The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

"Okay." Du Mingxian replied, but did not leave immediately. She saw that Doctor Lin had already started inserting needles into Ling Silang's body.

She bowed deeply to Doctor Lin before whispering, "Please, you must save him."

When she came out, a group of Ling family members had gathered at the gate. Everyone was extremely anxious. Uncle Ling and the others were also in the yard, waiting for news.

After Du Mingxian came out, she stood in the courtyard with everyone and waited.

A short while later, someone asked at the courtyard gate, "Zhang Er has been brought back, what do we do now?"

Upon hearing Zhang Er's name, Du Mingxian felt a surge of strength return to her body. She quickly walked to the door and saw the unconscious Zhang Er. "Please hang him on this tree."

The century-old locust tree in front of the Ling family's house.

When the new courtyard was built, no one was willing to part with it, especially Ling's father, who said that the old locust tree had been there since he was a very young child and had been there for many years, and he didn't want it to be cut down.

In the end, the tree was left as is, and unexpectedly, it came in such a useful way.

The two young men standing at the door looked at each other, not daring to move.

Ling Sanlang, standing behind, lightly kicked the two men, one at a time, saying, "Whatever my fourth sister-in-law says goes, so hurry up."

The two immediately got to work, but they ran into trouble when they started tying it up. "Third Brother, the rope isn't long enough."

Ling Sanlang said, "Wait for me to go in and get it."

Ling Sanlang went inside and got a long rope. He quickly came out and, together with two other people, hung Zhang Er from the tree.

Du Mingxian's idea was to hang him upside down, but Ling Sanlang was afraid that it might actually cause a death, so he hung him upright. After hanging him, he let the two young men who were carrying him leave.

Ling Sanlang then walked over to Du Mingxian and asked in a low voice, "Fourth sister-in-law, be careful. If you really kill someone, it will be difficult to clean up the mess."

"It would be better if he were dead." Du Mingxian's voice was soft, but it carried a ruthless edge.

Ling Sanlang sensed something was wrong as soon as he saw Du Mingxian's condition. "Fourth sister-in-law, is something wrong with fourth brother?"

Du Mingxian swayed slightly, her throat tightening. "I tried to give him water, but he wouldn't drink it. Dr. Lin has already gone in to try and save him. We don't know if he'll survive..."

Ling Sanlang hurriedly ran into the courtyard.

At the entrance were Du Mingxian and Zhang Er, who was hanging unconscious from a tree, and there were quite a few people about twenty meters away.

When everyone saw Zhang Er being hung up and the state of the Ling family, not one or two people dared to step forward.

Du Mingxian glanced at Zhang Er, then turned around and ignored the people in the yard. She went directly to the well, fetched a bucket of water, and poured it all over Zhang Er.

The water splashed on him jolted Zhang Er awake from his coma.

When Zhang Er woke up, he felt a sharp pain in his wrist, as if it didn't belong to him. Moreover... he was being suspended in a ditch. He tried to kick his legs twice, but unfortunately, he couldn't touch the ground.

He was terrified and frightened. He swayed twice and saw a killing god standing in front of him.

"Auntie, Grandma, have mercy!" He was terrified, his voice hoarse and pitiful.

Du Mingxian looked like a killing god at this moment, her aura extremely fierce. She just stared at Zhang Er without saying a word.

The village chief and the clan chief approached from a distance.

The village chief said, "Si Lang's wife, no one wants to see something like this happen in the family. Zhang Er made a mistake first and should be punished, but... we can't let it escalate to the point of causing a death."

"Don't worry, village chief, I won't let him die. Death would be too easy for him. People only despair when they can neither live nor die." Du Mingxian had no intention of letting Zhang Er die so easily.

That's too cheap a death.

For every few days Ling Silang was away from home, Zhang Er had to suffer for the same amount of time.

The village chief's eyes showed disapproval, and he looked at Zhang Er with extreme disgust. He could only try to persuade him, "Zhang Er is from Zhangjia Village, after all. If he makes too much of a fuss, I'm afraid the people from Zhangjia Village will come and cause trouble."

"Is the village chief scared?"

"No, I just didn't want to ruin the harmony between the two villages."

Du Mingxian sneered, "Don't want to hurt the harmony? When you were concerned about harmony, they almost killed your village scholar, and the village chief didn't say a word for his own people. Now you're pleading for outsiders."

"Si Lang's wife, how... how can you speak like that?" The village chief's face darkened, feeling that Du Mingxian had challenged his authority.

Du Mingxian stared intently at the village chief. "Then please teach me, village chief, how I should speak?"

The village chief sighed, "Zhang Er was in the wrong first. Make him pay money and apologize. Even if he is wrong again, he should be sent to the government. You can't take the law into your own hands here. So many people are watching."

Du Mingxian didn't answer the village chief's question, but looked at the clan chief instead, "Does the clan chief think so too?"

The clan chief Ling is different from the village chief.

The Ling clan chief is in charge of the entire Ling clan, while the village chief is in charge of the entire village.

Ninety-five percent of the people in this village have the surname Ling, but there are five percent who do not. The village chief is one of those five percent.

The clan chief didn't answer Du Mingxian's question, but instead asked, "Don't you want his life?"

"No."

"That's good. He dared to bully our Ling family members, so he deserves to be taught a lesson." The Ling clan chief looked at Zhang Er with disgust. "But child, you are a daughter-in-law of the Ling family. Don't ruin your reputation."

Du Mingxian's eyes reddened. "Clan leader, my husband can't even swallow a sip of water. If he can't be saved this time, what use is my reputation to me?"

The clan chief simply remained silent and went into the Ling family courtyard first.

Upon seeing this, the village chief immediately stood behind and called out, "Brother Ling, Brother Ling."

The clan chief didn't turn his head, but quickened his pace, and the village chief chased after him all the way to the Ling family's courtyard.

Du Mingxian curled her lips, turned around and went into the courtyard, where she took the whip for driving the carriage.

Zhang Er, who was hanging there, was shouting, "Help! Help!" He saw a lot of people standing there watching in the distance. "Please help me pass on a message, tell my mother that I'm here, and I'm going to die."

Du Mingxian's eyes hardened. She took two steps forward and lashed out at Zhang Er with her whip, without holding back a single ounce of strength. It was swift and ruthless.

"Ah..." Zhang Er's scream could be heard for three miles.

When Doctor Lin, who was administering acupuncture to Ling Silang inside the room, heard the scream, his hands trembled slightly, and he muttered, "This girl, she's trying to kill someone."

Outside, Du Mingxian stared intently at Zhang Er, her tone sinister, "Speak, who is it? Who is it? Who are your accomplices?"

"Yes, yes, it was that peddler from your village, he started it. I just saw it, I just saw it..." Zhang Er's face was contorted with pain, but he still answered Du Mingxian's question quickly, afraid that if he answered too slowly, he would be whipped again.

Du Mingxian whipped him again, and as a result... Zhang Er couldn't take it, screamed, and fainted again.

She wanted to ask who started it, but Zhang Er fainted. She was extremely disgusted, saying, "Useless."

She called out into the courtyard, "Chen Ming."

Since Ling Silang went missing, Chen Ming has returned to the Ling family and stayed there, searching for him and worrying with everyone, but his presence is not very strong at all.