Xu Qinghai took a few steps back calmly, raised his head and looked around. Everyone else was busy working in the distance, and he and his family wanted to take the opportunity to slack off, so they chose to hide in this corner.

The three brothers Xu Wenlin from the eldest house went out pushing coal and haven't come back for a while. They must have been lazy.

"I don't care whether you are human or ghost, if you know what's best for you, get out of here right away, or else..."

Xu Qinghai swallowed hard to calm himself down, and wanted to pretend to be ferocious to give himself courage.

"Hehe... Even if you become a ghost, we won't become ghosts."

Yuxiu glanced at him with disdain, raised her leg and kicked him to the ground, then stomped on his palm and crushed it hard.

"Today we came here to see if you, a family of worse than pigs and dogs, are dead or not. Seeing you suffering here, I feel relieved."

Seeing Xu Qinghai grimacing in pain, Yuxiu kicked the unconscious Xu Qingjiang several times.

Xu Qingjiang woke up from a burst of severe pain, and was beaten by Yuxiu with a stick again.

"Help! Someone come..."

Xu Qinghai on the other side seized this opportunity and immediately shouted at the top of his voice.

The guards and stewards who were barbecuing in the house heard the noise and immediately rushed out with swords in hand.

"What's going on? You're not working properly but are screaming here. Are you looking for death?"

The manager came out from somewhere and hadn't even fastened his belt. He was holding up his loose pants with one hand and slapping Xu Qinghai in the face with the other hand.

"I think everyone has been too idle these days. I gave you guys a few good looks but you didn't even know your own name and even dared to start a fight."

As soon as the manager saw the miserable look of the two Xu brothers, he didn't even need to ask any more questions and directly charged them with a crime.

"As a punishment, all people with the surname Xu will not be allowed to eat today, and they will have to dig twice as much coal as before, otherwise they will not be allowed to eat tomorrow either!"

The manager glared at a few people fiercely, said something and turned away.

When the other people in Xujia Village heard that they were innocently implicated, they felt angry and resentful, but because of the whips in the hands of the steward and the guards, they did not dare to question them. They could only glare at Xu Qinghai and the others fiercely.

"No, sir, we didn't fight, it was this woman who beat us both..."

Xu Qingjiang struggled to get up from the ground, with blood all over his head, and tried to grab the steward's clothes, but was whipped several times by the guards on the side.

"Please, sir, please help. These two women really hit people..."

Xu Qinghai also quickly knelt down and kowtowed. They both turned around and looked towards the place where Yuxiu and Cui appeared, but they found that the place was empty and there was no one there.

"Please believe us, sir. There were really two women here just now. They are from the second branch of our Xu family. I don't know why they suddenly appeared and beat us up indiscriminately..."

"What my elder brother said is true, please believe us..."

The Xu Qinghai brothers were almost about to swear to the heavens, wanting people to believe that they were not lying. It was true that the mother and daughter from the second branch of the Xu family came and beat them up.

Now not only did other people not believe them, even the people in Xujia Village looked at the two brothers with very strange eyes.

There were only two weak women left in the second branch of the Xu family, and no one knew where they were struggling to survive. How could they suddenly appear in this deep mountain forest?

"Hehe... It's broad daylight and you haven't woken up yet. Are you dreaming here?"

The manager was so angry that he laughed. He paused in his steps, looked at Xu Qinghai and the other man who were covered in wounds, and couldn't help shaking his head.

"Someone, take these two people and sober them up."

"Yes, my lord."

Following his order, several managers strode forward and dragged away the Xu Qinghai brothers, who were as limp as dead dogs.

The so-called sobering up people means pressing them into a pile of snow and letting the biting cold torture them.

Soon, the brothers Xu Qinghai and Xu Qingjiang were thrown headfirst into the snowdrift. When Xu Wenlin and the other two learned the news and were about to ask what was going on, they were surrounded by the guards.

Some people grabbed their arms, some lifted their legs, and some held their waists from behind. Soon, the three people were thrown in as well.

Soon, several grown men from the Xu family were thrown headfirst into the snowdrift. Seeing them waving their hands and feet and struggling, Yuxiu and Cui in the space looked at each other and couldn't help but laughed with their hands covering their mouths.

After such an incident, the guards did not dare to slack off in the house. They waved their whips and scolded the crowd. A few who were slow were whipped several times.

"What are you all looking at here? Get back to work. If you don't complete today's mission, none of you will get to eat!"

The guard cursed a few words, and seeing that everyone was holding their heads and running to work hard, a few people discussed it and went forward to pull out the several grown men of Lao Xu's family like pulling carrots.

Xu Qinghai and Xu Qingjiang had been beaten up by Yuxiu before, and they had been kept in silence for a long time, so their faces turned purple and their eyes were tightly closed.

The three Xu Wenlin brothers were fine. Although they were shivering with cold, they recovered quickly due to their youth and strong health. Seeing that their father and uncle were almost dead, they rushed over and pinched their Ren Zhong points, and hugged and shook them. After a lot of effort, they finally pulled them back from the dead.

Even so, Lao Xu's family could not escape the fate of having to continue working.

When they saw the two men waking up and just sitting on the ground with pale faces, their lives were not in danger, the guards looked at each other, rushed over with whips raised, and started beating them madly.

Several men in Lao Xu's family were beaten and dodged repeatedly. They had to drag their weak bodies and continue to dig coal.

"Bah! This family is really bold. They even learned to play tricks and try to fool us."

"I have been too lenient with them these days, so they have become ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth. From now on, I will just whip them to death. I don't believe that I can't make them obey."

"That's true. These people are just cheap bastards. They can't live without smoking for a day..."

A group of guards stood behind Xu's family and pointed and talked. Their voices were very loud, and they didn't care at all that their voices would be heard by Xu's family. On the contrary, they deliberately raised their voices so that Xu's family could hear them clearly.

"Dad, Uncle San, what are you doing?"

Xu Wenlin felt somewhat resentful towards his father and third uncle. Didn’t these two people understand the current situation?

Why are you just adding to the chaos?

"Yes, Dad, now that we have fallen into this situation, we must not anger these guards again, otherwise they might really beat us to death."

"Even if we are beaten to death, it will be in vain. Anyway, we have signed the contract to sell our bodies. If we die, they will just throw us into the forest. I guess wild wolves will eat us until there is nothing left..."

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