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Chapter 597: Chapter 601: Back to the Firewood Room_1
Hu’s Clan’s fear grew as she thought about it more, her rationality slowly being overrun.
"If anything happens to Da Ya or Er Ya, I’ll hold you responsible with your life!"
Hu’s Clan pounced on Xiao Lingchuan, her fists raining down on him like a downpour.
Xiao Lingchuan awkwardly protected his head, "Have you lost your mind? They’re living the high life, better off with their patrons than with you, a cast-off mother. At least they can hold their heads high as people!"
"Tan Zhengyuan and I were properly separated, what’s there to be ashamed of? My girls don’t need this kind of ’blessing’!"
Hu’s Clan, her emotions intensifying, hit him even harder.
She had never regretted her decision to separate, and their lives were nowhere near as unbearable as Xiao Lingchuan suggested, were they?
Now, they neither stole nor begged, no longer had to please anyone, and worked hard every day. Why couldn’t they hold their heads up high? 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
After allowing Hu’s Clan to vent for a while, someone came to pull her away.
"Stop hitting him, if you kill him by accident that won’t be good, the county magistrate surely won’t let him off easily!"
"Right, at dawn tomorrow we’ll head to the town; Zhong Zi, you must bring the ox cart over first thing tomorrow!"
Huang Zhong immediately agreed, "No problem, I’ll definitely come to the ancestral hall early."
Although Hu’s Clan was anxious for her daughters’ safety, she also knew it was unrealistic to go to the county at this time of night, so she went home to rest with the company of the village women.
Before she found her girls, she couldn’t afford to collapse.
Tie Niu waved his hand, "Lock them up in the woodshed, and send them to the Government Office first thing in the morning."
Xiao Lingchuan quickly spoke up, "Village Chief, I really don’t know about the Tan Family’s matters. Let me go home first, maybe I can think of a way to find the buyer."
"You can think in the woodshed just the same. Tonight, we’ll trouble everyone to keep a close watch,"
Tie Niu said irritably. Selling the children without their mother’s knowledge was inexcusable anywhere.
"If you don’t want to be locked up in the woodshed, why didn’t you think of those children? Such young kids might be sleeping in a woodshed themselves!"
"If they could sleep in a woodshed, that would be rather fortunate. Those people might look splendid on the surface, but how many of them truly treat a maid as a person?"
"I’ve heard they even beat servants to death without a second thought, it’s sinful!"
The villagers grumbled as they locked the people up in the woodshed.
Once everyone had disbanded, Qiao Duo’er whispered to Tan Zhenghong, "I want to go to the woodshed."
Tan Zhenghong nodded, "Do you think Xiao Lingchuan lied?"
"Yes, his eyes were shifty when he spoke, I have a feeling he’s hiding something very important," Qiao Duo’er honestly said.
So under the cover of night, the two of them sneaked back to the woodshed at the ancestral hall.
The woodshed door was latched, but they climbed in through the window.
Within a short time, Tan Zhengyuan had already fallen into a deep sleep.
Qiao Duo’er, unable to suppress her anger, kicked him furiously, this Tan Zhengyuan wasn’t even worth being called scum!
Tan Zhengyuan grunted discontentedly in his sleep, turned over, and fell back asleep.
Startled awake, Xiao Lingchuan anxiously asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Don’t be afraid, we just want to know where the children are."
Qiao Duo’er smiled harmlessly, although in her mind she had already thought of every possible torture. If she tried each one on Xiao Lingchuan, he surely wouldn’t last.
In fact, she wanted to do just that earlier, but there were too many eyes around, and she couldn’t act freely. She had to wait until everyone had left to begin her interrogation.
"I already said I don’t know who the patron is, and I have no clue where the children are!"
Xiao Lingchuan shouted, but from his demeanor, it was clear he was masking his own guilt.
