Li Jinzhu was speechless for a moment and couldn't think of anyone. It was just him who was talking nonsense.
Li Yinzhu quickly answered: "Mother of the Zhou family, it must be her!"
Li Jinzhu's eyes lit up: "Yes, that's her! Your aunt is often with Madam Zhou. You don't know that Madam Zhou loves to stir up trouble. Is there any family in this village that she hasn't provoked?"
When the Zhou family's wife was mentioned, everyone's expressions were surprisingly unanimous.
Didn’t Mrs. Zhou’s wife die of illness just after Yang Laosan and Li Tiezhu’s family had just moved into their new house?
It sounds like retribution. Madam Zhou is the one who likes to stir up trouble in Guxi Village. If her son gets too close to his wife, she will say that he has forgotten his mother when he marries his wife. If his son listens to me, she will say that his family is
She works together to bully the new daughter-in-law; she knows clearly which daughter-in-law is unable to give birth to a son, and which daughter-in-law cannot give birth to a son. She is at least half of the credit for the disharmony in many families.
Mrs. Zhou's death was caused by the wound on her arm. The girl from the Zhou family was also a fiery person. If she hadn't torn off a piece of Mrs. Zhou's flesh with her fierceness, and with Mrs. Zhou's arrogant manner, she wouldn't have been able to kill her.
Do you know how many families will continue to be at odds because of her?
Speaking of which, Mrs. Zhou is quite capable.
She was bitten by a girl from the Zhou family, and also annoyed Dr. Gu. Old man Zhou was also stingy and refused to pay for her to go to the town for medical treatment. She stayed there like this, restless during the illness, and even poked at this and instigated that.
Finally she died, and her son didn't even prepare a coffin for her. Instead, she was wrapped in a rotten mat and thrown into a mass grave outside the village.
Old man Zhou was not a man of fuel. As soon as his old lady died, he spent the whole day thinking about finding another wife. As a result, his son took away all the money in the house and sold all the valuable things in the house that could be sold. He stayed with her all day long.
In the brothel, no one was seen.
The Zhou family was in disarray. Old man Zhou finished the autumn harvest alone. As a result, as soon as the grain was sold out and before the money was warm, his son came back and snatched it away. Old man Zhou could not stop him, and was even beaten by his son.
He was pushed to the ground, injured his tail vertebra, and was bedridden. He probably didn't live for a few days.
Yuan Songlin looked at their panic expressions and said calmly: "Everyone is dead, and there is no evidence to prove her death. I said you can let her go. If you come up with conditions that convince me, I will let her go. Otherwise, I will just let her go."
We can go to court."
The words "lawsuit" stimulated Li Zheng's nerves. He hesitated for a while, and finally came forward to the two Li brothers.
"From the Li family, you, my wife, did this in an unethical manner. Why don't you give me the right words as soon as possible? You should pay money and make amends. Let this matter be over like this. Otherwise, it won't look good in court."
It’s the Li family!”
The Li family's practices were extremely unethical. In line with someone else's sacrifice of life to save others, they actually abused someone else's son and even hired someone to kill someone. If such a family existed in Guxi Village, his face would be disgraced.
Besides, if it goes to court, it will involve not only the Li family and the Yuan family, but also so many young men.
This case is definitely the most annoying trouble for the government, and he will be pulled in for questioning first!
When Li Zheng saw that the two brothers were silent, he added: "After all, it is your mother who gave birth to you and raised you. How can you bear to have her go to jail at such an old age? People say that raising a child will prevent old age, but she cannot bear it when she is old.
If you don't go to jail, there will probably be resentment and make your family uneasy. In the next hundred years, will you still have the nerve to meet the ancestors of the Li family?"
"You only need to write down the money, so just give it to him. This will make the relationship clear and save a lot of trouble."
After Li Zheng's lobbying, the Li brothers also began to waver, but when it came to money, the two brothers had their own thoughts.
"Brother Li Zheng, I am the second eldest son in the family. Usually the money in the family does not pass through my hands. My mother and my eldest brother are in charge of the accounts. I can ask my eldest brother for the compensation money."
Li Yinzhu threw the hot potato to Li Jinzhu with just a few words, but he did not forget what Li Tiezhu said when the family was separated, that the money should be paid by his eldest brother and his family.
How could Li Jinzhu be happy?
"Second brother, what you said is wrong. The money passed through my hands, but I didn't take any of it. It's all under my mother's control. How can I get any money?"
He can only make some money when selling grain. Although his mother usually dotes on him, she is not from a wealthy family and does not have much private money. If she spends it, what will happen to his children's education?
As soon as Li Jinzhu finished speaking, he found Mrs. Li looking at him with a faint look in her eyes. He swallowed guiltily and finally agreed to take the money for personal use.
But the condition is that he will advance the money first, and the two brothers will have to share it equally when they return home.
Li Zheng doesn't care what they do when they get home. As long as the matter can be resolved and doesn't go to court, he will turn a blind eye.
In the end, Yuan Songlin received thirty taels of silver as compensation, and also signed a document stating that he had no further relations with the Li family, informing the whole village.
He said in front of all the people present: "Dear fellow villagers, I, Li Tiezhu, learned not long ago that I am not a member of the Li family. Thanks to the care of my father and fellow villagers for many years, I have now settled into a new home and bought a new land. I am now a descendant of the Yuan family.
, everyone will forget about Iron Pillar from now on and call me Pine Forest."
As for the young men who forcibly broke into his house to steal things, he said that each household could just pay 50 cents in compensation, and there was no need to come to the door to apologize.
After all, Lin had just given birth to a child and was in a frail body. He had neither the energy nor the mood to entertain these people.
It was relatively easy for everyone to accept it. Compared with the Li family's three taels of silver, fifty cash was nothing.
After a lot of work, Yuan Songlin collected the money and everyone dispersed quickly. The young men who committed the crime would definitely be beaten when they got home, but this had nothing to do with Yuan Songlin.
In order to thank the village chief and Li Zheng, he went to buy four taels of wine, and the family gave two taels as a gift.
At this stall, his wife had just given birth to a baby. He was still grateful, which really touched the village chief's wife and Li Zheng's wife. The two families were busy collecting a few eggs from their own chickens for him to take back to replenish his wife's health.
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Yuan Songlin quickly thanked them and accepted their kindness after several rejections. After this incident, everyone in the village knew that Yuan Songlin was a person who did not talk much but was not easy to mess with.
There was a lot of quarrel within the Li family over money matters, which ended up in the separation of the family. The second son also knew that Mrs. Li favored her eldest son. In anger, the second son made harsh words and asked Li Jinzhu to provide for her in old age, and he would give her a certain amount every year.
The pension money becomes.
Li Jinzhu was dissatisfied when he saw Li Yinzhu become the hands-off shopkeeper, and his attitude toward Mrs. Li was not as good as before. The Li family was living a life of chaos, but it did not affect the happy life of the three families in the east of the village.