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Chapter 14: Li Jinyu\nBailian coldly looked on at the Fourth Master and Er Gouzi in her space, her whole body exuding icy bursts of frigid aura. Those who dared to scheme against her would learn to calculate at their own risk…\n
“Mast…er?” Li Shu shivered after feeling the coldness radiating off of Bailian.\n
“Tail him.” Bailian pointed at Er Gouzi, “Find out where Landlord Wang’s resident is located and see if you can find out when they decide to execute their plan.”\n
Bailian was not afraid of others scheming against her, after all, she possessed an all-powerful dimensional space, no one would be able to hurt a strand of hair on her head. If something ever happened to her in the future, she wouldn’t be able to protect and stay at Madam Zhao’s side at all times, so she would have to carefully gather intelligence on this matter.\n
If her unborn sibling were to be kidnapped, she would go on a killing spree!\n
Getting up, she viciously thought, Now, I want to see, just who would dare to sell an infant for money and kill them with no hesitation!\n
“Understood, Squeak Squeak~” Frightened by his master’s evil chuckling, Li Shu obediently accepted his master’s orders.\n
Bailian, in her dimensional space, took two steps backward to move a good distance away from the crime scene. After sending Li Shu off on his mission, she traveled towards the Li Residence, carrying with her a basin of clothes resting on her hip.\n
Along the way back from the river, it was inevitable that she would encounter other villagers. Bailian meekly lowered her head, but her eyes twinkled with a cold light as she silently schemed and calculated the Third Branch’s next move.\n
However, in the eyes of others, she seemed to be quite pitiful, unconsciously evoking other people’s sympathy. \n
A paper-thin body struggled to hold up a heavy basin of clothes. While the clothes inside the basin looked to be well-kept and made out of high-quality materials, the clothes on the girl’s body, by comparison, was much shabbier with many holes and patches. At first glance, anyone could tell that she had been ordered to do the laundry of the other Li’s, her head lowered rather sorrily, looking extremely pitiful.\n
People who walked by Bailian felt a little pity for the young girl, after all, anyone could infer that she was treated extremely poorly at home, as compared to Patriarch Li’s other granddaughters.\n
“Did you hear the news? Scholar Zhang called off the engagement!”\n
“Really? That’s to be expected, after all, Scholar Zhang has such a bright future! But this Third Branch of the Li Family…is ‘concubine-born’. “\n
“Ah, this is heaven’s spite ah!” Grandmother Li Ciying sighed, knowing what was going through the minds of outsiders.\n
“Who isn’t thinking of that! At the time, Patriarch Li’s family didn’t have enough money to fill the coffers, if it wasn’t for Ciying’s dowry…”\n
“That happened a long time ago, look, that thing from yesterday at the banquet…”\n
Bailian paused in her steps after hearing this and cast an icy look at the person who was talking.\n
The person talking was a woman, who was currently looking at Bailian with disgust, as if she couldn’t bear to look any longer. \n
The talking woman suddenly felt a chill and as soon as she looked up, she saw Bailian frigidly staring in her direction.\n
She was only a rural woman after all and had never experienced the aura of a bloodthirsty expert before and was shocked into silence by the murderous glare in Bailian’s eyes for a few minutes.\n
As for all the other chattering and gossiping villagers, after seeing Bailian looking over at them, they became silent. After all, Bailian had heard everything and as a result, the villagers felt a little embarrassed.\n
Bailian scanned the crowd, looking around with another cold stare, before turning around and leaving.\n
These people, she could not afford to offend them for the time being.\n
After all, she was still just an eight-year-old.\n
However, if someone offends you, one shouldn’t just let those offenders off so easily.\n
For example, the Li Fourth master.\n
“Y-, did you guys see that?” The middle-aged woman patted her chest to stay calm, her face full of fear and apprehension.\n
Just now, she was really afraid that Bailian would rush over and kill her off any second! She was obviously only a harmless eight-year-old child, but the woman thought that Bailian had just seemed like a bristling, fanged wolf, ready to pounce on her prey.\n
“She’s still just a child, you must be overthinking it~” Some people who hadn’t directly witness Bailian’s cold eyes scoffed at the woman’s claims, feeling a little uncomfortable that they had badmouthed a young girl in front of her.\n
Bailian didn’t care what these people thought and swiftly returned to the courtyard in the Li Residence with her heavy basin of fresh laundry.\n
“These clothes, have they been cleaned?” Li Jinyu asked, swaying unsteadily on her feet. It was apparent that she had just woken up, her body as sturdy as a wall.\n
Li Jinyu was the only daughter of Matriarch Wang and Patriarch Li. She was the most spoiled of all her siblings, getting whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted. Li Jinyu was obviously a family member of a farmer family, living in a very economical and thrifty household. However, she never worked and had no need to fend for herself, leading a very pampered life. After all these years, she had also become extremely obese, much like a pig.\n
However, Matriarch Wang felt that her daughter’s extra weight meant she was blessed with fortune and luck. As such, she wanted to find the best family to marry her precious daughter. Therefore, Li Jinyu, who was currently sixteen, had still not been engaged after all this time.\n
Bailian scowled. This person really didn’t waste any food, she ate so much that it had fattened her body!\n
“Hey, you! I’m still talking to you! Stinky girl, are you ignoring me right now?!” Li Jinyu had caught Bailian’s subtle scowl and reached to snatch the basin out of Bailian’s hands, feeling extremely angry at Bailian’s obvious disregard.\n
In her eyes, the Third Branch were all slaves. Whatever she asked them to do, they had to do it! She was the Eldest Young Lady!\n
Bailian felt the ground shake as a mountain with rolls of fat ran towards her. She imperceptibly dodged the lumbering fat mound, slightly stuck out her foot, and angled her body towards the side.\n
Li Jinyu had originally wanted to teach Bailian a lesson, but she was fat and clumsy, not able to control her huge body. She hadn’t expected that Bailian would dodge, and she fell flat on her face, like a dog eating shit. \n
“AHH!” Li Jinyu screamed at the top of her lungs, “This cheap girl is beating up people!”\n
Li Jinyu stayed on the ground, slapping the top of her thighs and howling as if she had been deeply wronged.\n
“Jinyu! What’s wrong?” Hearing his daughter’s cries, Patriarch Li immediately rushed over, and hurriedly tried to help his daughter up, “Come on, get up!”\n
Li Jinyu was just too obese and Patriarch Li was unable to pull her up, even if he used all of his strength.\n
“No! Wahhh! I won’t get up! This cheap girl hit me!” Li Jinyu accusingly pointed at Bailian, complaining and crying. Her crying face was an ugly and disgusting mess, her dripping nose and tears mixing together to create a horrendous sight. \n
“Now, now, don’t cry! Mother will teach this girl a lesson for you” Matriarch Wang stretched out her hand to wipe Jinyu’s tears, her hands soon covered with snot and tears.\n
Bailian inwardly retched, feeling sick to her stomach at the sight.\n
“En.” Li Jinyu immediately stopped crying when she heard that Matriarch Wang would punish Bailian, slowly getting up to her feet, still snifflingly with a face full of grievance.\n
“You little wench! You dared to beat your aunt! I really don’t know this domineering bastard. Just see if I won’t kill you first!”\n
Matriarch Wang pointed at Bailian’s nose and began to viciously curse, rushing at Bailian.\n
“Mother! You got it! Kill this wench!” Li Jinyu gleefully applauded and watched, taking great delight at the sight of Bailian’s inevitable demise.\n
Bailian closely studied Matriarch Wang, seeing that the woman’s sleeve was disgustingly still coated in Li Jinyu’s snot and tears. Feeling extremely nauseous, she easily twisted her body to avoid Matriarch Wang’s incoming tackle.\n
“Mother, please forgive Fifth!”\n
“Old Matriarch!”\n
Grandmother LI Ciying and Madam Zhao who had been working in the far distance, seeing the commotion, had hastily stopped what they were doing and ran over as fast as they could. However, one was weather-beaten and old, while the other supported a big belly, arriving too late to protect Bailian.\n
Bailian looked over at them, seeing that they were huffing and puffing, struggling to keep themselves up from the exertion. Frowning, she worried that Madam Zhao’s sudden movements might accidentally cause her to go into early labor. Fine, then let’s end this quickly!\n
Bailian easily avoided Matriarch Wang with a snort and found an opportunity to grab one of Matriarch Wang’s flailing arms. She clutched the other’s wrist with a tight, steel grip.\n
“Old Madam, just what are you doing!” Bailian indifferently looked down at Matriarch Wang, her body emanating waves of danger, her hands still tightly clenching the other’s wrists.\n
Where Bailian currently clenched was an acupuncture point on the wrist, one that hurt when pressure was put on it and it would make the other person break out into cold sweat. Seeing Bailian’s frigid eyes, Matriarch Wang was instantly reminded of the eyes of Bailian this morning, her heart chilling.\n
“You..let go of me!” Matriarch Wang, feeling extremely terrified.\n
Grandmother Li Ciying and Madam Zhao rushed over to Bailian’s side at this time, “Matriarch, Fifth didn’t mean it!”, eagerly explaining, hoping that they could appease the old lady’s anger.\n
Witnessing the desperation and fear on the faces of the two women, Matriarch Wang suddenly felt a surge of confidence. The Third Branch had been enslaved for so long now, they could actually be frightened just by one look of her’s!\n
“You! Let me go. Otherwise, don’t blame me if I sell you off!” Matriarch Wang had a smug expression on her face, and she roughly grabbed at Bailian’s face with her dirty hand.\n
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