Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 59 Grace and Power
Luzhu brought a bamboo chair, and Su Qingwan sat down gracefully, resting her elbows on the back of the chair, playing with her scattered hair with her fingers. Her brows were as cold as frost, as if in her eyes, they were just a group of rabble, nothing to be afraid of.

"Then don't blame me for being rude." Mrs. Zhuang waved her hand and said, "Catch her for me."

Mrs. Zhuang's authority had been challenged several times, and today she decided to teach Su Qingwan a lesson.

The tenants rushed forward and all rushed to the attic.

Lu Yunshu had never seen such a scene before, and hid beside Su Qingwan in fear, "Sister-in-law..."

"Don't be afraid, just stay by my side." Su Qingwan smiled at her. Lu Yunshu felt inexplicably at ease looking at her smile, as if as long as her sister-in-law was there, she would not be harmed in any way.

Lu Zhu drew two daggers from his waist, flew down, kicked one man away, pressed his knee against his chest, and thrust the dagger into his shoulder fiercely. The dagger pierced through his shoulder blade and nailed him to the ground.

The strong man screamed and wailed, echoing through the night sky. The group of tenant farmers who had surrounded him were frightened and retreated like a tide. Several timid women fell to the ground with pale faces in fear.

"Killing, killing..."

Mrs. Zhuang was also frightened, and looked at Su Qingwan, who was high and mighty, with fear. In the past few days, she had brought people to provoke and make things difficult for her, but Su Qingwan ignored her and lived her own leisurely life.

Mrs. Zhuang thought that Su Qingwan was strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and that her imposing manner was just to intimidate people.

I didn't expect that he would dare to use a knife.

She looked up and met Su Qingwan's cold gaze. In the hot summer, cold sweat soaked her clothes.

terrible!

Lu Zhu stood up and drew out her dagger. The blade was covered in blood. She casually wiped it lightly on her sleeve, and the blood stained her clothes red. The blade was cold and sharp. Lu Zhu said, "My dagger has not seen blood for a long time. It is thirsty. Who can feed it again?"

Mrs. Zhuang said in a timid voice, "She is just a little girl. Don't be afraid of her. If you attack her together, she will definitely not be able to beat you!"

The tenant farmer was lying on the ground with blood all over the ground. Who would dare to attack him? A half-grown boy rushed out, knelt beside the injured man and cried, "Dad, please wake up, don't scare me, Dad..."

The strong man almost fainted from the pain.

The boy looked to be about eight or nine years old, with a dark complexion. He raised his head and stared fiercely at the green bamboo, like a little beast.

Green Bamboo said, "Little brother, don't stare at me. Your father was instigated to hurt my master, and I didn't stab him to death. It was my mercy. If you want to hate him, don't hate the wrong person."

Su Qingwan said calmly, "Do you still want to arrest me? If not, go away. You are just tenant farmers in the farm, not soldiers of the Lu family. The Lu family's affairs have nothing to do with you."

"What are you standing there for? Come on! She is just a weak woman. You men can't be afraid of her!" Mrs. Zhuang shouted.

The tenant farmers were all honest and hardworking farmers. They did not dare to resist when they were bullied by the rich woman. They had never seen a maid as vicious as Lu Zhu, who could kill people with just one knife, so they hesitated.

Qingqing brought a cup of hot tea. Su Qingwan took a sip and said calmly, "I will not pursue anyone who caused trouble tonight. If you don't know what's good for you and want to be used as a gun by Mrs. Zhuang, swords and knives have no eyes. Don't regret it when you go to the underworld."

A tenant farmer knelt down and said, "Madam, we are not trying to cause trouble. Ever since Mrs. Zhuang came to the farm, she has been oppressing the tenant farmers. The rent is getting higher every year. If we don't obey, she will find ways to rob us of our food. The tenant farmers in the farm are all under her control, and we dare not resist!" "If you dare to talk nonsense, I will tear your mouth apart!"

Mrs. Zhuang crawled over and tried to hit him, but he pushed her away.

Su Qingwan raised her eyebrows, "I remember the rent for the land was 30%, which is not too high."

"Madam, the rent of the land has increased to 60%, and we are enslaved and oppressed by the farm wife on weekdays, so we only have 30% left. If the harvest is not good, our whole family will starve." The tenant farmer's eyes were red, "This farm wife didn't treat us as human beings at all. During the off-season, she drove us into the mountains to hunt and dig ginseng for her. Many tenants have been injured because of this, and some have been seriously injured by wild boars and died. We...we have a lot of suffering!"

"You are talking nonsense. This has never happened. Don't slander me!"

Someone took the lead, and a tenant farmer's wife rushed out of the crowd and knelt down, "Not only that, but Mrs. Zhuang's son also forcibly abducted women from the peasants. He humiliated and oppressed any tenant farmer's daughter who was slightly pretty. Please, Madam, help us!"

The woman kowtowed vigorously, and Lu Zhu gave her a support.

"You surrounded my attic late at night. If I was powerless, I would be the one begging for mercy in the hall tonight. Now you want me to make the decision for you. Isn't that asking too much?"

"Madam, we are wrong. We really can't live anymore. We dare not disobey Mrs. Zhuang's words." The tenant farmer begged, "Madam, please show mercy!"

The tenant farmers all said that Mrs. Zhuang relied on the fact that she was a member of the Lin family to abuse her power and exploit their property. The tenant farmers relied on the fields and the weather for their livelihood, and they looked forward to the harvest from the fields every year, so they could not afford to offend Mrs. Zhuang.

Su Qingwan lazily leaned on the bamboo chair, her eyes calmly fixed on the group of tenant farmers. In fact, she had already investigated what Mrs. Zhuang had done before coming to the farm.

These days, he took Lu Yunshu to travel around the mountains and rivers and spent his days leisurely. He never asked about the matter of Mrs. Zhuang oppressing the tenant farmers, as if she was a rich girl who never left the house.

It was also expected that the tenant farmers would be incited to besiege the attic tonight.

"I can forgive you." Su Qingwan said calmly, "I have always been generous and will not bother with you. Let's go. Send the injured to the doctor and I will pay the medical fee."

The injured tenant was sent for treatment, and his son went with him to take care of him.

But the tenants did not disperse. "Please ask the eldest young lady to expel the old woman from the farm and replace her with a manager to give us a chance to live."

"You are rebelling. This is the Lu family's farm. I am the manager sent by the eldest lady. Who dares to expel me?" Mrs. Zhuang was reluctant to give up this lucrative job.

"Is this the Lu family's farm?" Su Qingwan raised her eyebrows. "When did the Xie family's farmland and farm become part of the Lu family's?"

Mrs. Tian, ​​"..."

Yes, this farm was under the name of Xie Zhaolan, and it was her dowry. After she married into the Lu family, Lin coveted the farm and placed her own people there. Xie Zhaolan had too many properties and didn't care about the farm. The original manager was surnamed Dong, but he was forced to leave the farm and make a living elsewhere. Mrs. Tian had been dominating the farm for many years, and both Lin and she regarded the farm as Lu's property.

"The eldest young master's wife is a member of the Lu family. Of course, your property belongs to the Lu family!" Mrs. Zhuang said with a stiff neck.

"My dowry, my property, when did it become the Lu family's?" Su Qingwan raised her eyebrows and asked lazily, "You've seized other people's property, you're used to being a thief, right?"

(End of this chapter)