Chapter 1379
A New Mind Can Distinguish Right from Wrong
Chapter 1379 A New Mind Can Distinguish Right from Wrong
Bang bang bang bang!
"Ah! Stop hitting us! We're not going to catch these thieving women anymore! We were wrong! Our hands are broken! They're really going to be broken!"
The men screamed and begged for mercy.
"Stop, build a human wall and protect the female Wei Min," Qin Xiaomi ordered.
"Yes!" The female guards did as instructed, forming a human wall to protect the women who came seeking shelter.
Li Runiang, Li Chenshi, and the other women stared in disbelief at the men kneeling on the ground, crying and begging for mercy…
Li Liu laughed out loud: "So you can be beaten down, huh? I thought you were gods!"
After speaking, she glanced at her own man, her eyes full of disdain and mockery.
"You! You! You!" Li Liu's husband was extremely ashamed and angry, and accused her: "Li Liu, you have been married into my family for three years and have not borne a child. My Li family was willing to take you with us when we fled for our lives. Is this how you treat my Li family? Do you have any morality at all?!"
"You're talking to me about morality? Ha, do you even have any in your family?!" Li Liu pointed at her mother-in-law and said, "Am I childless? I was pregnant once, but this vicious woman used the excuse of setting rules to ruin my baby!"
"And now you're blaming me for being childless for three years? Li Wenhu, are you even human?!"
What?
The crowd was shocked and furious, pointing at Li Wenhu's family and shouting, "Is this really true? How could your family treat your daughter-in-law like this?!"
"Setting such rules is against the will of Heaven. Your family's fortune has been damaged. This time when you leave the city, you may face..." This was a fortune teller who set up a stall in the city, but now it is wartime, and there are strict orders against supernatural forces and gods, lest it disturb people's hearts. Those who disobey the order will be beheaded.
For the sake of his life, the fortune teller shut up.
"Waaah, sister-in-law, we never imagined you'd suffer so much. We even called you a barren hen to our mother-in-law. We deserve to die!" the two younger siblings cried as they apologized.
The third sister-in-law, newly married, cried and asked Li Wenhe, "Husband, if my mother-in-law treats me like this, will you just stand by and do nothing to help me?"
Ah this?
Li Wenhe panicked, looking at his mother, wife, and father. Finally, carrying the bundle of money on his back, he ran to his wife and said, "Wife, I'll stay in the city to protect you. I'm not leaving!"
He then said to his parents, "Father and Mother, your son is unfilial and cannot accompany you out of the city to fulfill your filial duties. In my next life, I will be your ox or horse to repay your kindness!"
After saying this, he kowtowed to his parents with a loud thud.
"Husband, husband, you... Waaah!" The third sister-in-law was deeply moved, feeling that she had married the right person.
Li Wenhe also felt that he was extremely loyal and righteous.
However, Li Liushi had evolved. She sneered, "Heh, if you wanted to stay in the city, just say so. Instead, you used your third brother's wife as a scapegoat to pin the blame for being unfilial on her. You're something else, third brother, you really know how to talk!"
"Sister-in-law, shut up! Don't ruin our marriage! We're newlyweds!" Li Wenhe was furious.
But he did stay in the city because he couldn't bear to leave his wife.
After all, they had only been married for less than six months, and their relationship was still very much in the air.
Uh, his wife choked up, unable to continue being moved, and pointed at him sorrowfully: "Husband, husband, you..."
Qin Xiaomi: "..."
Wait, are you two acting out a romance drama?!
She gestured to the female guards to bang the gong loudly.
Ding ding ding ding!
The argument broke out so badly that Li Wenhe and his wife could no longer continue their act.
Qin Xiaomi shouted, "Those who want to stay in the city with their wives and daughters, make a decision quickly! Take responsibility for whatever decision you make, and don't shirk your duties!" The city gate became noisy again, with each household discussing what to do.
The two elders of the Li clan were so angry that their faces darkened. They felt that their authority as clan elders had been trampled on by the younger generation. They became even more stubborn and shouted, "There is a plague in the west of the city. In ten days or half a month, the million-strong army of the Eastern Desert will come to attack. The guards who escorted us outside the city will also have to leave. If we don't leave this time, there will be no guards to escort us next time!"
"Yes, yes, yes, we must seize this opportunity! Otherwise, if the plague breaks out in the city, our entire clan will be wiped out!"
A large number of prominent families, including Weng, Tan, Chang, Yun, Chen, and Bai, who wanted to leave the city to preserve their lineage, echoed this sentiment.
Especially those families like Yun Chenbai's... they felt they no longer had a place in the city, so it was better for them to leave.
"Avoiding disaster is human nature. We are only leaving temporarily. After the war is over, we will come back and rebuild our local businesses!" The elder of the Li clan was very shrewd and subtly reminded everyone that they should leave the city and wait until the families left behind were slaughtered by the enemy before returning.
At that time, all the resources of the capital city will belong to these living people!
That old scoundrel is shameless.
This group of prominent families leaving the city was not something that was decided just last night; it had been discussed several times before, and in private, they had also talked about taking over the property of the deceased.
Upon hearing this, those who were about to leave the city were jolted awake and shouted, "That's right, we're not going away for good. We'll come back after the war!"
I'll come back and take advantage of the bargains. With the convenience of being a local, my family's business will multiply several times over, hahaha.
Some people almost couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The women who were unwilling to venture out of the city huddled together, their eyes filled with tears, lost, fearful, and helpless.
"Father, let's keep her here. Pear Mother can't withstand any more unforeseen events!"
"Father, Mother, please stay! I'm scared. I can't sleep in the wilderness outside the city. I'm scared!"
"Waaaaah!" Some of the younger children didn't know what to say, they just cried.
Some couldn't bear to leave their families, and felt sorry for their wives and daughters. In the end, they turned to their sons and asked, "Do you want to stay in the city? If you stay, you might die in the city. Are you willing to do that? Will you resent your family? Resent your sister?"
The son of this family was only ten years old, and he instinctively said, "But you might die if you leave the city. Staying in the city or leaving the city is just as dangerous."
"Listen to this, this is what a normal person's brain looks like!" Si Pei praised Weng Li's younger brothers, then asked Qin Xiaomi, "Qin Dongjia, is this what you call a normal person's brain?"
"Enough with the nonsense," Qin Xiaomi nodded, "That's right, this unpolluted new brain can distinguish right from wrong."
"A wise saying! I'll write it down." Si Pei quickly jotted down the sentence and also the conversation between Weng Liniang's family.
He also told Sifeng, "Don't just sit idly by, take notes too. Look at these things, they are all true reflections of the lives of the people of Wei during wartime. Record them, they will be of benefit to history."
We're not little bookworms; there's no need for us to take notes ourselves.
Si Feng mentally complained, then called to the literate servants: "Put pen to pen and record the choices each family made when facing war in Wei."
Uncle Qin pointed in circles at the city gate and instructed Qin Xiaogu, "Draw it down. Once the city is defended, this painting will fetch a lot of money!"
Qin Xiaogu glanced at him, her eyes saying: My second uncle is indeed very mercenary.
However, he obediently picked up his pen and started drawing.
The commotion at the city gate lasted for an hour before a resolution was reached.
"The women who remain in the city will be cared for by Old Madam Guan and the ladies of the nobility. If they are found innocent after the war, our clan will accept them. If they are not found innocent, they will no longer be members of our clan. If they continue to identify themselves as members of our clan outside, they will be ruining the reputation of our clan. Our clan may drown them to protect the reputation of the other women in the clan!"
"The men will take the household registration with them. As for the household registration of the women who remain in the city, that's the responsibility of Old Madam Guan and the ladies of the Imperial Decree. We won't interfere."