Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top

Yaozu: "Those wild mushrooms grow in the mountains. They can't eat all of them even if they pick so many. It would be a waste of food if they can't finish them. We felt sorry for those wild mushrooms, so we brought them back."

Dafu: "We are brothers after all, so what if we eat one of their rabbits?"

Dagui: "Yeah, you said you were a family, but you've only been separated for a few days and you're already disrespecting your elders."

Tian Guilan looked at her son with satisfaction and chimed in, "Yes, we're family after all. Xiuying loved to eat alone when she was home, and now she's corrupted her daughter. She won't even give her a few mushrooms. If she catches a rabbit, she should bring it to her grandmother."

The mother and her five children did not mention at all that the second child was beaten and the sixth and seventh children were pushed off the hill.

Boss Zhao was furious when he saw the mother and her two children looking bewildered. He scolded them harshly, "Are you trying to alert the authorities? Rabbits and mushrooms are trivial matters. You five shouldn't have taken action no matter what!"

When you get to the county court, are you going to tell the official that the rabbit ran into your arms on its own, and the wild mushrooms ran into the bamboo basket on their own?

Tian Guilan tugged at her clothes, saying she would never let her sons be taken to the county government office. She said to her sons, "Since those girls don't want to give them to you, just return the wild mushrooms and rabbits.

It’s not like we don’t have food at home. Only the poorest families who can’t even afford to eat would go to the mountains to dig for food.”

Tian Guiying thought that she just needed to return the things.

Taohua, who had been silent all the time, stood up. She was the eldest sister among the sisters. Her younger sisters were bullied, and as the eldest sister, she naturally had to seek justice for them.

"The rabbits and wild mushrooms are the fruits of my sisters' hard work. To bring honor to our family and make them rich and powerful is blatant robbery. Pushing my two sisters off the hill is murder, to put it bluntly. Murder must be punished by death!"

Tian Guilan was anxious: "Zhao Di, you say..."

"Call me, Taohua!"

"...Taohua, what are you talking about? Aren't your two sisters unharmed and standing here perfectly fine?"

"This is attempted murder! If your aunt denies it, we'll go to the county magistrate's office and ask him to make the final decision."

When the older boys heard this, they were finally scared. They pushed the two girls just to teach them a lesson. They didn't even dare to kill a chicken, so how could they dare to kill people? Killing people would result in beheading!

Pulling Tian Guilan to beg

"Mom, you can't just ignore us!"

"We are just trying to find food for our family."

"Mother, please save us. If we are beheaded, there will be no one to take care of you in your old age."

Tian Guilan looked at Zhao Cunliang for help. She was just a paper tiger and the real decision maker was still her man.

"Store food, what do you think we should do about this?"

Zhao Cunliang's face fell, and he cursed inwardly

This idiot, after being given an excuse to save herself, didn't know when to stop. Now she knows to ask herself, her sons also have no foresight.

Xiuying and her daughter obviously wanted to use their dead brother to pressure him. If he let his sons go in today's incident, his reputation in the village of bullying orphans and widows and snatching food from the bowl would be completely ruined. The most hateful thing was that these women now even brought up the government office at every turn.

Zhao Cunliang concealed his disgust for his nieces, smiled and said in a negotiating tone: "You cousins were wrong in what happened today. Your uncle rarely stays at home, and they have been spoiled by your aunt. Now that your uncle is back, he will naturally make the decision for you.

The two little girls are weak and need to be nourished, so I'll give you a bag of wheat bran... This matter is over now, don't mention it again, we are still a family."

Hearing about a bag of wheat bran, the village women who came with Yang Xiuying disagreed.

"Zhao, your family is a wealthy family in the village after all. The second child was beaten by those four boys of yours, and the sixth and seventh children were pushed off the hill. You want to settle the matter with a bag of wheat bran, and you still have the nerve to say that you are the children's uncle."

"Yeah, you say we're a family, but do your four kids eat bran?"

"Why ask? He's so strong, he definitely hasn't eaten."

"They say they're a family, but they're eating from two bowls. Fortunately, Xiuying and her daughter separated them."

Aunt Sun, still angry, pointed at the four Zhao boys and said to the women, "According to what Boss Zhao said, if anyone in the village pushes those four boys off the hill in the future, they will be punished with a bag of wheat bran."

As soon as Aunt Sun said this, not only Tian Guilan and Boss Zhao panicked, but Zhao's mother, who was sitting on the chair with a calm expression, also panicked. Those grandsons were her own lives!

The four people who were honored by their ancestors and rich and powerful stood behind Tian Guilan like quails, their calves trembling.

Doesn't that mean that anyone in the village can push me off the hill in the future with just a bag of wheat bran? I am the Zhao family's precious grandson, and my life is valuable.

Mother Zhao couldn't sit still when she saw someone trying to touch her precious grandson. She came out and looked at Xiuying with a gloomy face, "Second brother, you are the aunt of a wealthy family after all. It's normal for children to fight and quarrel. How can you, an adult, be so ignorant and keep making trouble?"

Yang Xiuying protected the sixth and seventh children with both hands and went to meet Zhao's mother and said, "It was my eldest brother who suggested using wheat bran as compensation. According to my eldest brother, Aunt Sun is right. If anyone accidentally bumps into someone who brings honor to our family, or pushes him off a cliff, a bag of wheat bran will solve the problem."

"I also think what Mrs. Sun said is right."

A low and old voice was heard. Although the voice was not loud, the originally noisy scene immediately quieted down.

Zhao Cunliang, Zhao's mother, and Tian Guilan all looked over in the direction of the voice.

The old village chief is here!

Zhao's mother didn't expect that such a small matter would alarm the village chief.

The village women made way for the village chief, who walked to the front.

In rural areas, the village chief occupies a dominant position in the village, sometimes even beyond the law. The village chief not only manages all matters big and small in the village, but also has the decision-making power over village affairs and can influence land use.

The old village chief of Futian Village handles things fairly and impartially and enjoys a very high prestige among the villagers.

Seeing the village chief coming, Zhao's mother and son fell silent. Tian Guilan stood with her four sons, her eyes evasive.

The old village chief walked up to Boss Zhao, who immediately bent down, lowered his head, and put on a smile that was uglier than crying.

"What brings you here?"

"Zhao Cunliang, your four boys not only robbed Xiuying and her daughter of their belongings, but also pushed the two little girls down the mountain. That's two lives at stake!"