Chapter 148: The Dependable Outsider Arrives during the Second Watch(3)_1
Three years ago, Gao Jia met the famous prostitute Bai Fengdan of Baihua Tower by chance and was captivated by the young, attractive harlot. Despite his wife’s opposition, he paid a heavy sum to bring her home as a concubine.
A year later, Lady Bai gave birth to a chubby little boy for Gao Jia. Gao Jia was overjoyed to have a son in his middle age. He cherished the boy like a gem and naturally, the mother and son duo also became his prized treasures.
However, Lady Bai was ambitious. Relying on her youth and beauty, and having her son by her side, she whimsically aspired to be the official wife and refused to serve as a concubine. Gao Jia had a fondness for Lady Bai but still had some conscience left, he was unwilling to easily dismiss his lawful wife. But shortly after, the chubby son of Lady Bai suddenly fell ill. The boy was crying all night, there was no way to console him. Desperate, Gao Jia searched everywhere for doctors and medicine, prayed to gods, and worshipped Buddha. Later, a wandering Taoist priest passing by Yushu County, calculated that the child’s illness was caused by a curse from a yin person, and calculated that the curser was in the Gao Family!
Enraged, Gao Jia indeed found in Lady Yin’s room a paper figurine inscribed with the son’s eight characters of birth time. He immediately concluded that Lady Yin was venomously jealous and calculated to harm his descendants. Without any explanation, he severely beat Lady Yin, issued her a divorce letter, and drove her out.
After Lady Yin was divorced, Lady Bai as she wished was promoted to be the official wife, becoming the mistress of Gao Jia. Henceforth, she put on airs as the mistress, she either beat or scolded the two stepdaughters, treated them cruelly in every possible way, not even allowing them to have enough food. Gao Jia’s attention was all on the mother and son. He turned a blind eye to Bai’s abusive behavior towards his daughters and tried to avoid seeing it!
Sanchun and Zhao Di were beaten, scolded, and went hungry every day. As if this was not enough, that despicable Lady Bai, in order to curry favor with the powerful, instigated Gao Jia to marry Sanchun to Master Li Yongjiang Li’s good-for-nothing son, Li Jingui as a concubine. Under the influence of Lady Bai, Gao Jia acceded to this proposal disregarding his daughter’s desperate plea. He settled the matter with the Li family that the marriage would take place the next month.
After being divorced, Lady Yin had been living at her parent’s house. When she got up yesterday morning and heard the news that her daughter was about to get married and become a concubine, her heart was tortured with pain. She ran to Gao Jia’s restaurant and cried there all day, hoping Gao Jia would change his mind and not sacrifice her daughter’s whole life for the sake of social climbing.
However, Gao Jia had already been bewitched by Lady Bai and didn’t heed his wife’s complaint. Particularly when Lady Bai kept bringing up the issue of Lady Yin cursing their son, it instigated Gao Jia into wanting to kill his ex-wife to vent the anger for his son.
Later, the episode from last night happened, and Cai Wei performed the heroic deed of helping those in distress.