Rebirth of the Three Kingdoms: Da Qiao doesn't want to be a widow anymore

Chapter 292 Sheep and Wolves

After all, Madam Huang and Madam Wei have been sisters-in-law for decades. Although she often dislikes Madam Wei's rigidity, she has to be convinced by her character and moral conduct.

It is possible that this servant could be from any room, except the fourth room.

"Selling them off is already a severe punishment. Do families like ours have to kill all the servants who have made mistakes?" The head of the village frowned. He was a kind-hearted man. As the head of the village, he not only had some reputation in the village, but also had a good reputation in the entire Qiao family. He didn't want outsiders to hear gossip about the Qiao family just to deal with an insignificant servant.

What's more, in such a world, a servant girl sold by a family with a little reputation would not be able to find a good job in the future, and it would only be a matter of time before she starved to death or became impoverished. Why let her die in her own home, adding bad luck and ruining her reputation?

"It's not necessary to kill them all, but what we in the Fifth House want is the truth, not an ambiguous explanation. My mother is now ill and I, as her daughter, can't I ask for justice out of filial piety?"

Qiao Wei didn't care at all about how those people were going to deal with this old lady Yang, because even if she was sold off, couldn't she have some simple and rough ways to deal with a servant?
She just wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, to see what kind of people in the house would jump out and want to eat people openly.

"What justice do you want, niece? Although this old lady Yang is from the fourth house, she is just a servant after all. If a servant makes a mistake, do we have to hold the masters responsible?"

The head of the village rarely gets contradicted. In the past, the Fifth Branch had never had much contact with the main family. The Fifth Branch could only be seen during ancestor worship. Qiao Wei was a girl, so she had rarely seen her. If it weren't for some gossip in the county that the two daughters of the Fifth Branch were good-looking and had a good marriage, the head of the village really had no impression of such a niece.

However, he did not expect that such a little-known young man would openly question his decision, which made him feel angry and his words were a little stiff.

Madam Wei was Qiao Wei's elder after all. How could she be so unreasonably in asking her elder to apologize for the matter of a servant?

Qiao Wei was not afraid of his anger, so he patiently explained to him in a low voice, "It's not that my niece is using this matter to embarrass me in front of everyone. It's just that this matter is very strange, and even I feel that it is unfair. If my uncle ends this matter like this, it would be equivalent to letting my aunt admit that it was the fault of the fourth room that this old lady Yang committed a crime."

Madam Wei certainly didn't want to admit her fault. She looked at Mrs. Yang with an unfriendly look, as if she wanted to cut her with a knife to vent her anger. Mrs. Yang only glanced at her once and didn't dare to look at her a second time.

Madam Wei turned to the head of the village and said righteously, "Uncle, before I brought the person here for confirmation, my niece had already said that if the person I pointed out was someone from my fourth room, I would rectify the family tradition on the spot."

This old lady Yang was one of the people bought from a human trafficker some time ago because her family was short of manpower for a wedding ceremony. Although she had asked the manager who bought the servants to be more careful with these new servants, especially the pretty girls, to keep a close eye on them to prevent them from having any inappropriate thoughts or behaviors.

But he didn't expect that he would fall into trouble with a woman and lose face for the entire Qiao family.

The head of the village felt a bit of a headache when he saw Madam Wei, because she was also a rigid and stubborn person.

"Then what do you want to do?" "Give her 30 strokes of the cane in the courtyard as a warning, and then sell her off." With just one sentence, Madam Wei decided the life or death of Mrs. Yang.

"This is too... cruel!" Chen was still speaking for Grandma Yang in a low voice, "It is still a..."

When Chen met Madam Wei's gaze, she dared not say anything more.

In ordinary families, caning is just a few strokes of the cane to teach the servants a lesson. It is called a hidden cane or a small cane. The person wielding the cane will also see what his master means and reduce the force accordingly. It will not really cause any harm to the person. At most, the person will just have to lie in bed for two or three days to recover.

But the Mingzhang method was different. The person being punished was stripped of his outer clothes and executed in public in the courtyard, with the servants in the courtyard gathered to watch the execution, to serve as a warning to others. The person being punished not only had to endure physical pain, but also mental pressure.

The person who was carrying out the caning would not show mercy, but would beat him severely. And Madam Wei's attitude also showed that the person carrying out the caning would not only beat him severely, but would also beat him to death. Thirty strokes of the cane were the kind that could really kill someone.

Even if a person managed to survive the caning, his master would sell such a seriously ill servant. The human traffickers would not make any profit and would not hire a doctor to treat the person. Instead, they would just leave the person in the woodshed to die.

Mrs. Yang finally couldn't hold it anymore. She was just being sold. She could still find another way to make a living. At most, she would have to lose money to avoid disaster. The human trafficker who had a good relationship with the Qiao family was a kind-hearted man. He felt sorry for her and felt more pity for her. Otherwise, he would not have sent her to a family as tolerant as the Qiao family.

Even if he was sent back by the Qiao family now, the only thing he would do was to change his identity and serve another master family far away.

But if she was beaten to death, her sick son would have no chance of survival.

She cried and begged for mercy, crawling to Madam Wei, hoping to spare her life, but Madam Wei was full of disgust for her and took two steps back. The old woman beside her kicked her over and cursed, "How dare you get close to the old lady, you black-hearted, dirty bastard!"

Mother Yang looked at Chen who was standing beside her, as if she had grasped the last straw to save her life. She cried and begged Chen to plead for her, "Madam..."

But before he could get his words out, he was slapped by the old woman next to Chen, falling to the ground and spitting out blood.

"After accusing the old lady in his own room, he now accuses the masters of other rooms." Chen said coldly, "This man is full of lies, so hateful! Why don't you shut his mouth and take him out!"

Look, the person who was silent, indifferent, kind-hearted and docile like a sheep just now, once his own interests are touched, he can turn into a wolf and kick you to death!

"Madam, madam, you said... that you would protect me... I will be fine!" Old Lady Yang struggled and refused to be silenced, trying to finish her words in a halting manner.