OBS Chapter 344 Xiaocao asks for help
Chapter 344 Xiaocao asks for help
Lu Xiaocao felt a little reserved when looking at the enthusiastic elder sister, and rubbed the corners of her clothes tightly with her hands.
Some of them were afraid to look at Sister, so they lowered their heads and raised their eyes, wanting to say something but stopping themselves, and whispered "Sister" again.
Gu Qingqing naturally noticed that Xiaocao was busy. She glanced at Luo Meihua and Zhao Qin who were busy over there, and shouted to them, "You guys go ahead and do your work first. I'll entertain Xiaocao." After that, she pulled Lu Xiaocao into the inner courtyard.
After sitting down in the main hall, Gu Qingqing poured her a cup of tea. Then, sitting beside her, she asked softly and concernedly, "What's wrong? There's no one outside to talk to me about it now, but what happened at home? Don't worry, if Gu Zhuangzhuang really bullies you, I'll teach him a lesson when I get back."
"No, sister, it wasn't Zhuangzhuang who bullied me, I begged you." Lu Xiaocao stood up suddenly, and her bamboo-like legs suddenly became like noodles as she was about to kneel down towards Gu Qingqing. "Sister, please, you usually have the most ideas, can you help me think of a way to save Xiao Miao? I raised Xiao Miao myself, I can't watch her jump into the fire pit, sister, I beg you."
There was a clang, and Gu Qingqing was so scared that she dropped the lid of the teacup in her hand on the table. The lid turned several circles on the table, but fortunately she was not dismembered on the spot.
Gu Qingqing's whole body seemed to be installed with springs. She was caught off guard and rushed to Lu Xiaocao, holding her arm to stop her from kneeling down.
He shouted anxiously, "Xiaocao, you want to kill me, don't you? Hurry up and tell me what you want to say. I will help you. What is the matter that is worthy of your kneeling? Hurry up and get up!"
"Sister, I..." Lu Xiaocao couldn't kneel down. She remained in the supported position and looked up at Gu Qingqing from below. Her black and white eyes were full of helplessness and confusion.
"Please sit down and talk slowly. If you do this again, I will be angry. It's not a festival, what are you doing?" Gu Qingqing didn't dare to accept her kneeling.
After Lu Xiaocao sat down and saw that she was calm, Gu Qingqing asked tentatively, "Who were you talking about just now? Xiao Miao?"
She was unfamiliar with the name and couldn't remember who it was for a moment.
Lu Xiaocao nodded hastily, "Sister, Xiao Miao is my sister from my mother's side. She is four years younger than me and is only thirteen this year. I raised her myself since she was a child, and my feelings for her were the deepest when I was unmarried. When she was about to reach the age of marriage, I don't know what kind of magic potion my father was fed, but he insisted on selling her to a wealthy widower in town. That man is over thirty years old, and even older than our father. My mother was too timid to intervene in my father's affairs. It was only a few days ago when my father was drunk and swearing at home that she accidentally let it slip. She said that the other party wanted to give my father five taels of silver to let my father sell Xiao Miao to him, and also to write a letter of severance of engagement to Xiao Miao."
The town that Lu Xiaocao was talking about was not Taohua Town, but another town where their family lived.
Selling people, old widower, old age, alcoholic, broken family letter? Gu Qingqing grasped several key points.
The first few are fine, they are character issues, as for the letter of breaking off the relationship...
In the village, whether marrying off or selling a daughter, a letter of severance is generally not written. There are only two possibilities for requesting one. First, the man knows the situation of Xiao Miao's family and wants to live a peaceful life after marrying her, but does not want to have too much entanglement with her family.
Second, I have bought the person, and his life or death has nothing to do with your family.
"So, you know something, right?" Gu Qingqing frowned when she heard this.
Lu Xiaocao nodded, "Sister, if that's all, I wouldn't come to beg you. We can't resist our parents' orders."
Lu Xiaocao got excited again when she said this. "At most, I can just think of it as finding an older husband for Xiao Miao. When they have children, she'll have someone to rely on for the rest of her life. But we can't go into that family. I heard that three new graves have been added to his cemetery in the past four years. Those are the little girls around twelve or thirteen years old who he bought from the family one after another."
What Gu Qingqing subconsciously thought was how rich this man must be to be able to marry three women in four years.
When she heard the age of twelve or thirteen, she almost spit out the tea in her mouth, and the three red high-risk words "pedophile" instantly popped up in her head.
Damn, he's almost 40 years old. How much medicine has he taken to keep his penis from falling off? This isn't looking for a wife or concubine for himself. Isn't this fucking perverted?
"How do you know someone has died in that family?" Gu Qingqing asked again.
"There is an aunt in our village whose brother has some dealings with that family. Sometimes the aunt would tell a few people in the village about what she heard. Xiao Miao would often run into her when she was washing clothes by the river. The aunt never avoided Xiao Miao when she talked to the villagers, so Xiao Miao heard some of it." When Lu Xiaocao said this, her voice immediately became tearful.
"..."
"If he really wanted to marry Xiao Miao and live with her, why did he ask my father to write a letter of severance? Sister, do you think my father wrote a letter of severance so that Xiao Miao would have no relationship with the family? If he died one day... Sister, you have the most ideas, please help me think of a solution. I watched Xiao Miao grow up, and it would be fine if my father sold her to a normal family. But my father wants to force her to death."
This incident seemed to have touched Lu Xiaocao's tear glands. She wiped her tears with the back of her hand and blamed herself, "This matter has nothing to do with my elder sister. Xiao Miao came to me, and I couldn't just watch her jump into the kang. I don't know what to do. I can only come to my elder sister for help, wuwuwu!"
Seeing her like this, Gu Qingqing couldn't bear to blame her. People are all made of flesh and blood. I guess in her eyes, she is a capable person, and she is her only hope.
Gu Qingqing sighed. Although Xiaocao was a mother, she was only seventeen years old. She was still like a child and had to worry about another child.
She stepped forward to comfort her and said, "Okay, you silly child, don't cry. Crying can't solve the problem. Then, after you know about this, have you ever returned to your mother's home? What is your father's purpose? Is he willing to sell the seedlings as long as someone pays? Or does he have other transactions with the family in the village in your town?"
"I know this, I know. I went back yesterday, and I heard from my mother that my father was attracted by the other party's money. My family is not well off, we only have a few acres of thin land, and my father likes to drink. Maybe it's because my sister-in-law just gave birth to a child last year, and she is pregnant with another one this year. My father felt that the family lacked money for his drinking, so he set his sights on Xiao Miao."