This person is in his forties and is still a bachelor.
It's not that he is lazy, but that he is addicted to alcohol. It's okay if he likes to drink. The most fatal thing is that after drinking, he is the current emperor. Not only is he arrogant, but he also has an extremely bad temper.
Because of this, no one in the town wanted to suffer the consequences of marrying their daughter to him.
Let alone marriage, just normal interactions, no one likes to talk to him too much.
But his father is different. He is loyal and honest, and the neighbors get along very harmoniously.
Hearing Zhang Xi's ghostly cries, the neighbors first cursed in their hearts. This scumbag drank some soju in the middle of the night and started yelling again, making the neighbors uneasy.
This Magou Town is full of farmers, and the farm work in the fields will never be finished. How can you keep people from sleeping by wailing like this in the middle of the night? Everyone has to work tomorrow.
However, gradually, everyone understood that Zhang Xi was calling "Dad". Could it be that his father was gone?
When Zhang Xi complained to the county government about the fight between Zhang Xi and Yang Yuhuan, the neighbors also learned a lot about the whole story. They felt injustice for Zhang's father and secretly cursed that Yang Yuhuan should be punished.
Not long after, several neighbors got dressed and got up and came to Zhang Xi's shack.
"Zhang Xi, why are you wailing in the middle of the night?"
"My dad is gone, wow..." Zhang Xi cried loudly.
"When you brought your father back today, wasn't he still fine? Why did you just leave so quickly?"
"Dad said his ribs hurt and asked me to find a doctor. But the doctor in the town went on a medical visit. When I came back, my father was lying straight on the straw mat and passed away." Although Zhang Xi drank a lot of wine
, but his mind is always clear.
If he said that he did not call his father a doctor, but instead went to the pub to drink, everyone would point at his own spine and curse him to death.
"Your father's ribs were broken by Yang Yuhuan, and he may have injured his internal organs and died."
"Yang Yuhuan is the murderer of your father. We must not let him go."
"Let's go, grab your dad, and let's go to Ma's Courtyard to find an explanation. If they can't give us a satisfactory execution, we'll go to the county government. If the county government can't handle it well, we'll go to Xi'an Mansion."
"It's just that Father Zhang is a good old man. We neighbors won't agree to being kicked to death for no reason. We will go with you."
As everyone chatted, Zhang Xi also had his own thoughts in his mind.
Now the magistrate has paid himself ten taels of silver as compensation, but that is only compensation for injuring his father. Now that the man is dead, he will never stop until he pays one hundred taels of silver.
Anyway, there are people cheering for me, so I am not afraid that the magistrate will give me little shoes to wear and deal with me secretly.
At that moment, he wiped the tears on his face, pulled out the old cow from the cowshed, put it on the cart, and called on everyone to help him move his father's body to the cart.
He walked into the shack again, blew out the oil lamp hanging on the pillar, and drove the ox cart towards the old house of Ma Yunshan's family.
In Ma's courtyard, two lanterns hung at the door, and the dim light illuminated the closed door.
The oxcart arrived at the gate of Ma's courtyard. Zhang Xi stepped forward and punched and kicked the gate: "Yang Yuhuan, come out here, you murderer."
"Why are you making so much noise in the middle of the night? You don't want to live anymore?" came the ferocious scolding of the servants inside.
"My father was kicked to death by Yang Yuhuan. I want to ask her for an explanation." Zhang Xi roared loudly and kicked the door without stopping for a moment.
There was no sound inside, only the sound of rapid footsteps could be heard, running towards the distance.
Obviously, after hearing that someone had died, the servants understood that Zhang Xi would not give up easily, and they might not be able to restrain him if there were fewer people, so they called people inside.
Sure enough, after a while, a series of footsteps came closer and closer.
Immediately afterwards, the door was opened from the inside, and five or six ferocious servants rushed out from the inside holding sticks.
"Zhang Xi, you have already withdrawn the complaint at the county government office, and now you come to make trouble again. Do you really think that you can mess with the Ma family?" A servant raised a wooden stick as thick as an arm in his hand and pointed it at the tip of Zhang Xi's nose.
said.
Normally, as long as the other party shows off his personality, Zhang Xi would subconsciously back off.
But tonight was different, he drank.
As the saying goes, drinking makes people brave, not to mention that after drinking, Zhang Xi is like an emperor today.
With a "pop" sound, Zhang Xi opened the wooden stick pointed at the tip of his nose: "My father was killed by her. Every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its owner. I came to ask Yang Yuhuan for an explanation. Who dares?"
If you stand in my way, I will fight to the death."
"Oh, are you so angry? Who gave you the courage to open my stick?" The servant raised the stick in his hand and was about to attack Zhang Xi.
"Your son seems to be studying in a private school in the town. I am familiar with the road he goes to school on." Zhang Xi raised his head forward, as if waiting for the other party's stick to fall.
Normally, the servant's stick would fall down without hesitation, but today, his stick stopped in mid-air.
"What did you just say?" the servant asked coldly.
"As long as you can't kill me today, you won't have to work as a servant for the Ma family every day in the future. You can accompany your son every day." Zhang Xi breathed out the smell of alcohol and shook his head towards the servant.
"Are you threatening me?" The servant gritted his teeth angrily, holding the wooden stick in his hands and secretly exerting force.
"I'm not threatening you. There are many of you, so I definitely can't defeat you. But to deal with a six- or seven-year-old child, I have plenty of strength and time."
"You are so shameless." The servant cursed fiercely, but the wooden stick in his hand was never raised again.
We are not afraid of thieves stealing, we are afraid that thieves will miss him. If Zhang Xi is really offended now, and he will stare at his son every day and live in fear, when will the end come to an end?
"Yang Yuhuan wants to kill my father. It's her I'm looking for. Do you want to get involved in this kind of life lawsuit?" Zhang Xi glanced at the other servants again.
Several villagers also came up: "Although you are servants of the Ma family, you are also from Magou Town. We can't see each other when we look up, so why bother Zhang Xi? His father was killed by Yang Yuhuan. This is a human life.
No matter where the lawsuit goes, Zhang Xi is justified."
"No, he is looking for Mrs. Ma, but Mrs. Ma is not in the yard." Looking at everyone, the servant showed a troubled expression, "This afternoon, Madam went to the county to find her father."
"If Yang Yuhuan is not here, let Ma Lianshan come out. Don't say that he is not here either, but someone saw him returning to town today." Zhang Xi said while looking inside the gate.
"It's true that the master is back today, but he also returned to the county seat before dark. If they are here, why would they not come out if you make such a fuss?"
After hearing what his servant said, Zhang Xi stopped making trouble and looked back at the neighbors who were "supporting" him.
"He is right. When we make such a fuss, whether it is Ma Lianshan or Yang Yuhuan, as long as they are at home, they will not stay in their rooms without coming out," said a neighbor.
"Then what should we do? Let's go to the county government now?" Zhang Xi cast a questioning look at everyone.
"The county government office will be promoted to court early tomorrow morning. Let's go back and pack up, bring some dry food and set off in the middle of the night. In time for the county government office to be promoted to court, we can seek justice for Mr. Zhang."
"Okay, let's go back first."
Seeing everyone pulling Father Zhang's body away, the servants slowly let out a breath.
How dare they interfere casually in this kind of human life lawsuit. But as servants of the Ma family, with other people's money, they can't just watch like this and do nothing.
"What should I do? Do you want to send a message to the master?"
"It goes without saying that the letter must be sent. At least let the master make arrangements in advance."
"Well, you will be responsible for guarding the yard today, and the two of us will go to the county seat overnight to deliver a message to the master."
In the dark night, two old horses carried two figures and disappeared on the official road leading to the county seat.
