Chapter 60: You Don't Want Me to Disable Him—Everyone, Stop!

Xiao Shitou, with a curved smile, said, "Mom, you're really amazing—earning so much money in a single day."

She learned that Qiao Sheng planned to recruit someone to help her work together.

Xiao Shitou opened her mouth and said, "Mom, you could ask grandma and the others; they just work at home all day and don't earn much."

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about them."

Qiao Sheng thought it over and decided to ask Qiao Lanhua and Qiao Xuehua to help her, and she didn't ask Qiao Hushui and the others because their family's land required them, plus she couldn't take that many people right now.

The next morning.

Qiao Sheng finished preparing the goods to be sold that afternoon, ate lunch, closed the shop, and then took Xiao Shitou back to the village in a rented ox cart.

When they went to the Qiao household, Qiao Hushui and the others weren't home; only Gao Shi was there.

Upon seeing Qiao Sheng and Xiao Shitou, Gao Shi immediately wore a sour expression: "Why have you come here? Is this a place you belong to?"

Hearing that,

Qiao Sheng replied, "Grandma, you say that, but I haven't cut ties with you; why can't I come here? Besides, I'm not here to look for you."

Without waiting for Gao Shi to speak,

Qiao Sheng shouted, calling out many times, but received no response.

She took Xiao Shitou and walked toward the plot of land assigned to Qiao Hushui and the others; she wasn't even sure they were in the field, but she had to check.

Whether she looked in the field or the farm, she saw none of them.

While she was wondering where they had gone,

Zhang Qiao's voice came, "Lianhua, are you looking for your father and the others?"

She turned her gaze.

Qiao Sheng saw Zhang Qiao carrying pigweed walking over from the side.

She led Xiao Shitou to greet her, "Qiao Er, you're cutting pigweed, right? I'm looking for my father and the others. Do you know where they went?"

Zhang Qiao said, "I also heard it from the villagers; they say your second sister's husband caused your second sister to have a miscarriage, and when your father and the others heard, they went to that village."

"What!"

Qiao Sheng thanked Zhang Qiao, rented an ox cart, and headed toward Great Mountain Village; her village was over an hour's walk from there, so traveling by ox cart would be faster.

As Qiao Sheng and Xiao Shitou hurried there,

Qiao Hushui and the others had already started fighting with the Zhao Family.

Seeing that Qiao Hushui and the others were no match for the Zhao Family, Qiao Sheng told Xiao Shitou to stay aside and wait, then she glanced around, grabbed a tree branch, and charged in.

"Who hit me?"

The speaker was none other than Zhao Jin, the man married to Qiao Lihua; he was about ten years older than her, his face full of flesh, as ugly as possible.

"Your great‑aunt, I'm going to beat you!"

Qiao Sheng kicked forward, striking his two‑tael flesh directly.

Zhao Jin was hit squarely by Qiao Sheng's kick, and he cried out in pain.

His brothers were just about to come to help, when Qiao Sheng somehow produced a dagger and placed it on his neck.

"If you don't want me to cripple him, all of you stop!"

"Lianhua, why did you come?"

Lan Yue Niang's face was covered in scars, her hair disheveled, her whole body filthy, looking as wretched as possible.

When Wang Shi, Zhao Jin's mother, heard that the kidnapper of her son was Lan Yue Niang's eldest daughter, she spat and said, "Shameless little whore, having a child out of wedlock, and you still dare to swagger here!"

"I spit, you're the one who had a child out of wedlock; your whole family has out‑of‑wedlock children. Xiao Shitou was picked up by my elder sister, not born by her."

Qiao Xuehua retorted sharply.

Both sides of her face were swollen, with several bloodstains still oozing, though the bleeding wasn't severe.

Qiao Sheng asked Zhao Jin, "Where is my second sister?"

Zhao Jin originally didn't want to tell Qiao Sheng. When the dagger in his hand moved, how could he dare not answer?

"She—she's in the room."

In the room.

Could that be?

If that's true, would she not come out?

Qiao Sheng kicked Zhao Jin and forced him to lead the way.

(End of Chapter)