Chapter 11: You Guys Got What Was Coming To You

right, if you want to drink water, ask the folks here if they agree or not.""Don't other families have people who get injured or sick while working on the aqueduct every day""There's a long river, the...Zong Yu clutched Fang Jinxiu in his hand and scolded Zong Bai, "Who let you out All of you go back."

Fang Jinshu knew he wasn't fighting back to protect his younger brother. Although she didn't agree with this old-fashioned approach, she respected his desire to protect his family.

Retreating is impossible, she had to chew on that black meat jerky at noon until her teeth ached. Tonight, she was going to eat fragrant and fresh meat!

She stood in front of the wild boar, refusing to budge.

To protect her, Zong Yu stood in front of Zong Pingkang, his face stern and his eyes cold and menacing.

Zongping Kang glanced at the wild boar. He wasn't here to seek retribution today, taking the pork was the real business.

"Zong Yu, we'll settle the score about you secretly getting married another day."

"Hurry up and slaughter all the wild boars for us."

"It's almost sunset, why all the fuss"

"You have only yourselves to blame for having a father with such a short life. My good second brother, despite being raised with so much silver from the family, died halfway there before even setting foot in the city gates of Beijing."

"If I had known he was so useless, I shouldn't have put the whole family's effort into raising him to study. The whole family is a bunch of useless things."

"You owe the family so much money, and you're not even hurrying to give me the pork!"

Zong Pingkang didn't take Fang Jinshu's scrawny and weak body seriously at all. He aggressively attacked the pig, clearly intending to seize it by force.

Zongyu couldn't fight her brother, but she wasn't part of the Zong family!

Fang Jinxiu picked up a stick from the ground and beat him frantically. Don't look at her thinness, she wielded the stick with agility when hitting people.

No one expected that the newlywed would dare to hit someone. Zongping Kang looked down on her and suffered a heavy loss.

He was beaten and cried out in pain, retreating several steps.

The two brothers stared at her in shock. Fang Jinxiu was too flustered to care about appearances anymore.

She said coldly, “I’ll see who dares to touch my prey today.”

"Your family is truly shameless."

"Is this how the calculation is done"

"If you pass the imperial examinations, you'll bring glory to our family. If you fail, you'll have to work like an ox or a horse to pay off the debts."

"Dare I ask if your families raise their sons like animals"

"That being said, Uncle Zong, you grew up eating the rice from the Zong family's fields. Shouldn't you repay the debt"

"Have you finished yet"

Zhongping Kang was in a lot of pain from the beating, and when he heard this, his face turned dark with anger.

"I didn't spend any family money on my education. How could I be the same as the second brother"

Fang Jinxiu let out a mocking laugh, “You have no money at home Then where does your daily food, clothing and shelter come from Did it all just fall from the sky”

Zongping angrily pointed at her and said, "I do chores for the family! I'm still not allowed to eat and drink"

"I'm not the second child, I only know how to spend money!"

Zong Bai couldn't help but speak up for his father, "Who said Father only knew how to spend money when he was alive He clearly also copied books to earn silver for the family."

"Father can earn half a tael of silver by copying one book, much more than you earn from farming!"

Hearing this, Zongping Kang burst into laughter. “Yes, he was copying books to make money, but in the end, didn’t all the money just go back into his own pockets”

The crowd gathered around grew larger and larger, the sound of their arguments attracting people from all over the village.

Zongpingkang sneered, "If it weren't for him spending all the family's money on books, how would we be living such a hard life!"

The clan's affairs were common knowledge in the village. It was known that raising a scholar required a considerable investment, so many villagers sympathized with Zong Pingkang's words.

"That's right, we spent so much money from the family. With elders and children in the clan, and Zong Yu being so capable, it's only right to give them some prey."

"Isn't that right Back then, Elder Zong Er didn't spare any money when he was studying."

Fāng Jǐnxiù only felt amused, and suddenly questioned loudly.

"Was it your esteemed father who held a knife to your necks, forcing you to give him money for his education"

You’ve been talking for ages but haven’t managed to say a single word of rebuttal.

Since it's not, what face do you have to come to Zongyu and ask for debts

"Even if you're trying to repay the family's kindness, you've plundered quite a lot of wealth and valuables from Zong Yi over these years."

At first, they thought the two mother and her four children were weak and sickly, so they ruthlessly drove them out of the house under the pretense of separating.

Later, seeing that Zong Yu was able to hunt and earn silver, he shamelessly found an excuse about paying off debts.

"They are four orphans, with no mother or father and honest personalities. These years they have truly been bullied by you!"

“I’m not easily fooled. Today, this wild boar, you won’t be taking a single hair from it.”

From today onwards, the Zong family will never give you anything again.ants."Don't look at me like that, I'm not planning to make a grab for it.""My grandfather had promised with his own mouth that he would give them five large bowls, chopsticks, cooking pots, knives, an...