She was replaced by a husband, married the future tyrant and farmed to fight back

Chapter 42: I didn’t get the five hundred coins, but I met an ancestor.

Chen Baian was also scared.

This is the customer’s donkey. If it gets lost, he has to pay for it!
“I, I, I… I’ll go find it…” Chen Baian was so scared that his face turned pale and he desperately chased after the donkey.

Liu Yingyue came back after delivering the yarn and embroidered silk cloth.

Seeing Qin Xiuzhu squatting on the ground crying and refusing to sell cakes, he hurriedly asked her the reason.

"It's all the fault of that guy in the noodle shop. Oh, the one who just called you wife. He was the one who lost my donkey! What should I do? I have to compensate for the lost donkey, but where can I get the money to pay?" Qin Xiuzhu squatted on the ground, crying loudly.

"Okay, stop crying. Why are you crying so early in the morning? I'll go look for it, and you continue selling cakes!" Liu Yingyue put down the empty backpack, asked the direction the donkey ran, and chased after it.

I chased the donkey all the way out of the market street, but there was no sign of it.

Liu Yingyue asked passers-by, and everyone said that they had not seen the donkey.

Instead, I saw Chen Baian standing by the roadside comforting an old lady.

The old woman sat on the ground, clapping her hands and crying loudly, "My grandson——"

"Madam Liu!" Chen Baian waved and called out when he saw Liu Yingyue coming.

Liu Yingyue had no choice but to walk over, "Chen Baian, what's wrong?"

"Auntie's grandson is missing. Can you help find him?" Chen Baian sighed.

"My grandson is missing. He was here just now. I... I went to the toilet and came back, and he disappeared. What should I do?" The old woman cried anxiously, slapping the ground and kicking her feet.

"Madam Liu, I'm looking for my donkey. Can you help her find her grandson?" Chen Baian pointed at the old woman and asked Liu Yingyue.

Then he described the appearance of the old woman's grandson, "Five years old, with a red cloth scarf on his hair, a red top, and black pants. His name is Tian Dabao."

Liu Yingyue was also in a dilemma, she also wanted to find a donkey.

If Qin Xiuzhu couldn't find the donkey, she would probably be so anxious that she would hang herself.

"You help me find my grandson, and I'll go find the donkey. After I find the donkey, I'll come and help you find my grandson." Liu Yingyue said.

Chen Baian scratched his head and said in embarrassment, "Madam Liu, one of the two lost donkeys belongs to a customer. If I can't find it, the customer will blame me, and I have to compensate for the donkey."

Liu Yingyue said, "We have to find the other donkey as well. If we can't find it, my sister-in-law will have to compensate us. Anyway, the two donkeys ran away together, so I will find them both."

Chen Baian thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Madam Liu. Madam Liu, you must find the donkey."

Liu Yingyue waved at Chen Baian, asked passers-by about the whereabouts of the donkey, and strode forward to chase it.

When she found the entrance to a village ahead, someone said to her, "I saw two donkeys running together to the land temple ahead."

Liu Yingyue followed the instructions and came to the land temple.

But, everything was quiet all around, no donkey was seen, nor was the sound of a donkey braying heard.

When she was about to leave and look somewhere else, she heard a strange sound suddenly coming from the land temple behind her.

Liu Yingyue didn't look back, but reflexively grabbed the man's arm and threw him to the ground.

At the same time, another person's stick swept towards her legs.

Liu Yingyue attacked again, grabbed the stick, and swept it with her backhand.

“Ouch—it hurts—”

The two men screamed in agony.

Liu Yingyue turned around and looked at the two men hugging their arms and legs and wailing on the ground. She sneered, "Who are you? Why did you attack a passerby like me?"

The two were about 20 years old, and judging by their attire, they didn't look like villagers doing farm work, but rather like two idle ruffians. The two ruffians looked at each other, didn't answer her, got up from the ground together, turned around and ran away.

"Stop!" Liu Yingyue picked up a piece of dirt from the ground and threw it hard at the calves of the ruffians.

The two men fell to the ground.

"Aunt, we were wrong, please forgive us." The two rascals begged for mercy with sad faces.

"You haven't answered my question yet. Tell me quickly, who are you? Why did you attack me?" Liu Yingyue grabbed the stick and pointed at the two men viciously.

"We...we are from Tianhe Village nearby. My name is Tian San, and this is my neighbor Tian Zhuang. We...we saw that you are as beautiful as a flower, so...so..." One of the ruffians said with a smirk.

This person is lying!
His eyes were evasive and his speech was hesitant, which showed that he was not telling the truth.

"If you don't tell the truth, I will break your legs today! Anyway, no one comes here, so I will beat you to death and throw you into the ditch, and no one will know." Liu Yingyue raised the stick and smashed it on the heads of the two men without any mercy.

"Someone gave us five hundred coins and asked us to tie you up, aunt!" The two ruffians said hurriedly, fearing death.

"Who?" Liu Yingyue put away the stick and narrowed her eyes.

"No, he was a gentle-looking young man. He gave us your portrait, and we brothers took the job."

"Where's the portrait?"

"Here...here..."

A rascal took out a piece of paper from his bosom and handed it to Liu Yingyue.

Liu Yingyue shook it open and looked.

It was indeed her in the portrait.

A gentle-looking man bribed these two people?

Gao Yucheng?
Or Luo Si'an?
"What does she look like? How tall is she? What kind of clothes does she wear?" Liu Yingyue asked again.

The two rascals confessed everything, "They were not dressed well, and they were carrying a patched package. Oh, and the package had a blue background with small white flowers."

It turned out to be Luo Sian!

Doesn't he want to take the exam to become a scholar anymore?
Liu Yingyue sneered in her heart.

"I know who it is." Liu Yingyue took the portrait and put it into the pouch on her waist. She picked up the stick and pointed it at the two people. "You took money and wanted to kidnap me. If I report you to the government, you will not only be beaten with fifty sticks, but also fined twenty taels of silver and imprisoned for three years. Do you want me to report you to the government?"

"Grandfather, please spare our lives. We are willing to obey your orders!" The two ruffians heard that Liu Yingyue wanted to spare their lives, so they kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Sure, help me find the two lost donkeys, one male and one female, which ran away from the market street. Also find a five-year-old boy in red clothes. If you take care of these two things, I won't report to the police." Liu Yingyue said to the two of them.

"Yes, yes, we are from a nearby village. We two brothers will take charge of finding people and donkeys." The two ruffians grinned and turned to leave.

But Liu Yingyue called the two of them back and dislocated one of their arms.

"Find the donkey and the little boy, and I will help you reconnect your arms." Liu Yingyue flicked her sleeves and said slowly.

The two rascals endured the pain and almost cried.

What bad luck has befallen them?
I didn't get the five hundred dollars, but I met an ancestor.

"Yes, yes, aunt." The two of them had sad faces and went into the village to look for the donkey and the little boy.

Liu Yingyue looked around and did not wait there. Instead, she walked into a small woods nearby and hid behind a bush.

(End of this chapter)