Yesterday, Xiao Fan took Jia Quan in a carriage driven by Jia San to go to Zhao's Tea Shop.

As a result, on the way, I heard a woman being beaten and scolded and a girl's heart-rending cry.

"I'll beat you to death for being a heartless person. I've raised you so well. Now isn't it your turn to repay our family?" The woman cursed while beating her: "Your brother wants to get married. Everything has been discussed. Now it's just a matter of time."

With just the money from the betrothal gift, your brother can get married, have children, and carry on the family line, but you can't help your brother?"

"Mother! I don't want to leave you! I want to stay with you, mother! Don't betray me! Mother!" The girl cried and begged the woman who was pulling her. She seemed to have thought of something and said quickly: "Mother! I am now

When I grow up and can work, I can make money, mother! Don’t sell me, I will make money for my elder brother to marry his sister-in-law!"

"Mom, why don't you forget it? If Zhao'er doesn't want to, forget it. Don't force her." A thin young man next to him pleaded for his sister.

"Shut up, if you don't sell her, why are you going to marry Cui'er? If you don't marry a wife, how are you going to carry on the family line?" The more he spoke, the angrier he became. He pushed the young man away and continued to yell, "Don't you think our Qian family will never succeed?"

The young man stopped talking. Perhaps he was forced by his mother's power, perhaps he remembered the Tweety in the woman's mouth, or perhaps because of the so-called inheritance of the family line, he did not object to his mother and just watched silently.

"Let's go, if you don't go, I'll beat you to death, you lose money!" Seeing that her son stopped talking, the woman continued to drag her daughter away.

"Wait a minute!" Xiao Fan shouted. When he heard the beating and scolding, he asked Jia San to stop the car and walk out. Now he saw that the woman was about to beat and scold the girl again, so he had to stop him. Everyone around him was surprised.

It's not strange to look at this family, as if they have been used to it for a long time.

"Who are you? Why are you meddling in my family's affairs?" The woman opened her mouth to curse when she heard this, but quickly changed her words when she saw Xiao Fan's clothes and the carriage behind him. This is a wealthy family, and she can't mess with it.

rise.

"Isn't this your daughter? Are you so willing to drag her away and sell her?" Xiao Fan said angrily: "And your daughter is so reluctant to let you go. Is your heart made of stone?"

"Don't talk to me about this. I want my son to get married and have children. Who cares about her money-losing thing?" The woman said, becoming more confident and sarcastic: "You look like a rich yamen, if you can't bear it

, just buy this damn girl, you can take it back to the house and keep her for a while, and then use her as a bed-warming maid."

Xiao Fan turned to look at the girl, and then he observed the girl carefully. She looked about eleven or twelve years old, her skin was a little dark, and she was wearing a thin short-sleeved linen clothes, her arms and calves were exposed, and they were all green.

Her hair was purple, messy and dry, slightly yellow, and her dusty face was stained with tears.

The water plowed out two small ditches. A pair of slightly rough little hands held the woman, and her beautiful red eyes were filled with tears and begged her mother. But she seemed to think of her mother's determination to sell herself, so she looked at her with expectant eyes.

Looking at Xiao Fan, he probably felt that the yamen in front of him looked like a good person and should be a good master.

"Okay," Xiao Fan looked at the girl's eyes, then glanced at the woman with a sarcastic smile on her face and said, "I bought it, how much does it cost?"

"Not much, only twenty coins!" When the woman saw that Xiao Fan wanted to buy her daughter, she quickly changed her expression and looked at Xiao Fan with a flattering look.

"Twenty guan? For such a big young lady, the most other people can sell is 15 guan! You sell it for 20 guan, why don't you go and grab it?" Xiao Fan hadn't said anything yet, but Jia San behind him stepped forward and said excitedly: "Official

Man, this vicious woman clearly wants to blackmail people."

"That's right. I actually want to sell it for twenty dollars. I'm afraid I'm crazy!" "That's right, that's right!" "I think this woman just wants to blackmail this official."

When the people watching heard that the woman offered twenty guan, they all started talking.

"What are you talking about? Why isn't it worth twenty pieces?" The woman said, squatting down and wiping the girl's face with her hands. Then she pushed her withered hair to one side and held her chin hard.

He squeezed it and shouted loudly: "Look at this face and teeth, I am only twelve years old this year. When I grow up and take good care of myself, I will receive customers for a few years. Not to mention one hundred and eighty guan, I will earn five or six

Is ten strings okay?"

After listening to the woman's words, the girl looked at her mother in disbelief, her eyes unfocused and frozen in place.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I'll beat you to death, you loser!" When the woman saw the girl looking at her like this, she raised her hands in anger and wanted to beat her again.

"Stop, you are such a good mother to her!" Xiao Fan grabbed the woman's raised hand and gritted his teeth angrily: "Twenty guan is all, come with me to find Li Zheng and Ya Ren to sign the deed!

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"Okay, okay, the official is really a master who cares about people, and now he starts to feel sorry for others." After the woman teased Xiao Fan, she said to the girl: "You are lucky to meet such a caring person.

Officer, when you live a life of wealth in the future, don’t forget who raised you, especially your brother, who has loved you since you were a child, and your brother, who has loved you since you were a child!"

Xiao Fan felt sick after listening to the woman's words, and said sternly: "Okay, stop dawdling, follow my carriage, and hurry up to sign the deed. Then take the money and get out of here, don't dirty me."

eyes."

Under the witness of Li Zheng and other villagers, Xiao Fan and the woman signed the deed of sale of Qian Zhaoer. Only then did Xiao Fan know that the woman's name was Dong Shuhui. Such a name was really a waste.

"Guan Xiao, my family Zhao'er has a hard life, you have to treat her well in the future," Dong Shuhui, who got the money, said to Xiao Fan and then said to Qian Zhao'er: "Zhao'er, mother's good daughter, remember to listen to Xiao Guan in the future.

If you are a man, serve him well, and don’t forget your brother and your younger brother!”

"Get out!" Xiao Fan said angrily. He had never seen such a shameless person before. It simply refreshed his outlook on how a person could be so shameless.

"Okay, I'll get out of here." Dong Shuhui said with a smile. After saying that, she pulled the thin young man beside her who had been silent and turned away. As she walked, she scolded her son: "You still said you won't sell your sister. If you don't sell her, she can

You have so much money? Without this money, how can you marry Cui'er as your wife? Come on, let's go buy a betrothal gift for you."

After hearing his mother's words, the gloomy face of the thin young boy who had been silent until now relaxed. His steps became much brisker. Before, his mother pulled him forward, but now he pulls her.

Xiao Fan thanked Li Zheng and his neighbors and then everyone dispersed.

Xiao Fan couldn't help but feel a little sad when he saw Qian Zhaoer cowering aside timidly. Such a twelve-year-old girl, who had just entered junior high school, was not only sold by her family, but was also beaten like this.

So he stepped forward to help her up and take her to see the doctor. Unexpectedly, as soon as she approached, Qian Zhaoer was so frightened that he subconsciously stepped back. He seemed to remember that he had been sold to Xiao Fan, so he stood up and stepped forward.

He saluted and said, "Officer."

"You don't have to be afraid anymore, you know? No one will bully you anymore," Xiao Fan helped Qian Zhaoer up and said, "Let's take you to see the doctor and come into my house. You don't have to worry about the past."

"Yes, Miss Qian, you don't know that my family is a good official, so they won't treat you like your mother did!" The little book boy Jia Quan jumped out at this time and said: "After seeing the doctor, let my mother do it

You make delicious food!"

"I just know how to eat," Xiao Fan patted Jia Quan's big round head and said, "Go and ask your father to prepare the carriage, and we'll take Zhao'er to see the doctor."

"Thank you, officer!"

"Well, see the doctor first and then go to dinner. As for your family, don't think too much about it."

"I know. I will treat my whole family as dead. I will have nothing to do with them in the future, and I won't be called Qian Zhaoer anymore!" Qian Zhaoer said angrily and decisively.

"Well, you really should change your name. It's really not good to have a son." Xiao Fan muttered: "Let's do this. From now on, you can call me Xiao Zhao!"
Chapter completed!