Chapter 9

Seeing that Diaochan hadn't moved, the middle-aged man's anger grew even more, so he walked toward Diaochan with the rattan whip.

"Fine, fine, fine, you don't listen to me after meeting a wild man, right?"

"See if I don't whip you to death today, so you don't know which wild man you'll be cheapening in the future."

"Chan'er..."

A woman's voice rang out from the thatched hut.

"Aunt..."

Diaochan raised her head.

"Chan'er, come here, come here..."

The woman's voice was weak.

Diaochan's uncle, Li Gouer, looked back at the thatched hut and threw away the rattan whip in his hand in frustration.

Then he looked at Diaochan viciously and said: "You just wait for me!"

After dropping this sentence, Li Gouer carried his wine pouch and walked toward the outside of the courtyard.

Diaochan took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and walked toward the middle room.

Entering the room, Diaochan frowned slightly.

Just because of the smell in the room.

The smell of alcohol mixed with an unpleasant, pungent odor.

A thin, withered woman lay on the bed.

"Aunt..."

Diaochan walked up to her and knelt by the bed.

The middle-aged woman looked at the ceiling with murky eyes, her pupils unfocused; she was clearly already blind.

Stretching out her withered arm, the woman tentatively felt for Diaochan.

Her voice was full of guilt: "Chan'er..."

"It was Aunt who harmed you."

"Aunt..." Diaochan hurriedly shook her head and said: "Aunt, please don't say that, Diaochan is very well."

The middle-aged woman shook her head, and two tears flowed from her murky eyes, running down her wrinkled and sunken cheekbones.

"Chan'er, Aunt thought that since you lost your parents and Aunt had no offspring, you could come to this family to be adopted."

"But who would have thought that Aunt's body wouldn't cooperate, and I've been ill for so many years."

"Not only did I drag down the family, but I also implicated you in suffering."

"Chan'er, it's all Aunt's fault."

The woman said remorsefully: "Your uncle..."

"Uncle is very good," Diaochan interrupted her aunt's words and said: "Aunt, life will get better, and Aunt's illness will also get better."

"A few days ago, they said that the Taiping Dao had come to Jinyang City to distribute talisman water."

"Tomorrow is the third, Chan'er will go into the city to beg for talisman water for Aunt."

"As long as Aunt drinks it, the illness will be gone after the spring."

The woman lying on the bed nodded with tears in her eyes and said: "Good child, good child..."

"Aunt heard yesterday that you saved a man from outside?"

"How is that man?"

The woman held Diaochan's hand.

Hearing Duan Yu mentioned, Diaochan immediately felt shy.

"Aunt... Brother Duan... Brother Duan is very good."

"He went into the mountains to hunt, saying he would hunt for furs and then trade them for money to get medicine for Aunt," Diaochan said softly.

Although the woman had been ill for a long time and couldn't see, she could still tell from Diaochan's tone.

"Chan'er," the woman said, gripping Diaochan's hand tightly: "Aunt has already implicated you for so many years."

"I cannot implicate you anymore."

"If Chan'er feels that person is someone you can entrust yourself to, then go with him."

As she spoke, the woman fumbled around the head of the bed.

She pulled out a dangling hairpin from under the mattress and said: "Chan'er, this was given to me by your mother before she passed away."

"This is your dowry."

"Aunt has no ability and cannot help you."

"Take this hairpin and trade it for money to cover some household expenses."

"Aunt believes you won't misjudge a person."

The woman stuffed the hairpin into Diaochan's hand.

Diaochan took the hairpin, her white teeth biting her red lips.

Duan Yu's figure kept appearing in her mind.

Outside, Li Gouer was lying on the window.

Listening to the sounds inside the room.

"Damn it, I said I remembered there was a dangling hairpin before; it turns out it was hidden by this blind woman."

Li Gouer's eyes were gloomy.

"I've raised her for so many years, and now she wants to cheapen someone else?"

"Cheapening a wild man is not as good as cheapening me."

Li Gouer let out a cold, sinister laugh.

Hearing the footsteps coming from inside the room toward the outside.

Li Gouer lowered his figure and immediately walked toward the outside of the courtyard.

After leaving Wucun Township, Duan Yu walked along the mountains that could be seen in the distance.

Wucun Township was just over ten miles from Jinyang City in Taiyuan, right next to Jinyang.

Jinyang was the seat of the Bing Province government and was also located in the most prosperous Taiyuan Commandery of Bing Province, so the population was not small.

Why was Duan Yu so certain that the Diaochan who picked him up was the Three Kingdoms' number one beauty, Diaochan, when he heard her name and the location of Taiyuan Jinyang yesterday?

It was because of this Taiyuan Wang clan.

That's right, it was the Taiyuan Wang clan of Situ Wang Yun.

Legend has it that Diaochan was a dancing girl in the household of Wang Yun of the Taiyuan Wang clan.

Duan Yu didn't know yet how Diaochan ended up in Wang Yun's household as a dancing girl.

But something must have happened later.

The time was basically right, the location was right, plus Diaochan's appearance.

That was why he was so certain that the one in that dilapidated house was the Three Kingdoms' number one beauty, Diaochan.

Walking to the foot of the mountain.

Duan Yu took the longbow off his back.

"It's time to see the effect of this system." ===== CHAPTER 11 =====