Chapter 37 Turning the tables, dog bites dog
"Everything written in black and white on a piece of paper, you all colluded to deceive me!"
Without any warning, Mrs. Zhang snatched the document from the Yamen servant's hand, tore it into pieces and swallowed it alive.
Everyone was stunned by this operation of hers, and their hearts became more and more biased towards Jiang Anning.
"I didn't see a big penny you returned..."
Jiang Anning was not worried and smiled lightly: "It's understandable that Aunt Zhang doesn't know."
Hearing someone suddenly follow her words, Zhang was quiet for a moment, and then she became proud.
Even if this dead girl has eyes, it is not impossible to watch her performance in the future and then decide whether to give her a chance to enter the Zhao family and be a concubine for her son.
If nothing else, this damn girl is really good at making money.
"It's not that there are extenuating circumstances, it's that you didn't retreat at all!" After being let go, Ms. Zhang suddenly felt confident.
Jiang Anning did not answer her words, and continued following her previous words: "Twenty taels of betrothal silver, I returned it to Zhao Hai in person."
"However, since Zhao Hai was imprisoned, you haven't even asked Aunt Zhang, let alone come to visit the prison."
"You are busy working with Zhao Yuanshan to block the door of my house and force me not to be ungrateful. I will forgive you honestly and continue to support your family and let you suck blood."
"Zhao Hai accepted the money I returned, but he is in prison and you have never visited him. Naturally, he cannot tell you the news."
Jiang Anning: "Aunt Zhang misunderstood that I did not return the betrothal silver, which is naturally understandable."
"You, you're talking nonsense..." Mrs. Zhang was visibly panicked for a moment, her heart was pounding, and she had a vague premonition.
"Originally, I thought about the old friendship between our two families for many years and were engaged to be married. I didn't want to pursue the money and gifts given to the Zhao family in the past few years. I just asked you to return the marriage certificate and tokens to me, and we can live in peace with each other from now on. , do not disturb each other.”
"But you guys came to my door and kept my marriage letter as a token of my marriage. You also forced me to continue marrying into your family, and you promised to continue to provide money to support you!"
Jiang Anning burst into tears: "Am I a very mean person?"
"I have been deceived by you in the past and I have to repay the life-saving grace. Less than a year after losing my parents, I started working as a cow and horse for your family. I built a new house and fertilized fields for your family. I also took over the four seasons of new life for everyone in your family." Clothes.”
"If you take a quick look, which farmer's family has to wear four sets of clothes in every season every year?"
"It's just me. The clothes I wear are all mended and mended. I have worn them for three years and three years..."
Jiang Anning raised her hand, revealing several traces of sewing on her sleeves.
It was scratched on her way back to the county town in the morning when she was driving through a small road.
It's thanks to the fact that after seeing it, Wan Niang insisted on mending it for her no matter what.
Otherwise, if she did it by herself, it would be really difficult to find obvious traces of sewing.
However, this dress was indeed made from several old clothes that had been ruined and remade. The woman who often worked as a prostitute at home could tell it at a glance.
Jiang Anning sniffed twice, suppressed the red circles in her eyes, and squeezed out a few tears: "I also made an engagement with your family, and I almost spent the rest of my life because of your lies and deception..."
Her voice was sad, and she looked miserable as she forced herself to let go.
"But I don't want to pursue any of this."
"Why did you lie to me in the first place? I don't want to know or ask."
"I just want to stay away from you and live a stable life. Why don't you let me go?"
Jiang Anning's voice was choked with sobs and she cried blood every word. The people next to her felt extremely uncomfortable and their eyes were red.
"You hold the marriage certificate and tokens and refuse to return them. You keep saying that you know you are wrong, but you just want me to swallow my grievances and forgive you, then obey your wishes and marry Zhao Hai's younger brother, and continue to let your family suck my pussy. Blood!”
"Why!"
She was shouting at the top of her lungs, as if she couldn't bear it anymore.
"Why on earth do you think that I should be stepped into the mud by you and take whatever you want!"
"Just based on the lies you concocted to deceive me?"
Everyone was in an uproar.
There is something wrong with this!
Jiang Anning's hands hidden in her sleeves pinched her thighs hard, and her tears instantly fell down.
She almost couldn't hold back her tears and burst out in pain. She hiccupped and sniffed twice more before she regained her composure. Then she said sadly: "Now you're here to lie again and make up two hundred taels that are unfounded." Yin Zi, I am innocent when you are wronged..."
"Am I trying to kill them all, or do you want to force me to die!" Jiang Anning cried and screamed.
Zhang's face was pale, and she spoke several times before saying feebly: "You just didn't give up your salary! If you don't give up, you don't give up!"
But most people had doubts on their faces, and they obviously no longer believed what she said.
"Okay, okay, okay..."
Jiang Anning smiled sadly, gently pulled her sleeves, and with a tearing sound, the fabric of the cuffs instantly turned into rags, hanging in the air.
The person standing next to him thought he saw it very clearly. The little lady just touched it lightly without even pulling it, and the fabric was broken.
How bad is this? It can break with just a touch.
Jiang Anning ignored everyone's sympathetic looks, fumbled for a while, and took out a few small-denomination bank notes and a few pieces of silver from her sleeve pocket.
Then there was another tearing sound, and the sleeve pocket was torn.
She lowered her head slightly in embarrassment and hid the torn sleeves behind her back.
Then she stepped forward, took the banknotes and pieces of silver, and patted Zhang's chest 'gently'.
puff!
Ahem...
Zhang felt like a mouthful of old blood had accumulated in her throat, causing her to cough.
The area on the chest that had just been patted was even more burning and painful.
But to outsiders, Jiang Anning only touched her lightly.
Banknotes and broken silver were scattered on the ground. Ms. Zhang wanted to pick them up, but the pain in her chest was so severe that every time she moved, she felt as if her bones were about to break.
"There are all the witnesses and material evidence. If you don't admit it, you think that everyone has been bribed by me. I am bent on smearing you and your Zhao family. I can't do anything, and I don't want to argue with you and other arrogant people."
"This is the only twenty taels of silver I have left after being sucked by your Zhao family."
"Today, in front of so many people, I will return it to you again, as if the twenty taels I returned before were just fed to the dogs."
Zhao Hai:? ? ?
My mother wronged you, why are you scolding me?
The crazy woman is unreasonable!
He cursed Jiang Anning in his heart, feeling more and more regretful that he had listened to his mother and settled for such an undocile wife.
Zhang didn't expect that Jiang Anning would actually be willing to take out twenty taels of silver, and for a moment she didn't know how to deal with it.
Song Yao was the most shocked and couldn't even hold back his voice: "You only have about twenty taels of silver left in your body!?"
"That double-sided three..."
She almost blurted out that the double-sided and three-different embroidered Buddha picture was sold to her for three hundred taels of silver!
Suddenly thinking that Jiang Anning had told her not to disclose this matter, and that it really wasn't appropriate to publicize it in front of so many people, she hurriedly covered her mouth and choked back her words.
But he still said angrily: "The double-sided embroidery you have sold to me these past few years has cost me three hundred taels, not to mention the odd jobs you usually do. Although the money is not much, how much can it cost?" This is a lot of income after the end of the year... Don’t tell me that all this money was spent on this family’s frivolous things?”
Jiang Anning pursed her lips slightly and lowered her head, looking very shameless.
In her previous life, she was indeed a bit stupid.
Excluding those listed during the previous confrontation with Zhao Yuanshan, everyone in the village could see that there were many expenses for food, clothing and chewing that accounted for the majority.
Zhao Yinlian was pretty and easily made friends with girls from wealthy gentry families. She usually paid for them generously.
With this sincerity of spending money, there are still a few people who are willing to arrange elegant things such as flower viewing banquets and poetry gatherings, and ask her to pay the bill to be the main scapegoat. But Zhao Yinlian doesn't have any money, let alone the Zhao family, even if they do, they won't make her a fool.
This money naturally came from Jiang Anning...
There is also Zhao Jiang, who doesn't know a few Chinese characters, but always behaves like a scholar. Every once in a while, he has to take the Tongsheng test.
Tong Sheng did not pass the exam, but he had to buy four treasures of the study year round, and there were quite a lot of books and test papers.
She was stupid in her previous life.
Every time Mrs. Zhang would sigh in front of her and say that so and so at home wanted to buy something, and she would feel very sad and helpless, she would consciously buy it and present it to others.
Song Yao was so angry that he couldn't speak. He poked the person's head with his finger and hated the iron. He said, "You, you, you, you...what can I say about you?"
That’s three hundred taels! Not three taels or thirty taels, but a full three hundred taels!
No, there’s still money for the Buddha-worshipping pictures! !
Song Yao was so angry that he could hardly speak.
"With you working day and night on embroidery, treating yourself like a spinning loom, and almost emptying my shop of orders, just to support such black-hearted, rotten-hearted vile things. Son?”
Jiang Anning didn't want to recall those unbearable past events.
So stupid.
Many people in the city knew Song Yao.
Knowing that her Chaohuang Embroidery Workshop is now booming, many people are thinking about sending their daughters there to learn some crafts.
If she could stay and become an embroiderer in the embroidery workshop, she would have to put on two hanging whips and have a drink to celebrate.
Now after hearing what she said, everyone was in an uproar and started talking one after another.
"I just heard this woman say that the young lady wanted them to pay two hundred taels in compensation. I thought she was someone who had ignored her conscience and took the opportunity to threaten her. I didn't expect that the one who was really heartbroken was the thief who shouted to catch the thief!"
"Didn't you hear what my little lady just said? This family has to wear new clothes all year round. This is because they are the landlords. How can a family that is going through life cause such trouble?"
“Take other people’s money as money!”
"I would rather know what kind of lies this family told to deceive this young lady. Listen, why do they still have the intention of committing themselves to each other like a cow?"
"She also slandered the county magistrate. She really didn't say a word of truth. Such lies, rumors, and slanderous words about others should be struck by lightning!"
When Zhang heard everyone's accusations, all the blood drained from his face.
It's both painful and scary.
How could a bitch like Jiang Anning make such money? And you spent it all on them?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
A few pieces of rags, not even three or four bowls of blood swallow, fish maw, and snow clams that are not enough to eat... How could it be worth all this money?
"You fart!"
Listening to more and more people scolding her, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly argued: "That night in front of the whole village, you said that you spent sixty-six taels on us, and we only needed to give the marriage certificate, tokens and sixty-six taels." If I give you six taels and one penny, it will be settled..." I don't even want the eight acres of fertile land.
Why is it now three hundred taels?
"You lied!" Mrs. Zhang seemed to have grabbed Jiang Anning's little tail, and she immediately became proud: "You are deceiving everyone, you..."
"It turns out, Aunt Zhang, you still remember that day when you came to apologize and give me a chance to forgive you as if you were kind. Don't be ungrateful. I just asked you for a marriage certificate, a token, and to build a new house and furniture for your family. What part of the expenses will be used after the marriage? ”
Jiang Anning sneered: "I thought that Aunt Zhang just fabricated the fact that I wanted you to pay two hundred taels of silver because she was old and was stabbed in the back by her husband who relied on her wholeheartedly when the disaster struck. She became an abandonment. Damn, my mind was damaged and I don’t remember these things at all.”
Everyone was silent.
This little lady's mouth seems a bit poisonous, right?
They took a serious look at Jiang Anning several times, wanting to make sure that this venomous girl and the girl who looked like she was in love with the rain just now were the same person.
Zhang was speechless for a moment, feeling her heart hurt even more with anger at Jiang Anning's words.
She covered her heart with a "Hey yo eh yo" and slowly fell to the ground.
Among the crowd, someone didn't know who sneered first: "Is it possible that this woman knew she was in the wrong and couldn't argue, so she lay down and planned to blackmail someone?"
The others laughed instantly.
For a time, no one had any sympathy for Zhang.
Zhao Yuanshan watched coldly for a long time. He thought that by letting Zhang make such a fuss, he might be able to change the public opinion. He would no longer have to bear the reputation of a scumbag and be criticized by those meddlesome people, even when he travels. People despise.
In this way, he does not have to be righteous with the Zhang family.
After all, after being a couple for more than 20 years, they still have some feelings for each other.
If Jiang Anning hadn't been so vicious and forced him to this desperate situation, he would never have acted like this...
What's more, he hasn't found a suitable family to marry into yet.
I didn’t expect Mr. Zhang to be so dissatisfied!
The situation was obviously very good before, but now Jiang Anning found something wrong and wouldn't let go.
What a waste!
He can't even pretend to be dead, it's useless.
Zhao Yuanshan closed his eyes, showing a somewhat helpless refusal.
"My lord!"
He cupped his hands towards the county magistrate who was sitting high up in the hall: "It's not just the common people who are telling me this maliciously, but this woman's mind is extremely evil!"
"Ms. Zhang dares to smear your reputation in front of you, but you can only imagine how vicious she is behind the scenes!"
Zhao Yuanshan glanced at Zhao Hai and quickly made a choice in his mind.
"The common people thought that this boy was instigated by Zhang to do such a morally corrupt thing."
"Now it seems that this son has clearly followed his evil-hearted mother and been taught by others' words and deeds, and has grown crooked from the root!"
Mrs. Zhang, who originally felt real pain in her heart, was numbed both physically and mentally by Zhao Yuanshan's sincere plea, and she could no longer feel the pain.
Zhao Yuanshan handed over his hand: "Please punish these two people severely, as a warning to others!"
"I am willing to renounce the Zhang family, sever the father-son relationship with Zhao Hai, a crooked evildoer, and never have any contact with each other again. Lord Wanwang will give justice to the niece of the Jiang family and sentence the mother and son to return the money they deceived from the niece of the Jiang family as soon as possible. The property comes!”
He said it very righteously.
For those who don’t know, they think that Zhao Hai and Zhang were exposed by his righteous extermination of relatives.
Zhao Hai also didn't expect that his father would abandon his biological son so easily!
He glared angrily at Zhao Yuanshan, who had an awe-inspiring face and committed acts of killing relatives.
"How do you have the nerve to say such things?"
"When did you spend less of the money I defrauded from Jiang Anning?"
Zhao Yuanshan's face instantly darkened, he took on the posture of an elder and angrily shouted: "Why are you talking to me? I am your father!"
"Didn't you just sever the father-son relationship with me?"
Zhao Hai sneered and said disapprovingly: "You are no longer my father."
"You, you, you, you bastard!" Zhao Yuanshan's lips trembled angrily.
Zhao Hai rolled his eyes: "I am the son of evil, and you are the father of evil. Don't say anything to anyone, or you can't stand me."
(End of chapter)