Chapter 54: 54 Seeking death, pursuing life
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Her lips were moving as she tried to speak. Her throat must have been sore from screaming so much, which was why she hadn’t spoken earlier. Besides being unfamiliar with the people at her second brother’s house, she didn’t know what to say. Now, with both her internal organs and throat in pain, she finally managed to open her mouth, but her voice was so hoarse that no one could hear her.
“Wife, are you feeling unwell? I’ll take you back…” Xiao Yishan wanted to help Su Qingyue to leave.
“Let go of me…!” She screamed again, her voice hoarse like a male goose honking. She managed to utter only a few words, each accompanied by choking.
Since his wife seemed a bit agitated, Xiao Yishan thought she was planning to commit suicide and tried to pull her to a shallower part of the river.
Su Qingyue struggled with all her might. Originally, she was a killer, so if she did not want to move, no one could make her. However, that only applied to her previous life’s body, which had gone through devil-style training, not her current injured and weak body.
She resisted and decided that she did not want to leave. She was determined to take a shower, even if it meant dying first, regardless of whether someone was watching. She needed to bathe!
Xiao Yishan wanted to drag her from the deep part of the river back to the shore, but he didn’t dare to use much force, fearing that it would hurt her, and they both began pulling against each other.
“Second Brother, I said I want to take a shower. Let go of me…!” She couldn’t understand why he didn’t seem to hear her and continued to forcefully pull her.
Villagers watching the spectacle from the shore pointed at her and gossiped, “Look, the Xiao Family’s wife still wants to die! What’s going on? Dashan is holding her back, but she still wants to die. Why doesn’t she wait for the Xiao Family to sell her to old lady Liu, get seventeen taels, and then die?”
“Isn’t that bringing misfortune to old lady Liu’s house?”
“Old lady Liu is a human trader, she has bought and sold so many people over the years and made a lot of ill-gotten money. What’s the harm in her losing a
“Hey, what kind of talk is that? Are you just hoping that I lose money? That doesn’t seem like your intention!” Old lady Liu caught up from behind and glared upon hearing such talk, “Even if she is desperate to die, I, Liu, have money but wouldn’t buy her. In case I buy her, and she hangs herself inside the Xiao Family, those seventeen taels would not be easy to make. I did make some money, but it was thin profits, you know, it helped those poor people who couldn’t afford a meal, I think I was doing good deeds.”
“Why don’t you sell someone from your own family?”
Old lady Liu stretched out her long face, “I never forced anyone to sell their family members to me. Don’t put all the blame for black-hearted business on me. There are more human traders than just me in the whole area, and I, Liu, am considered fair. You guys should follow your conscience.”
Everyone knew that although old lady Liu was a bit snobbish, she was not as snobbish as other human traders.
“Today I’m making it clear. Xiao Family’s wife, I am not buying her,” Old lady
Liu looked at Su Qingyue struggling in the water and became more scared, “Why did I offer such a high price like seventeen taels for Su Qingyue, who doesn’t even want her life? I must be getting senile. Even if it was for free, I wouldn’t dare to take her. In case she dies in my house, what a bad omen it would be!”
Everyone laughed when they heard her say that. Wang Qigu looked at the couple tugging at each other in the river, “Look at the little wife, the more she is pulled, the more she wants to die. With Dashan around, how could she die?”
“Look, the Xiao Family’s wife is moving her mouth, it seems like she is making some noises. Is she talking?” Aunt Wang pointed out..