Chapter 950: Separation

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation   Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

That night, they all went to the village chiefs house.

The village chief of Du Shanqiangs village was a good person and was deeply trusted by the villagers. Seeing that Grandpa Du’s family was finally willing to let Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo go, he immediately helped to draw up a divorce letter, a contract of selling off Hongguo, and a written agreement that Xue Daxi owed Grandpa Du’s family four to five hundred coins.

After he was done, he was not in a hurry to have his fingerprint pressed.

Instead, he read out the deed and the nffitten pledge to confirm it. Seeing that Grandpa Du, Xue Daxi, and the others still had the same intention, he let them have their fingerprints pressed.

On the divorce paper, only Du Shanqiang and Xue Daxi had pressed their fingerprints. From now on, the two of them would have nothing to do with each other.

Du Shanqiang, Grandpa Du, and Grandma Du had all pressed their fingerprints on the other contract.

As for Xue Daxi owing four to five hundred coins, naturally, Xue Daxi was the only one who pressed her fingerprint.

Then, he gave the contract to Xue Daxi and gave the other to Grandpa Du.

When Xue Daxi was working in the rice noodle shop, she had seen her nephew read, and she could recognize some words. When she got the divorce letter and the indwelling contract, she could read it herself. Although she didn’t recognize all of them, she felt more at ease knowing some words in the contract were the same as what the village chief said.

After leaving the village chief’s house and returning to Du Shanqiangs house, Xue Daxi asked Du Hongguo to start packing her clothes. They could not wait until tomorrow morning. They wanted to leave this house now.

Seeing Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo’s willingness to leave before dinner, Grandma Du and Grandpa Du were eager to see them off.

Du Shanqiang felt particularly uncomfortable. He wanted to send Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo off, but Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo didn’t let him do so. The mother and daughter each carried a bag wrapped in their clothes. They left after saying that they would send the money tomorrow.

It was not until they walked out of Du Shanqiangs village that Xue Daxi happily cried tears of joy. She did not look back, instead, she hugged her daughter back to Dafu’s house.

Du Hongguo wasn’t as emotional as her mother, so she didn’t cry. She was just very happy to be free of that family. She and her mother could finally breathe again!

In the future, her grandparents would never bully her again.

There was no longer a father who was foolishly filial to cause her trouble. Locust Village was a little far away. If Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo walked, they would probably need to walk until midnight to reach it. On the way to Locust Village, Shao Zhongxi had arranged for many people to keep an eye on them.

Naturally, his people were keeping an eye on them tonight as well. If Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo wanted to go to Locust Village, they had to pa.s.s through this road. Therefore, someone would have discovered Xue Daxi and Du Hongguo walking in the dark.

That person recognized that they were the Crown Prince’s relatives, so they didn’t dare to come out rashly. Instead, he secretly asked another person to keep an eye on them. Then, he quickly went to Locust Village to report to the Crown Prince.

They were not the Crown Prince’s secret guards. They were actually from the Shao family. However, their master, Shao Zhongxi, had said that if there was anything, especially something related to the Crown Prince, they would have to directly report it to the Crown Prince to avoid any delays in the process.

It was the middle of the night, and Xue Yan was already asleep. When he heard someone lightly knocking on the window twice outside, he knew that there was something important to report. He got out of bed and opened the window.

He was not surprised when he heard that his aunt and cousin were each carrying a bag and heading to Locut Village. They would probably arrive in about an hour.

Everyone knew that it wouldn’t be long before they could leave that family and return.

However, he couldn’t send a carriage to pick them up. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain how he knew that they were on their way back..