Chapter 189

Merely'er told the whole story from beginning to end.

Cao Popo heard it, and her eyes were already filled with tears; she held Jiang Xiaoxiao's hand and said a lot of thanks.

"Sigh, you offended the Huang family young master to save me and my granddaughter, what should be done... If the Huang family comes to find trouble with you mother and daughter, what should be done... It's my old woman who let you down..."

Cao Popo wiped her tears, both guilty and afraid.

"It's okay, Cao Popo, the Huang family doesn't dare to touch us; do you know the newly appointed County Lieutenant, Master Shen? He knows us and has some friendship with us, so you don't have to worry, the Huang family won't dare to touch us easily for the sake of Master Shen."

There was no other way, Jiang Xiaoxiao could only bring out the Buddha Shen Que again to comfort Cao Popo.

"That's good, that's good..." Cao Popo felt relieved after hearing this.

Jiang Wei drove the horse carriage and soon arrived at the Ciji Hall.

After being diagnosed by Doctor Zou, besides some skin injuries, Cao Popo was fine.

"... I'll prescribe two doses of medicine here, three times a day, and this wound behind the head, don't touch water, raise it well, keep a peaceful state of mind, and don't be frightened again."

Merely'er nodded repeatedly to remember, but her heart was surprised and suspicious.

At that time, the situation was so dangerous, and there was so much blood on the ground, everyone felt that her grandma had no rescue... I didn't expect that after coming to this Ciji Hall, her grandma had no problems except for some skin injuries!?

This is truly the blessing of heaven!

Merely'er put her hands together and thanked heaven repeatedly.

After leaving the Ciji Hall, she thanked Jiang Xiaoxiao again.

"Xiaoxiao, thank you so much; if it weren't for you, I might have been caught by that beast of the Huang family to the mansion... You saved my life, and I, Cao Wanzhi, will definitely repay you for the rest of my life..."

"Haha, no need to repay... Wait, what did you say your name was?!" Jiang Xiaoxiao was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized something was wrong.

Cao Wanzhi?

Isn't this the royal princess who was left among the people in the original work!?

The most, most, most important supporting female character in the original text!

Seeing Jiang Xiaoxiao's stunned expression, Cao Wanzhi was also stunned, "Is, is there a problem with my name?"

"No, no problem!" Jiang Xiaoxiao waved her hands repeatedly.

She looked at Cao Popo, who was thanking her mother on the side, and immediately pretended to be innocent, "I just saw that sister doesn't look like Cao Popo, and thought you weren't biological grandmother and granddaughter... But hearing sister say she is surnamed Cao, it seems I thought too much."

"We are indeed not biological grandmother and granddaughter." Cao Wanzhi smiled and said frankly, "I was picked up by Grandma when I was young; I have no family, and Grandma raised me up; she is the only relative I have in this world."

Then that was correct.

In the original work, Cao Wanzhi was found by the royal family when she was seventeen.

Before this, she had always been raised by an old woman among the people.

"By the way, Sister Merely'er, how old are you this year?" Jiang Xiaoxiao asked casually.

"Me, I'll be sixteen after the new year."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

That's fast too.

She didn't expect that she would meet such an important character in the plot so quickly.

Bidding farewell to Cao Popo and Merely'er, the mother and daughter got on the horse carriage again, preparing to return to the village.

After this delay, the time to return to the village was also later than scheduled.

Jiang Wei drove the horse carriage out of Yong'an Town, and because she was afraid of meeting Young Master Huang on the way, they could only take a detour and walk out of the city from the street in the south of the city.

But unexpectedly, they saw Li Jinfeng and Huang Suntian at the alley entrance.

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but roll her eyes; they had deliberately taken a detour, how could they still meet this plague god?

But fortunately, Huang Suntian seemed to be dragged by Li Jinfeng and didn't find them.

"Get out! Are you annoying! I warn you, if you dare to follow me again, I will whip you to death!"

"It, it was Madam who asked me to come..."

"Who do you think you are, daring to use my mother to suppress me! I think you are tired of living!"

Before Li Jinfeng could finish speaking, Huang Suntian raised the horse whip in his hand impatiently and whipped Li Jinfeng hard.

Li Jinfeng gasped in pain, but didn't dare to dodge at all, and knelt in front of Huang Suntian tremblingly, knocking her head one by one, "Master, I was wrong, the slave will never dare again..."

Slave?

Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was watching all this through the carriage window from afar, couldn't help but wonder.

Wasn't Li Jinfeng married to the Huang family as Huang Suntian's wife? How did she become a slave?

And in the alley, Huang Suntian, who whipped Li Jinfeng once, didn't seem to be relieved, and raised the whip in his hand again, whipping Li Jinfeng hard, as if to vent the anger in his heart, "Little bitch, today I will let you know the end of offending me!"

"Master, I won't dare again, please spare me..."

Li Jinfeng couldn't stand the pain, crying and wailing while rolling on the ground begging for mercy, the whole person was embarrassed.

However, Huang Suntian whipped more and more excitedly, and even a trace of abnormal pleasure of abusing others appeared on his face.

Several servants watched from the side and didn't stop him, as if they were already used to it.

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned as she watched this scene.

She didn't sympathize with Li Jinfeng.

But she felt that Huang Suntian's reaction and attitude... seemed somewhat unusual.

Irritable, easily agitated, and having aggressive behavior.

She remembered what Shopkeeper Zhou had said before: the Huang family had married wives and concubines for Huang Suntian more than once, but without exception, none of them had given birth to offspring.

Finally, the Huang family had no choice but to set their target on people in the village.

After all, people in this era had serious feudal ideas, and they would never think that there was a problem with the man if he couldn't give birth to offspring, only thinking that there was a problem with the woman's body.

Combined with Huang Suntian's abnormal love for playing with and abusing young children... this Huang Suntian probably had more than just pedophilia, but also XYY syndrome.

Men with this disease, besides having irritable, manic, and aggressive behavior, also had an important feature—testicular hypoplasia, and had serious fertility obstacles.

In other words, they couldn't give birth to offspring at all.

In this way, Huang Suntian's various behaviors could be explained.

He was in his thirties, an age that could be a grandfather in this era, but Huang Suntian couldn't give birth to an offspring, causing his psychology to become more and more abnormal, irritable, and manic, and as his age gradually increased, he loved abusing and playing with young children more and more.

Because only in this way could he feel that he was still young, thereby forgetting the pain brought by his age gradually increasing.

—Only by imposing pain on others could his psychology feel comfortable.

Probably because the scene of Huang Suntian abusing Li Jinfeng was becoming more and more cruel, Jiang Wei pulled down the carriage curtain, not wanting to let Jiang Xiaoxiao see another glance, and drove the horse carriage away silently.

When they returned to Yuhe Village, it was already noon.