A quick journey starting from Wu Dalang

Chapter 235: Legend of White Snake (5)

Shiyi felt that the reincarnation of the governor would not let him go so easily. After some calculations, he found that Xiaobai and Fubao would fail because of him in the future. Shiyi felt that it was an injustice.

Since it still didn't work out in this life, Shiyi felt that there was no need to struggle any more, and called Xiaoqing: "Take Xiaobai back, maybe it will work out in the next reincarnation, so that Xiaobai won't be hurt again in this life."

"Why? I think even though Fubao suffered a lot, he shouldn't have a bad ending, right?" Xiaoqing was puzzled.

"Fubao has been troubled time and again, and the one who troubled her is the reincarnation of the prefect." Xiaoqing's face changed as soon as Shi Yi mentioned it.

"Then I'll go and persuade my sister. Let's wait until next time."

But Xiaoqing's words not only failed to persuade Xiaobai, but instead gave him a new idea: "If that person is gone, will my Fubao not get hurt?"

"Sister, don't do anything stupid! You are repaying a favor, you can't kill anyone!"

"I know, I won't kill him, I'll just keep him away from here"

Xiaobai did some work and found out this man's background. He was the son of a nobleman in Beijing named Zhang Minghai. He came here just to gild his reputation. Xiaobai just sent a dream to the man's father, which was enough to get Zhang Minghai transferred away.

"Young Master, the master has sent you a letter asking you to get ready. He is going to ask someone to transfer you away from here." The servant delivered the letter and whispered.

"Do you know why?" Zhang Minghai asked unhappily.

"It seems that the master had a dream. He dreamed that the young master was not living well here, so he wanted to send the young master to a better place." The servant smiled flatteringly, fearing that the other party would vent his anger on him.

"In that case, let's pack up and leave." Zhang Minghai knew that he could not resist his father, nor did he want to resist his father.

The little girl looked at her father's face and spoke slowly: "Daddy, are you going to take Min'er and Mom home?"

"Min'er, you have to call me aunt when you return home," Zhang Minghai said seriously, and the little girl shuddered.

"Yes, Daddy."

"Also, I told you that you should not leave the embroidery building unless necessary. Why did you come out without permission? Go back and accept your punishment."

"Yes, father." The little girl trembled, but still suppressed her fear and went back.

The final result was that she was hungry for three days. The little girl thought that she must be obedient in the future and never suffer such punishment again. Even if she died, she would eat a full stomach first.

In the mind of little Zhang Min, the greatest punishment in the world was to be hungry. However, the little girl had already suffered other injuries. Her small feet were often stained with blood from the foot binding cloth.

The three-year-old girl didn't understand why she was going through all this, but her fear of her father made her dare not ask. Her mother was her father's aunt, so she didn't dare to refute her father and could only hold her in tears.

Zhang Minghai's departure had no impact on this place. Instead, Li Rui felt relieved. Without this colleague who always told him how to restrain his daughter, he became closer to his daughter.

Three more years passed in this peaceful life. Li Fubao was already nine years old, and his younger brother Jinbao was also three years old. His great-grandmother had passed away years ago. Fubao was heartbroken and cried bitterly.

After the funeral, Fubao had lost a lot of weight, and the cute girl with a round face also became slender, which was more in line with the current aesthetic of the world, but not to Xiaobai's liking.

"Fubao, you need to eat more. A woman's fortune lies in her body shape. Only chubby women are blessed." Xiaobai said this truth that he heard from somewhere, his eyes full of worry and heartache.

"It doesn't make sense, but it's good for comforting people." Shiyi touched Xiaoqing's head and said, "Did you hear that? Your sister said that eating more will bring you good luck, so you should also eat more."

Xiaoqing has been worried about Xiaobai recently. She has lost her appetite and has lost a lot of weight.

"You're joking, sir. I'm still the same as before. I haven't lost weight." Xiaoqing turned back to her original form, rolling left and right to prove that she had not lost weight.

Shi Yi burst into laughter. He was used to Xiao Qing's carefree look, so he didn't want to make her worry anymore. Well, some things had to be done. The worst that could happen was to protect the people and not commit murder. He could then make amends to the heaven later.

Fubao has had a happy encounter recently. His father has been appreciated by his superior and has the opportunity to be promoted to be a county magistrate near the capital.

Although the official position has not changed, there is still a big difference between the vicinity of the capital and the current remote area. Everyone moved happily, and Li Fubao wanted to help happily, but was ordered not to show up.

"Fubao, you are a daughter of an official family, so you should behave yourself. Just stay in your room and let the maids clean up." Li Rui didn't realize that his thoughts were also changing.

"Okay." Fubao felt a little disappointed, but when he thought about having the teacher accompany him in his room, he didn't seem so disappointed.

Xiaobai knew what the other party was thinking, but he was a teacher now, not an omnipotent fairy, and he couldn't take Fubao out to play in stealth.

Moving the whole family is a troublesome task. Fortunately, even though he is a small county magistrate, he has a backer. With the help of noble people, Li Rui can be said to have risen to prominence.

The other party admired Li Rui's devotion to his wife and his clean background, so it was easy for him to control him. The other party was also willing to give Li Rui some advice. With the other party's advice, Li Rui was able to be noble and consistent in appearance and heart.

When people mention his name, they will think of the integrity of a scholar. Li Rui's two children, his daughter has never been heard of having any bad reputation, and his son can read at a very young age.

At this time, news came from the capital, a story that was praised by everyone but made Li Fubao's blood freeze.

"Miss, I heard a strange story today and I want to tell you about it."

"Girl, you're still whetting our appetite." Xiaobai held the book in his hands, smiled and tapped the maid's forehead.

"Master Bai, you are making fun of me again. I won't say anything if you keep saying this."

"Okay Xia Yu, just tell me the story. I'll help you deal with the teacher later." The nine-year-old girl was very curious and insisted on knowing the truth.

Xia Yu had no choice but to speak and tell this "beautiful story" in Beijing.

"The original marquis's eldest son, Lord Zhang, gave up military service to pursue literature and was never valued by the civil officials. But an incident happened a few days ago that allowed all the officials to see that Lord Zhang was good at managing the household, and they all started to interact with him," Xia Yu first told the background of the story.

Xiaobai vaguely felt that this story was not a good thing, but facing Fubao's urging, Xiaobai could not stop Xia Yu and had to listen silently.

"Master Zhang has a concubine who has been raised in the embroidery building since she was born. She has never been seen by anyone. It is said that she is going to marry Yang Dao off. But a few days ago, a servant mistakenly sent the cake meant for Master Zhang to Miss Zhang's courtyard."

"This was the first time Miss Zhang had met a man from outside her family. Lord Zhang thought that his daughter had lost her honor by eating the cake handed to her by a man, and he scolded Miss Zhang. However, Miss Zhang turned out to be a man of integrity, so she went on a hunger strike for seven days and then committed suicide."

"Ah?" Fubao couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Everyone in Beijing praises the Zhang family for their good parenting. Miss Zhang is a role model for women in Beijing. Even the famous Master Cheng gave Master Zhang an inscription."

"What word?" Fubao couldn't help but ask.

When Xia Yu uttered these four words, "chaste and heroic woman", the characters seemed to turn into sharp swords, piercing Fubao's heart.

Looking at Fubao's pale face, Xiaobai quickly asked them to leave: "Fubao, what's wrong with you?"

"Master Bai, I'm scared. I miss my great-grandmother." Fubao buried her head in Xiaobai's arms, and her tears soaked Xiaobai's clothes. Xiaobai was unaware and just patted Fubao's back to comfort her.

She waited until Fubao fell asleep before leaving the room. Fubao seemed to be in a dream and half awake. She seemed to see a little girl in the dark little house crying with hunger until she could no longer cry and breathing slowly.

"Zhang Min!" Fubao remembered that Mr. Zhang's daughter was called Zhang Min. Although the two had never met before, at this moment, Fubao knew that this girl was Zhang Min.

Zhang Min's mouth opened and closed slightly. Fu Bao moved closer and heard her whispering, "I'm hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry."

Fubao couldn't recover until the other person stopped breathing. The next second, he was the one lying there, his father was the one closing the door, and he was the one who died in the next second.

"No! No! No!" Fubao woke up with a scream and found that there was no one around her. She hugged the quilt tightly, fearing that she would become the next Zhang Min. But when she thought about it carefully, she realized that she was not stupid and would not starve herself to death.

Thinking this way to comfort myself, I slowly fell asleep again, but I still felt uneasy. In my dream, I kept asking myself, did Zhang Min really commit suicide? Did she lock herself up?

Xiao Baijiu was more direct. She sneaked into Zhang's house and got the answer. What about the servant delivering cakes and preferring to starve to death to preserve his reputation was just a play by the Zhang family.

Abandoning a concubine's daughter can bring honor to the entire family. Zhang Minghai looked at the inscription given to him by Lord Cheng and smiled so hard that his eyes almost narrowed. He completely forgot that this was exchanged for his daughter's life.

Perhaps in his eyes, this daughter was just a sacrifice, a concubine's daughter. Even if he had to sacrifice a legitimate daughter, so what? He would still not feel any pain.

After the Zhang family incident, women in Beijing were subject to stricter requirements, and even the women around them were affected. Fubao could no longer get close to her brother, and it seemed that her father was planning to bind her feet again.

Four or five maids came and went, saying that it might be impossible to bind her feet properly, but if they were just a little smaller, it wouldn't be a problem, it would just make Fubao suffer a little.

Seeing her father not objecting immediately, Fubao's heart sank. This time, her great-grandmother didn't save her, but her mother did: "Li Rui, if you dare to hurt my Fubao, I will fight you to the death!"

His mother was the daughter of a blacksmith, but she was rarely seen as weak. But at this moment, Fubao felt that his mother gave him a sense of security more than his grandfather, the blacksmith.

Li Rui finally gave up binding Fubao's feet and just told him to stay at home every day and not show up in public. If he had an appointment to go out, he had to bring someone with him and not go out alone.

Fubao agreed to all of them. This was already a rare freedom, but fate just likes to play tricks on everyone.

When Fubao was ten years old, an accident happened.

One ordinary morning, Fubao went to the temple with her mother to burn incense. When she got off the carriage at the door of her house, she didn't stand firmly. The driver helped her up. Fubao's face was stiff. She saw her father and an older man at the door.

The father's smile froze on his face, and the man's face turned pale: "I thought you were a noble man, but I didn't expect your daughter to be raised so crudely, not binding her feet, and being so shameless!"

The man flicked his sleeves and left. Her father looked grim, as if he was going to kill her in the next second.

Fortunately, her father was not so cruel and just cut off her hand.

"Father!" Looking at his father holding a knife, Fubao couldn't help but start to retreat. His mother had long been tied up by people sent by his father, and Master Bai had also been sent away by his father with an excuse. At this moment, no one could save her.

"Fubao, don't blame dad. Your reputation is ruined, but dad still has to be an official, your brother still has to take the imperial examination, and he has to get married in the future. We can't let our whole family be ruined because of you alone," the man whispered, as if explaining, but also as if he was talking to himself.

Fubao kept retreating, but soon she had nowhere to retreat. In the end, her father, her biological father, chopped off one of her hands. Blood began to flow out of the bloody wound like crazy, as if it wanted to stay away from her, an unclean person.

"Master!" The mother finally broke free from the servants, but it was too late. Fubao's hand fell to the ground. Xiaobai, who had hurried over, rushed in and took Fubao away.

She used magic to stop the bleeding and pressed her hand back. At this moment, Xiaobai no longer cared about those trivial things. She just wanted Fubao to be fine and nothing would happen to her.

The hand was reattached, but Fobao was frightened by his father's behavior that day. He always felt that there was something wrong with his hand and even couldn't use his right hand to write.

Perhaps the act of cutting off his daughter's hand with his own hands awakened Li Rui's fatherly love. Instead of killing his daughter, he sent someone to send her to a manor, which he got after his promotion.

Xiaobai stayed at the farm to take care of the confused Fubao. Li Rui was praised for his heroic deeds and his official career went smoothly. The only thing that made him unhappy was that his wife cried beside him every day.

Fu Bao had nightmares every night on the farm. He dreamed that his father chopped off his hands and that Zhang Min starved to death. After waking up, he felt nothing but weird when he saw his hands.

The confusion between reality and dreams made the little girl almost crazy. Xiaobai used magic to appease her again and again, until one day, Fubao stared at the open space in the center of the village in a daze.

"Fubao, the weather is cold, let's go back." Xiaobai coaxed him to leave, but Fubao was unwilling.

"Master Bai, is there a tree over there?" Fubao pointed to the center of the yard.

The four maids and old women looked terrified, as if the young lady had really gone crazy. The four of them were sent by the lady to protect and take care of Fubao, but seeing Fubao like this, they couldn't help but feel a little scared.

"Mother Zhang, why don't you go back and talk to the Madam and let us go back home. It's really scary for the young lady to be like this." The younger Xia Yu pulled the sleeve of the old woman beside her.