Chapter 83 Chaos_1
On the twenty-second day of the twelfth lunar month, around noon, most families in Liu Yang Village were preparing lunch when a group of constables, brandishing their sabers, stormed into the village, creating an uproar throughout.
Timid villagers quickly locked their courtyard doors and stayed inside; the braver ones, murmuring among themselves, stealthily followed until the constables burst into Lao Mo’s House, shackling Mo Yongshou and Mo Yonglu, which was when they realized the brothers had gotten into serious trouble.
"No wonder these days, there’s been a constant smell of meat cooking over at their place. Turns out they’ve been eating and drinking extravagantly with swindled silver!"
"That’s not all, just the other day, I saw them go to town and come back with several carts loaded with stuff, rice, fine flour, and all, filling several sacks!"
"Tsk, their grandma has been showing off everywhere in her silk clothes day after day, bragging about how her third son has done well and sent her gifts. Old lady, I thought he really had made something of himself, but to think it was this kind of ’making it,’ ho ho~"
Quite a few villagers crowded around the entrance of Lao Mo’s House, watching Mo Yongshou struggling and unwilling to leave as well as Mo Hong’s family in tears, taking pleasure in sharing everything they had seen and heard these past days.
These people had all fled from various places, and after a little over two months, had just become acquainted. With no real relationship to speak of between neighbors, especially since Mo Hong’s family and others didn’t know how to get along, they now surrounded the Mo Family’s misfortune as onlookers, with no one stepping forward to offer comfort.
"Great lord, that silver was given to my son by the Shopkeeper himself, my son did no wrong, I beg you to let my son go!"