“Xu Xiangu, my grandfather has plenty of money. How could he not come up with fifty taels? And Zhang the matchmaker, you can’t have made this trip for nothing, can you?”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Cuiyun nodded repeatedly and stretched out her hand, saying, "Putting everything else aside, the five talismans I stuck on your forehead today are worth five taels of silver."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Jiang Fuyi and said, "Grandpa Jiang, I don't need much. Just give me ten taels of silver. I can't do business for nothing. If you don't give me anything, that's fine too. But if I get tainted by bad luck later, don't blame me."
Xu Xiangu also realized that the Jiang family was trying to renege on their debt, and immediately sneered, "If you don't pay me your fifty taels of silver, I guarantee that your Jiang family will never have a peaceful day. You don't want to be haunted by ghosts and monsters every day, do you?"
Jiang Fuyi and the others looked extremely grim upon hearing this.
People like Xu Xiangu and Zhang Cuiyun, who deal with ghosts and the dead, are indeed not to be trifled with.
“This fifty taels of silver shouldn’t be paid by our family alone. In my opinion, everyone in Qingya Village should have a share. You forced us to invite Xu Xiangu over,” Liu said loudly.
She was notoriously difficult to deal with throughout Qingya Village, and would throw a tantrum whenever something happened.
Of course, everyone disagreed with her words.
“Your Jiang family has five hundred taels of silver, so fifty taels is nothing to you. Besides… it’s your Jiang family’s own fault for being blind and unable to distinguish between humans and ghosts. What does it have to do with us?”
"It's clearly your own stupidity that's to blame us!"
Liu was furious: "Nonsense, we don't have five hundred taels of silver at all."
"Xianya has already said she's pregnant, and you still want to deny it? In your Jiang family, only Xianya and her mother are considered human. What are you? Scoundrels and rascals."
"You have five hundred taels of silver, why should we pay for it for you?"
"How shameless..."
"Your own affairs are your own business, yet you expect us to pay for them? No way!"
Liu usually never loses an argument, but today there were too many people, and she was finding it hard to keep up.
Jiang Xianya felt incredibly pleased looking at the Jiang family members with their worried faces.
She gained access to the original owner's memories and learned that she had a miserable childhood.
Jiang Xianya felt no affection whatsoever for the Jiang family; in fact, she wished she could kill them to avenge the original owner of the body who had been murdered.
In her past life, she was the leader of the number one Xuanmen sect in the world. Even though she has only become the delicate and frail Jiang Xianya now, her powerful soul force remains. In her past life, she not only cultivated Xuan arts, but also knew how to heal people, catch ghosts, read faces, and tell fortunes...
Moreover, when she divines someone's fortune, she can see certain images.
Because of her ability in her previous life, she was given special training after joining the Taiyi Sect. Later, she lived up to expectations and achieved success in cultivation. It's just a pity that she still couldn't defy the heavens.
It wasn't that her cultivation was lacking, but rather that this world simply couldn't accommodate someone who could ascend.
So, she'll just live the life of an ordinary person.
"Fellow villagers, do you want to know how the Jiang family obtained these five hundred taels of silver?" Jiang Xianya deliberately led the crowd.
"Xianya, tell me, where did your Jiang family get these five hundred taels of silver?"
The villagers, always eager for a good show, immediately started to jeer.
"It must have been stolen..."
"Maybe she was sold as a child. Didn't you hear Granny Liu say before that she wanted to marry Xianya off to a high-ranking official in the prefectural city as a concubine, and that he promised to give them two hundred taels of silver?"
“Even though we are poor, we would never sell our children. Only that family is utterly heartless…”
"How could there be such a shameless family in our Qingya Village..."
Jiang Fuyi was worried that their family secret would be exposed, so he quickly said to his second son, Jiang Minghe, "Tie up this brat and lock her in the woodshed."
The matter of five hundred taels of silver was clearly known only to him and his second son. How could Jiang Xianya know about it?
Whatever the reason, he didn't want the villagers to know all this.
"Fellow villagers, what a child says doesn't count. Our Jiang family has lived in Qingya Village for generations. We only had one scholar in our family, Xianya's father. Ever since Mingtao died fourteen years ago while taking the imperial examination in the prefectural city, our Jiang family, like everyone else, has been making a living by picking tea. How could we possibly have five hundred taels of silver?"
After Jiang Fuyi finished speaking, he cupped his hands in greeting to Xu Xiangu and Zhang Cuiyun: "Don't worry, you two, we will give you every penny we owe. However... we are just farmers and can't come up with that much money right now. Please give us half a month. I will try my best to raise the money. If we really can't raise it, I will sell my land to give it to you."
Seeing Jiang Minghe and Chen Guilan, who were about to tie her up with rope, Jiang Xianya had to admit that experience counts.
Jiang Fuyi's words did stabilize the situation.
But... how could she possibly give these shameless bastards a chance to turn things around?
Jiang Xianya brandished the kitchen knife in her hand, scaring away Jiang Minghe and Chen Guilan.
Unfortunately, he had just been reborn and was unprepared, with neither a suitable weapon nor any talismans available.
Although her soul power has reached its peak after so many years of repair, her body still lacks any foundation and her strength is pitifully weak.
Even if she has some spells available, she will not use them in front of these people for the time being.
"Fellow villagers, could you help me report this to the authorities? Yesterday, I fell off the mountain while picking tea. It wasn't an accident; Jiang Fuyi pushed me down. He is my own grandfather. He actually tried to kill me. If I hadn't been lucky enough to survive, I would have been meeting the King of Hell long ago."
As Jiang Xianya spoke, she hid behind an elder who was watching the commotion.
This is the village head of Qingya Village, named He Shunde, an elderly man nearing seventy.
The entire Qingya Village has a population of over three hundred, all of whom are surnamed either He or Jiang.
In Jiang Xianya's memory, this village head was a very upright person.
A few days ago, when her mother was falsely accused of adultery, it was this village head He who spoke up for her, saving her mother's life and preventing her from being drowned by those vicious people from the Jiang family.
It was only after He Lizheng sent someone to the town to inform his maternal grandparents that his uncle came to pick up his mother.
"Grandfather, my grandfather wants to kill me. You must do me justice!" Jiang Xianya cried out, hiding behind He Shunde.
Jiang Fuyi was so angry after hearing Jiang Xianya's words that he almost fainted.
That brat is spouting nonsense. He clearly told the second son to go up the mountain and push her down; he didn't do it himself at all.
Jiang Fuyi is fifty-two years old this year, which is considered an old man in this small mountain village. He usually leaves all the big and small things in the family to his second son and daughter-in-law and rarely takes the lead himself.
“Xianya, are you sure you’re not mistaken?” He Shunde asked.
“No, I saw it clearly. He was the one who wanted to kill me. Besides him, there was my second uncle. They tried to strangle me first, but when they heard someone coming, they were afraid of being seen, so they pushed me off the cliff.” Jiang Xianya said quickly.
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