Chapter 2077: Chapter 2077: Deal Canceled

However, after the judgment of the Ruan family father and son, the matter was not over.

The next day, Constable Jiang led a group of constables to the Ruan Family Village, demanding Ruan Hai’s wife to provide the compensation to the Cao Family and Lou Family.

Although Ruan Kewei’s life was exchanged for Cao Jiang’s, a portion of money still needed to be compensated to the Cao Family.

Moreover, many people were accusing Ruan Hai of crimes he committed over the years. Most lacked evidence, but some could still be proven.

For instance, he bought the villagers’ land at a price much lower than the lowest market rate, clearly written on the contract.

The Ruan family’s home was filled with cries of desperation as they scrambled to keep their land. Ruan Hai’s wife fainted once upon hearing the judgment yesterday and fainted again today at the sight of the officers coming to their door.

Ruan family’s Boss and second eldest grudgingly gave the compensation, but they failed to notice the hesitant and indifferent expressions on their wives’ faces.

Thereafter, for a long period, the Ruan family lived in chaos, with their household gradually declining. Eventually, the eldest and second eldest divided the family, selling the large house they lived in and replacing it with a smaller one.

Of course, all these were later developments.

At this moment, all the villagers in Ruan Family Village gathered at Ruan Hai’s house entrance, watching the officers come and go busily.

Several clan elders wore worried expressions, their faces looking terribly grim.

Ruan Hai’s incident had spread through several nearby villages like wildfire, everyone knew a murderer had appeared from the village, and this murderer was a village chief. This was indeed detrimental to Ruan Family Village.

"What should we do now?"

"With the grave sins committed by Ruan Hai and Ruan Kewei, let’s not discuss others for now but removing the two from the clan should be the first priority." Such a blemish must not appear on their Ruan family genealogy.

The other clan elders nodded, and the villagers had no objections either.

"We must re-elect the village chief for Ruan Family Village. Later, let’s gather the heads of each household at the ancestral hall. We need to decide on the village chief as soon as possible."

There were outsiders from the Ruan Family Village present, and hearing these words, couldn’t help but curl their lips. Choosing at the ancestral hall? But outsiders were not allowed into the Ruan family’s ancestral hall, meaning the village chief would still be selected from within the Ruan family clan.

However, this was expected, considering the majority in the village were Ruan family members.

As they were speaking, a few children ran over, "The County Magistrate is here, County Lord Lu has arrived."

The clan elders were stunned, "At this critical moment, why is the County Magistrate here again?"

"I don’t know, let’s go and see."

Shu Yu was still going to Ruan Chengqian’s home, moving slowly. When the carriage just stopped at the Ruan family’s doorstep, the clan elders, along with many villagers, approached.

The two parties met face to face at the gate.

The leading clan elder, regarded as the third grand elder by the villagers, was around seventy-three, already elderly, but his body seemed in good shape, as he hadn’t fallen behind at all while walking with a cane.

He was helped forward by the juniors of the village and spoke first, "Greetings, County Magistrate, what brings you here today, is there anything you would like to instruct?"

Shu Yu smiled, "I came for the sunflower planting matter. Didn’t I speak to many villagers about it a few days ago? It was all about to be settled, but then this murder case occurred, interrupting the process. But what I didn’t expect was that this matter had implicated Village Chief Ruan."

As she spoke, she sighed, "Things have come to this point, I’m afraid this transaction can only be voided."

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