Chapter I
Ye Zhiqing woke up in a swaying mood, and before she opened her eyes to see the world in front of her, she had already heard a commotion in her ears, and someone shouted: "...... Slut! I don't know the shame and ruined our Yang family......"
More people chimed in: "Drown her!" Drown her! Drown this shameless slut......"
She felt uncomfortable all over her body, her hands and feet were not free, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that the blue sky was slowly moving in a cage made of bamboo strips. She had a cloth stuffed in her mouth, preventing her from speaking. And she was in a bamboo cage, with a thick hemp rope tied to the cage, and a flat pole on the hemp rope, carried by two tall and strong men, followed by more than a dozen men on both sides, all wearing long and short shirts, and tied their hair, quite like a costume drama.
- What the hell?!
Ye Zhiqing's pupils widened, and she looked at all the men in sight, and her heart sank to the bottom. She couldn't understand that she was obviously wandering by the lake in the park, and when she saw the cute ducks raised in the lake, she stepped on the rocks on the shore and looked, how could she know that she had slipped and slipped down......
I thought I was saved by someone, but how did I wake up and become the current situation?
She wanted to defend herself, struggling in the cage like a worm, twisting around, and the man carrying the pig cage behind him spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm at her, and scolded viciously: "Shameless slut, I'm going to sink into the pond and I'm restless, who are you trying to seduce like this?!" ”
His words drew a chorus of people in his company to echo him, and all of them were filled with indignation, as if they were eager to stone her to death on the spot.
Ye Zhiqing was terrified in her heart, she only felt that she had completely fallen into an unawakened nightmare, and she didn't understand why these people were so resentful and disgusted with her, and why did she come to this place inexplicably?
Before Ye Zhiqing could figure it out, she was carried to the lake. Someone opened the pig cage, Ye Zhiqing was ecstatic in her heart, secretly thinking that she would finally have a chance to defend herself, but someone held a big stone and put it into the pig cage, pressed it on her leg, and then locked the pig cage again.
Ye Zhiqing was so anxious that she was about to shed tears, but she couldn't open her mouth to defend herself, so she could only watch one of the old men who was over fifty years old say a few half-written words majestically, to the effect that she corrupted the Yang family's style, seduced the man, and sentenced her to remove the clan and sink the pond to correct the Yang family's style and other nonsense.
The old man's beard was white, and his expression was solemn, and everyone seemed to be convinced of him. After he finished speaking, Ye Zhiqing was carried to the lake, the water level quickly flooded her feet and neck, she struggled in panic, the people on the shore in the distance were getting away from her, watching her being overflowed to her knees by the cold lake water, her indifferent eyes were full of joy, as if she had eradicated a scourge, and she was about to set off firecrackers to celebrate.
Her whole body was soaked in the water, and she could only hold her neck up, her mouth and nose still outside, and she could breathe.
The man carrying the pig cage in the back saw that it was far away, and said softly: "Such a beautiful woman, only cheaper than Gao Shiliang once, is really a tyrannical thing." ”
The man in front sneered: "Mao San, then why don't you ask the patriarch to marry, anyway, you are cousins of the distant branch, but you are compatible." ”
Mao San: "Phew! Am I going to wear Gao Shiliang's broken shoes? ”
The two of them wanted to come to the water very well, so they carried Ye Zhiqing to the deep water in the lake, pulled out the flat pole and swam back. Ye Zhiqing watched as the high and vast sky was covered by the lake, and there were stones falling under her feet, which kept sinking to the bottom of the lake......
Ye Zhiqing closed her eyes in despair, feeling the pain of drowning before death came. I don't know if a few minutes have passed, or a full century, her consciousness has drifted away from her body, I don't know what day it is, but suddenly I feel that my abdomen is being pressed hard, and she spits out a few mouthfuls of water, the weight of her abdomen has not disappeared, and there seems to be someone in her ear who is whispering: "Hey, wake up...... If you don't wake up, I'll be in vain......"
After she spit out a few mouthfuls of water one after another, she finally barely opened her eyes, and in front of her was a magnified face, it was Mao San who was carrying the pig cage behind, and he said happily: "Finally, I didn't let Lao Tzu's efforts be in vain." The rough big hand touched her face twice, "It's so fine and tender, Gao Shiliang's kid is really a blessing!" ”
This is the second time Ye Zhiqing has heard the name "Gao Shiliang".
She was powerless to struggle, so she could only watch Mao San tear off her belt in front of her, take off her wet clothes and pants, and then squat down to untie the rope that bound her and pull her belt, with a desire in her eyes that could not be misunderstood.
She went to push Mao San, but her hands were weak, but he pressed her hands to the top of her head, she tried her best to shout "help", listening to the faint call in her ears, she didn't know whether it was the lake or the tears in her eyes, and her face was wanton.
Just when she was discouraged, she suddenly heard the sound of horseshoe wheels in the distance, she opened her throat and shouted: "Help-" Mao San covered her mouth violently, but the sound of the wheels became closer and closer, and someone had already shouted: "What are you doing?" ”
Mao Sanwan didn't expect that someone would come over by the usually secluded lake, and it was too late to throw her into the lake at this moment, so he hurriedly got up to put on his clothes, and before he could put them on, the carriage in the distance had already arrived near and stopped.
The coachman jumped out of the wheel, and two other attendants on mules on either side of the carriage also jumped down, and came with them, and asked, "What are you doing in broad daylight?" ”
Ye Zhiqing was frozen by the lake, and her brain, which had been at a standstill, finally began to work, she reluctantly sat up, covered her clothes, and stumbled to the three of them.
When Mao San saw that she was going to escape, he reached out and grabbed Ye Zhiqing's wrist: "She is my daughter-in-law, can you manage it?" ”
One of the attendants flicked the horsewhip in his hand, struck Mao San's wrist fiercely, and sneered: "She is still combing the girl's hairstyle, why is she your daughter-in-law?" ”
Mao San screamed in pain, flicked his wrist and played a scoundrel: "The daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door!" ”
The man with the whip turned his head and asked Ye Zhiqing: "What he said is the truth?" ”
Ye Zhiqing shook her head desperately, tears raining down: "I don't know him!" After a few ups and downs of life and death, she was already like a frightened bird, unsettled, and just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
Mao San blew on her injured wrist and threatened her: "Don't you know what you did?" ”
Ye Zhiqing also wanted to know: "What did I do?" She came here in a daze, and she wanted to know what happened, but she asked so confidently that Mao San choked.
The man with the whip stepped forward to block in front of her, and drank Mao San: "If you don't get out, I'll send you to the government!" A whip was drawn on him.
Mao San's mother came from a side branch of the Yang family, and after losing her husband, she took her only son back to her parents' house to rely on her brother and sister-in-law to live. Mao San is in his twenties and has not yet married, also because he has no tiles under the fence, so he can only rely on doing some short-term work outside or running errands for the patriarch's family to survive.
He was whipped twice, with a red mark on his wrist, and a scorching pain on his back, so he didn't dare to argue with the other party anymore, so he ran away.
Ye Zhiqing looked around blankly, convinced that the surrounding environment had never appeared in her reality and dreams, and at this moment she had time to look at herself, her clothes were not the same as before she fell into the water, and her hands were even more delicate and springy, a few shades whiter than her previous self, but it was conceivable that even her body was no longer the one she used to be.
The chief who carried the whip said enthusiastically: "Dare to ask where the girl's house is, and send the girl back." ”
Where does Ye Zhiqing know where the home of this body is. What's more, the people who rushed to the tiger wolf like a wolf to sink her in the pond should be the clansmen of this body, and she may have to be sunk in the pond again when she goes back, she doesn't want to feel the pain of drowning again.
"I don't have a home."
The chief was embarrassed, and trotted to the carriage to ask for instructions, and did not know what to say to the people inside, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a men's cloak was handed out from it, revealing the four faces of a middle-aged man, with a beard.
The chief entourage handed the cloak to Ye Zhiqing: "Since the girl has nowhere to go, and it is not too early, it is better to go back with my master, and it is not too late to make plans." ”
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Ye Zhiqing stayed at He's house for three days, and finally had a general understanding of the environment she was in.
The middle-aged man in the carriage that day was He Zhuang, the head of the He family, the richest man in Fucheng County, who opened a restaurant, Buzhuang Yinlou and other businesses, and had close contacts with the county order.
Ye Zhiqing didn't want to pay attention to the private life of the male host who took her in, but she couldn't stand the enthusiasm of the He family, so it was difficult for her to want to know even if she didn't want to.
On the day she moved in, she had a high fever, and her whole body was burned in a mess, and she had never even seen the face of the housewife of the He family. When she woke up in the middle of the night, she only felt that someone was touching her forehead, and when she opened her eyes, she saw He Zhuang sitting at the head of her bed, and seemed to be quite concerned: "The doctor came to take a look, saying that it was soaked in cold water for too long, and it was too depressed, so it started to heat up." You can live in peace, everything is with me. ”
These words had only been heard in her ears once, and no one knew who had slept before they had even entered her mind.
He Zhuang looked down at her burnt red cheeks, revealing a color under the lamp that people couldn't help but take a bite of, and suddenly felt a little uneasy, in the end, she had been rolling in beauty for a long time, and this bit of self-control was still there.
In the next two days, he would always come over to take a look after he was done, and he also sent someone outside to inquire about any of the young girls who had gone missing.
Ye Zhiqing had a high fever for a day and a night, poured bitter medicine soup several times, and finally got rid of the fever.
With the help of the shadows reflected in the bronze mirror in the room, she looked at the special courtesy attitude of the little maids who waited for her, Luju and Ziju, and the results of their private comparison between her and the warbler Yanyan in the backyard of Hezhuang, about ...... This body is quite good.