Chapter 83 How do you want to settle the score with him?_1
The elders of the Xiao Clan hadn’t yet recovered when the clanspeople of the Xiao Clan, having heard the news, rushed over, clamoring to settle accounts with Xiao Changyi for bringing such disgrace upon their clan, making it impossible for them to hold their heads high in Jiuping Village.
These people didn’t stop to consider that most of them had gone yesterday to mock the marriage of An Jing and Xiao Changyi. In the end, they saw no farce and instead harbored a bellyful of rage.
Today, when they learned that Changyi had married into another family, their anger grew even more intense, wishing that Changyi would drop dead right then and there.
Although Xiao Zheng was still furious, he had calmed down somewhat and asked loudly and harshly, "The man has already married into another family. We can’t constrain him with our clan’s rules anymore. How do you propose we settle the score with him?"
Everyone fell silent at once.
But soon, a clansman, discontented, shouted, "Are we supposed to just watch as he brings shame to our family? How will we be able to lift our heads up in the village in the future? How will the other families look upon us? What will the people from other villages think of us?"
"What else can we do, kill him? He’s a veteran from the battlefield. Aside from whether you can actually kill him or not, the fact that murder requires a life to be paid—we can’t make such a muddle-headed move," Xiao Zheng said.
"Clan Leader, after all is said and done, you’re asking us to swallow our anger!" a clansman accused bitterly.
Xiao Zheng replied weakly, "I don’t want to swallow my anger either, but there’s nothing we can do about it."
Yet the clansmen kept complaining incessantly.