Jiang Minchang still had a handkerchief covering his forehead; he had been frightened last night and was truly ill.
Are you sick?
As his own brother, the clan chief was concerned about his health first.
"I was also frightened. The doctor has already examined me. I'm sorry to have worried you, brother."
After welcoming the person into the house and pulling up a stool for them to sit down, Jiang Minchang then began to speak in a feigned manner.
Originally, the clan chief's anger had subsided somewhat because Jiang Minchang was ill. However, his words successfully ignited the clan chief's anger, and his face immediately darkened.
"Seventh Brother, your wife went to Anliang's house early this morning and said that Bai Yatou stole your chickens and even dressed up as a ghost to scare you. Did you know about this?"
"This... Brother, I'm really sorry to trouble you with such a small thing. It's also our fault for not teaching that girl well, which is why she did such a thing."
Jiang Minchang looked ashamed, as if he was genuinely embarrassed, but in reality, he was indirectly admitting what Wang had said.
The clan chief was angry, and seeing his expression, he offered a word of advice: "They say you have to catch a thief red-handed and a convict in the act. Without any evidence, how can you be so sure that it was Bai Yatou who did it?"
Jiang Minchang looked up in confusion at Wang Shi. Wang Shi was about to speak, but was glared at by the clan leader and shut up.
“We didn’t see any chickens at Anliang’s house, but we did see chicken feathers in your yard.”
"Seventh brother, you are grandparents, and you are all old. How can you do something like killing a chicken and wrongly accusing your granddaughter? Don't you have any shame?" The clan leader's tone turned reprimanding towards the end.
Jiang Minchang paused for a moment, then looked towards the door of the main room and saw something drying in the courtyard.
It should be chicken feathers.
He cursed his family members inwardly, calling them all idiots for leaving chicken feathers out to dry in the yard.
“Brother, even if she didn’t steal the chicken, last night, my wife and I, along with Anlin, were really kidnapped and taken to Anliang’s grave. She was the one who pretended to be a ghost to scare us. My illness was caused by her.”
It's clearly Jiang Baigan, why doesn't the clan chief believe it?
Jiang Minchang tried to explain.
But the clan chief was even less convinced and scolded, "Seventh brother, you must be getting old and senile. How old is Bai girl? Look at her. If you didn't want to, do you think she could have kidnapped the three of you to the mountain without you even noticing? Does she have some kind of magical power?"
Jiang Bai stood there delicately, and no one could honestly say that she could kidnap Jiang Minchang and the other two to the mountain.
However, only the Jiang family knew that she truly had this ability; she had single-handedly defeated more than a dozen of them.
Divine intervention?
It is not always absent.
Jiang Minchang felt a lingering fear. This girl was incredibly wicked; she must have used some kind of divine means to get them out. Now, his elder brother didn't believe him at all, so he could only wait until they were sent away and then ask a sorceress to deal with her.
"Brother, I was wrong. It was because the three of us had the same dream and saw Bai Yatou in the dream that we suspected it was her."
"Da Ya, Grandpa apologizes to you. Please don't be angry with Grandpa and Grandma, okay?"
Jiang Bai waved his hands repeatedly, terrified. As if his legs had gone weak from fright, he knelt down immediately: "Grandpa, no, no, you are right no matter what you say. We only beg you to have pity on us and return the things we took from our home so that we can have something to eat."
At this moment, the clan chief spoke up slowly: "We came here today for the same reason. Anliang still has a son, so the family line hasn't ended. Take out all the things you took from his house. There are a lot of people here, so I'll have someone carry them all home for Bai Yatou, so that An Lin and the others won't have to do it."
Originally, the people from the old house were to return it themselves, and they were given three days. However, less than a day later, another problem arose.
The crops in the fields haven't been doing well lately, and the water level in the river has dropped significantly. The clan chief didn't want to get involved in their family's troubles every few days, so he decided to resolve the matter since there were many onlookers today.
"Thank you, Grandpa."
"Thank you, elders."
Jiang Bai moved swiftly, and before Jiang Minchang could react, he kowtowed to the clan chief and then to the villagers who were watching the commotion.
Jiang Minchang's face stiffened, and he tried to calm down: "Brother, these things haven't been counted yet. Why don't we wait until we've counted them and then have An Lin and the others deliver them to Daya?"
“That’s right, brother. These things have been mixed together for a long time. We can’t just move ours too.”
Wang quickly responded.
"Uncle, please give us some more time."
"We'll deliver it once you've ordered it."
Liu and Zhang's expressions also changed. They had originally planned to hide the grain in the mountains tonight and then say that they had eaten all the grain. The clan chief couldn't force them to hand over the grain.
I didn't expect the clan chief and the others to come today.
Unfortunately, with so many people watching, there was no time to hide.
"Alright, that's settled then. Bai Ya has already told us what An Liang's family has. We all saw it when An Liang was holding his funeral. Let's quickly take out our things and move them away so we can eat and get back to work in the fields."
The clan chief made the final decision, and there was no room for negotiation.
Even if they were unwilling, they dared not contradict the clan leader because they were in the wrong.
Jiang Bai and Jiang Lu, the two sisters, busied themselves, pointing out all the things that belonged to their family.
The old house is actually quite large, but with so many people, it's crowded and there's hardly any room to move.
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