Therefore, after hearing An Xiuyuan's words, he didn't react much. Instead, he looked at Xu Liang and asked, "Is this your reason for hitting him?"
"Exactly!"
"Guards, take them away from me. Those who beat officials will be given thirty strokes of the cane and imprisoned for six months."
No sooner had Lord Chen finished speaking than his men stepped forward and arrested the Xu family and others.
An Xiuyuan and Wang Shi were delighted to see them arrested. Wang Shi, in particular, felt it wasn't enough, because her son had been beaten and looked quite badly injured.
Therefore, she said to Lord Chen, "Sir, they beat my son like this, we can't just let it go."
"Then what else do you want?" Lord Chen was somewhat displeased, disliking Wang Shi's bossy attitude.
Lady Wang, oblivious to Lord Chen's displeasure, said directly, "They have to pay compensation, five thousand. Oh no, ten thousand taels of silver."
Knowing that the Xu family was wealthy, Wang made an outrageous demand.
To be honest, Xu Liang and the others did have some restraint when they hit people. It looked scary, but it was all just superficial injuries that would heal in ten days to two weeks with some ointment.
Lord Chen also felt that Lady Wang had gone too far, so he glanced at An Xiuyuan and asked, "What does Lord An think?"
Upon hearing this, fearing that her son would act foolishly again, Madam Wang preemptively said, "Lord Chen, you don't need to ask him. He is my son, and he has to listen to me."
Lord Chen looked at An Xiuyuan speechlessly, thinking to himself, "How old is he? He still listens to his mother. No wonder he made the decision to give up his title for a woman."
However, this is a matter between the mother and son, and he won't interfere. But Wang's demands are too much, which is going too far.
Therefore, after glancing at the Xu family father and sons, she said, "Madam, how about this, let them be responsible for paying for Lord An's treatment."
"That won't do, it has to be ten thousand taels." Madam Wang disagreed. She had finally found an opportunity to make money, so naturally, the more the better.
Even if the money was earned because her son was beaten.
As long as you have money, who cares where it comes from?
Xu Lin was somewhat impulsive. If Wang Shi hadn't been an old woman, he would have jumped up and hit her long ago.
He couldn't hit her, but he also wouldn't pay any money, so he said, "Dream on. Even if there's compensation, it should be An Xiuyuan who compensates my cousin. He committed marriage fraud first, and then he swindled her out of her money. We can overlook the marriage fraud. But they must return the money they used from my cousin."
"You're talking nonsense. How could our family have committed marriage fraud? Yun married into the family willingly. What does that have to do with fraud? Besides, if Yun couldn't hold onto her husband's heart, that's her own fault. What does it have to do with my Xiuyuan?"
These words are infuriating. Not to mention the hot-tempered Xu Lin, even Xu Cheng wanted to hit someone.
Seeing that they were quite angry but unable to do anything about her, Wang became even more smug and continued, "What, you want to hit me? What did I say wrong? It's her own fault for being useless. She hasn't even touched a man in a month of marriage. I'm ashamed for her. She's so useless, she deserves to be abandoned by men."
Yunzhi and Dongli Lucang happened to come in and overheard this.
Yunzhi's face was very ugly. If Dongli Lucang hadn't been by her side, she would have stepped forward and slapped Wang Shi directly.
As for Dongli Lucang, he was initially pleased because he learned that Yunzhi and An Xiuyuan had not consummated their marriage. However, he was later angered by Wang's humiliation of Yunzhi.
It seems that simply stripping the An family of their titles was too lenient with them.
Since that's the case, then why not...
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