Chapter 384: shirking responsibility
Xu Miaomiao sneered when she heard this. The little boy had someone to back him up, so he put away his distressed face, smiled smugly, looked at Xu Miaomiao and said, "Dad, it's him. It's because of him that grandpa beat me."
When Liu Quezi heard this, he started to scold Xu Miaomiao and said, "Who do you think you are? You are still trying to sow discord here. Our family is so unlucky to have met you. Everyone in this village is grateful to you, but I am not. Look at what you have done."
Xu Miaomiao remained silent when she heard this, then slowly raised her head and said, "I was wondering why this child was so naughty. It turns out that you taught him to be like this. It really is true that like son, like daughter."
"Me, what's wrong with me? I just told my son to protect himself. Your family members are willing to be lowly. My son can't throw a few stones at them. Besides, who knows if the things you handed over are poisonous?"
Hearing Liu Quezi's words, Xu Miaomiao must have heard everything clearly on the way here. She didn't want to explain any more and said, "Since you insist on settling a score with me, then I'll settle it with you here."
Xu Miaomiao said, looking at Village Chief Wang beside him and asked, "Do you have an abacus?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Village Chief Wang nodded and went to look for an abacus while speaking: "Mrs. Xu, you gave me the job of transporting these things. I always keep an abacus at home to calculate the winnings. I can use it offline as well."
As Village Chief Wang was talking, he found the abacus in Xu Miaomiao's hand. Xu Miaomiao took the abacus and sat down, started to calculate the cards and said, "We didn't take the initiative to provoke you today. It was your child who came to our door on his own initiative. After coming to our door, even if Liu Niang didn't want to give you candy cakes, what's wrong with her passing by her door with candy cakes? Your child threw stones at him for no reason, causing her to fall and the baby in her belly to miscarry. It's not too much to count you fifty taels for this. Secondly, Liu Niang's clothes today are from the famous Jinyi Pavilion in the capital. The material of the clothes costs twenty taels of silver. In addition, Erbao was frightened by him today and kept crying. I will count you five taels for this winnings. In addition, the medicinal materials used to treat Liu Niang today, plus this, a total of ninety-five taels of silver, let's see how you calculate it for me, Mr. Liu."
Liu Quezi curled his lips in dissatisfaction when he heard this, but he saw Xu Miaomiao said, "You only counted your family's money, but not my son's. My son is tired after picking up the stone, why didn't you say anything?"
"Hey, Mr. Liu, you have to understand clearly that he picked up the stone by himself. I didn't force him to pick it up. What do you think?"
"Mr. Liu, although my husband was demoted, he is also a minor official in Bai County. I am also well versed in the laws of this southern country. If Mr. Liu thinks that my calculation is wrong, why don't you go to the government office with me to find the law and have a good discussion to see how much money you should pay me or how much caning you are going to receive. However, I don't know whether your other leg will be lame after receiving this caning."
Hearing the threat in Xu Miaomiao's tone, Liu Guizi snorted and said, "You don't want our lives, but money. If you have the guts, beat us to death."
Hearing that Liu Guizi was beginning to act like a rogue, Xu Miaomiao said angrily, "Either you give me the ninety-five taels of silver, or you let this kid apologize to Liu Niang in front of the whole village, and I'll let this matter go. Otherwise, I'll have to go to the government office and ask Magistrate Hu what the law says about your behavior today?"
Hearing this, Liu Quezi panicked. The child on the ground heard this and shook his head and said, "Dad, I don't want to. I don't want to apologize to him. It was my uncle who told me that his family were all bad people and asked me to punish them. That's why I took the stone and went over. This matter was obviously my uncle's fault. Why blame me?"
Xu Miaomiao laughed and sat down aside. The village chief was obviously a man who could distinguish right from wrong, so how could he give up such an ignorant son? However, it was true that people of the same family resembled each other. The shamelessness of this Liu Lame was just as great as that of Wang Mang.
Xu Miaomiao clapped his hands, picked up his sword, wiped the dust off with a handkerchief, and said, "How much money do you want? Either pay me or go and deal with it. You can do it yourself. If you can't get a result tonight, don't blame me for being cruel and heartless and not giving face to Village Chief Wang."
Xu Miaomiao turned and left, not wanting to talk to them any more. When the village chief saw that Xu Miaomiao was about to leave, he immediately chased after her and took her aside to talk a lot.
Hearing the call from Village Chief Wang, he stopped and looked at him. The Village Chief immediately pulled him away and said, "We were wrong in this matter, but consider that I have helped you several times, and you have pity on me. Then I will definitely discipline them well and never let them do these dirty things again."
For some reason, Xu Miaomiao felt a little sad. The village chief was already over 60 years old, with white hair on his temples. Looking at his vicissitudes of life, Xu Miaomiao nodded and said, "But this person went too far, and I have to teach them a lesson. Today, he was a little disrespectful to the village chief, and asked the village chief to forgive him. Please forgive me."
After saying this, she immediately nodded at him and said to her, "Madam Xu, you've gone too far. It's obviously us who didn't handle the miscellaneous matters well. We should thank you very much for not blaming us."
Xu Miaomiao smiled slightly, slowly left the village chief, and turned away.
Wang Mang sighed helplessly, and went back home to see them and said, "Mrs. Xu has done her utmost for us. Who of you will go? When the time comes, you should apologize to them in front of the whole village and explain the matter clearly. Once she understands, she will naturally not make things difficult for us. Don't you hear me?"
When Wang Mang heard this, he immediately shook his head on the bed. Seeing him speaking, he said, "My leg is still lame, how can I walk around freely? Besides, this thing was not done by me. If anyone wants to blame someone, it should be Liu Quezi's son. He is his son, and he has no blood relationship with my family. Why should he be blamed in my house? I won't go."
(End of this chapter)
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