Xie Ming knew those people would cause trouble, but he never expected that instead of trying to reason with them, they would brazenly break into his house and "steal" him.

That night, Xie Ming watched as the intruder used sleeping powder on everyone before heading straight to his house and stealing the family's savings.

After that, he quickly went to the west room, tied up the two children, put them in burlap sacks, and loaded them onto the cart.

After doing everything they needed to, Xie Xing's good nephews pushed a cart and carried her away.

When Xie Ming and his family were about to leave the village, he quickly "woke up" and splashed his sons awake before going to the next house to find his nephew and elder brother.

Upon realizing their homes had been burgled, the two families quickly dressed and went to other villagers' homes to ask for help. They gathered over 20 able-bodied young men and immediately headed out of the village.

Theft is a serious matter. When the villagers heard the noise, they knew that Xie Ming's house had been burgled, and many households immediately lit up their lights to check their valuables.

Some of the more enthusiastic ones immediately ran out of their homes and followed Xie Ming and the others to help.

Half the village was wide awake, and they all stood at their doorways talking by the moonlight, occasionally glancing towards the village entrance, waiting for news from outside.

Xie Ming and his group were quick on their feet; the group hadn't even gone two miles out of the village before they were caught up.

The clansmen who followed noticed from afar that the thieves were pushing a cart loaded with things, and immediately guessed that the thieves had stolen from more than just Xie Ming's family.

Xie Ming whispered a few words to the children at home, and then told them to sneak over from the side path and surround the "good relatives".

"stop!"

Someone shouted anxiously, and the people in front, noticing the villagers rushing over from behind, paused for a moment.

"Have Xie Ming and the others woken up? Damn it, where did you get that medicine, Third Brother?"

"Big brother, run!"

Xie Xing's nephews knew that this was not the time to argue about who was right and who was wrong, so they pushed the wooden cart forward.

Xie Ming and his group quickened their pace and caught up with the people in front of them in just a few breaths.

The nephews hadn't expected to be surrounded so quickly, but the accustomed to evil deeds reacted swiftly, pointing their sickles at the sack and saying, "Don't come any closer. If you don't want anything to happen to the people inside, just pretend this never happened."

The visitors were immediately stunned; they had thought it was grain inside! They never expected it to be people.

Xie Ming quickly squeezed out and said anxiously, "Okay! I'll pretend nothing happened, just release them!"

Seeing Xie Ming's cowardly appearance, Xie Xing's eldest nephew immediately perked up and shouted at him, "You all have to retreat a hundred paces away!"

"That won't do. If you hurt the people inside, I won't let you off the hook."

Xie Liudi sized up the bag, still unable to guess who was inside, and grew increasingly anxious.

"You all step back first!"

"Okay, I'll back out!"

Xie Ming pretended to lead the newcomers to slowly retreat more than ten steps.

The people opposite were watching Xie Ming and his group's decision nervously, unaware that Dali, Sanli, Sili, and others had quietly approached them...

Just as they put their sickles on the wooden cart and prepared to push it away at full speed, the Xie brothers, who had come to their side, immediately went up and started fighting with them.

The tribesmen who followed weren't stupid either. Seeing that their side had the upper hand, they quickly rushed towards the people fighting. Once they touched the other person's body, they pinned them to the ground and beat them up.

Some rescuers went to the wooden cart first to untie the sacks, and then they saw Liuli and Qili tied up tightly.

Xie Ming: A girl's reputation is so important, she must have mistaken someone else for someone else.

The fight was turning in one direction, and the Xie family members quickly subdued Xie Xing's nephews, tied them up, and immediately took them back to the village.

The theft from the villagers was no longer just Xie's business; the village discussed how to deal with them overnight.

After all, the incident originated from Xie Ming's family, and in the end, he gave his opinion: to hand them over to the authorities.

Actually, there is another way, which is to send them to Pianshan Village. Although they don't have clans there, they do have village rules.

To protect the village's reputation, the villagers will definitely kill these people—perhaps by beating them to death, starving them to death, or even burning them to death.

Xie Ming didn't want them to die like that; someone had to pay for the hundreds of lives lost in the Xie family in his previous life.

They could be sentenced to 5 years in prison if they were handed over to the authorities. During famines, they would happen to run into those starving prisoners in jail, which could be considered a form of retribution for their evil deeds.

As for whether they would become prison bullies, Xie Ming said that was not the case.

Once they arrived at the court, he would slip some silver to the constables so they could be beaten and subjected to torture, hoping to preserve their hands and feet intact.

Xie Xing's sister-in-law was unaware that her sons had been arrested; she was still daydreaming and preparing food.

But she waited and waited until the government officials came to arrest her.

Bound and brought to court, she realized with shock that her family's scheme had been exposed. As the mastermind, she was unsurprisingly implicated by her sons.

Regardless of anything else, the official first took off her pants and gave her 20 strokes of the cane, beating her until she screamed in pain.

With witnesses and physical evidence readily available, the case was quickly adjudicated.

Xie Xingxin's beloved maternal family's male members were all wiped out. Her nephews were not only beaten 30 times in court, but also sentenced to 12 years in prison. Her sister-in-law also got a 20-year "iron rice bowl".

Xie Ming hadn't studied Chen Guo's laws in detail, but he didn't expect the sentence to be so severe.

He had no objection to this, as long as the person was disabled and spent another 3 or 4 years in prison.

Time flew by and the year passed. After the incident, the Xie family's life returned to complete peace.

After Xie Ming retrieved the silver, he handed over the management of the household to his eldest daughter-in-law. Now that the woman who had been stealing from them was gone, everything was going smoothly.

But He Mancun couldn't stay there for long, so he still had to figure out how to take the people out.

Now that the decision to leave has been made, aside from everything else, the first thing to consider is how to improve the fighting strength of the tribe.

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