Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 856

Chapter 856: Chapter 853: Trickery

The old woman raised her head and cried bitterly towards Bai Qingyan: "The rich and powerful can find ways to buy their children’s lives, but what about us poor folk? Our children have lives too! How can we send them to the emperor for alchemy? Please, Princess of Zhen, save my two grandsons! I’ll do anything you ask! I’ll be a cow or a horse... or even give up my life! I’m begging you! I’m begging you!"

The old woman kept kowtowing.

The young woman saw the old woman continuously kowtowing to Bai Qingyan and knelt down to kowtow as well, staining the pebbles on the riverbank with red.

"Please, please!" Bai Qingyan hurried to pull up the young woman and old woman.

Lin Kangle, with reddened eyes, quickly stepped forward to support them.

Liu Hong hurriedly explained to the old woman: "You two, His Majesty summons the children to ascend the Nine-Tier Pagoda seeking the Immortal Pill, not... to use the children for alchemy! How can you suspect His Majesty like this?!"

Who would have thought the old woman would spit at Liu Hong upon hearing this: "You’re just the emperor’s loyal dog, using these words to deceive us! If we really handed the children over to you, could they come back alive? If that’s true... why don’t you hand your own children to that dog emperor?" freēwebnovel.com

Liu Hong closed his eyes, straightened up and wiped off the spit with his hand, feeling anxious and worried; now the people actually hate the emperor so much...

The commoners and government officials chasing the old woman, young woman, and two children saw the soldiers arresting them from afar and quickly pointed towards Bai Qingyan and Yang Wuce’s direction, shouting loudly: "Over there! Over there! The soldiers have caught them!"

The old woman and young woman trembled in terror at the sound, grasping Bai Qingyan’s arms firmly as if facing a great enemy...

The young woman once again pleaded with Bai Qingyan: "Princess of Zhen! Please save my children... save my children! I’ll do anything you ask!"

The old woman, desperate and helpless, looked up at Bai Qingyan and cried out hoarsely: "My husband and three sons all died in battle as soldiers! Our family only has these two children left; they are the hope of our entire family! You are a descendant of the Bai family, you will surely protect us commoners, right?! As long as you can protect my grandsons and granddaughter, I... I am willing to die immediately! I’m begging you!"

"Mother! Grandmother!"

"Mom... Grandmother..."

The two children struggled out of the soldiers’ arms holding them, ran to their mother and grandmother, and hugged them, crying out loudly.

The young woman released Bai Qingyan, held her two children tightly in her arms, and turned back to look in terror at the approaching government officials and commoners, feeling desperate and helpless as she stared at Bai Qingyan. The heart-wrenching feeling of wanting to protect her two children but being powerless was deeply moving.

Seeing the soldiers, the commoners gradually slowed their steps, but the government officials with swords, emboldened, walked towards Bai Qingyan and Liu Hong.