Chapter 762: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 762: Capturing and Entering the Palace to Plead for Mercy (3)
After thinking for a while, Mo Yan asked Xue Tuanzi, “So now, do Tie Tou and Liu Qingqing still have a chance to be together?”
“They will!” Xue Tuanzi answered without hesitation. “If you hadn’t helped the Wu family escape the Old Mo family, Tie Tou would never have married Liu Qingqing. He would have become disheartened, left home, worked for a courier company, been attacked by bandits, lost his legs, and died poor and lonely. Liu Qingqing would have ended up tragically, dying of depression due to missing Tie Tou. All in all, your good deed truly saved two lives. Now, do you still feel guilty?”
Mo Yan wiped away the cold sweat from her forehead and quickly shook her head.
Xue Tuanzi, feeling gratified, turned its eyes in a wise manner and said, “Ah, this child is teachable!”
Mo Yan’s mood brightened, and she spun around happily while holding Xue Tuanzi. However, her brows soon furrowed, and with a worried expression, she said, “Aunt Wu will never agree to Tie Tou marrying Liu Qingqing. If they really break up, will they end up on the path you mentioned?”
Xue Tuanzi shivered and regained its pure white form, replying, “Of course they will! However, if you help them and let them marry smoothly, there will be no issue!”
Mo Yan sighed at this, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you! If one day Zhen’er falls for a girl from a brothel and wants to marry her as my sister-in-law, I would probably be unwilling. Aunt Wu’s thoughts are even more conservative. Convincing her to approve of Tie Tou and Liu Qingqing will be very difficult!”
Xue Tuanzi, however, reassured her, “It will be difficult, but not impossible! Besides, putting virtue aside, you can’t bear to see the Wu family fall apart, can you?”
Mo Yan thought for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, I must help.”
Although Mo Yan knew the consequences, she could never sit idly by and watch the Wu family fall apart. But the question was, how should she help? That would require some careful thought.
After playing with Xue Tuanzi for a while, Mo Yan left the space and made her way home.
The rest of the Mo family had not yet gone to bed, clearly still concerned about the Wu family.
Mo Yan didn’t say much, only mentioning that Tie Tou had made a mistake and been punished. She didn’t elaborate.
The others sensed that the situation wasn’t as simple as it seemed. Seeing that Mo Yan wasn’t saying more, they didn’t press further and instead casually chatted before returning to their rooms to rest.
After taking a bath, Mo Yan lay on her bed and pondered how to handle the situation. Various solutions came to mind, but she pushed each one aside. After thinking for a while, she still felt that it was a difficult problem to solve. In the end, her mind wandered, and she drifted off to sleep.
The next few days were relatively quiet for the Wu family. However, Wu Shi was determined to make Tie Tou sever ties with Liu Qingqing, insisting that after the rice shop closed, he had to come home and sleep.
Tie Tou, being filial, even though he was unwilling in his heart, dared not make his mother sad. He began going to the rice shop early every morning and returned late at night, braving the cold. The freezing winds made his face, ears, and hands swell up, developing frostbite that was as swollen as steamed buns.
As a mother, Wu Shi couldn’t help but feel heartbroken seeing her son suffer. Despite her reluctance, she didn’t let him continue sleeping at the rice shop. She bought cotton and good fabric and worked late into the night, sewing thick cotton clothes, socks, and shoes for Tie Tou, even making several pairs of sleeves.
But Tie Tou, stubborn as ever, refused to wear the new cotton clothes and shoes. After a few days, his frostbite began to break open, bleeding and oozing pus. It was so painful that anyone who saw it could feel it.
Wu Shi could only buy the best ointment and secretly go to Tie Tou’s room every night to apply it while he was asleep.
At first, Tie Tou didn’t notice, but later, he figured it out and locked the door. Perhaps, unable to think of any other solution, he resorted to this clumsy method, hoping his mother would relent. Little did he know, this approach not only hurt him but also deeply wounded a mother’s heart.
(End of Chapter)
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