It shattered my worldview.
The matchmaker said,
"You shameless old hag, your whole family eats and drinks my daughter's food, and you don't even know how to be grateful."
How dare you torment my daughter, making her stay with you, you old hag, every day, not letting the young couple sleep together? How can she possibly have a child?
Taking advantage of this opportunity, you secretly arranged for your son and niece to get together.
She's heavily pregnant now, and she's bringing up my daughter's inability to have children again.
If we're talking about cunning, no one is as cunning as the Ma family. To put it bluntly, you old woman Ma are nothing but pimps.
They even asked my daughter for money. My daughter's money was all part of my dowry.
What's wrong? Has your Ma family become so dependent on your wives?
Do they think I, Granny Xi, am easy to bully? If I'm easy to bully, then these men behind me aren't either.
As soon as the matchmaker finished speaking, the men behind her moved in perfect unison.
"Yes, we are not easy to bully. We are here today to seek justice."
The matchmaker paused for a moment, then grinned, realizing the money was well spent.
"See? These are the men who came to seek justice for my daughter after hearing about your family's wicked behavior."
We are reasonable people, and today we must clearly distinguish who is right and who is wrong.
Let's start by discussing this: with the principal wife still alive, it's one thing for you to take a concubine, but...
But what you're doing now is clearly following the proper procedures for getting married. What do you call that?
As the matchmaker spoke, she turned her face toward Wang Huaijing.
"Bigamy," Wang Huaijing said calmly.
"Yes, bigamy is a crime that is punishable by law in our Divine Dragon Kingdom. It is contempt of the law."
Furthermore, you even dared to try to make your concubine rise above the wife; that deserves 20 strokes of the cane as well.
That's not all. You old hag, you come up here and ask my daughter for money. There has never been a reason for a husband's family to embezzle his daughter-in-law's dowry.
Also, my daughter brought 10 acres of land as her dowry. That's what gave me confidence.
Based on my daughter's appetite, the harvest from two acres of land a year is enough for her to eat. Where did the harvest from the remaining eight acres go?
Did they all end up in your stomachs?
They're all ingrates.
"Eating from the bowl and cursing the mother" perfectly describes you Ma family members, you beasts.
Hey, you little vixen over there, you must be Ma Wangcai's sister, right? You shameless bastard, how come the fabric I kept as my daughter's treasured possession is now on your body?
And you shameless old woman, how did my daughter's hairpin and earring end up on your head?
Hey, isn't that Ma Wangcai's second sister-in-law? Haha, why don't you just come to my house and pack all my daughter's clothes for her to wear?
Look at all these clothes she's wearing; they're all the clothes my daughter Pandi wore when she was a girl. She's so comfortable in them.
Your old man is even more shameless. Your wife is shameless, but you are even more shameless.
Your wife has your daughter-in-law serving her at bedside, you old fool, don't you know how to avoid suspicion? You shameless bastard, are you trying to commit incest?
Also, the fabric of the dress you're wearing is probably my daughter's most treasured possession.
Hehehe, your Ma family is truly rotten to the core. You eat the blood of your daughter-in-law, do all sorts of bad things, and still feel smug about it.
"Scholar Wang, I can't take this anymore! I'm going to sue this whole family. What crime can the county magistrate possibly punish them for?"
The matchmaker then conveniently pushed Wang Huaijing to the forefront.
Wang Huaijing stepped forward.
"I am Wang Huaijing, a new candidate in this year's imperial examination."
Entrusted by Xi Chunhua, I came here specifically to seek justice for her daughter.
"I intend to take this matter to the authorities today. Where is your village chief?"
The Ma family's celebration drew almost the entire village to watch. The Ma family had previously invited the village chief to their wedding banquet, but the village chief, feeling that the Ma family was dishonest, did not attend.
He was watching the commotion from outside the circle. When someone called him, he had no choice but to come in from outside.
"Sir, I am the village head of Hegou Village. May I ask what brings you here?"
The village chief's surname is Yuan and his given name is Cheng.
He was a lean old man with clear eyes. From his aged face, one could tell that he had been a handsome young man in his youth.
Wang Huaijing returned the greeting very politely and said,
"Greetings, Village Chief. The Ma family has married without the consent of the legitimate wife, which violates the laws of the Divine Dragon Kingdom."
Today we will send the Ma family members to the authorities for investigation.
Furthermore, since the Ma family had embezzled Xi's dowry, the village chief was asked to find some old women to remove Xi's dowry from these shameless people.
"And help me inventory the dowry, so that I can explain things clearly when I present myself to the magistrate."
Previously, Old Lady Ma had been shouting loudly, but now, seeing the group of burly men and a scholar who had come with Xi and her daughter, she wilted.
They saw the village chief was taking stock of their belongings, preparing to count Xi Pandi's dowry.
The old woman got anxious.
If this were to be inventoried, the shameful fact that his family had embezzled his daughter-in-law's dowry would be confirmed.
These past few days, while Xipandi was away from home, they brazenly divided up all the things Xipandi had brought.
As for what she had previously stolen, she could still lie and say it was given to her by Xi Pandi.
But now that they're not home, everything in the house has been divided up, especially the rooms, which have now been turned into new rooms. What are we going to do?
If their family's reputation is ruined in the future, their grandsons will have a hard time finding wives.
As for whether it would affect her daughter's marriage, she didn't even think about it. Anyway, her daughter wouldn't have trouble getting married, so she could just ask for less dowry.
If all else fails, just sell it; you can still get money that way.
He stretched out his arms, forming a starfish shape, and stood at the door of the new house.
"No, you can't go in and search. This is a new house, and it's bad luck to disturb anything in a new house."
An old woman said disdainfully,
"A new house? Didn't you hear what that scholar said? Your marriage is problematic from the start, it's not right."
This can hardly be called a new house; it's more like a filthy den for adulterers.
The old woman's words were a slap in the face to the bride, Lan Caiye.
They'd been called adulterers, how could they swallow that insult? They reached up and lifted the veil.
"You old hag, who are you calling an adulterer and adulteress?"
Naxi was a barren hen.
She should have been divorced long ago. She insists on clinging to her cousin; clearly, she's the shameless one.
Xi Pandi came today just to fight, and now that his mother and Wang Juren have set up such a big stage for him...
If she doesn't take a gamble, how can she justify all the humiliation she's suffered over the past few years?
He rolled up his sleeves and rushed forward, grabbed the bride's hair bun, and slapped her several times.
Ma Wangcai felt sorry for Xi Pandi and was about to hit her when the "thugs" behind the matchmaker couldn't stand it anymore. Several of them rushed over and grabbed Ma Wangcai.
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