Once you become a boy, marry a good man, and become rich together

My family's money is in a small box. The village chief and many elders must know how much is in it. Auntie is trying to deny the debt. It seems we should go to the village chief to ask him, so that I won't frame her."

Jiang Ci spoke slowly but forcefully, and every word struck at their hearts, and now she did not give them any chance to interrupt.

"Later, even my house was dismantled into bricks and used to build the house you live in now. Could it be that my aunt can't remember it at her age?"

Chen felt goosebumps all over her body when she was stared at by Jiang Ci's sharp eyes.

I always feel that Jiang Ci is like a different person after returning from town.

"Nonsense! You just say whatever you want! If you say that again, I'll smash your mouth."

Chen always makes bluffing threats.

"You have lived in my house for four years, and all these things have been used for your food and clothing." said the uncle angrily.

"It seems we should go find the village chief. You two all have problems with your brains and can't remember clearly.

Furthermore, if I go to the government office to report my aunt for selling me, I will be fined, beaten with a stick, and eventually go to jail."

Fines, beatings, and jail!

When she heard these few words, one could clearly hear the smile in Jiang Ci's voice; she was so excited and so happy.

"I didn't go because of the friendship we've had over the years. Don't push me too far and make me sue you in the government office. No one will survive."

"Your father and I are brothers. After the flood, almost everything in the house was broken. There's no need to distinguish between you and me as brothers. Just think of it as helping my family." The uncle said shamelessly.

Sure enough, they became scared when they heard about the yamen. When the villagers saw the yamen runners from the county government, they were so scared that they hid away. The farmers were most afraid of being involved with the yamen.

After hearing this, Jiang Ci walked out the door.

Chen became anxious when she saw this and went forward to grab Jiang Ci, but Jiang Ci dodged and ran out quickly towards the village chief's house.

Today he had to get something from his whole family.

The village chief's wife was sweeping the floor at the door when she saw Ci Ge'er running towards them, with someone chasing him.

Jiang Ci ran to the village chief's house. He had only run half of the village and was so tired that he couldn't breathe. His health was really bad.

Jiang Ci said to the village head's wife with red eyes, "Auntie, I really have no other choice. I want to ask the village head to make the decision."

As he said this, he was about to kneel down to him. When the village chief's wife saw this, she was very angry and held Jiang Ci to prevent him from kneeling.

Chen followed Jiang Ci to the village chief's house, but because the village chief's wife was there, he couldn't do anything to Jiang Ci.

Hearing Jiang Ci's words, he quickly added, "Nothing happened, why don't you go home quickly."

The village chief heard the noise in the house and came out. When he saw the situation at the door, he knew without a doubt that it was Brother Ci who had been wronged.

After all, that family had been bullying Ci Ge'er for a long time. When he mentioned this, he felt ashamed of this child. As the village chief...

He asked immediately, "Brother Ci, what's the matter? Tell me and I will help you."

Jiang Ci told the village chief the whole story, slightly embellishing what she had said in her uncle's yard.

His uncle and Chen wanted to interrupt several times, but were rebuked by the village chief's gaze. The village chief was a very authoritative person in the village.

The noise here soon attracted the villagers who had just finished their meal nearby.

Seeing Jiang Ci's aggrieved look and hearing what Jiang Ci said, they all started to blame the Chen family.

People are like this, they always unconsciously tend to favor the weak.

After Jiang Ci finished speaking, the village chief looked at his uncle and said coldly, "In this situation, do you have anything else to say?"

Chen began to make excuses one after another, and the same thing came out of her mind: the money was gone and had been given to Jiang Ci.

Seeing this, Jiang Ci turned to her uncle and said, "If you want me not to pursue the things and money left by my parents, that's fine. I will marry in Linjia Village, and half of the betrothal gift from the Lin family will be given to me as a dowry."

Chen and the uncle were speechless after being asked by Jiang Ci. They couldn't follow Jiang Ci's thought process and were thinking about how to deal with the situation.

When the village chief saw the two of them like this, he knew that they were up to no good. His family had no moral integrity. If this matter got out of hand, it would have a bad impact on the village.

He decided, "I think what Ci Ge'er said is a good idea. I will give him five taels of silver as a dowry. Just consider the previous things as you taking advantage of him."

Chen immediately yelled as if she had suffered a great loss.

"What do you mean we took advantage? This bastard eats and drinks our food every day. How much food does he eat?"

Someone watching the show nearby said, "The Lin family gave a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver. Even if they took out five taels as dowry, they still had five taels in their hands. They really made a fortune."

"These five taels are far less than the money and house left by Ci'er's parents."

There were also some very unpleasant voices, "Five taels as a dowry is really a first, so much."

The person who said this was looked down upon by people all around him, and he retreated to the back in embarrassment.

"Tsk! I don't know what you were thinking to say such a thing!"

"Did you know? Chen sold Ci'er to human traffickers a few days ago. Luckily, Ci'er managed to escape."

The village chief was also angry when he heard what Chen said, and shouted at her angrily, "Listen to what the villagers are saying. Anyone with eyes knows it. Don't force me to open an ancestral hall."

The ancestral hall in the village can only be opened when something major happens.

For example, if someone passes the imperial examination to become a scholar, an ancestral hall will be built to inform the ancestors that their descendants have made great achievements; or if a dragon's grace is granted to exempt taxes, an ancestral hall will be built for such events.

Otherwise, if someone in the village committed a serious mistake, he would be forced to kneel in the ancestral hall and submit to the ancestral law.

"Okay, let's do it this way," and then the uncle took Chen away, probably feeling extremely embarrassed.

The people around them were pointing fingers at them and talking about them. It would be terrible if they had a bad reputation in the village.

"Everyone, go home, those who are willing to wash the pots should go home, those who are willing to feed the chickens should go home, don't stand here anymore," the village chief waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse.

After everyone left, the village chief's wife took Jiang Ci to her home and reminded her of things to pay attention to after getting married.

She saw that Ci Ge'er had no elders to guide him, and was afraid that he would not know anything when he went to his husband's family and might break taboos.

The village chief saw his wife holding onto Ci Ge'er and talking non-stop, so he interrupted her and said, "Okay, okay, you keep repeating the same few words over and over again, Ci Ge'er must be tired of hearing them."

"Well, I won't say anything. I'll go to the matchmaker and ask him what date he mentioned."

"Village chief, I have something else to trouble you with. I want to sign a severance agreement with my uncle's family before I get married, so that I can stay in my ancestral home."

The village chief frowned and asked Jiang Ci again, "Brother Ci, are you sure that this matter has not reached the point where we have to sign a divorce agreement? It might lead to gossip. If you are bullied in your husband's family in the future, you won't have a mother's family to go back to."