"Mother! Stop talking!" Lu Youli, who was standing to the side, finally couldn't hold back anymore. He quickly tugged at the hem of his wife's clothes and whispered.
"I won't say anything? Lu Youli, you've learned to side with outsiders! Look at your elder brother, who got twenty lashes for no reason, while this scoundrel is standing perfectly fine!" Old Mrs. Lu glared at Lu Youli and scolded him in a low voice.
Lu Youli's face turned pale and then red as his wife scolded him. If there were a crack in the ground right now, Lu Youli would probably be the first to crawl into it. He looked up at the village chief with pleading eyes.
"Sister-in-law Lu, what are you doing! This case was decided by the county magistrate, and there are witnesses and physical evidence. Do you think the county magistrate would wrong an innocent person?" The village chief said with a frown and displeasure.
How could Old Lady Lu not know the secret? She was the one who started this whole thing. She had never imagined that the magistrate would appear somewhere. To a woman like her, the magistrate was like a white cloud in the sky, an unattainable existence.
However, Old Mrs. Lu was a notoriously unreasonable shrew, and the one who got into trouble was her most precious eldest son. Now that he had already been punished, the village chief was going to punish him with family discipline as well. How could she bear to do that?
Thinking of this, Old Lady Lu rushed to Lu Youren's side and said to the village chief, "Village chief! If you want to enforce family discipline, then do it on me! Youren has already been punished. If you enforce family discipline now, you're clearly trying to make this old woman outlive her son!"
As she spoke, Old Lady Lu sat on the ground, slapping her thighs and wailing. The village chief was at his wit's end at the sight before him. He couldn't let Lu Youren go unpunished, but he couldn't very well actually whip Old Lady Lu.
Thinking of this, the village chief glanced at Jiang Ling beside him and lowered his voice to ask, "Jiang, what do you think of this matter?"
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