"I don’t care, now that our Erpang is gone, you have to compensate!" Xiaoxiao and the others hadn’t even squeezed into the room when they first heard the crying and shouting.
"Your Erpang is gone, what has that got to do with us? Our men are injured too, and I haven’t even come to you yet!" In this family, only the second sister-in-law was capable of confronting others; the mother-in-law and the eldest sister-in-law could only cry.
"There’s no justice left, a person from our family has died, and you still want to come to us! How are we supposed to live! Wuu wuu! I’m going to the government office to sue you." The shouting person was indeed Erpang’s wife.
"Erpang’s family, hunting is inherently dangerous, you have no reason to blame his family!" Some villagers could not stand it anymore, it was only because the Yang Family were all honest folks that they were targeted.
"If I don’t find them, who else can I find? If it weren’t for them taking my Erpang out, this would not have happened. A living, breathing person, gone just like that, how are we, mother and child, supposed to survive?" Erpang’s wife sat on the ground and started howling!
At this moment, a clear voice rose, breaking through the crying and shouting.
"How do you propose we compensate you?" A woman in blue clothes squeezed through the crowd, her presence so evidently out of place compared to everyone else there.
"Compensate with ten taels of silver!" Erpang’s wife perked up, hearing there might be a chance, and immediately answered. Everyone gasped upon hearing this; how dare she extort! The Yang Family was so poor, where would they get the silver!
"Ten taels of silver, you really dare to ask for that! This matter has nothing to do with my father-in-law, and even if you take us to the government office, we are not afraid of you. Weren’t there two others with them? Why don’t you go find them instead of targeting us, just because you think my father-in-law is easy to bully? Everyone here, listen well, as long as I, Zhong Xiaoxiao, am here, you can forget about bullying them!"
Everyone was stunned by Xiaoxiao’s words; this was the famed daughter-in-law married into the old Yang family, so fierce! But it was about time the Yang family had someone like her; after all, they had been bullied for too long over the years.
"However, I’m not an unreasonable person. If your Erpang had the connection to go hunting with my father-in-law, it shows there were some ties between them. I don’t want it to be difficult for my father-in-law and them, so here is five hundred copper coins as condolence money for your family. Take the money and leave quickly while I’m still in a good mood, or else in a while, you might not even get five hundred coins!" Saying this, she pulled out a string of copper coins with an air of superiority!
Erpang’s wife was intimidated by Xiaoxiao; she knew her Erpang’s death was not their fault, but she had no choice as a widow with a child at home. It was already tough, and she thought of targeting the honest Yang Family, not expecting that the new daughter-in-law they just married would be so formidable. She had no choice but to take the five hundred copper coins and slink away.
"The main character has left; everyone else can disperse too, haha!"
It was only then that the villagers went back home. After this incident, the news that the Yang family’s son had married a feisty daughter-in-law spread even further! From now on, the old Yang family would not be so easy to bully!
"Dad, Mom, our family needs to act more assertively from now on; we can’t let others bully us anymore!"
"Third sister-in-law, you’re amazing. We didn’t even know what to do with this kind of person!"
Actually, Xiaoxiao herself had no idea what to do; she couldn’t handle a rascal. She had just read the helplessness on the face of Erpang’s wife; otherwise, rascals are not so easy to get rid of!
The matter passed like that, and over the next few days, Xiaoxiao focused on making and selling candied hawthorns.