Old man Wang threw away the broom and sat down against the wall with a dejected look on his face.
After returning this time, how will he face the villagers and how will he live in the future?
After being discouraged for a while, he went out and found Zhou Lizheng. He handed him 8 taels of silver and said, "Brother Zhou, I didn't teach my son well. I will pay the silver. As for that bastard, I will not hesitate to do anything with him!"
Zhou Lizheng accepted the silver and said, "This is not something that can be settled by just giving the silver. The clan has its own rules."
"You can punish me as much as you want, even if it's a heavier punishment. Otherwise, I will feel really guilty towards Master Ma." After saying this, Old Man Wang went back to the village alone.
Song Yuehua asked Duan Yidao to tie up Wang Heidan again and send him back to the clan.
In the end, only Grandma Liu was left.
How can an old woman who has never left her house for years get a good price if she suddenly wants to sell her land?
The location of the old house was not too remote and the place was quite large. It could obviously be sold for at least 3 taels of silver, but several families in the village were only willing to offer 1 tael of silver.
Song Yuehua talked to Li Zheng Wang, and he brought Sixth Grandma back, saying that Song Yuehua bought her house for three taels of silver.
Although I exchanged 3 taels of silver, I still needed 5 taels.
The Sixth Granny knelt before Ma Yong and begged, "I beg you, I will pay you back the remaining five taels of silver. Can you please let my Lai Fu go..."
"Grandma!"
Ma Yong also knelt in front of Grandma Liu, and said with red eyes, "My father has lived half his life, and his back has never bent an inch. When your grandson stole his cow and forced him to kneel down, did your Lai Fu soften his heart? Grandma, you think I am forcing you, yes, I am forcing you!"
Grandma Six slumped on the ground, muttering, "I'll give you my life as compensation, I'll give you my life as compensation..."
Ma Yong sighed lightly, stood up, walked into the house, and carried Tao Lai Fu out.
"Your grandma sold the house, and now she's still short of five taels of silver. I don't want to push you too hard, so I can write you an IOU for the silver, but there's one condition: you have to kneel in front of my father until he forgives you."
"Okay! I'll do it!" Tao Lai Fu agreed immediately.
After the matter was settled, Li Zheng Wang wrote a document and gave it to Li Zheng Zhou and Ma Yong. After the three parties put their fingerprints on it, Li Zheng Wang gave all the 24 taels of silver he had received to Ma Yong, and Li Zheng Zhou gave all the 8 taels of silver he had received to Ma Yong.
Before returning to the village, Li Zheng Zhou said to Li Zheng Wang, "Money is only one aspect of this matter. If your clan still wants to smooth things over and deal with it in a perfunctory manner, then you should not be the Li Zheng anymore!"
"I……"
Wang Lizheng was feeling very aggrieved. He was just smoking his pipe and chatting peacefully when suddenly this happened. It seemed like there would be no end to it.
But when he thought of the prestige of Zhou Lizheng, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, Brother Zhou, these scoundrels will definitely not be let off so easily. The clan will definitely deal with them severely and will not tolerate them."
Grandma Liu said to Wang Lizheng, "Well, I'll go back and pack my things and leave right away..."
Song Yuehua said, "You don't have to be so anxious, just stay here for now."
On the way back, Song Yuehua took out the land deed she had taken from Grandma Six and showed it to Tao Laifu. "I'll give you one year to pay me back the three taels of silver with interest. Then, the land deed will be returned to you intact. If you can't pay it back, or if you say that the silver was obtained by cheating, then I'm sorry, and I don't want this house. If it's sold to someone else, I won't be able to control what happens to you two."
"Big sister, don't move yet. I will definitely redeem the title deed."
Tao Youfu already had some hatred and malice growing in secret, and now he was dealt this hand. For a moment, he felt mixed emotions and it was hard to describe the feeling.
When they arrived at the Ma family, Song Yuehua handed Ma Yong three taels of silver and said, "This three taels is the money that Tao's house gave me as collateral, and it's also for you."
Ma Yong took several steps back with a stern face. "Girl, if I accept your money, am I still a human being? If it wasn't your idea, what else could I do except sit at home and think? Now not only has the cow come back, but I also got a large sum of money. If I accept your money again, who am I?"
Seeing him like this, Song Yuehua had no choice but to put away the silver and said, "Okay, Uncle Ma Yong, let's go see Master Ma. Now that Niu is back, the depression in his heart should be mostly gone."
When the two men arrived at the cowshed, Master Ma was holding the old cow and crying bitterly. Zhou Lizheng waved at them, and they retreated.
Tao Laifu was thrown into the courtyard with an arrow stuck in his knee. He pointed at his knee and said, "Sister, can you take care of this first?"
Song Yuehua asked Ma Yong to go to Dongshan to call Grandma Xi.
While she was waiting here, Zhou Lizheng called her over.
Grandpa Ma's face was covered with tears. He wiped them several times before choking up and saying thank you, "Girl, if it weren't for you this time..."
"Grandpa Ma, we are from the same village and you have helped me before. It is only natural for us to interact with each other. It would be inappropriate to say thank you more." Song Yuehua said with a smile.
Ma Ye felt ashamed. He had never helped her in any way. He just helped her with her words a few times and drove the car a few times. How could these compare?
Zhou Lizheng nodded and said, "A blessing in disguise, isn't that what they mean?"
Master Ma glared at him and said, "Why are you talking like this? Don't you know I don't understand?"
Song Yuehua said with a smile. "Grandpa Ma, it's almost the New Year now, you should be more careful when driving the carriage. If it's bandits from other places, I'm afraid it won't be so easy."
After the incident, he was devastated and unable to recover, and even had no idea what to do with his own son and grandson.
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