The two sides started hurling insults at each other in their respective dialects, and soon after, the sound of fists clashing filled the air!
Ah~
"How dare you cause trouble at Shenglong? Don't you even take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror? You steal people's money and cripple them. Do you think no one can deal with you?"
Several burly men beat up Cui Erlang, who had led the disturbance at the entrance.
Bai sat on the ground, patting her ankles and crying, "Heavens above, I can't live anymore, I'm going to die, my life is so miserable..."
Yesterday, their house was ransacked, and Cui Fude and Cui Dalang are still being held in the town's ancestral hall.
They were terrified and ran to Zhu Lizheng's house at night, crying and begging.
With the money and land gone, Bai, along with her two daughters-in-law and youngest daughter, wept bitterly at Zhu Lizheng's house.
The village head's wife said irritably, "What could we do? Why didn't you think of this earlier?"
Zhu Lizheng said with exasperation, "You guys are brainless! If you had just strangled that idiot with a rope back then, none of this would have happened... Now I can't even protect you."
"Brother, you must help us! We can't live like this!" Bai cried, her snot dripping down her face.
Zhu Lizheng said, "It's not like there's no way..."
Upon hearing that there was a solution, Bai immediately said, "We are willing to go through fire and water."
"Didn't you all see that? It's Landlord Wang who's standing up for the fool. Landlord Wang only has one son, Wang Can, so his lineage is weak. If Cuilian marries Landlord Wang, things will be much easier."
Zhu Lizheng's idea was to make Cui Fude's youngest daughter, Cui Cuilian, a concubine of the landlord, Wang.
Regardless of whether they can have a son in the future, at least for now, Landlord Wang will not stand up for Yin Jin'an and Jiu Tian.
Cuilian cried and shrank back, "Mother, I don't want to! I'm only fourteen, and Landlord Wang is almost sixty..."
When the village head's wife saw that Cui Cuilian was unwilling, she got angry: "Unwilling? Who forced you? Can't you see the situation? Young Master Wang and Magistrate Li are both on that fool's side."
Bai immediately said, "Village head, we're willing to do anything to get that fool to return the silver."
Zhu Lizheng frowned and said, "Old Cui is a shrewd man, how could he marry such a fool like you? What money do you want from that idiot? Can't you see? Quickly settle this matter. Tell Landlord Wang to stop stirring things up. As long as Wang Can doesn't get involved in this, Magistrate Li will turn a blind eye. Once they leave, that idiot will be at your mercy."
“Yes, yes, the village head is right. Cuilian, go to the landlord Wang’s house at dawn and tell him that you are willing to have a child with him and give him a son in his old age.”
Both Madam Ou and Madam Xiaobai were pressing Cui Cuilian, who was crying so hard she couldn't speak. She didn't want to be with a sixty-year-old man.
But Bai looked at her fiercely and said, "You don't have to go. Anyway, the family can't survive. I'll have your brother sell you into a brothel."
"mother……"
Zhu Lizheng said impatiently, "Crying, crying, crying? Do you even have the right to cry? For the sake of being neighbors, this is the only suggestion I can give you. You figure it out yourselves!"
Bai said, "We are willing, we are willing!"
"Since you're willing, let's not wait until dawn. We don't know how things will end after dawn. Before Magistrate Li makes his judgment, let's hurry and deliver it to Landlord Wang tonight."
Bai led her daughter-in-law and daughter back to her own home. Now, as long as Cui Cuilian is sent to Wang the landlord's bed, the family's crisis will be resolved, and they will not pity Cui Cuilian.
That evening, after tidying up Cui Cuilian, Cui Erlang asked Zhao, the matchmaker in town, to speak to the landlord Wang.
Zhao the matchmaker was unwilling to act as matchmaker. She knew everything that was going on in town: Magistrate Wang and Landlord Wang were standing up for that fool. If she went at this time, it would not only be immoral, but also foolish.
Matchmaker Zhao said, "Oh dear, my headache has flared up again, and it hurts so much that I can't even stand up. Could you wait a couple of days?"
Xiao Bai said to Cui Erlang, "Auntie, we can't wait a moment longer, please make this trip for us."
Zhao the matchmaker looked at Cui Cuilian, whose eyes were swollen from crying.
This media outlet is utterly immoral!
"I really can't be this matchmaker, Mother, I have a terrible headache..."
The matchmaker, Zhao, fainted on the spot.
Cui Erlang had no choice but to point at Zhao the matchmaker and say, "You'd better stay unconscious for the rest of your life. If you ever dare to act as a matchmaker again, I'll kill you."
Matchmaker Zhao shuddered.
Bai and Cui Erlang went to their maternal grandparents' house that very night and found a matchmaker there, asking her to help arrange a marriage.
When the matchmaker heard that the young woman was willing to marry the landlord as a concubine, she knew there would be money to be made, so she immediately agreed.
But the landlord was unwilling.
Upon hearing that Cui Fude's daughter, Cui Cuilian, was going to arrange a marriage for him, he immediately refused: "No way! The entire Cui family is morally corrupt. Would I want to take such a concubine because I don't want to live long?"
The matchmaker said many nice things and even some harsh things, and finally said, "Master Wang, if you don't want her, her family will sell her to a brothel. If you take her, you'll be saving her life."
Landlord Wang wasn't stupid. If he were to take Cui Cuilian as a concubine, he would surely offend the heavens, which wouldn't be worthwhile.
"Go, go, go. If you say you don't want it, then you don't want it. Stop dawdling here."
Landlord Wang ordered his men to lock the door tightly, and he hasn't seen anyone for the past few days.
Bai worked tirelessly for most of the night, but when he had no other choice, he went to find Zhu Lizheng.
Zhu Lizheng was furious: "He's as stupid as a pig. Why didn't he let Cuilian go to the Wang family with the matchmaker? When the landlord Wang came out, he just leaned on him and said that she had lost her chastity. He would have to have her no matter what... He can't be taught."
Having no other option, Bai could only ask him to think of another solution.
The village head said, "I have another idea. It'll work if it works, but if it doesn't, there's nothing I can do."
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