Chapter 39 The whole family is together
The thunder faded away, the rain gradually subsided, and a hint of paleness appeared in the sky.
The morning breeze blew through the awning, and the tiny flames in the fire that had been burning for half the night flickered and went out, turning into a wisp of green smoke.
People started to get up and move around, and the sound of people talking could be heard.
Liu Er, wrapped in a half-dry, half-wet quilt, shrank inward due to the cold. Just as he was about to take another nap, the quilt was snatched away from him.
"Damn it! How dare you rob..." Liu Er raised his eyelids and was about to curse, but when he saw Chen Qi's solemn face, he swallowed his words back.
Shen Qi said coldly: “Who grandpa?”
"I, I." Liu Er immediately stood up to make room for him, bowing and smiling apologetically. "It's still a little hot here. Master, please sleep. I'll block the wind for you."
"You're quite perceptive." Shen Qi said with a straight face, "Stretch out your arms."
Liu Er didn't dare to ask more questions and just stretched out his arm honestly.
Then... he was tied tightly with a hemp rope.
Liu Er:?
"Master, what are you doing?"
"You look like a bamboo pole, and you bully men and women and bring disaster to the village. How can you be so capable?" Shen Qi said coldly, "You like to sleep, right? You don't get enough sleep, right? There are plenty of places for you to sleep in the prison. You can sleep all the time."
"Officer! Officer! I'm innocent!" Liu Er leaned back, resisting and refusing to leave.
Shen Qi unsheathed his sword, pointing the sharp blade at him. Liu Er immediately became intimidated and followed Shen Qi obediently with his neck shrunk.
The villagers watched from the side, and no one stepped forward to plead for him.
"Dad, Dad!" Liu Er burst into tears as he saw Old Man Liu. "My son has been wronged. Please plead for mercy for him!"
Old Man Liu sighed and turned away, his face seemed to have a lot more wrinkles.
From the day the second kid and Chen San got together, he knew that the second kid would not have a good ending.
He tried to control him, but the child had grown independent and his legs were on his body. Unless he broke his legs, there was no way to control him!
Hasn’t he given enough compensation gifts to others over the years?
In order to clean up this bastard's mess, all the money in the family was given away. The eldest daughter-in-law had long been resentful, and the eldest son also had some resentment in his heart.
If Liu Er had not been lazy and thrown the job of feeding the pigs to Yang Yang, how could Yang Yang have been crushed in the pigpen and almost lost his life?
He couldn't really let his family break up for a good-for-nothing bastard!
Aunt Zhang was crying beside her, and she opened her mouth to plead for mercy, but Wen held her arm and cried, "Mom, Yangyang almost died."
Thinking of her unconscious grandson, Aunt Zhang stopped crying and opened and closed her mouth several times, but she couldn't utter any words of pleading.
"Brother, we are brothers!" Liu Er's eyes turned red with anxiety. "When you were a kid, you were bitten by a snake, and I sucked out the poison for you. I lay in bed for two days and almost died. Don't you remember?"
Of course Liu Cheng remembered. If it weren't for this reason, he would have separated from his wife long ago just because of Liu Er's bad behavior. Why would he almost become estranged from his wife?
"The officer said your crime doesn't deserve the death penalty." Liu Cheng clenched his fists and stared at his brother's face. "The villagers, for the sake of our parents, won't bother with you. But Liu Hu, don't you know what you've done? You're already nineteen. Don't make your parents worry about you anymore."
"Brother..." Liu Hu didn't expect that his elder brother, who had always spoiled him more than his father, would no longer care about him.
He just bullied people for some benefits. All the murders were committed by Chen San. He never killed anyone and nothing happened before. Why is he suddenly going to jail?
As I glanced at the crowd, I unexpectedly met a pair of cold eyes.
Shang Wan's lips curled slightly. Yes, it was she who complained to Shen Qi.
Liu Hu didn't even know Chen San was awake, so he was no longer useful to her. It just so happened that Shen Qi came to Elm Village and took him away.
Liu Hu's pupils constricted. This woman never thought of letting him go from the beginning to the end!
"Chen San is um! Um um um!" Liu Hu had just started to speak when Chen Qi blocked his mouth with a towel, and Liu Hu could no longer utter a word.
Liu Hu was extremely unwilling and, contrary to his previous obedience, he began to struggle like crazy.
Shen Qi had no good temper towards this villain who was causing trouble in the village. He hit Liu Hu with the scabbard a few times, and Liu Hu jumped in pain. After a few hits, he became obedient.
The Liu family couldn't bear to watch and had already gone somewhere else.
On the other hand, Luo Si, who had a broken leg, was also imprisoned.
But unlike the Liu family, the Luo family protected Luo Si very closely. Old Man Luo stood in front of Luo Si and claimed that he would kill him first if anyone wanted to take Luo Si away.
Shan Dajun was annoyed. He was such a clear-headed old man last night, how come he was so confused about Luo Si's matter?
Shang Wan was also a little surprised.
Xiaohuan knew something about the situation last night as she was hanging out with the aunts and their wives. She leaned over to Shang Wan's ear and whispered some gossip.
"The Luo family originally had four sons. The third died young, and Aunt Wu had a difficult labor when she gave birth to the fourth son, Luo. It was nearly a double loss. It was Aunt Wu who begged the midwife to save the child, but she died right after the birth."
"Uncle Luo felt that Luo Si was the one Aunt Wu sacrificed her life for, so he favored him over his grandchildren. Uncle Luo also told Luo Da and Luo Er to protect their younger brother. All the good things in the Luo family were given to Luo Si."
Shang Wan was speechless. Their whole family protected and pampered their child, only to end up raising a scoundrel who brought disaster to the village? This Luo family's family education was not good enough.
"Last year, Luo Si was taken to a gambling house by Chen San and lost 100 taels of silver. The gambling house came to collect the debt. Uncle Luo took out all his coffin money and borrowed a lot from the villagers to make up for it. He still hasn't paid it back to this day."
"Sister, look at their clothes." Xiaohuan pointed at the patched clothes on Luo Da and the others. "Luo Da and Luo Er are both good hunters. I heard they are very accurate archers, hitting the target nine times out of ten. They also don't neglect their work in the fields. If they hadn't used up all their earnings to help Luo Si clean up his mess, how could they not even have a good piece of clothing?"
Shang Wan had noticed before that the Luo family was poorly dressed, and the three children's faces were sallow, as if they were not getting enough to eat.
Although it is normal for villagers to put a few patches on their clothes, only the Liu family can compare with the Luo family in that they put patches on top of one another.
Neither family is lazy and greedy. Both men and women are hardworking, but they both raised a bastard.
If it were Shang Wan, he would have carefully raised an evil creature and killed it with two sticks long ago to prevent it from harming others and himself.
Seeing that Shan Dajun and the Luo family were at a stalemate, Shen Qi came over and swept his eyes over the Luo family. "If you hinder the officers from arresting people, you will be punished with the same crime. Do you want your whole family to go to jail together?"
Shan Dajun still cared about the feelings of his fellow villagers, but Shen Qi was different. He directly put a choice in front of the Luo family: either Luo Si went to jail, or the whole family went together.
Who wants to go to jail these days?
The Luo family's attitude seemed to soften, and the daughters-in-law Liu and Wang both retreated with their children.
Although Old Man Luo protected his fourth son, he still had some sanity and didn't want to harm his entire family.
He was unsure whether Shen Qi was bluffing him, so he turned to look at Lu Chengjing who was sitting not far away, "Lu Xiucai, is there really a law of equal punishment?"
(End of this chapter)
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