Chapter 1125 I will not regret entering China in this life, but I will still be a Chinese in the next life
"That's all, at least you are outsiders and I can talk to you. If I die, my granddaughter's affairs will not be buried."
After hesitating for a while, the old man cried again: "My granddaughter just got married some time ago. On the day of her wedding, she was sent to the Du Mansion to serve the third young master of the Du family."
"According to common sense, my granddaughter should be sent home in three days, but three days later, what the Du family sent back was my granddaughter's body."
"I don't know how Master Du San tortured my poor granddaughter and actually killed her alive."
"My son and daughter died young, and I have always been dependent on my granddaughter. Now that my granddaughter has died tragically, I don't want to live anymore."
"I will sue the Du family even if I risk my life."
"I didn't quite understand."
Ji Mingyue looked at the old man with a frown: "Why did your granddaughter serve the third young master of the Du family on her wedding day?"
Speaking of this, Ji Mingyue gave Jiang Sheng a strange look: "She also cheated on her wedding day?"
When he heard the word "ye" from Ji Mingyue, the corner of Jiang Sheng's mouth twitched. This was a pot that he didn't want to open.
"The custom in Tongtian County is that when newlyweds get married, the bride must first serve an important member of the Du family for three days."
Faced with Ji Mingyue's question, the old man became confused and responded: "This has been a custom in Tongtian County for many years. Only members of the Du family in this county can enjoy a woman's right to her first night."
"Newlyweds can live in peace only if they hand over the right of their first night to the Du family, otherwise they will never have peace."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with handing over my granddaughter's first night right. After all, that's how everyone comes here."
"But my granddaughter was tortured to death, so I must seek an explanation."
"It's unreasonable, in a clear world, that such bad habits still exist in a society governed by the rule of law."
Hearing this, Jiang Sheng was immediately furious: "The Du family has brought trouble to one party. It is simply beyond the king's control."
"Wang Fa?"
The old man blinked and responded truthfully: "The Du family is the king of Tongtian County, otherwise I wouldn't have desperately wanted to leave the county and file a complaint elsewhere."
"The customs in your hometown are really backward!"
Ji Mingyue looked at Jiang Sheng unhappily: "In feudal society, there is indeed a bad habit of landlords and gentry enjoying the first night of peasants and peasant women. I thought this kind of thing only existed in history books, but I didn't expect that it is still going on in your hometown."
"Then we need to get a marriage certificate here, what about my right to have the first night?"
"Cold salad."
Jiang Sheng stared and shouted: "Let's go to Tongtian County to settle accounts with the Du family. They really regard themselves as the emperor of the country!"
I haven't even had my first night with Mingyue yet, but this bad habit exists in Tongtian County. Thinking about it, Jiang Sheng couldn't help but want to kill someone.
"I must destroy this Du family!"
After dragging the old man into the car, Jiang Sheng made a murderous statement.
"Destroying the Du family? This is absolutely impossible."
The old man sitting in the back seat held the back of the front seat with his hands and introduced: "There are a total of 250,000 people in Tongtian County, and the Du family has a population of 60,000."
"I am going to file a complaint just to seek justice for my granddaughter. I have never thought about destroying the Du family. Even the country cannot punish 60,000 people at once, right?"
"How come the Du family has such a large population?"
Ji Mingyue turned around and looked at the old man in confusion. The number of families in a mere county town was countless times greater than that of the Ji family. It was too exaggerated.
"Women in Tongtian County must give the right to their first night to the Du family. Most girls who are favored by the Du family for three days will become pregnant."
The old man explained truthfully: "When a woman gives birth to a child, the Du family will send someone to check the blood. Once it is determined that the child is the Du family's child, it will be taken directly to the Du family to raise."
"The woman's husband is not willing to support his wife and the children of the Du family, so he is naturally willing to accept such an arrangement."
"The children who are born after the woman are the blood of the husband's family."
"Therefore, after several generations of reproduction, the Du family's population has grown to its current size."
"This does not include those illegitimate children who were favored by the young masters of the Du family and were forced to humiliate and give birth to children!"
"Can you accept such an outrageous thing?"
Jiang Sheng was shocked. Even a poor county would not be so far behind.
"What if I don't accept it?"
The old man shook his head bitterly and said helplessly: "Anyone who dares to resist the Du family in Tongtian County will not end well. I risk my life to file a complaint. If I hadn't met you, I would have been beaten to death by now."
"Something's wrong!"
After Ji Mingyue opened her phone and fiddled with it for a while, she frowned and said, "My dear, don't drive forward yet. Turn around and go back some distance."
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Sheng asked in confusion while turning around.
“I don’t know since when, my mobile phone signal has been out of service.”
Ji Mingyue responded with a frown on her face and whispered: "Judging from the old man's description of how the locals did not have any resistance to what the Du family did, but accepted it numbly, I am afraid this is not a simple matter for a county hegemon family."
"No matter how backward and poor a place is, there should always be people going out to publicize these things. And with today's advanced communication technology, as long as there is an Internet, someone will expose the things in Tongtian County."
"But we didn't find any negative news about Tongtian County on the Internet, which shows that things here are far more complicated than imagined."
After taking a look at the old man with a numb face, Jiang Sheng also realized that the situation was not simple, so he stopped asking any more questions.
Looking at the mobile phone in Ji Mingyue's hand, the old man was confused: "What are the mobile phones and signal networks you are talking about?"
Elderly people don't even know that mobile phones and the Internet exist.
"nothing."
Ji Mingyue smiled, and it turned out to be exactly what she had guessed.
The Du family's ability to cover the sky with one hand in Tongtian County must have a lot to do with the isolation of communications. Otherwise, the government would never tolerate the existence of such evil forces.
"Even if people in the county cannot communicate with the outside world, the province and city should send people to Tongtian County every year to inspect."
While driving, Jiang Sheng asked the old man uncertainly: "Didn't anyone find the problem?"
"When high-ranking officials from other places come to the county, the Du family will order in advance that all non-Du family members should stay at home. Only people from the Du family can move around freely."
The old man shook his head and responded: "Even if someone dares to disobey the Du family's orders and file a complaint in front of the officials, the Du family has methods to make the officials forget the bad things. They only remember that Tongtian County is a poor county and they keep giving money to the county.
Allocate funds."
"And those who disobey the Du family's orders will suffer a life worse than death, and will eventually be killed to deter others."
"The Du family still has the means to change people's memories?"
Hearing this, Jiang Sheng was shocked and suspicious.
"So, this is really your hometown."
Ji Mingyue also frowned slightly, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated and bizarre.