Old Jiang Family?

Jiang Cheng was momentarily dazed.

She hadn’t thought about the original owner’s family for a long time.

Jiang Cheng pushed Director Lu away and walked up to Zhang Dageng.

"How did the Jiang family know I was here?"

Zhang Dageng looked at Jiang Cheng, with none of the previous lust in his eyes.

This woman is too ruthless!

"Last time you came to the Red Flag Team, someone recognized you and went back to tell the Jiang family."

"The Jiang family knew you were working at the food factory and wanted to find you, but you left, and they couldn’t track you down."

After hearing this, Jiang Cheng finally remembered that the Jiang family wasn’t really that far away from here.

There are familial ties between the villages, and visits between relatives can be seen.

"Why did the Jiang family come to you?"

Jiang Cheng asked again, and Zhang Dageng answered truthfully, "My family is looking for a bride for me, offering a high bride price, so the Jiang family came to me, saying as long as...."

Zhang Dageng dared not continue, and Jiang Cheng kicked him directly.

"Speak or not?"

"Ah———I dared not say, afraid you’d hit——ah———"

Jiang Cheng kicked him again.

The surrounding men gasped.

This girl, she hits exactly where it hurts, without a shred of hesitation.

Zhang Dageng howled.

At the moment when Jiang Cheng was about to lift her foot again, he shouted.

"The Jiang family said as long as I slept with you and made it a done deal, you could only marry me, and you even have a city job!"

"I didn’t agree at first, but when I saw you today, I got greedy!"

"Auntie, I was wrong! I was really wrong! Please let me go!"

Zhang Dageng cried, it was unclear if it was from pain or just shame.

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng laughed out of anger.

"You just believe what the Jiang family says, what right do they have to decide for me? Is the head on your shoulders just for show?"

Zhang Dageng was scared and kept rolling backward.

"They are your elders... how can you not listen?"

"The Jiang family said even if you want to sue me, they would say we already had an engagement."

Jiang Cheng thought, indeed, foolish people can be exasperating.

They don’t understand the law; they only believe their own twisted logic.

"This is killing me."

Jiang Cheng laughed, stepped forward, pulled a cane from her hand, and whipped it toward Zhang Dageng.

"Engagement, my foot!"

"Aren’t they supposed to be elders!"

Swish—-

Swish—-

Whizzing sounds of the cane cutting through the air, while Zhang Dageng cried out miserably, rolling and crawling, his face filled with despair.

The onlookers all took a step back.

How terrifying!

After a session of venting her anger through lashings, Jiang Cheng turned her gaze to Director Lian.

"Director Lian, have you written it down?"

"I have."

Director Lian stepped forward with paper and pen, having written down what Zhang Dageng said.

Jiang Cheng read it out loud with complete fairness.

"Comrade Zhang Dageng, do you have any questions?"

Zhang Dageng wouldn’t dare have any questions, he nodded frantically.

"Good, then sign and stamp it."

Zhang Dageng signed his name.

No inkpad for stamping?

Director Lian handed over a kitchen knife without hesitation.

"Here’s a kitchen knife."

"Thank you, Sister Lian." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Jiang Cheng took the kitchen knife and swiftly cut Zhang Dageng’s finger for a fingerprint.

After the fingerprint was imprinted, Jiang Cheng stood up and looked at the team leader.

"Captain, can this person stay in custody here temporarily? Tomorrow I’ll take him to confront the Jiang family. If you’re not busy, could you help me as a witness?"

"Of course! No problem!"

The captain agreed immediately, calling two strong villagers to detain Zhang Dageng.

Jiang Cheng and a few others returned to the captain’s house, where she requested the kerosene lamp, keeping it as evidence.

That night, hardly anyone slept.

Early the next morning, around three, the rumble of trucks echoed in the Red Flag Team.

Three trucks drove in together.

Villagers came out wearing jackets and shoes to see.

Oh my!

Why so many people?

The three trucks stopped in front of the captain’s house, with three clunks of closing doors, and people got out of the trucks.

"Director Lu, I’m back!"

Master Li called out, and several people inside rushed out.

"How come so many of you?"

Director Lu feared they might be held back, so he sent Master Li to fetch people.

But he hadn’t expected so many people to come!

And those trucks, they don’t seem to belong to their food factory?

"Director, when I went to make the call, Comrade Sun Aiguo was also there, he informed Director Shen."

"Factory Director Fang happened to be discussing matters with Director Shen, so he found out too!"

"And that’s how it is."

Director Lu blinked, glancing at Jiang Cheng.

Upon hearing Director Shen mentioned, Jiang Cheng scanned the crowd, a slight smile on her lips.

This fool!

"Director Lu, since everyone’s here, let’s head out; the sooner we resolve this, the sooner everyone can return."

"Alright!"

Director Lu naturally agreed.

Jiang Cheng returned inside to fetch things and also requested the captain’s wife to prepare meals for about a hundred people.

She left a lot of tickets with the captain’s wife.

"Just arrange it, gather things around the village. If these tickets aren’t enough, I’ll make it up later."

"It’s enough! It’s enough! Don’t worry, I’ll arrange it properly for you."

After expressing her thanks, Jiang Cheng, along with Director Lu, the captain, and some willing villagers, boarded the big truck.

The three trucks, in a grand manner, headed to the village where the Jiang family was located.

More than forty minutes later, the trucks entered the village.

With Zhang Dageng leading the way, they headed straight to the Jiang family’s gate.

Jiang Cheng was the first to get off the truck, taking the lead.

She looked at the gate in front of her, as memories of the original owner’s abuse came flooding back.

Perfect!

Time to settle both old and new scores!

"Smash the door for me!"

One word from Jiang Cheng.

And the people behind her, wielding sticks and cudgels, rushed over and began banging and smashing.

Many didn’t even manage to get a spot!

By five o’clock in the morning, quite a few villagers had woken up.

Hearing the commotion, they all came out to watch the scene.

With a crash, the Jiang family’s gate fell, sending up dust that settled again, revealing the faces of the Jiang family.

"Jiang—Jiang Cheng!"

A woman was the first to recognize Jiang Cheng.

The wife of the Jiang family’s second son, a woman who had once made the original owner wash her menstrual cloths.

Jiang Cheng stepped over the fallen door into the Jiang family’s courtyard, followed by over a hundred stick-wielding men.

At this sight, Old Mrs. Jiang was left speechless, unable to utter a single curse word.

"Zhang Dageng said you sold me to him?"

"Is that right?"

Jiang Cheng spoke slowly and deliberately, sweeping her gaze over every face before her.

Wonderful, they were all people who had bullied the original owner.

The original owner’s father was the eldest, working away with a road construction team, leaving her mother and her as slaves in this house.

"Jiang Cheng, they’re all your elders, what exactly do you want?"

Triangular-eyed old lady, the original owner’s grandmother, put on the airs of an elder.

Jiang Cheng shrugged and spread her hands.

"Isn’t it obvious? I’m here to settle accounts!"

"If you hadn’t sent Zhang Dageng to do such a disgusting thing, I might have forgotten about you."

"Enough with the nonsense, did you send Zhang Dageng, yes or no?"

After Jiang Cheng finished speaking, Zhang Dageng was pushed forward, stumbling as he knelt on the ground.

Old Mrs. Jiang, relying on her seniority, stubbornly said, "I’m your grandmother! What’s wrong with arranging a marriage for you!"

"Good, you admitted it!"

Jiang Cheng’s eyes suddenly turned sharp, pointing at the house in front of her, "Smash it!"