Patriarch Shentu snorted and said, "We, the three great families favored by the gods, prosper together and suffer together!"
"Although they are not direct descendants of our three major families, they all have the same surname."
"Even if they are beasts from our three major families, we cannot allow outsiders to trample on them!"
"Pass on my order, immediately invite the Sima and Helian family heads to come over for a chat!"
The head of the Shentu family turned away.
He returned to his manor house within the city walls.
He was originally sleeping in Thirteenth Aunt's yard last night, but in the middle of the night he suddenly heard the True God calling him from the secret room, so he immediately rushed back.
But after returning, the true God’s call stopped.
He prayed for a long time but received no response, and was secretly trying to figure out the answer.
Thinking about the strangeness in the secret room last night and what happened again today, the head of the Shentu family felt vaguely uneasy.
After he left, the Shentu family launched an intensive investigation into the murder of Master Shentu and seven other masters.
Not long after, several women dressed in gold and silver, young and old, came to the gate of the city wall and wept, crying over the corpse hanging on the wall.
These were their sons or husbands, who were fine yesterday but died on the cold city walls today.
The chief steward of the Shentu family who was in charge of investigating the matter waited patiently until the women finished crying before he began questioning them.
"Shen Tuding is your son, right? Do you know what he did yesterday?"
The oldest woman cried and said, "My Dalang has always been law-abiding and has never done anything bad!"
"Who dares to kill my son from the Shentu family?! Steward, you must find the murderer and avenge my son!"
The chief steward frowned, thinking irritably, a young man from a distant family, if he died, why did he have to find the murderer and seek revenge...
This old woman is so bold!
However, this woman does have some eloquence.
She cried and said, "Our Shentu family is one of the three great families of divine favored people in the Kingdom of Favor!"
"And it is the most powerful family of those favored by God!"
"Even though our family is just a distant branch of the Shentu family, those lowly people can't do anything to us!"
"Those untouchables were able to kill my son today. If I don't teach them a lesson, they will attack the direct descendants of the Shentu family tomorrow!"
"If we let it go, the rival owner might take action in the future!"
The chief steward shouted, "Be careful what you say!"
"You dare to bring trouble upon the Patriarch? Don't you want to die?!"
"Besides, I just asked what your son did yesterday. What's the point of you bringing up all this nonsense?!"
"How do you know it was those low-class people who killed your son?"
The woman then said bitterly, "My son has always been honest and law-abiding, and has never done anything illegal!"
"Yesterday, he was just following the Shentu family's rules and exercising his right of virginity with a low-class tenant slave!"
"But he didn't come back all night, and this morning, he was beaten to death and hanged on the city wall!"
"It must have been done by that untouchable whose virginity was taken away from him!"
"Steward, you must make sure their entire family is buried with my son!"
Upon hearing this, the chief steward immediately said, "Are you sure? Exercising the right of first night is a legitimate right for men in the Shentu family."
"These low-class tenants of the Shentu family have long been accustomed to this. How could they..."
The chief steward disagreed with what the woman said.
Because in the eyes of the chief steward, it was a very common thing for the lord to exercise the right of primogeniture over the tenants in his territory.
Not only did their three major families of gods' favor not take it seriously, even the tenants in their respective territories were used to it.
Some tenant families would even give their daughters, if they were beautiful, directly to the lord's family. Even if she was to be a maid, it was much better than digging in the dirt for a lifetime.
The men from the three divinely favored families were also accustomed to the fact that all the women in the territory belonged to them.
Not to mention the right to the first night, even if you have been married for many years, you can sleep with someone whenever you want.
But if they give birth to a child, they will not recognize it.
The tenant slaves would basically drown the children born in this way.
So when the woman said that it was the tenant slave who had abused his virginity who killed the distant relative, Master Shentu, the steward really didn't believe it.
But this is the only clue.
Because it is said that apart from this incident, this Master Shentu did nothing else.
The steward thought for a moment and said, "Which house should we go to to exercise the right of virginity?"
The woman said, "Yesterday I heard that the Meng family, tenant slaves in the territory, had arranged a marriage with the Mo family."
"My son went to the Meng family to exercise his right of first night."
The steward thought that it was the son of the Meng family and the daughter of the Mo family getting married.
He turned to his subordinates and ordered, "Go investigate."
…
Soon, the investigation results came out.
Yesterday, the son of the Meng family and the daughter of the Mo family got married, and many people knew about it.
Because the son of the Meng family has been an orphan since childhood.
His father and mother had died long ago, and he was raised by his father's sworn brothers.
When we got married yesterday, almost everyone in the village attended.
Then the son of the Shentu family brought seven friends to the Meng family, wanting to exercise the right of first night together...
The son of the Meng family and the daughter of the Mo family were indignant and fled together when no one was paying attention.
The son of the Shentu family chased after him with seven friends.
Later, the son of the Meng family and the daughter of the Mo family came back, but the son of the Shentu family and his seven friends were killed and hanged on the main gate of the Shentu family's city wall.
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