Novel Full Chapter 1155: The one who caught the monkey should tame it
Old Master Ying was a mer who could not see through the situation and with his selfishness, it would be surprising if he could even see where he was wrong much less sense that his entire thought process was wrong.
However, Old Madam Ying could see through the situation with one glance. She might be a good for nothing but she was not stupid. She could see that the villagers were dissatisfied with her and her family, if this continued then they would be chased out of the village.
” Enough with your nonsense, can you not see what is happening?” Old Madam Ying snapped at her husband and then dragged him to the house.
However, Old Master Ying was not reconciled when he saw that Old Madam Ying was pulling him he could not help but say, ” What are you getting angry for? Did I say a single thing wrong? It’s that wretched bastard who ran away from home. Why am I being blamed? What did I even do wrong!” Experience exclusive tales on M V L
Old Madam Ying noticed the village women look at her with contempt. Furious she raised her hand and slapped Old Master Ying on the face causing the latter to shut up.
” What are you yammering for? What wretched bastard? He is my son! If he is bastard who am I?” She scolded Old Master Ying fiercely causing Old Master Ying to be left speechless.
With one of his hands covering his cheek, Old Master Ying looked at the woman who had slapped her and then said in a voice filled with disbelief, ” You… Did you slap me? Old Ying! You have lost your mind, for that shameless mer, you dared to slap me? I will kill you! How dare you, I gave you two daughters and this is how you repaid me?”
” Argh! Shut up! Every day you keep on acting noisy! I have had enough of you,” Old Madam Ying did not want to hear Old Master Ying’s yammering. It was his fault that their family was in a situation like this, she glared at Old Master Ying and then stated, ” You think you can act as you like huh? Stop making a fuss and go back with me.
If our future son-in-law hears about this case then you can forget about seeing our daughter get married!”
She was not lying the mer with whom Ying Tuanzi was engaged, was the son of a very good family. They had more than thirty mu of land and their daughter worked in the town, his family was one of those families who treated their mer son and daughter equally.
If they found out that Old Master Ying treated Ying Nan like this then that family would think twice before letting their son marry Ying Tuanzi.
Old Master Ying was an unreasonable mer but he was very careful when it came to his daughters, as soon as Old Madam Ying told him to be careful with his words if he wanted his daughter to get married, he immediately turned silent and did not say a single word.
Seeing the sudden change in his attitude caused many mer and women to laugh at the Ying family. The speed of changing faces was indeed quite impressive!
The Big Mountain Villagers knew that nothing good was going to come out of this case and sure enough when Da Qiao returned her expression was full of anger.
Turns out that after the county magistrate’s office found out that a mer around the age of eighteen was lost, they not only implemented a fine but they also reprimanded Da Qiao severely for not keeping an eye on unruly mers like Old Master Ying causing the situation to escalate. And as someone without power, Da Qiao could only hear what those people were telling her.
” How much is the fine?” Lin Xing asked feeling a bit troubled. Their village was in such a condition and if there was a fine added on top of their heads, then how would they survive?
Da Qiao was also troubled about this matter but what could she do?
It was an irreversible fact that Ying Nan was missing and even after looking for him for so long they could not find any traces of the poor mer.
“It’s ten taels,” she told her husbands and the elders of the village. As soon as she opened her mouth, not only Lin Xing but even the elders were shocked.
One woman with a shrivelled up face looked at Da Qiao and then said with a shaky voice, ” Bu…But we don’t even have three taels where will we get ten taels?”
Their village was not as rich as the Big River Village, their funds did not have ten taels! From where would they get the money to pay this fine?
” The one who is the cause of the trouble will pay it what else?” Lin Xing said angrily. ” It was Old Master Ying who caused this trouble, then why should the entire village pay the fine?”
” Thats right.” The mers chimed together as they listened to Lin Xing’s words. They were not the ones who chased Ying Nan in the mountains, it was Old Master Ying so he should be the one paying the fine.
” I don’t think he will take the sum out,” Da Qiao said with a frown.
Lin Xing rolled his eyes and then said to his wife, ” Of course he would not. You need to tell him that if he does not take the money out then he will be sent to the Yamen. This trouble was something that he invited why should we suffer?”
Ten taels was not a small sum, as they were the leader of the village they would have to take out at least five taels, why would he take such a large sum out for someone like Old Master Ying?
Did he look like he had a lot of money? He did not!
The one who attracted the trouble should be the one taking care of it. And since it was Old Master Ying’s monkey, he should be the one taming it.