Grandma Gu: ...
She silently pulled Grandma Xiao several steps to the side, clearly disgusted with the second family.
What are they all doing? They're just going to get to work!
This is setting a bad example for my two granddaughters! Give them a beating until they submit; it's not like I can't beat them!
"Oh dear! Look at this pitiful family! The man of the family has been wronged because someone had designs on the women and their money-making schemes. The head of the family, an official, has come to arrest them, and now his son has the opportunity to get the money-making schemes and take advantage of the women! Is there no justice in this world?!" Da Zi shouted loudly.
"Fellow villagers! Are you just going to stand by and watch this corrupt official and his family bully the poor Gu family? Haven't you heard the saying 'When the rabbit dies, the fox feels sorrow'? What if one day someone suddenly discovers an ancestral skill and this corrupt official tries to seize it for himself? The fate of the Cheng family today will be the fate of you in the future! Fellow villagers! Let's fight back!" Madam Li said passionately.
Cai Xiaolian was almost unable to cry anymore. With Sister Luo's energy, she could be a brainwashing lecturer in modern times, right?
Grandma Gu sighed and asked, "What kind of friends does my second daughter-in-law have?"
"Bring Cheng Rui out to confront us! Bring Cheng Rui out to confront us!" Gu Shouxin shouted excitedly, shaking Lord Cheng.
The constables were in a dilemma. The man was surrounded by several young girls, and a martial arts expert was watching from the side. They couldn't break in and couldn't save the adult!
"Yes! Let Cheng Rui come out and give us an explanation!" Madam Li raised her hand and shouted.
"Bring Cheng Rui out and give us an explanation!" the people shouted.
Cai Xiaolian got up and joined the crowd in shouting.
The commotion outside had already reached the inner quarters.
Cheng Rui, who had been recuperating for a month, was almost fully recovered. He and Madam Cheng sat in the room, listening to the maid come and report every now and then.
"Rui'er! You actually wrote it for someone? Why did you leave evidence?" Madam Cheng roared in exasperation.
“Mother, they’re a bunch of bandits. If I don’t write it down, they won’t believe I’ll give them money. They just want to use this to blackmail me into giving them money!” Cheng Rui explained.
"What? Bandits? You actually hired bandits to kill and burn!" Madam Cheng slapped Cheng Rui across the face. "Foolish! You're so foolish!"
"Oh no, Madam, Young Master, the people are storming into the inner quarters! They want the eldest young master to give them an explanation!" A maid rushed in.
"Where is the master?" Madam Cheng asked in surprise.
"Sir, sir, he's surrounded by Gu Shouxin and several of the Gu family's children. The constables are no match for that young man from the Gu family," the maid reported, bowing her head.
"Where did the Gu family get this young man from!" Madam Cheng knew about the Gu family; the only one who could be called a young man, Gu Lao Si, was an honest carpenter.
“I know, it’s Zhou Yuan! The grand-nephew of Master Zhou from Zhoujia Town, rumored to be the heir to the Zhou family’s vast wealth!” Cheng Rui said sinisterly.
"Could it be that he's getting involved with that brat Gu Nian?" Madam Cheng said angrily.
What you think in your heart is what you see in your eyes.
Ever since the Gu family embarrassed the Cheng family, Madam Cheng has thought that Gu Nian is a seductive vixen.
Gu Xin is still growing up, so no one would think about her.
"Definitely! Humph! A bunch of troublemakers!" Cheng Rui's anger intensified.
"It's terrible! Madam, young master, officials from the prefectural city have arrived at the yamen. The magistrate has been taken into custody, and the prefectural city's soldiers have come to arrest the young master!" At this moment, a servant rushed in to report.
In the courtroom, a plump official in official robes sat in the head seat, while several burly men joined the courtroom.
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