Li Daniu turned to look at the villager who was speaking. His eyes were red after not sleeping all night. His face was full of evil, and he said sinisterly, "Mind your own business!"
The man was so frightened by Li Daniu's appearance that he remained silent, and the others did not dare to say anything more when they saw it.
Li Daniu is the butcher in the village. He was already full of evil spirits, but now he has become more vicious and frightening.
Jiang Ling supported Jiang Wan with one hand and held the knife in his hand tightly with the other, confronting Li Daniu.
Most of the villagers in this village are from the Li family, and they are all related to each other, while the Jiang family is a later immigrant.
Jiang Wan looked at more and more villagers, as well as the Li family who were closer to Li Daniu.
I'm afraid things won't go well today. Although Jiang Ling is highly skilled in martial arts, he is only one person after all. If they meet head-on, he may not be their opponent.
Jiang Wan held Jiang Ling's hand and told him not to be impulsive.
She raised her eyes and asked, "I took care of Xiaobao's injuries yesterday. If you say that I killed your son, I will never admit it. And you don't allow me to check Xiaobao's body. Could it be that Xiaobao's Is there another hidden reason behind his death?"
"If you insist on making false accusations, I can only report it to the official."
As soon as Jiang Wan finished speaking, villagers behind him shouted, "The village chief is here! The village chief is here!"
The village chief is the person with the highest status in the village. He has the right to deal with everyone in the village. Even if someone from the government comes, he will not interfere with the village chief's behavior.
In this relatively backward era with weak national strength, imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the squires were in charge.
The village chief is the squire of this village.
"Li Daniu! What are you causing trouble here?!" As soon as the village commander arrived, he asked with a dark face, "I know you just lost your only son, and you are not happy! But you can't act like a fool and cause trouble for Dr. Jiang! "
Li Daniu cried, "Captain! You have to make the decision for me! It was this woman who killed my little treasure."
"It's pitiful that my little baby is so young, so he left!"
"Yesterday, so many villagers were watching. It was her holding my dying baby. Who else could she have harmed?"
As Li Daniu spoke, he knelt down in front of the village commander and said, "Captain, you can't be partial to Jiang Wan!"
Jiang Wan raised her eyes and saw the Li family's village. Naturally, the village chief was also a member of the Li family.
With this level of kinship, can he really help or not help the relatives?
The village chief coughed twice and said hoarsely, "Li Daniu, you are such an adult, but you are still crying and kneeling on the ground outside. What do you look like?"
Li Daniu knelt on the ground and refused to get up, "What do I care about, my little treasure! I can't wait to go with him."
Li Daniu cried so heartbrokenly that his cries were loud.
The village commander shook his head, looked at Jiang Wan, and asked, "It was you who discovered Xiaobao and treated him yesterday, right?"
Jiang Wan told the village chief exactly what happened that day. She believed that there was nothing wrong from discovering Xiaobao to rescuing people.
If there was something wrong, maybe she should go to Li Daniu's house again in the afternoon to check on the situation.
The village chief touched his long beard and said awkwardly, "Jiang Wan, Xiaobao is dead. Although you are not wrong from what you said, you are the last person to have contact with Xiaobao after all. , it was you who brought Xiaobao back, and you who treated him."
"This is for everyone to see."
Jiang Wan didn't understand. Was it wrong for her to save people?
Should she just ignore things?
The village chief whispered, "Jiang Wan, let's just pay some compensation to Li Daniu's family and forget about it."
"You said you were involved in this matter. When you rescued people, there were no witnesses around. Who can prove what you said?"
"If you keep pestering me, maybe Li Daniu will say that you pushed his little treasure later."
"After all, there is no evidence of death, right?"
Jiang Wan smiled and said, "Captain, you mean that if I encounter someone in danger in the future, I will not save him, right?"
"Rescuing people will get you into trouble anyway, so why not just sit back and ignore it?"
The village leader was blocked by Jiang Wan and couldn't speak. After a long time, he said, "Be careful in the future. It's best to have a witness."
Jiang Wan raised her head and looked at the people gathered in front of her. They included Li Daniu's family. Behind Li Daniu were his relatives, as well as the village chief, also named Li, who seemed fair but did not distinguish between right and wrong.
"How much compensation does the village chief think I should pay?"
The villagers who were watching were chirping, "Doctor Jiang is so pitiful. How come this happened to her for nothing?"
"Hey, could it be that Dr. Jiang really killed the child?"
"How is that possible? Doctor Jiang's medical skills are obvious to all."
"Hey, no matter how powerful Dr. Jiang is, she is not a god after all, right? Everyone makes mistakes."
In fact, Jiang Wan handled it wrong the first time he faced being blackmailed.
She always wants to settle things amicably and avoid conflicts if she can.
But she is young and has little experience. She doesn't know that as long as a hole is opened in some things, the hole will get bigger and bigger.
People rarely throw garbage on the clean ground, but if there is already garbage on the ground, it will be much easier for people to throw it away.
Ever since Aunt Li got something out of her, some people sympathized with her, but some people couldn't help but wonder, could he also get something out of her?
Anyway, Aunt Li has blackmailed her so much, so he is not the least of them.
If Jiang Ye could decisively reject Aunt Li's blackmail for once, maybe Li Daniu would not have thought of using the dead child to seek his own final benefit after the child died.
"Li Daniu, your child is dead, and there is no resurrection. Don't make trouble with Dr. Jiang."
"Let me make a decision and let Dr. Jiang pay you some money as an appeasement."
"Money?!" Li Daniu seemed to be filled with hatred, "Can my son's life be bought with money?"
"Even a golden mountain can't exchange for my son's life!"
Commander Li used the faucet in his hand to hit him on the head, "If you continue to make trouble and refuse to stop, I won't care about it!"
"If you are really doing your child a favor, it would be better to throw him into the water as soon as possible and let him rest in peace instead of holding his body here and tossing it around!"
Li Daniu cried and said, "Two hundred taels, Xiaobao is the heart of my mother and I. We are the only child. He has been raised with good food and drink, so he must have two hundred taels."
"Two hundred taels?!" Commander Li hit him hard again, "Why don't you go and grab it?!"
In this country, two hundred cents is enough for a family to buy goods for one month. For ordinary families like them, two hundred taels is simply a fantasy.
It is already remarkable that a farmer can save two taels of silver a year.
Two hundred taels is almost more money than ordinary farmers can save in a lifetime.
"Oh my god, two hundred taels?! Isn't this Li Daniu going to force Jiang Wan to death?!"
"Yes, no matter how rich the Jiang family is, they can't afford two hundred taels, right?!"
