"cough!"
Jiang Ming frowned slightly and pondered, "Wife! If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring breeze... If we don't deter them this time, any ruffians will dare to come into the village and cause trouble in the future. What I'm doing is... to make them never even dare to think about it again! The most important thing is to restrain their minds, and only then can you restrain their actions. You don't understand this principle!"
After saying that, he said to Liang the Drunkard, "Old Liang, help the two mountain gods cleanse themselves so they can go on their way in a clean state!"
"Alright!" Liang the Drunkard pulled out his gelding knife and was about to castrate Dong Chuan and Dong Shan, who had fainted from fright.
At this moment, a commotion broke out in the rear of the villagers!
Dozens of young men dragged a fat old man dressed in fine silk and satin, pulling him like a dead dog to Jiang Ming.
The old man was already terrified, his eyes rolled back, and he was convulsing, only exhaling and not inhaling...
"Lord Jiang, this is Old Man Dong, the father of Dong Chuan and Dong Shan!"
"Damn it! It's their family that ruined our daughter!"
"Kill him!"
"Make him into a clay figure too!"
......
The people were outraged and wanted to get rid of Old Master Dong as well.
Jiang Ming squatted down and patted Old Master Dong's face with a smile.
"Old man, don't play dead, or else..."
"ah?"
Upon hearing Jiang Ming's words, Old Master Dong trembled and immediately came to his senses, then knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy.
All he said was that he was unaware of the situation, that he was innocent, and that he really didn't know anything about these things!
Jiang Ming looked at him with a smile, patted his face and said, "I... won't kill you!"
Upon hearing this, the old man finally let out a long sigh of relief, clutching his chest and panting heavily...
Jiang Ming paused for an unusually long time when saying "I," which almost gave the old man a heart attack.
However, there's a number we need to calculate!
Jiang Ming clicked his tongue and said, "My brother-in-law, Chen Dabao, gave your family a betrothal gift of 300 taels of silver. You broke off the engagement. Is that true?"
Old Master Dong dared not utter a sound and could only nod in fear.
"That's how it is!"
Jiang Ming laughed and said, "Marriage is a matter of mutual consent! If you don't want to get married anymore, you can simply break off the engagement! But you're not returning the betrothal gifts... isn't that a bit unreasonable?"
"Lord Jiang, I...I was wrong, please spare me! I'm willing to pay ten times the betrothal gifts to break off the engagement, please spare my son's life..."
"Hmph... Hehe!"
Jiang Ming was amused, thinking to himself... This old geezer, still dreaming of eating shit!
Ten times the bride price?
Even if you give up all your possessions, you still can't bring your son back to life!
"You can't say that, can you?"
Jiang Ming laughed and said, "Even if I kill your son, the tenfold dowry will still be mine. You're so foolish!"
Upon hearing Jiang Ming's words, Old Master Dong was completely speechless.
That old bastard, relying on his son's official position in the prefecture and his powerful background, usually robs and extorts people in the village, bullying men and women and doing all sorts of inhuman things. Today is the day to settle the score!
Thinking of how stingy this guy was, a notorious miser, Jiang Ming's eyes lit up and he came up with another good idea!
"You people, take Old Master Dong home! Don't harass him! This has nothing to do with him!" Jiang Ming said to the dozens of men from the neighboring village.
Jiang Tingzhang's words are far more effective than those of any county magistrate or prefect.
These men, though they hated Old Master Dong to the core...
But they dared not disobey Jiang Ming's orders, so they had no choice but to drag Old Master Dong back.
Jiang Ming then whispered to Chen Dazhuang, "Send a group to follow them and take all the grain from Old Master Dong's house. Send it to my father-in-law's house to offset the 3,000 taels dowry, which is ten times the original amount. Then lock Old Master Dong in a room full of gold and silver and let him starve to death! They have plenty of these valuable things..."
"Oh...I understand!" Chen Dazhuang trembled with fright and nodded repeatedly.
......
Tuoba Ren finally climbed into the village.
He lost too much blood and can no longer stand up...
Right now, the whole village is having a big meeting at the land temple; the other areas are all empty.
He struggled to climb to Jiang Ming's house at the east entrance of the village, and with his last bit of strength, he knocked on Jiang Ming's courtyard gate.
Having learned her lesson from the last incident, Murong Xue strictly followed her husband's orders. If he forbade her to leave the house, she would rather die than step out of the house.
Therefore, she didn't join in the fun tonight!
Nanxiu stayed home with her.
The sisters-in-law were discussing sewing clothes, chatting and laughing.
Just then, they suddenly heard a noise outside the door.
The two girls mustered their courage and went into the courtyard, where they heard a man's extremely weak voice coming from outside the gate: "Princess! Princess... save... save the Khan!"
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