Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Character Just Wants to Die a Natural Death

He was a man wearing a mask, only his dark, gloomy eyes were visible.

Just as Liu Chunxiang was about to scream, the man grabbed her by the neck: "Shut up!"

Hearing the man's threat, Liu Chunxiang shook her head frantically, her eyes pleading. The man threw her out, slamming her onto Yao Tieniu's bed. Both of them fell to the ground, and Liu Chunxiang didn't even have the strength to get up.

The man's gaze fell on Yan Tianhua, who immediately knelt down: "My lord, spare my life! Whatever you want, I'll give you. Please, my lord, don't kill me."

"From now on, you are not allowed to bother Fei Ran again, or you'll all die!"

Yan Tianhua collapsed to the ground, never expecting that Yao Feiran would have a martial artist to help her. She should have known better than to bother her; now her whole family is ruined.

Yao Feiran looked at the man's back with a strange expression.

Did Xue Yuan come here specifically to threaten the Yao family?

Now that he had resolved the issue, Yao Feiran quietly returned home.

When Liu Chunxiang woke up, she was in pain all over, and her health had deteriorated further. Coupled with her advanced age and limited mobility, Yan Tianhua had to drag her own body to care for the two of them. Most of the villagers shared the surname Yao, and knowing the Yao family's situation, they kept a close eye on Yan Tianhua, fearing she might run away.

The Yao family never came back.

The next two years were peaceful. Yao Feiran continued to instruct Xue Yuan in martial arts. After breaking through to the third rank, he passed the examination and entered the Martial Court Guard. In two years, he broke through to the fourth rank and was given important responsibilities. Even so, he would often climb over the wall to ask Yao Feiran about difficult problems in cultivation.

Yao Feiran, through his connections, bought and sold a lot of medicinal herbs and obtained unrecorded martial arts techniques, which she secretly practiced. It was a win-win situation for both of them.

She was initially in a hurry to leave, but she wasn't in such a rush anymore.

When Wei Wanying came of age, she was engaged to Pei Zhixian, the second son of the Pei family. Pei's father was the Minister of Revenue, and the whole family lived in the capital. The Pei family's ancestral home was in Cangzhou, and the two families had always maintained good relations.

After the engagement was arranged, Pei Zhixian made a special trip to visit the Wei family when he came to take the provincial examination. Yao Feiran glanced at Pei Zhixian, and for Wei Wanying's sake, she still specially used her energy to calculate something for him.

Soon, her heart sank.

Three years after Wei Wanying married into the Pei family, the Pei family was wiped out by martial artists. Pei Zhixian's memories were frozen on the Pei mansion, which was burned to ruins.

Specifically, it should involve someone with good fortune, but since I haven't actually met them, I don't know who that person is.

Yao Feiran cannot stop the marriage between the two families unless she kills Pei Zhixian, who is not a bad person.

The question is, who exactly did the Pei family offend?

However, it doesn't matter if we offended them. It seems that the leader of the murderers is an eighth-rank martial artist, which is why the Pei family's guards were powerless to fight back. Yao Feiran is already a sixth-rank martial artist. In three years, it won't be difficult for her to reach the eighth rank. What she lacks now is some martial arts manuals.

She planned to talk to Su Yumei in person to get her indenture. If Su Yumei didn't agree, she would have to resort to coercive measures. Now she had nowhere to go.

Su Yumei was not surprised when she saw Yao Feiran take out five hundred taels of silver. Over the years, she had known that Yao Feiran's embroidery skills were superb. Because Xue Yuan sold them on her behalf, few people knew that these embroideries came from Yao Feiran.

"Second Madam, I want to redeem myself. This five hundred taels of silver is my reward for asking you to plead with the First Madam on my behalf. I'll pay any amount of silver as long as I can redeem myself."

"There's no need for this money. You've taken such good care of Wanying all these years. I'll talk to my sister-in-law about it. But Wanying will probably be reluctant to part with you. I was originally thinking of having you accompany her to the Pei residence, but since you're unwilling, I won't force you to stay."

Yao Feiran's eyes remained unchanged. Pei Zhixian could be considered a good man. However, once the massacre of his family was resolved three years later, he should be able to live a smooth life from now on.

"Thank you, Second Grandma."

"No need to thank me. What are your plans after you've taken this contract of servitude?"

"I want to open my own shop and sell some things."

Once you reach the Grandmaster level, you will be treated as an honored guest wherever you go, and you will not fear anyone.

Su Yumei was somewhat surprised, seemingly not expecting Yao Feiran's idea to be so unexpectedly simple.

A few days later, Su Yumei approached the eldest sister-in-law, Cheng Zirou. There was no conflict of interest between the two sisters-in-law, but they didn't get along. The main reason was that Cheng Zirou disliked Su Yumei from the beginning.

Su Yumei wasn't exactly a pushover either; they'd even had a falling out before, and afterwards, the two rarely interacted.

Cheng Zirou looked at Su Yumei with complicated eyes. She was also a pampered daughter of her parents. Since marrying into the Wei family, her husband had favored his concubines over his wife. One troublesome concubine after another came along. The child she miscarried was caused by the favored concubine Du Juan. But even so, the master still protected her.

She had originally planned to kill Du Juan at all costs, but when she saw her two children hugging her and crying, while her husband watched them coldly, she suddenly woke up.

Killing Du Juan might bring her momentary satisfaction, but it would make her husband utterly despise her. She might not care, but her two children would likely be implicated.

So she endured it again and again, no longer making a scene, respecting her mother-in-law and caring for her younger relatives, and finally won over her husband. Now, she finally waited until Du Juan fell out of favor, and taking advantage of her cold, she found a fault and punished her by making her kneel and let her be exposed to the wind all night.

After a while of struggling, it finally died.

She finally released the pent-up anger in her heart and realized that things in the inner quarters were not something to be done in a momentary fit of anger, but rather something to be done in the long run.

Over the years, she had always envied Su Yumei. The couple lived in harmony, and there were no concubines stirring up trouble between them. Seeing their happiness only made her feel irritated, and she did many petty things.

Now her mindset is much more stable. She believes in accepting what she has and accepting what she loses. She doesn't crave what she doesn't have and just tries her best to live her life well.

Su Yumei said, "Sister-in-law, I want to ask you for a favor. Could you give me Fei Ran's indenture, which is in the Third Miss's room?"

Cheng Zirou smiled enigmatically: "Sister-in-law, you are truly a kind person. You actually came to beg me for the sake of a maid. You used to turn around and walk away as soon as you saw me."

Su Yumei frowned, disliking the barbed tone in her voice: "That girl is good to Wanying and has never made a mistake. I want to ask for this favor on her behalf."

"I can give it to you, but let me tell you something interesting. That kid from the Xue family also mentioned to me that he wanted to redeem Fei Ran."

Xue Yuan?

Su Yumei frowned. Xue Yuan was the eldest grandson of the Xue family, and the old master Xue had already broken through to the eighth rank and made many outstanding contributions on the battlefield. Xue Yuan would soon be transferred to the Wuting Guard in the capital.

To be honest, even if Xue Yuan wanted to marry her, the Xue family probably wouldn't agree.

"That girl said that once the Wei family lets her leave, she'll open her own shop and do small business."

Cheng Zirou asked curiously, "Doesn't she want to enter the Xue family mansion?"

"She has always been a well-behaved person."

"You are just too kind and too trusting. You let Liu'er go and Fei Ran leave. She said she didn't want to enter the Xue family, but that may not be true. Who can resist the temptation of currying favor with the powerful?"

After Cheng Zirou finished speaking, she had someone return the indenture to Su Yumei, and Su Yumei took Yao Feiran to the government office to cancel the contract.

"From now on, you will be free." Su Yumei hesitated for a moment, then said, "My sister-in-law said that Xue Yuan had mentioned to her that you be freed from your slave status. She agreed to give me the indenture, perhaps out of respect for Xue Yuan. What are your thoughts?"