USWHC -Chapter 318 Lucky Parents (Part 8)

Was she talking about Huai flowers? Zhu Jie couldn’t help opening her mouth in shock! This… this Old Madam Ji was just too outrageous! Not only did she not protect herself, but she immediately started looking for a “next home” for Ji Yi?

Just then, Ji Yi barked sharply, “Enough! Stop messing around!” He wore a dark expression and said coldly, “It’s only a thousand taels of silver, isn’t it? I’ll go get it for you right away!”

“Wait!” At that moment, another loud voice rang out, and someone grabbed Ji Yi to stop him. So they weren’t letting him go!

Everyone turned to see—and it was Zhu Jie, who had been silent all this time. She wore a dark expression and said, “Are you out of your mind? Why should we give them money? Even if we have money to help the poor, we can’t just hand it over blindly! Listen to what they’re saying about me—doesn’t that make you angry? And you still want to give them money? If it were up to me, I wouldn’t give them a single coin!”

Seeing Zhu Jie so adamant, Ji Yi lowered his voice and let out a soft sigh. He gently whispered in her ear, “They’re just here for money! If we give it to them now, it’ll stop them from causing a scene at the door. Don’t worry—even if they take the money, I can make sure they never leave Xiangshui Village!”

Ah, so he had already figured out that these people were the swindlers! He planned to calm them down first and deal with them slowly.

But no matter what he said, Zhu Jie firmly refused. “No! If we give them money, how can I ever live in Xiangshui Village again? Everyone will think I’m an unfilial wretch! Today, we can’t let things go their way!”

“Then what do you want to do?” Ji Yi became anxious. “Do you really want them to take you away?”

“Hmph! Let them take me. I want to see what tricks they’ll pull!”

“You’re insane!” Ji Yi shouted angrily. “They’re bad people—they’ll do anything. Aren’t you afraid they’ll sell you off somewhere and you’ll never get out?”

But Zhu Jie ignored him, turning instead to the Zhu elders: “Are you really my parents?”

Hearing this, Zhu Laohan and the others didn’t hesitate at all. “Child! You can’t not recognize us!”

“But I really don’t remember you,” Zhu Jie admitted reluctantly. “Then how can you prove that you’re my parents?”

“You’ve lost your memory? How can you not even recognize your own parents?” Zhu Laohan choked up, and then, trying to comfort her, added, “It’s okay. We’ll get the best doctor to treat you. Soon enough, you’ll remember us!”

He looked a little guilty at Zhu Jie, and she hesitated, saying, “Really? You’re really my dad?”

“Really—truer than pure gold!” Zhu Laohan affirmed.

“Alright then, I’ll go home with you! I heard that being in a familiar environment can sometimes cure amnesia automatically!” Zhu Jie suddenly smiled.

Seeing her smile, Zhu Laohan and the others panicked a little. She wanted to go home with them? What? This turned too fast! Were they really going to take her back? This… this was unbelievable! And yet, they were professional swindlers—they’d never kidnapped a woman before!

The swindlers looked at each other in confusion. Were they really going to take her away? Finally, Zhu Laohan gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and, as if making a firm decision, said, “Fine. Considering how good your son is to my daughter, five hundred taels it is!”

Huh? He just lowered the price himself? Yes, taking a girl back isn’t worth it—better to at least recover some capital first!

“Why five hundred taels? No!” Old Madam Ji still gritted her teeth.

Zhu Jie also looked serious. “Dad, Mom, let me go home and take a look! Maybe I really can remember. Besides, the Ji family is so poor, I didn’t want to stay there anyway!”

What? Old Madam Ji was so stubborn, and yet Zhu Jie was already thinking about leaving? Could they really take her back? Now it was Zhu Laohan and the others’ turn to be in a dilemma.

Yes, they were here to swindle money, not people! Their specialty was brains, not brute kidnapping—they relied on their wits to survive!