Starting from a thatched cottage, the farmer embarked on the road to wealth through imperial examina

Ye Changyan felt the carriage suddenly stop and heard someone crying. He then lifted the curtain and saw his second aunt with disheveled hair and Silang with bruises all over his face, rushing towards the carriage in a hurry.

Ye Changyan asked Erniu to accompany Fang Xiaotong and his sister to wait in the carriage, while he and Wulang went downstairs to check out the situation first. Then he jumped off the carriage first, and Wulang followed closely.

"Sanlang, wuwuwu..., you guys are finally back. Your second aunt's world is falling! Wuwuwu..."

Liu and Silang rushed up in a few steps. When they saw Ye Changyan and Wulang, Liu burst into tears. Silang also frowned and looked anxious.

"Second Aunt, what's going on? Let's talk about it."

Hearing Ye Changyan's question, Liu stretched out her sleeve to wipe away her tears, and then began to speak with an anxious look on her face.

"Sanlang, the day before yesterday at noon, the gang leader Tang Laizi from Qingshan Town came to our house with his men to cause trouble. Your second brother was impatient and started fighting with them, but there were three of them, so your second uncle and Silang went to help and finally beat Tang Laizi away."

Liu sobbed twice, then stretched out her sleeve to wipe her tears and snot, and continued speaking.

"But not long after, someone brought the police here, saying that Erlang had injured Tang Laizi. The police didn't care and arrested your second uncle and second brother and took them to the county government office. Silang and I have tried every possible way these two days, but we haven't even seen your second uncle and second brother. In this cold winter, I don't know what kind of punishment your second uncle and second brother have suffered in the county government office. Sanlang, please help me think of a solution quickly. Second aunt's wife will remember your kindness for the rest of her life!"

Liu sobbed as she spoke, a look of panic and anxiety on her tear-stained face.

Before going to Yuzhou Prefecture, Ye Changyan heard from the headman's wife Zhang that his second uncle was seen by Cao San and others from Dongshui Village when he chased Tang Laizi to borrow money, and they deliberately targeted Cao San in the processing workshop.

It must be that Tang Laizi came to collect debts, but Second Aunt said casually that Tang Laizi came to the house to cause trouble. Ye Changyan felt that Second Aunt must have hidden the key to many things.

"Second Aunt, Silang, don't worry. Let's go back and discuss with Grandmother and Uncle first, and then make specific plans."

Having said that, Ye Changyan ordered the carriage to go back to Ye’s farm first, then he winked at Wulang and headed towards the old house.

Liu originally wanted to stop Sanlang on the official road and go directly to the county government office to get the people out first. However, except that the head of the village helped to find out that the father and son were locked up in the county government office cell, she knew no other information. The father and son had been locked up in the county government office for two nights, and Liu was really anxious.

He looked for everyone he could and tried every possible way, but he couldn't even meet the father and son. The only person who had some relationship with the county magistrate, Sanlang, had gone to the provincial capital.

Originally Silang was planning to go to the city to find Ye Changyan, but the head of the village and others persuaded him that the city was too far away and the city was so big that it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to go there alone. It would be better to wait in the village. When Sanlang and his sister finished their business, they would naturally come back.

Out of desperation, Liu and Silang waited by the official road for two days.

When he arrived at the old house, Ye Changyan felt that the atmosphere was a little strange. He pushed open the gate and walked inside.

When he arrived at the front hall, he saw that many of the original furniture were missing, and he didn't see anyone else, so he shouted towards the backyard.

"Grandma, I came to see you."

Soon, my aunt-in-law, Xu, ran out from the backyard, her face filled with anxiety and a hint of surprise.

"Sanlang, you're finally back. Our house is about to be demolished!"

Xu looked aggrieved, with red eyes. When she saw Liu and Silang, she didn't look happy at all, but gnashed her teeth.

"Aunt, please tell me in detail what happened."

Xu didn't care about Liu's resentful look and told Ye Changyan everything that had happened in the past few days.

It turned out that at noon on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, when several uncles and brothers came back from the processing workshop to have lunch, Tang Laizi, a gangster from Qingshan Town, came to their door to collect a debt.

Tang Laizi said that his second uncle had borrowed three sums of money from him, and the first and second sums would be due before the New Year. As the New Year was approaching, Tang Laizi, as usual, brought two gangsters to collect the debt. The reason why he chose to come at noon was that it was easy to find people, and secondly, most people who owed money would show weakness, and he could also get a meal by the way.

Seeing Tang Laizi coming to his house, Second Uncle Ye Xiaowu was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he hurriedly pulled Tang Laizi and his group into the yard to talk alone.

However, the communication between the two sides was not pleasant, and a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides during the conversation. Erlang was impatient and started to fight with Tang Laizi. The two gangsters brought by Tang Laizi hurried forward to help. Seeing that Erlang was at a disadvantage, Ye Xiaowu and Silang also hurried forward to help, and several people started to fight.

A group of people started fighting without caring about anything, and everything in the house suffered. Seeing this, Ye Xiaowen and Dalang rushed forward to separate the two sides, but they were accidentally injured by the two sides who were fighting red-eyed. Daniu is now taking care of Ye Xiaowen, who is still lying in bed and unable to get out of bed, and Dalang is also injured.

I don't know how Erlang grabbed a wooden stick, but he beat Tang Laizi so hard that his head was bleeding. Everyone at the scene was frightened by Tang Laizi with blood all over his head. Two gangsters carried Tang Laizi, whose head was covered in blood, and ran away.

Not long after, someone came with officials from the county government and said that Tang Laizi was beaten by Erlang and fell into a coma and was unconscious. The second uncle owed a debt and took his son to commit a crime, so the father and son were arrested by the officials.

Upon seeing this, the old lady could not bear the blow and fainted on the spot. After the doctor came to see her, she woke up once, but saw that the second son and Erlang had not returned yet, so she fainted again and has been lying unconscious in bed ever since.

After listening to Xu's narration, Liu did not refute, and Ye Changyan knew that what Xu said should be the general course of events that had occurred in the past few days.

Ye Changyan had never expected that his second uncle could owe such a large sum of high-interest loans, and Erlang's reckless nature made him fight with the man without any reason, and he even picked up a stick and beat the man to death without caring about anything. These father and son are really blood relatives, but they managed to get into such a big mess.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, Liu became more and more panicked. Her husband and eldest son had been detained in the county government office for two days, and she had no idea what was going on. Liu cried to Ye Changyan with an anxious look on her face.

"Sanlang, please think of a way to save your second uncle and second brother. It's freezing cold. Even the best people can't stand being locked up in the county jail. Woo woo woo..."