Song Shu’s daughter-in-law also followed her over to the carriage, and seeing that Daya’s body was still tied up, she hurriedly climbed onto the carriage and untied the ropes, “If you have anything to say, go down first.”
When several people came down, the carriage driver was already completely scared silly and did not dare to move.
Song Lian was still defending herself, saying that she was picking up Daya to stay for some time.
“She’s lying!”
Daya whimpered and spoke, “I heard everything she said to Grandma, that she was going to sell me to a big family ……”
“You dead girl, what nonsense?”
“If you didn’t want to sell Daya, why did you tie a rope around her?”
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law asked her angrily, as she had been treating her sister-in-law with all her heart and had been busy cooking her delicious meals every time she came home, yet she wanted to sell her daughter! Da Ya was her own niece!
How dare she kidnap someone?
Song San Xiao’s eyes glared up and Song Lian kept backing away in fear, “No, no, you, you guys listen to me ……”
“Don’t say anything at all ……”
Song Sanxiao pulled her arm and dragged it towards the cattle car, “You come back with us and confront them.”
“Sandi, Sandi ……”
Song Lian shouted in a panic, trying to get Song Sanxiao to let her go.
Song Sanxiao turned a deaf ear and pulled her onto the ox cart, “Second sister-in-law, sister-in-law Ming, you guys go back in her carriage.”
Only then did the coachman react and hurriedly said, “I’m just a hauler, I don’t know anything.”
“It’s not up to you to say whether you know or not, just follow our carriage and when we ask you, if there’s nothing to do with you, we’ll let you go. If you think otherwise, I’ll make sure you can never work in the county again.”
Song San Xiao looked like he was a street person and had an air of mischief about him, so the driver dared not mess with him.
Song Shen grabbed Song Wan Yue’s hand and was about to follow him onto the carriage, when Song Wan Yue turned back, “Thank you for today, young master Gu, please go back.”
Gu Yi gave Song Shen a dark glare, while turning to Song Wan Yue with a smile on his face, “I just love to watch the fun.”
With his comment about not knowing how to repay his kindness in the first place, Song Wan Yue didn’t say anything and turned around to get on the carriage.
When the carriage entered the village, Song Shu sighed, “Lao-san, since we’ve severed our ties with that side, we can’t interfere in their affairs anymore, so I think it’s better to invite the village chief over.”
“Let Shen’er go and shout.”
The sound of the two men’s words reached Song Wan Yue’s ears, she pursed her lips and spoke in Song Shen’s ear, Song Shen listened and nodded, jumped off the carriage and ran towards the village chief’s house, shouting as she did so, “Grandpa village chief, something big has happened, Daya is going to be sold by her family to human traffickers.”
At this hour, most of the villagers were still working in the fields, and the village headman was not at home, so Song Shen shouted all the way to the fields to look for someone, and almost the whole village heard his shouts.
He had been the village chief of the Song family for many years, and although he did not say that he had made many benefits for the people of the village, at least there were no people in the village who could not eat and starved to death, and there were no people who sold their children for money. If Song Ming did this, if word got out to the county magistrate’s ears, he would not be able to be the village chief.
In front of Song Ming’s house, there were already a lot of spectators, pointing and talking inside.
“Get out of the way, all of you!”
The people heard the voice of the village chief and made way for him to walk in with a black face.
Song Ming was punching and kicking his daughter-in-law, “Damn you, what’s wrong with Daya going to stay with Lian’er for a while? How dare you cut her off halfway, see if I don’t beat you to death today!”
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law was lying on the ground, curled up and beaten, while Daya and Erma pounced on her to protect her, also receiving a lot of beatings.
“Stop it!”
Song Ming stopped his hands, and when he saw that it was the village chief, he immediately changed his smile, “Village chief, you’re here!”
“What’s going on, what are you mad about again?”
“It’s not because this thing doesn’t know any better. Lian’er came back today, and seeing that Daya’s face was yellow, I was distressed, so I thought I’d take her to the city for some time and give her a good tonic, but who knew that this thing would say that Daya was sold and robbed her halfway with outsiders.”
Daya crawled up and knelt down towards the village chief, “No, it was my father who sold me! My mother called out to my second uncle and third uncle to save me back.”
“You damned little girl!”
Song Ming raised his hand and was about to hit her, but the village headman grunted, Song Ming’s movements stopped, and then sarcastically withdrew his hand, “Village headman, don’t listen to her nonsense, she is my own daughter, how could I sell her?”
“She was sold, I can testify to that.”
Gu Yi, who had not got down from the carriage, jumped down from the carriage and walked into the courtyard along the path people had made, “When I saw this little girl, she was tied with ropes and had something stuffed in her mouth.”
“Sizzle ……”
There was a huffing sound from the onlookers.
Song Ming lowered his head sheepishly.
“Are you ……?”
The village chief asked.
“I am Gu Yi, and my father is Gu Qian, the wealthy owner of Gu’s village.”
It was the young master of the Gu family.
The village headman also gave a trifle of courtesy, “So Da Ya was saved by Young Master Gu?”
“You could say that.”
The village headman arched his hand, “Thank you so much, Young Master Gu.”
“No need to thank you.”
Gu Yi turned his hand backwards, his tone unhurried, he put on the air of a rich young master, “Since I saved the person, I naturally have to stay and listen clearly, what do you plan to do with this matter?”
The rich man is a famous wealthy man in this area and is said to have a very good relationship with the county magistrate.
If this matter was not handled properly, he would be the village chief.
“I should, young master Gu, please sit down, I will ask for clarification.”
Xiao Si looked around and saw no place to sit, so he went straight to the house and in a short while frowned and carried a worn wooden stool out, wiping it again and again with his sleeve before putting it behind Gu Yi, “Young master, you sit.”
Gu Yi sat down rather disgustedly.
The village chief turned to look at Song Ming, “Explain to me, since Daya went to stay with her aunt for a few days, why was she tied up with a rope and gagged?”
“This ……”
Song Ming’s forehead was sweating and he couldn’t stop giving Song Lian a wink, but Song Lian wanted to find a hole to hide in, so she dared not speak.
“Say!”
The village chief bellowed.
Song Ming was so scared that he fell to his knees and cried out, “Village Chief, I had no choice, my mother broke her leg and needed two taels of silver to buy medicine. I, I can only sell Daya to treat my mother’s leg.”
“You’re a fool! Daya is your own daughter, how can you be so cruel?”
Song Ming gave himself two slaps, “I was wrong, I’m not human, I deserve to die!”
“You don’t deserve to die, you deserve to be beaten up. ……”
Gu Yi pointed at Song Lian, “Looking at what this sister of yours is wearing, not to mention two taels of silver, even twenty taels of silver can be taken out, right? The one lying in the room is also her own mother, does she not care?”
“Yes, I do.”
Song Lian hurriedly spoke.
Gu Yi grinned towards Song Ming, “Since she manages, you’re still selling your daughter? Do you think you should be beaten up!”
