jdhmnovel Chapter 39 A neat family
Chapter 39 A neat family
The thunder faded away, the sound of rain gradually subsided, and a hint of paleness appeared in the sky.
The morning breeze blew through the awning, and the tiny flame 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 there was the sound of people talking.
Liu Er, wrapped in a half-dry, half-wet quilt, shrank back due to the cold. Just when he was about to take a nap, the quilt on his body was snatched away.
"Damn it! How dare you snatch..." Liu Er raised his eyelids and was about to curse, but when he saw Shen Qi's solemn face, he swallowed his words back.
Shen Qi said coldly: "Who's grandpa?"
"I, I." Liu Er immediately got up to give up his seat, bowed and smiled apologetically, "It's still a little hot here, sir, you go to sleep, I'll block the wind for you."
"You're quite considerate." 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:?
"Sir, what are you doing?"
"You look like a bamboo pole, and you bully men and women and bring trouble 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 don't have to get up even if you sleep all the time."
"Officer! Officer! I am innocent!" Liu Er leaned back, resisting and refusing to leave.
Shen Qi drew his official sword and pointed 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 came forward to plead for him.
"Dad, Dad!" When Liu Er saw Old Man Liu, he immediately burst into tears, "My son has been wronged, please plead for him!"
Old Man Liu sighed and turned away, and there seemed to be a lot more wrinkles on his face.
From the day the Second Boy and Chen San got together, he knew that the Second Boy would not have a good ending.
He tried to control him, but the child had grown old 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 pigsty and almost lost his life?
He couldn't really let his family break up just for a good-for-nothing bastard!
Aunt Zhang was crying beside her and wanted 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 no words of pleading came out of her mouth.
"Brother, we are brothers!" Liu Er's eyes turned red with anxiety. "When you were a child, 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 that?"
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 jerk behavior. Why would he almost become separated from his wife?
"The officer said that your crime does not deserve death." Liu Cheng clenched his fist and stared at his brother's face. "The villagers will not bother with you for the sake of our parents, but Liu Hu, don't you know what you have done? You are already nineteen years old, don't let 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 was just bullying people for some benefits. All the murders were committed by Chen San. He had never killed anyone and nothing had happened before. Why was he suddenly going to jail?
As I glanced across the crowd, I unexpectedly met a pair of cold eyes.
Shang Wan's lips curled slightly. That's right, she was the one who filed the complaint with Shen Qi.
Liu Hu didn't even know Chen San was awake, so he was no longer useful to her. Shen Qi happened to come to Yushu Village, so he just 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 Shen Qi covered his mouth with a towel, and Liu Hu could no longer utter another 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 these villains who were 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 it 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 mingled with the aunts and their wives last night and knew something about it. She leaned over to Shang Wan's ear and whispered some gossip.
"The Luo family originally had four sons, but the third son died young. When Aunt Wu gave birth to the fourth son, Luo, she had a difficult labor and nearly lost two lives. It was Aunt Wu who begged the midwife to save the child, but she died right after the child was born."
"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 brother, and any good things in the Luo family were given to Luo Si."
Shang Wan was speechless. The whole family protected and spoiled their child, but in the end they raised a bastard who brought disaster to the whole village? The 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 book and borrowed a lot from the villagers to fill the gap. He still hasn't paid it back yet."
"Sister, look at their clothes." Xiaohuan pointed at the patched clothes on Luo Da and his men, "Luo Da and Luo Er are both good hunters. I heard they are very accurate archers and can hit the target nine out of ten times. They also do their farm work. If they hadn't used all their earnings to help Luo Si clean up the mess, how could they not even have a good piece of clothing to wear?"
Shang Wan had noticed before that the Luo family was poorly dressed and the three children had sallow faces, as if they were not getting enough food.
Although it is normal for villagers to put a few patches on their clothes, only the Liu family can compare with the Luo family who put patches on top of each other.
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 would have 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 glanced at the Luo family, "If you hinder the officers from arresting people, you will be punished for 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 not like that. 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 softened slightly, 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 rationality and did not want to harm his entire family.
He was not sure 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 such a law as equal punishment?"