Chapter Eighty-Three Village Chief Mediates A Fight
Once the Village Chief appeared and said a few harsh words, he immediately quelled the scene.
Widow Lin and Madam Li both collapsed powerlessly to the ground. Even after stopping, they fiercely glared at each other.
Their gazes at each other seemed to spark, wishing they could kill each other on the spot.
Seeing this, the Village Chief shook his head helplessly, thinking how exhausting it was to be the Village Chief.
He was a scholar candidate and could have taught in town, but he followed his old father’s dying wish and became the Village Chief of Yang Family Village… as a result, not a single day was peaceful!
“You’ve stopped, right! Now, tell me what happened!”
“Village Chief, my Jiao’e is wronged! After Yang Shun brazenly lewdly took liberties with her in public, Yang family refused to take responsibility and even spoke ill of my daughter… Wuwuwu, my life is so bitter! After my husbands died, everyone could bully me. Now, I can’t even protect my own daughter, I might as well die.”
“Peh! Then why don’t you hurry up and die!”
After the Village Chief asked, Widow Lin then put on a weak act, her tears flowing as soon as she spoke, wetting her face in no time.
And Madam Li, upon seeing Widow Lin cry, immediately spat a mouthful of phlegm towards her.
However, even while crying, Widow Lin kept her eyes and ears open, so she narrowly dodged the phlegm without incident. Afterwards, Madam Li resentfully spoke, implying Widow Lin should just go and die.
The Village Chief beside them, upon hearing Madam Li’s words, directly glared. He thought to himself that Madam Li was indeed a troublemaker.
A good wife is the one who is virtuous. Yang Xingwang did not marry well, and in the future, she might bring disaster to the Old Yang family, causing unrest for everyone.
Moreover, Yang Xingwang, this fellow who avoids the important and dwells on the trivial, truly seemed not manly at all.
His own wife was beaten like this, and he didn’t even come out to see.
Furthermore, even he, the Village Chief, had arrived, and there was still no movement from the Old Yang family’s courtyard. Did they not regard him as anything?
Let alone someone from town looking for Yang Shun, even if Yang Shun became a high official in the future, he was still a villager of Yang Family Village and had to be managed by him!
“Madam Li! What kind of words are you saying? We are all neighbors. Is it good for you to target others like this? It is thanks to your son studying the words of the sages that you, a mother, are truly cursed for eight lifetimes! Even if he becomes an official in the future, he will be ruined by you!”
The Village Chief, whose fragile heart was hurt by Yang family’s dismissive attitude, felt stifled seeing Madam Li’s face at this moment, so he lectured her with some anger.
And Madam Li, upon hearing words concerning her son’s future, obviously hit her sore spot. After that, she no longer dared to say another harsh word to Widow Lin.
Her old face turned pale with anger, and when she turned her head to look at the Village Chief, her gaze was filled with resentment. Clearly, Madam Li resented the Village Chief for what he said in front of everyone.
“Village Chief, don’t listen to this vixen’s nonsense! My Shunzi has been staying in his room studying ever since he returned from town. Who knows what trick this Lin Jiao’e used to lure my son out!”
“Oh? Lin Jiao’e could lure a grown man out? If your son was unwilling, could she have done it?”
“That’s because my son is kind-hearted. For someone like Lin Jiao’e, a worn-out shoe, I wouldn’t want her even if she was given to my son for free! My Shunzi is going to marry a daughter from a prominent family, how could he be involved with such a worn-out shoe.”
“Madam Li, stop calling her a worn-out shoe. You have no evidence. If you continue to speak like this, I will accuse you of slandering others and send you to the Yamen in town to be beaten!”
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Madam Li’s eyes couldn’t stop showing pride when she spoke of her son, Yang Shun.
Clearly, the fact that a young lady from town had actively sought him out today proved that her son was a sought-after commodity even in town. How could he possibly marry a village worn-out shoe like Lin Jiao’e!
Not only Madam Li thought this way, even Yang Shun’s own demeanor clearly conveyed the same meaning.
Although the young lady eventually said she had the wrong person, Madam Li had gained confidence.
Her son was no ordinary person, and he would not stay in the small Yang Family Village in the future. Therefore, she could not let Widow Lin’s scheme of wanting a high-ranking official as a son-in-law succeed!
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