Chapter 1170: Deception

Madam Old Ruan’s gaze turned sharp, a flash of sinister glint passed, but she swallowed it back and continued to beg Mrs. Chen: "Shuihua, Shuihua’s mother really was wrong, can you forgive your mother this time?"

"Your mother knows you’ve suffered greatly, your mother feels for you, but there’s nothing she could do, the family is poor, raising your brothers is already very difficult, let alone raising you girls, the whole family would not survive."

Gu Dagui laughed after hearing this, so that’s why you want to drown Lian Niang?

Madam Old Ruan’s face turned ashen, tears fell, as she choked while looking at Mrs. Chen: "Your mother knows you hate me, hate the family, your mother doesn’t blame you, it’s my fault for not raising you well... but as I escaped famine, I often wondered, where did my Shuihua escape to? Is there food for her? How are my two grandsons? They mustn’t fall ill, they have to survive... After surviving the famine, I thought you had died, and every year during New Year and Tomb-Sweeping Festival I prepared offerings and worshipped you, afraid you were suffering underground."

Gu Dagui: "..."

Originally, we were doing well, but with your offerings, it seems we’d be meeting King Yan sooner.

"Now knowing you’re still alive, your mother is overjoyed, willing to die immediately," Madam Old Ruan murmured a lot, tears streamed down from her droopy eyes, hanging on her wrinkled face, her suffering look upward was heart-wrenching.

Madam Old Ruan looked at Mrs. Chen, seeing her stunned, with a look of shock and emotion, smiled triumphantly inside. Ha, she understood Chen Shuihua, knew Chen Shuihua yearned for parental love, indeed after saying these words, Chen Shuihua was taken aback.

Mrs. Chen was indeed dazed for a moment, when she was young she longed for parental love, so when she heard Madam Old Ruan’s words, she cried. As she shed tears, she thought, if this were true, or if this kind of lie had come twenty years earlier, how great would that be?

Unfortunately, she’s no longer the little girl yearning for parental love, she’s aged, long seen through Madam Old Ruan’s heart, won’t believe her nonsense anymore.

Mrs. Chen wiped her tears, with a bang, kicked Madam Old Ruan away, mocked: "Old Devout Woman, are you trying to coax me like a child? Save it. Your kind of lies wouldn’t fool Yinhua, and you want to fool me?!"

She pointed at Madam Old Ruan and cursed: "Don’t pretend, if you truly cared for me, would you have wanted to drown me back then?"

Madam Old Ruan was shocked upon hearing this, quickly said: "Shuihua, don’t listen to your big sister’s nonsense, the one who wanted to drown you was your grandma. You’re born by me, your mother, however cruel, wouldn’t drown you. Besides, when I just gave birth to you, I was exhausted beyond measure, where would I have the strength to drown you?"

"Shuihua, Shuihua?" Mrs. Chen laughed: "If you really cared for me, how would you give me such a name? How did this name come about, you don’t know?"

She sneered: "Save me? It was clearly big sister who saved me. Grandma indeed didn’t want a granddaughter, but she didn’t want to kill, the one who wanted to drown me was you!"

Upon saying this, Mrs. Chen couldn’t stop her tears again, opened her mouth repeatedly wanting to say something, but thinking about the big sister who saved her yet was sold in the end, Mrs. Chen swallowed her words, spat at Madam Old Ruan, said: "Surname Ruan, you don’t need to say anymore, no matter how much you speak I won’t believe you, you are vicious enough to kill your own daughter!"

This spit directly hit Madam Old Ruan’s face, enraging her completely, she fiercely cursed Mrs. Chen: "Chen Shuihua, you ungrateful girl, I’m your biological mother, your life was given by me, you cannot conspire with Xu Family to harm me! I don’t ask for much, just a household registration, if you don’t give it, the old woman will crash and die in your home!"

Madam Old Ruan said this, then lunged towards a nearby wall to crash herself, though her hands and feet were bound, moving a meter was hard, unable to hit the wall.

Elder Xu watched Madam Old Ruan’s disgraceful state, laughed, asked her: "Chen Family Woman, have you made enough fuss? If so, hurry and choose one, the old man doesn’t have time to wait for you."

If not for the Chen Family scheming against the Xu Family and Brother Xing, Elder Xu would have no interest in dealing with this.

Madam Old Ruan, furious, shouted at Elder Xu: "Pei, you vicious old man, you’re an outsider, based on what right can you mind our family’s business? I won’t choose, if you’ve got the guts, kill me!"

"Ha, kill you? Alright." Elder Xu chuckled, uttering stunning words, stunned Madam Old Ruan.

Elder Xu looked at Madam Old Ruan and said: "You are a refugee without status, I’m a gentry, with your daughter not acknowledging you, do you think the old man wouldn’t dare kill you?"

He pointed at Chen Cangjin and Chen Canggu: "As for your two sons, all I need is to give them each one hundred taels of silver, buy you, and they’d keep this a secret. Given their refugee status, they wouldn’t dare report to the government."

Elder Xu looked at Madam Old Ruan and laughed, at this moment he seemed like a tiger lying on a mountain top, plotting how to tear her apart.

Upon hearing this, Madam Old Ruan immediately looked at her two sons, seeing a flicker of light in their eyes, evidently stirred by Elder Xu’s promise of silver: "Wuwuwu, God, retribution, retribution, this is all retribution!"

She schemed against her daughter for her sons, in the end, her life-pained sons disregarded her life for silver.

Chen Cangjin and Chen Canggu heard these words, both lowered their heads, not that they were heartless, truly Elder Xu offered too much silver, it was hard for them not to be tempted.

Elder Xu looked at Xu Family’s Guardian Master and said: "Take that Chen Family Woman to the mountains, let the wild beasts empty her out... There are plenty of wild beasts in these mountains, every year they eat a few people, no one knows who’s dead when eaten clean."

Upon hearing this, Madam Old Ruan stopped crying, looking at Xu Family’s Guardian Master approaching her, she shouted: "I’ll choose two, I’ll choose the second option, don’t kill me!"

Don’t kill me, wuwuwu.

Madam Old Ruan shouted these words, then prostrated and wept bitterly, defeated, she schemed against her daughters all her life, unexpectedly at old age, defeated by the third daughter here.

Elder Xu laughed, raised his hand to halt Guardian Master’s actions, told Xu Family’s housekeeper: "Write an indenture, let them press their fingerprints."

"Yes." Xu Family’s housekeeper swiftly wrote an indenture, all Chen Family people sold themselves to Xu Family.

Gu Dagui saw this, frowned, asked Elder Xu: "Uncle Xu, wouldn’t this affect Brother Xing?"

Elder Xu said: "Relax, it won’t be filed with the government, won’t affect Brother Xing’s career."

Brother Xing is Gu Dagui and Mrs. Chen’s nephew, Chen Family People are Mrs. Chen’s maiden family, counted as blood relatives, if outsiders knew Chen Family People served as Xu Family’s servants, they’d curse Gu Dexing. There’s no such thing in this world as relatives serving as another relative’s servant.