She became a god

Wen Xichun remained silent. When did she have younger siblings?

Could this group have made a mistake?

But the shouts and curses outside the door became increasingly offensive.

Wen Xichun exhaled a breath of stale air; she was almost losing control of herself.

I really want to... I really want to take a sword and kill all those people outside!

But... you have to pay money for murder.

Wen Xichun was reluctant to spend the money she had painstakingly saved on those people.

At that moment, a deafening wail echoed from outside the door.

"Come out and pay back the money! I broke one of your brother Chen Yaozu's legs. If you don't come out, I'll break his third leg and wipe out your Chen family line!"

Uh?

These days, do debt collectors ever do their homework before they come to collect debts?

When did Wen Xichun become a member of the Chen family?

However... I feel like I've heard the name Chen Yaozu somewhere before.

A shrill female voice rang out, "Sister Xichun, please, save my brother. Grandma asked you to take care of us before she died, have you forgotten?"

Wen Xichun remembered that Chen Yaozu was the posthumous son of Chen Apo's only daughter, Chen Jinzhu.

Chen Jinzhu and her heartless son-in-law have two children: an older sister, Chen Xiaocao, and a younger brother, Chen Yaozu.

"Sister Xichun, please save Yaozu..."

The group of men outside the door cursed, "You good-for-nothing, don't even think about running away. If you can't pay back the money, we'll sell you into a brothel."

"Chen Xiaocao, right? She's not particularly good-looking, but she's young, so she should fetch a decent price. Once you're in a brothel, I'll be there to support you..."

As the lewd man spoke, he reached out to touch Chen Xiaocao's face.

Just as his right hand was about to reach out, an arrow pierced his palm.

The thug, clutching his wound, went to find the person who had shot him, only to find that the door, which had been tightly closed, was now wide open.

A woman in dark blue clothes, holding a bow and arrow, looked at them coldly.

Chen Xiaocao was quite clever; seeing this, she quickly turned and ran towards Wen Xichun.

"Sister Xichun, help!"

But when she was about ten steps away from Wen Xichun, Wen Xichun aimed his bow and arrow at her.

Chen Xiaocao couldn't help but shiver. "Sister Xichun, it's me, Xiaocao!"

Wen Xichun scoffed coldly, "Why would I be in debt?"

Wen Xichun paid for all of Granny Chen's medical treatment and funeral expenses. The food and meat that Wen Xichun had left for the two siblings were enough to feed them for three months.

Grandma Chen was a frugal person in her lifetime, so it's impossible that she left behind any debts.

So, what exactly is going on with this debt?

Chen Xiaocao stammered, "Sister Xichun, we miss Daddy so much."

Wen Xichun waited for three seconds and realized that Chen Xiaocao had no intention of continuing.

Having temporarily escaped danger, Chen Xiaocao remained calm, but eight-year-old Chen Yaozu was extremely anxious. "Rakshasa woman, hurry up and save me! Once I'm recognized as a member of the clan, I'll reward you with a lot of silver."

Wen Xichun understood. It turned out that the siblings wanted to climb up to their scumbag father to enjoy wealth and luxury, but they were scammed while trying to find out about him and ended up with a lot of debt.

The gang leader also realized something was amiss; the fierce-looking woman didn't seem to know the dim-witted brother and sister well.

But since we're already here, we should at least see if we can extort some money from them.

So the gang leader said, "These two siblings owe me twenty taels of silver because they were trying to find out about their father. If they can't pay it back, I'll have to sell them to settle the debt. Young lady, will you save them?"

Wen Xichun frowned and turned to leave.

Chen Xiaocao knelt down with a thud, pleading, "Sister Xichun, please save us for Grandma's sake!"

The large group of people kept making noise, attracting many villagers to watch from a distance.

Wen Xichun has excellent eyesight and can see that one of the villagers watching is the village chief's granddaughter.

"Li Jinhua, call your grandfather over."

Li Jinhua was young and was afraid of Wen Xichun, so she instinctively went to find her village chief grandfather.

Wen Xichun didn't even glance at Chen Xiaocao, and said to the gang leader, "The village chief is coming soon, you two talk to him."

After saying that, she moved a stool from inside the house, closed the door, and stood there coldly watching them.

Chen Xiaocao's knees went numb from kneeling, and she cried, "Sister Xichun, we didn't mean to trouble you. But my brother and I don't have any relatives in the village, you're all we have."

The thirteen-year-old girl was frail and knelt on the ground, crying incessantly. Anyone who saw her would feel sorry for her.

Wen Xichun remained unmoved and said calmly, "Did you lead them to retrieve the cured meat from the dilapidated temple?"

Chen Xiaocao bit her lip and remained silent.

Chen Yaozu cursed, "It's just a few pieces of your meat. When we get back to the Qi family, we'll pay you back tenfold."

Qi is the surname of Chen Jinzhu's son-in-law.

Wen Xichun drew his bow and nocked an arrow, which landed between Chen Yaozu's legs, frightening him so much that his face turned pale and his thighs trembled. The ground was quickly soaked.

Ignoring Chen Yaozu's wailing, Wen Xichun looked at Chen Xiaocao and asked, "Is that what you think too?"

Chen Xiaocao wiped away her tears. "Sister Xichun, life without a mother or father is too hard."

"It is indeed pitiful to be without a mother, but didn't your father abandon you a long time ago?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiaocao jumped like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on. She cried out, "Sister Xichun, my dad is actually very good to me. He only abandoned me because I'm not a boy. But now that I have a younger brother, he definitely won't abandon us."

Wen Xichun laughed. That heartless man clearly abandoned his wife and daughter with the lame excuse that they had only had one daughter after several years of marriage, so that he could marry a lady from a respectable family.

If we're really talking about having no offspring, then Qi Fei, a son-in-law who has only given the Chen family one child in several years of marriage, should be the one to be divorced.

But it's obvious that the Chen siblings and the villagers don't think that way.

Chen Xiaocao foolishly believed that her snobbish father was a helpless but loving father, and Chen Yaozu even wanted to live the life of a rich young master with his biological father.

Hopeless!

A pair of hopeless idiots!

With the village chief's intervention, the thugs who were demanding repayment of the debt finally only asked for ten taels of silver.

The Chen family's land is worth five taels of silver. How should they make up the remaining five taels of silver?

The gang leader sneered, "At worst, I'll just sell Chen Yaozu out."

Chen Yaozu hurriedly shouted, "Don't sell me, sell Chen Xiaocao!"

Chen Xiaocao looked at Chen Yaozu in disbelief, as if struck by lightning.

hallucinations!

This must be an illusion!

Yaozu is her only brother and her only remaining relative; he would never treat her like this.

But Chen Yaozu, fearing the thugs hadn't heard him clearly, continued shouting, "Don't sell me, sell Chen Xiaocao! She's a worthless piece of trash, so it's fine if you sell her. If you sell me, my dad will never forgive you when he finds out!"