Chapter 28: Chapter 28 This is an absolute blatant threat!_1 Chapter 28: Chapter 28 This is an absolute blatant threat!_1 “No, although we have brought more people than expected, we are not here to bully anyone. We have come to discuss the issue of An Jing’s servitude money with Changyi,” Lin Ming explained.
“You need so many people to discuss servitude money?” Xiao Zheng coldly snorted. “Do you really think the Xiao clan is blind?”
Upon moving out from behind Xiao Changyi and standing beside him, An Jing slowly said, “The reason Lin Clan Chief brought so many people over is to abduct me and then make Changyi pay ten taels of silver to ransom me.”
Xiao Changyi felt a slight stir in his heart when An Jing called him Changyi.
Xiao Zheng, with a complex look at An Jing, sternly said to Lin Ming, “I heard about yesterday’s incident. That servitude contract was given to Changyi by someone else, not stolen or robbed, so it belongs to Changyi. Why should he give you ten taels of silver?”
Lin Daqiang, grinding his teeth, said, “That someone else is Lin Anjing, this unfilial girl!”
Immediately, Xiao Zheng said, “That’s not my concern. All I know is that the servitude contract in Changyi’s hands was acquired honestly, it belongs to him, and he shouldn’t give you ten taels of silver.”
Suddenly, An Jing felt a bit of admiration for this middle-aged uncle named Xiao Zheng.
“Xiao Zheng, how can you speak like that?” Lin Ming, unable to believe it, said, “Daqiang has raised An Jing for so many years, how can he just give his daughter away for nothing?”
“That’s his business, it has nothing to do with our Xiao clan,” Xiao Zheng said. “Besides, the Xiao clan has no fools; we shouldn’t give the ten taels of silver. We won’t give even a single coin.”
Lin Daqiang and the others were infuriated.
Hearing this, An Jing began to understand why the Xiao clan had chosen Xiao Zheng as the Clan Leader.
“If you don’t give me the silver, I will just sit here and not leave!” Lin’s mother sat down on the ground with a thud. “I will eat here, relieve myself here; whenever you give it, then I will leave!”
Before anyone had time to disdain Lin’s mother’s shameless behavior, they heard Xiao Changyi say lightly, “I’m afraid that by then, you won’t be able to leave.”
“What do you mean?” Lin’s mother didn’t understand.
Xiao Changyi, with lowered eyelids, glancing sideways at Lin’s mother sitting on the ground, said, “Having been cursed by me, how can you still leave?”
Only then did Lin’s mother remember Xiao Changyi’s reputation for bringing calamity and jumped up from the ground in fear, retreating behind Lin Daqiang while cursing, “You cursed star, don’t even think about cursing me to death like you did your grandfather and father!”
Anger flashed through An Jing: “Since you are afraid of being cursed to death, then why don’t you scram!”
At that moment, An Jing realized that she very much disliked it when others called Xiao Changyi cursed, and the idea of people avoiding him at all costs.
Lin’s mother had just started to curse when An Jing coldly cut her off: “It seems my words were not clear enough just now, so let me repeat. If you continue to cause trouble, I will go and report to the officials.”
As she spoke, An Jing sneered, “If it is reported to the officials, Lord County Magistrate will surely summon Landlord Wang for questioning. With Landlord Wang bedridden, having to suffer this annoyance over such a trivial matter would certainly put him in a bad mood. By then, not only will you have no chance to rent Landlord Wang’s land again, but there’s also the possibility that no one in Jiuping Village will be able to rent from him. When that time comes, the whole village will probably despise you.”
This was definitely an outright threat!
Lin’s mother’s eyes widened.
Lin Daqiang’s face turned ashen.
If reporting to the officials indeed provoked Landlord Wang’s wrath, causing the whole village to be unable to rent his land because of their family, the villagers of Jiuping Village would not only despise them but might even want to kill them.