bullyxtreme Chapter 281 What's wrong with you?
Chapter 281 What's wrong with you?
Yang Jianwu, suppressing a laugh, asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Hongfeng was also full of questions, "Yeah, what happened to you? Weren't you in the city? How did you end up in the vegetable market?"
"I……"
The scholar, recalling his experiences, was filled with bitter tears.
"I misjudged people, and I deserve to end up like this..."
Yang Jianwu, recalling the scholar speaking up for Aunt Wu, scoffed, "Poor judgment of character? Hmm, you are quite poor at judging people, and you even have self-awareness!"
"you……"
When the scholar remembered that Rong Gang had addressed her as "Miss," he refrained from arguing back, adhering to the principle that a good man doesn't fight with a woman.
"Hmph~ It's impolite to argue with a woman!"
Yang Jianwu was amused and annoyed. "Arguing with a woman is impolite? You were saved by a woman! When I saved you, you didn't even realize I was going to save you! Blind and heartless! Humph! You said you couldn't judge people well, so was it wrong to say you had self-awareness?!"
Unable to win the argument with Yang Jianwu, the scholar simply bypassed the topic and turned to Mo Ye and Hong Feng to tell them about his experience.
On the day of the cremation pit, he said a few words for Aunt Wu. As he heard the surrounding chatter, he realized it was inappropriate and wanted to confront Aunt Wu, asking her to apologize in front of everyone and beg for their forgiveness.
Unexpectedly, Aunt Wu pretended to agree to apologize, coaxed him into the house, poured him tea and water to calm him down, and cried about how hard she had worked.
While her husband and in-laws were alive, she took care of the whole family. There were already some conflicts between her and her mother-in-law. Then, due to the ruthlessness of the epidemic, she was able to gain everyone's understanding by not taking care of them for the safety of her children and family.
She was also very saddened by the passing of her parents-in-law, but the epidemic wasn't caused by her; she was also a victim...
Her husband and child both fell ill one after another, and she was more distressed than anyone else. Her husband was her everything, and her child was her life!
During the treatment for the epidemic, the child was in great pain. It was the child who said that he wanted to get out of the suffering as soon as possible, so she impersonated the child to take his place.
The scholar was easily swayed and could be fooled with a few words. He expressed sympathy for Aunt Wu's loss of loved ones and decided not to say anything more, finishing his tea before leaving.
Aunt Wu held him back, saying that there was no one left in the house and the thatched hut looked cold and deserted. She wanted the scholar to keep her company and chat some more to pass the time.
Overwhelmed with compassion, the scholar chatted with Aunt Wu for a while, and before he knew it, drowsiness crept over him, and he slumped to one side.
When I woke up again, I was already tied up and sent to the village.
He resisted, but was met with beatings and whippings. The villagers, fearing it would affect his appearance, struck him in more private areas.
He also asked the villagers who sold him, but they didn't ask who sold him. Once you're on their territory and become a slave, you have no right to say no!
Yang Jianwu was furious at Aunt Wu's actions, but she was also speechless at the scholar's lack of common sense...
"Deserve it!"
The scholar glanced at Yang Jianwu but remained silent. He couldn't win the argument, and now that she had saved him, a few words were a small punishment.
"Keep your eyes open in the future, and don't try to be all nice, or you won't even know how you died!"
"Yes, the young lady is right..."
Yang Jianwu then looked at the stranger. Without Yang Jianwu's prompting, the man immediately began to explain why he had been sold.
His name is Lu Qing, he is just twenty years old this year. His family runs a business. His birth mother died early, and his father remarried.
Business has been tough these past two years, and with the outbreak of an epidemic in Guning City, our family is facing severe financial difficulties. We've dismissed all the servants and cut back on unnecessary expenses, but we still can't make ends meet.
His father's medicine was about to run out, and he couldn't bear to see his father without any medicine, so he wanted to sell the house. But his mother was not happy about it and tricked him by saying that there was a slave trader in the north of the city who was looking for people, and that he should go and do some hard labor for him for a while. She said that once his father recovered and the family's finances improved, she would take him back.
Little did he know that his mother hadn't sold him into slavery at all, but rather into being a vegetable!
Because he is young and hasn't suffered much hardship, the price he was offered was relatively high.
Knowing she couldn't escape the traffickers' clutches, Lu Qing resigned herself to her fate. Her father's medical expenses were now secured, and she could rest easy when she passed away.
"Foolish filial piety!"
Yang Jianwu felt no sympathy for Lu Qing and the scholar's plight. How could such grown men have no ability to distinguish right from wrong?
If these two had lived in their previous lives, they would have been tricked into going abroad to have kidneys stolen!
Yang Jianwu came to the horse's side, pretending to look for something, but actually took out a cotton coat from her spatial storage and threw it to the scholar.
"Put these on! If you go back to the city looking like this, you might get caught and eaten!"
The scholar recalled the conversation between Yang Jianwu and Tian Zhong, and a chill ran down his spine. This girl could discuss how to eat brains with Steward Tian; she was no human!
"Why are you so dazed?"
"Oh……"
The scholar tremblingly accepted the cotton-padded coat. He now understood that all of Prince Ning's subordinates had to listen to this girl; she was the boss here.
Yang Jianwu then gave everyone some food and drink to replenish their strength so they would have the energy to go back.
"Eat something, and then we'll go back to Guning City together."