Chapter 10 Qin Wen had one finger chopped off

Chapter 10 Qin Wen had one finger chopped off

Shen took her two daughters back to the cottage at the foot of the mountain. Qin Zhen remained silent and cried silently.

"Sister, he has nothing to do with us anymore. Just treat him as a stranger and you won't feel so bad."

"Xiao Zhen, don't be sad, we have to look forward. Let's live a good life." Shen hugged Qin Zhen to comfort her.

Qin Zhi went to the kitchen to cook some porridge, and took out a plate of pickled mustard from the space. The mother and daughter were not in a good mood, and after drinking the porridge, they simply washed up and went to bed.

Early the next morning, there was a knock on the door of the hut, and the knocking became more and more urgent.

Shen quickly got up and opened the door. Standing outside was Aunt Zhang from the village.

"Sister Shen, you should take your eldest and second daughter to hide in the mountains for a few days. Something has happened and it will be too late if we delay any longer." Aunt Zhang ran over and was a little out of breath.

Shen didn't understand and asked what happened.

"Qin Wen of your family owes gambling debts outside, and now the thugs from the gambling house are here to collect the debt. If he doesn't pay, we'll chop off one of his fingers. That beast Qin Wen even said he would use Daya and Erya to pay off the debt, and they're coming over soon."

Aunt Zhang explained and urged them to hurry up.

"This beast, we have severed ties with the Qin family." Shen was so angry. There was not a single good person in the Qin family. It was not enough that they made a fuss yesterday, and they are doing it again today. When will it ever end?

"Don't be afraid, mother. We will just wait at home. We have broken off the engagement letter. If all else fails, just beat them up. I'll take care of everything." Qin Zhi thanked Aunt Zhang and told her to go back quickly through another path, in case she was seen by the Qin family and informed them, and then come back to take revenge on her.

Shen knew Qin Zhi's current abilities, so she waited at home with peace of mind.

Qin Zhi asked Shen to stay in the room with Qin Zhen, while he took a chair and sat at the door.

Not long after, a group of people came over in a mighty procession. The leader was a burly man with a long scar on his left cheek and a ferocious look on his face. Behind the scarred man were a few scoundrels holding long sticks, who were holding down the disheveled Qin Wen. All the members of the Qin family except Qin Erzhu were held down. It was easy to understand why. Qin Erzhu had to work in the fields before dawn every day. Just yesterday, his right arm was broken by Qin Zhi, so he had to work in the fields today. The Qin family was really cruel.

There were also many villagers who came to watch the fun. Qin Zhi saw the head of the village was also inside. The head of the village looked at the Qin family with anger on his face.

The scarred man frowned, glanced at Qin Zhi, then turned around and slapped Qin Wen in the face.

"You little brat, you are kidding me, right? You are using this seven or eight-year-old girl to pay off my debt. Does the mother of Xiaoxiangyuan have to support her for a few more years before she can make money? Are you treating us like fools?"

After saying that, the scarred man slapped Qin Wen hard in the face again, which made Qin Zhi give him a thumbs up in his heart.

Qin Wen was so scared that he begged for mercy: "I really didn't lie to you, she is really eleven years old, she is so thin because she doesn't have enough to eat every day, as long as you feed her well for a few months, she will grow up. She and her sister are twins, two girls are worth twenty taels, you won't lose anything, right? When you sell them to Xiaoxiang Courtyard, they will be worth at least fifty taels."

Qin Zhi...

You thought I was dead, and you wanted to sell me to that kind of place in front of me.

"Qin Wen, do you have any shame? The Qin Zhi sisters are your nieces, and you actually want to sell them to that kind of place?" The head of the village couldn't stand it anymore and pointed at Qin Wen and cursed.

"Uncle Lizheng, this is our Qin family's family affair, I hope you won't interfere." Qin Wen retorted that he could only get through the difficulties in front of him first.

Qin Zhi stood up and pulled out the new household registration and the letter of severance of relationship from his sleeve and handed them to the scarred man.

"We have nothing to do with the Qin family. The letter of severance of engagement was filed with the government yesterday. According to the laws of the Great Xiao Dynasty, trafficking in children and women is punishable by at least three years in prison, and in serious cases, exile to Ningguta. Uncle, if you help him use us to pay off his debts, will you be implicated by him?" Qin Wen stared at the scarred man and said word by word.

The scarred man thought for a moment, returned the household registration and the severance letter to Qin Zhi, turned to his men and said, "Cut off one of his fingers."

Qin Wen was so scared that he knelt down and begged for mercy, tears streaming down his face.

"I also have a niece," he said, pointing his finger at Qin Lian in the crowd.

Qin Lian didn't expect that her uncle would push her out, and she was so scared that she hid behind Mei.

"Mom, I don't want to pay off my debt," Qin Lian hugged Mei and cried loudly.

"Qin Wen, stop talking nonsense here. The tuition fees you paid for your studies all these years were all earned by your elder brother. You ungrateful bastard, if you dare to flirt with Lian'er again, your elder brother will not let you go." Mei rushed over, grabbed Qin Wen's hair, and kept hitting him.

"Stop it, you bitch, how dare you hit your brother-in-law? Your brother-in-law is the incarnation of Wenquxing. He will be the top scholar in the future. What if you hurt him?" Liu pulled Mei away and hit her in the face left and right.

"I'm going to beat you to death, you bitch." The old lady Liu used all her strength to beat Mei, her beloved youngest son, whom she was unwilling to even touch with a finger. Yet, the bitch Mei actually dared to beat her brother-in-law in front of so many people.

For a moment, Mei's screams from being beaten and Qin Lian's cries could be heard one after another.

Old man Qin watched his eldest daughter-in-law and his wife fighting, veins on his head throbbing, and as a grown man he couldn't stop the fight, so he could only call Qin Lian to separate them. Qin Lian was afraid of being implicated and didn't dare to step forward.

Two women from the crowd of onlookers walked up and pulled the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law apart.

"Just sell her," Liu pointed at Qin Lian, "She is also eleven years old. She has been raised in pampered conditions, has fair skin and tender flesh, and has already grown up." Although the fortune teller said that Qin Lian was destined to be rich, in this case she had to be sacrificed to save her younger son.

Qin Lian glared at Qin Zhi with vicious eyes.

Qin Zhi...

What do you mean? Why are you glaring at me? It's not like I owe you gambling debts, and it's not like I want to sell you out.

"Okay, take this girl away," the scarred man ordered his men.

The two men immediately grabbed Qin Lian's arms and dragged her away. While struggling, she shouted, "Mom, please save me. I don't want to be sold. Wuuuuuu."

Mei, with her hair disheveled, tried in a panic to stop them and pulled her daughter back, but was kicked away by one of the men.

"Stop," a middle-aged man in a black robe came over.

"May I ask if you are Manager Li of the Jixiang Casino?"

The man in black was Qin Zhi’s uncle, Qin Dahai.

The scarred man cupped his hands and said, "It is me."

Qin Dahai introduced himself: "I am Manager Qin of Zuixianlou. I have to rely on Manager Li to give Qin a favor and release my daughter. My disappointing brother did something wrong. Everyone has their own faults. Manager Li can deal with it."

The scarred man had met Qin Dahai before. Zuixianlou was the largest restaurant in the town. The scarred man had been there often with the owner of the gambling house. The people behind the gambling house and Zuixianlou were a bit pretentious. Well, just cut off a finger of the culprit.

When Liu saw Qin Dahai, she felt like she had found a backer. She didn't expect Qin Dahai to give up Qin Wen as soon as he opened his mouth. Qin Wen was her lifeblood.

"Oh, Dahai, you can't ignore your brother. When your brother passes the imperial examination in the future, he will not forget you."

Qin Dahai frowned. His mother came again. She always made empty promises.

"Mother, Lian'er is my own daughter. She has done nothing wrong. Why should she suffer so much? You have forgotten what the fortune teller said at the beginning. You are the only one who thinks highly of Qin Wen. You should go to the academy to inquire about his situation. He is a complete mess in his studies and he also follows others to go to gambling houses and visit brothels. He is in debt and wants to buy his niece to pay it off. Is this what a human being would do? You sold Lian'er this time, but what about next time? Who will you sell next time?" Qin Dahai pulled Liu and Old Man Qin aside and discussed for a long time. When they came back, they said nothing and tacitly handed Qin Wen over to the scarred man.

The scarred man gave his subordinate a look, and the subordinate quickly raised his knife and cut off one of Qin Wen's fingers.

The scarred man left with his men, leaving Qin Zhi in a state of confusion...

Can't you cut off your hand somewhere else? Isn't it disgusting that it fell at my doorstep?

When the villagers who were watching the fun saw the creditor leaving, they also followed him in a mighty manner, leaving only the Qin family behind.

Qin Zhi rolled his eyes and slammed the door.