Chapter 974: 976 Chapter Sorcery_1 Chapter 974: 976 Chapter Sorcery_1 Bai Ruozhu glanced at the crowd of onlookers and, sure enough, saw Zhou Taohua hiding towards the back, watching her with a venomous gaze that also carried a triumphant smirk.
It was indeed her, Bai Ruozhu’s expression grew colder.
She had not wanted to stoop to Zhou Taohua’s level, but Zhou Taohua, in her quest to trouble her, had already hard Guizhi.
She could no longer afford to be soft-hearted.
However, she still needed to shut up Guizhi’s mother first.
“Fang Auntie, don’t you feel ashad when you speak?
It was you who wanted money so badly that you were willing to marry Guizhi off to an old widower who had beaten his previous wife to death.
Later, when you saw that Mrs.
Xie was willing to pay more for a maid, you took the initiative to sell your daughter.
And now you dare bla for it?
Guizhi was sold on a dead contract; from the day she was sold, she was no longer your daughter.
You keep pestering now, but have I taken a single coin from you?” Bai Ruozhu said loudly.
Many in the village still rembered the matter of Fang Guizhi being sold and began to murmur quietly.
“Don’t try to dodge the bla.
I know everything.
It was you who conspired with that Mrs.
Xie, tricked Guizhi into leaving, and even persuaded her to defer to as her mother,” Guizhi’s mother said, hands on her hips.
“You signed the indenture contract yourself.
What do you want with Guizhi now?
Do you want money because you see her living well?” Bai Ruozhu looked at her with disdain.
“You raised a daughter, not an easy feat, but she has served your family well.
In the end, you sold her to make money.
Once the dead contract was signed, everything owed to you was paid.
She will no longer carry the Fang surna from now on.
If you’re eyeing money, don’t co causing trouble with .
Do you really think I, Bai Ruozhu, am easy to bully?”
“If you don’t agree, then go to the Governnt Office and accuse of abducting your daughter.
Let’s see how the county officer judges it!” Bai Ruozhu said, sneering.
Guizhi’s mother didn’t dare to do that; false accusations were also punished with flogging.
Even without an indenture contract, just asking around the village would reveal that she indeed sold her daughter.
“I know she’s living better now, but anyhow, she’s born of my womb.
Just because she’s doing well, she can’t just forget her parents, right?
I know my Guizhi is timid; it must be your doing,” Guizhi’s mother muttered to herself.
Bai Ruozhu looked at the onlookers and addressed them: “Fellow villagers, please judge for yourselves.
She sold her daughter for money.
No matter how well Guizhi is doing, she is earning for her employer.
If she went to ask Guizhi for money now and got caught by the Xie Residence, she’d be taking their money, which could land her in prison.”
The onlookers agreed, ntioning that Guizhi was bound by a dead contract and belonged to her employer; how could she take anything from the employer’s property?
Guizhi’s mother began to waver in her stance, wondering to herself if Zhou Taohua had been deceiving her.
“I heard that Guizhi is in your house, helping you with work, not serving the Xie Family at all.
Don’t try to fool ,” Guizhi’s mother said after so thought.
“Who told you that, if not Zhou Taohua?
What does she know?
I’m partnering with Mrs.
Xie in business.
Isn’t it normal for her to send soone from her household to oversee the store?” Bai Ruozhu said, then looked toward Zhou Taohua in the crowd and asked loudly, “Isn’t that right, Tao Hua?”
An onlooker asked, “Tao Hua and her family have returned?
Why didn’t I see them when Zhou Deshun ca back in a horse carriage yesterday?”
Zhou Taohua, sowhat frightened, shrank back and said, “I’ve just co back to the village; how would I know these things?
Don’t drag into this ss.”
Bai Ruozhu smiled, “Whoever is spreading rumors and sowing discord knows who they are.
Heaven has eyes, and it might just curse her to never marry in her lifeti.”
“How can you speak like that!” Zhou Taohua was imdiately upset.
“If I’m talking about soone stirring up trouble, that’s not you, so why are you so anxious?” Bai Ruozhu asked with a smile.
Zhou Taohua choked on her words, unable to utter a single sentence; in the end, she stamped her foot and turned her head to run away.
Guizhi’s mother rolled her eyes, suspecting that Zhou Taohua had used her as a pawn.
She then thought about how Bai Zepei was now a Scholar Laureate, a rank far above that of a re Scholar, and decided it was best not to provoke him.
With that in mind, Guizhi’s mother suddenly clutched her stomach, saying, “Ouch, my stomach hurts so much, I need to leave first.”
With no one else coming to create a scene, Bai Ruozhu and the others’ journey beca much smoother.
They paid visits to the village chief, the elders, Mr.
Wu, and other acquaintances, delivering the gifts they had brought back.
In the evening, everyone was invited to dine at the Wan Family’s residence.
Bai Yihong and the others drank so wine.
Since Bai Ruozhu wanted to take Dengdeng back to sleep early, she excused herself in advance.
Once back in the yard, she called Jianqi over, handed him a small bottle, and whispered, “Just pour it in Zhou Taohua’s room.”
Jianqi nodded, “Understood.”
With Jianqi’s martial arts skills, he quickly reached the roof of Zhou Taohua’s room, lifted a tile, and poured the bottle’s contents through the gap.
He also noticed Zhou Taohua, in the room, mumbling to herself while holding so object.
From his angle, he could only see her back and was unable to make out what she was holding.
“Curse you for not curing my illness, curse you for cursing to never marry—I’ll stab you dead, stab you dead!” Zhou Taohua’s voice was sowhat suppressed, like a tightly wound string.
Even though the sound was soft, the tone was strangely piercing.
Jianqi’s face changed color.
He picked up a pebble and threw it into the room, where it knocked over a small wooden box not far behind her.
Startled by the noise, Zhou Taohua shivered and imdiately turned to look back.
Seeing it was only the box fallen from a cabinet, she heaved a sigh of relief.
Because she turned around, Jianqi finally got a clear view of what she was holding!
It was a voodoo doll made of straw, crudely fashioned but identifiable, and the words “Bai Ruozhu” were scribbled on it—clearly, she had intended to stab Bai Ruozhu!
Jianqi was infuriated and wanted to teach Zhou Taohua a lesson, but rembering his master had her own plans, he had to replace the tile and return to report back.
When Bai Ruozhu heard about Zhou Taohua stabbing the effigy of her, she was unconcerned.
She considered such acts to be feudal superstitions, thinking that cursing soone with a doll could bring harm.
If it were really that easy, countless people would have been killed by curses.
However, ancient people placed importance on such acts.
If Zhou Taohua had made an effigy of her, it showed how much hatred she harbored in her heart.
“Master, it’s better to believe in the possibility of sorcery rather than dismiss it.
If she knows your date and ti of birth, that would be troubleso,” Jianqi, seeing Bai Ruozhu take it lightly, couldn’t help but add, “I heard the previous Emperor of Chengshui Country died of witchcraft curses.
His death was extrely grueso.
He tried to transfer the curse to soone else, but, unfortunately, he did not succeed in the end.”
Bai Ruozhu, now intrigued, asked hurriedly, “Why didn’t it succeed?
Was the sorcerer too powerful to break the spell?”
“The attempt to transfer it to another person already ant it was unbreakable, but the recipient had to be close kin for it to succeed.
The previous Emperor of Chengshui Country, wanting to save himself, decided to transfer the curse to a less favored princess, and as a result…”
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