The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 233 Looting of Grain
"What should we do? Things are about to turn into complete chaos."

Liu Tielian left Xu Yong's barn and went to Tong Huaqiong's side to ask for advice.

He feared that the enraged crowd would lose control if they saw Xu Yong's granary.

In fact, people have already started arguing about who put more and who put less.

If this trend continues, a major battle for food will be imminent.

Liu Tielian was truly afraid that things would spiral out of control.

Tong Huaqiong had a solution. She said to Liu Tielian, "Village Chief, the problems you're worried about are also the concerns of other village chiefs. You should go and discuss this with the village chiefs of other villages. I think Village Chief Hu of Guazhou Bay has a high reputation. Tell the villagers in those villages not to load the grain yet."

"First, organize the people, and then distribute the grain according to the losses in the cornfields."

Liu Tielian asked, "Then who will supervise this matter?"

He really didn't want to get involved in this matter; whether he got a bigger or smaller share, he would offend people.

Tong Huaqiong said, "I have already asked Dashu to invite Magistrate Liu. As long as we stall until Magistrate Liu comes, this matter can be resolved."

After thinking for a while, Liu Tielian couldn't come up with a better solution, so he went to discuss it with Village Chief Hu and several other village chiefs.

Guazhou Bay and Moon Bay are two large villages. The village that was cheated by Xu Yong the most is also the one with the most visitors.

If we can keep the people in these two villages under control, the other villages will be easier to manage.

At this moment, Village Chief Hu and Village Chief Zhang were in distress, and they brought their villagers to seek justice.

However, they underestimated the people's desire for food.

With so much grain right in front of them, who wouldn't be envious?

They were worried that the villagers would fight over the grain, and that before they could get justice, they would start fighting amongst themselves.

After discussing it, the three village chiefs, Hu and Zhang, began to stop the people in their own villages from looting the grain.

However, everyone went crazy when they saw the grain and couldn't hear anything from the outside world.

At this moment, Gu Dahan came to Liu Tielian's side, holding a hunting rifle in his hand and firing two shots of gunpowder into the air.

There was a loud bang.

It instantly stopped the crowd from looting.

"If anyone tries to take it again, I'll open fire," Gu Dahan shouted.

Someone recognized Gu Dahan and knew that he was a simpleton who was bullied by his stepmother and didn't dare to utter a sound, so they ignored Gu Dahan and continued to pack the grain.

Gu Dahan fired another shot and said, "I'll say it again, everyone, don't fight over it."

When everyone saw that Gu Dahan was serious, they reluctantly put down the tools they were using to hold the grain.

Xu Yong almost wanted to kowtow to Gu Dahan.

His food supplies were saved.

He didn't have time to think about why Gu Dahan helped him; he just assumed that it was only natural for villagers to side with each other.

What's that saying again? "Brothers may quarrel within the walls, but they unite against external threats."

If Xu Yong knew that his grain supplies still wouldn't be safe, he would definitely be cursing.

Liu Tielian turned around and excitedly grasped Gu Dahan's hand, saying, "Dahan, luckily you were quick-witted and knew to get the hunting rifle."

Gu Dahan smiled sheepishly and said, "My mother told me to go to your house to get it."

Liu Tielian then realized that the hunting rifle in Gu Dahan's hand belonged to his family, but it was a pity that it had given him several firework shells.

That was a gift his son-in-law specially bought for him so he could go hunting wild animals in the mountains during the winter.

It's a pity, but it's better than people dying in Qinghewan while fighting for grain.

Village Chief Hu and Village Chief Zhang also expressed their gratitude to Gu Dahan.

Then several village chiefs began to quietly lecture the villagers.

These village chiefs were quite authoritative in the village, and the villagers, who had calmed down from the frenzy of looting, quieted down after hearing the village chiefs' reprimands.

More importantly, judging from the village chief's words, Magistrate Liu would come to uphold justice, and the grain would definitely be distributed to everyone.

So some villagers were more than happy with this arrangement; rather than letting the stronger men rob them, they preferred the spoils to be divided according to the loss of their corn fields. Of course, they said all this behind Xu Yong's back.

They feared that Xu Yong would face obstacles when distributing the grain after receiving the news.

These people were then led by the village chiefs to the ancestral hall in Qinghewan, where everyone waited quietly for Magistrate Liu to preside over justice.

Xu Yong breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his grain supplies had been saved.

With the crisis of grain looting over, the former village chief's wife, Madam Tian, ​​began a new round of trouble-making.

She hated her sister-in-law, Yu.

If it weren't for Yu's big mouth, how would anyone have known about the barn under her backyard?
Now not only people from other villages but also people from this village know about it. Doesn't that make people jealous? If the village encounters another famine year in the future, even before people from other villages, people from Qinghewan will probably start eyeing her backyard.

People used to be wary of Xu Yong when he was the village chief, but now that Liu Tielian is the village chief, who still respects Xu Yong?

Thinking this, Tian noticed Yu.

The Yu and Tian families had the same idea; their family also had a considerable amount of grain, which was now exposed to the villagers.

The Yu family hated the Tian family to death.

After the crisis of their own grain hoarding was resolved, Yu locked the door and went to Xu Yong's house to observe the situation.

Tian pointed at Yu's nose and cursed her, calling Yu a swindler just like Xu Zaohua.

After being scolded by her sister-in-law, Yu refused to back down and quickly retaliated. The two sisters-in-law then pointed at each other and exchanged insults fiercely.

It eventually escalated into them pulling each other's hair.

Although Yu was not as strong as Tian in normal times, she had the upper hand this time and grabbed Tian's hair and wouldn't let go.

"Murder! Murder!" Tian's shrill scream pierced everyone's ears.

Originally, several Xu family wives in the village were trying to mediate and break up the fight, but the two sisters-in-law, Yu and Tian, ​​usually looked down on others in the clan because of their husbands' power. When they saw that they couldn't persuade them to stop, they simply gave up.

The Xu family didn't care, and the rest of the village were just watching the spectacle.

Yu and Tian were usually seen as an elegant landlord's wife and a proud village chief's wife, respectively. The sight of the two women pulling each other's hair gave the other women in the village a sense of excitement, like watching a melon.

They were no different from the rest of the village.

Yu grabbed Tian's hair and wouldn't let go. In desperation, Tian reached out and scratched Yu's face.

Yu was a beautiful woman from Qinghewan; how could she bear having her face scratched?

In a fit of rage, he bit Tian's ear.

While everyone was enjoying the spectacle, seeing the two fighting so fiercely that someone might die, they quickly separated them.

Yu's mouth was full of blood, and Tian's ear was bitten off, so she covered her ear and howled in pain.

"Xu Yong, are you even a man? How dare you let your sister-in-law bully me?" Tian Shi looked at Xu Yong sitting on the ground and started cursing at him.

“Her daughter ruined you with fake pesticides, she ruined my ears, and our family’s grain,” Tian cried.

Xu Yong made a complete fool of himself today, and in his embarrassment, he was ready to give up entirely.

Tian's words ignited his anger towards Xu Zaohua; everything he was in was because of Xu Zaohua.

Adding to his anger at being unable to stop the villagers from loading grain, he directed all his anger at Xu Zaohua's mother, Yu Shi.

Xu Yong stood up and slapped Yu across the face in front of everyone.

Xu Yong's slap was hard and heavy.

Ms. Yu staggered and fell to the ground.

A surge of pleasure rose in Tian's heart.

Tong Huaqiong was dumbfounded. She never expected Xu Yong to be so shameless as to take his anger out on his sister-in-law.

Having been influenced by modern ideas, Tong Huaqiong cannot accept men hitting women.

Even though she knew that many men in this era treated women with abusive language and physical abuse, she still couldn't accept it.

Although she disliked Ms. Yu, she couldn't accept that Ms. Yu was being beaten by a man.