The sister-in-law was wrong, please forgive her, my black-bellied brother-in-law

"If my sister-in-law hadn't been picking wild vegetables to cook, she wouldn't have gotten lost in the mountains. In the end, it's all my fault."

Xu Yi looked at Su Dongxia with a firm gaze.

"Do not--"

Qiao Xi opened her mouth and just said a word when she heard Su Dongxia snort coldly, her voice filled with impatience.

"Alright, alright, stop pretending in front of me. I'm telling you, none of you three can escape responsibility for what happened today."

She paused and looked at Xu Nan with heartache, "Don't worry, son. Mother won't let you be bullied for no reason."

She was so unyielding that she didn't give anyone else a chance to speak. She turned to look at Xu Dalin and said, "Nan'er's father, go get the village head. I want to ask what should be done with these three according to the village rules."

Xu Dalin, who had always been honest, was stunned for a moment when he heard someone call him the village head. Then he turned to look at Xu Yi and Qiao Xi, and then turned to look at Su Dongxia.

He looked gloomy. On one side was the younger generation of his family, and on the other side was his wife. He was neither of them, which made him very troubled.

"You damn thing, what are you still doing standing there? Do you still want to live like this?"

Seeing him standing there motionless, Su Dongxia immediately got angry and started yelling without caring about her man's face.

"Hey, I'll go right away."

Xu Dalin was scared by her yelling at home. When he heard her yelling, he was at a loss and quickly walked into the crowd.

"Mom, it was me who wanted to follow Brother Chong. You can't blame them."

Seeing that Xu Yi, his elder sister-in-law and Brother Chong all looked remorseful, Xu Nan knew that his mother was not going to let it go. Even if he made his mother angry today, he could not let Brother Yi and the others suffer any injustice for no reason.

So he endured the pain and yelled at Su Dongxia for the first time in his life.

This roar frightened Su Dongxia directly, and her eyes were full of shock.

"hiss!"

Xu Nan cried out in pain.

Because he used force when he yelled just now, he accidentally pulled the wound, and the pain made him gasp.

"We just applied hemostatic medicine to the wound. Brother Nan, you'd better not move. Otherwise, the wound will open again. Sister-in-law doesn't have any extra hemostatic herbs."

Liu Lan checked Xu Nan's injuries and glared at him warningly.

Su Dongxia came back to her senses after hearing this. She squatted beside Xu Nan and said with red eyes: "Son, do you want me to be loved to death or angry to death? I am venting my anger for you, but you are helping outsiders. Well, I ask you, are you on my side or theirs now? You can only choose one."

Xu Nan had just felt the pain ease a little, but when he heard these words, he instantly felt the wound hurt more than before.

On one side is his mother, and on the other side is reason. How can he choose?

Xu Yi didn't want to embarrass him, so he answered directly for him: "Aunt, you are Nan's mother, he will naturally stand on your side."

Feeling Xu Nan's gaze, Xu Yi looked at him and smiled faintly: "Brother Nan, don't contradict your mother again."

Hasn't he discovered yet?

In this situation, the more he spoke up for them, the angrier his mother became.

However, this situation is understandable. The son you raised doesn't help you but helps others. Anyone would be angry.

"Li Zheng is here!"

As soon as Xu Yi finished speaking, he heard someone shouting in the crowd.

Then everyone saw Xu Dalin and the village head standing in front of the crowd.

"Village head, you have to make the decision for my Nan'er!"

Seeing the village head, Su Dongxia moved from Xu Nan's side to the front of the village head at an extremely fast speed.

Just now her eyes were red, but now there were a few crystal tears hanging on her cheeks.

When did her tears come out?

Everyone looked at Su Dongxia, whose face was covered with tears, and pursed their lips and fell into deep thought.

Qiao Xi couldn't help but complain in her heart: The speed at which she cried was even faster than that of a facial-changing performance.

Su Dongxia has been married to Xuliu Village for so many years, how could the village head not know her virtues?

He frowned, stepped back slightly before Su Dongxia could speak, and waved his hand, "Alright, alright. I already asked Dalin what was going on on the way here. Xu Su, you don't have to play the emotional card with me here."

When Su Dongxia heard that the village head already knew her plan and pointed it out in front of so many people, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

She laughed dryly twice, intending to ease the embarrassment, but when she raised her eyes, she saw Xu Dalin hiding behind the village head. Looking at his cowardly look, Su Dongxia's anger was like oil meeting fire, and it was ignited in an instant.

Okay, one or two of them are helping outsiders, right? Then today she will just risk her pride and make the three of them pay a price.

Her face tensed, and she looked like someone who was not to be trifled with. "Since you know this, then tell me, according to the rules, how should we deal with these three?"

The village head lowered his head, stroking his goatee with his hand, and looked at Xu Yi slowly and said, "Xu Yi, do you accept the punishment?"

"Leader, this is all my fault. If you want to punish someone, punish me. It has nothing to do with my uncle."

When Qiao Xi heard that he was going to punish Xu Yi, she felt unhappy and actively admitted her mistake, hoping that she could be punished instead of Xu Yi.

It would have been fine if she didn't say anything, but as soon as he heard her voice, the head of the village became a little angry.

What is going on with this Xu Qiao? Ever since she saved her life, things have happened one after another in the Xu family, and so far there has not been a single good thing.

Thinking of this, the village head glared at Qiao Xi fiercely, his face stern: "Xu Qiao, you will not escape punishment. But now is not the time for you to speak, you'd better watch your mouth."

After saying that, the head looked at Xu Yi and signaled him with his eyes to answer the previous question.

Xu Yi raised his eyes, looked him straight in the eye, and said calmly: "The village head will handle this impartially. Xu Yi will accept the punishment."

Hearing his answer, the village head nodded with satisfaction.

I secretly thought that scholars are indeed sensible.

"Okay, bring the whip!"

As soon as the headman finished speaking, a man walked out of the crowd and handed a pitch-black whip to the headman.

Seeing this, Xu Nan wanted to stand up and stop it, but Su Dongxia seemed to have noticed it long ago. A look at him made him stop where he was, not daring to move again.

"According to village rules, anyone who causes injury to villagers due to personal reasons shall be punished with twenty lashes. Since there are three of you, the lashes shall be divided equally among you."

As he spoke, the headman raised the whip in his hand high.

"Wait!"

Just as the whip was about to fall on Xu Chong, Xu Yi suddenly called him.

The village head narrowed his eyes and said seriously, "Xu Yi, do you have anything else to say?"

"Village head, Chong Ge was trying to save me, so I took the beating for him."

The village head raised his eyebrows, a little surprised by his words.

But since he is willing to take responsibility, then let him do it.

"it is good."

"no!"

As soon as the headman finished speaking, Xu Chong shouted out in disapproval.

But it was too late, the whip in the headman's hand had already fallen on Xu Yi.

Xu Yi has always been a patient person and he didn't say a word even when he was whipped.

It was not until fourteen lashes that his faintest groan of pain was heard.

"Uncle, how do you feel?"