Chapter 2077 Transaction Void

However, the matter was not over after the verdict against the Ruan family father and son.

The next day, Chief Constable Jiang led a group of constables to Ruanjia Village, demanding that Ruan Hai's wife produce the compensation money that had been paid to the Cao and Lou families.

Although Ruan Ke paid for Cao Jiang's life, he still needed to compensate the Cao family with a sum of money.

Moreover, yesterday many people accused Ruan Hai of his crimes over the years, most of whom had no evidence, but a few were able to produce proof.

For example, he bought the villagers' land at a price much lower than the lowest market price, and it was clearly stated in the contract.

The Ruan family was filled with wailing and lamentation. Ruan Hai's wife had fainted once yesterday upon hearing the verdict, and today, seeing the officials arrive, she fainted again.

The eldest and second sons of the Ruan family had no choice but to grit their teeth and pay the compensation money first, but they didn't notice that their wives had hesitant and indifferent expressions.

For a long time after that, the Ruan family was in chaos. The family gradually declined, and eventually the eldest and second sons of the Ruan family separated, sold the large house they lived in, and moved to a smaller house.

Of course, that's a story for another time.

At this moment, the villagers of Ruanjia Village were all gathered at the door of Ruan Hai's house, watching the officials busy coming and going.

The elders all looked worried, their faces extremely grim.

Ruan Hai's incident has spread like wildfire in several surrounding villages. Everyone knows that a murderer has emerged in their village, and the perpetrator is even the village chief. This is very detrimental to Ruan Family Village.

"What should we do now?"

"Ruan Hai and Ruan Kewei have committed such a grave mistake. Putting everything else aside, let's expel them from the clan." Such a stain must never appear on the Ruan family's genealogy.

The other clan elders nodded in agreement, and the villagers had no objections.

"We also need to re-elect the village chief of our Ruanjia Village. We need to have the heads of each household come to the ancestral hall later. The village chief needs to be decided as soon as possible."

Among those present were people from outside Ruanjia Village, who couldn't help but purse their lips upon hearing this. "Select from the ancestral hall? But the Ruanjia ancestral hall doesn't allow people from outside the clan to enter, so isn't the village chief to be selected from among the Ruan family members?"

However, this was all expected, since most of the villagers are from the Ruan family.

As they were talking, several children suddenly ran over, shouting, "The county princess is here! County princess Lu is here!"

The clan elders were taken aback. "Why has the county princess come again at this critical juncture?"

"I don't know. Let's go take a look."

Shu Yu went to Ruan Chengqian's house again. She walked slowly, and as soon as the carriage stopped in front of Ruan's house, the clan elders and many villagers came over.

The two sides bumped into each other at the door.

The clan elder who led the clan was called Third Grandfather by the villagers. He was about seventy-three years old, which was quite old, but he seemed to be in good health. At least he was walking at a good pace with his cane.

He was helped forward a few steps by the younger villagers and spoke first, "Greetings, County Princess. May I ask if the County Princess has any instructions for coming here today?"

Shu Yu smiled and said, "I came here about planting sunflowers. I talked to many villagers a few days ago, and it was about to be settled, but then the murder happened, and it was all stopped. I just didn't expect that this matter would involve Village Chief Ruan."

With that, she sighed, "Now that things have come to this, I'm afraid this deal has to be scrapped."

(End of this chapter)