Chapter 244

244 The Last Warning

He had rushed over, only to hear Qin Xu say such nonsense. Wasn’t this adding fuel to the fire?

When Qin Xu heard someone scolding him, he subconsciously wanted to talk back, but when he found out that the person was the village chief, he immediately shut his mouth obediently.

The village chief walked to Qin Xu’s side in a few steps, reached out, and grabbed the back of his neck, dragging him all the way to Madam Wang and throwing him in front of her.

“This is your wife! Where’s the imposing manner you had when you were beating and scolding others? Even if you want to scold, you hide behind others and scold them. What kind of man are you? You’re afraid of knives?”

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Qin Xu didn’t dare to fall out with the village chief, so he could only say with a bitter face, “I didn’t use a knife on her in the past. She’s trying to take my life. how is that the same?”

“You shut up!”

The village chief almost wanted to give him a big slap. Why did he have such a foul mouth?

The more Madam Wang listened, the colder the smile on her face became. Now, she had completely lost all thoughts of Qin Xu, and the tolerance she had in the past was no longer possible.

“I’m the wife you married, not a slave who works like a horse for your old Qin family! Even if it’s the cattle and horses that are used for farming, you still have to feed them some fodder. Now that we don’t have a single penny at home, you want me to drag my two children along and live on the northwest wind?”

Madam Wang’s words made Qin Xu feel embarrassed. The villagers around him seemed to be looking at him with ridicule, which he couldn’t bear for even a moment.

“With the mountain behind us, there’s all kinds of wild vegetables and game. Sister-in-law didn’t even have a man, and she had five children, but wasn’t she still living well? You’re both women, but why don’t you say that you can’t be compared to her?”

Qin Xu rolled his eyes and immediately found a “reason” to reprimand Madam Wang.

“If that is the case, Eldest Brother has been in the army and earned countless military merits, allowing the Qin family to build a new residence and buy land, allowing Mother and you to eat and drink well every day. However, as a man, how many copper coins have you ever brought home? You’re even raised by your elder brother and sister-in-law, not to mention your wife and children, what kind of man are you?”

After Madam Wang finished speaking, a few shameless sneers suddenly came from the crowd. Everyone in the village knew that Qin Xu only went out and never entered. The family’s money was spent like water, but he never took a single cent back home.

Qin Xu had only been smug for a short while before he was ruthlessly slapped in the face by Madam Wang. When he heard that burst of mocking laughter, his face turned hot, and his skin swelled to a deep purple.

“Alright, you’re a couple. You’re making a fool out of yourselves by exposing each other like this, and in front of your children at that. Don’t you know what shame is?”

The village chief couldn’t bear to listen any longer, and he was too lazy to argue with them to see if they were in the right, so he said directly, “Qin Xu, in the future, if you still don’t care about your wife and children, and just indulge in debauchery, gambling, and drinking, Don’t come back to the Qin village. Our Qin clan will treat it as if we don’t have a person like you!

His words were very serious. He actually wanted to remove Qin Xu from the genealogy!

Only those who had committed a serious crime would be expelled from the family tree. Without the protection of the family, they would be like rootless duckweed in the future, with no place to stay.

“Village Chief, you can’t do this to me! I didn’t commit any murder or arson. I only stayed outside for a few days, and you want to remove me from the genealogy? This, this is simply unreasonable!”

Qin Xu jumped up in shock. He never thought that the consequences would be so serious this time.

“You don’t care about your wife and children. Now they can only rely on the help of the village to survive. If no one helps, you will be the murderer who killed your wife and children. I don’t think there is anything wrong with expelling a person like you from the genealogy.”

The village chief’s attitude was also extremely unyielding. In the past, he had indulged Qin Xu too many times, which made him feel that there was no price to pay for doing anything. However, this time, it was really too outrageous.

If he had still been skeptical about Madam Wang’s threat to hang herself in the afternoon, he completely believed it after seeing her attitude.

Therefore, his current gesture was more to appease Madam Wang. He didn’t expect that idiot Qin Xu to understand what to do.

“I heard that you were found in the gambling house today, and you were quite lucky at that time, and you kept winning?”

The village chief suddenly asked.

Qin Xu was taken aback and immediately shook his head. “That’s not true. My luck has always been bad. When have I ever been winning? I don’t know whose nonsense you’ve heard to make you think so.”

He knew that it must have been the villager who had gone to find him. However, there were people all around him. Where could he find that person?

“Do you dare to let me search your body?”

The village chief’s next sentence made Qin Xu’s expression change again.

His money bag was on him, and as long as it was found, his lie would be exposed. In the current situation, it was better not to continue being stubborn.

“Well, I only won two small rounds. The last round was a heavenly leopard. I was actually going to bet on it. If it wasn’t for the bet, I would have won a lot!”

As soon as Qin Xu mentioned this, he immediately perked up. He wished he could go back in time, at least until he won the bet.

The village chief couldn’t take it anymore and interrupted him, “Either you take out the money now, or we go to the ancestral hall and remove your name in front of the ancestors. You choose.”

Qin Xu knew that he had no choice when he issued the ultimatum.

His heart ached for his money bag, but when the money was in the hands of the Wang family, he could still think of ways to get it out. If the patriarch removed his name from the genealogy, it would be difficult to get it back.

“Alright, I’ll pay. However, this money has to be returned to my mother, so I can only leave a little for them. We’ll talk again after I’ve returned enough money to my mother.”

Qin Xu’s brain worked fast enough for him to find a suitable excuse to keep a portion of the money.

In the end, Madam Wang only got less than one tael of silver, but Qin Xu still had at least three taels.

This was already the best outcome that the village chief could do for the Wang family. No matter what, this was ultimately the family matter of the Qin family’s second branch. He was only the patriarch, not the county magistrate, so he could not interfere more.

“Alright, from now on, your family will live in harmony. Don’t cause trouble in the village every two or three days. You’ve almost disgraced the Qin family!

After the village chief said that, he left in a hurry. When the other villagers saw that the village chief had left, they also left in twos and threes, discussing softly.

Qin Xu had no intention of leaving. He kept staring at the money in Qin Qingyuan’s pocket.

“Stop looking. If you keep looking, don’t even think about taking a copper coin from my hand.”

Madam Wang saw his expression and coldly warned him.

“Hmph, since you have money in your hands, you should take good care of my son and daughter. Otherwise, I won’t let you off easily! ”

Qin Xu was still afraid of the kitchen knife in Madam Wang’s hand. He had already seen her madness today and didn’t dare to stay for the night. If this woman went crazy in the middle of the night again and cut him up with a knife, it would be too unjust.

He threw down these harsh words, turned around, and ran away in a hurry.