I started out with seven husbands, and I worked hard to support my family while crying.

"No, no, I... I'll tell you, I did all of this, I caused you to fall into the river, it's all my fault!"

"..."

The truth finally came out; it turned out that she really was behind all of this. What a vicious woman!

Fang Xiaoxiao muttered a few words to herself, then reached out her hand to him with a meaningful smile on her face.

"Hmm... what do you think would happen if I handed you over to the authorities?"

Yu Donglei's heart trembled. If she handed herself over to the government, her life would be over.

Imagine those dark, sunless prison cells, filled with filth and emitting an unbearable stench, and the torture used to deal with prisoners.

You should know that once, she accompanied her father to visit a distant relative in prison. The relative, who normally weighed around 200 pounds, had lost 20 to 30 pounds when she saw him. He looked haggard and his body was riddled with sores.

Seeing this, she couldn't help but vomit on the spot, even throwing up all the food she had eaten the night before.

Finally, with her father's help, she slowly made her way home.

That hellish scene was something she would never forget.

"No, you can't do this to me. We're all from the same village. If you do this, how will you face the villagers in the future?"

Threat? How ridiculous! A murderer dares to speak so arrogantly.

Fang Xiaoxiao didn't care at all, but inwardly she was extremely disgusted with him.

But there's no need for her to really have a falling out with Yu Donglei right now, since she still has to make a living in the village.

So she spoke slowly.

"Forget it, we're all from the same village. There's no need for your father to suffer the pain of outliving his child."

"But you can't just let it go like this, you have to give me some compensation at the very least."

Upon hearing the other person's words, Yu Donglei's face immediately changed to an ugly smile.

"Yes, you're right. As long as you don't hand me over to the authorities, I'll give you whatever amount of money you want."

Fang Xiaoxiao held up five fingers and waved them in front of his eyes.

"Not much, five thousand taels, not a penny less!"

"Five, five thousand taels, you, you might as well kill me, I have absolutely no way to come up with that."

Upon hearing this, Yu Donglei immediately shook her head and refused.

Five thousand taels—even if she sold all her family's assets, she still couldn't raise that much.

I'd rather be dead than live like this.

Fang Xiaoxiao knew that he couldn't possibly come up with that much money, but just because he couldn't come up with it now didn't mean he couldn't in the future.

She had already devised a plan: to completely control Yu Donglei and make her live in her shadow for the rest of her life.

She pulled out a stack of straw paper from her bosom and then took out a calligraphy brush.

"I said, you write it, is that okay?"

Upon seeing what he took out, even a fool like Yu Donglei could guess his intentions.

But she couldn't refuse, so she could only nod in agreement.

Russian qing.

Fang Xiaoxiao took the scrap paper, carefully studied the contents, and then looked at the three words Yu Donglei were drawn on the bottom right corner.

"Let's see if you dare to be arrogant in front of me again. Yu Donglei, you've finally met your match. When you colluded with outsiders to swindle my family's property, did you ever think that you would end up like this?"

She muttered a few words to herself, then tucked the note into her pocket and strode towards home.

As for Pei Yan and the others behind her, she pretended not to see them.

As for Yu Donglei, it was definitely impossible for her to die. She had just given the other party a pill that would help her recover her strength quickly.

Of course, before leaving, she specifically mentioned that the poison she had given the other party was a slow-acting poison, and that he would need to bring fifty taels of silver to the Fang family's courtyard every month to buy the antidote.

She would not be responsible if the antidote was not taken on time and the person died from intestinal perforation.

For Yu Donglei, who has always cherished her life, how could she dare to think about so many things, such as whether the pills she had taken were poison?

Furthermore, seeing a doctor is absolutely useless when it comes to slow-acting poisons, since poisons don't take effect all at once, but rather slowly and gradually, requiring time to prove their effects.

But by the time the time came, the person had already passed away.

We're all adults; who can act like a child and gamble away everything?

After Pei Yan dismissed his subordinates, he followed closely behind his wife, who was standing not far in front of him.

When we arrived at the courtyard, it was already dusk. Many birds were circling in the sky. Some of them were flying gracefully, while others were taking a break, flapping their wings a couple of times and resting for a while.

As soon as Fang Xiaoxiao pushed open the door, she saw several people sitting around the stone table.

Long Jinyan slammed his fist on the stone table in anger, pointing angrily at Li Renyi in front of him.

"What do you mean? You can't even take care of a person properly, what use are you!"

"Yes, Jin Yan is right, you're a piece of trash."

"Oh, gentlemen, please don't trouble yourself with any more ideas. Let's try to find Madam Fang instead!"

The fat cook sat at the stone table, holding a cup of bitter tea, playing the role of a peacemaker.

Just now, Li Renyi rode back on a black horse, his face extremely pale and his expression dejected.

Murong Changqing immediately guessed that something must have happened, and since the other party had not brought his wife back, he must have lost her.

He questioned Li Renyi first, followed by Long Jinyan.

After questioning him in turn, the two began to reprimand him.

"Squeak!"

At that moment, the wooden door was pushed open.

As the sound rang out, the people in the courtyard looked in the direction of the sound.

"Mother, the wife is back!"

Li Renyi was the first to get up and ran quickly toward the courtyard gate.

He felt extremely guilty, yet also quite helpless.

After all, when the lady left, he was still in the brothel, negotiating business with that beautiful woman.

Thankfully, he came back; otherwise, he might have really considered committing suicide to atone for his sins.

Long Jinyan was shirtless, his muscles bulging, and the concerned look on his face made him look particularly strange.

But such strangeness was nothing new to most people.

As for Murong Changqing, he sat upright. Although he longed to be like the others, disregarding all pride and rushing towards his wife, even crying, his previous status prevented him from lowering his stance.

Pei Yan stood behind his wife, watching all this. He felt inexplicably annoyed by the group, finding them noisy and even wanting to throw them all out of the house.

Fang Xiaoxiao should belong to him alone, not to these people.

Unfortunately, those damned laws were truly despicable.

Men had to get married when they turned 18, or they would be conscripted into labor service or sent to the army.

It seems that the only way to abolish these laws is to one day become emperor myself.

Thinking of this, he felt a surge of helplessness. There was still no clue about that matter, which was really giving him a headache.

Fang Xiaoxiao waved her hand, signaling the people in front of her not to get excited, and then she said.

"The house isn't fully repaired yet, so let's go to town and stay at an inn today!"