Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Seeing that the villagers were about to quarrel with Grandma Sun again, the village chief slammed the table in anger and said, "Sun family, stop talking nonsense here. Many people present know that the Cai and Sun families have their own favors, so this is even."

Granny Sun was not happy. "You are so easy to talk without any pain in your waist. You just opened and closed your lips, and such a great kindness is gone just like that. You are so biased that you are even biased to the root of the East China Sea!"

"How dare you!" The village chief was really angry. He didn't want to get entangled with a shrew who was making trouble. He pointed at Sun Baifu who was standing behind her and said, "Sun Baifu, you just hid behind this woman and let him make trouble here? You are so disrespectful to your elders and making trouble! If you make trouble again, I will open the ancestral hall directly!"

Opening an ancestral hall is a big deal. If the Sun family has their ancestral hall opened by the clan, their family will be finished. Not only will their land and properties be confiscated, but they will also be driven out of Fushui Village.

Sun Baifu is much more cunning than his wife. He is used to hiding behind his wife and pretending to be a good person, and indulges his wife in being unreasonable and taking advantage of him.

But at this moment, he was also panicked and didn't dare to hide anymore. He quickly spoke out and pretended to scold Grandma Sun: "You stinky woman, how dare you talk to the village chief!"

Then he said to the village chief in a flattering way: "Village chief, she is a woman with long hair and little knowledge. She said something wrong. Please don't take it to heart. It's not the point of opening an ancestral hall."

The village chief didn't even raise his eyelids. How could he not know Sun Baifu's little thoughts?

In the past, he could turn a blind eye to trivial matters among villagers, but when it came to major matters involving the reputation of the entire village, no one would dare to play tricks under his nose.

"Okay, stop talking about those useless things." The village chief went straight to the point and said, "What do you think we should do about this matter today?"

Mrs. Sun was used to being domineering at home and in the village. This was the first time in decades that she was scolded in public by her man. She reached out her hand and pinched the soft flesh on Sun Baifu's waist hard.

Sun Baifu's old face was twisted and wrinkled in pain, looking like a black rotten vegetable leaf.

"Well, that marriage must be cancelled. Although the Cai family was wrong first, our Sun family has always been generous and will not argue with them. The Cai family only needs to compensate our Sun family ten taels of silver."

This one sentence caused a huge uproar, and the surrounding area exploded in an instant.

"It's just too much!"

"How shameless! Take it off and paste it on the wall, don't use it to disgust others!"

"I've never seen such a shameless person in this world! How dare you open your mouth!"

"This is such a thick skin, if you peel it off, you can use it to stop up the bursting river in the south."

"In my opinion, we can fill up the sea from Rabbit Island to Fuzhou Bay."

"Isn't it just bullying others by taking advantage of their power? They are bullying the Cai family because they are honest and only have one male child."

"The Cai family is good in every way, except that it is not very prosperous, and has been passed down from generation to generation to only one person."

"Doesn't Mr. Cai have an older sister?"

"You mean Osmanthus fragrans? She hasn't come back for years. She married to Rabbit Island. We can't count on her."

"Poor girl, why would a girl from the mainland marry to an island? They are poor and miserable, and can't even get a meal all year round. Every meal is rotten fish and shrimp. After a while, their faces will turn green."

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"Bang, bang, bang!" The elder of the clan slammed his crutch to the ground and glared coldly at the Sun family.

What a bunch of troublesome things, it's really like a donkey turning into a grasshopper, each generation is worse than the previous one. Old man Sun was such a good person, how could he give birth to such a bunch of weird things.

"The Cai and Sun families have broken off the engagement and should sign the agreement immediately. The Sun family has unreasonably proposed to break off the engagement and it is impossible to get compensation," said the clan leader.

Mrs. Sun stiffened her neck and said, "That won't work. You must give me ten taels of silver!"

She was also counting on the ten taels of silver to find a good matchmaker and find a good family in the town for her daughter.

The clan leader didn't even look at Grandma Sun, and said firmly: "This is the clan's intention. I'm just informing you, not asking for your opinion."

The other three elders nodded in agreement.

The village chief said: "If you don't want to retreat, you don't have to retreat."

"That won't do. This marriage must be cancelled! The money must also be given!"

Mrs. Sun is acting like a scoundrel.

"Bang!" The elder threw the bowl at Sun Baifu's feet. "Open the ancestral hall! Divorce this shrew who has committed the seven grounds for divorce and drive her out of Fushui Village."

"Why? I gave birth to three sons and a daughter for the Sun family. I am a great contributor to Fushui Village. Who of you dares to divorce me?"

An elder stroked his goatee and said, "Disrespecting elders, talking too much, creating trouble without reason, and robbing. According to the laws of our dynasty, this is already a violation of the seven grounds for divorce: disrespect and talking too much. The clan leader can open the ancestral hall to divorce the wife on her behalf."

Mrs. Sun had never been to school, and her family members were ignorant too. They had been accustomed to bullying over the years, so when they really faced the laws and clan rules, they immediately felt a little scared.

"Old man, please say something. I'm about to be bullied to death by them." She pulled Sun Baifu's arm and cried.

Sun Baifu had an unsightly expression on his face. He stared at the village chief and others, with a gleam of sinister intent in his eyes.

Cai Junyi is useless, why should the village chief and clan leader curry favor with his family? Compared with the Sun family, the Cai family is not as good as the Sun family. They have seven or eight strong laborers, so they will have seven or eight votes even if they are elected as the village chief.

"Village head, clan elders, my wife is from our Sun family. If I want to divorce her, I will do it on my own. Since you have all decided to protect the Cai family, our Sun family naturally dare not disobey. As for--"

He turned to look at Cai Chengping and his wife, and said gloomily: "As for the matter between our two families, we will resolve it privately. You can't protect them every day, right?"

"Sun Baifu you!" The clan leader coughed violently in anger. The Sun family was becoming more and more arrogant and domineering. They even dared to threaten them in person.

Zhao quickly poured the elder another bowl of water and patted his back to help him calm down.

Cai Chengping walked up to Sun Baifu and said coldly, "Originally, our family didn't want to make a big deal out of this. You guys were too ruthless. Don't blame us for turning our backs on you."

Cai Chengping took out a list from his pocket and handed it to the village chief: "Village chief, this is the betrothal gift that our Cai family gave to the Sun family when we arranged the child marriage. Now that the marriage has been cancelled, shouldn't this betrothal gift also be returned?"

The village chief and several elders were more and more shocked. They didn't expect that the Sun family gave so much as a betrothal gift, at least ten taels of silver.

It is only natural to cancel the engagement and the betrothal gift.

So the village chief said: "Since the marriage between the two families has been cancelled, the original betrothal gifts should be returned."

"Dowry? What dowry? We didn't see any dowry." Mrs. Sun widened her eyes and denied it immediately.

Ever since Mr. and Mrs. Sun passed away, Mrs. Sun had already treated the betrothal gifts from the Cai family as her own and embezzled them, so there was no money left.

"This is like eating meat and not spitting it out," someone mocked.

"Look at the silver hairpin that old lady Sun is wearing on her head. Could it be the betrothal gift from the Cai family?"

Mrs. Sun often wore a set of silver head ornaments to show off in the village. She didn't have it when she married into Fushui Village, but suddenly one day she started wearing it and showing it off everywhere.

Some people guessed that this might be the betrothal gift of the Cai family. If the mother-in-law wore the betrothal gift of her unmarried daughter, it would be an unprecedented scandal.

Mrs. Sun immediately denied it: "This silver hairpin is a dowry from my parents, not a betrothal gift from the Cai family."

The more she said this, the more people felt that she was guilty.

"Why are you so excited? Could it be that I am right?"

The village chief spoke up to stop the quarrel and said, "Sun Baifu, go back and pack the gifts according to the betrothal gift list and return them to the Cai family. Both parties will sign their seals to cancel the engagement."