Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Chapter 328 - 328 327 All Settled

?Chapter 328: Chapter 327: All Settled Chapter 328: Chapter 327: All Settled Junior Officer He pointed at Granny Wu, who was sitting on the ground and crying bitterly, and said to the few women who had gathered to watch, “Take her back to the Wu household. These people are humiliating themselves.”

Wang Cheng and Mrs. Li, along with two guards, followed Junior Officer He to the Wu household. Trailing behind them was a crowd of villagers drawn out by all the commotion. Wang Xiaodi, also worried about his father, hurried along with them.

Finally, the outside subsided.

Chen Afu watched everything from the window. The Wus were like leeches, hoping Mrs. Wu would support them forever. Even if that nine taels of silver were paid off, they would find another excuse to make their demands. Granny Wu was even worse than Mrs. Ding, while the latter abused her stepsons, the former was treating her own daughter cruelly.

Seeing the devastated Mrs. Wu, Chen Afu consoled her. “Don’t cry auntie, as Dr. Huang said, you should refrain from crying and not strain your eyes.”

Mrs. Wu sobbed, “I’m not afraid of being a laughing stock, Afu. When I was a girl, my parents never wanted me to marry. They wanted me to live a celibate life. They told me to continue my grandmother’s embroidery tradition, and so I remain entrapped within the Wu household even in death. I beseech my husband during my eighteenth year. I wanted to leave my parents who disagreed, I scared them by attempting suicide before they reluctantly agreed to my dowry of a hundred taels of silver…”

Mrs. Wu’s grandmother used to be a maid in a wealthy household. She was an excellent embroiderer but somehow offended the lady master and had her wrist broken and was sold to Mrs. Wu’s grandfather.

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