After the cannon fodder father and daughter married into the family, the whole family regretted it

Qin Yan was slightly stunned. He first glanced at the grim-faced Qin clan leader before standing up and saying, "Thank you, brother."

With the two young men drinking this glass of wine, the strange atmosphere just now became even stranger.

The first time Fang Tong saw meat, he didn't even want to pick up his chopsticks. He always felt that it would cause indigestion.

After a long time, Patriarch Qin finally spoke.

"You two brothers are both good. You have passed the examination and become Tongsheng students. You should be humble and keep studying hard."

"Yes." They both responded in unison.

The Qin clan leader then continued, "Brothers are blood relatives. You should communicate more in the future. If you have any difficulties in studying, you can ask each other for advice."

This time, Qin Shucai didn't respond.

He didn't know what his grandfather was going to do, but he knew it was not easy for Qin Yan to study.

The clan has never helped him, on the contrary, they have bullied him over the years. Now that Qin Yan has won the first place in the prefectural case, he doesn't want the clan to have any other intentions because of this.

Fang Tong poured himself a glass of wine and said, "Yes, we are all from the countryside. It is not easy to support a child to go to school."

"I was too embarrassed to speak up before. After all, my last name is Fang. When I say I'm marrying into the family, I'm marrying into my wife, not into the Qin family."

"But since Clan Leader Qin said so today, I'll be bold enough to speak up. In the past, when the families in the clan were having a hard time, my wife is soft-hearted. Today, I'll lend three dou of rice to Uncle Qin Wu's family, and tomorrow, I'll lend half an ounce of silver to your family, Clan Leader Uncle. It's been so many years, and these things that have been lent out..."

Fang Tong had a smile on his face, but he was cursing as dirty as he could in his heart.

What a shameless bunch of people, they bully orphans and widows, and never return the things they borrowed!

"Fang Tong, stop talking nonsense. When has my family ever borrowed money from the Qian family?" Qin Gaofei couldn't help but retorted.

His father said that he wanted to improve his relationship with Qin Yan, but he couldn't let them spread rumors.

Why don't you call me brother now? Fang Tong sneered: "Oh, you don't know? Why don't you ask your sister-in-law?"

The person who was called "sister-in-law" was naturally Xiao He, who had always pretended not to exist.

Qin Gaofei frowned and looked at his wife. Xiao He's face flushed and she was about to deny it.

"Snapped!"

Fang Tong placed the account book heavily on the table and flipped through it nonchalantly: "Sister-in-law, you don't remember it, do you? It's okay, I have it all recorded in detail."

"Five years ago, my sister-in-law said Shucai was ill, vomiting and having diarrhea, and she wanted to take him to see a doctor. I borrowed half a tael of silver, and the next day my sister-in-law had a new set of clothes. My wife then asked around and found out that Shucai was actually studying in school."

"My wife didn't feel comfortable exposing it either. After all, we are from the same tribe."

Talking about the same race now is too ironic.

Qian Fengping couldn't go and settle the score at that time because Xiao He was the clan leader's daughter-in-law. If she had a big fight with her, Xiao He would not be in the right, but she would also offend the clan leader's family.

She could only endure it.

Qin Shucai looked at his mother in shock.

He knew his mother was narrow-minded and often jealous of those in the family who were better off than her, but he didn't know she would actually come to his house to defraud money? And use him as an excuse?

Qin Gaofei didn't know about this either, and looked at his wife in a daze.

Xiao He was panicked and explained incoherently: "No, I didn't. I, I really didn't know how to borrow money at that time, and later I forgot to pay it back."

I don't plan to pay it back.

She had long been dissatisfied. She was the daughter-in-law of the clan leader, but she could only get a new set of clothes every two or three years.

When Qian Fengping was the wife of a scholar, she changed her clothes almost every year and always dressed decently, which made her look even more outdated.

"Mother!" Qin Shucai's eyes were red and he clenched his fists. "You are lying! How could you do that?"

"I, I only borrowed 500 coins. At that time, many people from the clan came to borrow money, and your uncles even joined forces to occupy half an acre of Qin's land. I, I didn't ask for too much."

Facing her son's condemning gaze, He subconsciously tried to excuse herself.

However, he did not expect that just one sentence would tear off the fig leaf of the Qin clan bullying the weak.

"Yes, there's also half an acre of paddy field." Fang Tong's smile didn't reach his eyes. "It's also recorded in the account book that Brother Yan has half an acre of land, close to the river, sandwiched between the land of his uncles. I don't know how, but as they were planting, Brother Yan's land disappeared. When I asked around, I found that all the land belonged to his uncles."

Because the land was not large, they occupied it quietly without even going through the formal land transfer process.

In the countryside, if you plant one extra ridge when farming, both families will fight with weapons to demand justice.

Half an acre of land had just disappeared, and how could Qian Fengping not know about it? But she had no choice; she couldn't compete with those families.

Qin Yan put down his chopsticks and raised an eyebrow: "Grandpa Patriarch, I've been reading some laws recently and happened to see that encroaching on the people's good farmland, less than one acre, will result in sixty strokes of the cane."

Sixty strokes of the cane? Wouldn't that be enough to kill him?

Fang Tong was startled. The Qin clan leader's face was as dark as if covered with soot. "Brother Yan, why are you doing this? We are all surnamed Qin. Your uncles and the others..."

"Grandpa!" Qin Shucai interrupted, "The tribe members have gone too far. Over the years, they have relied on the strength of the tribe to act tyrannically in the village and bully the weak. You should take charge!"

The boy's eyes were red, but he looked at his grandfather stubbornly.

Since he started to study, he has been learning the teachings of sages, but he never thought about the petty thefts that his family members and clan members were doing.

Patriarch Qin was speechless for a moment when he met his grandson's sincere eyes.

Fang Tong and his son had already stood up. "Uncle Qin, it seems that today is not a good day for dinner. I'll leave this account book with you for now. Please take a look at it. I'll come back to get it in three days."

If you take it again, what you can take is not the account book, but money or things.

Chief Qin knew what was going on. He looked deeply at Qin Yan and said, "Brother Yan, I know about this. By the way, since you won the first prize, the clan will definitely hold a ancestral hall to worship the ancestors. Why not hold a banquet and let the villagers have some fun too?"

"How about letting your Uncle Gao Fei prepare the feast for you?"

He was talking about the banquet on the surface, but in fact he was testing Qin Yan's attitude.

If he accepts, it means he is willing to stand with his people. If he doesn't accept, then...

Qin Yan said calmly, "Thank you, Grandpa Clan Leader, but please don't bother me. I'll have a banquet at home in a few days, and I hope you will do me the honor of attending."

After saying that, he left.

Fang Tong wanted to follow with his head shaking, he finally figured it out.

In the past, in their Fang family, it was Fang Jin who liked to put on airs, and in the Qin family, it was the old patriarch who liked to pretend.

They all talk a lot of good stuff, but in reality they are nothing.

He was tired after eating this meal and missed his wife and daughter!