Farmers' group pet: the blessings of powerful ministers are soft and deceitful

Chapter 176 The Village Chief's Promise
After Liniang woke up and saw the people in the room, she hugged the quilt and backed away in fright. Her face was full of horror, as if she was afraid of anyone.

Later, Lin Ru saw that she was really scared, so she backed out again and asked Jiang Ning to watch, and if there was anything wrong, call her again.

It didn't take long for the Jiang family to take Liniang home, and people in the village saw it and spread the word along the way.

The village head came over because of this.

Shen Chenlan then gently revealed the ins and outs of the matter to him.

But he didn't expect the village chief's reaction to be so great.

"Are you going to sue the officials?" The village chief's voice rose several times in an instant.

Shen Chenlan said: "Why not?"

The village head said: "No! Absolutely not!"

Shen Chenlan came from a society ruled by law. When someone commits a crime, he would naturally report it to the official and let the just person punish him. Isn't that just right?
The village head knew that Shen Shulang was great, but he still had to listen to him about this matter.

He said: "Do you know how many years ago, someone in the village sued the officials, how did they deal with it? The parents of that family have been partial since they were young, and the other children did not treat them harshly, but they just ignored the youngest one. Well, those older sons don't want the two old ones, and the two old ones pick the youngest and most honest ones to let them be raised, but there is no such good thing in the world, when they were young, they didn't have enough to eat, and when they were old, they still had to eat. Wouldn't it take advantage of others if they wanted someone to raise them? So the youngest sued the two elders to the yamen. In the end, the county magistrate thought that they were disturbing the cleanliness with these trivial matters, and not only beat everyone up to [-] Daban, after the case was settled, the youngest son was also allowed to raise the two immortals, saying that filial piety is the first thing to do, and if the son sues his parents, that would be irreversible, absolutely impossible!"

These words sounded the alarm for Shen Chenlan.

He almost forgot that officials in this era do not act on the basis of justice, even if they are nine-rank sesame officials, they can be regarded as local emperors of a place.

As long as the superiors don't know, no matter how much you toss about in your small place, if you don't spread the word, it's not a big deal.

Seeing that Shen Chenlan had listened slightly, the village head said: "Not to mention that you don't even have a scholarly reputation yet. When a scholar meets an official, he can avoid the ceremony of bowing down. You are just a child now. How do you let the officials treat you?" If you put it in your eyes, if you blame it at that time, your family will be hurt. If you can't even go to the scientific examination, it will be a big loss."

After hearing this, Shen Chenlan couldn't help but look sideways at the village chief.

On weekdays, the village head smiled at everyone, and he didn't dare to offend anyone.

But unexpectedly, he thought so clearly in his heart.

"Furthermore, although Jiang Mu is no longer in the village, he and your daughter-in-law's father are brothers. How can a brother sue a brother? If the official insists on this point, you will not be able to explain it clearly. It's..." the village head said earnestly.

The village chief saw that Shen Shulang was also sensible, and because of the fertilizer recipe he thought of, which helped so many people in the village, he said so much.

So I couldn't help giving him advice, saying: "Now you go to find Jiang Mu, and you can't find it on the left or right. Why bother to sue any official? Now I look at that lord, and I can't tell whether it is a man or not. Okay. However, since your family has brought Liniang home, there must be some gossips in the future, and Lao Jiang is also honest and responsible. I don’t know how to argue for myself, so I will go to the village to fix it later. Do you see what happened in the village a few days ago?"

Shen Chenlan was taken aback, "The village chief knows about this?"

"It's spreading like a storm. No one knows. I thought that Shen Shuying was so smart that he would calm down as soon as possible, but after waiting for so long, there was no movement at all." The village chief hated iron for not being a steel road.

Shen Chenlan was at a loss: "There are so many mouths in the village, and I can't control what everyone says. If you want to calm down, the village chief thinks highly of me..."

The village chief snorted and said, "What's the problem?"

Shen Chenlan: "..."

This is really difficult for him.

After all, it is indeed not his strong point to cover the mouths of those aunts and sister-in-laws.

But not long after, the village head really fulfilled his promise.

The village chief came out of Jiang's house that day, and went directly to the group of sisters-in-law and aunts at the head of the village, talking about the recent gossip about Jiang's house.

"I said, how could Lao Jiang be such a person? Don't the villagers see what Lao Jiang is like in ordinary times? Previously, Lin Xiuniang sold embroidery for fifteen cents a piece, and she was willing to teach everyone without accepting a penny. Later, when we got a fertilizer prescription, we told the villagers without any further ado, didn’t the official reward us with 100 taels of silver for this matter?”

As soon as the village chief said it, everyone seemed to remember it.

Many people followed suit and asked.

"Village chief, what's the matter, did you go to Jiang's house to find out something? I said, how could Lao Jiang's family be like this. I told my family about it two days ago, but no one believed it. "

"That's right! Old Jiang's family is kind and responsible. We men don't believe it at all, but we didn't say it at the time."

"Yeah, I remembered that when Jiang Shi married Lin Xiuniang, it was after Liniang's father brought her back to the mountains. Maybe Lin Xiuniang didn't know about Liniang at that time, why did he say that? Others have taken Liniang's seat, and those who talk nonsense will do whatever they want."

After the village chief and others talked for a while, they slowly opened their mouths and briefly explained what happened.

After finishing speaking, originally everyone just echoed a few words because of the village chief's face.

They all felt worthless for Jiang Shi's family with sincere feelings.

"Damn! It turns out that Jiang Mu is such a scumbag. Seeing him greet me with a glib tongue when he was a child, I never thought that there are dirty things in his head!"

"Ouch! It's a good thing that the old lady left with Jiang Erlang, otherwise she would stay in the Jiang family, and the Jiang family would not have a peaceful life!"

"Lin Xiuniang also has a hard life. She just came from behind. She doesn't know anything. When she comes, she will be accused of such a big crime. Let's see what the villagers say about her in the past few days."

"Isn't it Ning girl who suffered the most? Seeing that at a young age, she can't speak after the age of five. After all these years, Lao Jiang and Lin Xiuniang don't know how they came here, seeing their daughter speechless , don’t think of Jiang Er’s bastard second brother every day!”

"It's thanks to these years that life has become better, and a house has been built, Ning girl has also recruited a son-in-law, and life is not so sad now."

"The Jiang family is also kind-hearted. It's all like this, and they even took Liniang home. If you want me to say, based on what the villagers said a few days ago, who would dare to get involved with that Liniang?"

(End of this chapter)