I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Bai Lizheng and several clan elders quickly reached a consensus. In order to satisfy Bai Jingzhou's family and Gu Wenxuan's family, the amount of compensation they negotiated was quite generous.

Every time those two people and their in-laws heard that several people had agreed on the same amount, their hearts would bleed uncontrollably.

Although they resisted the urge to object to the compensation plan proposed by Bai Lizheng and several elders in order to avoid divorcing the two men, the two culprits who caused the family to lose money suffered without exception.

The mother-in-law's curses, the sisters-in-law's complaints, the husband's cold eyes, and the various chores and heavy debts that had been forced upon them by the angry mother-in-law before they even returned home, all made the two people regret it so much that they wished they could go back in time and strangle themselves for making up all kinds of nonsense and spreading it everywhere with great enthusiasm.

They regretted their decision, and Bai Jingzhou's family and Gu Wenxuan's family felt much better.

Bai Chong and Gu Yongming looked at each other and tacitly decided to quit while they were ahead, but Bai Jingzhou added, "Grandpa Lizheng, elders of the clan, my family will cut off ties with these two families in the future."

Everyone turned to look at Bai Jingzhou. Bai Lizheng tried to persuade him, "Jingzhou, are you dissatisfied with the amount of compensation that I and the elders have agreed upon? If so, we can ask these two families to add a little more."

Although Bai Chong was just a country doctor, he had some real skills. Most importantly, he was kind-hearted. He usually treated people without any consultation fee and charged much less for medicine than the county clinic.

For those who really couldn't come up with the money, such as Gu Yongming at the beginning, he would allow the other party to buy on credit indefinitely.

If they cut off ties with his family, the two families would lose more than just the money they used as apology.

The two families were obviously well aware of the terrible consequences of severing ties with Bai Chong's family. They surrounded Bai Jingzhou's family, some trying to play the emotional card, while others made bitter faces and protested their injustice.

"If you don't want to be a member of their clan, then are we willing to be a family with a troublemaker? Isn't there anything else we can do?"

"You can't stop your father from treating the other people from our two families just because of them, right? We haven't offended your family in any way!"

"Every wrong has its perpetrator, Jingzhou, if you are really upset, why don't you ask the head of the village and the elders to punish them more."

"That's right. If you're angry, just go straight to them! We didn't say anything bad about your mother or that girl from the Gu family!"

Bai Lizheng also said: "Jingzhou, what they said makes sense. If they had a choice, they would not want to have a daughter-in-law or sister-in-law like that."

Bai Jingzhou nodded reluctantly, "Okay then, Grandpa Lao Lizheng and the elders will teach those two a lesson."

After a pause, he continued, "There's no need to add anything else. Let them suffer a little and learn their lesson."

Although in this era of material scarcity, making those two gossipy women give up their money is a better way to punish them and make them remember it longer than directly beating or scolding them, but considering the economic conditions of their respective families, even if Bai Lizheng and the elders wanted to increase the amount, the amount they could add would definitely be very limited.

Bai Jingzhou looked down upon that tiny symbolic increase, so he directly suggested that Bai Lizheng physically punish the two gossipers.

He just chose the method that he thought was cost-effective. Bai Lizheng, the elders and most of the people from the two families all gave him looks of approval or gratitude.

Bai Jingzhou:...No, what on earth are you imagining?

In the end, Bai Lizheng discussed with several elders and chose the more common punishment method of kneeling.

The two gossipers were punished to kneel in the Bai clan ancestral hall for three days and three nights. During this period, no one was allowed to bring them food, but the ancestral hall would provide them with a clay pot of water every day.

In order to prevent them from being dishonest, Bai Lizheng also arranged for several older women in the tribe to take turns watching them.

At first, the two of them didn't take it too seriously, thinking that it was just three days of hunger. It's not like they had been hungry before.

But they soon discovered that they not only had to endure hunger, but also the soreness, numbness and itching in their legs, the cold when the temperature dropped, and the sleepiness when the night fell.

Every time they closed their eyes involuntarily and almost fell asleep, the maids in charge of supervising them would wake them up. That feeling was so sour and painful.

After kneeling for a night and a day, the two of them completely collapsed, but it was too late for them to regret now.

In order to teach them a profound lesson, Bai Lizheng had instructed the maids who took turns guarding them to make them kneel firmly for three days and three nights.

The old women were old and had some illnesses. They had received a lot of favors from Bai Chong in the past, so when they received Bai Lizheng's orders, they carried them out very seriously.

The two gossipy women were miserable, but because they were afraid of being divorced, they had to grit their teeth and kneel obediently for three days and three nights.

When Bai Lizheng came to inform them that they had been "released from prison", they were so weak that they couldn't even stand up.

They were tired, hungry and sleepy, and their legs were almost numb. But after being taken back by their families, what they had to face was still not hot meals and bedding, but the blame from their parents-in-law, the complaints from their sisters-in-law and the cold faces from their husbands.

At this point, the two of them no longer had the energy to feel resentful in their hearts. They numbly listened to the scolding from their parents-in-law, and then dragged their tired bodies to prepare food and water for themselves.

In stark contrast to their difficult situation, Gu Wenxuan has been living a very comfortable life in recent days.

Because of the persistence of Bai Jingzhou's family and Gu Wenxuan's family this time, the gossipers in the village never dared to make up stories about these two families again.

Gu Wenxuan was in a good mood, and her new body was gradually regaining vitality. She no longer wanted to stay at home obediently.

"Mom, I want to go into the mountains today." After doing a set of boxing in the yard, Gu Wenxuan wiped the sweat from his face while submitting a request to go out to his mother.

Jia Guizhi shook her head and refused without hesitation, "No, it's a bit chaotic outside recently. You should wait until your father and I are done with our work, and then the three of us can go into the mountains together."

The day after Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou met the bad guys, Bai Lizheng personally led people out to gather information.

This was a surprising discovery. A yamen runner that Bai Li was familiar with in the county told them privately that their county had seen more than one group of refugees who had flocked in from surrounding areas.

Some of these people roamed around towns and villages, committing crimes such as stealing and robbing, while others simply formed a team, occupied a mountain and became bandits.