The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Chapter 4 Settlement of Accounts

Zhang Defa hurriedly caught up, but it was still too late. When the ox cart entered Xishan Village, he saw that the people in the village were looking at him strangely, and some were pointing behind his back. Zhang Defa knew that Li Yu and his sister had arrived.

Zhang Defa endured his anger and drove the bullock cart towards Li's house at the foot of the hill at the end of the village. When he arrived at the door of Li's house, he heard the conversation inside and sighed that he was a step too late.

Zhang Defa got off the cattle cart, tied the cattle to a small tree on the roadside, stood up, closed his eyes, took a deep breath and walked towards the collapsed wall with a smile on his face.

Li Qing raised his head and saw Zhang Defa, clenching his fists and saying, "Why are you coming to my house? You are not welcome in my house."

Li Yu and Chen Yaohui also looked at him coldly.

Zhang Defa smiled dryly and exchanged greetings, "Brother Yaohui is here too!"

Chen Yaohui responded calmly: "I came to see these two miserable children and see how her father, who risked his life to save them, did harm to them."

Zhang Defa did not expect that Chen Yaohui would mercilessly break up with him, but Chen Yaohui was so angry that he had nothing to say, so he had to pick up the soft persimmon and pinch it, turning to look at Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, let Guixiang If you bring it to me, will it still count?"

Li Yu felt a little strange when he saw that Zhang Defa didn't mention the fact that he beat Zhang Guixiang. When he looked up, he saw Zhang Defa's gloomy eyes with clenched teeth and thought: It seems that he wants to keep it to settle the debt, okay! Just let your horse come over!

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa and said coldly: "For the record, it's just that you took something from my house. Shouldn't you return it?"

Zhang Defa looked at Li Yu, who was standing tall and calm, and suddenly realized that the person standing in front of him did not seem to be the Li Yu he knew. He thought to himself: Is this really the same Li Yu who is obsessed with Guisheng?

Zhang Defa looked at Li Yu with a smile and said with a sneer: "Xiaoyu, you remember it wrong! How can you have anything at home? Xiaoyu, if you have any other requests, please put them forward and I will try my best to satisfy you."

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa and sneered: "What do you want? I want you to pay for my father's life, can you do it?"

"You," Zhang Defa looked at Li Yu, so angry that he couldn't laugh anymore.

Seeing that he could no longer laugh, Li Yu sneered: "You took the furs saved by my father, the rice stored in my barn, and the farm tools and furniture of my family. Did you want to default on the debt?"

Li Yu saw Zhang Defa's eyes wandering around, knowing that he would not admit it easily, so he looked at him coldly, intending to see how he wanted to quibble.

Zhang Defa looked at the villagers who came to see the fun after hearing the news, and hesitated to answer. Unexpectedly, Chen Yaohui took over the conversation, "Zhang Defa, if you don't remember, I can remind you that there are four fox furs and five more." Zhang Lupi, and... Li Mei and we have all counted them at the beginning, do you think you can still rely on them?"

Zhang Defa was stunned after hearing this, and looked at Chen Yaohui with an angry face, "Chen Yaohui, what does it have to do with you? What advantage can you gain by helping her like this?"

Chen Yaohui sneered: "You think everyone is just like you, mercenary and ungrateful."

Zhang Defa became angry with embarrassment, turned his head and looked at Li Yu with a livid face and said: "Li Yu, your sister and brother have been living and eating in my house for so many years, you want to live and eat for free!"

Li Yu took a few steps forward and walked up to Zhang Defa, and spat, "Bah! You're not afraid of flashing your tongue when the wind blows. What's your family's expenses? After my father left, my brother and I lived in your house and worked as cows. To be a horse, I have never made a new piece of clothing or had a full meal.

Since we went to the county town with your family, our life has been worse than that of the servants. We have endless amounts of flax to spin every day. Ah Qing has to go to the mountains to chop firewood every day at dawn. Your family still doesn’t care about the leftovers. Your family, Chen Zhaodi, Zhang Guixiang and Zhang Guixiang always took it out on the siblings when they didn't get what they wanted. They were starved and beaten, which was a common occurrence. "

Li Yu lifted up his sleeves to reveal the old and new scars left by being pinched and beaten. He looked at the villagers who were watching: "Grandpas, mothers-in-law, uncles and aunts, take a look. These were pinched and beaten by Chen Zhaodi, and It’s the same with Ah Qing.”

Li Yu pulled Li Qing to pick up the clothes on his body, revealing the crisscross scars of whipping on his back, with new and old wounds overlapping each other.

Everyone took a breath and whispered to each other, "This is too much. Li Shanbai died, leaving two children to suffer in the world!"

"So you have to live with your own flesh and blood when begging for food. It's also because Li Shan was so stupid. He gave up his life for others and left two orphans behind. He was so stupid that he didn't entrust the child to his own sister, but to an outsider. .”

An old man who knew the inside story sighed, "Of course Li Mei is good, but she can't stand having a wicked mother-in-law, and the two children have trouble with her. Li Shan is also afraid that the children will drag down his sister, thinking that he and Zhang Defa are both in-laws and relatives." He had grown up together as a friend and shared the joys and sorrows during the escape, and he never expected that this would happen!"

"Yes! People's hearts are unpredictable!"

The old man looked at Li Yu and thought to himself: Now that the Zhang family's son has passed the exam at a young age, how can anyone meddle in this business anymore? What if his son becomes successful...

Chen Yaohui looked at Zhang Defa and shouted angrily: "Zhang Defa, you are such a vicious person, how do you explain the injuries on the child?"

"Children are disobedient. They will inevitably get angry when they are anxious. Sometimes they will inevitably miss when they are angry. Which child doesn't get beaten several times!" Zhang Defa turned around with a smile and pretended to bow to Li Yu and his sister. , "Xiaoyu, if I can't forgive you siblings, I will make it up to you."

Li Yu raised his head and said: "Compensation! We don't care. All I want is for you to break off the engagement happily and return my family's things to us."

Zhang Defa glanced at the people gathered around to watch the fun, walked up to Li Yu, and said in a low voice, "Xiaoyu, for the sake of your brother Guisheng, can our two families talk in private?"

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa and thought to himself: I want to use Zhang Guisheng to seduce Li Yu again, but it's a pity that Li Yu, who cares about your son, is no longer there.

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa with a sarcastic look on his face, "There is nothing to talk about. If you don't pay me back, you dare to go to the Yamen to complain. When I see it, your son will still be taking the exams for merit."

Li Qing clenched his fists, looked at Zhang Defa and shouted: "Zhang Defa, please pay me back the money quickly. My sister and I haven't eaten anything since yesterday. After paying back, we have to buy rice for cooking."

"Xiaoyu, Ah Qing, you two haven't eaten anything since last night? Why haven't you eaten?" Chen Li asked Xiaoyu.

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa and said loudly: "Yesterday afternoon Chen Zhaodi asked me to return the marriage certificate and the marriage certificate to her. If I didn't agree, she beat and scolded me and refused to give us food. Zhang Guixiang also said that if I don't take out the marriage certificate and the marriage certificate, They want to sell me to a brothel, and I won’t marry someone like this, even if they carry me in a sedan chair.”

"Oh." The villagers watching the excitement gasped.

"Ah! The eldest brother of the Li family has saved an enemy! Zhang Defa, your conscience must be eaten by a dog!" Chen Li shouted.

"Brothers of the Zhang family, your family is not short of that little money now, so just give it back to the Xiaoyu siblings! Let me go!" someone from the onlookers said.

"Yes! Yes! Those things were left by Li Shan to his two children after all!"

Zhang Defa was very angry when he heard these discussions and advice: You are all a bunch of people who are not afraid of the stage. You are just jealous that my family is living a good life now. When my son has a big future,... Zhang Defa looked at the person who said justice sternly, and secretly remembered it in his heart.

The few villagers who spoke fair words were frightened by Zhang Defa's eyes and stopped talking.

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa's sinister eyes and said calmly: "You'd better think clearly and don't pay it back. If you don't pay it back, I will immediately go to the Yamen to file a complaint and complain. I heard that those who occupy other people's property and do not return it, and whose morals are lacking, will be punished by the court." But they will never be hired.”

After hearing this, Zhang Defa looked at Li Yu and shouted sternly: "How dare you!"

Li Yu looked at him coldly, "How about we give it a try."

"Brother, you are indeed back. What happened?" Zhang Defa's younger brother, Zhang Decai, squeezed to Zhang Defa's side.

Zhang Defa pulled him aside and told him about the matter. Zhang Decai turned his eyes to his ear and said, "Brother, you don't have to break off the engagement. Just carry it home in a small sedan chair. As long as the person enters our Zhang Defa At the door of the house, such a little hoof without a father or a mother is not ours to manipulate."

Zhang Defa thought after hearing this, yes! When I entered the Zhang family, I saw how arrogant you were. I patted Zhang Decai happily and said, "Yes, let's do it."

After Li Yu saw the Zhang brothers talking to each other for a while, Zhang Defa suddenly became relaxed and happy, knowing that Zhang Decai had already given him an idea to plot against him.

Zhang Defa walked up to Li Yu with a relaxed expression and smiled proudly, "Ha! Ha! Xiaoyu! You have also made a filial piety, and we don't want to break off the engagement. Your marriage to Guisheng is your father's last wish. Guisheng won the scholarship again this year, so I am overjoyed to have arranged your marriage, what do you think?"

"Yes! Xiaoyu, you and Guisheng grew up together. Now that Guisheng has made a career, you and your parents are relieved to be married." Zhang Decai persuaded hypocritically.

Li Yu looked at Zhang Defa coldly and said: "It was my father's last wish to get married. Then he asked you to treat his two children well and help him raise Li Qing. Why didn't you abide by his last wish and instead took it? He refuses to return the things he leaves to his children, eats and uses his own, and abuses his children, Zhang Defa, you shameless person, be careful my father comes to find you in the middle of the night."

Zhang De said angrily: "You, don't know how to praise me...

Chen Yaohui stepped forward and stopped in front of him, interrupting him, "Xiao Yu said it well, Zhang Defa, are you really not afraid that Brother Li will come to you in the middle of the night? You, Zhang Defa, swore to do well in front of me and several old people in the village. Raising their siblings, God is watching what you do."

The two Zhang Defa brothers looked at each other with livid faces and were speechless.

At this time, someone was saying that Li Mei and her man were back. Li Yu looked up and saw a beautiful woman in her forties, wearing an old dress that had been washed white, and an honest man carrying a bamboo pole on his back. The man walked out from behind the crowd on both sides.