He retracted his right foot that was hanging in the air and stepped out of the threshold, turned around, and looked at the maid kneeling in the hall.
It was already evening, and the oil lamp in the hall stood on the half table near the south wall, next to Li Yaozu and his wife. The light shone through their robes and hairpins, forming a huge shadow that extended from the table to
The threshold outside the house covered the maid who was kneeling on the ground and crying.
After Wei Tu stopped, he walked back to the living room, stepping on the shadows on the floor tiles, and stood beside the maid without saying a word.
Wei Tu has been in Li's house for many years and is very familiar with the maids and servants in Li's house. Even if he doesn't see their faces, he can roughly guess who this person is just by looking at their figures.
If this maid had a normal friendship with him, he would immediately turn around and leave for these trivial things that are common in rich families' homes.
He does not yet have the strength to challenge the secular order.
But as for Caixia...
No matter what, it would be difficult for him to take that step and choose to ignore it and leave the living room of Li House.
Although Caixia's kindness does not allow him to "go to war" with the Li family for this, it is still enough for him to help Caixia stand up.
At first.
If Caixia hadn't reminded him, prompting him to redeem his deed in advance, he would have avoided Li Yaozu's "attack."
At this time, he may have turned into a bandit and became a knife bandit hiding in the mountains and forests.
even--
The head had fallen, and he had been brutally killed by the swords and guns of the officers and soldiers.
…
"Why is he back?"
In the living room of Li's house, Li Yaozu and his wife saw Wei Tu standing next to Caixia, and they were immediately confused and didn't know how to continue taking care of this "little thing".
Although the master's abuse of his maids was expressly prohibited by Zheng's laws, the penalty for violating the criminal law was only a small amount of money. Therefore, in the eyes of Li Yaozu and his wife, the so-called laws were nothing more than a piece of paper.
Follow the rules.
After this incident, Li Tong, as the mistress, reprimanded Li Xingye a few words, punished him to shut up and think about his mistakes, and then compensated Caixia with some money, and the matter was over.
If the two of them were willing, it would be feasible for Li Xingye to secretly bring Caixia into the house.
But now, the trouble is - Wei Tu stood up for Caixia, even though he didn't speak, his attitude has been made clear.
Wei Tu's own strength, as well as the single martial arts behind him, and the Huang family in the county, forced Li Yaozu and his wife to carefully consider how to give Wei Tu and Caixia a perfect answer.
"Caixia, what happened has happened. Auntie, I... no matter how harshly I criticize Xingye, it won't help..."
"You make a request, and Grandma will consider it as appropriate and agree to it."
After a while, Li Tongshi finally spoke in the quiet but noisy living room.
"Except that I cannot give you the position of the head wife of Xingye, I will consider other things."
She added again.
Caixia was Li Yaozu's maid. Although Li Yaozu never touched Caixia under her supervision, given this status, it was against etiquette and extremely inappropriate for Li Xingye to take Caixia as his concubine.
She said that Caixia should not worry about being the first wife, but in fact she was reminding Caixia not to think about becoming Li Xingye's concubine, which would make things difficult for her.
"pink clouds……"
Caixia stopped crying, pursed her lips tightly, and after saying these two words, she became silent again.
"Mom, I'm just a maid. Dad doesn't need her. I happen to not have a wife, so it's nothing to bring into the house." Li Xingye rubbed his sleepy eyes and interjected.
Listen to this.
Caixia seemed to have made a decision. She raised her head and glanced at Wei Tu first, then looked at Li Tongshi, and said: "My maid, please be kind to my eldest grandma, give me your freedom, and give you money to return to your hometown."
"That's it?" After hearing Caixia's request, Li Tong was a little in disbelief and looked surprised.
Without Wei Tu as her platform, Caixia's request was extremely excessive, and she would not even be able to agree.
The master is willing to favor the maid. This is a gift to the maid. After all, everything about the maid belongs to the master.
But this time it was different. Li Tongshi was already prepared to be blackmailed by Caixia.
To give up a little money and keep the family scandal from being publicized is what she, the mistress, should do.
Once the family scandal becomes public, not only will the Li family's township review be affected, but it will also delay Li Xingye's path to the imperial examination.
"I hope Grandma will be lenient."
Caixia kowtowed twice.
"Since you have made up your mind, I will allow you to do this." Li Tongshi said with a sigh of relief.
After a while.
Li Tong took out a lacquered wooden tray from the inner hall, and placed two ingots of silver and an unopened envelope on it.
"These two ingots of silver, each ingot is the full amount of five taels, totaling ten taels of silver. You have collected it."
"Inside the envelope is your deed of betrayal and the letter of redemption written by the master..."
Li Tongshi said word for word.
"Thank you, grandma."
Caixia continued to kowtow, with a look of gratitude on her face.
Seeing this, Wei Tu no longer needed to stay here. He sighed secretly and prepared to leave.
Everyone has their own choices.
In his opinion, Caixia's choice was not bad. She wanted her body deed and ten taels of silver instead of staying in Li's house.
With freedom and money, when she returns home, as long as Caixia's parents are not those scoundrels, Caixia will have a good ending in her life...
However--
Just when everyone thought the dust had settled, Caixia suddenly stood up.
She stood up, quickly took the two ingots of silver that Li Tongshi placed on the lacquered wooden tray, and said: "Grandma, Sister Xinghua and I have always been good friends. Sister Xinghua has been very helpful to me in the house. These ten taels
Yinzi, I want to redeem Sister Xinghua’s body, I wonder if Grandma will allow it?”
The voice fell.
Everyone in the living room looked at Wei Tu, who was standing next to Caixia.
Xinghua is Wei Tu’s wife.
Caixia redeems Xinghua's body deed, and Li Zhai returns Xinghua's body deed. No matter what, they can't get around Wei Tu in front of them...
When Li Yaozu and his wife heard this, they looked at Wei Tu, wanting to see Wei Tu's reaction.
They knew very well that with Wei Tu's position and identity at this time, if they wanted to borrow money to redeem Xinghua's deed, they could have done so as early as half a year ago.
The reason why he did not redeem his wife was not because Wei Tu had forgotten to ruin his wife, but because he owed money to redeem his wife. The debt was too great.
At this moment, Caixia wants to use money to redeem Xinghua's body deed from Li Zhai, which is undoubtedly a favor to Wei Tu.
However.
To the disappointment of Li Yaozu and his wife, Wei Tu seemed to acquiesce to this matter and remained silent after hearing Caixia speak.
"You need your consent to redeem your body deed..." Li Yaozu spoke, thinking about his refusal.
——He also wanted to use Xinghua to manipulate Wei Tu, but Caixia redeemed Xinghua, and all the kindness fell on Caixia.