Chapitre 7: 07. Story in the story
''They ganged up against miss Bai and told her to get out their Kang's house as she was divorced woman.'' She shook her head as she remembered. ''Miss Bai was quite collected and accepted their request. But on her way out she suddenly started feeling faint. She puked in bushes and held her stomach. -It's fine even if I leave. With my children and my dowry, I can live all my life comfortably.- Then she left slowly with a huge smile. After that they... '' The woman pointed at the family members n side. ''... panicked. From their words, I knew what happened and was astonished. At that time I was not even pregnant, how can I lose a child? So I put dots together and realized they used me to kick her out.''
Lord Ka just silently listened as he knew the main point will come now. '
''A few days later I found out that she hung herself. But Your Honor, how is it even possible for a woman that had such content face to kill herself. Thinking about her motion as she held her stomach, I realized later that she was pregnant. And with all the money she would pull out the family, she was clearly a thorn in their eyes. For me, I had absolutely no reason to kill her. For the sake of my child, I was ready at that time even to cut my hand to feed him my blood. For almost one month I gave him blood porridge. Until she didn't stop me and gave both of us precious medicine. I can only repay her in next life. I hope I become her servant next lief and work for her to pay off this life debt.''
Her words were spoken earnestly while one of the servants brought a crate to her. She patted with care and pointe at it. ''Your Honor, all the evidence is here. Please check it up.''
The soldiers pulled out the cloth and many other things. Books and notices.
As he read the notices one by one, his face became darker and darker until he didn't snap and hit hard with his hand on table. With that loud noise children woke up so did the rest of the women. When they saw his dark expression they knew something big is about to start happening.
Concubine released their breath as they saw the three children hugging their mother and being quiet while the other side became loud. Wails and cries became louder and louder, making him get impatient. ''Quiet!''
He looked at the woman that just held her children tightly and calmly waited. He could see from the evidence that he spoke truthfully so he waved a hand to his servant. ''Bring her first to the shelter, then we will see what to do after that.''
The servants picked up the children and were about to leave when she stopped them. ''I just need to take one thing form my room. Please.''
Servants looked ta Lord Ko and he nodded. ''Hurry up.'' And just waved her to rush.
In her room, she took out a small bag and hung it around her neck, then she took a cloth and put two sets of clothes for each of them, her jewelry and some silver she hid under the shirt and just held that in her hands.
Looking at how she didn't take anything else from her room the servant looked at her. ''Actually, I will ask a few other servants to pack everything you say. Tell me. You will be going far away and it's better to have a few more things than not enough.''
She pressed her lips and nodded. ''Then all my clothes, all clothes for my children, beddings... and curtains. They are of good quality. I can sew some clothes from it as well. I have no intention to waste anything.''
Servant nodded. It seems this concubine came from a simple background so she thought simple and logically. ''What about the vases and other things?''
She shook her head. ''Those I can't use if I live far inside the country.''
The servant pointed at her with a big smile. ''Why use. Just sell so you and children have more money. Don't be foolish.''
She pointe at a few vases and pictures. ''Those belong to miss Bai. Even though she gave me these as a gift I think her daughter will need those more than I do. Rest was gifted to me, form husband.'' She then looked at him while nibbling at her lips. ''Food. I need some dried food. The husband was about to travel again to one of his gatherings and they already prepared traveling food the way Miss Bai taught them. If we could get that, then I wouldn't worry about traveling far. By the way, I think that food could be given to miss Shu Ya.''
He shook his head. ''Lord will take care that she has fresh food. I will send people to get that province. Good thinking.'' Then he looked at her and then at her room and smiled. ''If you are willing I can send you to the southern border. My family lives there. I can write a letter to them and they can find you a house and land. Its good climate and comfortable to live there.''
She shrugged but then looked at him seriously. ''Why did you leave your place then?''
He sighed deeply. ''Lord saved our village from annihilation a few years ago. So I told him I will work for him for five years and then go back home. He accepted it. I will be back home in a few months if everything goes well. If you don't mind me being simple farmer, do you want to marry me? I will adopt kids as my own.''
''Why?'' She was astonished by sudden proposal.
''I am the third child and when I was young I was very sick. After that, I found out I can't ever have children. So that is one of the reasons I left the village. No woman wanted to marry me, not even widows or divorced ones.'' He shrugged as he quickly packed stuff into large traveling boxes he found by the bed.
She saw his quick action and smiled but then became serious. ''I will not promise anything. Fist come back alive and we will talk about that afterward.'' He was not as beautiful as Kang, but not ugly. At all.
This kind of chance is rare and if she could find a person to love her children as their own, why not? But that is some other story...
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