"What are you doing?" Qin's father was startled by his daughter's actions. "Have you no shame? Hurry up and put your clothes on!"
"You've all peeled off your faces and chopped them to pieces with your own hands," Qin laughed, tears welling in her eyes as she laughed. "And you're asking me what I can have? I want it too, what can I have?"
With that, he put on his clothes, sat down expressionlessly, and said, "Go and cook for me now, and behave yourself, or you'll regret it."
"Father," Qin Lao Er was angered by Qin Shi's attitude, "She did something shameless herself, and still wants to ride on our heads. That brat needs to be taught a lesson."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and walked over.
Seeing this, Madam Qin sneered, and without thinking, pulled out the stool from under her buttocks and threw it at him, hitting Qin Lao Er on the forehead.
Instantly, bright red blood flowed down his forehead.
"What are you doing?" Qin's mother rushed towards her daughter in a frenzy. "You dare hit my son? I'll beat you to death, you bitch!"
As he spoke, he rushed over and scratched.
Just then, the rest of the Qin family rushed forward to help, and before long, Qin Shi was beaten unconscious.
In Huangjiakou, Jiang Nuan's family was carefree and didn't worry about the Tie brothers' affairs, but Huang Shi was busy all day.
"Didn't we send a message to Tiejiazhuang? Why haven't they arrived yet?"
“I reckon they’re discussing how to handle this,” Brother Huang shook his head. “Ten taels per person equals thirty taels, which is no small sum.”
"Thirty taels is a lot?" Huang Shi sneered. "I think it's too cheap."
The lives of the Huang family are not so cheap.
However, not all villages are like Huangjiakou, where there is a ferry crossing every year to earn extra money. Most villages rely on the meager income from the land, and even if they occasionally go out to do odd jobs, they can only earn pocket money, which is difficult to fill their stomachs, let alone have any surplus.
He wanted a thousand or eight hundred taels, but he couldn't come up with that amount even if he sold the person.
Moreover, the money will be distributed among the whole village anyway, so there's no need to go too far.
“That’s quite a lot, thirty taels,” Brother Huang shook his head. “Even if the Tie family takes the lion’s share, the other people in Tie Family Village will still have to contribute one or two hundred coins.”
Any village that gets stuck with someone like that would be furious.
They don't even have enough money to spend, and they have to support three outsiders. To make matters worse, they don't even have a choice. It's really frustrating.
Huang Sige estimated that after this incident, the Tie family members would never be able to hold their heads high in Tiejiazhuang.
"They deserve it," Huang Shi still couldn't swallow his anger. "A man with both hands and feet, why did he have to stick his hands where he shouldn't have? By the way, are those three awake yet?"
"Not yet," Brother Huang said, touching his nose. "We've already had a doctor apply medicine. Apart from my genitals, there's nothing seriously wrong."
"That's good," Huang Shi said, somewhat embarrassed. "I don't know what kind of fetish Xiao Liu has, why does he always seem to have a problem with other people's private parts?"
He felt a chill run down his spine just from looking at it.
Because of this, Xiao Liu would avoid the places where he stayed, for fear that the cow might suddenly go berserk and he would be implicated.
"Maybe it's jealous because it doesn't have it itself?" Brother Huang leaned closer and whispered, "I've heard that's how the angels in the palace are."
"Shh, do you have a death wish?" Huang Shi immediately glanced outside. "You can't just say things like that. Do I have to teach you the lesson that loose lips sink ships?"
“I understand,” Brother Huang said shyly. “It’s not that there are no outsiders here; even if there were, I wouldn’t dare to say it.”
“Remember, never say such things carelessly,” Huang Shi earnestly instructed. “Those nobles in the palace, even angels, are not people we can afford to offend.”
Although Huangjiakou is a long way from the palace, who knows what might happen?
In short, it's always better to be safe than sorry.
As the two were talking, Huang Youquan walked over and said, "Clan chief, village chief, people from Tiejia Village have arrived."
"Someone's here?" Huang Shi went out. "Let's go check it out quickly."
When Chief Tie heard the news from the Huangjiakou people, he simply refused to believe it.
Tiejiazhuang and Huangjiakou have always kept to themselves and never interfered with each other. There were no landlords or wealthy people in Huangjiakou, so how could the villagers possibly steal things from Huangjiakou?
After questioning Tie Lao Er, they were able to confirm that the matter was true.
He was so angry that his head was practically steaming.
After calling out the three brothers' parents and giving them a thorough dressing-down, he started scratching his head, trying to raise money.
The silver had been raised, but Chief Tie changed his mind at the last minute. He felt that spending thirty taels of silver to redeem the people was too much of a loss and was only willing to spend ten taels.
Chief Tie thought that if these three people were to retain only one hand, they would be destined to become crippled, unable to work properly, let alone perform corvée labor or military service.
Not only are their two greatest contributions to the village gone, but they will also drag the entire village down. The money the village has spent is destined to be lost, so it would be better to simply exterminate them from the clan.
Anyway, even if he were to be exterminated, he would still be in the right, and he wouldn't have to pay any money, which is perfect.
However, Tie's parents refused, saying they would hang themselves at their ancestral grave if they didn't bring their son back.
This was disgusting, and the Tie clan chief didn't want to cause trouble for himself, so he had no choice but to take the ten taels of silver that the Tie family had scraped together to bring people over.
Upon hearing Chief Tie lower the price from thirty taels to ten taels, Huang Shi felt a chill run down his spine, as if he had swallowed a fly. "Who do you think cares about ten taels of silver? If you don't like it, just send it to the government!"
He realized that it wasn't surprising that the three Tie brothers could do such a thing; the Tie family was inherently evil.
It's truly bizarre that someone in the village would do such a thing without feeling ashamed or repenting to their ancestors, but instead worry about the money!
"Give them away or not, it's up to you," Chief Tie said, completely unconcerned. "The moment you hand them over to the officials, I'll erase all three of their names from the family genealogy."
These shameless words infuriated the people of Huangjiakou.
"Have you no shame?" Brother Huang said, his face flushed. "You'll do anything, no matter how underhanded, just to avoid paying money!"
Although these three people are not of good character, exterminating their entire clan is too severe. This clearly shows that they are not going to leave the three of them any way out.
After being expelled from the clan, everything in their home became irrelevant to them. They lost their land, and their status changed from law-abiding citizens to vagrants. How difficult it was for them to survive!
Unless you go to the palace to become a eunuch!
“What makes you say that?” Chief Tie said indignantly. “Such unworthy descendants only bring shame to our ancestors. What’s wrong with me cleaning up the family?”
"Tch," Huang Youquan said, "You talk so nicely, but you're just unwilling to spend the money."
Huang Youquan suddenly realized something: all the clan leaders are incredibly cunning. The previous clan leader was like that, and so was the one from Tiejiazhuang. These people only care about whether there is any benefit in doing things, and they don't care about conscience at all.
Following a clan leader like that, let alone getting soup, it's already difficult enough to ensure you won't be abandoned.
Fortunately, Huangjiakou is not like that.
Once again, Huang Youquan was grateful that the villagers had changed their clan leader, and he no longer had to worry about being betrayed by the clan.
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