"Why are you here?"
At this moment, Yang Si did not feel the slightest joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land. Instead, there was a chilling killing intent in his eyes.
The woman knelt on the mat and bowed deeply to Yang Si with her thin back. She clasped the mat with both hands and did not say a word.
"Answer!" Not only did Yang Si's face turn cold, but his voice also became cold. "Why did they look for you? To deal with me? "
The last three words were full of sarcasm and contempt.
"Not talking?"
Seeing that she was pretending to be dead, Yang Si was furious and wanted to leave.
Seeing that he really turned around, the woman hurriedly knelt and hugged his legs, sobbing softly.
"Don't go. If you leave, both my son and I will die."
Yang Si tried to pull his legs out, but the woman hugged him tightly. He could not move at all and could not break free.
"Lieutenant Jiang, help!"
Yang Si tried his best but still failed. He could only shout angrily outside the room.
The woman who was hugging his legs was stunned. She saw a maid dressed in plain clothes walk in from outside the door. The maid didn't even look at Yang Si. She raised her hand and grabbed the back of the woman's collar, lifting her up. "You want to shout for help for such a woman? Military Advisor Yang, do you really not need to see the doctor? "
He did not eat the meat bun that was sent to him, and his legs were trapped by the meat bun and could not break free.
Jiang Nongqin felt that she was out of touch with the whole world. Was a man so thin and weak?
She looked down and Yang Si subconsciously took a few steps back. When he understood the meaning of her words, his already ugly face darkened.
"You two know each other?"
Seeing that Yang Si did not speak, Jiang Nongqin glanced at the woman who was thrown aside with tears on her cheeks.
Yang Si said, "More than that."
"Oh," Jiang Nongqin said. Thinking of Yang Si's usual style, she asked, "Dewy couple?"
Was it a love debt?
Yang Si was speechless.
He really could not afford to offend women!
His previous style was indeed not good, but in Jiang Nongqin's eyes, was it so bad?
The woman was a little hurt from the fall, but she did not dare to move closer to Yang Si. Instead, she looked at Jiang Nongqin with a critical gaze.
She had been in brothels for more than ten years, and her eyes were very sharp. She could tell at a glance that Jiang Nongqin, who was still dressed as an unmarried woman, was not a virgin.
Jiang Nongqin immediately felt the hostility in the woman's eyes.
Jealousy, hatred, contempt, disgust …
Wasn't it just a fall? Was there such a big grudge?
"This is the main course of the Hongmen Banquet?"
Jiang Nongqin raised her eyebrows as she asked Yang Si. Xu Bei had gone through so much trouble to invite Yang Si to a banquet. She had thought that it was a honey trap and a plan to sow discord between Yang Si and the lord. She did not expect that he would actually send a twenty-seven or twenty-eight year old woman. At this age, she could be preparing to be a mother-in-law, right?
Yang Si said snappily, "I guess so."
The woman in front of him had witnessed the worst part of Yang Si's past. Now that he had been caught red-handed by Jiang Nongqin, he felt uncomfortable all over.
The woman asked, "Who are you?"
Jiang Nongqin sneered in response. She did not want to answer. This woman's background was unknown. How could she be qualified to question her?
She casually found a place to sit so that Yang Si wouldn't ask her for help later.
When Yang Si saw that she refused to leave, he felt even more embarrassed. He only wanted to end the battle quickly and settle the matter as soon as possible.
"Tell me, why are you here?"
The woman was frozen by his coldness. Her shoulders shivered and she bit her lower lip.
She did not have much contact with Yang Si, but she knew that he had a ruthless temperament. "I heard that you've won the favor of a noble and that you're now on a meteoric rise. I don't ask for anything else. I only ask that you do a good deed and save me and Fourth Son. As long as you ask for it, we can be saved. "
Yang Si sneered, "On what basis?"
"On …" The woman thought about it and gritted her teeth. "On what sister said before she died."
Yang Si's eyes were filled with murderous intent, but he wore a smile on his face. He asked, "You have the cheek to mention them? I've already done my part by redeeming you from the brothel before I left Jiangding County. Now that you've appeared here, you must be up to no good. How can you have the cheek to ask for it? "
Jiang Nongqin, who was watching from the side, acted as a spectator and watched the drama that was filled with gratitude and hatred.
The woman said with tears in her eyes, "I'm just a weak woman. If I didn't do this, I would have been skinned and died without a complete corpse."
Yang Si did not want to listen to this person's lies.
The woman continued, "I lied to those people and said that Fourth Son is your flesh and blood. Then, they captured him. If you're not willing to help, we really can't live. Yang Jingrong, can you help us for the sake of Di Niang and the others? "
Yang Si was so angry that he almost had a heart attack.
Although he had a romantic life like Feng Langzi, he had never thought that he would be a father.
The woman repeated the two sentences over and over again.
When Yang Si redeemed her from the brothel, she turned over a new leaf and married a man.
However, that honest man had a short life. He died not long after, leaving her and the three-month-old child in her womb.
Her mother-in-law had always held a grudge against her past and suspected that she was a posthumous child. She cruelly drove her out of the house.
Later, she remarried to another man, who also died not long after.
The third man lived a little longer. She thought that her life was stable, but she did not expect that her husband would be captured to do forced labor and die.
Life was really hard for a woman with a child. There was chaos outside, so she could only marry again.
The fourth man was an idle gambler. When he had no money, he beat her and her son. He even scolded her that she could not have a child after a few years of marriage because she had served too many men in the past. After that, the family was so poor that they could not live on anymore. He actually planned to let her resume her old job and make her son a servant to serve other men. In a rage, she picked up the firewood knife at home and chopped the man to death!
The neighbors seized her and sent her to the magistrate's office. In order to survive, she could only mention Yang Si.
She did not know anything else, but she knew that Yang Si had met a benefactor and became a superior person. She might be able to survive if she had a relationship with him.
"Does the military counselor have a son who was left outside?" Jiang Nongqin could not help but ask.
Logically, Jiang Nongqin felt that the possibility was very high. After all, Yang Si and Feng Zhen were jackals of the same tribe.
However, Yang Si said, "There's no such thing. Don't taint my innocence."
"But I see that you two are quite close."
Yang Si brushed it off. "We just met when we were young."
"Just now, she said that she lied to others that Si Er is your flesh and blood. Could it be that … those people want to use a fake son, wife, and child to threaten you? However, Xu Bei and the others are not stupid. If you have nothing to do with this woman, they won't believe her words so easily, right? "
Yang Si really had no way to refute.
"That alone doesn't seem to be enough to threaten anything." Jiang Nongqin was puzzled.
Yang Si said, "She used to be a prostitute."
Jiang Nongqin instantly understood.
Everyone knew about Yang Si's background. If he had a son with a prostitute and then abandoned them, he would be laughed at for the rest of his life.
He could not choose his parents, but he did the same thing as his father. What did this mean?
It meant that this thing could be inherited. The son of a prostitute would not be presentable in the end.
Yang Si said again, "Her son was also detained. If war breaks out, the child will be sacrificed to the flag …"
Jiang Nongqin's expression darkened.
If that was really the case, Yang Si's life would be over.
The enemy could use this as leverage to secretly instigate Yang Si to defect.
Of course, all of this had to be based on the fact that it was true.
"You really have nothing to do with this woman?"
"I know her, but there is no relationship. That child has nothing to do with me." Yang Si sighed and said, "She has two older sisters. The eldest sister is older than me, and the second sister is the same age as me. Their house is next to the thatched cottage where I study. Her eldest sister is called Zhaoniang, and the second sister is the Di Niang that I mentioned just now. Although Di Niang is a woman, she is born intelligent and eager to learn. She can learn almost anything with just a little … "
As the eldest sister, Zhaoniang doted on her younger sister. She knew that her second sister was attracted by the neighbor's reading and she wanted to learn how to read too. Thus, she shamelessly went to ask for help.
At first, Yang Si did not agree.
How could an ignorant girl want to learn how to read?
Later, he softened and agreed because Di Niang's talent was beyond his imagination. This made Yang Si want to be serious.
After more than a year, Yang Si became familiar with the neighbor.
He and Di Niang were the same age, and they seemed to be childhood friends.
However —
"… Their father was not a good person. When he was young, he owed a lot of gambling debts and was forced to flee to another place. Di Niang's mother was willing to sell herself to the brothel so that her three daughters wouldn't be caught by the debt collectors. She worked hard for many years and got sick. After she died, she didn't even have a coffin. She was buried on the ground with a mat. When Di Niang's father heard that the debt had been paid, he gathered his courage and came back. This bad person didn't learn his lesson. He hid in another place and gambled indiscriminately. When he came back, he wanted to sell the three sisters to the brothel … "
As mentioned before, Master Yuanjing had picked up Yang Si. Although he didn't bring him back to Langye to be raised, he gave a sum of money to the farmer who adopted him and asked them to take care of him. Before Yang Si was enlightened, he came to visit him every six months. After Yang Si was enlightened, he came to visit him every three months.
When Di Niang and her sisters were sold to the brothel by their father for money, Yang Si followed Master Yuanjing to study and learn how to write.
When Master Yuanjing came back, he found out what had happened.
Yang Si went to the brothel. The fifteen-year-old Zhaoniang had already combed herself up in a hurry and became a prostitute. Because she had a good foundation and a clean temperament, she became popular for a while. The two younger sisters escaped the disaster because they were young. They stayed in the brothel as maids.
If he wanted to bring Zhaoniang out of the brothel, he had to spend money to redeem her or run away.
Yang Si had no money, so he could only choose the latter.
At that time, Yang Si was still very young, but his wisdom was no less than that of an ordinary teenager.
"… Zhaoniang didn't want to be a prostitute for the rest of her life. She didn't want her two younger sisters to follow in her footsteps, so she agreed to my plan. There were many thugs in the brothel, but it wasn't difficult to lure them away. Zhaoniang wasn't a top courtesan, and there weren't many people watching her, so she escaped quite smoothly. Unexpectedly … "As he spoke, Yang Si glanced coldly at the woman who was trembling and didn't say a word." She was stupid. She only saw that the brothel had food, drinks, and clothes to wear, so she didn't want to leave. Before she escaped, she hid and even sold her two older sisters in the end. "
The brothel was a very cruel place. If the girls who ran away were caught, how could they have a good ending?
Zhaoniang knew that their whereabouts had been leaked. Once they were caught, they might still be alive, but Yang Si would definitely be beaten to death!
Zhaoniang hid Yang Si in the cellar, and they were also caught by more than twenty thugs from the brothel who came later.
Their ending was very tragic …
Yang Si hid in the dark cellar, listening to the movements coming from above.
The darkness and cramped space of the cellar almost drove him crazy.
He wanted to climb out of the cellar countless times, but in the end, he restrained himself. He had never hated himself so much for being so weak.
Whether it was Zhaoniang, who was fifteen years old, or Di Niang, who had just turned ten, how could they survive when faced with more than twenty wild men?
In the beginning, they struggled to survive, but in the end, they were on the verge of death …
When Yang Si came out of the cellar, he saw a scene of devastation.
Zhaoniang didn't hate him. Instead, she begged him to take care of her third younger sister if he had the ability.
Di Niang's body was green and black. Before she died, she murmured, "It hurts."
This incident also changed Yang Si's temperament, and he grew up quickly overnight.
Yang Si buried the two sisters and hid for a while. Later, he found out who had betrayed their whereabouts.
"… It was my naivety that killed them. If it weren't for me, they might have had a hard time in the brothel, but at least they would still be alive … I'm sorry … but this person is also an accomplice." Yang Si pointed at the woman sitting paralyzed on the ground.
"I wanted to raise money to redeem her from the brothel before she got married, but she was very stupid. She believed the flowery words of some rich man and willingly became a concubine. Not long after, because of her flamboyant temperament, she was beaten by the legal wife and sold back to the brothel. I came to her and said that I wanted to redeem her, but she said that I could redeem her, but she wanted me to marry her as the legal wife. She made things difficult for me, so I refused. "
Yang Si was still brooding over the betrayal of the woman. Since she was so eager to die, he simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and watched her flop in the brothel alone.
When the world was in chaos, Yang Si thought about going out to explore. Before he left, he asked his errand boy to redeem the woman from the brothel with money.
After that, he didn't know what happened. When they met again, the other party actually wanted him to be a father.
After Jiang Nongqin heard this, she was speechless for a long time.
"No matter what Xu Bei was planning, he couldn't have used this woman and her child to threaten me …" Yang Si said coldly, "Although I'm dissolute in private, I don't want just anyone. At least, I don't want to touch even half a finger of this person. "
The woman said timidly, "I was still young then, I didn't understand at all …"
Yang Si snorted coldly, "You were young, but you betrayed your sister with a clear mind and a glib tongue."
The woman continued, "Although I was wrong, you also said that my sister didn't blame me …"
Yang Si sneered, "That's why you could escape from the brothel and not die under the hands of some man."
The woman revealed a look of despair, "Yang Jing Rong, how could you be so cruel? How could you bear to watch the only child of the three of us die here?"
"Of course I could bear to. In the future, I'll find two good adopted sons for them and put them under their names …"
The young Yang Si had been affected by that incident, causing him to be depressed and on the verge of a breakdown.
But now, he was able to take it lightly. Or perhaps, it could be said that he had seen many people who were even more miserable than this and had long developed a heart of stone.
Jiang Nongqin frowned and said, "Even if you have nothing to do with her, if Xu Bei were to blame you and use the mother and son as a reason to criticize you …"
Yang Si's situation was worrying.
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