Chapter 41： Caixia’s decision (please collect and read)

Chapter 41 Caixia’s decision (please collect and read)

Wei Tu stopped in front of the door.

He retracted his right foot that was hanging in the air and stepped out of the threshold, turned around and looked at the maid kneeling in the hall.

It was already evening, and the oil lamp in the hall stood on the half table near the south wall, next to Li Yaozu and his wife. The light shone through their robes and hairpins, forming a huge shadow that extended from the table to outside the house. The threshold covered the maid who was kneeling on the ground and crying.

After Wei Tu stopped, he stepped on the shadows on the floor tiles and walked back to the living room, standing beside the maid without saying a word.

Having been in Li House for many years, Wei Tu was very familiar with the maids and servants of Li House. Even if he didn't see their faces, he could roughly guess who the person was just by looking at their figures.

If this maid was on friendly terms with him, he would immediately turn around and leave for these trivial things that are common in rich families' homes.

He does not yet have the strength to challenge the secular order.

But Caixia’s words…

No matter what, it would be difficult for him to take that step and choose to ignore it and leave the living room of Li House.

Although Caixia's kindness does not allow him to "go to war" with the Li family for this, it is enough for him to help Caixia stand up.

At the beginning.

If Caixia hadn't reminded him, prompting him to redeem his deed in advance and avoid Li Yaozu's "attack".

At this time, he may have turned into a bandit hiding in the mountains and forests.

Even—

The heads were already fallen, and they were killed tragically by the swords and guns of the officers and soldiers.

…

“Why is he back?”

In the living room of Li Zhai, Li Yaozu and his wife saw Wei Tu standing next to Cai Xia. They were immediately confused and didn't know how to continue taking care of this "little thing".

Even though the master's abuse of his maids was expressly prohibited by Zheng's laws, the penalty for violating the criminal law was only a small amount of money. Therefore, in the eyes of Li Yaozu and his wife, the so-called laws were nothing more than a piece of paper.

As usual.

After this incident, Li Tong, as the mistress, reprimanded Li Xingye a few words, punished him to shut up and think about his mistakes, and then compensated Caixia with some money, and the incident was over.

If the two of them are willing, it would be feasible for Li Xingye to secretly bring Caixia into the house.

But now, the trouble is - Wei Tu stood up for Caixia. Even though he didn't speak, his attitude was already made clear.

The strength of Wei Tu itself, as well as Shan Wuju and the county Huang family behind it, forced Li Yaozu and his wife to carefully consider how to give Wei Tu and Caixia a perfect answer.

“Caixia, things have happened. Grandma, I... no matter how harshly I criticize Xingye, it will not help.”

"You make a request, and Grandma will consider it as appropriate and agree to it."

After a while, Li Tongshi finally spoke in the quiet but noisy living room.

"Except that I cannot give you the position of the head wife of Xingye, I will consider other options."

She added another sentence.

Caixia was Li Yaozu's maid. Although Li Yaozu never touched Caixia under her supervision, given this status, it was against etiquette and extremely inappropriate for Li Xingye to take Caixia as his concubine.

 She said that Caixia should not worry about being the first wife, but in fact she was reminding Caixia not to think about becoming Li Xingye's concubine, which would make things difficult for her.

“Caixia…”

Caixia stopped crying, pursed her lips tightly, and after saying these two words, she became silent again.

"Mom, I'm just a maid. Dad doesn't need her. I happen to not have a wife, so it's nothing to bring into the house." Li Xingye rubbed his sleepy eyes and interjected.

Listen to this.

Caixia seemed to have made a decision. She raised her head and glanced at Wei Tu first, then looked at Li Tongshi, and said, "My maid, please be kind to the eldest grandma, grant me your freedom, and give you money to return to your hometown."

"That's it?" After hearing Caixia's request, Li Tongshi was a little in disbelief and looked surprised.

Without Wei Tu as her platform, Caixia's request would have been extremely excessive, and she would not even be able to agree.

The master is willing to favor the maid, which is a gift to the maid. After all, everything about the maid belongs to the master. But it was different at this time. Li Tongshi was already prepared to be blackmailed by Caixia.

Save a little money to keep the family's ugliness from being publicized. This is what she, the matron, should do.

Once the family scandal becomes public, not only will the Li family's township review be affected, but it will also delay Li Xingye's path to the imperial examination.

“I hope my grandma will be lenient.”

Caixia kowtowed twice.

"Since you have made up your mind, I will allow you to do this." Li Tongshi breathed a sigh of relief and said.

After a while.

Li Tongshi brought out a lacquered wooden tray from the inner hall, with two ingots of silver and an unsealed envelope placed on it.

"These two ingots of silver, each ingot is the full amount of five taels, totaling ten taels of silver. You have collected it."

“Inside the envelope is your deed of betrayal and the letter of redemption written by the master..."

Li Tongshi said word for word.

“Thank you, grandma.”

Caixia continued to kowtow, with a look of gratitude on her face.

Seeing this, Wei Tu no longer needed to stay here. He sighed secretly and prepared to leave.

Everyone has their own choice.

In his opinion, Caixia's choice was not bad. She wanted her body deed and ten taels of silver instead of staying in Li's house.

With freedom and money, when she returns home, as long as Caixia's parents are not those scoundrels, Caixia will have a good ending in her life...

However-

Just when everyone thought the dust had settled, Caixia suddenly stood up.

She stood up, quickly took the two ingots of silver that Li Tongshi placed on the lacquered wooden tray, and said, "Grandma, Sister Xinghua and I have always been good friends. Sister Xinghua has been very helpful to me in the house. These ten taels Yinzi, I want to redeem Sister Xinghua’s body. I wonder if Grandma will allow it?”

The voice fell.

Everyone in the living room looked at Wei Tu who was standing next to Caixia.

Xinghua is Wei Tu’s wife.

Caixia redeems Xinghua’s body deed, and Li Zhai returns Xinghua’s body deed. No matter what, they cannot avoid Wei Tu in front of them...

Hearing this, Li Yaozu and his wife looked at Wei Tu, wanting to see Wei Tu's reaction.

They knew very well that with Wei Tu’s identity and status at this time, if he wanted to borrow money to redeem Xinghua’s deed, he could have done so as early as half a year ago.

The reason why Wei Tu did not redeem his wife was not because he had forgotten to spoil his wife, but because he owed money to redeem his wife. The debt was too great.

At this moment, Caixia wants to use money to redeem Xinghua’s body deed from Li Zhai, which is undoubtedly a favor to Wei Tu.

However.

To the dismay of Li Yaozu and his wife, Wei Tu seemed to acquiesce to this matter and remained silent after hearing Caixia speak.

"The redemption of the deed requires my consent..." Li Yaozu spoke, thinking about his refusal.

He also wanted to use Xinghua to control Wei Tu. Caixia redeemed Xinghua, and all the kindness fell on Caixia.

“To marry and obey your husband.”

“This is what Wei Dai Xinghua agreed to.”

At this time, Wei Tu spoke.

(End of this chapter)