Jiang Tieniu was unconvinced and muttered, "Village chief, don't be biased. If this was Wan Ya's doing, Lao Wu's family must also compensate our family!"
Jiang Wanwan lifted her head from Jiang Jialin's back and looked at Jiang Tieniu. "Grandpa Tieniu, all you ever talk about is money. Why don't you tell us how much money you want our family to pay you?"
She didn't mention the reason why Zhang Cuihua fainted at all, but instead brought up the matter of compensation.
Jiang Tietou pretended to think for a while before answering, "Cuihua is so badly injured, and we don't even know what's wrong with Zhuzhu's eyes. Your family should compensate our family with twenty taels of silver for now."
"Hiss~ Twenty taels!" The villagers couldn't help but gasp.
"Who has twenty taels of silver? Jiang Tietou is asking for far too much!"
"Don't overlook the word 'first.' Judging from Uncle Tietou's words, Uncle Wu's family will have to pay more money later!"
"Good heavens! We don't even have twenty taels of silver to our name, let alone the fifth brother's family. They can barely make ends meet. Tie Tou is trying to force the fifth brother's family to sell their land!"
"What? He... he said he wants to pay how much?" Old Mrs. Jiang couldn't believe her ears and turned to ask Mrs. Zhu uncertainly.
"Mother, Uncle Tie Tietou said he'd pay twenty taels in compensation!" Even though Zhu Shi had some money and had seen a bit of the world before, she couldn't help but shudder at this moment.
"Ah! Twenty taels!" Old Mrs. Jiang's voice was shrill and piercing, her legs went weak, and she almost fell to the ground. "What, what should we do? This is terrible, old man, what will become of our family! Waaah~~"
Grandma Jiang wailed loudly, pounding her thighs with her hands.
She glared at Jiang Wanwan and scolded, "Jiang Wanwan, you troublemaker! You've only been back for a day and you've already caused such a mess. Now the whole family has to pay twenty taels of silver because of you! Where are we going to get twenty taels of silver? We're so poor we can't even afford two taels!"
"Waaaah~~~ Why is our Jiang family so unlucky? One bad thing after another just keeps happening..."
"Grandma, you have to believe your sister. The injuries to Grandma Cuihua and Aunt Zhuzhu were not caused by your sister, so don't worry," Jiang Hu couldn't help but say.
"Relax? What do you mean I can relax?" Anyone who crosses this monstrous family will suffer greatly.
Old Man Jiang's body trembled slightly.
He knew his family's situation all too well; let alone twenty taels, he couldn't even come up with two taels of silver.
His good cousin clearly wanted to take advantage of this incident to force him to sell his land!
Sure enough, the next second Jiang Tietou looked at Old Man Jiang knowingly and said magnanimously, "Fifth Brother, don't blame me for not giving you a way out. If you don't even have twenty taels, I'll reluctantly let you use your fertile land as collateral."
Da Niu, standing behind Jiang Tietou, was restless. He tugged at Jiang Tietou's sleeve, wanting to say something, but Jiang Tietou glared at him fiercely.
Da Niu reluctantly shut his mouth.
"Fertile land?" Old Mrs. Jiang's voice rose a little. She glared fiercely at Jiang Tie Niu, pointed at him, and cursed, "So, Jiang Tie Niu, so this is what you were waiting for! Your family is clearly trying to force our Jiang family to give you our fertile land!"
This was absolutely a setup by you, Cuihua, and Jiang Zhuzhu! All we did was take a pot of wild vegetables and mushrooms from your house! Why are you going to such lengths to destroy us? You heartless, rotten bastard!
"You and my old man are supposed to be cousins, yet you've turned out to be the kind of person who would harm my family and try to kill us!"
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