Chapter 145: The Tender Lamb
Both masters were not at home and had to return to Beijing as soon as possible. The second room only had a male man, Chen Yan. The second wife Wang originally wanted to take advantage of this time to push her son Chen Yan, but when she saw the eldest aunt Chen Xia's attitude of wanting to eat people, she simply put down Chen Yan with a laxative. Chen Xia shouted and asked Chen Yan to go to Dali Temple to beat drums and complain to Chen Xiao for his murder. The doctor came to the door. Chen Xia then realized that Chen Yan had fallen ill.
"Pretending to be sick, this ungrateful wolf, Feng Ge'er takes care of him on weekdays. At this time, he actually pretends to be sick. Why don't he die!"
This immediately reached the second wife Wang's ears. Wang was so angry that he trembled and simply lay on the bed. In less than half an hour, everyone in the mansion knew that the second wife was sick by her eldest aunt.
The eldest wife Wu was often bullied by her stepdaughter. Now that the eldest master is not at home, Chen Xia can't provoke Chen Xiao, so he has all his anger on them.
Wu was not worried about herself. What she was worried about was that her daughter Chen Bi. Chen Bi was only ten years old and had been beaten and scolded by Chen Xia since she was young. In Shen Xia's eyes, there were only the master in this mansion, as well as her and Shen Feng, who were serious masters.
When she heard that Chen Yan had a stomachache and fell ill, Wu guessed that it was caused by his second wife, but she couldn't bear to drug her daughter, and she didn't know where to hide her daughter.
At this moment, the maid ran over in panic and said, "Big Madam, it's amazing. The eldest aunt came over with a whip!"
Wu was so scared that she took Chen Li to this year's palace banquet. This was the first time the Empress Dowager saw Chen Li and gave her a box of uterine flowers and a pair of bracelets. Chen Xia learned about this and whipped Chen Li's face...
After Chen Linghong found out, he actually said to Wu, who was holding his daughter and crying, "It's just a fight between sisters. Sister Xia has made a little heavier. Next time, she will just be gentle. Sister Xia has no mother since childhood. Can you, a stepmother, be a little tolerant to her?"
The whip marks on Shen Bu’s face have not completely faded for more than half a year.
The more Wu thought about it, the more he became, and he pulled Chen Li to hide it in the cabinet, but he felt that this was not appropriate. His aunt was angry. If she saw Chen Li hidden in the cabinet, it would not be a whip.
Thinking of this, she gritted her teeth, grabbed a handful of broken silver and stuffed it into her sinking purse, and said to the maid Duoer: "Take the second lady out for a walk. If there is no place to go, go to your house, go out through the back door, and leave quickly!"
Duoer's grandmother is Wu's wet nurse. She passed away a few years ago. Duoer's mother made good sauce meat and opened a sauce meat shop on Dongshi Street, which is very famous.
Chen Bi followed Duo'er out of the back door, and Chen Xia arrived, pointing at Wu's nose and cursing: "Brother Feng is dead, are you happy, are you? Unfortunately, your belly is not strong, and you have such a money-losing guy after birth. Let me tell you, even if Brother Feng is gone, this business has nothing to do with you mother and daughter. When my father comes back, I will let him adopt a male in the clan and establish a family!"
The more Wu heard it, the more shocked she was, her hands and feet were cold. She was a teenager younger than the master. If the family was handed over to her descendants in the future, she would probably have no place to stand.
"Where is the dead girl? If something happened to Brother Feng, she wouldn't kneel in front of the spirit. She would hide wherever she could go, come out for me!"
Chen Xia said that, and then rushed inside. The two maids wanted to stop him, but Chen Xia pushed him away...
Chen Bi followed Duo'er out of the back alley. Because there were scars on her face, she hadn't seen outsiders for a long time, let alone come out.
The place where the second house of the Shen family is located is called Shitou Hutong. There are merchants living on both sides, but there are no big merchants. It is not easy to live in Beijing. In order to save money from renting warehouses, these merchants simply put their goods at home. Therefore, there are many cars and horses coming in and out here every day, and most of them are delivered and picked up.
A mule cart carrying goods came over, Duoer hurriedly pulled Chen Li to the side of the road, humming a little song in the handlebar of the car. Seeing two little girls standing by the roadside, whistling at them, the two rapiers sitting in the car were winking at them, and seeing that the girls' faces turned red, they burst into laughter.
Duoer protected Chen Bi behind her and saw the mule cart entering the alley. She spat and said to Chen Bi behind her: "Second Miss, don't be afraid, they are just here to pick up goods and dare not act rashly."
"Yeah." The deep voice was low and unheard, but his head hung lower.
"Miss Second Girl, what's wrong with you?" Duo'er was about to leave. When she turned around, she saw that Chen Bi had not followed her and asked quickly.
Chen Bi lowered his head and whispered: "I don't wear a Mili..."
Chen Bi is only ten years old. At this age, there is no need to wear Mili. Duoer knows that the reason why the girl dares not see people is because of the whip marks on her face.
"Then let's hire a sedan chair. Second girl, please wait here. I will hire a sedan chair." Duo'er said.
Chen nodded, looked at a big tree by the road, and hid behind the tree.
At this time, the previous mule cart drove out of the alley, and the two lieutenants in the car said to the handlebar: "If you don't have any goods, don't ask clearly in advance. Our trip has been in vain. How can we calculate the wages? Is it okay if I don't give a single one?"
The handlebar smiled and said, "He dared not give it, he should give it as much as he should. He gave him less, so he threw him into a ditch. He came from another place and dared to provoke our brothers? He didn't dare to lend him courage... Huh?"
"What's wrong?" asked the two hardcore men.
He raised the whip in his hand in the handlebar and pointed at the big tree on the side of the road: "That little girl is quite tender."
Two hard-working men looked over. A little girl stood behind the tree and looked at her clothes. She was one of the two she saw just now. The little girl lowered her head, and from their perspective, she could see the little girl's black hair, snow-white and pink ears, and the earrings on her ears were shining brightly.
That is a ruby inlaid with red gold!
The handlebar winked, and the two levermen looked around and jumped out of the mule cart quickly. Shen Bi kept lowering her head until her big feet appeared in front of her. She raised her head in shock, but it was too late. A dirty big hand stretched out from behind her, covered her mouth, and then a ball of things was stuffed into her mouth. The person standing in front of her held her with a big sack and threw it into the mule cart. Then the two levermen also jumped up, and the handlebar whip and hummed a little song.
Duoer came over with a sedan chair and passed by the mule cart. She heard the person on the mule cart say, "This time the little lamb is quite tender, it can't be sold at a cheap price..."
Duoer frowned. Isn’t this the mule-driving cart just now? The handlebar and Lifu are not like good people.
Chapter completed!