"If I left, it would only mean they beat me and that I was afraid of them. Why should I run?" Lei Jiuniang patted her shoulder. "Not a word of today's events to a soul. I'm going to deal a crushing blow to those vultures eyeing the Wan family."
Chunxiao didn't understand the business side of things; she only knew her heart ached for her young mistress, who had endured so much over the past five years.
Before long, news of Madam Zhang and Hu Erping's plot to murder the eldest son of the Xia family spread through the village.
Chapter 23