"Why should I? Sister-in-law, don't push your luck!" Fan Qian's face darkened, and his tone became icy.
Shui Qing was not afraid at all, and said with her head held high, "Just because you pushed Xing Hui away! My request is reasonable."
"you"
"I, as an old man, also think it's reasonable!"
An aged voice rang out, and everyone turned to look.
An elderly man leaning on a wooden cane walked over step by step.
He is the former village chief of Shanshui Village!
The crowd quickly made way for the old village chief to walk to the front.
Fan Qian had originally wanted to ask who thought it was reasonable to stand up, but now that he saw the old village chief who had already stood up, he silently shut his mouth.
Shanshui Village is a village with multiple surnames, but villagers of seven or eight surnames highly approve of the old village chief because he handles matters fairly and justly!
It's convincing.
"Brother Fan, your Fan family has always lived a good life. You just divided the family property yesterday, and today you're already robbing the second brother's family?" The old village chief asked, his sharp eyes fixed on Fan Qian.
Sun Jinhua tried to speak, but the old village chief glanced at her and asked, "Do you want to be taken to the government or be dealt with according to village rules?"
Go back to your Sun family home; you are no longer a villager of Shanshui Village!
Sun Jinhua shook her head vigorously, just thinking about her family.
She couldn't go back; she had the best food and did the least work at the Fan family's house.
At the Sun family home, her mother would scold her and pinch her. She could forget about eating any steamed buns, and even the wild vegetable porridge was the thinnest kind, barely enough to fill her stomach.
She never wanted to wake up hungry in the middle of the night again!
"Since you don't want to, then I'll tell you: First, return all the mushrooms, not a single one less;
Secondly, Sun Jinhua robbed the second wife's property, so she should compensate the second wife with a bag of rice. From now on, without the second wife's consent, no one from the first wife's family is allowed to go to the fields or forests to pick anything!
"Sun Jinhua injured someone first, and it's a fact that Er Ya was injured. You should compensate her so she can see a doctor and get medicine."
When Fan's mother heard the first item, she had no objection. But when she heard the second item, she couldn't sit still anymore: a bag of rice!
That's rice! It's worth at least nine hundred coins. She only gets to eat a bowl of rice during festivals, and she's giving it away to that brat Er Ya.
Unexpectedly, there was a third thing. She rushed out and shouted, "Silver? What silver? We don't have any silver to pay!"
"Alright, since there's no money to compensate, let's give Er Ya the six chickens in the yard to help her recover," the old village chief said calmly and without getting angry.
Fan's mother stood there, stunned.
The villagers who had gathered around to watch the spectacle burst out laughing.
"Haha, it has to be the old village chief!"
"Let's see if you dare to bully the second branch again. Now that the family has split up, there are two families. You didn't even bother to pick up the leftovers, and you tried to forcibly take them. Our Shanshui Village will not tolerate this."
Villagers who had previously helped the old village chief in upholding justice declared: "Brother Fan, if you're not satisfied with what the old village chief said, then both of you should go see the authorities or have the village rules take action!"
The villagers, who had previously been severely punished by the old village chief, were overjoyed to see the dejected Fan family. They exclaimed, "The country has its laws, and the family has its rules. You used to say the same thing to me."
Oh, by the way, you also said that although our village is poor, we've always been reasonable. What's wrong? Now your family doesn't want to be reasonable anymore?
Fan Dazhu and the other three couldn't stand it any longer and rushed out, pleading with their father and grandmother: "Father, please don't let Mother be punished according to the village rules. If she goes back to the Sun family, Grandmother will definitely beat Mother to death."
"Grandma, please give it to me, for the sake of the four grandsons your mother gave you."
"Yes, Grandma, are our four grandsons really worth less than a bag of rice and a few chickens?"
Mother cannot return to the Sun family!
If my mother is gone, my father will definitely remarry. With a stepmother comes a stepfather, and who knows who will own all these things?
Sun Jinhua was moved to tears.
Sons are the best!
She glanced at the girl next to her. That brat was of no use at all except telling her not to steal Da Ya and Er Ya's mushrooms!
Mother Fan's face was extremely pale.
Her grandsons are her guarantee in her old age and the continuation of the Fan family line; she cannot afford to upset her four grandsons.
She looked at the sharp-eyed old village chief and compromised, "...Okay."
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