Exile after Divorce? Empty the Scumbag Husband First!-Chapter 294 - 286: Seriously, Sister-in-Law, What Were You Thinking? Aren’t You Afraid It’s Dirty?
"Who knows, maybe it’s some poison or something?"
Even though the hot porridge was already warming on the stove, no one dared to step forward to receive the food.
The women saw their goodwill unrewarded and instead ridiculed, their expressions turned extremely unpleasant, and they all became dispirited.
At this moment, Ruan Mian approached with a determined look, not in a hurry to speak, just glanced at her disguised aunt in the crowd, who dressed in tatters suddenly stepped out and shakily approached the porridge stall to inquire.
"Are you really distributing porridge?"
The leading woman saw someone coming over and immediately nodded enthusiastically, serving her porridge and additionally giving her some dry food, carefully wrapped in oil paper.
The aunt, playing the role of a poor wife, was overjoyed and nodded in gratitude repeatedly, but was still warned by onlookers.
"I say, wife, you dare to eat things from these brothel girls? Aren’t you afraid of getting sick?"
"Exactly, wife, what are you thinking? Aren’t you worried about it being dirty?"
Upon hearing this, the aunt suddenly opened her mouth wide and yelled, "Dirty? Is this how your parents taught you?"
"Nowadays, people are about to starve to death, there’s no food to eat, who cares about such matters? What’s wrong with a brothel? At such a critical moment, they are the ones offering food to keep us dying people alive! Who else can do that? The truly filthy ones are you hypocrites who pretend to be virtuous!"
After scolding, she drank that bowl of hot porridge slowly in front of everyone.
The others watched her nervously, afraid that there might indeed be something inside the porridge.
However, after she drank it, nothing happened, and instead, the aroma of the porridge spread all around.
The aunt opened up the oil paper and found several fried bread pockets inside, along with a small bag of flour and a few potatoes.
Not a lot, but enough to last a few days.
Not enough to starve to death!
She ecstatically kneeled and thanked the brothel women profusely.
Many onlookers were impoverished people who had heard the news and come, and seeing that the wife was fine after eating and could even receive dry food, they rushed forward to queue up.
As more and more people came up to receive porridge, the charity stall instantly became bustling, with the entire long street eventually filled.
Those women, looked down upon earlier, now became "living Buddhas" in people’s mouths, and everyone respected them greatly.
The scene grew increasingly large, as this was the first instance of porridge being distributed in Runing City and done by brothel women.
Everyone began to spread the news, which quickly disseminated throughout Runing City.
Now not only city dwellers but also refugees outside the city were trying their best to come to get dry food.
Ruan Mian had prepared enough supplies, with most of it looted from storage space before.
The bought oil paper and bread pockets were exchanged using silver collected from Wen Yuan’s private treasury.
This significant commotion naturally reached Wen Yuan’s ears.
He was still cheerfully planning to attend a banquet at the tavern in the evening and asking his entourage.
"Any news? What treasure did Manager Yi bring today? Is it valuable?"
The entourage smiled, echoing, "You can rest assured, sir, when have those merchants not given fine treasures at banquets? Moreover, Manager Yi is so wealthy, this time will surely please you."
Wen Yuan thought so too and suddenly felt the wound wasn’t so painful.
But just then someone reported the news of the brothel’s porridge distribution to Wen Yuan.
He was unable to sit any longer and angrily rose! Exclaiming with disbelief, "What? Brothel distributing porridge? Where do they put me?!"
If word gets out that the city officials of Runing City are inactive, but a brothel distributes porridge to save people, would he need his official hat anymore?
So soon after hearing the news, government officers pompously arrived at the porridge stall.
The leading officer immediately overturned their stall. "Take them away!"
Without saying much more, he called people over to arrest all those women.
The queuing citizens were pushed back by the officers, instantly throwing the porridge stall into chaos.
The leading woman was Xu Mo’er, who the Commandery Princess wanted to gift to Wen Yuan that day; she fought hard to escape the officer’s grip and loudly rebuked, "We distribute porridge and save lives; how can the Lord arrest us without reason?"
The leading officer, seeing her still arguing, glared fiercely and snorted.
"Without permission, distributing porridge privately, disrupting order, and not reporting to the government, who knows what’s inside here?!"
"Some brothel women, ignorant! I’ll see who dares to resist; I’ll make sure he faces severe punishment!!"
His wrath rose, leaving the onlooking citizens shocked into silence, intimidated by his fierce demeanor.
Xu Mo’er fearlessly stepped up and firmly said, "Citizens in distress, government indifferent, what’s wrong with self-rescue?"
"So many people have already had our porridge without any issues found; such obstruction, is it not to save face for the government?" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
No one anticipated that a brothel woman could have such courage to resist.
Even though her clothes were torn apart in the chaos, Xu Mo’er did not retreat even a bit, continuing firmly, "If the government cared for the citizens, we wouldn’t have to do this!"
This statement instantly ignited the anger of the onlookers.
The madam also lost her temper with these unreasonable people, kicking the officer away and standing boldly in front of them, opening her mouth in front of all the citizens.
"Blocking us from distributing porridge without understanding, what exactly is the government’s intention?! Today we..." However, not giving them the chance to finish, the officer had lost his patience.
Talking to these brothel women was already annoying for him, not expecting each one to be more difficult, rendering their words pointless.
He forcibly imposed a sentence on the spot, pulling out a whip and weapons, and smashed everything at the porridge stall onto the ground.
In the chaos, all the women distributing porridge were arrested.
Xu Mo’er resisted most fiercely, and the officer treated her like the leader, kicking her to the ground mercilessly and whipping her continuously.
In no time, her skin was bruised and lacerated!
The onlookers were both horrified and felt great injustice for them.
The pot of hot porridge on the stove was also kicked to the ground by the officers without compassion.
Seeing this, everyone rushed forward, eating from the ground, holding with both hands, their disregard for food and people inciting the crowd’s anger.
Nobody knew who angrily shouted among the crowd.
"I have never seen such shameless Lords!! This is our lifeline food! These women just can’t bear to see the poor starve, willing to spend their own money to take out stored food to save lives; you arrest them, and on top of that, waste the food! You’ll face heavenly punishment!!"
