Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

"Brother Li, Brother Zou, these young beauties are all quite pretty. How about we take them to Shili Xiang Restaurant, where they can entertain us with music and serve wine?"

"That's excellent!"

Young Master Wu looked at Liu Dawang and the others standing in front of him, "You must be their parents. We brothers would like to invite a few girls to keep us company with drinks. This 50 taels of silver is their payment. This amount of silver is enough for you to live on for several years."

Liu Siyue picked up the silver and threw it directly at Young Master Wu's face. "You are truly despicable and shameless, harassing a respectable woman in broad daylight. If you want someone to accompany you for drinks and entertainment, go to a brothel. There are plenty of people there."

Don't think you're so great just because you have a little money. Everyone who sees you will fawn over you.

Lingshui Four Young Masters! What are these Lingshui Four Young Masters? They bully men and women, and dominate the market?

What abilities do you have? Did you earn everything you eat and wear? You're just bossing people around here because you have a rich dad, aren't you?

Besides having a good family background and a good father, what else do you have?

Oh, and I also have a vulgar and shameless appearance, don't you all think so?

"How dare you slander me like this? Do you know who I am? I am the eldest son of the Wu family. Do you know the Wu family of Lingshui County? A bunch of ignorant women, I'll scare you to death if I told you!"

Our Wu family, Gu family, Li family, and Zou family are the four great gentry families of Lingshui, with the Wu family being the most prominent. Even the county magistrate has to give me some face.

Do you know who my father is? My father is the brother-in-law of the prefect, Prefect Cai, who is my maternal uncle.

"Considering your ignorance, I, this young master, am magnanimous and will not hold it against you. As long as you serve us four brothers well today, this matter will be over. Otherwise, you will suffer the consequences."

Young Master Wu pointed to Liu Siyue, and the three Liu sisters, including Liu Ruyun.

"Then I won't! I refuse to believe that you would dare to forcibly abduct a woman in broad daylight and disregard the laws of the court."

"Hahahaha, in this Lingshui County, I am the law. Don't be stubborn and you'll regret it."

"I refuse to believe that you can do anything to me in front of so many people from Lingshui!"

"Miss, we can't afford to offend them. You should quickly apologize to these young masters."

Gu Nanting then joined in, saying, "You ungrateful bastards, stop wasting your breath talking to them. Just take them away."

"Brother Gu is right. These country girls, seeing that I am a handsome and dignified young master, dressed in fine clothes, are trying to seduce me in the street. This is a breach of ladylike virtue. Take them to the yamen and let the magistrate teach them a lesson."

The four of them burst into laughter. "Guards, take these four away from me!"

"Several servants and young men who were following them immediately came up and were about to attack Liu Siyue and Liu Ruyun."

Qingling immediately protected the others, while Qingwu and Qingye fought with them.

The servants were all knocked down with a single kick. When Young Master Wu and the others saw that all the men they had brought were lying on the ground, they saw Qingwu walking towards them.

"What do you want? If you dare to lay a finger on a hair on my head today, I will make you wish you were dead."

Liu Siyue recalled the letter Wang Yalan had given her, urging her to keep a low profile and avoid trouble. She knew now wasn't the time for a direct confrontation; if open confrontation didn't work, then a covert approach was best avoided.

"Gentlemen, we are just ordinary people who only want to live a peaceful life. Please be magnanimous and don't hold it against us."

Young Master Wu assessed the situation and knew that these people were skilled and that he couldn't defeat them. If he continued to entangle them, they would probably be the ones who suffered.

"Alright, I won't hold this against you today. We'll have plenty of time in the future."

Brothers, let's go.

Young Master Wu gave his servant a wink, signaling him to keep an eye on the group and see where they would settle down.

Once those people left, several onlookers came up to advise her gently, "Young lady, you were really reckless today. You don't know how powerful these people are. No one in Lingshui County dares to mess with them."

You've been targeted by them. You'd better leave the county town quickly, or you'll bring unnecessary trouble upon yourself and your family.

"Thank you everyone for reminding us, we understand."

"Alas! What a tragedy! When will our Lingshui County ever see a clear sky again!"

Magistrate Su used to seem like a good person, how come he suddenly changed his ways?

"What else could it be? It's all about the money, of course! Seeing others making so much money, how can they be content?"

"April, let's go back. It's too dangerous here. We ordinary folks can't afford to mess with this. Let's just stay put."

"Mom, since we're already here, let's buy everything before we go back."

"Mother doesn't want to go shopping anymore." Madam Feng was very worried about the children.

"Mom, didn't you say you wanted to buy jewelry? Let's go to a jewelry store for a bit and then come back."

"Okay, let's go to the jewelry store and then hurry home."

Liu Siyue took them to Jinyulou. We bought a silver hairpin and a silver bracelet for each of our two sisters-in-law and our third brother's wife, and a pair of gold earrings for his mother.

These items cost sixty or seventy taels of silver in one go, and Madam Feng was heartbroken.

"April has finished shopping, let's hurry home."

Seeing that they all looked gloomy and had no interest in shopping, Liu Siyue had no choice but to agree.

"Master, I'll go and take care of the people keeping watch outside."

"Yes, let's not let anyone get killed."

Qingwu spotted the man standing nearby, keeping watch. She aimed carefully and struck him on the back of the head with a pebble. The man felt dizzy and fell backward, his head hitting the bluestone slab hard with a loud thud, which startled everyone around.

"Oh no! Someone has fainted, hit their head and is bleeding a lot. Quick, get them to the hospital!"

A burly man carried the injured person on his back and ran towards the nearest clinic, shouting, "Doctor! Doctor! Help!"

"What happened? Why is there so much blood?"

The people who followed him chimed in, saying, "This person was standing there when he suddenly fainted, fell straight backward, and his head hit the bluestone slab hard."

"Quickly, put the patient on the bed."

The doctor immediately examined the back of the head and found a pebble deeply embedded in the skull, with bright red blood gushing out from the hole.

"The patient's injuries are too severe for me to treat. He hit his head on a bluestone slab, and there were pebbles on the slab. The pebbles are deeply embedded in his brain. He's probably not going to make it. You'd better move him somewhere else quickly."

When the men who came heard that the person was dying, they asked them to carry the person away, but the person refused and ran away.

Seeing no other way, the doctor, who couldn't afford to be implicated in a murder case, immediately sent someone to report it to the authorities. Several constables arrived at the clinic. "Was it your clinic that reported this?"

"Gentlemen, this is what happened. The person is now dead." The doctor explained the whole story. The constables didn't want to get involved. The magistrate had said that it was better to mind one's own business.

"Since the person died from a fall, write a notice and post it at the door so that the deceased's family can come and claim the body. If no one claims the body within three days, throw it into a mass grave."

"Sir, why don't you carry the body away? It would be easier to handle. This is a clinic, and there are patients coming and going. It's bad luck to leave a corpse here."

"Okay, find something so we can carry the person away. You write down the cause of death."

The doctor immediately wrote down the cause of death clearly on a piece of paper, handed it to the officials, and the officials carried the body away.

A notice asking people to claim the body was posted throughout the county.