A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

"Spare me?" Hu Dahai sneered upon hearing this. He found the Zhang family's shamelessness laughable. He said calmly, "You make it sound so easy, but if he really sprayed these pesticides on my land today, do you know how much damage it would cause us?"

"Besides, if I were to spray pesticides on your land tomorrow, would you forgive me? You're just going to give me a few half-hearted slaps and then have the audacity to ask me to let you off?"

Hu Dahai certainly wouldn't let Zhang Zude off easily. The occurrence of this incident indicated that his current conditions were getting better and better, which had already attracted the attention of some people. Zhang Zude was just the first one to stand up and make a move against him.

If Zhang Zude isn't taught a lesson and made an example of, his off-season vegetable farm will likely face many more troubles in the future.

At the same time, Hu Dahai was somewhat relieved that they had arranged for patrols; otherwise, Zhang Zude could have easily succeeded today. He also placed even greater importance on Bao Yuanshan and Guan Asan.

Among the crowd, the villagers were also filled with righteous indignation, and they all condemned:

"Exactly, those few blows you just made looked loud, but they didn't hurt at all. They weren't sincere at all."

"They're just trying to brush this off. We can't let this go like this. What if someone comes to our fields and sprays pesticides in the future?"

"Yes! They must be severely punished!"

When Zhang's father heard what Hu Dahai and the villagers said, his heart sank. It seemed that today's events would not be so easy to explain away.

"Then what do you suggest we do? We really have no money left. We haven't even paid back the money we owed you last time!"

Seeing that there was no other way, Zhang's father resorted to shamelessness: "Why don't you send Zhang Zude to the police station and let him spend his whole life in jail? I'll accept it."

"Either you take our whole family's lives, or we're worthless!"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhang's mother behind him became anxious: "No! We can't let Zude go to jail! He'll suffer there. Our Zude has never suffered in his life!"

“We really don’t have any money. How about we give our Yuzhen to you as payment? Don’t treat her like a human being. You father and sons, whoever wants to play can play. You dump the most tiring housework on her. Even if she dies, it doesn’t matter.”

"As long as my ancestor doesn't suffer."

Zhang's mother's words surprised everyone.

While it's true that there's a certain preference for sons over daughters these days, and many poor families can't afford to raise their children and will give their daughters away, it's still not like they're selling their daughters as slaves. This favoritism is off the charts!

What kind of human language is that? Selling her own daughter to Hu Dahai's family as a slave, making her work like a beast of burden and as a plaything—is that something a mother should say?

Even Zhang Yuzhen's eyes widened, her face blank: "Mom, how could you do this to me? Am I still your daughter? Zude was clearly in the wrong, why are you making me pay off the debt? If you want to pay off the debt, you do it yourself, I won't!"

"Snapped!"

Before she could finish speaking, Zhang's mother slapped her hard across the face.

"You scoundrel! Do you know that Zhang Zude is our only son, and we'll have to rely on him to carry on the family line?!" Zhang's mother cursed angrily.

Zhang Yuzhen was stunned by her mother's slap. She stared blankly at her mother for a long time, then her anger flared up, and she started fighting with her mother: "I'm going to fight you to the death! If you don't care about me, why did you give birth to me! Isn't Zhang Zude the result of your spoiling?!"

Before Hu Dahai could even say anything, the Zhang family members started fighting amongst themselves.

Zhang's father tried to break up the fight, but both sides landed punches and kicks on him, one of which made his nose bleed profusely.

Zhang's father hurriedly retreated, but stumbled and fell, landing directly on Zhang Zude's face.

Poor Zhang Zude, his face was pressed down by two people's buttocks all day.

Fortunately, Zhang's father didn't fart.

This reminded Zhang Zude of the farts that had been thrown at Ah San earlier, and feeling a bit nauseous, Zhang Zude jumped up, waving his hands wildly.

But he didn't notice that three ten-yuan bills had fallen out of his pocket.

"Enough! Stop fooling around!"

Li Wude was so frustrated that he let out a roar.

Only after Li Wude shouted that did Hu Dahai's house finally quiet down.

Zhang Yuzhen and her mother remained locked in a stalemate, neither willing to yield to the other.

"Zhang Zude, tell me the truth, who exactly ordered you to do this?"

Hu Dahai suddenly spoke up.

All eyes immediately turned to Zhang Zude, and everyone was also curious as to why Hu Dahai would ask such a question.

Zhang Zude was stunned for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and said, "Nobody asked me to do it."

He was actually thinking that as long as he didn't expose Lu Wenlong and Du Wu, he might be able to get some money from them in the future.

Besides, you can't exactly say you were used as a pawn, can you? That would sound too awful!

"Nobody asked you to do this. Where did this 30 yuan that fell out of your pocket come from?" Hu Dahai pointed to the three ten-yuan bills at Zhang Zude's feet on the ground: "Do you still owe my family money? Do you have money but don't want to pay it back, so you just use it yourself first?"

It was only then that everyone noticed the thirty yuan on the ground.

"Yes, where did you get this money?" Zhang's father knew he hadn't given Zhang Zude any money, and his family couldn't possibly come up with thirty yuan.

Therefore, this money must have been obtained by Zhang Zude from elsewhere.

Zhang Zude remained silent, which greatly worried his father. He thought to himself that his son was too foolish. If he was really being misled, why didn't he hurry up and reveal the person's name? He could shift the blame onto someone else and get away with it himself.

Mr. Zhang urged anxiously, "Why aren't you telling me yet! Do you want to go to jail for someone else?"

As he spoke, Zhang's father slapped Zhang Zude across the face again: "If you don't want to talk, don't blame us for not coming to bail you out when you get locked up!"

Zhang Zude was now forced into a corner.

He finally realized the seriousness of the matter.

“It was Lu Wenlong and his men from the Lingdong Brigade who sent me to release the poison,” Zhang Zude said truthfully.

He recounted to everyone exactly what Lu Wenlong and Du Wu had said to him that day.

Upon hearing his words, Li Wude jumped up in anger and kicked him.

"Useless trash! You traitorous bastard, do you even know the consequences of your actions?"

The villagers around him also showed disdain and mockery, and looked down on Zhang Zude even more.

Even Zhang's father turned pale, his chest heaving with anger. He had originally thought that Zhang Zude must have done this for some important person, so that Hu Dahai could let him off the hook because of that important person's status.

It was unexpected that Zhang Zude was merely a tool used by someone from a neighboring village.

"I beat you to death!"

Ignoring Zhang's mother's attempts to stop him, Zhang's father beat Zhang Zude again.

Zhang Zude was beaten round after round by the crowd, his face was swollen like a pig's head, and there were many footprints on his body, all from being kicked.

He squinted his swollen eyes and cried out, "I failed to spray the pesticide, so why are you hitting me?"

"Zhang Zude, do you want to go to jail?" Hu Dahai suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to Zhang Zude.

"Of course I don't want to!" Zhang Zude said. Only a fool would want to go to jail.

Hu Dahai said, "If you don't want to go to jail, I'll give you a chance to change your ways. If you do, I won't send you to the police station. If you don't, or betray me halfway through, I'll settle all old scores and make you spend a few years in jail. Someone like you who drugged someone should be considered disturbing the peace and attempted murder. You'd get five or ten years in prison without a problem."

Li Wude, standing to the side, also cooperated by giving him a boost.

"Yes, this matter is indeed very serious. If a police report is filed, I will definitely tell them everything when they come to inquire. Zhang Zude, you will definitely go to jail."