Chapter 114: Future Troubles
Although he didn’t quite understand, he could vaguely feel that every word, every gesture Wang Yongzhu made from the moment he entered the Li Family’s home seemed ordinary, but little by little, it almost drove Li Jinlong to the brink of collapse, causing him to spill everything he should and shouldn’t have said.
In his view, Li Jinlong must have harbored deep thoughts to have plotted against his own sister and another man years ago without letting any rumors slip.
Even if he felt a bit guilty for harming someone, it wouldn’t be so easy to confess everything so clearly, would it?
But he also knew that Wang Yongzhu definitely wouldn’t tell him, and now he began to doubt again, was the discovery of the murder weapon on the mountain really just a coincidence?
With that thought, the look he gave Wang Yongzhu’s retreating figure grew even more intense.
Wang Yongzhu, unaware of the danger of being exposed, was idly chatting with Old Granny Zhang about Li Jinlong’s despicable and ruthless nature.
Feeling a chill breeze on his back, Wang Yongzhu shivered and remembered to ask, "Dad, what do you plan to demand from the Li Family as compensation tomorrow?"
They certainly couldn’t take Li Jinlong’s life, and to do so would actually let him off easy. Such a venomous and brutal person didn’t deserve the relief of a swift death.
Wang Laozhu remained silent for a while without responding.
Unable to hold back, Old Granny Zhang spoke first, "How to compensate? It wouldn’t be excessive for the entire fortune of the Li Family to be given to ours! The injury your eldest brother sustained, who knows how much silver will be needed for his care, dragging on alive yet not fully living, how much he suffers! Their family house is probably worth more than twenty taels of silver, and they have three mu of prime paddy fields. Their eldest son and second son have also cleared about ten mu of dry land by the mountain, all of which must be worth a fair sum of silver too. They swindled ten taels of silver from the He Family when they broke off the engagement last time, and with all their years of savings, we should ask for one hundred taels from their family!"
Wang Yongzhu, considering himself someone who had seen the world, was so startled by his mother’s demand that he stumbled.