Ruling the Historical Romance Novel as the Female Supporting Character-Chapter 108: Events from Twenty Years Ago

"Okay, okay! Please spare me, young lady," Peng Kun begged, his pain almost making him faint. He had no other thoughts left and was thoroughly intimidated.

Su Yijia entered the main room, pulled out a chair, and sat directly in front of him.

"Think hard. If you can’t remember today, you’ll keep lying here," she tapped the floor with her pliers.

Terrified, Peng Kun shivered and dared not utter a single word.

"I remember! I’ll think now!"

Indeed, recalling events from twenty years ago might be challenging, but unless that midwife conducted wrongdoings every year, there was no way he’d forget.

"I remember, at that time, it was your father who came to ask my grandmother for help. He gave a lot of money. Other midwives charged two or three yuan for a birth, and ten red eggs after a month. But your father gave ten yuan and sneaked my grandmother out. When my grandmother returned, she kept warning me never to say that she went to the Su family for a delivery. To keep me quiet, she even went to the cooperative store in town and bought me half a pound of White Rabbit milk candy." Peng Kun quickly started revealing information.

Back then, White Rabbit milk candy wasn’t cheap. Seven candies could make one cup of milk, and many people used them as nutritional supplements. With this revelation, it became apparent that his reward should be more than ten yuan.

Su Yijia felt a cold pressure building within her. Although she had a rough idea of what had happened, having it confirmed was difficult to accept.

Peng Kun glanced at the seemingly calm girl who hadn’t shown any signs of anger and continued, "It’s okay that I got beaten since it was my fault for having a crooked idea in the first place. But if you want information from me, you should give me something in return, right? If you give me a ten-yuan bill, I’ll summarize everything you want to know and explain it to you in detail."

"Ten yuan for your baseless lies with no evidence? Do you think I’m a fool?" Su Yijia sneered with disdain.

But Peng Kun was firm, saying, "I guarantee it’s worth every penny."

"Go ahead, tell me. If it’s something that piques my interest, I’ll give you the money," Su Yijia waved her hand, urging him to get to the point.

However, Peng Kun remained cautious, as if afraid that he might reveal everything only to be swindled in the end.

Impatient, Su Yijia prodded, "Hurry up! Don’t keep me hanging; I’m losing interest."

"I remember that about a month before your mother’s pregnancy was publicly known, your father secretly came to visit my grandmother. I didn’t see how much money he gave, but it should have been a substantial amount. That day, I had egg soup and fried eggs. About a month later, news suddenly spread in the village that your mother was four months pregnant. How could a woman not realize she was pregnant for several months, especially when your father had visited my grandmother? Then, a few days later, when your father visited my grandmother to arrange the delivery, he came back several times in the morning while everyone else had gone to work. He still asked my grandmother to come and assist in the birth, but I know that although my grandmother went out, she didn’t help with the delivery. She took out the same amount of medicine as she brought, and I was the one who prepared those medicines. Since I was already over ten years old and didn’t go to the fields to work, I took care of these small matters. Later, it was reported at noon that your mother had slipped at home and had a premature birth. Fortunately, the birth went relatively smoothly, and she wasn’t seriously injured. However, this doesn’t make sense because if it were a premature birth, a lot of the medicine would have been used, and your father must have paid a significant amount again," Peng Kun recounted the events in detail.

It seemed like every sentence was pinpointing Su Yijia’s suspicions, but without direct evidence, it was essentially futile.

"Did your grandmother have any means to make a woman die during childbirth?" Su Yijia suddenly asked.

This question sent Peng Kun back into his recollections from twenty years ago. He was startled but quickly regained his composure.

"Of course, anyone who has some skills wouldn’t lack such knowledge. The real challenge is how to hide it from others. But for the pregnant woman who hid in your house twenty years ago, whether others could tell or not is not important, right? After all, she had to hide secretly, so who would care about her life or death?" Peng Kun spoke the truth, but it was incredibly harsh to hear.

Su Yijia tightened her grip on the coal tongs and asked, "Do you have any evidence to prove that what you just said is true?"

"All of this happened twenty years ago, what kind of evidence could there be?" Peng Kun replied nonchalantly. He thought Su Yijia was simply looking for an excuse to renege on her payment.

However, Su Yijia took out a ten-yuan note from her pocket and handed it to the man who was still lying on the ground. Peng Kun immediately snatched the money and began shoving it into his pocket.

Watching him eagerly stash away the money, Su Yijia spoke, "If you can find substantial evidence for me, I’ll give you even more rewards." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"200 yuan!" Peng Kun made a hand gesture to emphasize his request.

Su Yijia furrowed her brow and said, "Are you taking me for a fool?"

"Even if it were something happening right now, getting evidence would still cost a few dozens, wouldn’t it? But what I’m looking for is evidence from twenty years ago. It’s an impressively long time to preserve, and 200 yuan doesn’t sound too expensive, does it? Moreover, I know you suspect that your current parents aren’t your biological ones, and you want to find your real parents. Your family, the Su family, was not well-off twenty years ago. How could they afford to pay my grandmother several times with substantial rewards? If you’re not a biological child of the Su family, your parents might be well-off. I’ll help you find the evidence to trace your biological parents so you can live a comfortable life. Is 200 yuan too much for that?" Peng Kun raised his head and locked eyes with Su Yijia.

It did make sense.

Su Yijia raised an eyebrow without committing to anything. "Alright, if you can genuinely obtain substantial evidence, I’ll give you 200 yuan."

"Don’t worry, I’ll search high and low to find out if my grandmother was hiding anything," Peng Kun quickly assured.

"Good. If you find something, come to this address and deliver it to me. The items must be handed directly to me. If I find out you sold them to someone else along the way, I guarantee you’ll regret it," Su Yijia pointed at Peng Kun with her coal tongs.

"Why would I ever do that? You can trust me. This is our deal, and even if I want more money, I’ll ask you for it," Peng Kun implied that he would demand more money if he found evidence, but Su Yijia wasn’t concerned about a price increase. She was willing to pay for the evidence no matter what.

"Alright, find it quickly. I don’t have much patience," she said, then got up and walked out of the yard.

As she stepped out halfway, she noticed a shadow flicker nearby.