The Devil's Tribulation

At the Pan residence, under the crescent door of the long corridor, two heads popped out, one fat and big-eared, the other sarcastic and mean. It is said that appearance is determined by the heart, and this sentence is really true. After the two watched Pan Chengfeng and Liu Yuexin leave, the fat and big-eared man said, "Are you telling the truth?!" "Oh~ my housekeeper, I saw it for real last time!" The two people, one is housekeeper Pan, and the other is the wife of the village chief, Chen Cuihua. Housekeeper Pan then asked, "Is that bag of rice really three or four pounds?" Chen Cuihua said, "Really! That day I saw this kid pulling a small bundle of firewood to exchange for rice. I wanted to drive him away, but this little girl relied on herself as the future daughter-in-law of the young master and scolded me, and even brought a big bag of rice to that stinky boy!" Housekeeper Pan sneered, "Good!" He thought, "Finally, I caught this girl's handle." Recently, Master Pan suddenly fell in love with this girl and wanted to take her as a concubine. However, this girl is a child bride for his son. If he forced it, it would be a shame if it got out. I stole his wife? What kind of thing is that?! He wanted to be soft, but the girl refused to accept it. She said that she was already engaged to the young master, so how could she marry the old master? How could she live her life in the future?

In fact, this was just a delaying tactic of Liu Yuexin. She knew that she could not escape the clutches of Master Pan. So all she could say was, the longer it took, the better. Butler Pan had already thought about it. He just needed to tell the master about this matter, and then exaggerate it to force Liu Yuexin to submit! In this way, he would also be considered to have made a contribution, and he could continue to be a butler here. Thinking of this, Butler Pan suddenly turned to Chen Cuihua and said, "Let me think about this matter first. Don't tell others. You will definitely benefit after it is done." Chen Cuihua was waiting for this sentence, and immediately smiled and nodded and said, "Butler Pan, don't worry." It turned out that when Pan Chengfeng pinched Butler Pan, he was seen by Chen Cuihua again. After the incident, Chen Cuihua took the initiative to find Butler Pan and told him about the last time she saw Liu Yuexin giving Pan Chengfeng more rice. Butler Pan immediately thought of using this incident to retaliate against them.

Pan Chengfeng returned home and thought about what happened today. He regretted it a little and thought, "Was I too impulsive? That housekeeper Pan is not a good person. Maybe he is plotting something bad and wants to take revenge on me and Liu Yuexin?" The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. After dinner, Pan Chengfeng tossed and turned, his mind full of Liu Yuexin's face. Although he was physically underdeveloped, he was mentally mature. How could he be indifferent to Liu Yuexin? Thinking that Liu Yuexin might be retaliated by housekeeper Pan, Pan Chengfeng sat up and said, "No, I have to go and see!" After that, he got up without hesitation, put on his clothes and shoes, and went out in the dark.

The night wind in early winter was chilly. Pan Chengfeng looked up at the moon half covered by dark clouds and nodded secretly: "It's dark and windy, just right for work." Most poor people in this era suffer from night blindness. However, Pan Chengfeng has been in good health since he ate animal meat, so there is no problem of not being able to see the road clearly. Following the familiar road, he soon arrived at the back door of the kitchen of Pan's house. Pan Chengfeng used his hands and feet to easily cross the more than two-meter-high wall. Although Pan Dahu was the only family in this small mountain village, he did not hire many servants to guard the yard. There were only a few sparse guards. The large house with four entrances and exits seemed a bit empty. In such a large yard, only a few rooms had lights on. Pan Chengfeng didn't know where Liu Yuexin lived, but he knew that Liu Yuexin always walked in one direction when she left the kitchen, so she must be in that direction.

It was the first time for Pan Chengfeng to do this, so he was a little nervous and excited. He carefully searched along the route in his memory. "Let's look at the lighted room first." Pan Chengfeng thought. He couldn't see clearly in the unlit room, so he had to look at the lighted room first. He easily avoided the two servants and came to the first lighted room. He listened to the noise against the wall. The sound of water splashing made Pan Chengfeng's heart warm: "A woman is taking a bath?!" Pan Chengfeng actually thought of a woman taking a bath at the first time. For some reason, he picked up his finger and poked through the paper window, thinking to himself: "Just take a look, just take a look, at this time, if I don't look, am I still a man?" So he looked inside and saw a white fat butt shaking. Looking up, he saw a familiar big belly! "Wow!" Pan Chengfeng wanted to poke his eyes out. He actually peeked at Butler Pan taking a bath! ! ! This must be a nightmare!

Pan Chengfeng left here quickly and continued to look for Liu Yuexin's room. Slowly, the lighted rooms were almost finished. Pan Chengfeng said anxiously: "This is the second to last room. The largest one must be Mr. Pan's room. If this one is not the right one, I can only go to that one. It's best not to see anything exciting again." Pan Chengfeng was actually looking forward to seeing something. Sure enough, the last one was not the right one, so Pan Chengfeng had to move towards the largest room. Just as he approached the room, Pan Chengfeng heard the voice of a middle-aged man: "I'll give you three days to think about it. If you still don't agree after three days, I'll report to the police. Be on guard day and night, it's hard to prevent thieves in your home." After that, there was no sound, only the faint sobbing of a woman. Pan Chengfeng listened carefully and felt that the voice was a little familiar. He felt nervous and quickly poked open the paper window to look inside. He saw a teenage girl standing there with her head down.

A middle-aged man was sitting in front of the girl, looking at her with ill intentions. Pan Chengfeng secretly hated: "I'm late. I wonder what Pan Dahu said to Liu Yuexin?" However, seeing that Liu Yuexin was sobbing and Pan Dahu was grinning, Pan Chengfeng secretly said: "You can tell that Pan Dahu didn't hold his fart well!" Liu Yuexin wiped her tears and said: "Master, it has nothing to do with Gou Wa. I acted on my own initiative..." Before she finished speaking, she heard Pan Dahu say: "I don't care whether it was your own initiative or not. Anyway, you two stole my rice. No wonder my family has lost so much rice in the past two years, rice worth more than 200 taels of silver! It was you two who stole it, and there are witnesses!" Then he said gently: "What's wrong with following me? Don't you have two younger brothers at home? I can arrange for them to work in the county town." After that, he got up and went back to the inner room without waiting for Liu Yuexin to answer. Before going in, he gave a final warning: "Three days!"

Liu Yuexin wiped her tears as she went back to the house. When she was about to close the door after entering the house, a hand suddenly pushed against the door. Liu Yuexin was startled and stepped back repeatedly. Liu Yuexin thought that Master Pan could not wait any longer and followed her. Just as she was about to shout, a head poked in: "It's me." "Gou Wa?" Liu Yuexin felt relieved for a moment, and then asked curiously: "Gou Wa, what are you doing here so late?" Pan Chengfeng entered the house and closed the door, and whispered: "I heard everything Master Pan said to you." Liu Yuexin was a little surprised and said: "Were you eavesdropping outside?" Pan Chengfeng then said sincerely: "I was just worried that Butler Pan would retaliate against you, so I thought of coming to see, but I didn't expect it to be that old pervert Pan Dahu! What's going on? Aren't you the child bride of his son? Why is he forcing you?"

Hearing Pan Chengfeng's question, Liu Yuexin's eyes turned red, and she told the story: "That time, when I gave you the bag of rice, someone saw it, and Master Pan said that the two of us worked together to steal his rice. Then he charged the deficit of the mansion in the past two years to us, saying it was two hundred taels of silver. How could we steal so much rice? But Master Pan said he had witnesses." Pan Chengfeng asked in confusion: "Which time? And there were witnesses?" As soon as he heard it, he knew that Pan Chengfeng had been given more rice, but it couldn't be said that he gave more. In fact, he only gave more that time. At other times, even if he wanted to give more, he couldn't do it, because the fat man was staring at him. "It was on the day of the young master's birthday." Liu Yuexin said. Pan Chengfeng thought for a while, remembered, and asked: "Is it the time when Chen Cuihua drove me out?" Liu Yuexin nodded. Pan Chengfeng touched his smooth chin and thought, how could this be known. But when Liu Yuexin saw him like that, she burst into laughter: "Why do you look like a little adult?" Pan Chengfeng thought: "Please remove the word 'like', I am an adult." Then he asked: "You didn't tell anyone about this, did you?" Liu Yuexin nodded affirmatively and said: "I didn't tell anyone, I don't know how Butler Pan found out about it, and then ran to tell the master." Pan Chengfeng was shocked: "Butler Pan told the secret?!"

Liu Yuexin nodded and said, "In the evening, when the master called me over and asked me some questions, Butler Pan was right beside me and said someone saw it and told him. Finally, Butler Pan said, 'I was wondering why the rice in the house was gone so quickly, it turned out that you stole it.'" Pan Chengfeng was even more puzzled and asked, "How could someone have seen it?" The kitchen staff was busy that day, so who had time to come and see them at the door? Pan Chengfeng stroked his chin and thought to himself, "If anyone could come out to see them, it could only be Chen Cuihua. Yes! It must be her, others were too busy to come out, but Chen Cuihua did! That bitch said she was going to help, but in fact she was not willing to help at all, and she was always sneaky. If anyone could come out, it would be her!"

Thinking of the key point, Pan Chengfeng showed a sneer on his face and said, "Sister Yuexin, don't worry, I have probably figured out the matter. Don't worry, leave it to me." Liu Yuexin was stunned: "Sister Yuexin? It sounds more pleasant. What can you do, a child. If I really see the officials, I will take it all by myself! They can kill me or chop me up, but I will not be Pan Dahu's concubine!" After saying that, he looked at Pan Chengfeng firmly. Pan Chengfeng looked at Liu Yuexin who looked ready to die, and was a little moved and wanted to laugh: "Sister Yuexin, believe me, Pan Dahu can't do anything to you, I'm going back first, don't worry, wait for my news."