Lai Dadu was completely dead, and Xing'er hurried back with an old doctor with gray hair and gray beard.
Xing'er waved his hands and stamped his feet, knocking the old man into the yard like a duck.
The old doctor held a small bundle in his arm, followed by a young apprentice carrying a medicine box. While being urged away by Xing'er, he shook his head at Xing'er who was jumping up and down:
"I'm a doctor, not a bearer. I don't have such good legs and feet. No matter how much you yell, I can't fly, can I?"
As soon as he entered the door, he saw that the courtyard was full of people kneeling, but there was no sound. The old doctor was so frightened that he shut up and did not dare to say a word.
When Xing'er led him over, the old doctor immediately frowned when he saw Lai Da lying on the ground.
With his many years of medical experience, the old doctor knew just by looking at Lai Da's face: He was a dead man.
But "doctors are like parents", so the old doctor stepped forward and tried it on his nose first, then touched his wrist, then shook his head and said to Jia Lian politely:
"Tell me, this person is gone."
Jia Lian waved his hand:
"Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for your hard work. I will pay for the consultation fee."
The old doctor immediately breathed a sigh of relief:
The journey of more than five miles was not in vain.
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Xing'er asked the old doctor to stop first, and he hurried over to talk to Jia Lian:
"Second Master, when I just came back, I met Lai Shangrong's daughter-in-law's mother at the door. She came with Lai Shangrong's daughter-in-law and said that she wanted to see the Second Master urgently.
I told her: The second master is inside reviewing the Lai family and has no time to pay attention to her.
But she told me that she brought her daughter here just for the Lai family's affairs, and begged the second master to allow them to come in and have a word, and asked the second master to make a decision for them."
"Making the decision? She is not a slave of my Jia family, what kind of decision should I give her?"
Having said that, in fact, Jia Lian had already guessed it.
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The Sui family's father is the magistrate of Xiong County, Baoding Prefecture, Beizhili. The Sui family is naturally a legitimate official lady. She is willing to marry Lai Shangrong, a slave. Could it be that she really likes Lai Shangrong's tallness?
Eat more?
The reason behind this can be guessed by just thinking about it. It is simply that the Sui County magistrate saw the Lai family as the "first slaves" of the Jia family, and wanted to marry the Lai family as a springboard.
It is possible to establish a relationship with the Jia family who "Jia is not Jia, Baiyu is a horse for the Tang family".
But now that the Jia family has raided the Lai family and captured all of the Lai family's slaves to be disposed of, the Lai family is completely ruined.
The Sui family naturally did not want to be implicated by the Lai family, so they drew a clear line with the Lai family in time, which could be regarded as a timely stop loss and avoid being implicated.
By the way, I also came to show my loyalty to the Jia family.
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"Forget it, let them in, I want to see what they have to say."
Since Jia Lian gave such orders, not long after, he saw a middle-aged woman who still had charm, and Lai Shangrong's daughter-in-law, Sui, came in from the side door.
The woman didn't wait for anyone's advice. She took her daughter and went straight to Jia Lian. When she saw him, she knelt down and kowtowed:
"My little wife, Mrs. Lu, pays her respects to Mr. Lian.
The young woman is the wife of Sui Guangsi, the current magistrate of Xiong County, Baoding Prefecture, Beizhili.
A year ago, just because my husband mistakenly believed the matchmaker's eloquent words and saw that the Lai family were loyal servants, he thought that the son of a loyal servant must also be a loyal minister, so he mistakenly married his daughter to Lai Shangrong, the son of Lai Da.
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During the year they got married, my daughter discovered that all of the Lai family members were of bad character, especially Lai Shangrong, who was different from what he appeared to be to someone who was actually "treacherous, lazy, gluttonous, slippery, and evil".
The young couple had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every fifth day, and their life had become unbearable.
If it's just a matter between his husband and wife, that's it.
This Lai Shangrong is even more shameless. He actually put his dirty hands into our yamen without my master’s back, and under the guise of being the county magistrate’s son-in-law, he monopolized the lawsuit, eating both the plaintiff and the defendant. The impact was extremely bad. For this reason, our husband finally made up his mind to sever the marriage relationship with the Lai family. Because our husband was busy with official duties in Baoding Mansion, he asked the young woman to go to the Lai family and propose that he and his wife divorce.
But the family members used the excuse that their daughter was pregnant and refused to agree, life or death, and our family suffered terribly for this.
We were already forced to do so, but now we heard that Mr. Lian had captured Lai Da, so the young woman had the courage to come to see Mr. Lian, just to beg the masters of the Lai family to open their mouths and ask them to let my daughter go.
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This woman is very articulate and sounds like a very calculating and powerful woman.
If such a powerful woman goes to the Lai family, will it be as she said, "The daughter of the Sui family wants to divorce, but the Lai family will not agree to it"?
Only ghosts believe it.
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Jia Lian doesn't want to expose lies casually. He is better at using other people's viciousness to push others' circumstances and leverage their strength.
Such viciousness makes it even more vicious.
After thinking for a while, Jia Lian had already made up his mind.
"I understand all your words, but I don't want to care."
Jia Lian had a sullen face and flatly refused.
"The Lai family is right. Your daughter is already pregnant, and what she is carrying in her belly is the blood of the Lai family.
It's impossible for you to reconcile her and Lai Shangrong at this time."
At this time, Mrs. Sui, who had been following her mother with her head lowered, saw Lai Da's corpse lying beside her. She screamed "Ouch" in fright at the blood on his front and a pair of big dead eyes.
He immediately hugged her mother:
"Mom...dead...Lai...dead..."
Her mother, Mrs. Lu, followed her daughter's gaze and saw the hideous corpse of Lai Da lying on the ground, biting his tongue and committing suicide. She screamed in fright, and the mother and daughter immediately hugged each other.
The shivering Sui was so frightened that she suddenly rolled her eyes upward and fainted.
At this time, the old doctor who had not yet had time to go out came in handy again. He hurriedly checked the pulse and pricked the acupoints with silver needles, and finally revived Mr. Sui.
Sui woke up and burst into tears:
"Mom... I said I wouldn't marry that slave Lai Shangrong, and you still said I was ungrateful... Look, didn't you trick me... Lai Shangrong, a man who suffered a thousand cuts, tricked me! I
We need to make peace, I don’t want this little bastard in my belly anymore!”
The old doctor was dedicated to doing good and hurriedly advised:
"You can't help it. The baby in your belly is almost four months old, so you can't let it go."
When Sui heard this, he became even more angry and cried:
"Why can't I want it? If I am determined not to want this little bastard, I can throw myself from the bed to the ground, I can hit my lower back with a pestle, and I...I can take abortion pills!"
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After hearing that her granddaughter-in-law wanted to have an abortion, Grandma Lai went crazy.
This is going to break her roots in the Lai family!
At this time, as long as the grandson's wife is willing to keep the child, she can let Aunt Lai kowtow to the grandson's wife.
But Grandma Lai, let alone kowtow, her mouth was blocked and she couldn't make a sound.
Grandma Lai kowtowed to her grandson’s wife countless times with her eyes, but to no avail.
In desperation, Grandma Lai kept looking at her grandson Lai Shangrong for help.
Although Lai Shangrong could not move, he could still speak. When he saw his grandma being so anxious, he hurriedly said:
"Grandma, don't worry!"
Then he shouted to Sui:
"You... please stop making trouble, I beg you! If you make grandma anxious, I..."
"You deserve to die! That's your grandma, not my grandma!"
Sui's face turned pale with anger.
"From the moment we got married until now, you talk about your grandma every day and shut up about your grandma. Then you can just live with your grandma, why are you marrying me?"
When she thought of Lai Shangrong leaving her and running away, her teeth itched with hatred, and she suddenly grabbed the old doctor:
"Prescribe me an abortion pill! I want to drink it in front of Lai Shangrong!"