The carriage driver said to Old Lady Mo, who was grinning foolishly as she held the silver, "Old woman, since you’ve taken the silver, hurry up and get out of the way. Don’t block the road for our madam."
"Make way, make way." After gnawing on tree roots for several days, she was so hungry that she could barely walk. Old Lady Mo held a couple of pieces of silver, her eyes gleaming, thinking, finally, she could have a full al.
Just as she was about to turn and leave, ready to buy sothing to fill her stomach, she suddenly seed to rember sothing and said to the carriage driver, "Young man, could you do a favor?"
"What is it?"
The driver spoke gruffly, not really wanting to engage with this old woman. He was still resentful of how Old Lady Mo had suddenly appeared earlier, almost making him a murderer.
"I’ve been chased out of Mo Family Village by the village head and can’t enter. Could you help send a ssage back, ask my two sons to bring out so food? Tell them, your mother is starving, do they care or not?"
In the end, she cursed bitterly, "Those little bastards, not a shred of conscience. Knowing full well their mother has nothing to eat outside, they haven’t co to check on for over ten days. Their hearts are truly wicked, and that old man too, all heartless people. I’ve served them all my life, and this is where it gets , with not a single one coming to check on ."
Hearing this, the carriage driver was montarily stunned, thinking: So this old woman doesn’t know what’s happened to her family, no wonder she’s so calm about it.
So he said, "Old Lady Mo, do you not know what happened to your family?"
"What happened?" Having received the silver, Old Lady Mo’s mood had improved considerably.
To make Old Lady Mo move out of the way quickly, the driver recounted the events at the Mo family to her.
"Clang." The broken bowl and silver in her hand fell to the ground, and Old Lady Mo seed not to notice, didn’t pick them up, but turned away, dazed, as she headed towards the dilapidated temple.
She finally understood why her two sons hadn’t co to see her for more than ten days. It turned out they had long since perished in the fire.
"Hey, hey...! Old Lady Mo, you’ve dropped your things."
Seeing that she’d dropped her things and didn’t pick them up, the driver called out to her to co back and get them. Who would have thought, Old Lady Mo walked away without a word, not even turning her head.
The carriage driver shook his head and let her be, raising his whip to tap the horse’s back. He still had to be on his way! He couldn’t be bothered with this old woman’s troubles.
The carriage had only gone about ten ters when suddenly, he heard Old Lady Mo wailing behind him...
Inside the carriage.
"Miss, should we do sothing about Old Lady Mo? She looked so pitiful and hungry just now," Zi Xia thought, no matter how bad this old lady was, the miss called her grandmother.
Xuexue shook her head and said flatly, "In the future, don’t tell about her matters."
Seeing the miss upset, Zi Xia dared not speak further.
The next day, as they packed their luggage and prepared to return to the Capital, word ca from that direction that Old Lady Mo had swallowed silver to commit suicide in the dilapidated temple the night before.
The village head, out of pity for her family tragedy, spent money to buy a simple coffin in town, hastily taking care of her, and had a few young n from the village carry it up the mountain for burial.
Because of their connection to the old residence, the village head specially sent soone to inform them of Old Lady Mo’s death.
Madam Xie felt nothing. This family’s exploitation of her had reached the extre, leaving her numb.
She busied herself, packing so food for Xuexue to eat on the journey to the Capital.
Indeed, the road to the Capital was long, not every place had inns and restaurants, and in so areas, there weren’t even signs of life. At such tis, it was necessary to prepare so dry rations for ergencies.
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