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Chapter 12 Qin Xuemei's Choice [Please vote for recommendation! ]

After Qin Wang finished reading the updated information, he practiced Taizu Changquan for another half an hour, and immediately felt that the feeling of heat subsided a little.

He dried himself with a dry towel and fell asleep.

It's winter now. If you take a shower after sweating all over, you will definitely catch a cold!

The next day.

Five o'clock in the morning.

Qin Wang woke up, washed himself with willow branches and wood ash, and locked the door.

Boil the half golden-winged red carp that was not finished yesterday and continue eating.

"Practice Taizu Changquan for another hour or so to consume the energy of the treasure fish, then we can go to Baicaotang."

Qin Wang ate half of the golden-winged red carp in a short while, and his body became hot again.

Qin Wang took up his stance and began to practice Taizu Changquan.

as time flows.

Qin Wang looked up and saw hot air coming out of his body, forming white smoke that drifted into the room.

9:00 am.

In Lijiazhuang, as soon as you enter the mourning hall, you will see a woman in a yellow dress slumped on the ground. Her face is haggard, her nose is running, her hair is disheveled, her tears have dried, and she sits there motionless.

at this time.

Throughout the villa, most of the houses were burned to ruins, and the black beams turned into charcoal.

"Second Mother, now that things have come to this, please take care of yourself!"

Several maids were serving Li Chunxia.

"Brother, if you leave now, your nephew will follow you. My Li family will be cut off from now on, brother!"

Li Chunxia couldn't help but feel sad when she thought that she would no longer have any family from her mother's side.

"Madam! What happened to Zhuangzi?"

At this moment, a middle-aged man with a long sword hanging on his waist, wearing green clothes and with a strong aura came in like a gust of wind and helped Li Chunxia up.

"Last night, Tianyi and my sister-in-law were keeping vigil with three maids and servants. My sister-in-law told me to go back to my room first. Unexpectedly, not long after I returned to my room, a fire broke out in the mourning hall. My nephew and sister-in-law have both gone with my brother. There is no one left in my mother's family now."

When Li Chunxia saw her husband Zheng Kecheng coming back, she was suddenly overwhelmed with grief and cried in his arms.

"oops!"

"I went back to the county government office yesterday, how could something like this happen?"

"If I were here, I would rescue Tianyi no matter what!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Kecheng immediately beat his chest and stamped his feet, blaming himself. His eyes gradually turned red and he kept wiping away tears.

"Son-in-law, Second Mother, I took a closer look. There were actually three fire points last night."

At this moment, the housekeeper Chen Pu came forward, clasped his fists towards Zheng Kecheng and Li Chunxia, ​​and said respectfully.

"Three fires?"

Zheng Kecheng's eyes flashed with a barely perceptible gloom upon hearing this, and he immediately said, "Let me see!"

"Madam, what Butler Chen said is correct. The fire started in the mourning hall, the wing rooms, and the main hall."

Zheng Kecheng walked towards the ruined mourning hall and carefully examined it. His expression darkened as he said, "Based on my years of experience, if a candle falls over and a fire breaks out in the middle of the night, there's only one source of fire! It's obvious someone murdered my brother and his family!"

"What? Someone set fire to my brother's family?"

Li Chunxia stepped forward, inspected the three fire points Zheng Kecheng mentioned, and said through gritted teeth, "Kecheng, my brother treated you well when he was alive. He was my closest relative. Now, my family has been murdered. You must find the murderer and avenge me!"

"Madam, my brother's business is my business!"

Zheng Kecheng smashed a granite roller in front of the mourning hall into pieces with one palm and shouted, "I will definitely find the murderer who set the fire and killed my brother. I will skin him alive, tear his tendons out, and cut his body into pieces to comfort my brother's soul in heaven!"

Yanyun County.

Chen family.

In a side hall.

Sitting there was a woman who was about sixty years old, with a graceful temperament, a green ring on her right index finger, and was wearing a brocade fur coat. She exuded an irresistible aura.

Behind her stood two pretty maids, around seventeen or eighteen years old. In front of the woman stood four thin, lightly dressed girls, about fifteen or sixteen years old. The four girls kept their heads down, not daring to look at the noblewoman in front of them, and were all very reserved.

"Xiao Zi, Xiao Lan, Xiao Qing, Xiao Mei, you were all sold to my Chen family laundry because your families had no way to make a living."

"Do you want to make a lot of money to support your family?"

The old woman looked at Qin Xuemei and the other four people in front of her with a warm expression.

Qin Xuemei, Xiao Zi and the other four girls raised their heads, twirled their clothes with their hands, and nodded.

"I believe you've heard that in half a year's time, during the River God Festival, it will be my Chen family's turn to produce a virgin!"

"As long as you are willing to serve as a virgin sacrifice, each person will be given a subsidy of 20 taels of silver to your family!"

"And you don't have to go to the laundry room anymore. I'll keep you fed and well fed for the next six months!"

The old lady glanced at Qin Xuemei and others, her eyes narrowed slightly.

These four girls are young and virgins, making them the best candidates to offer sacrifices to the river god. She is informing them that if they disobey and are unwilling, they will be taken care of in the laundry room and will be tortured to death in just half a month.

Hearing what the old lady said, the three girls, Xiaozi, Xiaolan and Xiaoqing, all looked at her in silence. They knew clearly that offering sacrifices to the river god meant throwing themselves into the river on the day of the sacrifice and becoming sacrifices to the river god in exchange for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year.

To put it nicely, it means serving the God of Rivers; to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to death.

"Ma'am, I do."

"Before offering sacrifices to the river, I want to see my family."

Qin Xuemei slowly raised her head and looked at the old lady. She knew in her heart that the old lady was notifying her, not discussing with her, and there was no room for choice!
If you disobey, the Chen family has plenty of ways to torture you to death.

It's death anyway.

It would be better to die worthily.

She voluntarily sold herself to the Chen family in exchange for 600 coins, just so that her younger brother could survive for a while.

If he could get another 20 taels of silver, his brother could build a house and at least live a worry-free life.

Who doesn’t want to live?

But if the outcome cannot be reversed in the end, it would be better to exchange it for 20 taels of silver as a last help to my brother. From now on, he can only rely on himself.

"Great, what's your name?"

The old lady looked at Qin Xuemei and was very pleased.

Every year, the sacrifice to the river god requires twelve generations of Yanyun County. The four major families take turns to provide boys and girls. Naturally, members of these large families will not be the sacrifices. Instead, boys and girls are bought with silver to replace the sacrifices. This has become a common practice.

This was also the original intention of the Chen family to buy laundry slaves in advance.

"Madam, my name is Qin Xuemei."

Qin Xuemei lowered her head and twirled the corner of her clothes.

"Ah, very good."

The old lady nodded to Qin Xuemei and looked at the other three with displeasure. "You don't want to?"

Xiaozi, Xiaolan and Xiaoqing remained silent.

No one thinks about death.

"I'm just informing you. Well, think about it for three days and then give me your answer."

The old lady's face darkened. If she hadn't been worried that the offerings would cry and disturb the River God, she would have directly kidnapped the laundry servants. Why would she spend extra money to negotiate with them?

They have all been sold to the Chen family, so it’s not a big deal even if the owner beats them to death.

Old Madam Chen is gone.

"Sister Xuemei, becoming a sacrifice means death. Do you really?"

Xiaozi, Xiaoqing and Xiaolan all looked at Qin Xuemei.

Although they were sold to the Chen family, their parents had told them before they left that they would redeem them under certain conditions in the future, so they naturally did not want to die.

"Do you and I have a choice?"

Qin Xuemei lowered her head and looked at her toes, muttering to herself, "If I hadn't come to the Chen family, I would have starved to death. Madam, this is a notice. If you don't agree, you won't survive for half a year."

Xiaozi, Xiaoqing and Xiaolan were all silent.

The old lady has already spoken. If you don’t agree, you will be ungrateful. In the future, you will definitely be beaten to death and disappear silently like your other sisters!
(End of this chapter)