Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm

Chapter 1048: Chapter 1048 Escape_1 Chapter 1048: Chapter 1048 Escape_1 Tong Sanlang had hired twenty people to watch over the handful of troublemakers in the Tong Family, ten men and ten women, divided into two shifts each with five men and five women, responsible for various chores such as their meals, clothing, and chamber pots. Each person was paid one hundred wen a day, a job all the villagers considered an unusually good opportunity.

Li Rou, carrying a large basin of egg soup, arrived at the old house out of breath. She set the basin on a small table in the courtyard and then stepped into the kitchen.

First, she served several troublemakers, and with more than half of the basin left, she cheerfully invited everyone to come over and have a taste.

Egg soup with bean sprouts and large chunks of egg blossoms floating inside, her enthusiastic invitation saw the villagers not refusing as there was plenty left in the basin, and they scooped up generous helpings with their bowls.

Seeing this, Li Rou, smiling, carried the empty basin away.

It wasn’t long after Li Rou had left that the people in the courtyard began to rest.

Less than quarter of an hour into their break, the ten people couldn’t help but get up one after another: their stomachs hurt terribly, and they needed to use the toilet.

With only two toilets in the old Tong Family courtyard, one for men and one for women, and ten people having stomach pains at once, the facilities were insufficient, so they turned and ran towards their own homes.

Tong Dalang, who had been hiding in secret, saw many people leaving and quickly darted into the courtyard to unlock the room where Tong Xingda and the Zhangs were confined.

Tong Tiehu hadn’t expected this group to come up with such a tactic, so the locks on the rooms were still the old ones and hadn’t been changed.

“Father, grandfather is living in the manor and hasn’t returned. Let’s hurry home and take the ox cart to find Qiao Meipan, then go to the town to find Old Han. Xiaorou has already spoken to him, you and mother Qiao Meipan can take his horse cart to the Capital City overnight,” Tong Dalang urged.

Tong Xingda grunted in response, he and Zhang hurriedly left the courtyard and ran towards the new Tong residence.

Tong Dalang led out the ox cart and the three of them headed straight for the Qiao Family’s old manor.

This was the plan they had discussed and finally settled on after many days: Li Rou would go to the town to buy laxatives, rent a cart, then send Tong Xingda, Zhang Family, and Qiao Meipan off in the cart, urging the horse on to quickly reach the Capital City.

Qiao Meipan was an unexpected addition, but now that she was out of options, she stood with them.

This was the safest course of action that the group could come up with.

“Soon those people will find out that you and mother have gone, but don’t worry, grandfather is in the manor. By the time they’ve called him over, the three of you will also be on the horse cart to the Capital City,” Tong Dalang said again.

“It’s hard on you guys,” Zhang Shi said, patting Tong Dalang’s shoulder with some distress.

If Tong Tiehu found out about this, Tong Dalang and Li Rou would inevitably be punished, and their fate might be the same as the others’, locked up.

But there was no other way; Li Rou could only get her hands on laxatives.

The legendary knockout drugs that could cause fainting with just a whiff, and guarded against by no one, were beyond Li Rou’s reach. The Medical Clinic in town was run by proper and clean folks, and they didn’t sell such things.

All Li Rou could get were laxatives.

The moment those people drank the tofu soup and got diarrhea, it was clear who was responsible.

No need for interrogation, once Tong Tiehu found out, what waited for Li Rou and Tong Dalang was confinement.

“Let them confine us, as long as father and mother succeed, Xiaorou and I can bear a little hardship,” he said.

As long as Qiao Xiaomai died, all would be well.

He had previously retained some compassion, thinking Qiao Xiaomai didn’t deserve to die.

But reality had slapped him hard. Tong Sanlang clearly no longer saw him as an elder brother, making him eat and act with the villagers without any special treatment.

What use were such a brother and sisters to him?