After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 111 12 Silver

Jiang Xiaohe continued, her voice filled with a hint of grievance: "My Lord, don't think that they are calling me a daughter in the hall now. Just now in the village, they were calling me a little bitch. We villagers can testify to this. I think my parents must not like me as their daughter. Besides, it was not me who said the word severance, but my father."

Xu Changan frowned slightly. How could parents love their son so much, but call their own daughter like this? He thought to himself, Jiang Xiaohe is really not well-liked by her parents...

"You forced me to do that!"

Jiang Xiaohe looked at Jiang Ming aggrievedly: "But didn't Dad ever think about this? If he didn't think about this, why did he blurt out these two words?"

Jiang Ming was speechless for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Jiang Xiaohe continue, "Since my father wants to break off the engagement with me, then I will do so. But sir, my father asked for fifty taels of silver as a fee. I am just an ordinary person, and my family are all farmers. Where can I find fifty taels of silver to give them? Moreover, we farmers cannot afford so much silver. They just saw that I made some money from my business to repair the house a few days ago, so they want to blackmail me for the money for the house repair!"

When the fifty taels of silver was mentioned, the yamen runners standing nearby were visibly stunned, and Xu Changan was even more stunned. He thought that as a village head, his monthly salary was only a few taels of silver. The Jiang family wanted fifty taels of silver right away just to break off the engagement. Wasn't that too much?

"Are you really asking for fifty taels?"

Jiang Ming bit his lip and said nothing, so Chen Chunlai spoke up: "Sir, I and my husband asked her for fifty taels, but I think it's not much, or even enough!"

Everyone in the hall, except the three members of the Jiang family, rolled their eyes. Fifty taels was not enough. This farmer probably couldn't earn fifty taels of silver in his entire life, and they still felt it was not enough.

Xu Changan nodded, meaning for her to continue.

Chen Chunlai said, "In just this short period of time, Jiang Xiaohe has earned more than fifty taels of silver. She still has a long life ahead of her, and who knows how much more silver she will earn in the future. We only took a small part of it."

Jiang Xiaohe almost laughed when she heard this: "Mom, this calculation is really clever!"

Xu Changan was almost laughing out of anger. He felt that the Jiang family was really unreasonable and annoying. "Are you counting all the money Jiang Xiaohe will make in this lifetime? What? When you die, Jiang Xiaohe will burn you to hell?"

The three members of the Jiang family said nothing.

Jiang Ming glared at Chen Chunlai, thinking that this woman was not very good at talking.

"Also, Jiang Xiaohe is a married woman, not a live-in son-in-law, right?"

"What do you mean, sir?"

"What do you mean? Don't you know what it means? Jiang Xiaohe is a married girl. Do you have the nerve to let her give you so much silver?" Xu Changan was annoyed.

"According to the laws of our dynasty, it is your son who should be responsible for supporting your parents, not your married daughter! Are you doing this to let others know that your son is incompetent? You can only rely on your daughter?"

Jiang Xiaohe wanted to applaud, this Xu Changan was her mouthpiece! She wanted to give him a banner!

The three members of the Jiang family looked at each other, and Jiang Dahai's face turned red all the way to his neck.

"This is a farmer's family's way of breaking off a relationship. This is the first time I've seen someone as arrogant as you!"

Jiang Xiaohe cupped her hands and said, "Today my parents said that because of the landlord Chang's incident, they paid landlord Chang ten taels of silver and were beaten by him, so they wanted such a high reward. But in my opinion, they sold me privately. If they hadn't coveted the money from landlord Chang, there wouldn't have been so many things later!"

Xu Changan nodded: "You are right."

The three members of the Jiang family shouted, "Sir!"

Xu Changan slammed the table and said, "You were wrong in the beginning when you bought and sold Jiang Xiaohe. The Zhang family didn't blame you, but you didn't know how to be grateful. Now you are still using this matter to make a fuss. Do you want the Zhang family to investigate? If this is really investigated, not only will the three of you suffer physical pain, but you will also face a period of imprisonment. Do you really want to do this?"

When the three heard this, they were so scared that they shook their heads: "No, no."

Xu Changan sneered and asked the chief clerk beside him, "According to the rules of this farming family, how much silver does it cost to break off an engagement?"

The chief clerk cupped his hands and said, "If it was a son, the money would naturally be more, but since this is a daughter and she is breaking off the engagement with her parents, the money would be less, ranging from a few cents to five taels."

Xu Changan nodded, and the Jiang family members were extremely anxious: "Sir..."

Xu Changan glanced over with a warning look in his eyes, and the three people from the Jiang family shut up instantly.

"Jiang Xiaohe, I want to ask you, do you really want to break off this relationship? Think carefully, they are your maternal family. If you really break off the relationship, if something happens to you in your husband's family in the future, your maternal family will no longer stand up for you."

The three members of the Jiang family also realized that even if they broke off the relationship, they would not get any money. Since that was the case, they did not want to break off the relationship. What was the use of a few taels of silver? It would be better to leave it as it is now. If Jiang Xiaohe really became rich in the future, they would go to her house to ask for money. I don't believe that Jiang Xiaohe, this little bitch, would not give it to them!

Therefore, she followed Xu Changan and said, "That's right. If you are beaten by your in-laws in the future, you won't even have a place to cry!"

Jiang Xiaohe looked at the three people with disdain, and said with a cupped hand: "Sir, this close relationship with the common people must be broken up. If it is not broken up today, it will be more chaotic tomorrow. It is better not to have this common people's family!"

Jiang Dahe pointed at Jiang Xiaohe and cursed, "Jiang Xiaohe! I'm telling you, if you break off this relationship today, it will be impossible for you to renew it in the future!"

"Do you think I will regret it?" Jiang Xiaohe sneered.

"Okay, in that case, I will be the judge of this matter!"

Xu Changan slammed the table and said, "You sold Jiang Xiaohe to someone else. I think you didn't care about your daughter. In this case, Jiang Xiaohe will give you one tael of silver today, and you will sever this family relationship and live your own lives in the future!"

"Thank you, sir!" Jiang Xiaohe and Zhang Fu shouted at the same time.

The three Jiang family members thought they had heard wrongly. How much? One tael of silver? To send away a beggar.

The three of them looked at each other, and Jiang Dahe said quickly: "Sir, I don't want to, my whole family doesn't want to!"

Jiang Xiaohe: "Sir, I have something to say."

Xu Changan ignored Jiang Dahe and just looked at Jiang Xiaohe: "You say."

"My husband had just died, so they came to my house and forced me to go with them. I was pregnant with my husband's posthumous child at the time, and I didn't want to go with them, so they extorted three taels of silver from my in-laws. Now they want to break off the marriage, and I want to get the three taels of silver back on behalf of my in-laws!"

"Really?"