Hearing the happy laughter and sounds of eating in the house, everyone was so angry that they gnashed their teeth. This family was really shameless and vulgar. The village head raised his hand and banged on the door. Everyone in the old house heard the knocks and looked out curiously. Who is it? Knocking on the door in the middle of the night. The village head didn't say a word and continued to knock. Bang, bang, who is it? What's wrong? Not talking and knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Bai Yaozu muttered as he walked towards the door. He didn't know who was knocking on what door in the middle of the night. He was delaying my meal and didn't answer when asked. Bai Yaozu opened the door and looked outside. Oh my god, I'm so scared. Bai Yaozu took a few steps back and sat down on the ground. My goodness, village head, why are you here? What's going on? Bai Yaozu stammered. Old lady Li came out after hearing the noise. Bai Mulin and Bai Musong also came out. What's going on? The third son, Bai Musong, saw that something was wrong and quickly stepped forward with a smile to smooth things over. The clan leader and the village head said, "Miss Siyu came to your house and hasn't gone back yet, so we all came to pick her up. Where are she?" Where are Old Lady Li and Bai Mulin? Bai Musong said, "How do we know where he went? Besides, we have separated and cut off ties, and he didn't come to our house, so how do we know where he went?" The clan leader slammed the table. "Nonsense! Someone saw Siyu come to your house, and you said she didn't come. Hurry and call her out, otherwise, don't blame me for using clan rules and family law!" Bai Musong said, "Clan leader, you can't say that. Bai Qingyuan's daughter is missing, so she came to my house to look for her. I'm not his babysitter. Maybe she ran off to fool around somewhere else." Old Lady Li then said, "You're so young and naughty. You brought a wild man home. Who knows what he's been up to?" Hearing Old Lady Li slandering her daughter, Lan Niang pounced on her and wrestled with her. The old lady cursed, "He's dead, and you haven't come to help yet." The two daughters-in-law tried to help, but were stopped by the villagers. The village head said, "I'm telling you, no matter what you think, you must release him now after locking him up there, or you won't be polite to me." "If you don't release him, I'll have your house searched to see where you've hidden him." "Look, the Bai family, we're serious." "We really didn't see him, we really didn't see him coming. We don't know where he is," the village head and village head said. "That's enough. You're not going to say where he is, are you?" "Let's have a few people go look in the yard." So they ran inside. Over a dozen people searched, and after a moment, they all emerged and said, "Clan head, there's no one. There's no one here. There's no one in the backyard either." Bai Mulin asked, "What did I say?" He is not here, how do we know where he ran off to? You see, you have searched and looked for him, but he is not here, right? At this time, Old Lady Li sat on the ground and rolled around, saying, "You are forcing me to death. I can't live anymore. You are forcing us to death. The whole village has come to force us. That little bitch didn't even come to my house. At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside the gate, "Why isn't she at your house?" You just sent us away and forgot about it. Everyone turned around and looked at Bai Siyu carrying A Yu from a distance. Facing the afterglow of the setting sun, Zhou Tingxuan looked at the little girl standing there. His nervous heart finally let go. Zhou Tingxuan might never find her. Now he is more nervous than ever. Afraid. Nervous that the little girl can't be found. What should I do? Afraid that I will never see her again. What should I do? It was really tormenting when he saw the little girl appear in front of him intact. That restless little heart, like a bright star, lit up this uneasy heart. Looking at the little girl's slightly messy hair, he didn't know how he came back, where they sent him, and whether he was injured. Now is not the time to ask, I will ask when I get home.

Siyu carried the sleeping Ayu on her back and came to the courtyard of the old house. She put little Ayu in her father's arms, turned around and started punching and kicking the people in the old house. Siyu's attack was indiscriminate at this time, and she really wanted to beat them to death with her punches. It was because she was strong and knew some martial arts, otherwise she really might not be able to come back. Siyu only let Old Lady Li dodge once. Old Lady Li shouted, "Stop it, stop it, beat her to death, beat her to death." She turned around and shouted to the clan leader, "You guys don't care about this bitch, and you actually beat your third uncle and eldest uncle. You really have no respect for your elders?" The clan leader and the head of the village saw that it was almost done, so they stopped Siyu and asked her what was going on. Then Siyu told her what happened.

In the afternoon, my second and third brothers took my younger sister out to play. They came home crying, saying she was missing. We thought she was hiding somewhere, so we wandered around the village. I went to the children's play area under a large tree and asked if they had seen her. A child told me that Bai Yaozu and Bai Yaozong had taken my younger sister to the old house, so I went to look for her. When I arrived, I saw her lying motionless on the ground. Thinking she was injured, I rushed over without a second thought. But as I rushed over, I was hit by a club. When I woke up, I was 20 miles away, on a mountain road. It was a matchmaker called Hua Matchmaker. He refused to let me go, tied me up with ropes, and said he wanted to sell my younger sister and me far away. He said Old Lady Li and Bai Mulin had agreed to sell me to the mountains as a public concubine. He said he would get 20 taels of silver, and since my younger sister was small, he said he would sell her to a wealthy man for 50 taels. Bai Mulin and Old Lady Li were the ones who arranged this. We have already separated our families and severed our ties. He actually still has his eyes on us. We can’t just let this go today. I’m going to hand them over to the authorities. The clan leader and the head of the village said, “Yu girl.” In a situation like this, they should be locked up for a month at most. Why don’t we just deal with it according to the clan’s rules? Siyu asked how to deal with it according to the clan’s rules. The clan leader said that since he dared to sell out the descendants of my Bai family, he should just expel them from the clan! My Bai family fled famine and settled here. For decades, the first clan rule is not to commit adultery. Second, the sons of the Bai family shall not take concubines, and the daughters shall not be concubines. Third, the children of the Bai family shall not commit adultery, robbery, fraud, or deception. Fourth, they shall respect their parents and be friendly to the younger generations. Fifth, anyone who commits the above offenses shall be punished with 20 strokes of the cane, a fine of 10 taels of silver, and directly exterminated from the clan.

Siyu thought this was a good idea. Her younger brother and father still wanted to study. If they knew a family member had a criminal, they would be ridiculed. If they were sent to the government, even if their actions were illegal, Bai Mulin was only a minor official. It was unknown whether the county magistrate would be honest or corrupt. An honest official would handle the case impartially, but if he was corrupt, they would definitely protect each other. According to clan rules, they would be expelled from the clan. Their imperial examinations would also be tainted, effectively eliminating their status. Siyu agreed, and the clan leader announced, "I hereby declare that Bai Cheng's wife, Li Sumei, eldest son, Bai Mulin, and third son, Bai Musong, are expelled from the Bai family tree today." Old Lady Li cried, "Can't we be expelled?" Clan leader, "The third son is about to take the exam. He's also a Bai descendant, isn't he? The eldest son is still on duty at the county government. You can't be so heartless." Seeing that pleading with the clan leader was futile, Old Lady Li turned to Bai Qingyuan, "Fourth son, it's my fault. Please let us go! We must not be expelled!" Bai Qingyuan asked, what about me? I begged you so much to find a doctor for Yu girl, but you refused and kicked us out of the house. If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place? If you do something wrong, you have to admit it and take responsibility. When old lady Li saw that she couldn't persuade Li Qingyuan, she cursed him, you damn thing, you are a jinx, you are a jinx, you are an ungrateful person, you are the one who caused my third son to fail the exam, your whole family are debt collectors, you all will not die well. Bai Mulin's youngest son said, let's get out of the clan, this broken clan is so poor, who cares. Bai Musong said, clan leader, you better think about it, you are going to kick me out of the clan today, and when I pass the exam, don't ask me to come back. Those who wanted to plead for mercy thought they deserved it after hearing what the family said. They didn't know the principle of sharing weal and woe.

After things were settled here, everyone dispersed. Zhou Tingxuan asked Siyu if she was okay! Siyu said, I'm fine, it's just that little A Yu was frightened, everything else is fine. Zhou Tingxuan asked Siyu, how did you escape? Siyu said, when I woke up, I was on the donkey cart, and the matchmaker was still boasting that he could get dozens of taels of silver by selling my little sister and me. I heard them muttering that they wanted to sell us to a brothel, saying that they were afraid that people nearby would recognize us, so they said they would sell us to a family in the mountains with five brothers who couldn't get married, and then they offered 50 taels of silver, just to sell me to them, and wait for my little sister to be sold to that man, saying that he liked these little boys and girls, so my little sister and his appetite could also be sold for 80 taels. I got angry and broke the rope and then broke the legs and arms of the matchmaker and his followers. If they were alive, they would go back alive, and if they died, they would be considered as contributions to the wild beasts in the mountains. Zhou Tingxuan listened to what the little girl was doing and felt that it was very much to his liking. This is how it has to be. If we don't do it, we have to do it thoroughly. How can we bear it if we suffer a loss? While they were talking, they arrived home and washed up and rested.

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