Farmhouse life after traveling back to ancient times

"This...this..." Qin Dingxiang kept looking at Yu Sanzheng.

Yu Sanzheng had a dark face, and was held by his former companions. He shouted at Fan Zhao in an angry voice:

"Fan, stop pretending here. Grandpa is not afraid of you! I want to kill you or chop you up, just come over here!"

Fan Zhao laughed and threw down the order: "Come here, Yu Sanzheng is roaring in the court, be beaten with 20 sticks."

When the bailiffs on duty received the order, some of them, who were nostalgic for the old times, even whispered to Yu Sanzheng about his crime.

Yu Sanzheng was dragged out while swearing and cursing. After a while, he heard the sound of a board falling.

There was also Yu Sanzheng's muffled groan.

Qin Dingxiang was terrified and her face turned pale.

After a while, someone came in to report that Yu Sanzheng had fainted before he was able to complete the twenty strokes of the cane.

"Hmph, you don't deserve to be called a tough guy. Pour water on him to wake him up and then continue beating him." The bailiff received the order and went down again.

The sound of water splashing was heard outside again, followed by Yu Sanzheng's muffled groan.

Although Qin Dingxiang had killed countless people, she had never been caught and taken to the government office. At this moment, she felt dizzy and could not sit still. She was about to fall.

"Kneel down, Qin!" Fan Zhao slammed the gavel hard, and Qin Dingxiang couldn't help but shiver.

With a look of panic on his face, he looked towards the hall, only to find that the master sitting up there had a serious expression and would not tolerate any deception.

The yamen runners on both sides rhythmically tapped the ground with their killing sticks and shouted "mighty" in unison.

Qin Dingxiang was frightened by Tang Wei, her mind was broken, she fell to the ground with all four limbs, and trembled constantly.

"How did you poison Du Xiucai's family of three? Come on, confess now!"

Fan Zhao's voice and expression were both stern, and Qin Dingxiang was terrified.

Without even raising his head, he told the whole story.

It turned out that when Du Wenxiu met Qin Dingxiang on the street that day and found the rouge shop, Qin Dingxiang had already made an agreement with the madam to take Du Wenchan there and sell her at night.

At first, the madam thought she was too old, so Qin Dingxiang asked Du Wenshan to take the madam to observe Du Wenchan who was busy in the pickle shop in secret.

When the madam saw Du Wenchan's figure and appearance, she finally relented and offered her a high price of fifty taels of silver.

Du Wenshan sent the madam away before calling his sister back home. As soon as she got home, she was held down by three men and forced to go on the brothel.

Le took the silver and they went home happily.

Along the way, Le Shi disliked Qin Dingxiang again, and she implied that with the fifty taels of silver, couldn't she marry any wife for her son?

Qin Dingxiang was so angry that her teeth were itching. Seeing that Du Wenshan was still proudly agreeing with his mother's words, she hardened her heart even more as she had already wanted to back out.

She took the initiative to flatter Mrs. Le, and said that she was a good cook and would cook a few more dishes today to celebrate the fact that her family had made a small fortune.

Le was arrogant and whining, but he didn't even give her money for the food.

Qin Dingxiang became more and more hateful, but she still put on a smile. She used her own pocket money to buy a table of delicious food and even bought some wine with the men.

Just then Mr. Du happened to wake up, got up from the ground and went back to the table.

Du Wenshan remembered to ask her to come to the table for dinner, but was scolded by Le.

She said that she would have a legitimate wife in the family, and even if she gave Qin Dingxiang some face, she would be just a concubine, not worthy of being allowed to eat at the table.

Du Wenshan no longer insisted.

Qin Dingxiang naturally waited by the side with a smile, and felt happy watching them die one by one from the poison.

He then took out the still warm fifty taels of silver from Le's body, packed up a small bag, and walked out of the Du family's gate.

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After listening to her explanation of what happened, everyone who knew about the Du family turned their eyes to Lu Fanghai.

But he looked indifferent, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

Fan Zhao asked again: "Then how did you get to know Yu Sanzheng and hide in Yu's house? Come here immediately!"

Now that the door had been opened, Qin Dingxiang's psychological defenses had been broken, so she no longer concealed anything and told everything clearly.

After Qin Dingxiang left the Du family, she found an inn to hide in, planning to leave the city the next morning.

But he had not walked far when he saw Yu Sanzheng, who was wearing the clothes of a yamen runner, walking towards him. He was so frightened that he was noticed by Yu Sanzheng.

Yu Sanzheng caught Qin Dingxiang in a dead end and asked her what she had done wrong that made her run away when she saw him.

Qin Dingxiang refused to admit it.

Yu Sanzheng asked her where she was from. Qin Dingxiang wanted to just say a place, but was afraid that he would investigate, so she had to say that she came to Dongxing County from Fengning City to visit relatives.

Yu Sanzheng became interested and asked her where she lived.

Qin Dingxiang didn't expect that this person had been to Fengning City. She didn't go out often when she was in Fengning City, so she could only make up a lie based on the places she knew nearby.

But Yu Sanzheng saw through it at a glance.

Qin Dingxiang was so frightened that her face turned pale and tears immediately flowed down her face. She thought she was dead.

However, she didn't expect that Yu Sanzheng took her back to his home in Paotong Lane and warned her that the whole city was searching for her because of the extermination of the Du family.

"If you want to live, just stay here obediently." Yu Sanzheng said to her viciously, then turned around and went out to work again.

Qin Dingxiang saw that he had not locked the door from the outside, and she secretly peeked into the alley entrance.

Sure enough, many yamen runners were running around, asking everyone they met. Aren’t they looking for her?

When Yu Sanzheng came back in the evening, Qin Dingxiang had already prepared dinner.

Yu Sanzheng snorted and laughed: "I dare not eat the food you cook."

Qin Dingxiang walked up to him tenderly and gently, slowly knelt down, and looked at Yu Sanzheng affectionately with her pair of watery almond eyes.

"If it weren't for Brother Yu today, I wouldn't have survived. I'm afraid I would have been beheaded at the Caishikou."

"The world is in a difficult situation right now. It's not easy for a little girl like me to survive in this world. What I did before was really a last resort."

He confided to Yu Sanzheng what happened at the Du family.

Yu Sanzheng sneered: "If the Du family still had something against you, why did you poison the old lady who took care of you and the merchant grandson in Fengning City?"

Hearing his question, Qin Dingxiang covered her face with a handkerchief and cried:

"It's not that I mean to hurt anyone, but the grandson of that grandmother...was attracted by my beauty and insisted on having me...wanted me to be his concubine. I definitely wouldn't obey, but the grandmother also said..."

"He also said that if I would rather die than obey him, he would blame me for my father's death..."

Yu Sanzheng laughed and said sarcastically, "Your father was killed by you. Now everyone in Fengning City knows it. Why are you still saying this?"

"Brother Yu, you are wise. He was my father who gave birth to me and raised me. How could I kill him? He died because he ate the dinner sent by Granny Yang."

As she spoke, her eyes turned red again and she wiped away the tears with a handkerchief. She then gently threw herself at Yu Sanzheng's feet, hugged his legs, and sobbed:

"I am a weak woman, and I just want to find a reliable person to rely on in this chaotic world. I will take him as my heaven and worship him as my master. I hope that Brother Yu will have mercy on me. If Brother Yu is willing to protect me, I will no longer have to harm others for self-protection..."

Yu San was so moved by her crying that his heart was shaken. Her soft and gentle voice rang in his ears. He could not control himself for a moment and finally succumbed to the woman's spell.