Chapter 111: Calm Down
Chapter 111: Calm Down
Inside the ancestral hall, Qi Jianing, who was determined to die, had not yet gone to sleep.
She was about to take off her belt, intending to kill the child first and follow afterwards.
Suddenly, he heard a sound coming from outside the door and stopped.
When she heard what was said outside, she was moved!
To be honest, she felt heartbroken and couldn't bear to do anything to her two children.
Now that the child has a chance to make a living, she is willing to let him become a servant.
Besides, aren’t Rongrong and Jinhong the two children of her eldest sister?
These two kids came here before daybreak and said they wanted to buy someone. Did they see that Li Dabiao was a bad guy and wanted to secretly help them escape?
Thinking about this, Qi Jianing's mind was working rapidly.
I thought to myself that I must find an opportunity to take the two children back with Rongrong and Jinhong.
As long as she could settle her two children, she would be willing to die immediately!
As for the baby in the belly, it should not have been born.
But she didn't know what was going on. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get rid of it.
Li Dabiao's mother didn't like her grandson, but at the same time she asked her to keep giving birth to children.
Ever since she became pregnant, he watched her even more closely, even following her to the toilet.
According to her, life was already so hard, and the child would be destined to suffer with her, so why give birth to a child?
But no matter whether she pounded her belly or banged it against the wall, it only hurt herself, and the child was fine.
If, if she had a chance, she could still live in peace, she would definitely give birth to this child.
She didn't want to have a baby and had no love for it.
Rather than giving birth to the child and having her blame the child in the future, or the child blame her, it is better not to let it come into this world!
Su Rongrong, who was outside the door, didn't know that Qi Jianing had already started thinking of ways to cooperate with them as soon as he heard that she and Jinhong were coming.
After she finished speaking, she suddenly thought that the man inside might be a scoundrel, so she turned her head and said to Su Manman:
"Manman, go ask Dahu to come over and help us calm down the situation!"
Su Manman is very smart. When her sister mentioned the idea of calming the situation, she immediately thought of the mother and son who were not getting along well with each other.
She immediately nodded and walked home with the lantern.
Her departure made Liu Songmu and Chen Jingzhe feel very strange.
But the two didn't think too much about it. They just thought it was normal for Su Rongrong to come and buy people now.
After all, those scholars all have servants around them, more or less.
As far as they knew, when Su Zitai went to take the examination for the scholar, Su Ye worked as a book boy in the city, helping him run errands.
What's more, Su Rongrong said that it was Dahu who said this, so it couldn't be wrong!
Thinking of this, he opened the door a crack and shouted inside:
"Li Dabiao, someone in our village wants to buy a book boy, are you willing to sell your son?
If you sell it, I will give you ten kilograms of food for each one.
If you don’t want to sell it, we can ask you later when we go to the place where you are doing labor service.
Many people would sell their children just to survive."
Li Dabiao was tired and hungry and had not slept well. When he heard the noise, he instinctively lost his temper.
But before he could curse, he quickly remembered that this was Sujia Village, and swallowed the curse back.
Then he realized that someone wanted to buy his son.
He originally wanted to raise the price, but when he thought about the situation outside, he became timid.
However, he didn't say anything, but his mother, who was woken up nearby, opened her mouth for something huge.
“You can sell them. Each one will fetch fifty kilograms of grain.
It must be rice. If it is coarse grains, one hundred kilograms is needed.
I won’t sell it if it’s one pound less.”
Su Rongrong, who was outside the door, did not speak when she heard this, but whispered to Liu Songmu:
"Brother Songmu, you should know those people who came to my house at night and pretended to be relatives.
If I speak up, they will think they are really my relatives and will stick to me, and I won't be able to get rid of them.
I just want to buy a servant for Jinhong and don't want to offend these people.
Please tell them inside that each person will get ten kilograms of food.
If you don’t want to sell it, forget it. I’ll go find Brother Zheng and the disaster victims later to see if there’s anything suitable.”
Su Jinhong, who was still a little dizzy, suddenly widened his eyes and became sober after hearing these words.
What does elder sister mean by this?
What does it mean to come and pretend to be a relative at night? When did this happen? How come he doesn’t know about it?
Could it be the same knock on the door that he heard when he was about to go to bed?
Before Su Jinhong could ask, Liu Songmu answered for Su Rongrong:
"Hey, you old woman, what are you thinking about?
Don’t you know what’s going on outside right now?
Don’t even think about buying a child who knows nothing and can’t do anything if he weighs 100 kilograms.
Even if I were an adult laborer, I could buy several.
No, you don’t have to spend money to buy them. Just give them food and they will follow you.
If there wasn't a pregnant woman in your family, I wouldn't give you even one kilogram of food, let alone five kilograms.
Don’t you think about the current situation? Who else would want a child of this age except us?
In other words, it's just five catties of grain, you can sell it if you want!"
When the old woman in the ancestral hall heard that a grandson was only worth five kilograms of grain, she immediately became unhappy.
She immediately reached out and touched her hungry stomach. She rolled her eyes and replied loudly:
"Pah, this is my grandson who can carry on the family line. Even if he is sold as a servant, he can still be worth a few taels..."
Unfortunately, before she could finish her words, Li Dabiao covered her mouth.
"Mom, now is not the time for you to talk nonsense.
You don’t even think about what’s going on outside!”
After he finished speaking, he quickly ran to the door and looked out through the gap.
At the same time, he shouted, "Sell, we sell!
But the two I have are twins and cannot be sold separately.
If you really want them, I will sell both of them to you.
Food, give me 50 kilograms of the best food.
If you don’t have 50 catties of good grain, then you should give me 20 catties of coarse grain, plus one ounce of silver.”
Qi Jianing, who had already thought of a countermeasure, cried:
“If I don’t sell it, I won’t sell it even if I die of poverty and starvation.
Head of the family, Zhiming and Zhiyuan are your sons and the roots of the Li family.
How could you sell them?"
While crying, Qi Jianing shouted to the outside: "People outside, listen to me, we will not sell children."
As soon as she finished speaking, the sounds of Li Dabiao and his mother scolding and beating people could be heard from the ancestral hall, as well as the heart-wrenching cries of children.
Su Rongrong, standing outside the door, had a gloomy face and wanted to go in and tear Li Dabiao and his mother apart, but was held tightly by Chen Jingzhe.
"Rongrong, calm down, calm down. This is someone else's family affair, we can't interfere!"
"Calm down the fuck, the people in there are my aunt and two cousins!"
After saying this, she kicked open the door which was only slightly opened under Su Jinhong's shocked gaze.
Liu Songmu, who had reacted quickly, also ran in and quickly lit the candle.
Su Rongrong looked at the woman curled up on the ground, with the two children throwing their tender bodies on her.
The old woman and the middle-aged man at the top beat them up.
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