Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 1169: No Match for Them

Upon hearing Elder Xu’s words, the Chen Family members were shocked and looked at him in unison. Ms. Shan shivered and said, "What did you say? You want to sell Xiao Liu?"

Elder Xu corrected her, "It’s not selling Chen Xiaoliu, but selling all of your Chen Family people."

Selling all the Chen Family people!

"Nonsense, how can you sell us? We are good citizens!" Ms. Shan was both angry and afraid, pointing at Elder Xu, "Old Master Xu, not only do you not help us as relatives, but you also want to sell us. This is trafficking good citizens; you’ve violated the Great Chu Criminal Law."

Ms. Shan and her family intended to sell Chen Yin Hua, so they inquired about matters of human trafficking. They learned that aside from selling oneself, family members can sell family members, or if someone commits a crime, the government can incorporate them into slaves and sell them. Others cannot arbitrarily buy and sell good citizens.

Elder Xu was rather calm: "Naturally, I have the qualification to sell you, because you are not good citizens at all!"

Madam Old Ruan’s face turned pale upon hearing this. Ever since they lost their household registration, she was most afraid of being sold as vagrants. Now seeing that Elder Xu knew about their lack of household registration, she was terrified and wanted to speak, but with her mouth gagged, she could only look at Ms. Shan, urging her to speak.

Ms. Shan understood Madam Old Ruan’s look and immediately said, "You’re talking nonsense, our family has always been good citizens. It’s just that the Northwest suffered a drought, and we came south seeking livelihood. Don’t think that since we came due to famine, you can bully us. Let me tell you, our Chen Family is not afraid of you!"

Elder Xu looked at Ms. Shan and chuckled, "Chen Family’s daughter-in-law, why say so much nonsense? It only makes you look guilty. If your family truly were good citizens, show us your household registration. If you can’t produce it, then you’re vagrants, and we can sell you freely."

Ms. Shan was stumped; their household registration had long been lost and they simply couldn’t provide it, but they couldn’t lose face, so Ms. Shan shouted, "Why should we show our household registration to you?!"

"So there is no household registration then." Elder Xu didn’t waste words with her, instructing Xu Family’s housekeeper, "Go to the government office and report that a group of frauds claiming to be Chen Family’s people came to Gu’s Workshop, actually a group of vagrants without registration, trying to scam. Let the government come and catch them, send them to work in the mines."

"Yes." Xu Family’s housekeeper responded, turning to leave.

Mrs. Chi and Ms. Shan were stunned for a moment, but reacted quickly, rushing to the door to block Xu Family’s housekeeper, shouting, "You can’t report to the government, you can’t!"

The sound was sharp and urgent, leaving little doubt that Elder Xu had guessed correctly, that Chen Family indeed lacked registration and were vagrants.

Elder Xu was satisfied with his achievement, smiling as he looked at Madam Old Ruan, whose face was pale and who was constantly whimpering, "Chen Family Woman, I offer you two paths: one, report to the authorities and have you caught and sold; two, find a place for you to live honestly, never to reveal anything harmful to Gu Family or seek connections with Gu Family."

Madam Old Ruan was originally scared, but hearing these words, she understood that Elder Xu was also cautious, and immediately became arrogant.

Elder Xu watched her prideful expression and laughed, "Forgetting pain so quickly after healing? Then allow me to clarify the second condition: we’ll find a place for the Chen Family to settle, only because we don’t want deaths, but you still lack household registration. So if you dare speak ill, we can treat you as vagrants and capture you anytime."

He added, "Before you die, we won’t let the Chen Family become wealthy, nor have enough Silver to buy registration."

Before you die, this sentence terrified Madam Old Ruan completely.

The malice in these words was clear to Madam Old Ruan, Elder Xu was using it to sow discord between her and her sons!

Once this was said, Chen Cangjin’s couple and Chen Canggu’s couple would surely feel that her living blocked their path to wealth, hoping she would die.

And as long as she was dead, Chen would truly be freed, even though Chen Cangjin was the eldest brother, even he couldn’t use filial duty to oppress Chen.

The Xu family wanted her squeezed, so she could only live timidly, wanting her sons to hate her, and furthermore ruining Chen Family’s path to fortune through Chen!

Madam Old Ruan cried, this time, old tears flowed freely, unexpectedly finding Elder Xu so malicious, blocking the Chen family’s path to prosperity.

However, Madam Old Ruan hadn’t given up, a last ruthless gleam flashed in her eyes, seen by Elder Xu, who wasn’t afraid and hinted at the Protector to remove the cloth from her mouth.

Madam Old Ruan moved her mouth and said fiercely, "We are not thieves nor frauds, but Chen Shuihua’s relatives. Using the excuse that we’re frauds to catch us wouldn’t hold up. Once at the government, as long as the old lady reveals her relation to Chen Shuihua, if Chen Shuihua doesn’t help her birth family, Gu Family’s reputation will suffer, Gu Dexing, this newly minted Scholar, will be ridiculed to death, the world will accuse his uncle and aunt of lacking virtue, of harming the Yue Family and their birth family!"

Elder Xu was more malicious than Madam Old Ruan imagined. Hearing this, he pointed at Madam Old Ruan and asked Chen, "Da Gui’s wife, is this your mother? Are these your birth family people?"

Chen was also ruthless, looking at Madam Old Ruan and Chen Family, wiping her tears and saying, "No, my mother died long ago, and my birth family also died on the way during famine escape, they’re just a bunch of frauds!"

With these words, it was a death sentence for Chen Family.

Elder Xu said, "Chen Family Woman, did you hear clearly? Don’t think you can only calculate others, know that this is not the Northwest but Jianghuai, several thousand miles away from the Northwest. Without household registration, you can’t prove your identity at all. If Chen doesn’t acknowledge you, no matter how much you say, the government won’t recognize your identity."

He further remarked meaningfully, "Some matters aren’t real just because you say they are. As long as we deny, and you can’t prove our words false, ultimately it will be you who lose."

Concluding with, "Don’t think I’m cruel, it was you who tried to scheme against the Xu family first. For the sake of my family and to remove any worries for my granddaughter, I can only act this way."

Madam Old Ruan glared at Elder Xu, knowing he was a seasoned old fox she couldn’t defeat, she could only turn to Chen, begin pleading, crying, "Shuihua, Mother’s sorry to you, Mother was wrong, Mother promises, never again to scheme against your family, please pity your nephews and nieces, help the family obtain a household registration. The head account will be in your brother’s name, as long as we get registration, Mother can die in peace."

"Nonsense, what daydream is this? If we give the registration to Eldest Brother, your family becomes a registered one, then you might overturn the sky?" Chen wasn’t foolish, knowing Madam Old Ruan’s purpose in pleading, this registration absolutely couldn’t be given to the Eldest Son Chen, it could only be given after Madam Old Ruan died.