Chapter 188 Long-term Vision
Ma Zhongping was furious and shouted at Hu Guangcong, "What are you doing? Go away!"
Hu Guangcong easily subdued the man and remained unmoved by his shouts. What a joke! Could he really order him around?
Old Mrs. Ma came to her senses and also became furious, "Yes, we caught someone cheating, what does it have to do with you?" Damn these people, they ruined her business!
"Do you know that if you hit him with this blow, he will die?"
Xue Xu pointed at Ma Zhongping and said, "If he dies, you'll have to pay for his life." Then he looked around and said, "And then you won't be able to escape jail!"
Xue Xu looked like a wise man like a yamen clerk, and he was quite intimidating. Those who came under his gaze were all members of the Ma family, and they immediately scattered.
Relying on her age, Old Lady Ma stepped forward and tried to push Xue Xu, but was stopped by the soldiers of the reconnaissance team.
"Stop talking nonsense! Even if he's dead, it's what he deserves. Who made him so morally corrupt as to steal the women of our Ma family? Adulterer and adulteress! Bah!"
"We didn't! My cousin just came to Majia Village to seek justice for me!" Qi Zhenniang kept denying it.
"You still deny it? You still deny it? You have brought shame to our Ma family." Old Mrs. Ma rushed towards Qi Zhenniang. She had already seen a stone on the ground. She just needed to pick up the stone and smash it on the head of the half-conscious man, and everything would be settled.
But she was stopped and couldn't even get within three steps of Qi Zhenniang, let alone her cousin.
Old Ma rushed towards her son and started to curse him, "Are you dead? Didn't you see your mother being bullied?"
Ma Zhongping's blush had faded by now, and he stammered, "Mother—"
"Useless thing!" Old Mrs. Ma said hatefully.
Among the onlookers, Qin Zhao whispered to Qin Heng, "Brother, did that man take Wushisan?"
Qin Heng nodded and said, "It looks like it." The man named Ma Zhongping looked very much like the one with the five-stone hair style just now.
The two men looked at each other. The Ma family didn't look wealthy, and Ma Zhongping looked like the least favored child in the family. His wife said that the family was extremely poor, so how could he still take Wu Shi San?
The Qin brothers now noticed something strange.
Just now, the two brothers noticed that when Ah Sheng saw the man, he wanted to help, so he thought he knew him. Now that Xue Xu and Hu Guangcong had both made a move, it was clear that the sixth brother's wife wanted to take care of this matter.
Old Ma cried out, "Is there no one in our Majia Village? Village chief, where are you? My life is so miserable. My son is useless, my daughter-in-law was stolen, and I am even bullied by outsiders..."
No matter how much Old Lady Ma cried, the people on Lu Songli's side remained unmoved.
The people of Majia Village were frightened by the force displayed by these strangers and did not dare to act rashly.
For a time, the two sides were in a stalemate.
At Lu Songli's signal, the people on her side gave Meng Yun some hemostatic medicine.
Old Mrs. Ma was still crying.
Xue Xu: Who would rush to put the blame on himself?
If she really disliked Qi Zhenniang as a daughter-in-law, she could have asked her to divorce her son and dismissed him. But she refused to let him divorce her and instead kept shouting about killing him, wanting to kill him. Her behavior was very strange and contradictory.
Xue Xu didn't know the specific reason, but he took such a big risk and did so much, it could only be because of profit. And this profit should be related to the injured man.
Lu Songli told Xue Xu some basic information, "The unconscious man is named Meng Yun, and he was my husband's former soldier. My husband gave him the one hundred hectares of land in Longcheng to guard a long time ago." Her words revealed a lot of information, but she felt that she had to tell him some necessary information so that he would have an idea.
It is certain that there is someone behind Old Lady Ma, but I don't know whether it is the clan power or the government power? These two forces are the ones they cannot avoid in their attempt to seize other people's property.
Lu Songli was more inclined to believe the Ma family's backers were government officials. Longcheng wasn't far from Liucheng, but to uncover the details of that hundred hectares of land, one would need considerable power, and clans weren't nearly as powerful. Furthermore, government influence was more difficult to avoid than clans.
Xue Xu calculated that the 100 hectares of land in Longcheng was worth 20,000 to 30,000 taels. This meant that these 100 hectares had already been allocated before the Qin family's misfortune. Furthermore, had his Sixth Young Master's wife foreseen the Qin family's calamity? Furthermore, if one were to speculate further, the Qin family was implicated in the Crown Prince's death, was she...
Xue Xu's mind raced, and his thoughts drifted far away. The more he thought about it, the more unfathomable she seemed to him.
He likes this kind of lord with a long-term vision!
Xue Xu suppressed the excitement in his heart and brought his mind back to the current incident.
He nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
Lu Songli only said this one sentence, and Xue Xu instantly understood the cause of the disaster, what Old Lady Ma was planning, and why she was determined to kill the two of them.
He took control of his granddaughter who had an ear disease and, through the relationship between her mother and Meng Yun's cousin, was able to get his hands on the 100 hectares of land under Meng Yun's name.
In fact, this relationship is a bit forced, so there must be someone behind Mrs. Ma.
He and Lu Songli had the same guess about the person behind the scenes. Old Lady Ma dared to be so arrogant, and the power behind her was about to be revealed.
But this problem is easy to solve, there are three solutions: good, medium and bad.
The worst option was to help them divorce and sever Qi Zhenniang's relationship with her husband's family. Or, to let Meng Yun marry a wife, so that the Ma family wouldn't be able to cause trouble. But then, we had to be careful that the person he married wasn't someone else's choice for him.
The middle strategy is to let Meng Yun transfer the land under his name to someone else.
In fact, the most permanent solution is to deal with the person behind the problem, which is also the best policy. If the source is not solved, there will always be endless troubles.
Xue Xu whispered his plan one by one, and finally said, "The key is to deal with the person behind the scenes."
Of course, Lu Songli understood that the person behind the scenes, besides the officials in Liucheng, should be another person, and that person was none other than Xie Zhan.
When the engagement was cancelled, the Lu family asked for the 100 hectares of land in Longcheng as compensation, which was indeed rather abrupt.
The Qin family lost 20% of their wealth, and Xie Zhan should have guessed that the 100 hectares of land had gone from being owned openly to being owned secretly.
Both sides now know that the other side holds the wealth trump card, and he did this just to stop them.
Later, information Lü Songli gathered confirmed his suspicions. The 100 hectares of land in Longcheng were coveted because of rumors of a potential gold mine.
Lu Songli: ...Very good, he has learned her trick of making something out of nothing.
Xie Zhan's learning ability is amazing.
But that is a matter for later. No matter which strategy is used now, there is one prerequisite, which is to rescue Meng Yun first.
Meng Yun is a man who lacks ability, but his loyalty is unquestionable.
Lu Songli could understand this. After all, she was born in the countryside and the education level here was lower. In addition, soldiers didn't have so many twists and turns in their minds. Then, she was manipulated by others unintentionally and ended up in this situation. There was nothing she could do about it.
Just as Lu Songli and Xue Xu had decided on a plan, they heard cheers from the people of Majia Village.
"The village chief is here!"
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