The maid's road to success

The next day, Liu Xi's marriage cancellation notice was sent back to Wangjia Village with drums and gongs.

"There is a Liu family in Huai County who was deceived by the daughter of the Wang family into getting engaged. Now they have come to their senses and are here to cancel the engagement. All the gifts from the Liu family will be given to the daughter of the Wang family as compensation. From now on, the two of them will marry separately and have nothing to do with each other."

Wang Lianhua was standing at the door and heard the Liu family's servant standing at the door reading the letter of divorce loudly. Many villagers were gathered around, staring at her family and pointing and talking. Their voices were not concealed at all, and Wang Lianhua could hear them clearly.

It's nothing more than deceiving others into getting engaged, how despicable.

My family didn't teach our daughter well, which is a huge disgrace.

Others said that they would stay away from this family in the future because it was unlucky.

Wang Lianhua had already been hit hard by the recent events, and now she was being ridiculed by everyone for the man breaking off the engagement in public. She immediately lost control and flew in front of the Liu family, roaring.

"Why? Why would Liu Xi treat me like this? I'm infatuated with him. Has he been seduced by someone to humiliate me like this?"

When the Liu family's steward saw that Wang Lianhua was still trying to defend herself and accusing Liu Xi of breaking off the engagement because he had another woman, he immediately thought of the previous arrangements made by the master's family.

If the Wang family calmly accepts the broken engagement, then they can be forgiven this time. After all, the Qian family is the mastermind behind this matter, and the Wang family was tempted by money, so they are not guilty of a crime that deserves death.

But if they refuse to accept and keep making trouble, don't show any mercy to them. Expose them in public and let them suffer the consequences.

Liu Xi originally thought of many ways to deal with the Wang family, but he thought about how much he had been attentive to Wang Lianhua over the past six months.

I still couldn't bear to see Wang Lianhua suffer with a face that looked 50% like Cai Lian.

But if she is too greedy, there is no need to be soft-hearted. After all, Cai Lian is such a kind and gentle woman. If Wang Lianhua is too greedy, she is not worthy of being Cai Lian's substitute, so as not to humiliate Cai Lian.

"My master said that Miss Wang was too ruthless and colluded with Master Qian to murder my master. The two parties colluded to lure my master into promising to marry you, but behind the scenes they planned to steal the Liu family's winemaking secret recipe and sell it to the Qian family after the marriage. My master said that the Liu family couldn't afford such a woman. The industry that they had worked hard for ten years could not be taken away by a vicious woman."

The shopkeeper of the Liu family looked at Wang Lianhua falling to the ground in despair, her face full of tears and covered in dirt. He immediately felt disgusted and took two steps back.

Looking at Aunt Wang Er's frightened expression, he seemed to have thought of something and added a few more words.

"By the way, Madam Wang, do you believe in retribution? For your own petty gains, you schemed against your own nephews and nieces, causing one of them to be sold and the other to be sickly since childhood. Now, your son has finally taken revenge on you. Your son, for his own benefit, held the handle on the young master of the Bai family and kept threatening him, but he couldn't keep the secret. In the end, he was retaliated. Your daughter, for her own future, did not hesitate to seek the skin of a jackal, and was eventually broken off because of her reputation. These are actually all the evil things you did."

When the people around heard what the Liu family's steward said, they immediately looked at the second aunt of the Wang family with strange eyes.

There was hatred in everyone's eyes. Wangjia Village itself was a very ordinary and harmonious village, and the sale of children had never happened there.

The sale of Bihe caused a huge uproar in Wangjia Village. The village chief repeatedly expressed his willingness to gather the pregnant women and villagers in the village to help Wang Dahu's family overcome the difficulties.

But they were all insulted and driven away by the people from the Wang family's old house, who also said that they could help temporarily but not forever, and that it was their own family affair after all. Outsiders should stay out of it.

At that time, everyone just said that the old man of the Wang family was cruel. They were obviously living a good life, but they were unwilling to help the eldest son's family who was separated from the family, and even tried to stop it. At that time, people thought that the old lady of the Wang family was partial and didn't want that granddaughter.

Wang Dahu himself is also foolishly filial and dares not resist his mother and protect his children.

Now after listening to what the Liu family said, he immediately understood that it was not that the old lady of the Wang family did not want Bihe's granddaughter, but that the second daughter-in-law of the Wang family was cruel and ruthless. She schemed to make her nephew weak and difficult to support, and her niece was sold to another place.

"I knew that what happened back then was not simple. Wang Dahu's wife was stronger than me, so how could she not have milk? When we wanted to help her during the birthing, they refused to let us in. Now it seems that they are afraid that we would go in to help and delay them from doing their evil deeds."

When Second Aunt Wang saw a group of people standing in front of her house and insulting herself and her two children, her eyes immediately turned red and she pointed at the group of people and cursed them.

"You are full of shit. What evidence do you have to accuse me of killing their children?"

"Liu Da, you are nothing but a dog of the Liu family. You are worried that my daughter will marry him and threaten your sister's position, so you want to throw dirty water on us. Liu Xi is also a playboy. He is thinking about his sweetheart and can't forget her. In the end, he is still engaged to our daughter. Now he just sees someone better and comes to frame my daughter. Bah, what a cheap bastard."

Seeing that Aunt Wang had figured out how to fight back so quickly, Liu Da sneered in his heart. However, these things were not false accusations by the Liu family, but real facts, so he was not afraid of Aunt Wang's shouting.

"Madam Wang Er, my sister does serve the master, so what? You have nothing to hide. What are you afraid of? The eldest daughter of the Wang family is right here. No matter what happened back then, she will confront you. Your family is a farmer and you are illiterate, but your grandfather was an apprentice in a pharmacy and knows a lot about medicinal herbs. Your family used to make money by picking herbs, and you still do. Do you agree?"

Liu Da and his servants pushed open the gate of the Wang family's old house. A group of people rummaged around in the yard. Finally, Liu Da took out a pile of white powder from a paper bag and said.

"Most ladies in the city use Glauber's salt to stop their milk production. When ladies give birth, they have wet nurses to feed their babies. In order to maintain a good figure, ladies use Glauber's salt to stop their milk production. Coptis chinensis, if taken by infants, will cause diarrhea and damage the spleen and stomach. Your nephew can't eat rice porridge and batter because of this, right?"

When Aunt Wang saw that Liu Da actually understood this, she immediately went crazy and knocked the herbs out of his hand, screaming and cursing.

"You, it was you who harmed our family. My daughter was sold and my son refused to acknowledge us. It was you who did it."

Wang Dahu and his wife arrived late and just happened to hear Liu Xi talking about why she had no milk and her son couldn't eat, so they immediately pounced on him and started fighting.

"You are so vicious. For the benefit of the Qian family, you repeatedly persuaded me to sell He'er to the old man of the Qian family as a maid. I refused, and you actually attacked my son. How could you be so cruel? You are a beast."

Aunt Wang Er no longer cared about her face and started fighting with Wang Dahu's wife.

"Why are you pretending to be a loving mother? You've been complaining about having a daughter. I was just trying to fulfill your wish, but you didn't agree because you were afraid of being scolded by the villagers. As soon as your son did something wrong, you immediately sold your daughter. You have no mercy at all. When you sold Bihe, she didn't want to, and she hid for a day, but you still caught her and carried her out to sell her. Now you come to complain about your injustice."

Seeing that her sister-in-law was affected and her movements were a little slow, Aunt Wang attacked her again.

"At the beginning, the village chief and his men advised you not to sell the children. Some villagers also gave birth to children. They just fed them for a few months and you compensated them with some food. We did try to stop them, but you were reluctant to give up the food, so you didn't agree in the end? Are you pretending to be innocent now?"

After Wang Dahu experienced that his son refused to acknowledge him, he began to reflect on himself and found that he had done a lot of wrong things. The people in the old house had never treated him and his wife as human beings. Seeing that the second son's wife was still shirking her responsibilities and his brothers were taking sides, he immediately became angry.

He kicked Wang Erhu away. Wang Dahu had been doing hard labor for many years and was much stronger than Wang Erhu. He kicked Wang Erhu to the ground and sat on him and started beating him. Old lady Wang felt sorry for her youngest son, so she came up and beat Wang Dahu with her cane.

Wang Dahu seemed to be insensitive to the pain. Every time Old Lady Wang hit him, he hit Wang Erhu twice as hard.

"Damn it, I worked hard day and night, respected my mother, and treated your family well, but you schemed against us and refused to admit your mistakes. I should have beaten you to death long ago."

Wang Erhu was beaten until his face was covered in blood and his whole body was covered with wounds. The villagers quickly pulled Wang Dahu away. He was not much better off. Old Lady Wang had beaten him with more than ten sticks and blood was oozing from his back.

"We are so ashamed of Bihe. We admit that in this life, our daughter is missing and our son refuses to recognize us. This is also our retribution. We are stupid and confused and have done wrong."

Wang Dahu said this while looking at the villagers around him.

"But you, I believe I have never treated you badly, even if my family was starving, I never stopped you, but when you introduced Bi He to that child abuser Qian, you were not soft-hearted at all, and you drugged my wife and my son without mercy. Wang Yuanshi, I have received my retribution. My wife and I will be lonely and helpless in this life, and we don't deserve to have filial children. You are vicious and drugged your nephews and nieces, and you also drugged the villagers many times. Your retribution has come now, I hope you can bear it. From now on, you'd better stay away from me, otherwise I will beat you every time I see you."

Wang Dahu pulled his wife away, and the two of them supported each other and returned to their dilapidated home. When the villagers saw that the people in the Wang family's old house had done so many bad things and still did not repent, they immediately stepped back as if they were looking at something dirty, for fear of having anything to do with this family.

Liu Da achieved his goal, and he also had selfish motives today. Wang Lianhua thought she had seduced Liu Xi, so she kept humiliating her sister in private. Liu Da knew that he would have to break off the engagement in public today, so he took the initiative to take on this task.

Before coming, he asked the chief steward who was investigating the incident about everything. He came well prepared and would certainly not let the Wang family escape.

Before leaving, Liu Da squatted down, looked at Second Aunt Wang's broken face and whispered something.

"Before I came here, I found someone to tell the Bai family's son Wang Jinwang where he lived. Madam Wang Er, have you ever thought about whether your family can bear the revenge of the Bai and Qian families?"

Liu Dazhi left with the Liu family in a leisurely manner, leaving only the people from the Wang family's old house collapsed on the ground crying. The steward had told himself before he left.

The master wants to take action against the Qian family, and this time he will definitely not let the Qian family turn over and let Liu Da get revenge. Liu Da understands that this is the steward reminding him that he can reveal some of his true colors to the Bai and Qian families and let them deal with the Wang family first to vent Liu Da and his sister's anger.

Wang Lianhua herself is vain and malicious, while her sister is a maid who serves the master, but she is clean and honest, serving as a clerk.

Besides, my sister is the daughter-in-law of the steward's son, and they are also family members. She has been bullied privately by a vicious woman like Wang Lianhua, so naturally I have to teach her a lesson.

Wen Niang stood at the back of the crowd. After watching the farce, she dispersed with everyone else.

When Bihe heard Wen Niang's words, she sat in the yard, completely distraught.

"I've been thinking about it for so many years and made them regret it, but now that I've really taken revenge, I don't seem to be happy."

Wen Niang knew what Bi He was thinking. Her most vicious idea was to use the money she earned to give it to her parents one ingot at a time, so that they would regret selling themselves.

Later she found out there was another story behind her being sold, and she wanted the evil people behind it to get the punishment they deserved. However, Wang Dahu and his wife were still her parents, and before her younger brother was born, although their life was hard, they were not too bad to her.

Now that the two of them have ended up alone and helpless, she naturally feels conflicted.

Wang Ershun and his grandmother stood outside and looked at Bihe's back, their hearts were very bitter. At this point, everyone was wrong, but Bihe was the one who suffered the most.

She was plotted against by her aunt and abandoned by her parents. She suffered so much over the years, but for her own selfish reasons, she was still begged to spare Wang Dahu's life.

In fact, she was still biased. She felt sad when Bihe was sold, but she never thought of asking her daughter and son-in-law to pay the price. Now looking at Bihe's appearance, she realized that she regretted it.

"Sister, I'm sorry. It's all because of me."

Wang Ershun still couldn't help it, and knelt in front of Bihe, begging her to beat him and vent his anger.

"Er Shun, go home."

After a long time, Wang Ershun heard Bihe's words and felt very sad, thinking that Bihe was unwilling to recognize him after all.

"I won't see them. Ever since they found me from the back hill and carried me to sell me, I have no longer been a family with them. But they have never wronged you in the slightest. I can resent them and disown them, but you can't."

Wang Ershun didn't expect Bihe to mean this, and he expressed it immediately.

"I know. I don't hate my parents. It's just that when I see them being nice to me, I think of my sister being sold for me, and I always feel ashamed."

Bihe helped Wang Ershun up and said while looking into his eyes.

"You are guilty. Your sin is that you have monopolized all my love since you were born. You feel ashamed when you see your parents treating you well. This is the punishment you deserve. From now on, you have to take good care of grandma on my behalf and provide for my parents until their death. I will not help you at all. I will leave this yard to grandma for her old age. When she dies, it will only be to compensate my uncle for his kindness in looking for me for so many years. You can only rely on yourself to take care of this family. This is my punishment for you."

Wang Ershun nodded with red eyes and agreed. They knew from the beginning that Bihe would not stay forever. After the people in the Wang family's old house received the retribution they deserved, she would leave this sad place and never come back.

"Sister, can I still contact you in the future?"

Bihe closed her eyes and shook her head, then stood up and went back to the room with Wen Niang, leaving Wang Ershun alone in the yard crying like a child.