Step Down, Let Me Come! Chapter 44
Hi guys, Liwiaa here. I have some bad news, unfortunately, I don't have much time recently. That's a big problem for me, so I have to stop translating. I don't like it, but there is no other way for me. Sorry. This will be the last chapter, thank you for reading up to this point.
Translated by Liwiaa (Ko-fi)
Chapter 44: The truth about a piece of the jigsaw puzzle
If Shen Tang could express how she felt now, she would hug her head, and shout.
Why did they not give her a transmigrator’s guarantee!!!
Flip the table (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
She slighted that they didn’t give her the memory of the previous owner of this body, but they also made her meet with people related to the original owner’s body every few days. First, there was Tianyi Shouyi’s misunderstanding, then there was this with Gong Cheng. If it were another person, they might have been brought into the ditch by these two.
Shen Tang made a fist tightly, her expression was so gloomy that it could drip water. In other people’s eyes, she was enduring her rage silently, and that rage was incited by Gong Yunchi. The worker noticed that and stepped forward.
He separated Shen Tang and Gong Cheng with his body.
He tilted his head to the side and asked: “Brother Yunchi, it’s your wife’s older brother?”
He knew that on the day of Gong Cheng's wedding, the whole family suffered a disaster. They were sent into exile, and also to the brothel, which naturally included the bride, who had no time to finish their wedding ceremony. The Shen family was even more unlucky. Zheng Qiao ordered the Yijiu clan to wipe out hundreds of people from Shen family; the guillotine was dyed red.
Gong Cheng answered: “Should be”.
Shen Tang raised her voice.
“Gong Yunchi, what ‘should be’?”
She simply wanted to laugh out of anger, he wanted to marry, who was unaware of that?
Even if it was a forced marriage, he was way too careless!
Shen Tang didn’t want to blame him, but unintentionally, the meaning behind her words seemed to haf changed in Gong Cheng’s ears.
Gong Cheng thought Shen Tang’s words were hiding a peculiar question, it only lacked this part – [The Shen family suffered a catastrophe by the Yijiu Clan while the Gong family was only sentenced to exile. Now the relationship between the two families was just “should” in his mouth. Don't you recognize this relative?]
So, Gong Cheng felt ashamed. He weakly swayed and nearly fell. The worker had keen eyes and quickly supported the youth. Big movements opened the wound, the blood permeated Gong Cheng’s clothes strips.
The worker hurriedly urged: “Brother Yunchi, calm down!”
Youth: “If you add injury to the injury, even the divine physician won’t be able to save your little life. If you want to say something, you can do it slowly”.
Shen Tang without any memories: “…”
Because the development of the hell's plot didn't follow the pattern of the script, she could only rely on her acting skills at this time, making guesses and acting randomly.
The clever boy took the shopkeeper out early.
After evacuating, only 4 people remained inside.
Now, they could say what they wanted to say.
She snorted coldly with right hand behind her back: “Gong Cheng, because of your injury, I don’t want to bicker with you about trifles.
She changed her mind, acting skills activated.
Currently, Gong Cheng understood the previous owner’s identity the most. He personally experienced the search. He had more exhaustive and reliable information than Qi Shan. Shen Tang prepared to extract information from him, she wanted to know who was the previous owner of this body and what was her identity.
Maybe, she could get some useful secrets from Gong Cheng.
“Thank you very much, wife’s brother”.
Gong Cheng’s white complexion slowly became better. He exhaustively sat on a mat, he cupped his hands to Shen Tang.
Shen Tang didn’t buy it. Her attitude was still cold: “Since you call me ‘wife’s brother’, I want to ask you, where is she?”
He could understand instantly who Shen Tang was referring to.
“Wife’s brother”, because of this address, Shen Tang’s teeth hurt.
He was about to speak, when the worker on one side said: “Mister Gu and I saved brother Yunchi. Under his commission, we immediately sent people to the brothel to find his siblings, but it was too late, she wasn’t there. So to speak…”
“She had already departed from the route”. The youth said the rest, and added: “Wearing a shackle for more than a month on foot is difficult for an ordinary man in his prime, let alone a weak girl who has not yet reached 12 years old…”
Walking with shackles on wasn’t the worst, there were other dangers like lack of food and water, insects and beasts or forced labor.
The probability of surviving was less for women than for men.
Death on the road was to be expected.
“In his way, was I making trouble without reason?”
Shen Tang took advantage of the gap in the previous emotional change, and deliberately turned her back to the three of them, so as not to show any weak points. Only her back view, the slight trembling of her shoulders, and the small ups and downs of her body caused by taking several deep breaths could show her emotional changes.
As expected, her play needed to be trustworthy.
The worker couldn’t endure it and interfered: “Shen family was destroyed, what is the relationship between that and Gong Yunchi?
He only lacked to say she was “deliberately provocative”.
The few words Shen Tang said to Gong Yunchi were harsh, and as an audience, he felt it, but the youth didn't say anything about that.
Shen Tang coldly sneered: “Are you involved in it?”
The worker was dumbstruck by her.
Gong Cheng softly stopped him, ashamed: “Weng Zhi, although this matter has nothing to do with me, it does have something to do with the Gong clan…”
Shen Tang closed her eyes, she tried to empty her mind.
She had the urge to think and analyze.
A mind-reading guy was just so annoying.
The worker asked just like she wanted: “Really?”
Gong Cheng: “Yes, otherwise, why would the wedding be so hurried?”
Shen Tang’s questions were cleared up in the course of this conversation. She cooked something up and then betted on it: “If there is no relation, have you ever seen any noble lady get married before 12 years old? She was so young, what would she do after getting married? Would she be considered a child bride?”
The worker choked.
This question was really…
This new bride was truly too young.
He used his eyes to inquire with Gong Cheng. The latter softly explained: “When Zheng Qiao wanted to return to the country, his father supported him on the surface and that made him relax. However, he secretly contacted the courtiers, including my father-in-law Shen Gong. Shen Gong conspired with my father who was in charge. Shen Gong used the secret lines buried in the lateral court in the imperial palace to join hands with Chu Ji, who was in favor at that time, to prepare to kill Zheng Qiao completely. Unexpectedly, we still fell short of success. Not only did Chu Ji's mother and son die in vain, but the news leaked out…”.
Chu Ji who was 5 months pregnant was entrapped, had a miscarriage and died suddenly. The kingdom was also destroyed by the furious Xin Kingdom's king. More than 200 maids and servants who accompanied Chu Ji to Xin Kingdom, as well as followers and retainers who helped her take care of the property, were demoted to slaves and traded at will.
Zheng Qiao was small-minded, Chu Ji was dealt with like that, How could he let the Shen family, who was deeply involved in this matter, free?
The youth was doubtful.
“Like that, Shen family was only an aid and not the mastermind, why did they end up being destroyed by Yijiu clan?”
After all, the mastermind was the Gong, not Shen family.
Gong Cheng shook his head: “It’s unknown”.
If it wasn't for his father's repeated persuasion, his father-in-law Shen Gong, who had always been low-key and moderate, would not have come forward, let alone provoke Zheng Qiao and bring about the extermination of his family. When he knew that Zheng Qiao had led his troops back, father knew something was wrong, and conspired with mister Shen, he let the daughter of his family to marry into the Gong family. In the end, my father has not confessed, and he was still a “benefactor” of Zheng Qiao on the surface.
If Zheng Qiao took revenge on Shen family, at least he could leave them some leeway.
Who knew -
Zheng Qiao simply didn’t have any common sense.
Chu Ji, previously mentioned concubine of the king, married into Xin kingdom’s lateral courts in the imperial palace and died being 5 months into pregnancy.
Mister Chulao was one of the talents she brought from the kingdom, and he ended up like a fish in the pond.
Youth, with surname Gu is a chaotic neutral person who wears the skin of a devil.
The worker, Weng Zhi, his identity will be kept hidden for now.
Gong Cheng, Yunchi, was exiled with others from the Gong family.
From what is known now, Shen Tang is a girl from the Shen family.
PS. The current plot information roughly says that the heads of the Gong family and the Shen family joined forces with Chu Ji to kill Zheng Qiao, but Zheng Qiao retaliated and smoothly returned to his home country. He honed his skills for 5 years, then led Geng kingdom's troops to destroy the kingdom of Xin. The Shen family was betrayed, and Zheng Qiao took revenge on them.
The royal family of Xin’s surname is Shen, but it is not the same as the above Shen.
