Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 472 - 427: Second Brother Also Has a Favor to Ask

Although Sun Erlin didn’t understand why the government officer was going easy on him, he still screamed in pain accordingly.

After the punishment was over, Sun Erji lifted his robe and tried to get up swiftly, but Cui Dacheng quickly restrained Sun Erlin and shouted to the other Sun family brothers, "Come over and carry him! This man might not be able to walk for a while!"

Sun Erlin wasn’t foolish; he quickly understood Cui Dacheng’s intention. He lay still on the punishment bench and cooperated, saying, "Oh dear, you’ll have to hire a carriage for me, otherwise I might not be able to take a single step."

Sun Wulin’s wife immediately took out a silver ingot from her pocket and handed it to her eldest son, Manqing. "Go hire a carriage, quick!"

Sun Manqing took the silver and dashed off.

Jiang Haiqiu was about to say that he came by ox cart, but Sun Manqing was already out of sight before he could finish.

"Is it true that the petition request is finalized, meaning our Haifu is sentenced to death?" Old Jiang felt everything happening around him was surreal and very unreal.

Clearly, his grandson had just taken the boy’s exam, clearly it was just a small matter of tearing off a sleeve, how could it result in a death sentence?

Qi Lizheng consoled Old Jiang, "You have to accept it. The new law is like this; it can’t be helped that Haifu was unlucky enough to run into it."

"Exactly, why must my grandson be so unlucky, neither sooner nor later!" Old Jiang cursed the Emperor in his heart. Why make pointless law changes? And to change them so ridiculously, it’s one thing to have death penalty for murder, but to also have it for flirting with a girl, can men no longer marry wives in the future?

Old Jiang couldn’t help but blame his son and daughter-in-law; it was their insistence on filing a lawsuit. If they had listened to Yu Xiaolian and not come to file a complaint, the Sun family wouldn’t have countersued them.

Just as Old Jiang was about to curse his son and daughter-in-law a few times, he stumbled forward and fell.

"Grandpa!" Jiang Haiqiu hurriedly helped his grandpa up from the ground, only to find that his grandpa’s face had been scratched by the stones on the ground.

Jiang Mangzi sighed and picked up his old father, placing him on the ox cart.

Although Old Jiang fell, he didn’t faint. He lay on the ox cart muttering, "Oh Heaven, what crime have I committed? Why must I, an old man, send off a young one? Spare my grandson, he’s still so young, he doesn’t know better, I’m willing to take his place with my old bones!"

Jiang Haiqiu sat on the ox cart, supporting his grandpa’s head with his hand to prevent it from hitting the cart as it moved.

Jiang Mangzi drove the ox cart, while Lu Shi and Jiang Dingcai followed behind woodenly. Suddenly, Jiang Dingcai, without saying a word, jumped up and started beating Lu Shi, cursing all the while, "You jinx, it was your stupid idea to marry a Sun family girl. When they refused, you told Haifu to try that monkey trick. You’ve ruined a good kid!

If Haifu is gone, then you shouldn’t live either, I’ll damn well beat you to death!"

Being a man, Jiang Dingcai had great strength, and Lu Shi was completely defenseless against his blows.

Old Jiang struggled to sit up from the ox cart, and Jiang Haiqiu thought his grandpa was going to mediate. Unexpectedly, Old Jiang said something shocking, "Hit her, hit her hard!

She’s a jinx, and for years you’ve listened to her about everything, ignoring your mother and me. Well, now you’ve got what you deserve, a big mess, haven’t you?

With Haifu dead, our family has no hope left... Oh, what kind of fate is this? Why is my life so bitter?"

Thinking they had money in their hands and a grandson who was a scholar, they expected days of enjoying family blessings. But now, how could they possibly enjoy the blessings of their children and grandchildren in the future?

"Dad, once Haifu is executed, I’m writing her a divorce letter. Our family absolutely cannot keep this jinx." Jiang Dingcai finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Lu Shi lying on the ground in pain with blood coming from her nostrils, and he quickly jumped onto the ox cart. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Second Uncle, you’re not going to care about Second Aunt?" Jiang Haiqiu frowned. Although he didn’t like her, seeing Lu Shi curled up on the ground in pain, he couldn’t just ignore it.

"Why bother with her? If it weren’t for her bad ideas, Haifu wouldn’t have dared to stop the Sun family’s girl!" Old Jiang pulled back Jiang Haiqiu from the cart, preventing him from going down to help Lu Shi.

Meanwhile, just as Sun Manqing was about to hire a carriage, he encountered Sun Mancang at the alley entrance of the county government. Sun Mancang was instructed by Yu Xiaolian to wait there early to take them back to the village.

Sun Manqing and Sun Sillin helped Sun Erlin onto the carriage.

"Second Uncle, should you lie down?" Sun Manqing said considerately, knowing well how painful it must be after just receiving the punishment stick.

Sun Erlin lay down as advised, although the two government officers didn’t hit him hard, the sixty strikes still left his buttock stinging.

Sun Wulin’s wife felt very guilty about Sun Erlin being punished. Her second brother-in-law suffered this because he stood up for her family and Manyue.

As Sun Wulin’s wife walked, she considered her options. Despite the reluctance in her heart, she decided to take out some silver and give two taels to each of the other four families as thanks for their support.

"Sis-in-law, what is this for? I stood up for Manyue, not for your money; I couldn’t stand Jiang family’s vile tactics.

If you don’t want to upset me, take the silver back!" Sun Erlin pushed the two taels of silver from Sun Wulin’s wife aside while lying on his own bed.

Sun Wulin’s wife sighed, "Second Brother, I thought the two taels of silver were too little, barely presentable, but with both Manqing and Mansheng yet unmarried, I can’t bring out more. If you don’t mind it being too little, please accept it?

I know this favor can’t be repaid with just two taels of silver, and I didn’t plan to repay it with this; it’s just that without doing something, I can’t find peace of mind.

I suppose you’ve heard, in a few days, Manyue and I are going to Northern Land with Yu Xiaolian. Manqing and Manyun aren’t going, and once I leave, these two will lose their backbone. They’ll have to rely on you elders for help!

I must shamelessly entrust them to your care."

Sun Erlin waved his hand, "Manqing and Manyun are all Sun family children, so don’t worry. We uncles will never let them suffer injustice.

As for this money, I definitely won’t accept it. Please take it back, actually, I have a favor to ask of you too.

Seven years ago, when we fled the famine to here, Manxue and Manhong fled towards Jinzhou with their in-laws, and I don’t know whether they are still alive now, or if they returned to Yangcheng.

I ask that when you go back to Northern Land, you try to inquire about them. If they’re still alive, find some way to get a message to me. And if they’re struggling, I hope you’ll lend them a hand."

Speaking of his two daughters, Sun Erlin couldn’t help but let tears wander around his eyes.