Chapter 328: Humiliated
"Milk" Zhou Lan nervously pulled Qin's sleeve, thinking that Qin had repented and didn't want her to sell herself to the Zheng family.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m still young and have not yet stabilized my character. Zhou Lan, who has been beaten and oppressed by Qiu for a long time, did not develop a cowardly and dull personality like her sister Zhou Ju, and let Qiu do it at will.
She knew what the consequences of selling her body were, but she didn't want her own mother to arrange for her to marry an old pervert. Therefore, when Qin told her about selling her body to the Zheng family, she agreed without hesitation.
On the one hand, she wanted to get rid of Qiu's control and get rid of the fate of being very likely to be beaten to death. On the other hand, she also made her trust in the grandmother Qin. What's more, apart from this path, she had no better choice to live well.
Qin clapped her granddaughter's hand and signaled her not to speak. Then she looked at Sang Ye and said cautiously: "Miss Sang, you are kind to save my Lanzi. Old woman, I don't want Lanzi's money to sell her body. But there is only one thing, I hope Mrs Sang can respond to the old woman."
Don't sell your money?
Sang Ye looked at Qin unexpectedly, then looked at Zhou Lan who was dependent on the admiration beside her, and then restrained her strange expression and replied with caution: "Aunt Qin can say it bluntly, and everything I can do is easy to discuss."
Qin breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously held his granddaughter's hand: "Lanzi is still young and her future is long. If she wants to recover from freedom one day, I hope Miss Sang will allow her." After that, she was about to pull Zhou Lan to kneel down.
"Aunt Qin, get up quickly!" Sang Ye hurriedly stepped forward and helped the grandparents and grandchildren up, and said helplessly: "This time, you have to sell your granddaughter is just a temporary solution. As long as she does things steadily in my house, I will naturally not stop her when she wants to restore her freedom! If Aunt Qin is worried, we will make another contract letter in front of several village chiefs."
When Qin heard this, he was so grateful that he didn't know what to say. He immediately ignored Sang Ye's objection and asked Zhou Lan to kneel down and kowtow to her.
Sang Ye was Zhou Lan's elder. Seeing that Qin insisted on doing this, he received Zhou Lan's kneeling salute to calm her heart.
Without any worries, Qin happily pressed the handprint on the contract for sale. Zhou Lan also did not hesitate and pressed one where her name was written.
Immediately afterwards, the village chiefs of several villages sold Zhou Lan to the Zheng family. No matter how much Qiu made a fuss in the future, it would not be tenable.
It is not enough to have witnesses alone, and this contract of sale has to be filed with the government. After the filing, Zhou Lan was considered to have truly become a slave.
In order to prevent Qiu from finding a loophole in the future, Sang Ye thought for a while and asked Zheng Lin to take the contract to the government to file. Although this was a bit troublesome, it could avoid the greater trouble that might be brought about in the future, and it would be nothing.
After Zheng Lin left with the contract of selling his body, several village chiefs and clan leaders took the gifts and were about to leave. Before leaving, clan leader Zhou warned Zhou Lan in front of Sang Ye: "Since the Zheng family saved you, you will stay in the Zheng family to do things in the future. Your mother... can't cause trouble for you anymore."
The clan leader Zhou was vague, just because he was worried that after Zhou Lan went to the Zheng family, he would make the Zheng family unhappy when he did something wrong. He was driven out by the Zheng family and fell into the hands of her vicious mother. No one would be able to help him.
Zhou Lan was quick-minded and instantly understood what the leader of the Zhou clan meant, so she quickly responded: "Clan Chief, Lan Zi understands!"
Looking at the two grandparents and grandchildren with gratitude, Clan Chief Zhou was satisfied, and then sighed again, still feeling a little uncomfortable.
As the patriarch of the Zhou clan of Xiaozhou Village, the patriarch Zhou did not want to see anyone selling his body in the clan. However, given Zhou Lan's current situation, there is no second way to go besides selling his body.
It’s not that the clan leader Zhou knew who Qiu was. The Qin family had come to the house to plead, hoping that the clan would expel Qiu from the village. However, Qiu was not good at thinking, but did not do anything to harm the clan. The clan leader would not be able to expel her from the village. If he really did this, he would inevitably have a verbal remark.
Qiu was a good person again. He and several old men went to the Zhou family before to remind Qiu that she should not act too much. Unexpectedly, when she started, Qiu was reluctant to make trouble. He rushed into the kitchen to get a knife and ran to the pigpen to kill the big fat pig that could be slaughtered in the twelfth lunar month.
This fierce behavior not only scared the leader of the Zhou clan and others, but also scared the Qin and his son. Since then, Qiu has done even more excessive things, and no one dares to argue, for fear that Qiu will go crazy and slashes the person's neck with a knife.
Sang Ye naturally didn't know these inside stories. Seeing that the clan leader Zhou looked complicated, he didn't think much, but just told Zhou Lan: "I'll live in my parents' house for a while. If your mother forces you to do something, you pack up your things and come over in advance."
According to the agreement with Qin, Zhou Lan had to wait until Sang Ye returned to Zheng's house and went directly to Zheng Chunxiang. At that time, she would arrange for her to go to the workshop in the town to help Zheng Chunxiang. Of course, before this, she would definitely settle the Qiu family, and she could not let Qiu go to the workshop in the town to make trouble.
"Aunt Sang, Lanzi understands." Zhou Lan responded obediently, with a little excitement on her face and a little impatient. This little girl has had enough of the days when she was facing Qiu's mother at home.
After everyone left, Mu asked Sang Ye with some concern: "That Qiu is not easy to meet. When she knows that Qin didn't ask for a penny, she will sell Zhou Lan to you. I'm afraid she's going to make trouble for you."
Sang Ye didn't take Qiu seriously and said indifferently: "We have a fat group here, and it's useless for ten Qiu people to come to the door. I'm so afraid that she won't make trouble!"
Mu snorted and laughed: "Everyone says that a dog relies on his power, are you considered a person relies on his power?"
"Hehe, the bear I raised will not lose a piece of meat for a fight." Sang Ye was not ashamed and replied with a smile, but the next moment she collapsed and said in a depressed voice: "The fat group will be sent away soon. I can't bully people by relying on it in the future."
Mu knew that the fat group was going to be sent away. Seeing that her daughter was feeling uncomfortable, she couldn't help but say, "If you can't bear to leave, don't send it away, don't you can't afford to raise it?" Speaking of which, she was also reluctant to leave this big guy who was very round but quite human!
Sang Ye shook his head and curled his sadness: "It's not okay to send it away. It's still alive. I can't pick up the female bear and raise it as a wife. If it wants to leave one day, I'm afraid there's no way to live well in the deep mountains and forests."
Hearing that his daughter would not change her mind, Mu stopped persuading her and brought the topic back to Qiu: "This woman is not smart, but she is a cruel person. Oh, when she knows the truth, Qin is afraid she will be in trouble."
Sang Ye frowned, unable to figure out how someone like Qiu: "I don't think it's because she's not smart, but because she doesn't have the heart!" If she is really mean, she can't do anything to force her son to drop out of school and drive her daughter crazy.
It would be fine if my son was stupid and unmotivated, but Qiu's son followed his father Zhou Hua and showed extremely high academic talent since childhood. He passed the test for the childbirth at the age of eight, and the case was even more powerful than his father.
It was at that time that Qiu didn't know where to throw a crazy family, so he forced his son to drop out of school by dying. Neither Qin nor Zhou Hua could withstand Qiu's ruthlessness, so the eight-year-old child could not. In the end, Qiu was forced to work in the fields.
A child like a child prodigy was destroyed by his own mother's future. When he grew up, Qiu was forced to marry his uncle's stupid cousin. Now, like most farmers, he worked hard every day to dig food in the field. He was not old and lost all his aura when he was young.
Zhou Ju, the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, was even more miserable. She originally married a good husband's family, and her mother-in-law and kind husband were honest and capable, and her life was very comfortable. As a result, Qiu couldn't stand his daughter's life well. Every time Zhou Ju returns to her parents' house, she would instigate her and actually said that Zhou Ju's husband was hooking up with a young widow outside and encouraged Zhou Ju to capture the money from her husband's family.
At the beginning, Zhou Ju didn't believe it, and when she was brainwashed by Qiu, she became suspicious. Finally, she quarreled with her parents-in-law every day, and the couple broke into a quarrel. Her husband really didn't like her anymore, and Zhou Ju believed that her husband had raised a wild woman outside, which became treacherous.
Later, Zhou Ju's husband could no longer bear it and proposed to divorce his wife, which became the last straw that crushed Zhou Ju. She went completely crazy.
After Sang Ye said this, Mu also remembered the experience of the Zhou siblings. He couldn't help but feel a little disgusted. He waved his hand and said, "I won't talk about that woman anymore. No matter how she makes trouble, it's all the business of the Zhou family. It's a good thing that we can help Zhou Lan."
Sang Ye didn't want to say this anymore, so he stopped talking and said something else.
On the other hand, Qin took Zhou Lan back home and happened to meet Qiu who came back from the field. He was worried that Qiu would see the clues, and his grandparents would rush over the food on the ground with a rake as if nothing had happened.
Qiu's domineering and unreasonable nature does not mean that she is not brainy. She had not seen these two people before when she came home with a grass head, and she felt unhappy. Now she saw them coming back from outside again, so she stared at Zhou Lan with her eyes and fiercely: "Slutty, where are you going to the wild again?"
If it were in the past, Zhou Lan was afraid of Qiu's tyranny and did not dare to retaliate. This time she suddenly didn't want to bear it anymore and said coldly: "I'm not a dog I'm tying, please care where I'm going!"
When Mrs. Qiu heard this, she suddenly threw down the burden on her shoulders, stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Lan's braid, and knocked her head against the wall: "It's so turbulent, I see you are so turbulent, I'll beat you to death!"
This is not the first time Zhou Lan was pressed against the wall by Qiu. When Qiu threw away the burden and rushed up, she shrank in a reflex. Until the braid was grabbed by Qiu, she didn't know where the courage came from. She jumped up and hit her left and hit her temple directly.
"Hiss" Qiu's head was hit with stars, and the hand holding Zhou Lan's braid unconsciously released.
When Qiu rubbed his dizzy head and reacted, Zhou Lan had already taken the opportunity to break free from behind Qin, who was rushing to stop him. He looked at Qiu, without fear, but only deep hatred.
"Bitch, you're looking for death!" Qiu was so angry that he didn't even look at Qin. He picked up the farm tools carrying grass on the ground, rushed to Qin's side, and fought hard towards Zhou Lan behind her.
This fierce look seemed to be about to beat Zhou Lan to death, as if she was not her daughter born from ten months of pregnancy, but her enemy who dug out her ancestral grave!
"Lanzi, run, run quickly!" The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had been with Qiu for 20 years, Qin knew very well that Qiu was really angry. She rushed up to stop the crazy Qiu and shouted loudly to ask her granddaughter to run away quickly.
"Miss, I won't leave." Zhou Lan had a deep relationship with Qin. She was not willing to let her grandmother face Qiu alone, but she had little strength to face Qiu with her and had no power to fight back.
She hated Qiu deeply in her heart, and hated herself, hating herself for not being proud of herself and holding on to Qiu, otherwise she would never have to be beaten and scolded again when she left, and now she has implicated her grandmother.
"Tan, please get out of my way, otherwise I will beat you together!" The Qiu, who was stopped, failed to hit Zhou Lan, was afraid that the anger would be scattered on Qin, and there was no respect for Qin in his words.
It’s not that Qin was beaten by Qiu, but she was also afraid of Qiu. But her granddaughter was behind her, and she couldn’t let Qiu go: “Qiu, you have to take Lan Zixu to Liu Dangzi. You beat Lan Zi to death. I see what you have to accompany her as a wife.”
These words had some effect. Qiu, who was yelling to beat Zhou Lan, paused, and then said fiercely: "There is no big gift. I will kill this little embryo and there is no need to compensate me."
Seeing Qiu's reaction, Qin breathed a little relieved and sneered and let go: "Then you beat her to death. When she dies, let alone Liu Dangzi's bride price, you also have to pay Zhang Zi to throw her onto the mountain."
When Qiu, who was already hesitant, he thought about it for a while and gave up the idea of beating Zhou Lan to death. He threw away the farm tools in his hand and said to Zhou Lan in a silence: "You unfilial and humble embryo, Liu Crook, who deserves to marry Liu Dangzi, I am waiting for you to end up like his two wives in front of him. Bah!"
He spat at Zhou Lan, and Qiu was too lazy to look at her again, turned around and walked away.
Zhou Lan was so angry that she trembled all over, and tears flowed down her eyes: "Mr. She is not, she is not my mother. I don't have such a mother, no..."
Qin hugged his granddaughter with heartache, and tears were also rolling: "Don't cry, Lanzi, don't cry, your heart is broken by your crying... She is not a good mother, she doesn't love you, her breasts hurt, her breasts hurt, you... Be good, don't cry..."
"Milk..." Zhou Lan hugged her grandmother, and her tears became more and more intense.
After a while, all the depression in her heart was released. She raised her head with her swollen eyes. She was about to talk to Qin when she saw a woman with disheveled head and unclosed clothes standing at the door, staring blankly at the corner of her eyes.
This woman is nothing else, Zhou Ju, the eldest daughter of the Zhou family. After Zhou Ju was crazy, Qiu immediately made trouble for Zhou Ju’s in-laws last year, and wanted to take Zhou Ju home and ask them to pay money, otherwise they would come to the door every day.
That family was quite kind. After Zhou Ju became a lunatic, she didn't want to drive her away. Unexpectedly, Qiu came to ask for someone by herself. The lion even asked for twenty taels of silver. How could they be willing!
However, Qiu's family was even more cruel. Seeing that Tian came to the door to make trouble, they instigated Zhou Ju to use a knife to kill people. The family had no choice but to find someone to bargain with Qiu's, and in the end they had to spend ten taels of silver to buy An Ning.
Qiu's wolf was heartless and did not regard people as human beings, and he had no mother-daughter relationship with Zhou Ju, so after taking Zhou Ju back, he instructed her to do all kinds of complicated tasks, but she didn't give her food to eat, so she just treated people as animals.
Zhou Lan and Zhou Ju have a very good relationship. Even if Zhou Ju doesn't know her and they still get sick from time to time, she can't bear to be tortured by Qiu Shi Zhuo, and always saves some of her food for Zhou Ju, which makes Zhou Ju live to this day.
"Sister" Zhou Lan's face changed drastically. She hurriedly let go of Qin and rushed towards the woman. When she saw the woman's exposed neck and her chest was covered with tooth marks, the hatred in her eyes almost rushed out: "Who, sister, who did it? Who did it?"
Zhou Lan is a girl who is uninformed, which does not mean that she doesn’t know anything. Seeing her sister who had gone out in the morning turned into this, she didn’t know what she had encountered. This look was clearly insulted!
"Oh my God, God, give my granddaughter a way out..." Qin came over and burst into tears when he saw such a big granddaughter.
Zhou Ju was stupid and didn't know what grandma and sister were talking about. She looked at this and then that, suddenly raised her hand and touched the back of her head, and said aggrievedly: "It hurts..."
Off topic
Zhou Ju and his brother have prototypes, and their experiences are all true. When I heard the story of the two brothers, I really didn’t believe that there is such a shameful mother in the world. Qiu should have psychological problems. She was either born or acquired or suffered some serious blows, which made her mentally distorted.
Chapter completed!