As night fell, the Tang family prepared a large table of dishes to entertain Xia Zhiyao. At the dinner table, Old Mrs. Tang and his son kept promoting Tang Zhijie, talking about how good and filial Zhijie was.

But Xia Zhiyao saw an arrogant little boy who kept ordering his grandmother and mother to work and talking nonsense.

However, the sensible and well-behaved Tang Ningxue could not sit at the table because she was a girl, and could only eat leftovers silently in the kitchen.

Xia Zhiyao followed the plan and kept pouring wine for them.

Fortunately, she had taken the sobering pills exchanged from the system in advance, otherwise, after drinking so much alcohol, she would have been crippled if not dead.

In a short while, all the wine on the table was gone.

Mrs. Tang’s eldest son, Tang Da, drank until his face turned red. He was not satisfied without wine, so he shouted, “Tang Ningxue, you stinky girl, go buy me some wine!”

"Oh, Dad Zhijie, it's so late and you still let Ningxue buy wine. It's too dangerous." Xia Zhiyao said.

"Don't you people in the city like to stay up all night? It's not even eight o'clock yet, and it's not completely dark yet. How can it be dangerous?!" Tang Da was drunk at the moment, and he couldn't bear to hear others disobeying him, so he kept urging Tang Ningxue to go and come back quickly.

"But, Dad, I have no money!!" Tang Ningxue lowered her head and said in a low voice.

Tang was really happy drinking. He waved his hand, threw a ten-dollar bill to her, and asked her to go to the grocery store at the foot of the mountain to buy another bottle of white wine.

Tang Ningxue took the money tremblingly, but Tang Zhijie opened it and snatched the money away: "Are you a girl qualified to buy wine for your father? I'll go!"

After saying that, he held the ten-yuan bill in his hand tightly, fearing that Tang Ningxue would snatch it back.

When Mrs. Tang heard that her grandson was going to buy wine so late at night, she was unhappy. She touched Tang Zhijie's big head and comforted him, "My dear grandson, let that little girl go. It's so late, it's not safe for you to go alone."

Zhijie's mother also agreed: "Yes, yes, if you want money, mom will give it to you, let your sister go!"

When Tang Ningxue heard their conversation, her heart became even colder!

It feels like her life is not a life.

But then again, she is not the biological daughter of the Tang family.

In her previous life, she always thought that she had not done something well enough, which was why they treated her so badly. But after a series of events that happened later, she felt relieved.

She snatched the ten-yuan note from Tang Zhijie's hand and looked at him triumphantly: "Yes, brother, let me go."

Then, she left the Tang family without looking back.

Xia Zhiyao saw all of this. Although she knew that this was part of the plan, she felt very uncomfortable. However, the only thing she could do now was to take Tang Ningxue out as soon as possible.

The Tang family was happily eating the food on the table. At this time, there was a knock on the door in the yard. A hurried voice came from outside the door: "Aunt Tang, Aunt Tang, it's bad, your Ningxue fell off the cliff!!"

When everyone heard that Tang Ningxue fell off the cliff, their expressions changed differently!

A hint of happiness at the end?

It was as if I had finally gotten rid of this person.

Seeing that there were outsiders around, they immediately put on an expression of disbelief: "No way, it didn't rain today, how could they fall off the cliff! Let's go and take a look."

"Really, we found one of her shoes and a torn piece of cloth on the edge of the cliff!"

After saying that, the man took out the piece of cloth and showed it to Mrs. Tang.

Everyone discovered that it was indeed the dress that Tang Ningxue had just worn.

The man picked up the flashlight and led them towards the village entrance, which was crowded with villagers who were whispering.

The man pointed at Tang Ningxue's shoes and said, "Look, the shoes are right there!"

"Oh, Ningxue girl, how could you die at such a young age? What do you want your grandma to do in the future?" Old Mrs. Tang screamed, scaring everyone.

Seeing that his mother was crying so hard, Tang Da was not willing to be outdone and also cried at the top of his voice.

Finally, they set their sights on the village chief.

Tang Da said, "Village Chief, you said before that you would reinforce the safety rope on the edge of the cliff, and every household contributed money. Why did my Ningxue fall off again? Did you take the villagers' money?"

The village chief was not happy when he heard that Tang Da wanted to put the blame on him: "Tang Da, what do you mean? This road is not safe even in the daytime, let alone at night."

"Why did you ask Ningxue to come down the mountain so late at night?"

Tang Da was already drunk, and now he was even more dizzy. When he heard that the village chief doubted him, he was immediately unhappy. He pointed at him and cursed: "Why should I care about you when I asked her to go down the mountain? Just tell me, is this place under your jurisdiction? My daughter got into trouble in the place under your jurisdiction, do you want to pay compensation?"

The surrounding villagers looked at each other.

They never expected that the Tang family could be so shameless for money as to directly blackmail the village chief.

But the village chief is no pushover. He has been the village chief for so many years, so he naturally knows all the twists and turns of Tang Da.

He said directly: "If you have the guts, ask the police to identify it. If it has anything to do with me, I will compensate you without saying a word, otherwise... humph."

"What are you trying to identify? How can you identify someone when he's gone?"

"That's right, oh my God, are you punishing me? Making me send off the young with my old age. Everyone, come and give us your judgment."

When the villagers heard Old Mrs. Tang's screams, they all pretended not to hear them and no one paid any attention to her!

"If you have the ability, find someone to go down the cliff and fish the body out, otherwise you want to blackmail me? No way." The village chief snorted coldly.

When the Tang family heard that they had to go down the cliff to retrieve the body, they immediately became scared.

But in order to extort money from the village chief, they discussed for a long time and decided to send someone to retrieve the body the next day.

I’m afraid that if I’m a step late, the money will fly away.

At this time, Tang Ningxue had already arrived at the truck that Xia Zhiyao brought the sanitary napkins into the mountains. She flashed and hid directly in the car, waiting for the sun to rise the next day.

She had never felt so happy.

Xia Zhiyao received the message from her and knew that she was safe.

Originally, Tang Ningxue planned to leave early the next morning so as to avoid being discovered.

But in order to avoid any further complications, Xia Zhiyao contacted the driver directly, gave him a considerable overtime pay, and asked her to take them out of the mountain overnight.

In order to extort money, the Tang family didn't bother to care about Xia Zhiyao. She made up an excuse and left the Tang family.

She also gave Teacher Fang a heads-up on this plan in advance, to avoid the Tang family from causing trouble for Teacher Fang after learning the truth.

But Teacher Fang seemed to have known the truth long ago, and said to her: "Principal Xia, Ningxue is actually a poor child. I can't help her here. I hope that after she goes out, she can get the freedom she wants."

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