A renowned ancient physician transmigrates into the body of an abandoned woman, only to be sold off

Song Zhili stepped forward, and just then, a sharp-eyed woman spotted her. "Oh, isn't that Song Shi, the daughter-in-law of the Gu family? Why is she dressed like that? What's she up to?"

The speaker was Guan, a gossipy woman from the village. Her voice was quite loud, and many people heard her. They all looked in Song Zhili's direction.

Zhao Shi and Gu Changning, who were moving things in the courtyard, also heard it. Gu Changning glanced at Zhao Shi guiltily.

Zhao gave her a reassuring look, then carried the things to the door, put them on the carriage, and walked towards Song Zhili, speaking to her impatiently.

"What are you doing back here? And why are you dressed like this? What? Do you want Changqing to pity you? Bah! My Changqing has already divorced you. Get out of here and go wherever you want!"

As soon as Zhao said this, the villagers behind her sighed in dismay.

"Zhao, what wrong has Da Ya done that your Changqing wants to divorce her?"

Guan asked the question that had been on everyone's mind, and everyone else was also very curious, so they all pricked up their ears and waited for Zhao's answer.

“Oh, Aunt Guan, you don’t know this, but my sister-in-law often bullies my mother. Just a few days ago, she beat my mother, and my brother saw it. My brother couldn’t stand it, so he gave her the letter of divorce yesterday.”

She came back looking like this today; who knows what she'd been up to.

After Gu Changning finished speaking, she walked out of the crowd and stood next to Zhao Shi, affectionately putting her arm around Zhao Shi's arm. She also couldn't help but glance triumphantly at Song Zhili.

It's clearly a provocation.

Ignoring the villagers' scrutinizing gazes, Song Zhili smiled and walked step by step toward Zhao Shi. Zhao Shi found her appearance somewhat frightening and instinctively took two steps back. Thinking about her actions, she found them ridiculous.

Why should I be afraid of her?

So she looked up and met Song Zhili's gaze. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but before she could speak, she was lifted into the air and then fell heavily to the ground.

"Ouch, you damned slut, how dare you hit me?"

"Mother!!! Are you crazy? How dare you hit my mother?"

Gu Changning went forward and helped Zhao Shi up from the ground. Seeing that she was not seriously injured, she raised her hand to grab Song Zhili's face.

Before she could even touch Song Zhili, a sharp pain shot through her wrist.

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! You...you bitch, let me go!!"

"Hey, Daya, what are you doing? No matter what, Zhao Shi and Changning are your mother-in-law and sister-in-law. How could you hit them?"

Guan, who was watching the commotion from behind, couldn't stand it any longer and spoke up for Zhao and the others. Song Zhili just glanced at her, and seeing Song Zhili's murderous look, she reluctantly shut her mouth.

Song Zhili's gaze swept over the villagers one by one, a bloodthirsty smile playing on her lips. "Since my former mother-in-law says I assaulted my mother-in-law, shouldn't I at least make that accusation conclusive?"

As she spoke, Song Zhili picked up a willow branch from the ground and whipped it at Zhao Shi and Gu Changning.

"Ah! Song Daya, are you crazy? Stop it! Brother, brother, come out here!"

As Gu Changning shouted, she hid behind Zhao Shi. It was summer, and their clothes were quite thin. The willow branches stung their skin as they were whipped by the branches.

The villagers behind them saw Gu Changning and Zhao Shi moving towards them and retreated, afraid of being caught in the crossfire.

Gu Changqing, who was inside the house, finally heard the commotion outside. He came out of the courtyard and saw this scene. His eyes widened in fury as he ran towards Song Zhili.

"Song Daya, what are you doing! Stop it! Stop it!"

Song Zhili naturally heard his voice. Seeing him rushing towards her, trying to snatch the willow branch from her hand, she subtly dodged his hand, then swung the willow branch and whipped the back of his hand a few times.

Soon, several red marks appeared on the back of Gu Changqing's hand, one of which was even oozing blood.

Song Zhili felt that was enough, so she stopped, threw away the willow branch in her hand, crossed her arms, and looked indifferently at the three disheveled people.

"Song Daya, are you out of your mind? I'm going to report this to the authorities right now! They'll arrest you, you wicked woman."

"Hahaha, good, good, Gu Changqing, hurry up and report to the authorities. I was afraid you wouldn't go. I want to know if the magistrate will be able to continue taking the exam for the official position if he finds out what your mother did!"

In fact, Song Zhili didn't know what the laws were like here. She said it on purpose because she knew that Gu Changqing was most concerned about his imperial examination at this moment.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Gu Changqing subconsciously glanced in Zhao's direction. Seeing that Zhao and Gu Changning were avoiding each other's gazes, he knew that what Song Daya was talking about might really affect his official career.

Thinking of this, Gu Changqing saw the crowd gathered around him and softened his tone, saying, "Da Ya, can we talk about it when we get back?"

"Brother, why..."

"Shut up."

Gu Changning wanted to ask her brother why he had to compromise, but Gu Changqing yelled at her like that, and her eyes instantly reddened. The pain in her body, combined with the grievance of being yelled at, caused her tears to fall like beads from a broken string.

Song Zhili nodded. She just wanted to resolve things here quickly so she could leave. She turned and went into the house first.

"Dear uncles and aunts, please go back. We need to talk about some family matters."

Gu Changqing helped Zhao Shi up, said something to the villagers watching the commotion at the door, and then started to walk into the courtyard. Halfway there, he turned around and saw Gu Changning still standing there. He called out to Gu Changning unhappily.

"Changning, what are you standing there for? Come back."

"Oh."

Gu Changning responded, wiped away her tears, lowered her head, and ran after him.

After Gu Changning entered the courtyard, Gu Changqing went forward to close the door, then turned around and asked with a gloomy face, "Song Daya, what exactly do you want?"

"Heh, I'm nothing special. Give me twenty taels of silver and we'll call it even. Otherwise, why would I let this get out? You divorced me, fine, but you even sold me out. Do you think the magistrate will care?"

"What! Twenty taels? I only got five taels of silver for selling you. You slut, you don't have twenty taels. Go ahead and report me to the authorities if you want."

When Zhao heard that Song Zhili wanted twenty taels of silver, she felt more pain in her heart than if Song Zhili had hit her.

"Mom, shut up! Are you trying to ruin my future?!"

Gu Changqing hadn't expected this to happen. If this news got out, his imperial examination would definitely be affected.

For now, we need to keep her calm and see what she wants.