"Milk……"
Hua Shi looked at the furious Li, pursed his lips and shouted.
Li turned her head and glared at her fiercely.
This is the end...
The old lady, who is fifty years old, has a bronze face and silver hair. Even though she is old, she does not look frail. Instead, she looks fierce and her cloudy eyes are sharp and piercing.
The eldest brother of the Li family saw that the visitor was just an old woman, and his expression showed some disdain.
"What? Is there no one left in your family? You've only got the old, weak, sick, and disabled. I'm afraid we won't be able to win the fight, and they might get hurt by anger, and we won't have anything to compensate them."
His words really hit Li's heart.
In Li's life, she only had one son, Hua Ciyuan.
One son is fine, but he's a worthless bastard. He's been studying for over thirty years and can't even pass the exam to become a scholar...
Li's face was gloomy, and her cloudy, small eyes stared secretly at the person who was speaking. The corners of her eyes and mouth drooped, and she scolded him harshly.
"You uneducated thing! Who told you to speak to me like that? Do you know how to respect your elders? How come the Li family's family education keeps getting worse the more you scold them?"
Li Dian tugged at the sleeve of the eldest brother of the Li family and said in a low voice, "Brother, that's Aunt Li. She has the same surname as us, so we should respectfully call her Aunt Li."
Although Shoushan Village is a large village, it has only four major surnames: Hua, Xie, Li, and He. These four surnames are the main surnames of the village.
Generally, people with the same surname belong to the same clan, and the same surname can be considered an extended family.
The village also places great importance on clan names, emphasizing respect for the elderly, loving the old and caring for the young, and calculating the order of generations very clearly. Those with a long generation and a high age are also very prestigious in the village.
Younger people with the same surname should respect the elders and love the young when they are outside, otherwise they will easily be criticized and disgraced in a village that values clan concepts.
Although many people with the same surname have been inherited and reproduced for a long time, many of them have already been out of the fifth generation and have no blood relationship by their generation.
But after all, the village attaches importance to the same clan, family and surname. Counting from dozens of generations ago, the seniority is still there, and the elders with the same surname are indeed qualified to teach the younger generations with the same surname.
When younger generations talk to their elders, they should pay attention to their words and behavior.
After hearing what Li Dian said, the eldest brother of the Li family's face darkened visibly. The smug look on his face was frozen, and he looked like he was about to smile, which was really funny.
Hua Shi was also extremely surprised when he heard for the first time that the village attached great importance to the clan surname.
She originally thought that the village was remote and backward, and the management would be very chaotic, but when she learned that the village used the same clan to restrain the villagers, she was surprised because she had never heard before that ancient villages would record their inheritance in this way.
Although there are still many people in later generations who will talk about sharing the same roots, most of them only care about their own small families. After the third generation, most of the relationships are not very close...
What's more, a remote village like this one, almost isolated from the outside world, can command hundreds of households and record all those with the same surname in a large family tree, only looking at the surname, regardless of whether they have the same blood.
Pay attention to surnames and generations...
In addition to the village chief, the most powerful people in the village are the four old patriarchs.
The villagers all trust the four old clan leaders very much. Whenever there are big or small things in the village, conflicts break out, or arguments continue, they will go to ask the village chief and the corresponding old clan leader for help.
So apart from the village chief, the four old clan leaders are the most prestigious.
Li, who was always strong at home, was even more aggressive in front of several younger people with the same surname. He put on a stern face and became aggressive.
"Youngster surnamed Li, don't you even know how to call people now?"
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the three Li brothers looked at each other. Although they looked unwilling, they still called out honestly, "Aunt Li."
Li nodded, agreeing.
Although Li Dian was the youngest of the three brothers, he was the quickest-witted and most articulate. "Aunt Li, although we all have the same surname, your boy stole our sheep. We caught him, and he admitted it himself. He should help the right side, not the relatives. He should pay compensation."
Li had heard the general situation in the house just now, and originally didn't bother to care. He thought that stealing other people's things and being beaten up was what he deserved. But this kid from the Li family was asking for a lot of money, and he asked for one or two taels of silver.
The more Li thought about it, the angrier she became. She couldn't help herself and ran out.
She wanted to see how this boy surnamed Li could extort a tael of silver from her with her around.
Li's face was as calm as a mountain, and she spoke in a calm tone, "How did he steal your sheep? Hua Li, did you steal his sheep?"
Li first raised a question, then changed her tone and turned to look at Hua Li, who was sobbing and curled up in her brother and sister's arms.
The children of the Hua family have always been afraid of Li, and Hua Li was naturally no surprise. When he was stared at by Li's dark eyes, he shuddered, shrank his neck, and shook his head subconsciously, almost reflexively.
Satisfied, Li withdrew her gaze, raised her eyes to the crowd, raised her eyelids, and said calmly, "Did you see that? He shook his head. He doesn't admit it. You guys are blaming him for this shit, but stop throwing all the dirty water on us. Do you really think that there is no one left in our Hua family?"
After all, he was young, and it was the first time that Li Dian witnessed the rogueness of the Li family. He was choked and speechless for a long time.
The eldest brother of the Li family frowned, extremely angry. He argued word by word, "He just admitted that he stole it himself. Why are you putting the blame on us?! It wasn't just us who saw him stealing. Several people on the sheep grazing path saw him stealing!"
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