“It’s ……”
Someone next to me chimed in.
“You guys are obviously blackmailing, your Lu family is at least considered a respectable family, so don’t be afraid of being laughed at for doing this!”
“I think the Lu family has lost their business, otherwise why else would they ask for so much money, they want to take the 200 taels to live.”
……
One by one, Lu Ziyu’s face turned blue and white as he listened.
The woman’s face was not good either, and she gave Song Wangyue a hard look and said towards the crowd of people who were talking, “What do you know? The two hundred taels we want is because of the love between the two families, you should know, this marriage is Huang Yu insisted to withdraw, she delayed my son for two years, we have not yet asked the Huang family for the loss. ”
The neighbours were stunned to hear that it was Huang Yu who wanted to withdraw from the marriage. They all thought that the Lu family was concerned about Huang Yu’s reputation and had come to withdraw from the marriage, but they did not expect that it was Huang Yu who had proposed it.
The crowd unanimously looked at their uncle.
He originally wanted to save some face for the Lu family, after all, their villages were not very far apart and they would not see each other in the future. Since the woman said so, he was not polite, and immediately told the mother and son of the Lu family to go to the medical school early in the morning to withdraw their marriage.
“I was thinking at the time that Huang Yu was ……
The woman retorted, looking at the crowd, “Think about it, if the girl your son was betrothed to had lost her innocence, would you still let marry?”
Naturally, they would not, and the crowd was silent.
Seeing that she had pulled one back, the woman smiled smugly, “But then we heard from her aunt that Jade was fine, so we didn’t want to withdraw from the marriage, it was Huang Yu who insisted on withdrawing, and naturally their Huang family had to compensate us for the loss.”
“You lie.”
Her aunt exposed her, “You saw Miss Song’s escort and thought she was something extraordinary, that’s why you didn’t want to withdraw the marriage again, you’re the kind of family that sees the wind and the rudder, our Yu’er won’t marry there.”
After saying this, she pulled out the silver cheque Song Wangyue had given her and took one and handed it to the woman, “Find us eight hundred taels.”
“Yo ……”
The woman’s words were sarcastic, “You’re deliberately making things difficult for us, huh?”
Song Wan Yue had been standing with her arms wrapped around her chest watching the fun, hearing this she raised her eyebrows and took out two hundred silver taels from her sleeve belt and handed it to her aunt, “Give it to her and tell them to get lost quickly!”
There was a silence in the courtyard.
The woman’s and Lu Ziyu’s faces changed again.
The aunt also froze for a moment, then snapped back to attention and took the silver ticket and slapped it into the woman’s hand, “Get lost.”
“You ……”
The woman had never been treated like this before and her face twisted a little.
Song Wangyue snapped her fingers and three guards walked into the courtyard and stood behind the two.
The matchmaker’s body stiffened and she hurriedly pulled the woman, “Madam Lu, let’s go.”
The woman reluctantly gave Song Wan Yue a fierce look and went out of the Huang house and got into the carriage, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became, she was normally someone who was held in high esteem, when had she ever suffered such anger, and ordered the carriage driver, “Go to the county town.”
Lu Ziyu did not understand.
The woman sneered, “Aren’t they going to sue? Let’s go and report to the county chancellor, we might even get a good deal from him, not only will it help our family’s business, but it will also give you a good future.”
Lu Ziyu’s eyes lit up.
……
After a few people left and the neighbours left, my aunt let Song Wangyue into the house and returned the remaining silver tickets to her.
Huang Xing and his wife thanked Song Wan Yue profusely.
Song Wangyue waved her hand, “You guys get ready and go to the county town after dinner.”
Huang Xing and his wife knew that if they did not bring down Zhou Lin, their family would not have a good life in the future, so they agreed without the slightest hesitation.
Song Wangyue left two guards behind and went back to the town, went to rent two more carriages and gave him the address before heading for the medical centre.
They had all suffered from Zhou Lin’s oppression and had resisted at first, but afterwards they had been met with even worse reprisals and some had even lost their families, so over time they dared not resist. Song Wangyue’s actions gave them hope, but they were still afraid that if they could not bring down Zhou Lin, they would be even worse off, and they hesitated.
Song Wangyue naturally sensed this and walked on as usual without pausing in her steps.
One by one, others came out, and some of those who had been bullied opened their mouths, but were covered by the family members around them and pulled back.
All the doors in the street were open and people were standing in front of every house, but there was no sound.
Song Wangyue just pretended not to know and walked inside the medical hall.
Today, the doctor’s office was particularly quiet, with not a single patient in sight. The doctor was sitting at the doctor’s table and when he saw her enter, he opened his mouth, but in the end it turned into a sigh.
Song Wangyue seemed to have not heard, “Make the noon meal now, let’s go and sue after we’ve eaten.”
The doctor wanted to say something, but after a while he got up and went to the back of the house, asking the family to cook.
When the meal was ready and Song Wangyue had finished eating, two carriages arrived, with Huang Xing and his wife and aunt and uncle. The aunt and uncle came down and together with Song Wan Yue helped Huang Yu to the carriage.
Huang Yu had already guessed that she hadn’t seen her parents since she woke up, but seeing her parents’ injuries, Huang Yu still couldn’t help but shed tears.
“It’s good that you’re okay.”
Huang Xing’s daughter-in-law lifted her sleeve to wipe her tears, looking at the injuries on her forehead also made her eyes red, God willing, her daughter was still alive.
“Sister.” Huang Yu’s brother – Huang Liang – called out to her.
The eleven year old child, after experiencing the captivity of his sister and the serious injuries inflicted on both his parents, seemed to have grown up at once, and no longer had the youthfulness in his eyes.
Huang Yu stroked his head with tears in her eyes, but with a smile on her face, “Sister is fine, don’t worry, Ah Liang.”
Huang Liang nodded, “Don’t worry sister, I will always be by your side.”
Auntie quietly turned her head to wipe a tear from her eye, then turned her head again and smiled, “We are all with you.”
The two carriages were in the front, Song Wangyue and a group of guards rode behind, and when they left the town, all the people came out of their homes to watch.
It was only when their figures disappeared that someone spoke out, “Do you think they can sue and win?”
No one answered.
They didn’t know what Song Wan Yue was, and what they saw of her was just a little girl with the heart of a child, thinking that moving to Zhou Lin was an easy thing to do, and when she got to the magistrate’s office and knew how powerful the magistrate was, they would know how innocent she was in what she had done.
Someone let out a sigh.
Not a sigh at Song Wangyue’s impulsiveness, but a sigh at the Huang family, who, after today, will have to leave this place if they want to survive, uprooting themselves from their homeland and not being able to return for the rest of their lives.
Inside the county, the woman and Lu Ziyu enquired about the residence of the county chancellor and rode over in a carriage.
The county chancellor is supposed to live in the county office, but his brother-in-law is the General Magistrate of Qingping Prefecture, and with such a big background, who dares to control him.