While the others were fine with the change, Chi Dashan noticed it immediately.

He immediately brandished the stun gun in his hand, pressed the switch, and a crackling current flashed, which was quite intimidating!

"Uncle Village Chief, we won't be a burden to you. But we just don't want to die, so please do us a favor, Uncle Village Chief."

Chi Dashan knew that this matter would implicate Meihe Village.

But they really had no other choice.

In this world, it's best to protect yourself first before thinking about others.

Aunt Chi beckoned Chi Sihai over and whispered a few words to him. Chi Sihai immediately ran into the house.

He took out the money box shortly afterward.

Inside, there were fifty-four taels of silver.

Aunt Chi said weakly, "Village chief, this is all our possessions. I'll keep four taels of silver. The remaining fifty taels can be distributed among you all as compensation."

They had little contact with the villagers to begin with.

Why should they risk their lives for them?

Seeing the piles of silver, the villagers were filled with excitement.

Old Man Li gritted his teeth and took out more than twenty taels of silver, which was almost all of their savings.

"Village chief, please, we beg you to do us a favor. We really don't want to die."

Seeing the Chi and Li families, the village chief didn't stand on ceremony. He took a total of fifty-six taels of silver and returned the remaining dozen or so taels.

The village chief said, "Let's pretend we didn't see it. This is fifty-six taels of silver, two taels for each family."

The village chief was already a major threat in Meihe Village, and now that he has money, even if others are dissatisfied, they won't say anything.

"But what are you planning to do?"

“I’ll trade this masked guy for my third brother!” Chi Dashan said.

The village chief asked curiously, "This one wearing a mask?"

Chi Dashan: "He must have some status in the Wang family."

This incident appears to have been orchestrated by Xiao Zhou, but it's clear that everyone is listening to this masked man.

So, they have no choice but to take a gamble.

You can't exactly go and break into jail, can you?

"Sigh, you should think it over yourselves."

The village chief and the villagers dispersed.

At this moment, Xiao Zhou Shi also fully regained consciousness.

Under intense questioning, Xiao Zhou tearfully explained what had happened.

It turns out that after being abandoned, Xiao Zhou was tied up by a homeless man and sold.

After many twists and turns, Xiao Zhou was sold to the Wang family as a servant.

It's quite a coincidence that Ms. Zhou looks very much like the masked man's former fiancée.

However, before the masked man got married, he accidentally caught a fire, and his face was burned and disfigured. His fiancée then changed her mind and broke off the engagement.

The masked man felt a complex mix of love and hate towards his fiancée.

So upon seeing Xiao Zhoushi, they first beat her severely.

But later he saw Xiao Zhou begging at his feet, desperate to survive.

In a daze, he seemed to see his former fiancée begging and pleading with him, and he felt a great sense of satisfaction.

Therefore, he treated Xiao Zhou as a substitute for his fiancée and kept her as a mistress in Qingshui Town.

It wasn't until she became pregnant that Xiao Zhou's treatment improved, and she was no longer beaten or tortured.

"...Later, I happened to see Chi Sanhe and sent someone to inquire, only to find out that you had settled in Meihe Village...I was unhappy, and then he devised this scheme to cheer me up for the sake of the children."

Little Zhou was trembling, terrified.

She never expected that, despite having the upper hand, she would still lose in the end!

Now, my face hurts as soon as I open my mouth to speak.

But she dared not remain silent. If she did not speak, Chi Dashan would touch her with a black stick, causing her waves of tingling and discomfort.

I don't know what it is.

Especially when they saw the servants tied up, their eyes swollen and red like walnuts, they dared not disobey.

"What about the so-called murder?" Aunt Chi asked hurriedly, but she started coughing incessantly after only asking the question.

There was even blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Is this... coughing up blood?

"mother!"

"grandmother!"

"daughter in law!"

Everyone panicked.

Seeing Aunt Chi's barely breathing condition, my heart pounded in my chest.

Aunt Chi waved her hand, clinging to her last breath, her eyes like those of a hawk, sending chills down one's spine.

“I, I… How could Chi Sanhe dare to kill someone? It was… it was him who framed me.” Little Zhou finally blurted out.

Chi Wuhu immediately cheered, "Great! What about the evidence? Let Xiao Zhou testify, then my third brother can be released, right?"

Although I always knew that Chi Sanhe wouldn't dare to kill anyone.

But actually hearing it is different from believing it yourself.

"Not necessarily. Didn't you hear what the village chief said? Even the county magistrate doesn't dare to offend the Wang family. Even if we take Xiao Zhou to testify, the county magistrate might not release them."

Chi Dashan was relatively calm.

Things are not that simple.

"Then, what should we do?" Little Fifth Brother was almost in tears.

Chi Dashan immediately asked Xiao Zhoushi, "I'll accompany you back to the Wang family later, and then you can instruct the Wang family to release Sanhe."

"No one in the Wang family listens to me."

Little Zhou said hurriedly.

She was nobody in the Wang family; why would anyone listen to her?

"Oh? No one in the Wang family listens to you? Then you're of no use to us, so let's kill you."

Chi Dashan grinned maliciously, the stun baton in his hand crackling, his eyes filled with malice.

The tall, imposing man grinned maliciously as he approached Xiao Zhou Shi…

"You, you can't kill me! I'm Silang's own mother. If you kill me, how will Silang face the consequences?"

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