Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 751: Chapter 751: The Wicked Woman Farms (7)

The place ahead is Jiang Dasheng’s home.

After the soldiers entered, Yang Cuicui’s loud voice immediately began to wail, as if afraid others wouldn’t hear her.

Previously, to treat Jiang Liangye’s ’root’, the household’s food had virtually all been exchanged.

Now, with the grain tax due, there was no way to pay it.

Yang Cuicui cried and made a scene, and Jiang Dasheng occasionally chimed in, but Jiang Yuyu was nowhere to be seen, likely hiding inside the house, afraid of the soldiers.

Faced with such a shrew, the soldiers were extremely annoyed.

”Stop creating a ruckus and pay up quickly!”

Yang Cuicui sat on the ground crying, ”Official Master, it’s not that I won’t pay! It’s that our family really has nothing left.”

Somehow, Yang Cuicui spotted Chuzheng standing behind and pointed at her, ”Official Master, it’s her, she caused my son to be cut off from future generations, for his treatment, we’ve run out of grain, it’s all because of her!”

The soldiers looked at ’wealthy household’ Chuzheng, ”...”

The leading Official Master coughed, ”Isn’t she your family’s niece?”

”Yes, but Official Master, you don’t know how sinister her mind is.” Yang Cuicui continued, spilling everything like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, painting Chuzheng’s behaviors in terrible ways and exaggerating the story.

After hearing this, the soldiers couldn’t help but feel a chill run down their spines.

This young lady is so cruel?

”You could have taken this to court; why didn’t you report her?” If what Yang Cuicui said were true, about chopping off a man’s vital part, upon reporting, even if she weren’t thrown in jail, she would still be punished with flogging.

”...”

”She wouldn’t dare.” Chuzheng, leaning against the fence half her height, retorted, ”His son barged into my room in the middle of the night.”

Really, going to court, it’s uncertain who would end up getting flogged.

”...”

”Pah! Little Fox is spouting nonsense; Official Master, don’t believe her, she’s just a shameless %#%&!@*￥...”

Yang Cuicui cursed extremely crudely.

Chu·Little Fox·Zheng listened unflinchingly.

The soldiers didn’t quite believe Yang Cuicui, instead, they tended to believe the wealthy household Chuzheng more.

When Yang Cuicui had exhausted her insults, Chuzheng spoke calmly, ”They have the grain hidden under the kitchen’s water vat.”

Yang Cuicui’s eyes widened in shock, and even Jiang Dasheng glared at her angrily.

Chuzheng returned their gazes coolly.

They say I’m wicked, don’t they? Now that I’ve been insulted, I might as well live up to the name. I can’t let the accusation of being evil go to waste; what a loss that would be.

The soldiers immediately went to search the kitchen.

Yang Cuicui, panicked, tried to stop them, ”Don’t, Official Master, that’s the grain for our family to survive the winter!”

”Official Master, please have mercy, this is really our life-saving food,” Jiang Dasheng also pleaded.

But both were unable to stop them, and the grain was found.

Yang Cuicui’s face turned ashen as she collapsed on the ground.

The grain was indeed exchanged to treat Jiang Liangye.

But they were still farming on the Jiang Family’s land, so they did have some leftover grain.

Now it was truly gone.

How could their family survive now?!

As the soldiers were leaving with the grain, Yang Cuicui suddenly scrambled to her feet, ”Official Master, you haven’t collected her grain yet!”

”She already paid earlier.”

”How could it be, she doesn’t have grain,” Yang Cuicui disbelieved.

”...”

She didn’t have grain, but she had money.

Money can buy grain.

”What did she pay with!” Yang Cuicui persisted.

”She paid with silver,” replied the soldier.

”Silver?” Yang Cuicui was stunned for a moment, then shrieked again, ”Where did she get silver from, how could she possibly have silver, it’s not possible.”

”See that?” the soldier flaunted the silver coins, ”Who cares where her silver comes from, as long as she has it, we don’t have to take your grain.”

Suddenly, Yang Cuicui rounded on them, ”With so much silver, why do you still need to confiscate our family’s grain? We are one family!”

The soldiers seemed to be intimidated by Yang Cuicui’s shamelessness.

Just a moment ago they said they hadn’t taken her grain.

And now they’re suddenly one family?

”She said it herself, she’s only paying her own share, what does that have to do with you?” The soldier lost his patience and brandished his knife, ”Don’t block the way, make any more trouble, and don’t blame us for getting rough!”

Yang Cuicui was scared by the knives on the soldiers.

The soldiers left with their group.

-

Yang Cuicui, burning with anger, stormed out. Upon clashing with Chuzheng, her gaze, sharp and venomous as a dagger, fell upon Chuzheng, ”Where did you get the silver? Did you steal our family’s grain to sell?”

That was the only explanation Yang Cuicui could think of.

Otherwise, where did the silver come from?

”Is your family’s grain made of gold?” that it could sell for so much silver.

”If you didn’t steal our grain, where did you get the silver?”

”Who stole your grain, don’t talk nonsense,” Chuzheng paused, her eyes and brows frosted with coldness, ”Besides, some of the grain in your house was harvested from our land.”

”Nonsense! We toiled hard to cultivate those lands, they’re ours, what does that have to do with you!”

”Oh, but the land is mine, so whatever’s harvested is also mine,” Chuzheng retorted, following her line of thought.

Just a few words and Yang Cuicui found herself utterly confounded by Chuzheng.

Yang Cuicui gave up on that argument and turned to another issue, ”You actually told those people where the grain was hidden. Are you trying to get us killed? You have the silver and still don’t help us pay, what a thankless wretch you are!”

Chuzheng thought for a moment, didn’t refute her, but asked instead, ”What can you do to me?” Hit me? You can’t beat me anyways!

Yang Cuicui: ”...”

Yang Cuicui felt a surge of rage rush to her forehead, ”I’ll beat you to death!”

Yang Cuicui, with her claws bared, lunged at her.

Though Yang Cuicui had strength from doing farm work, it was brute force. Chuzheng hardly needed to exert any effort to knock her to the ground.

Chuzheng dusted off her hands, issuing a fierce warning.

”I would advise you to behave yourselves from now on and not provoke me,” she said.

Chuzheng returned to the courtyard, composed and unruffled.

Yang Cuicui, frightened by Chuzheng’s final look, sat on the ground, limbs chilled, feeling the shadow of death overhead, unable to come to her senses for a long while.

”Jiang Dasheng, are you dead?!”

Yang Cuicui bellowed.

Jiang Dasheng hurried to help her up.

”Did you hear that, she has silver on her! Where did it come from? Huh? How did she get silver!”

Jiang Dasheng hesitated, ”Could it be given by Zhang Yuanwai? You see she hasn’t tried to run away recently...”

Zhang Yuanwai... it seemed to make sense, only how had that despicable girl come into contact with Zhang Yuanwai?

She was threatening to kill herself before, and now she was eager to get involved.

Despicable to the bone!

Thinking of the promised time with Zhang Yuanwai that was approaching, Yang Cuicui suppressed her anger.

As long as Zhang Yuanwai took the person away, they would also get a sum of money.

Would they be worried about not having grain then?

With this thought, Yang Cuicui felt a renewed surge of heat within her.

”You wait and see, you wretched girl! Ouch, it’s killing me, Jiang Dasheng, are you useless? Watching her attack me, and my son, you just let her!” Yang Cuicui vented her rage on Jiang Dasheng.

”Liangye was the one who started...”

”Your Jiang family will die without an heir! My poor child...”

”...”