Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 423 - 392: Extortion_3

Old Jiang shouted and rushed toward Jiang Haiqiu, his right hand raised high, aiming to slap Jiang Haiqiu’s face.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Manzi grabbed his father’s arm. Today his son was getting married, and he wouldn’t tolerate anyone ruining it for his son!

Being held back by Jiang Manzi, Old Jiang considered giving his eldest son a slap in response. After all, this eldest son of his had always been defiant, even refusing to give him more money for his support.

"You Manzi! Have you stopped calling me father? Just watch, I’ll slap you today..."

Jiang Manzi was tall and robust, while Old Jiang was a skinny and frail old man. For him to slap his eldest son, Jiang Manzi would have to bend down willingly; otherwise, Old Jiang’s hand couldn’t reach.

There was no way Jiang Manzi would let his father hit him. As Old Jiang jumped up trying to hit him, Jiang Manzi leaned back, making his father’s swing miss entirely.

"Stop it!" Jiang Manzi roared angrily, shoving his father off balance.

Old Jiang stabilized himself, shaking and cursing loudly, "Unfilial son! You’re an unfilial son, why hasn’t the heaven struck you dead with lightning yet!"

With a harsh tone, Jiang Manzi snapped back at his father, "Heaven has eyes; it can tell the good from the bad!"

Madam Xun struggled to get up from the ground. Her leg didn’t hurt as much as before, but once up, she didn’t dare let her injured right leg touch the ground, so she stood like a rooster with one leg raised.

Seeing the situation go off track, Madam Xun shouted, "Old Jiang! Today is not the time to discuss your son providing for you. Your youngest son hurt my leg. If you don’t compensate me with five taels of silver, none of your family will have peace!"

Old Jiang was startled by Madam Xun’s loud voice and turned around to yell, "Madam Xun! You were once the wife of a Scholar. How can you extort others like this? Stand properly, hopping on one leg like that doesn’t suit you!"

Madam Xun wasn’t bluffing about her leg pain. She felt certain her bone was injured, and with the recovery period from such an injury being a hundred days, and no one to care for her, asking for more money was essential.

"Who’s extorting? If you don’t believe me, call a doctor to examine it right here. See if my injury isn’t serious," she said, drawing in a sharp breath as if enduring great pain.

Yu Xiaolian turned her head and instructed her Protector, "Go get Doctor Wu from our village!"

The Protector acknowledged and strode off to fetch the doctor.

Soon, Doctor Wu was brought over. The men turned away while Madam Xun rolled up her pants to show her calf. Doctor Wu glanced at her slightly bruised and swollen calf, pressed it, causing her to cry out in pain.

"The leg bone is injured, but it’s not serious. With home care for ten days to a fortnight, you should walk again, though you can’t do heavy work like carrying water or firewood. The leg shouldn’t bear weight for a short time. Full recovery will take just over two months," Doctor Wu explained.

Doctor Wu then lowered Madam Xun’s pants and took a small yellow porcelain bottle from his medicine box, "I have some medicinal oil for bruises and strains here. Apply some daily yourself..."

"Doctor Wu, my leg hurts a lot. I feel like the bone’s broken. Shouldn’t it be splinted? Can just this oil help?" Madam Xun felt Doctor Wu underestimated her injury.

Doctor Wu handed the oil to Madam Xun, "If you take care not to aggravate your injury, you won’t need a splint. Splints are heavy, not breathable, and not great for healing. If we can avoid them, we should avoid them!

This medicinal oil costs three hundred wen, who’s paying?"

Sun Fengshou quickly took out a silver piece and handed it to Doctor Wu.

Doctor Wu weighed it, gave Sun Fengshou back a hundred wen in change, and advised Madam Xun that in her current state, it was best to have someone take care of her until she healed.

Unwilling to yield, Madam Xun wanted to argue further, but Qi Lizheng interrupted, "Alright, alright. We’re all from the same village, stop the fuss!"

After Qi Lizheng spoke, seeing Madam Xun didn’t make much more fuss, only muttering under her breath, he hurriedly instructed Mrs. Lu to go home and bring back three hundred wen!

"No way!" Madam Xun suddenly shouted, "Three hundred wen is absolutely not enough. At least one tael of silver, or I’ll report this to my son Shanhe!"

Mrs. Lu and Jiang Dingcai whispered a few words, and just when everyone thought they would haggle, Mrs. Lu unexpectedly agreed quickly, instructing Jiang Dingcai to fetch a tael of silver for Madam Xun.

Madam Xun took the silver, cursing and grumbling, then turned to Sun Fengshou, "Oh dear son-in-law, you heard it too. Doctor Wu said I need someone to care for me, so during this time, I’ll have to live at your house!"