Quick Transmigration: Refusing to Be a Victim's Child

The steward gave the Shao family a sinister glance, his eyes full of mockery, and coldly said:

"The personal belongings of the women in the inner quarters of my Hu family have always been meticulously crafted by specialized artisans, and each item is engraved with a unique mark."

Based on this irrefutable evidence, we can easily go to the yamen and accuse you of theft!

As soon as he finished speaking, he deliberately walked into the crowd, opened the gold bracelet in his hand, and pointed out the mark on it to everyone.

For a moment, the villagers present were all shocked and their gazes toward Shao Changgui and his group were filled with doubt and disdain. The weapons in their hands fell to the ground.

"No, that's not how it is. Don't listen to his nonsense."

Shao Changgui waved his hand anxiously, resolutely refusing to admit that the items belonged to the Hu family.

In order to avoid being discovered by the eldest son and his wife, they have been racking their brains to hide the items these days, hoping that after their injuries heal, they can drive the eldest son and his wife away and use the jewelry to redeem their lost farmland.

But how could he admit to something like this?

While the Hu family was unaware of the details of Shao Daya's return, the villagers present were well aware of it.

Even if Shao Changgui and the others wanted to hide it, no one would believe them.

Just then, the two men who had gone out to check the situation rushed back. Their faces were slightly pale. They walked up to the steward and whispered a few words in his ear.

The manager's expression changed drastically, and his gaze towards the group of villagers in front of him became wary once again.

Then the man changed the subject, signaling his men to put away the "dirty stuff," and his gaze first fell on Shao Linshen, vaguely sensing that this man was not easy to deal with.

He then turned his gaze to the three men, Shao Changgui and his companions, who were already in a state of confusion, cleared his throat, and said:

"Now the evidence is irrefutable. No matter how you try to deny it, it is a fact that you have been hiding my Hu family's property."

Although we haven't found Shao Daya, it's confirmed that she was here, and that you had contact with her. If we report this to the authorities, your entire Shao family will likely be imprisoned.

"No, no, no, steward, we were also deceived by that little slut. She told us that she had Master Hu's permission to go back to her parents' home to visit relatives."

These things were also gifts from her to her elders, and we reluctantly accepted them because we couldn't refuse. We really didn't know there were so many hidden motives involved.

Before Shao Changgui could stop her, Madam Qian was so frightened that she hurriedly changed her mind.

Mrs. Sun, who was standing nearby, quickly nodded in agreement:

"Yes, that's right. The reason we said it was part of the dowry was just to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings. In the end, we were also deceived by that brat."

"Alright, save these things for when you're in the government office."

The manager waved his hand, his face turning cold, and said:

"However, if you want to settle this privately, that's fine too. We came here today to take Shao Daya back, but she... has disappeared without a trace."

If you compensate us with one person to take away as proof, we can let bygones be bygones for everything else.

As he spoke, he looked at Qian and Sun, who were so frightened that they hurriedly lowered their heads and hid behind Shao Changgui.

Seeing how things had developed, the villagers in the courtyard looked at each other in bewilderment and remained silent.

Seeing that several men from the Hu family were about to come and snatch her away, the Qian family members screamed in fright. In their panic, they remembered Sanya, who was still lying in bed and unable to get up.

Qian pointed towards the main house and shouted loudly:

"We're willing to pay. Just take the oldest girl inside."

"We're both old and faded; even if you take us away, we'll probably be scolded by our employers."

Upon hearing this, the villagers present immediately began to discuss among themselves, their faces showing disdain.

Upon hearing this, the manager narrowed his eyes slightly, but before he could speak, someone decisively rejected the idea:

"Second sister-in-law is really good at making decisions for others. I raised Sanya myself. When did she become your daughter?"

"You lot are cleaning up your own messes with the stupid things you've done. Don't try to shift the blame onto our main branch."

Shao Lin looked deeply at the steward and said directly:

"I don't care if you want to report it to the authorities or settle it privately with them."

Our family wasn't involved in this at all. If you want to hold someone accountable, go find them.

After saying that, he seemed utterly disappointed with the second and third wives, and called over a few villagers he was on good terms with, and went straight to the east room to pack his things and prepare to move out.

Pangu Banner had been watching the whole thing from the sidelines, observing the manager's uncertain expression. He stepped forward and shoved the Qian couple to the ground, saying impatiently:

"I think you should stop whining. Anyway, you'll only starve if you stay in the Shao family. Why not go to the Hu family? What if that Master Hu takes a liking to you and makes you half a master? Wouldn't it be better to live a life of luxury than to suffer here?"

Immediately afterwards, He recommended him to the steward:

"Don't let their age fool you, they're all in their early twenties and look a bit older. They've had children and are healthy, which is much better than unborn children."

If you ask me, you should just take them away; I guarantee you won't lose money.

Whether it was Pangu Banner's words that struck a chord with the steward or not, he waved his hand, and several burly men stepped forward to drag Qian and Sun away.

"Ah! Don't come any closer! Father, save me! I don't want to be dragged down to be a servant!" Qian struggled desperately.

After all, the Shao family had seen the terrible state Shao Daya was in when she returned, and she didn't want to end up like that.

Sun, who was standing nearby, also turned her pleading gaze to the villagers watching, and said words of supplication.

However, regarding the matter of the Shao family seizing the Hu family's property, it is obvious that the Hu family is not innocent, so how could everyone be used as pawns by them?

They only came because of Shao Changfu and his wife, since they are well-known for being kind and loyal. In the future, if anyone needs help, they can rely on people like them.

If it were Shao Changgui and his group, the villagers watching wouldn't even blink an eye, let alone get involved in such a mess.

Seeing his wife being dragged away, a ruthless glint flashed in Shao Changgui's eyes. He didn't care about his reputation anymore and pushed Sun, who was still squatting on the ground and refusing to get up, away.

He stepped forward and embraced Qian, shouting at the group:

"If you're going to arrest someone, arrest this woman. She's younger than my wife, can read a few words, and is better looking and has a better figure than my wife. Let's use her as collateral, shall we?!"

"Shao Changgui! You are not human."

Suddenly pushed to the ground, before she could get up, she was restrained by two burly men. Upon hearing Shao Changgui's words, her eyes widened in fury, and she lunged at the men like a madwoman, causing the second wife and her husband to retreat in fright.

Unfortunately, although Shao Changgui's idea was good, the manager did not accept it.

He had failed in his mission, so he had to find a way to make amends. If he simply brought back a middle-aged woman, he would definitely be scolded by his master.

But if he brought back two women, given that Shao Daya had already been disliked by the master, and that he had brought two more servants to the mansion, there was a chance he would be spared.

So the manager glanced at his subordinates, and someone immediately kicked Shao Changgui to the ground and beat him severely. Then, they cut his palm and pressed his fingers onto a handkerchief with blood-written words on it.

Seeing that she was about to be dragged away, Sun struggled and said:

"Since you took our valuables, why are you taking us with you? What you're doing is no different from abducting women."

“My grandfather was a scholar. Aren’t you afraid he will take you to the yamen to report you for this humiliation? Besides, Shao Changgui is not my man. How can his fingerprint be considered my authority?”

"Father, Mother, Zhixue, come out quickly! I'm going to be bullied to death by these people."

"Please, everyone, for the sake of our past relationship, call the village chief here."

……

Perhaps the commotion in the courtyard was too loud, because the elderly couple who were originally lying sickly in bed in the main room, and Qian Zhixue, heard the noise and were so anxious that they rolled off the bed and crawled out of the room, ignoring their pain.

The three of them immediately saw Qian and Sun being dragged out of their house, and in their panic, they all shouted:

"Stop! What are you doing?"

"Fellow villagers, are you really going to stand by and watch these outsiders bully those who have done wrong?"

“It was wrong of us to keep the Hu family’s property, but we didn’t know that Shao Daya had stolen it. In the end, we were also deceived.”

"As the saying goes, ignorance is no excuse. If you want to take people away because of this, my Shao family would rather go to the government and ask the county magistrate to uphold justice."

Qian Zhixue slumped down the steps, his crippled leg curled up like a rag, yet he forced himself to sit up and shout:

"It was foolish of us to hide the Hu family's valuables! But who knew that Shao Daya stole them? We were kept in the dark too!"

His eyes darted around, and noticing the Hu family steward's cold, hard expression, he immediately softened his tone:

"However, the fault lies with us. To show our sincerity... we will compensate you with a child."

His cloudy gaze swept across the crowd, then suddenly landed on Shao Changgui (the second wife's husband), a sinister glint appearing at the corner of his mouth:

"Qiu Lan from the second house in the backyard, she's ten years old, quick and nimble, I'll give her to you as atonement!"

"Shaozhi, you beast!"

Shao Changgui, like a firecracker that had been lit, grabbed the carrying pole beside him and rushed over:

"Qiu Lan is your own niece! Have you wasted all that time reading those classic texts?"

The carrying pole grazed Qian Zhixue's ear and hit the ground. He simply pounced on him, grabbed his hair, and slammed his head against the bluestone steps with a "thud".

The old man scrambled to break up the fight, his withered hand gripping Shao Changgui's wrist tightly:

"Cough cough, you bastard, he's your brother! Stop it! I told you to stop!"

Seeing this, the old man rushed over and grabbed Shao Changgui's arm, shouting and cursing incessantly.

Zhao, who was behind him, had suffered a stroke from anger and then had her legs broken, making it difficult for her to move. At this moment, she could only watch the three men fighting, feeling extremely anxious but unable to help in any way.

Zhao looked around but couldn't see any sign of her eldest son's family. The east side room was also empty. She was so angry that she pounded the ground with her fist and vomited blood.

'If it weren't for that rebellious eldest son taking Sanya away, how could the second and third brothers have fallen out like this? This troublemaker is deliberately making trouble for the Shao family!'

……

Shao Linshen learned the details of the farce that later happened at the Shao family from Village Chief Yu.

At that time, he resolutely moved out of the Shao family in front of everyone, and then moved into an abandoned house with his luggage.

The house has three rooms and originally belonged to a widower in the village who had no children. After the old man passed away, it was abandoned and no one took care of it.

Now, Shaolin Shen donated thirty coins under the guise of money for incense and candles at the local temple, thus officially moving in.

As for the rest of the Shao family, they wanted to pin the blame on Shao Linshen and have the Hu family steward cause him trouble.

But he wasn't stupid. That person looked difficult to deal with, so why would he provoke someone he could easily control?

Seeing that their plan had failed, the old man and the others tried to complain to the villagers, saying that Shaolin was disobedient and unfilial, and had a vicious mind. During their serious illness, he had never sought medical treatment for them, and had only tormented them with talisman water every day.

Unfortunately, no one in the village believed these words.

Whether the eldest son of the Shao family consulted a doctor or went to the county to buy medicinal herbs for them, everyone in the village with eyes can tell.

Seeing that the old man and his accomplices were incorrigible, everyone felt even more disgusted with them.

Seeing that they had angered the crowd, the old man and the others dared not mention the eldest son and his wife again. They could only reluctantly sign two contracts with the Hu family steward under the mediation of Village Chief Yu.

They promised that if the Shao family became wealthy in the future, they could redeem the two children for ten taels of silver each.

Afterwards, the steward and his men took away Qiulan from the second wife's house and Mingyu, the younger brother of the twins from the third wife's house.

As a result of this incident, both families lost a child they had raised since childhood. The brothers from the second and third families are now at odds with each other, and are just short of drawing their swords against each other.

Strangely, however, the feud between the brothers lasted only one day.

The next morning, villagers saw the two sisters-in-law, Qian and Sun, walking affectionately towards the county town, just like before.

They didn't even bother with the eldest son's family who moved out of the Shao family, as if they had completely forgotten about their existence.

Others might not understand the situation, but Shao Linshen, as the person who fed them talisman water for more than a month, surely knew the reason behind it.

It seems this family has discovered the strangeness of their own bodies and is now plotting how to make a fortune from it. They certainly wouldn't let the eldest son's family come back to "get a share of the pie."

-

Time goes back to last night.

At that time, in the Shao family residence.

As night fell, the second and third wives were still immersed in grief over the loss of their child when, as always, sobbing and wailing could be heard from the courtyard outside.

The sound was sharp and piercing, with a girl's uniquely clear voice, echoing outside the door, accompanied by violent shaking of the doors and windows, making it even more frightening than the situation a few days ago.

Inside the main house, the members of the second and third branches of the family, who had been fighting like cats and dogs, had long since put their previous conflicts to the back of their minds.

Their legs trembled uncontrollably; they were so frightened that they didn't even have the courage to run away. They just huddled together desperately, not daring to breathe, for fear that the "thing" outside would hear them and break in to kill them all.