Chunniang was furious when she heard this and slapped her in the face: "You are the devil and the disaster!"
When the owner heard the crazy woman's nonsense, he was so scared that he quickly stuffed a piece of sackcloth into her mouth. Seeing that she was struggling violently, he asked his family to tie her up with a rope.
Afterwards, she apologized to Chunniang and Yingbao repeatedly: "My lady, my young lady, this servant has a bad brain, please don't take it to heart."
Chunniang said angrily, "Don't care? She wanted to set fire to us and burn us to death, and you want us to not care?"
The escort was also very angry, pointing at the owner of the house and shouting: "We paid for staying here, are you trying to kill us for money?"
The head of the household waved his hands quickly: "No, no! My family is innocent and honest, how could we do such a thing. It was all because of this servant's impulse. I guess she has a grudge against the young lady's family..."
"Shut up!" Jiang Quan was angry, but also afraid. He pointed at Chen Wan and shouted, "Tell me, what is the grudge between my family and you? Do you want to harm my cousin again and again?"
If my little cousin hadn't discovered it in time, a disaster would have happened tonight.
The Chen Laoshuan family is so vicious, they are rotten from top to bottom.
Chen Wan seems weak and kind to her younger brothers and sisters, but she is not friendly to Yingbao at all. This time she even wants to set fire and kill people. It is really inexplicable.
"We will go to the police as soon as the sun rises." Ying Bao said to her second cousin, "Second brother, take a few escort uncles to find the head of the village and ask him to come over to talk."
Since there are witnesses and evidence, we should find the village head as soon as possible to avoid any further complications.
"No!" A short young man in his twenties suddenly rushed over, hugged Chen Wan, and said to Yingbao and others: "There must be some misunderstanding. Wan'er is very kind. She doesn't even want to step on an ant to death. How could she hurt someone? Don't report to the police. I am willing to pay five taels of silver. I hope you will just stop here."
Chunniang was speechless. She pointed at the firewood piled at the door and window and said, "Are you blind? What's the meaning of all this firewood piled at the door of our house?"
The young man suddenly got up and tried desperately to move the firewood to the side.
Jiang Quan and twenty or so escorts immediately pushed him aside: "Want to destroy the evidence? No way!"
Yingbao glanced at the family and saw that their eyes were all looking at the firewood, so she slowly took out a gong and started to strike it, and signaled Mudan and Xinghua.
The two little girls understood and immediately put their gloves on their mouths and shouted loudly to both sides: "The fire is coming! Help! The fire is coming!"
The young man and his family were stunned.
Soon, many people came to knock on the door of this family: "Uncle Fang! What's the matter? Is there a fire in your house? Open the door quickly!"
Jiang Quan ran to open the door.
Twenty or thirty people came in, some carrying basins and buckets of water.
When everyone saw the scene in the yard, they were all stunned.
"This...what's going on?" one person asked.
Ying Bao said, "We stayed here and paid for accommodation and food. We didn't expect that someone would pile firewood at the door and window of our house in the middle of the night and set it on fire in an attempt to burn us to death. Fellow villagers, please judge for yourself. In this clear and bright world, is there such a family?"
The middle-aged master quickly explained: "No... We really don't know, it was all done by this damned servant. She is just a lunatic."
Everyone turned their eyes to the woman who was protected by the young man, and started to shout, "If she is crazy, why let her out? Uncle Fang, you are really stupid. Keeping a woman like this at home is a disaster."
"It doesn't matter if she set the fire, but the houses of our neighbors are all connected. If they are all burned, who will pay for the compensation?"
"That's right! Send her to the authorities!"
"That's right! Such a scourge cannot stay in our Fang Family Village!"
The young man looked around and shouted, "No! Wan'er is innocent, how could she be a nuisance?"
He suddenly pointed at Yingbao and the others and said, "It's all because of them! They deliberately framed Wan'er and wanted to kill her!"
Old Man Fang couldn't hold back any longer, and slapped his son in the face. "You evil creature! When you secretly bought her, I knew she was a disaster. Why would her grandfather sell off such a beautiful granddaughter? And sell her to us?"
If her family was really short of money, wouldn't they sell her to a brothel? It would be better than selling her to a poor country boy.
It is said that her grandfather is still asking around in the market, specifically looking for those honest unmarried men. The meaning is obvious, he just wants his granddaughter to marry him.
As for why the Chen family chose to marry off their granddaughter in this way, Old Man Fang had no idea. He intuitively thought that the girl had made a big mistake, so her family had to sell her away, and they also didn't want her to go back.
The young man was slapped by his own father, and suddenly burst into tears. He knelt down in front of Chunniang and others, and kowtowed repeatedly: "Wan'er didn't mean it. Please let her go. I will work like a cow or a horse for you in the future..."
"She's really crazy!" An old woman came out of the house holding a crying child, pointing at her son and scolding him, "Does she have any gratitude for you treating her like this? Have you ever thought about whether she cared about our family when she burned the house? Did she ever think about the life and death of you and your child?"
These houses are connected together for the purpose of accommodating travelers. If they really burned down, not to mention how much loss their own house would suffer, the main house would also not be spared. Moreover, their whole family, young and old, were sleeping in the main house, and this woman did not even wake them up after setting the fire.
Such a vicious woman, but her son treats her like a treasure.
The young man paused.
Looking back at Chen Wan, "Wan'er, you..."
Chen Wan turned her head away, tears streaming down her face.
She completely integrated the memories in the dream and clearly remembered that she had once been dressed in fine clothes and eaten delicious food, and had a group of servants.
But everything was ruined by Yingbao.
It was all Yingbao's fault that I had fallen to such a state and given myself to this short and ugly man.
So she didn't regret what happened today, she just felt bad that she didn't succeed.
Old Man Fang sighed, "Da Lang, send her to the authorities, or give her a rope and let her end her life. Think about Xiao Baoer, he will be going to school in a few years, and our Fang family cannot keep a woman who will bring disaster to our descendants."
The young man looked at his wife Chen Wan with confusion and sadness, and asked, "Wan'er, do you want Bao'er and I to die?"
Chen Wan lowered her head and said nothing.
Things have come to this point, she no longer wants to live, so why bother saying things against her will and deceiving herself
If there is an afterlife, I will strangle Yingbao to death with my own hands and then stuff her into the stove to prevent any future trouble.
... ...
At dawn the next day, Yingbao and A Niang got on the carriage.
The convoy slowly drove out of Caoji and onto the official road.
Seeing her daughter remained silent, Chunniang asked for conversation: "Bao'er, is Xiaowu also in the capital?"
"No, Xiao Wu wrote to me last time saying that he and Zhang Min went to Yizhou and they would stay there for three years before coming back."
The emperor sent Jiang Wu and Zhang Min to garrison Yizhou, probably to train them so that they could be promoted when they returned.
Of course, this is just Yingbao's guess, and it's not a good idea to tell A Niang now.