Zhou Xiang understood Erya's mother's intention, and when he heard Erya calling, he simply responded.
"Hey! Here, this is given by my aunt. Use it to buy some candy."
He took out a few bills and handed one to Erya.
Tiedan was smart. He immediately pushed aside Erya who had received the money and stood in front of Zhou Xiang. "Hello, Fifth Auntie!"
"Okay! Here, use it to buy some candy!"
Tiedan pulled the other boy and said, "Potato, call Fifth Aunt."
The boy shouted shyly, and Zhou Xiang also gave him one.
Erya's mother pulled Xiaohua over and said, "Xiaohua, call for help."
"Fifth Aunt!"
"Okay, here! I'll buy you some candy."
The four children were very happy looking at the money in their hands, and they didn't feel awkward calling a ten-year-old "Auntie".
"Okay, I'll trouble you to clean up the pots and pans. I'm leaving now."
"No need to bother, no need to bother. Aren't you going to have lunch at my house?"
"No, I'm going to my great-grandfather's house to eat. Tiedan, after dinner, come to Nanhu to play with me!"
"Okay, I'll definitely go."
Zhou Xiang strolled back to Nanhu and happened to meet Zhou Yong.
"Think about it, where have you been? We've been looking for you everywhere!"
"Why are you looking for me? It's not like you're going to get lost."
"Grandpa is looking for you, and he also called your second uncle, third uncle, and fifth uncle."
"A trial by four judges?"
"That's about right! This time, my dad is going to be in big trouble."
"What about you? Don't you have a share? Aren't you also a fool?"
Zhou Yong's face fell. "No one escaped. All of them, including the aunt who brought that outsider to my father."
"Who is it?"
"Zhou Jun's mother, your aunt."
"Oh! Another troublemaker."
"You're right. She's always meddling in other people's affairs. It's so annoying."
The great-grandfather's yard was full of people. When they saw Zhou Xiang, they all smiled with wrinkles on their faces.
"Think about it, where did you go to play?"
"Fifth Uncle, I'm going to Beihu."
"Okay, there are a lot of kids over there, and you'll have company. Let's rest at home today! There are still many things to do, and I can't handle them all at once."
Zhou Xiang looked at his father and saw that his father was looking at him with pleading eyes.
So, he nodded.
Zhou Quan breathed a sigh of relief. After his little girl left, he told her what had happened over the past year. His uncle then gathered his old brothers, closed the door, and whispered for a while.
Then he said that he would handle his cousin's affairs according to his daughter's instructions.
But he asked me to take my daughter to rest in my hometown, saying that he had something to discuss with her.
He agreed, but also said that it was only this time, and that he was not allowed to disturb his daughter with matters concerning Zhoujia Village in the future.
My uncle and the others also agreed.
Seeing this, the great grandfather began to announce how to deal with the matter of the great uncle.
"Zhou Yiwen, unmotivated, abusive to his wife and children, unreasonable, five lashes.
Zhou Yong, who listened to slander, disrespected his stepmother, and abused his stepbrother, was flogged eight times.
Zhou Yue, unable to distinguish right from wrong, disrespectful to his mother, and stealing money, shall be lashed ten times."
The crowd watching the excitement was in an uproar. Was he going to be severely punished? Was he going to be dealt with according to the clan rules?
Second Grandfather stood up and said, "What you see today is your future. If you make such a mistake in the future, you will be punished by the family law."
The crowd immediately fell silent. This was a warning to others! No wonder they opened the gates today and invited people like them to come and watch.
Zhou Yiwen lay quietly on a long bench, his mind extremely clear. He had been thinking since he entered the village. Thinking back from nineteen years ago, he realized that he had been blinded by jealousy.
Zhao Hedi's ex-husband, jealous of her, abused Erchao to cover up his own jealousy towards her gentleness and kindness, which made him appear to be rude and vulgar in contrast.
He used beatings and scoldings to hide his feelings for her and to hide the coveting of her by other men in the village.
Sure enough, after her face was covered with scars, no man came to visit her house anymore.
How wonderful! What you can’t get is like a piece of trash to me.
With this mentality, I found that kind of perverted pleasure.
It’s no wonder Zhou wanted to call himself stupid. He really is stupid. It took him nearly twenty years to understand his abnormal psychology.
Fight! Use the pain of the body to share some of the pain in your heart, otherwise, you will feel like you can't breathe.
Two strong young men from the village were selected and the uncle was whipped five times. The clothes on his back were torn, but there was no bleeding, so the man must have held back.
When Zhou Yong was pressed on the big bench, Zhou wanted to stand next to his second grandfather and said, "Wait a minute."
Second Grandfather gestured to the two villagers who were enforcing the family law to wait a moment, and asked in a friendly manner, "Think about it, what do you have to say?"
It was the first time that the young villagers saw the second village elder smile. He always scolded the younger generations with a stern face, and it was rare to see him even smile.
It seems that this Fifth Aunt is not simple!
"The family rules for Zhou Yong's eldest cousin will be implemented later. He will be asked to serve his eldest uncle and third cousin first. After his third cousin recovers, he can serve his eldest cousin who was whipped."
Look! This Fifth Aunt is no ordinary woman, isn't she? Dayong and the three leaps are two punishments. From now on, be careful not to offend this Fifth Aunt.
"Yes, think about it, it's right, let's do it this way. Zhao Hedi just needs to take care of the housework, and leave the care of others to Dayong."
Zhou Yong really wanted to shout: I want to be whipped right now.
But I don’t dare. What if I increase the dosage?
Zhou Yue was pressed on a long bench, and Zhou Xiang squatted in front of her, "I think your ten lashes are a bit too little. Let's not talk about your theft, I'll talk about how you treated your aunt.
That's your biological mother, and you don't even protect her. You're worse than pigs and dogs. And you even have the audacity to go into the house with her to search. Let me ask you, what will you do if you find your second cousin? What good will it do you? Both of them are your relatives. Even if you just stand by and watch, no one will say anything about you.
But you went to search for it yourself. Have you ever considered how the aunt-in-law felt at that time?"
Zhou Yue glared at her fiercely, "It's all because of you. If you hadn't taken that guy in, none of this would have happened. You're the one who caused all this."
"If you don't take him in, you're going to let him become a live-in son-in-law to a neighbor who has a bad relationship with me? Where's your face, Zhou? Where's mine?
Your brother was forced by you to marry off in order to survive. Don't you feel a sense of accomplishment?"
"I didn't force him. It was my mother who wanted to give him to someone else as a son-in-law."
Zhou Xiang ignored him and said to the two villagers who were enforcing the family law, "Please use all your strength to see if you can wake this man up."
"good!"
"good!"
The two villagers did not dare to hold back. This girl from the fourth house's tenth family should not be underestimated. From the attitude of the second village elder and the accusations she just made, they could tell that she was not ordinary.
Not only did she take Erchao in, she also punished those who went to attack him.
Zhou wanted to move aside, as his third cousin was even more hopeless than his eldest cousin.
Zhou Yue was beaten so badly that he screamed like a ghost. The villagers couldn't bear to watch it and decided to be more careful in the future.
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