Chapter 193: Twenty taels is clearly payment for selling one's body!

The "bang-bang-bang" sound of the door being pounded was deafening.

Before long, the bright red lacquered gate opened, and a young servant poked his head out from inside.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Feng Yatou! We're looking for Feng Yatou!" Seeing that the person who opened the door was just a servant, Zhu Shi immediately straightened her back. "We are relatives of your mistress, the lady of the house! Why don't you hurry up and let her come to welcome us!"

The servant frowned immediately upon seeing Zhu Shi's appearance: "What Feng Yatou? Never heard of her! Our Huang residence's mistress doesn't have relatives like you. Get lost, don't come here looking for trouble!"

Having said that, he moved to close the door.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't close the door!" Li Family Old Woman hurriedly stepped forward, glaring at Zhu Shi as if annoyed by her inability to speak properly. "We are looking for Li Jinfeng, the girl who married into your Huang residence as a daughter-in-law not long ago."

"Li Jinfeng?" The servant still frowned. "Never heard of her."

"How is that possible!" Sun Shi could no longer stand still and rushed forward, saying, "My daughter married your Huang family's young master a few months ago. How could you possibly not know her!?"

"My young master already has a wife, how could he possibly take another?" The servant sneered. "Besides, every year and every month, so many servant girls are carried into my young master's room; how would I know this Feng Yatou you're talking about?"

Once these words were spoken, Sun Shi's face turned pale in an instant.

How could this be different from what was said before?!

Could it be that Feng'er didn't marry into the family?

"Hmph, what 'know or don't know,' I think it's just Feng Yatou who doesn't want to see us!" Li Family Old Woman, however, didn't think deeply, assuming that since Li Jinfeng had married into a good family, she didn't want to see them, her poor relatives.

"You go back and tell Li Jinfeng, even if she marries the Emperor himself, her surname is still Li! She is a person of my Li family in life, and a ghost of my Li family in death! If she dares to deny me as her own grandmother, she will be struck by lightning!"

"Exactly! Don't think you can pretend not to know us! If you don't let Feng Yatou come out to see us today, we'll just stay here and not leave!" Zhu Shi also shouted at the top of her lungs.

The servant, truly having a headache from the two women's loud voices, waved his hand to summon the guards by the gate. "Drive this group of troublemakers away. Don't let them appear at the Huang residence again, lest they offend the Master."

The guard immediately drew the saber from his waist.

The snow-bright blade shone with a fierce, cold light.

Li Family Old Woman and Zhu Shi had never seen such real blades and guns; they immediately shrank their necks in fear, closed their mouths tightly, and dared not speak again.

"Get out!" the guard scolded with a cold face. "Otherwise, don't blame me if my blade doesn't have eyes!"

The group from the Li family dared not say anything more and quickly tucked their tails and ran.

After exiting the street where the Huang family alley was located, the few of them finally stopped, panting for breath.

"What's going on? Why doesn't Feng Yatou want to see us?" Zhu Shi still believed it was Li Jinfeng who didn't want to see them.

She looked at Li Family Old Woman and continued to stir up trouble: "Mother, we came all this way to find her, how could she be like this? She has no filial piety at all!"

"I'm afraid things aren't that simple..." Li Family Old Man wasn't as foolish as Zhu Shi; he had noticed some clues. "Even if Feng Yatou didn't want to see us, she couldn't possibly lock her own mother out."

As he spoke, he looked at Sun Shi, only to see Sun Shi's face becoming increasingly ugly.

Just then, a plump woman dressed in red and green walked by on the opposite street.

Sun Shi, as if seeing a savior, rushed over like a madwoman. "Wang Liu Po, you stand still for me!"

The group from the Li family also reacted.

This Wang Liu Po was the matchmaker who had come to their Li family to deliver the "betrothal gifts" back then; she was a person sent by the Huang family, so she must know something!

They immediately rushed over to surround her.

"You, you people! What are you doing?" Wang Liu Po was startled when she saw so many people surrounding her.

"Tell me honestly! Where did you take my Feng Yatou!" Sun Shi grabbed Wang Liu Po tightly, refusing to let her go.

Wang Liu Po felt the pain from her grip and said directly: "What Feng Yatou? I don't know what you're talking about!"

Upon hearing this, Sun Shi became even more anxious: "You're lying! That day, it was clearly you who brought the Huang family to my house to propose marriage, and it was your people who carried Feng Yatou away. I went to the Huang family to find her, so why does everyone say my Feng Yatou didn't marry into their family! You better confess everything to me!"

"You're from Yuhe Village?" Wang Liu Po, hearing this, finally remembered who this group was. She forcefully shook off Sun Shi's hand and said angrily: "You were willing to sell your daughter to the Huang family, so what are you coming to find me for now!"

"Sell?" The Li family members were all stunned.

Sun Shi even said: "Impossible! My daughter married into the Huang family; we clearly received those twenty taels of betrothal gifts!"

"Married?" Wang Liu Po sneered. "Without even a proper marriage contract or betrothal gifts, your family sold the girl, you didn't marry her off. Those twenty taels were clearly payment for selling her body!"

These words were like a heavy hammer, striking Sun Shi hard. Her body swayed twice, and she fell to the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

In fact, she hadn't been without suspicion before; how could a family's marriage ceremony be so simple, not to mention hosting a banquet, they didn't even have the parents of both sides meet properly.

But thinking that her daughter was marrying into a wealthy family like the Huangs, she suppressed this suspicion. Anyway, as long as her daughter was going to enjoy a life of luxury by marrying into the Huang family, she didn't care how simple the wedding was.

She never expected that in the end, it would ruin her daughter's whole life...

Her eyes were red, and she burst into loud, painful tears.

Beside her, Li Family Old Woman didn't speak, her eyeballs rolling around, not knowing whether she was feeling regret or relief.

Relief that it wasn't Li Xiufen who "married" over...

By the time the Li family returned to the entrance of Yuhe Village, the sky had already turned completely dark.

The night was deep and thick, and the night wind blew, carrying a chill.

Zhu Shi shrank her neck from the cold and muttered with dissatisfaction: "If I had known, I wouldn't have gone to find Feng Yatou. We wasted so much time for nothing, and we haven't even eaten dinner yet..."

The whole family had gone to the Jiang family at noon, and upon returning, they had barely rested before rushing to the town in a panic. After going back and forth for several hours, not only did they not find the person, but they also got a nose full of dust.

Now, the Li family was walking on the main road of the village, cold, hungry, and tired.

After the start of autumn, the weather was getting colder day by day.

The Li family hurried home, originally thinking they could have a hot meal upon arrival, only to find that Li Shoude and Yun Ying had already gone to bed, and they hadn't even left any food for them.

Li Family Old Woman was so angry her mouth twisted, and she opened her mouth to curse at the East Room.

Li Family Old Man held her back: "Forget it, it's not easy for Shoude to study, let him rest well."

Now that Li Shoude was a scholar, he enjoyed an incomparably noble status in the family, and Li Family Old Man was willing to endure everything about him, including Yun Ying.

Having said that, he turned his head and ordered Sun Shi, who was beside him: "Eldest Daughter-in-law, hurry up and go cook."