Upon seeing this, the couple from the second wife grimaced and quietly retreated, keeping their distance from Jiang Bai.
The children of the second wife were also shrewd. They followed their parents closely, quietly retreating until they reached the courtyard gate, a place where they could run away at any moment, before stopping.
Their retreat revealed the eldest son's family, and Jiang Bai's gaze naturally fell upon them.
Liu, the wife of Jiang Songzong.
Jiang Songhu's wife, Zhang.
The eldest son and his wife, and the two brothers Jiang Songzong and Jiang Songhu.
Liu kept her head down and clutched her stomach, avoiding both Jiang Songzong and Jiang Anlin and his wife.
Zhang also lowered her head, doing the same thing as Liu.
interesting.
Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow. From Madam Lin down to her daughters-in-law, they were all unusually quiet. They weren't like this when they were robbing things last time. Could something have happened that she didn't know about?
Before even entering the courtyard, they heard wails. The clan chief, the village head, and a group of elders quickened their pace and entered to witness a scene that left them speechless.
"Bai girl, what... what's going on?"
The clan leader's face darkened as he looked at Jiang Bai, the only one standing in the arena.
"Grandpa."
Finally, the person they were waiting for arrived. Jiang Bai glanced at Ji Yanwen, who followed him in, and quickly straightened his gaze. He bowed to the clan leader and then stood up before answering, "I don't know what happened. As soon as I woke up, I heard my uncles shouting for Er Ya to get out."
“I really don’t know how we offended them, that they would be so relentless in their pursuit of us sisters.”
Jiang Bai opened the closed door and called Jiang Lu out.
"hiss"
The moment they saw Jiang Lu, the clan leader and the others couldn't help but gasp.
Even Jiang Anlin and the others were startled.
Jiang Lu's left side of her face was swollen high, and her left eye could only be seen through a slit. Her hair was also messy, and a clump of bloody scalp could be seen.
Jiang Bai pulled Jiang Luchao and the clan chief to kneel down, and tears welled up in his eyes.
"Grandpa, you have to stand up for us! We sisters are being bullied to death!"
"You watched us grow up, please save us, Grandpa."
Jiang Lufu was moved by her plight and began to sob. As she cried, she was filled with fear and terror as she thought about everything she had suffered that day, and her cries were filled with indescribable despair.
The wailing that filled the yard was gone; only the cries of the two sisters remained.
The clan chief was filled with mixed feelings. He glanced at the messy house and the many villagers who had come to watch the commotion. He knew that if this matter wasn't handled properly, it would be difficult to salvage.
"Uncle, don't listen to this girl's nonsense. What do you mean by bullying her to death? It's clearly that Jiang Lu is an unfilial girl. She even dared to hit her grandmother. You didn't see it. My mother is such an old woman. She came here to see if they needed any help. Who would have thought that after she went back, her hand was broken? Tell me, what kind of grudge is this? How could this girl even lay a hand on her own grandmother?"
"My poor old mother, she raised us brothers with great difficulty, and now, in her old age, she has to bury her children. She came to help her two granddaughters out of love, but her dearest granddaughters cruelly broke her hands."
"Uncle, you must stand up for us!"
Jiang Anlin's eyes were red and filled with grief. He cried with genuine emotion, determined not to give Jiang Bai a chance to distort the truth.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Lu angrily raised her head. It was clearly her grandmother who wanted to sell them; what was this about helping out? He was lying.
Fearing that her grandfather, the clan chief, would believe him, Jiang Lu immediately wanted to refute him, but was pulled back by Jiang Bai, who had been watching her closely.
Unable to refute, she could only glare fiercely at Jiang Anlin, and with her injured face, she looked rather frightening.
"Uncle, look at this girl's eyes, they're like a wolf cub's. She doesn't even respect us elders anymore!" Jiang Anlin was startled by Jiang Lü's eyes. Coupled with his guilty conscience, he was already in his fifties and sixties, yet he still complained.
When the clan leaders looked up, they were indeed startled to see Jiang Lu's fierce and bloodshot eyes.
"Grandpa, look, this is our own uncle." Jiang Bai looked at the clan leader with tears in his eyes.
She didn't know about others, but she knew that this clan chief wasn't a fool, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Ji Yanwen to summon people.
“My uncle said that my grandmother came to lend us a hand, but when my father passed away and was buried, it was the villagers who helped us.”
“After my father passed away, before the seven-day mourning period was over, they came to our door, took away our grain, stole our house and land deeds, and even took away our family’s household registration documents.”
“Now that I am still unwell, my grandmother has come to our door again, wanting to sell both my sister and me.”
Jiang Bai burst into tears, while Jiang Lu clenched her fists, wishing she could hit that old hag again.
"What?"
"How dare the Wang family be so arrogant?"
"Who gave her permission to sell people?"
People's lives haven't reached the point of desperation and being unable to afford food, so how could they have to sell their children?
This is a disgrace to the entire Jiangjia Village.
“You’re talking nonsense! Your grandmother was the best person ever. How could she do something as cruel as selling her granddaughter? You’ve really lost your conscience. How can you face your deceased father?” Jiang Anlin’s heart skipped a beat, and she immediately retorted.
"It was clearly Jiang Lu who broke your grandmother's hand. You're slandering her here to protect her. Da Ya, do you have any conscience?"
Jiang Anlin's acting was so realistic; he truly portrayed the anger of a mother who had been wronged.
"I injured Granny Wang's hand."
Ji Yanwen stepped out from behind the crowd.
The clan chief's face darkened.
Ji Xiucai is from another village.
"I wonder what Scholar Ji meant by what he just said?"
The clan chief was dissatisfied, but he didn't show it on his face. After all, he was a scholar, and he still had to give him some face.
"Chief Jiang, this is quite a coincidence."
"I came to Jiangjia Village today to take care of some trivial matters. I didn't expect to hear some noises when I passed by this house."
"I know that eavesdropping is not the behavior of a gentleman, but the person who spoke was too cruel."
Before Ji Yanwen could finish speaking, Jiang Anlin sensed something was wrong and interrupted him directly: "Scholar Ji, this is a matter between our Jiang family. As an outsider, you shouldn't get involved."
It seems that the man his mother mentioned who helped Jiang Lu snatch the documents was this Scholar Ji.
He glared at him viciously. If it weren't for his meddling, those two girls would have already signed their indentures, and all this trouble wouldn't have happened. He hadn't even bothered to cause him any trouble, yet he had jumped out on his own.
“Uncle Jiang, perhaps you can’t hear well. I said that I hit Granny Wang’s hand. Since that’s the case, how can I stand aside?”
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