Chapter 37: Money or Death?
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The Liu family had the heart to go to the ancestral hall first, but the old man Xu Changgong's head was crooked. "I'm tired, I'm still sick, you can't leave me alone, I'm going to sleep, I've got to bathe and change my clothes."
Sisi sent the lotus mulberry leaves and the He family home, and the Liu family helped the old man to go home.
It's not bad, nothing was destroyed, but there was a scorch pit in the ground and a few pieces of window paper were broken. Just turn around and paste it, the lock of the door is broken, and nothing else.
Oh, the bunch of dried fish hanging from the osmanthus tree is gone. But the slightest bit is not distressed, it was originally for the little golden retriever to eat.
Let the Liu family lead Xu Changgong to go out of Gong, that is, to change clothes, and Sisi hurriedly put everything back at home as it was.
"Presumptuous, it's not like words, I'm so old, how can I wash my face with cold water."
"Yes, yes, yes." Liu hurriedly took the basin and left.
Sisi tilted her little head and hung her little tiger teeth, "Old man, my mother is a bully, I can't mess with it, don't be arrogant, understand?" Pointing to the ground, "I'm in charge of my territory." ”
Xu Changgong snorted coldly, "I am your father, your mother is the head of the family, can you be older than your mother?" ”
washed his face, "Dad, why don't you watch Tangtang at home for a while, and I will go with Sisi to meet the patriarch." ”
"No, I'm hungry, you have to cook at home, is there no man in the family? Ask the woman and the child to be in charge. ”
As soon as he picked up the silk, threw it on his shoulder, and walked out with it. Oh, the back of my head, when I crossed the threshold, Sisi was about to raise her head and pull with the old man, but when she ran into it, she almost didn't shed tears in pain.
When I arrived at the ancestral hall, there were still a lot of people who saw the excitement. But it's quite far away, there is nothing to do with them, just look at the excitement, the countryside, there is no fun, thanks to Diao's such a joke expert, everyone's life is not so lonely.
"Who are you? This is the ancestral hall of my Tian family. ”
"I don't farm." Xu Changgong's eyes widened, "But the Nine Immortals Dynasty is also a place with bricks and tiles." ”
Tian Qingyun and the elders of the three clans looked at each other, who is this old man? I don't know each other.
Tian Shiqi stretched his neck, and here is what he can say to Sisi.
"Sisi, who is this old man?"
"My grandfather." Silk slipped out of Xu Changgong's shoulder and onto the ground.
"Fart, your grandfather and I are not dead, where did you come from."
Tian Laogen's eyes rolled and he almost fainted, and the little bastard was becoming less and less of a thing.
"The father that my mother bought in the town today is naturally my grandfather, and the government has prepared a case, so you can't help but believe it. Well, my grandfather is now the head of our family, don't look for my mother if you have something in the future. ”
Old man, don't you like to pretend to be a senior? Master give you the opportunity to give full play, don't be too grateful to me, this Lao Tian family is annoying, your future days will definitely be very lively, this Xiaoxian promised.
"The patriarch of the Tian family, my family's house has been burned, I don't know what you are going to do with it?"
came up with a look of asking for guilt, which made a few people a little unable to react for a while.
Everyone looked at each other, and Tian Shixun stood up, "Naturally, it is necessary to deal with it strictly and burn people's houses innocently." ”
"It's not innocent." Diao jumped to his feet, "They made it bad, and my old man was beaten without earning a penny, and it was light to burn the house, besides, even if it was burned, it would burn my own house." ”
Xu Changgong hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, "Didn't my daughter let you sell it?" Even the house with people was sold for forty taels, where does it have anything to do with you.
My daughter asked you to sell vegetables, that is my daughter's benevolence, you yourself are not angry, who is to blame for cheating?
According to the laws of my Nine Immortal Dynasty, burning people's houses will charge the army for 3,000 li at the least, and kill the head at the worst. Since you don't know how to repent, the patriarch and the old man are ready to declare the customs, I hope you will give a witness. ”
"What?" The stick was so frightened that his legs weakened, "Milk, I don't want to go to the army, master, you made me do it, right?" ”
Tian Laogen was also confused for a while, he was too angry at the time, thinking that the Liu family and Sisi couldn't do anything to him, and the patriarch and the clan elder couldn't face an outsider, but this old man with a lot of aura suddenly appeared, he really couldn't resist it.
"That, that, that's what I commanded, you, what do you dare?"
"My grandfather will not repeat it twice." Sisi suddenly admired this grandfather who had a lot of problems with cooked shrimp, and she was so happy to see what people were doing. "My kid, hehe, since you have admitted it yourself, do you want to be in the army or killed?" ”
"I am your lord, you dare to be disobedient."
The slightest grinning grinned and patted Xu Changgong's thigh, "Is there a grandfather who sells his granddaughter?" It's not that I can't afford it. Did any grandfather burn down other people's houses? My grandfather is here, can you see clearly? This is the person who really backs us. ”
Xu Changgong patted the back of Sisi's head with a smile, and said in his heart that this bear child is really underbeaten, and I am afraid that his hatred is not enough.
The patriarch and the three clan elders bit their ears, and finally let Tian Shiqi come forward, "This old brother, according to the words, the law is bigger than the sky, and we are not sincere in covering it, the fire is still extinguished by us, if we are selfish, we will not let everyone come here."
But after all, this is a contradiction in the family, and there is no one outside the Tian clan, can this matter be made small? ”
"Why?" Diao Shi rolled his eyelids, "My old man's beating is in vain?" ”
Niu Shi hurriedly covered Diao's mouth, "Mother, which is the big deal between losing your head or being beaten?" ”
"Look." Tian Shiqi is so angry, he shouldn't help Tian Laogen speak, it's also cat urine drunk, this matter is like this, the family can't be taken care of in the future, who provokes who gets wet, "Brother, how about punishing them to kneel in the ancestral hall?" ”
Xu Changgong's eyes rolled, "Kneel in your ancestral hall, what good do I have?" ”
"Well, do you want them to compensate you for your losses?"
The Niu family hurriedly spoke, Tian Laogen and the Diao family were unreliable, "We will pay five dollars." ”
"Bah." Xu Changgong spat on the ground, "Forty taels less don't talk about it." ”
As soon as Diao heard this, he sat on the ground and patted his thigh, "There is no way to live, and it doesn't cost so much to sell my old bones, so you can take my life." ”
"Oops, dude." At this time, Tian Qingyun, as the patriarch, couldn't sit still, "Brother, it's all my own family, forty taels is too much, I helped build the eldest house, and it cost less than ten taels in total." ”
Sisi hurriedly pulled Xu Changgong's clothes, and it was almost enough.
"Okay, I'm not an unreasonable person, twenty taels is really cheap to buy a life, this is to see the face of the patriarchs and clan elders, and it is not possible to change people."
"But we have to sign a closing letter, we will still be a family in the future, and we can't pursue this matter anymore, if this is the case, we will come out."
Tian Laogen felt this comfort in his heart, he really didn't let the second child study in vain, and he really took a shot at the critical moment.
The Sisi family was very happy, the Diao family was depressed, and the Diao family racked their brains and gritted their teeth and swore that they would get the silver back, double it.