“I didn’t bring the money back.” Xia Yu weakly and hoarsely said, “If you want it, you have to treat my injuries. When I have healed, I will go out and bring it back.”
“What?!” Xia Shujuan exclaimed. “You didn’t bring the money back?! Why do I have such a stupid daughter like you?! You worthless trash, do you know that once you enter the family territory, you can’t leave?!”
This time, the color was drained from Xia Yu’s face. “I can’t leave?!”
She was horrified and instinctively wanted to sit up, but she did not have half the strength in her weak body. After lifting her body by an inch, she fell back, shocking the flies that were dancing around her wounds.
Xia Family looked at her in disgust and held her nose. “It stinks so badly. Look at you! What do you think the Xia Family is? All the rich people in the world are crying for us to help them! If we did not live in seclusion for the past generations, we would not have been able to live in peace! Only very few people can enter and leave freely in the Xia Family!”
Xia Yu shook her head incredulously. This was such an important piece of information but she only found out now!
Oh god! She still had to look for the flower for Wei Lingnan and give it to him. Otherwise, she would rot to death! She was unwilling to die like this and definitely had to get out! However, she was already inside the family now. How could she get out? She was not prepared at all. If she knew about this early, she would have prepared a few things beforehand.
Xia Shujuan was still rambling on. “Retarded! Idiot! Useless!”
Xia Yu became annoyed and couldn’t help but snap at her. “Shut up!”
Xia Shujuan was startled and did not expect her daughter to rebuke. She couldn’t help but curse. “You dare to talk back to me? Who do you think you are? I hope you die early you piece of trash!”
Xia Yu said faintly, “Xia Shujuan, do you believe that before I die, I have a hundred ways to drag you down with me?”
Her eyes were gloomy as if she were a ghost from hell, immediately scaring Xia Shujuan. At the end of the day, Xia Shujuan was a shrew and had never seen someone so cruel before. Her heart pounded in her chest. This trash was already half-dead, so why did she still look so intimidating?
However, she did not dare to be so arrogant any longer.
She said sternly to Xia Yu, “I can cure you. However, you must give all your money to me. I don’t care if you brought your money back or not. Even if it’s outside, you have to think of a way to get it back in here!”
Xia Yu’s expression darkened. “Ok. However, you must help me get out to get the money.” After a few short sentences, she already knew that since this woman was so greedy, she would use this greedy woman’s weakness to leave this family. When she left, there would be a whole life ahead of her. As for the promise? What a joke! She would never give Xia Shujuan any money.
Xia Shujuan said, “I want to help you, but do you think it’s so easy? If I could leave, I would have left a long time ago! Why would I have to wait for you to come back in?!”
Xia Yu sneered in her heart. This woman could not leave? That’s because she was brainless!
However, that did not mean Xia Yu was brainless like her.
As she laid on the dirty bed, she replied Xia Shujuan confidently, “I don’t need you to give me ideas. When I need your help, I will tell you what to do. First I have to ask you, who are the people who can leave freely in this clan?”
This question was simple. Xia Shujuan said, “The only ones who can leave freely are Xia Family Head and his family, compradors who are involved in trade, and some temporary workers can also go out if they gain the Xia Family Head’s permission.”
“What is a temporary worker?”
“That can be a lot of things.” Xia Shujuan said. “Some leave to learn technology, some leave to gain information… However, I advise you to not to think about it. The people sent out are all elites that were trained since a young age in the clan. As for you… Haha. Just focus on farming at home.”
Xia Yu ignored her snide comments and slightly frowned. It was a little tricky.
“What about a comprador?” She asked, “How often are they allowed to go out and what is their route like?”
Xia Shujuan lifted here for a lifetime and was very familiar, so she immediately spoke up…
At night, the moonlight was intoxicating.
Xia Ling did not sleep very well. She dressed in a nightgown and looked at the moonlight outside.
Outside the windowpane, the shadows were heavy and she could hear the sounds of insects. Xia Ling felt a little lonely. Her room was empty and Li Lei had returned to the city with his family a few days ago.
She initially wanted to go with him.
However, Madam Xia could not bear for her to leave. After confirming that she had the memories of her daughter’s previous life and that Xia Ling really reincarnated, Madam Xia softly convinced her to stay. “You’re engaged and will marry him soon. You spent so little time in your own home. Stay a few more days and let your mom look at you for a few more days, ok?”
How could Xia Ling refuse?
She called Lin Yunan and asked him to adjust her schedule. She stayed in the Xia Family and devoted her time to accompany her parents. Her family treated her like a gem and the other people were even more respectful towards her.
However, she still felt lonely. After not seeing Li Lei for many days, her heart felt empty.
Unknowingly, that man had become a part of her life.
Standing in the moonlight, she couldn’t help but miss him. She raised her fingertips and gently drew his eyebrows in the still air. Outside the windowpane, the shadows swayed as if the entire world recognized his beautiful face. She was lost in her thoughts. Suddenly, she felt that something was moving in the shadows.
She thought that it was an illusion.
After that, the branches rustled unnaturally again.
She stopped trying to draw her sweetheart’s face and started focusing her attention on the trees. It was only then that she saw a thin girl in the flowers not far from the room limping about and looking for something.
“Xia Yu?” Xia Ling mumbled. It was so late, why did she appear here?
Without thinking much, she draped a coat over her and walked out.
“Xia Yu!” In the flowers, she suddenly appeared behind Xia Yu and called her coldly.
Xia Yu was taken aback. She turned around, saw her, and quickly hid the item she was holding behind her back.
“What are you doing?” Xia Ling narrowed her eyes and asked.
“I… I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to walk around.” Xia Yu stammered.
Xia Ling did not believe her excuse. Looking at the way she limped, it was obvious that her injury had not recovered yet. She would be crazy to wander into the place where the Xia Family Head lived from the slums. “You can’t fool me.” She exposed Xia Yu. “What are you holding in your hand.”
“Nothing much. Just… a flower.” As she spoke, Xia Yu slowly extended her hand for Xia Ling to see in the moonlight. Sure enough, it was a small flower. It had a very light color and was almost transparent. This type of flower was very special and only seemed to grow near Xia Ling’s house.
It was not very eye-catching and looked like a wildflower.
NusratMila
I wish that’s a wrong flower…
XOMatsumaeohana
Xia Yu really is a helpless case. I know this time around she has no choice. She will rot to death without that guys antidote. But, if she stays behind – eventually she will go crazy in that small room 🤔🤔. Either way, she won’t have a good ending. It’s better trying to escape.
YiChen
When will you ever learn Xia Yu? Is death ur only solution?
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Xia Ling glanced at her and did not discover anything wrong. She only asked, “Why are you picking flowers?”
Xia Yu lowered her head. “I lost my way and arrived here. I saw that these flowers were very pretty and couldn’t help but pick one. Miss Ling, I’m sorry for disturbing you.”
What she said seemed reasonable.
Xia Ling sized her up again and did not see anything suspicious, so she chased her away. “Please leave. This place is not somewhere you should be. Don’t let me see you again.”
There was some ecstasy in Xia Yu’s heart. She turned around and was about to leave.
“Wait.” Xia Ling stopped her.
“What’s wrong, Miss Ling?” Xia Yu turned around.
In the moonlight, Xia Ling pointed at the flower in her hand. “Leave that.”
Xia Yu’s expression changed slightly, but she concealed it instantly after. Pitifully, she said, “Miss Ling, this is only a wildflower. Why can’t you let me go?”
Xia Ling sneered. “I don’t want to let you go. So what about it? Leave it behind.” She still felt that something was wrong. Although she couldn’t tell what the problem was, she couldn’t let Xia Yu take advantage of the situation. Thus, she wasn’t willing to let Xia Yu go with that flower at all.
Xia Yu slightly bit her lip.
Xia Ling urged her. “What’s wrong? You can’t bear to leave this flower?”
Xia Yu was afraid that she could see through her scheme, so she quickly let go of the flower and it was blown away into the trees by the night wind.
Only then did Xia Ling allow her to leave. After looking at her back view, she returned to her room to continue sleeping.
Stumbling, Xia Yu went back to the simple raft shed in Xia Shujuan’s backyard, closed the doors and windows, and returned to her bed. She quickly rolled up her leaves and saw three silky white flowers lying quietly underneath her sleeve. The flowers that were almost in full bloom looked transparent in the pale moonlight.
“Thank heavens.” Xia Yu murmured. She looked for a box and placed the flowers in it carefully.
This was the type of flower Wei Lingnan was looking for.
Fortunately, Xia Ling came late. At that time, Xia Yu already found a few of the flowers. She intended to find a few more to make Wei Lingnan a little happier and satisfy a few more of her wishes, but unfortunately, she could only bring back three. What could three flowers be exchanged for?
Xia Yu was deep in thought…
After a few days, with Xia Shujuan’s help, she escaped the Xia Clan’s territory.
As she said, Xia Shujuan was a pig brain but she was not. Combining the information Xia Shujuan gave her about the family and contacting Auntie Liu who had always been in contact with Xia Shujuan, she asked about how Auntie Liu entered the premises in great detail and learned about the tactical formation.
Perhaps she was lucky. Over the years, no one in the clan had ever tried to escape to the outside world and the internal defense was very weak. In addition, the Li Family visited frequently, so to facilitate their access, the tactical formation in the mountains did not change. Based on Auntie Liu’s recount and her own memory, she actually escaped the place.
She was finally out!
Looking up at the clear sky outside, her heart was filled with joy.
She definitely did not want to copy the scriptures in that remove mountain village for her entire life until she died! She was still young and had an entire life ahead of her! She had to live amazingly and better than Xia Ling!
Taking a deep breath, she went to the place Wei Lingnan told her to meet him at.
In a quiet room.
Wei Lingnan took the box she handed over. When he opened it, he saw the three small white flowers lying quietly inside and at once, his unsmiling face looked a little relaxed. He carefully took out the flowers with tweezers made of special metal like they were rare treasures and packed them into sealed boxes that were filled with crushed ice.
“This is the antidote.” He gave Xia Yu what she wanted.
“Thank you, Mr. Wei!” Xia Yu quickly took it. Then, she looked at him nervously and trembled as she asked for a request. “For these few flowers, I fled the Xia Family. If they catch me, I will die! Mr. Wei, can you save me? I don’t want to go back and die!”
Wei Lingnan looked at her and said, “This is simple. If you return to the biochemical lab of the Wei Family, they won’t touch you.”
Thinking of that dark biochemical lab with strange experiments, Xia Yu couldn’t help but shudder. If she had to go back there, she would rather copy scriptures in the Xia Family! “I beg you.” Xia Yu knelt and looked up. “I only want to continue life as an ordinary person. I don’t care about those dark secrets surrounding the Wei Family or Xia Family! Mr. Wei, since you’ve done so many experiments on me and I also found those three flowers for you, please give me a way to live! I know that you’re extraordinary and in this world, only you can deal with the Xia Family! I beg you! I beg you!”
She kowtowed relentlessly. Soon, the blood on her forehead stained the floor.
Wei Lingnan looked at her emotionlessly and seemed to murmur to himself. “Am I the only person that can deal with the Xia Family? Based on your knowledge of this, I should destroy you.”
Xia Yu was scared speechless and started to kowtow with more effort.
She did not think that she would be murdered after she gave him the flowers. However, given this pressing situation, she had to take a risk. In the face of a monster like Wei Lingnan, she did not have any intention of rebuking at all!
In the secret room, Wei Lingnan looked handsome. The light shined on the girl who was kowtowing relentlessly. He looked like her as if he were looking at a lowly ant. “You’re quite lucky.” After a second, he finally spoke. “I can’t openly kill people in your world, this damned…”
His voice trailed off and he said his last few words in a low voice. It was a strange language like a myriad of sounds and seemed like the roaring of beasts in the wind.
Xia Yu did not understand it and did not dare to understand it.
She knelt lowly by his feet and only pleaded for a chance to leave this room alive.
Wei Lingnan walked to the window and looked out. The streets were bustling and the crowd was busy. People were as tiny as ants. With a deep expression, he spoke, “You can leave now.”
“Mr. Wei?” Xia Yu lifted her head and carefully looked at him with confusion. “Are you agreeing to help me deal with the Xia Family?”
“Get lost.” He seemed to be in a foul mood.
Xia Yu did not dare to ask more questions. She felt a horrible chill down her spine again and remembered how scary this monster in front of her was, so she quickly stumbled out of the room.
Wei Lingnan did not stop her.
“You’re very lucky.” He continued to look at the traffic and mumbled. “Just like the Xia Family, I can’t leave too many traces in this world. Since you entered the Xia Family because of me, I will help eliminate the subsequent effects for you.”
