soon as possible."
The Queen Mother sighed and said, "You are so protective of me. Okay, I will not ask about your affairs as young people."
"Hey, I can see that you care about her a lot. Hongting, you are not an ordinary man. Remember not to invest too much emotion in a woman."
"That's what the Empress Dowager taught me."
Coming out of the Queen Mother's Palace, Cheng An immediately approached and said in a low voice, "The people arranged by the Fourth Prince have been quietly dealt with by me."
Li Hongting sneered: "My good brother must have gone mad knowing that I became the crown prince."
"How's the investigation going on at Shi'an?"
"Still checking."
He was not very worried about Li Hongyu. After all, the two brothers had been fighting for so many years and there was still no winner.
But Lu Shian is different. Although she has been named a concubine, she has not yet married. Moreover, Lu Shian's attitude towards herself is unpredictable.
The Duke's Mansion.
The Duke's wife and Liu Rulan gnashed their teeth as they heard the servants report the joy.
"Okay, okay, as for finding it. I want these lowly people to die miserably."
Thinking back to the day when she and her daughter were tied up by the bandits on the mountain and shivered in the haystack, the Duchess wished she could eat those people alive.
"It would be too easy for them to die like this, mother. I want them to live a life worse than death."
The Duke's wife patted her daughter's hand and said, "Don't worry, mother will never let them go."
She waved to the servant, who immediately came forward and whispered something. When he heard what the Duchess's wife said, he was stunned at first. Even though he was used to killing people, he still felt that the Duchess's behavior was a bit cruel. However, he was not stupid enough to disobey the Duchess's wife.
He clasped his fists in response and walked out.
As for Zhang Dumiao, they returned to the village with the silver and jewelry looted from the Duke's wife and Liu Rulan. With this money, the villagers no longer had to suffer from hunger and cold and lived a prosperous year.
At first, they were very nervous, fearing that they would be exposed and caught.
They sent people into Anjing City to investigate. After some inquiries, they found that the people only knew that the daughter and wife of the Duke had been kidnapped, and they also made up some obscene words, but there was nothing else. This made them feel at ease.
They thought the matter was over, and they were anxious to cash in the jewelry before the end of the first month of the year.
As a result, he was spotted by people from the Duke's Mansion, who followed him all the way to the village and got to know the situation in the village clearly.
Within three days, the village was looted by bandits. These bandits entered those houses with a purpose, controlled the labor force in the houses, and then raped their wives and daughters in front of their parents, and killed the elderly directly.
The men were pinned to the ground, unable to move. They watched their wives and daughters being raped, their parents and children being killed. Their eyes turned red, and they kept begging for mercy and cursing.