Ye Jin didn't care about the affairs of these villagers at all and had no intention of stopping them. She just gave a cursory glance at Xie Qian, who was being grabbed by the hair and struggling helplessly.
Xie Qian was pinned to the muddy ground by Di Dahong. Chen Chunhua was standing beside her, scolding and accusing her of causing trouble by insisting on looking for Di Sumu.
Xie Qian felt extremely heart - broken. She couldn't believe that her child's grandparents would speak ill of their own grandson like this.
In despair, Xie Qian reached out her hand, hoping to get help from Di Yong who was standing by. But he just watched coldly.
Di Yong looked down at Xie Qian struggling feebly. He even casually patted the dust that had accidentally got on his trouser legs.
Although Di Sumu was silly, he knew he had to protect his mother. He was pushed to the ground again and again by the villagers, but he still tried his best.
For this poor mother - son pair, the son's cries and the wife's groans reached Di Yong's ears, the person closest to them at the scene, but he did nothing.
Ning Yitao tilted her head slightly in Di Sumu's direction.
Chu Zhiyuan immediately stepped forward, picked up Di Sumu and comforted him in a low voice.
Ye Jin watched this farce indifferently, then withdrew her gaze and explained the situation to Ning Yitao.
Surprisingly, this whole thing was due to the debts of Chen Chunhua's family.
When Di Yong was a child, he suffered from a serious illness. He was sent to various large - scale hospitals, and all of them issued a death notice. To treat his illness, Di Dahong's family, who were farmers, had exhausted their savings.
In desperation, Chen Chunhua dared to disturb Ye Zheng, who was in closed - door cultivation, and asked for her help.
Surprisingly, Ye Zheng didn't punish them.
But the price was that they had to offer the child that Di Yong would have in the future to her. Chen Chunhua agreed in order to save Di Yong.
Two days later, Ye Zheng returned a lively son to them.
As time passed, Di Yong's family had forgotten about this. They watched him get married and have children, leading a happy life.
After Di Sumu was born and grew up healthily, Di Yong began to fall ill one after another.
He began to sense something was wrong. Ye Zheng came into his dream and warned him that it was time to fulfill his promise.
Waking up in fright, Di Yong looked at the innocent and lovely child lying beside him. Naturally, he couldn't bear to part with him. He tried to resist.
But he found that his body began to rot. He started to panic.
He knew that he was able to marry Xie Qian, who had a successful career and a high education, only because of luck.
He didn't dare to tell Xie Qian the truth. If he dared to say that he wanted to abandon Di Sumu, he was sure that Xie Qian would definitely divorce him.
Then he would lose both the child and his wealth.
As the degree of rot on his body became more and more serious and there was a faint smell of corpse, he panicked and made up his mind.
Di Yong planned a scheme of crying "stop thief" while being the thief himself, portraying himself as a perfect husband.
But secretly, he was eager to send his own son into the fire pit so that he could hold Xie Qian, who came from a wealthy family, firmly in his hand.
The reason why Ye Zheng wanted Di Sumu was very simple.
When she saved Di Yong, his body recovered, but actually she had planted a gu in his body. Using his body as a medium to raise the gu.
The descendants of Di Yong, who had been planted with the gu since childhood, could be better controlled and were expected to be trained into "guards" like A Lai.
But the child had already lost a soul and a spirit and had become a fool.
It was also very simple to save Di Sumu. Di Yong had to cut off the legs invaded by the gu.
Ye Zheng had a special way to train children like Di Sumu.
The souls that were taken from them were not refined by her. Since their fathers were all gu, as descendants, their souls would attach themselves to the mother - gu after being taken.
That is to say, Di Sumu's lost soul was on Di Yong's body.
And it could be exchanged back at an equal price, but it required the mother - gu to offer twenty years of yang life.
The mother - gu relied on sucking the blood of the child - gu to grow, and if the child - gu wanted to live, it had to kill the mother - gu.
After Ye Jin finished speaking, she looked at Di Yong with an inquiring look in her eyes.
Di Yong saw what the "shamaness" meant. He shook his head like a rattle.
Ye Jin thought for a moment and then said to Ning Yitao leisurely, "If you want to help this child, I can help you retrieve the mother - gu. I can still do that now. But I don't know if he is willing to accept the price."
Ning Yitao didn't say a word. She walked step by step to Xie Qian, who was being held down on the ground.
Chen Chunhua, looking like a shrew, saw that Ning Yitao seemed to be coming to help Xie Qian. She reached out her hand, trying to grab Ning Yitao just like she did to Xie Qian.
But before her hand could touch Ning Yitao, she was pushed to the ground by an invisible force and rolled like a ball for several times before finally stopping.
Di Dahong, who was holding down Xie Qian, was also sent flying at the same time.
Ning Yitao reached out her hand and helped Xie Qian up.
Xie Qian's fragile heart was suffering unbearable torture.
She still couldn't accept that her husband, who had been so considerate and loving, was actually such a different person.
The most important reason why she had chosen this poor boy from a remote mountainous area back then was that Di Yong was good to her. He considered every detail in her life.
Di Yong's parents were also very kind to her, so she agreed to his pursuit. She had invested a great deal of manpower and material resources in him to help him reach his current position.
He had never changed after he got rich.
She had even once been lucky to have married Di Yong. But in just a few days, this whole family had changed their faces.
Xie Qian swallowed hard, finding it difficult to speak. Her voice was soft and weak as if it was squeezed out from between her teeth.
She thanked Ning Yitao in a trembling voice.
Ning Yitao felt really annoyed when she saw Xie Qian like this. She said helplessly, "You should have heard the solution. It's up to you to decide whether to do it or not."
If Xie Qian was not sober - minded and let Di Yong off, then she had nothing to say. After all, it was her own choice. She paid the money, and she would do the job.
Di Yong listened keenly to their conversation. When he heard that the decision - making power was in Xie Qian's hands, he showed a relieved expression on his face.
He was confident that Xie Qian would never bear to hurt him.
Di Yong stared intently at Xie Qian's hesitant expression. He didn't care about the so - called "a real man never kneels easily". Without even having time to help his parents who had fallen heavily on the ground and couldn't get up,
he quickly knelt on the ground and crawled to Xie Qian's side. His pants were covered in mud.
Now he didn't even care about the mud on his clothes. Tears welled up in his eyes instantly. He cried and begged Xie Qian,
"Qianqian, I'm wrong. I shouldn't have treated you like this. I really know I'm wrong. I don't want to cut off my legs and become a useless person. Please have mercy on me, Qianqian. Let's start our life over again."
"Yes, let's start over. I'll still be the considerate husband for you, okay?"