binnovel Chapter 95: The more speculations there are, the more outrageous they become.
Chapter 95: The more speculations there are, the more outrageous they become.
Anjia Village, outside the Xia family compound—
A simple carriage arrived outside the Xia family compound, and two people got off: one was the driver, and the other was dressed as a servant.
The villagers gathered around out of curiosity.
"Is this the Xia family home at the end of summer?" The man dressed as a servant deliberately called out Xia Mo's name loudly.
In families that uphold proper etiquette, it is forbidden for others to call out the name of an unmarried daughter, let alone a man. This would seriously damage her reputation.
The servant man did this mainly to humiliate them, but he forgot that this was the countryside!
In the countryside, making a name for oneself is a perfectly normal thing.
The servant looked around at the people from Anjia Village who were gathering around, waiting for them to look at him with amusement, and also waiting for Xia's mother and the others to become furious.
then……
The servant looked on in bewilderment, his eyes fixed on the curious villagers and Xia's father and his companions who had calmly emerged.
Shouldn't I be angry?
"Who are you people?" Brother Xia asked, one hand behind his back, looking down at the servant man.
Between Brother Xia and the servant, height determines imposing presence. Brother Xia is 1.86 meters tall, while the servant is only 1.6 meters tall. When Brother Xia approaches, the servant has to look up at him, which immediately diminishes his imposing presence. In addition, the servant is a slave, making him significantly inferior in status.
The servant, who had intended to make things difficult for the Xia family, instead of embarrassing them, was instead aroused by their inferiority complex and lowered his head.
“I am a servant of the Wei family in Anping County. We were sent by Miss Ma to fetch Miss Xia,” the male servant said, bowing his head.
Brother Xia turned to look at Xia Mo.
Xia Mo shook her head: "The carriage is too simple, I'm not going."
The servant looked at Xia Mo in disbelief. The moment he saw Xia Mo's face, he froze in shock, staring blankly in disbelief.
"Miss Xia, please don't make things difficult for me. I'm just a servant," the servant man wanted to call Xia Mo by her name again, but... his arrogant and domineering aura had long been suppressed by Brother Xia. Besides, he never expected Xia Mo to refuse.
"Oh," Xia Mo turned and went back into the house, saying to her older brother Xia, "Father and Mother, if there isn't a nice carriage, I won't come out. You can just kick people out for me."
The villagers of Anjia who were watching nodded. They could tell that Xia Mo didn't want to go, which was why they deliberately said "exquisite carriage".
How could the Ma family possibly send out such an exquisite carriage?
The male servant knelt down directly before Brother Xia and the others.
Xia Mo was inside the house, but his divine sense took in the entire situation.
This is an attempt to coerce people by making them kneel!
"Young master, if I cannot persuade Miss Xia to go, I will be sold again... sold into a brothel. Please..."
A bunch of nonsense, it's just a show of weakness.
The faces of Xia's father, mother, eldest brother, second brother, and third brother turned ugly.
They weren't stupid; they could tell that the male servant was kneeling on purpose.
“Let him kneel until the engagement banquet is over. If he still can’t invite me, that will be interesting. He might not be sold off, but... be beaten to death.” Xia Mo’s sweet voice came from inside the house, as melodious as a nightingale in the mountains. However, her words sent chills down one’s spine.
The villagers who had been watching all turned their attention to the servant man once again.
The servant gritted his teeth, glanced at the Anjia Village people watching, and then at the Xia family.
The servant thought: Look how pitiful he is. Because of the Xia family's actions, he might be sold into a brothel, or even beaten to death. Bystanders, please speak up for him and condemn the Xia family...
but……
No one from Anjia Village stepped forward. Even if a villager tried to speak up for the servant man, the villagers standing nearby would cover his mouth and signal him to shut up and not get involved.
Seeing that no one from Anjia Village stood up to speak for him, the servant man stood up unwillingly and hurried back to deliver the message.
After the servant left, the people whose mouths had been covered could not understand.
"Don't you think Xia Kaoshan and his group went too far?!" asked Villager A, whose mouth was covered.
Villager B, who had covered Villager A's mouth, rolled his eyes at Villager A.
"Are you stupid? He's from another village, but he's from the same place as you, right?! You're not helping your own village, but instead you're helping someone from another village and talking about your own. Are you still asleep?!" Villager B retorted.
Villager A muttered to himself, "But people should at least be reasonable, right?"
"The reason? The reason is that the Xia family's precious daughter doesn't want to go, but the Ma family insists she go. Who knows what the Ma family is up to!" Another villager, Bing, chimed in.
"What do you mean?" Villager A couldn't understand.
"Isn't the girl from the mountain beautiful? The little girl from the Ma family is just average-looking, isn't she?" Villager Ding covered his mouth and whispered mysteriously, "The little girl from the Ma family is lucky. She saved Master Wei and was able to marry him. But Master Wei has no feelings for her. How is she going to live in Master Wei's backyard? You tell me."
Immediately, others looked as if they had just realized something, their eyes widening as they nodded vigorously.
"I understand! The Ma family wants to push the Xia family's precious little girl to become a concubine, so as to consolidate their position in Master Wei's harem!" Villager A exclaimed in a low voice.
The villagers present quickly surrounded Villager A and covered his mouth.
"Shut up! You can't afford to offend anyone! Don't forget, we're the ones making money from the Xia family now! What does it matter to us how well the Ma family's youngest daughter marries?" Villager B clutched his chest in fear, glancing nervously back at the Xia family, afraid they would overhear what they were saying.
Villager A nodded and remained silent.
One hour later—
The same male servant came again, and the same coachman drove the carriage, but this time the carriage was so exquisite that it didn't seem like a carriage that would come to the countryside.
"The Ma family actually managed to get a fine carriage to pick up the Xia family's youngest daughter!"
Someone in the village exclaimed in surprise.
Immediately, a villager frowned and said, "This carriage looks so familiar!"
"Ah, how could it not look familiar? Isn't that the carriage that Third Master Wei rode in when he came to our village before?!"
"The young lady of the Ma family is using her fiancé's carriage!"
"His-"
"Could it be... that the young lady from the Ma family really intends to get the young lady from the Xia family to help secure her position in the emperor's favor?"
"..."
The more speculations there are, the more outrageous they become.
What they didn't know was that the last thing Ma Yiyi wanted was for Xia Mo to get involved with Wei Zhishu.