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As it was bustling with people, all the neighbors gradually came to see what was happening, but Da Qing did not stay behind, nor did they accept Ling Chaofeng's silver, and quickly left.

The family had simply dealt with lunch, but Susu was naturally unable to eat anything. With great difficulty, she fell asleep in Xiaowan's embrace, but when Xiaowan moved the slightest, she woke up in fear. It was only when Uncle Biao brought some tranquil medicine from the infirmary and gave it to her to drink that finally slept soundly in the evening.

Uncle Biao and Aunt Zhang returned to the shop first. Xiaowan still stayed, so Ling Chaofeng naturally accompanied her. Auntie Chen brought along some steamed buns that were steamed in the afternoon and said that she would go to the end of the village to look for Da Qing's home.

On the other side, the couple sat under the eaves, the sun shining brightly in the yard, the fragrance of food wafting through the village, smoke rising from the cooking smoke, and the women shouting at their naughty children to come home and eat.

Xiaowan leaned on Ling Chaofeng's shoulder and said, "It's been a long time since I heard such a voice, I don't remember coming from such a place. Following my husband and living like a god, my life is truly good."

Ling Chaofeng asked her if she was cold, touched her hands and said: "It's good that you've forgotten, why must you remember?"

The Xiaowan looked at him and asked, "Hubby, now that the Auntie Chen is not here, and Susu is asleep, can you tell me now? Those two bastards, why are they snatching Susu? Where are they from? How did they know that Susu would go there every day?

After a series of questions, Ling Chaofeng remained calm and composed, "Can I tell you after I've solved all of my problems?"

Xiaowan didn't want to know: "I want to know right now."

However, Ling Chaofeng said: "Now that you know, it only increases your worries. First, calm down and accompany Susu properly, make her forget about this matter."

The two of them looked at each other and understood each other very well. Ever since they had given their hearts to this man, Xiaowan had always listened to everything he said.

"Later, why don't you wait a bit?" Ling Chaofeng persisted.

"I know." Xiaowan was clearly angry, but she did not continue interacting with him, she secretly clenched her fists, just as she was about to make her wish, someone walked over from outside the wattled fencing, her husband stood up and said to the outside, "Is it Da Qing?"

As the man walked closer, the setting sun illuminated his face. It was indeed Da Qing. His clothes were dirty, his pants were wet, and his arms were red, as if they had been strangled. It looked like he had been working at the dock for the whole afternoon.

Da Qing working at the Baisha River Pier was a very tiring and heavy job, but the wages he earned were very little. It would be hard to earn a living at the pier, but no one was willing to give them more money.

"Auntie Chen went to find you. So you haven't come back yet." Xiaowan walked up to her and said, "Aunt has to thank you well no matter what. Brother Da Qing, if aunty wants to give you something, then you can accept it."

Da Qing thanked him and knew that the mother and daughter pair were fine, and was about to leave, but Ling Chaofeng called out to him. On the other hand, Da Qing looked at Ling Chaofeng with a complicated gaze.

Ling Chaofeng said: "But when I said I wanted to sell those two beasts to the slave traders, did you feel disgusted with me?"

Da Qing saw all kinds of people on the dock every day, and he also saw those slave traders take away the innocent people who were kidnapped like goods on a boat. The people on the dock all knew that this was a place that was going to go across the ocean and travel a long distance.

When Ling Chaofeng said this in the morning, his heart sank. Sure enough, his Ling Xiao Inn was as dark as the rumors said.

Seeing that he did not say anything, Ling Chaofeng continued: "I do have some interactions with those slave traders. Since I can't even kill the people from the imperial government, how can I deal with them alone? What I can do is to buy people from them from time to time. Every time I try to sell them something, I always buy a boat full of people. This is the only thing I can do. "

Da Qing did not dare believe it, he was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the jade-like man smile: "Whether you believe it or not, it's up to you, but right now, I have something I want to entrust to you, I don't know, Brother Da Qing, whether you are willing or not."

Xiaowan didn't understand and used her gaze to ask his husband, but Ling Chaofeng squeezed her hand, telling her to wait.

Da Qing looked at the quiet house with worry. He gently clenched his fist and lowered his head: "Manager Ling, please speak."

Ling Chaofeng said: "We hope that Susu can get better like before. Today's matter is just a nightmare. From now on, please drive her all the way to the inn in the morning and pick her up at night.

Da Qing's eyes lit up, but he quickly dimmed down and smiled: "Manager Ling, you do not know about the matters of the village. If I send Miss Susu off like this every day, the villagers will gossip quickly.

Xiaowan said, "I know that there are some women in the village who love to talk their way out of things, but as long as you guys are honest and do nothing to them, they will only bully the weak and fear the strong. You guys ignore them and embarrass them, they will quickly shut up."

Da Qing pursed his lips and nodded: "As long as Lady Susu doesn't mind, I will take care of this matter from now on."

Ling Chaofeng laughed: "Naturally, we want to calculate the wages with you."

Da Qing immediately said: "You have already prepared a mule carriage for me, there is no need for the money, I am just taking it along."

Ling Chaofeng looked at Xiaowan, and seeing that she was smiling happily, he comforted his and said to Da Qing: "You keep it first, this way Susu will be more at ease."

Seeing Da Qing heading towards his own home, Ling Chaofeng said next to the ears of the Xiaowan: "What happens afterwards, will depend on their own fortune."

The Xiaowan asked foolishly: "What good fortune?"

Seeing her husband's profound smile, Xiaowan felt a jolt in her heart. However, she immediately understood what was going on as her face turned red: "Where did you see that?"

Ling Chaofeng patted her head: "It's not that I'm smart, it's because you're stupid."

Xiaowan raised her fist, "Say it again?"

With such a happy moment, Xiaowan forgot about what she was thinking just now. When Susu woke up later on, she calmed down a little and advised them to return early.

The aunt also said that the village was very safe. Anyone who was called by the neighbors would come out. Don't look at how the men had all gone out to work here. Because of this, the women were all exceptionally fierce, and not everyone could easily behave atrociously.

Ling Chaofeng and Xiaowan could not refuse, and did not want Susu to be too nervous, so they left as mother and daughter.

Auntie Chen fed Susu some food and said that she had sent some steamed buns to Da Qing's home. Only then did she realise that the situation at the end of the village was completely different from here.

Most of the houses in this area were tile-roofed. Every household had their own neat and clean courtyard. However, to the end of the village, there were only thatched huts. They were simple and small, and lived in the hands of poor families. Da Qing only had an old mother in his house, anhee was very kind. When he first heard that she had gone to find Da Qing, she panicked and thought that his son had done something.

"He is a young man who follows the rule of 22, but because his family is too poor, he cannot marry a wife." The Auntie Chen sighed, "The village's conditions are better, I don't think much of him, I just want to marry my daughter into a good family, and that will delay us. "Such a good child, whoever marries their daughter will be able to rest in peace for the rest of their lives."

Susu laid on the bed in a daze. Ever since she started working at the Ling Xiao Inn, she would meet this person every morning. Although she was scared half to death on the first day, when she saw him afterwards, she felt especially at ease.

He hadn't seen her that day and was still thinking about it. What was even more unexpected was that something like this would happen today.

Her body seemed to still have the feeling of being desecrated by those two brutes, and when Susu thought about it, she could only wash her face with tears. When Da Qing saw her, she was completely naked, with both her legs separated, she …

"Susu?" When Auntie Chen saw his daughter covering her face and crying, his heart broke. "Good child, forget about it, forget about it."

"Mom, how can I live?" Susu was heartbroken.

Separated by seven to eight kilometers, the Xiaowan seemed to be able to feel Susu's sadness. Just a moment ago, she was happy about Da Qing, but when she thought about how Susu had been humiliated by others today, and how she hated Susu to the point of losing a layer of her own skin when she was bathing, her heart sank and she felt a chill down her spine.

If it was only those two beasts who were overbearing, then it would not be a problem, but if someone was instigating them from behind, Xiaowan was very uneasy in her heart, she felt that she must be overthinking things.

In the meantime, Ling Chaofeng went to wash his face and rinsed his mouth. Xiaowan was alone in the house, she laid down with her right hand clenched into a fist, and her eyes slowly closed.

Very quickly, Xiaowan entered into slumber, and the "dream" brought her to the Baisha Town.

It was a rainy day and there were very few people on the streets. Xiaowan entered a restaurant and just as she stepped onto the stairs, two vulgar looking men came in from outside.

They passed through the Xiaowan and walked up the stairs. The Xiaowan subconsciously "followed" them and entered the private room. There, they saw a man wearing a gauze hat sitting by the window.

It was a woman's voice. She said coldly, "My concubine who escaped from our family, I'll leave the lowliest things to you guys to handle. Here's a hundred silver taels, go buy some wine."

The two of them questioned him for a while, but they didn't seem to feel reassured. In the end, they accepted the 100 taels of silver. The woman also warned them that she would know if they accepted the money and didn't do anything.

The two of them laughed out loud. They said that they would not let the women off if they paid back the money for free, so they swaggered away.

Xiaowan hated them dearly in her heart and couldn't wait to rush up and strangle them all. She suddenly turned her head and saw that the girl had lightly lifted her veil, revealing a sinister and cold face. Xiaowan was stunned, but it was just as she had thought.

"Yue …" The person in the dream suddenly woke up and sat up. Ling Chaofeng had just returned from washing up, and seeing this scene, he hurriedly went up and asked, "Evening, what's the matter?"

The Xiaowan looked at Hubby in fear, grabbing his arm and asked, "Is it Yue Huaiyin? Master, did Yue Huaiyin send someone to rape Susu? "

Ling Chaofeng felt that it was not strange for the Xiaowan to doubt him, it was just that, why was she suddenly so sure of it, while he instead said calmly: "Those two people, they only know that a woman wearing a veil told them to do it, that Susu escaped from a rich family, and that they must clean up their family."

"It's Yue Huaiyin, it's her." The Xiaowan said excitedly, "Hubby, do you know why Susu had to leave the Rouge Shop? It's because she realized that Susu used to be someone who came out of a brothel, not because she looked down on her, but because she was afraid that in the future, someone would pester her. She was more afraid that she might be sold to that place one day.

"Late at night, don't get excited." Ling Chaofeng said, "I do not have any solid evidence, although I think it is her, but..."

"It's Yue Huaiyin, it's her." Xiaowan said excitedly, "I saw it, I saw it with my own eyes."

Ling Chaofeng felt that the Xiaowan was very strange and tried his best to calm her down. How could he know that the Xiaowan had made a wish with her ring, letting the ring tell her in her dreams who it was that wanted to harm Susu?

If it were only two thugs harboring malicious thoughts, it would be easy to deal with them, but she had suspected since day time that it was Yue Huaiyin who took revenge on Susu. She thought she was being too stingy, but to be able to see it for herself, she was more willing to believe in the divine power of the Jade Ring than doubting that her dream would only come true.

"Hubby, we will report it to the officials. Hubby, what if she finds someone to harm Susu the next time?"

"Alright, we'll report it to the officials. But first, you have to promise me. Calm down, don't say anything else. Silence immediately." Ling Chaofeng embraced the excited person as his petite body trembled. He did not understand why the Xiaowan insisted that it was Yue Huaiyin.

But if it really was Yue Huaiyin, it would be a very heavy blow to both her and Susu. Or perhaps they should be glad that they had instinctively wanted to stay away from that woman.

Although she was now abandoned in this small place and no longer had her previous uses and meaning, since she was able to open her Rouge Shop, she had the guts to use her relationship with the capital to rope in the Prefect Meng, so she must still be connected to the capital.

Indeed, Ling Chaofeng did not need to worry about Yue Huaiyin, but the power and influence of the capital was intertwined and the entire body was moving, he had to worry about a lot of people.

"Hubby …" Xiaowan still voiced her opinion.

"Be good, don't let your thoughts run wild." Ling Chaofeng hugged her and gently caressed his wife's back.

Xiaowan leaned on her shoulder and stared straight at him, "Why are there such vicious people, and why … It's all my fault. On that day when I ran away with Susu and Auntie Chen, I didn't provoke her, and I didn't have any interactions with her. It's all my fault. "

Ling Chaofeng comforted her: "The heart has to change, and no one can stop me. Everything in this world and the people in it are cycle of karma, and both will repay good and evil.

Xiaowan said in a daze: "What day was that? Could it be that before that, the injured person deserved it?"

Ling Chaofeng said: "There is a limit to what we can do.

Xiaowan nodded: "I will remember this. I will remember every word that Hubby said. At that time, you scolded me for believing in others, but I didn't want to believe you. At that time, I didn't believe it, but now, it's too late to regret it. Fortunately, nothing big happened to Susu today. "

Ling Chaofeng kissed her, "Let's go and report to the officials tomorrow, okay?"

The Xiaowan nodded. Just as she was about to speak, the door to the inn downstairs was knocked so loudly that it shook the heavens.