After transmigrating into the body of a widow, I became the richest man in the capital.

Chapter 2 Granny Liu Gets Involved in a Murder Case

Su Xiaoxiao really couldn't understand what children of this age were thinking. She poured water into the pot, carefully washed the pot, then poured some more water into it and poured all the cornmeal from the flour bin into the pot.

Soon a pot of cornmeal porridge was ready. She served a bowl to Da Bao and Er Bao and placed it in front of them, and also served herself a bowl of cornmeal porridge.

"Eat up, what are you looking at?"

Su Xiaoxiao spoke gently to the two children. As she was about to drink, she noticed that neither of them was eating. Su Xiaoxiao assumed that the food was too unpalatable and they couldn't eat it.

She frowned, thinking to herself that it was true; eating only corn porridge made her heart ache, and it would be better if there were some side dishes to go with the rice.

But she couldn't find anything in the kitchen. She remembered that there seemed to be a few patches of dandelion growing in the yard when she first entered the house.

Su Xiaoxiao immediately went out to pick the dandelion, washed it clean, and made a pot of wild vegetable soup.

The two children stared wide-eyed and asked, "Mom, these wild vegetables are very bitter, can we eat them?"

"You guys don't know, do you? This is a real delicacy. Back where I'm from, you have to pay money to get it!"

The wild vegetable soup is ready. It's a combination of porridge and soup, which makes it much easier to eat with rice. Although it's all clear broth and water with no oil at all, it's still better than going to bed on an empty stomach.

"Eat quickly!"

Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but pat the two children's little heads again; they were so soft and fluffy.

The two children burst into tears; their mother was being incredibly gentle today!

After soothing the two children to sleep, Su Xiaoxiao looked at the bare walls of her home and the dark, smelly quilt on the kang (a heated brick bed). She really couldn't sleep. Thinking about what she would have to go through tomorrow, Su Xiaoxiao began to feel extremely anxious.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Bao suddenly started crying.

"Don't sell Xiaobao, don't sell Xiaobao, Mom, Xiaobao is the most obedient..."

Su Xiaoxiao went over and wiped away the tears and sweat from Xiaobao's face, then kissed her rosy cheeks.

"Don't worry, Xiao Bao, Mommy will never sell you!"

Xiao Bao gradually fell asleep.

Perhaps because she was full, or perhaps because she was too tired from beating people the day before, Su Xiaoxiao slept until the sun was high in the sky.

She didn't wake up until someone forced the door open.

After hurriedly putting on her clothes, she finally realized that the people in front of her were Granny Liu and two burly men.

She was startled, and the two children woke up as well.

"What do you want to do?"

The two burly men stared at Su Xiaoxiao, drooling. "We didn't expect her to be so pretty. We can get an extra two taels of silver from her!"

Su Xiaoxiao was furious. Was this a human slave trader?

"Are the two smaller ones going to be sold as well?"

One of the men asked Granny Liu a question.

"Keep the big ones to continue the family line, and sell the small ones since they're useless."

A few days ago, Granny Liu came to see the original owner, saying she wanted to arrange a good marriage for her, then sell Xiao Bao to a slave trader, and keep Da Bao to continue the family line.

The original owner knew, of course, that it was a scam. They said they were going to marry her off to a good family, but in reality, they wanted to sell her to a wealthy family as a concubine.

The two children were so frightened that they hid behind the door and trembled. Su Xiaoxiao grabbed a kitchen knife and swung it at the two burly men.

"Let's see who dares to come closer! You'll have to get past this cleaver in my hand first!" With that, she started brandishing it, showing off her moves in a very professional manner, which intimidated the two burly men in front of her.

Grandma Liu was so frightened that she took a few steps back. "Su Xiaoxiao, please don't go crazy here. Do you know how hard it is for me to be your mother-in-law? Isn't this all for your and the children's sake?"

"You sold us out, and we're supposed to be counting the money for you and being grateful to you, is that it?"

"Enough with the nonsense! Have you even discussed it? Are you going to sell or not? You've made us come all this way for nothing!"

The slave traders were unhappy; they were there to kidnap people, not to be hacked to pieces with cleavers.

The slave trader was about to leave when Granny Liu quickly stopped them, "Don't be afraid, I'll call my son over, she's afraid of my son!"

Grandma Liu was referring to her eldest son, Liu Dazhuang, who was tall and strong, like a bear.

"Dazhuang, come in!"

The door was kicked open, and Liu Dazhuang came in from outside, clutching a thick rope in his hand, indicating that he had been prepared for a long time.

Da Bao and Xiao Bao were terrified of Liu Da Zhuang, and they cried out in fear.

Liu Dazhuang charged at Su Xiaoxiao, but Su Xiaoxiao stepped forward to dodge and then slashed down at Liu Dazhuang's arm with the kitchen knife in her hand without even blinking.

Liu Dazhuang looked at him with an incredulous expression, as if to say, "Are you crazy?" If he hadn't tried his best to dodge to the side, his arm would probably have been dislocated.

"you……"

Liu Dazhuang clutched his bleeding arm and dared not come any closer.

Grandma Liu felt sorry for her eldest son, but seeing Su Xiaoxiao's bloodshot eyes, she didn't dare to come over easily.

The two slave traders immediately recognized the woman's delicate appearance and assumed she was a madwoman. They didn't want to end up like Liu Dazhuang, hacked to pieces and left covered in blood.

The two of them stormed off in a huff.

When Granny Liu realized her plan had failed and her beloved eldest son had been injured, she flew into a rage and shouted at Su Xiaoxiao, "You crazy woman! I think you don't know what's good for you. Just wait until I get someone to come and deal with you!"

She had barely finished speaking when an old woman's voice came from outside the door, "Grandma Liu, something terrible has happened! The officials say they found two dead bodies in your woodshed and they want you to come home immediately to assist the officials in their investigation!"

Two dead bodies? The woodshed?

Grandma Liu's face turned green, and she looked at Su Xiaoxiao in great fear.

"You were in the woodshed yesterday..."

Before she could finish speaking, two constables barged in and asked, "Are you Granny Liu?"

Grandma Liu nodded in alarm, "Come with us!"

Without saying a word, they tied up Granny Liu and took her away, also arresting Liu Dazhuang along with her.

When one of the officials asked Su Xiaoxiao what was going on, Su Xiaoxiao explained the whole story, saying that her mother-in-law had hired a slave trader to sell her and her child, and in a moment of panic, she killed Liu Dazhuang.

Upon hearing this, the officers were astonished. They thought, "What kind of mother-in-law is this? This old woman is truly wicked." However, they decided to handle this case separately and focus on solving the murder case first. Without asking any further questions, the officers told Su Xiaoxiao to protect herself and her children, and to contact them if anything happened.

After the two constables took away Granny Liu and Liu Dazhuang, Su Xiaoxiao leaned against the door and let out a long sigh. It seemed that the bodies of Wang Mazi and his brother Da Huoya, whom she had dealt with the night before, had been discovered.

Serves her right! Su Xiaoxiao remembered that she had done it without leaving a trace, and anyway, no matter how they investigated, they couldn't trace it back to her.

Su Xiaoxiao went over and hugged the two frightened children, comforting them.

"Don't be afraid, the bad guys have been caught, and our good days are coming!"

(End of this chapter)