Chapter 398 Sentence (Please vote and subscribe)

After a short silence, the two quickly spoke and gave their reasons. In fact, the matter was not complicated.

Jingyu is 17 years old this year. There are two women in his family and they already have five children, but in fact, one of them is not his.

The Thorn Tribe was not a particularly wealthy tribe, so every year at the Spring Festival, at most, each teenager would be given a woman. Jingyu was no exception. He originally had only one woman, but she was lucky enough to give birth to three children for him, and the other woman, to be precise, should be considered his sister-in-law.

His brother died early and accidentally fell to his death while climbing a tree, leaving only a woman and a child. However, in the primitive tribe, women who are able to continue to give birth will never be single. Life is already difficult enough. If they don’t work hard to multiply the population, extinction is not impossible.

So, Jingyu’s sister-in-law followed him with the child and gave him another child. That’s how his two women and five children came from. Of course, there is nothing rare about this. There are similar people in every tribe.

However, I don't know if this guy took drugs. After moving to the new urban area of ​​the Han tribe, his two women got pregnant again. Now four months have passed. The two women are becoming more and more inconvenient to move. They can only take care of themselves and the five children at home, and do some simple chores.

Seeing that the two women's mobility is getting worse and worse, and it just happened to be time for the new house to be allocated, he tried his best to fight for the first house at the entrance of the alley in order to make life more convenient this winter. It is close to the main road and the well, which will be much more convenient for fetching water or carrying firewood in the future.

Another Xiong Kaishan, his reason is similar to Jingyu. Although he doesn't have two pregnant women, he has a brother who is disabled due to injury. He was bitten by a poisonous snake when he was a child. Because there was no reasonable treatment, he suffered from the sequelae of polio. His ears are not very useful, which may be caused by the damage to the nervous system by the snake venom.

Disabled people are a vulnerable group, no matter what era they are in. Although women don't want houses or cars, when women choose their spouses, who doesn't want a strong body? After all, a strong body not only brings a sense of security, but also guarantees sufficient food. So Xiong Kaishan's brother is naturally the kind that no one wants.

But Xiong Kaishan himself is very loyal, and it is also the reason why he was often taken care of by his brother when he was a child. So although he has his own woman and children when he grows up, he still lives with his brother.

Before he joined the Han tribe, the Xiong tribe was still publicly owned, and food was distributed collectively. Xiong Kaishan often shared his food with his brother. This year, he joined the Han tribe and learned that he was going to split up the family. He simply took his brother to live with him. Anyway, each family has five houses, and his brother's one is not much different.

His reason is the same, for convenience, but his family is not that difficult. There is a woman, two children, and a disabled brother. Although he can't do heavy work, he has no problem taking care of himself, and can even do some small things like chopping wood and making fire.

But this guy was jealous, jealous of Jingyu having so many women and children, plus the Bear Tribe and the Thorn Tribe didn't get along well, so he went to fight for the house just to find fault.

After understanding the matter to this point, Luo Chong also made a judgment. The two people were not bad people in nature. One took over his sister-in-law and raised the children for his dead brother, and the other valued friendship and was unwilling to abandon his disabled brother. Would a person with a bad heart do this? Of course not.

But obviously Xiong Kaishan's reason was not so sufficient. He said that he went to fight for the house to take care of his brother, but his brother was clearly able to take care of himself and did not need special care. On the contrary, he could even help him a little. Considering the attitudes of the two clan leaders, it was clearly caused by the old grudges between the two tribes.

Luo Chong didn't want to care about their previous troubles. Now that he joined the Han tribe, he had the final say, so he made a decision quickly.

"Xiong Kaishan, you fought with your clan members for a house because of an old grudge between the clans. When your clan members encountered difficulties, not only did you not help them, but you also obstructed them regardless of the friendship between the clan members. I will now punish you with ten lashes. Do you still have any excuses?" Luo Chong announced the verdict with a stern face.

"Chief, I..."

Xiong Kaishan was about to say that he and Jingyu were not of the same tribe, but when he thought about how they had all joined the Han tribe, he held back what he was about to say, and then asked again after a long while.

"Chief, I admit my mistake, but what is that flogging?"

"Well, that's it, 10 lashes on the back, any more questions?"

Luo Chong pouted at the rat next to him, and the rat cooperated very well and took out a bamboo stick as thick as a little finger. Of course, in order not to beat him to death and to avoid leaving external injuries, Luo Chong used a round thin bamboo stick instead of a split bamboo stick, otherwise the skin would be torn apart if he was lashed.

Xiong Kaishan grinned secretly, probably because he knew how painful it was to hit someone with this thing, but the chief did not drive him out of the tribe, nor did he withhold his material allocation. Thinking about the newly built houses and the hard-earned life now, he decided to accept the punishment.

"Oh, then I admit my mistake, I am willing to be punished, chief, hit me." Xiong Kaishan gritted his teeth and said.

"Don't worry, there's more." Luo Chong waved his hand and said.

"Ah? What else?"

"Jingyu, Xiong Kaishan, you two have caused your fellow tribesmen to gather and fight because of personal conflicts, destroying the unity within the tribe. This is a bad nature. I will now punish each of you with ten lashes. Do you two have anything else to say?" Luo Chong continued calmly.

"Ah, ten lashes again, how many lashes are they?" Xiong Kaishan asked in confusion.

"Ten plus ten is of course twenty. Twenty for you, ten for Jingyu. Do you have any problem?" Luo Chong frowned and asked.

"No, that's all. I accept the punishment."

Xiong Kaishan thought that the leader would punish him this time, but he didn't expect Jingyu to be beaten too. Although he was beaten more, he felt balanced instantly. At least the leader was fair.

"Chief, I admit my mistake and am willing to be punished, but what about the house?" Jingyu also asked.

"Your family is large, your children are still young, and your wife is pregnant and has difficulty moving. It's not wrong for you to want a house, so the house will be allocated to you. But this cannot be a reason for you to fight with others and gather your own people to fight in a group. So you are also wrong and should be punished in the same way. Any other questions?"

"No problem, I am willing to admit my mistake and accept the punishment."

(End of this chapter)