Chapter 282: 280: The Land Officer’s Trial

At Mr. Land Officer’s home.

For some reason, either due to the winter cat or something else, Mr. Land Officer’s house had gathered many villagers. Everyone stood quietly on the side, whispering to each other endlessly.

At the superior position, Mr. Land Officer and his wife were sitting on top, whispering to each other quietly.

Liu Sisi was sitting on the chair at the top left, her face a mix of green and white, pursing her lips, saying nothing.

In her arms, a petite figure curled up, just lurking there in her embrace, motionless.

People in the room, but no one opened their mouths to speak.

The suffocating atmosphere of depression spread incessantly!

The increasingly oppressive atmosphere coupled with Liu Sisi’s iron cyan face made it even more difficult for the people at the scene to speak.

When Di Yelei came striding in from outside, he saw the current situation before his eyes.

As soon as he appeared at the door, he immediately attracted the eyes of everyone in the room.

He instinctively faltered, checking his clothes.

Only when he found nothing unusual, he quickly walked in front of Land Officer to pay his respects: “Uncle Land Officer…”

“It’s Di, the third youngster, right? Sit, sit down and talk!”

Before Di Yelei finished speaking, Land Officer waved his hand with a headache, and again covered his forehead.

Di Yelei hurriedly made a fist greeting, and then sat down next to Liu Sisi.

“Sisi, what’s going on?”

He asked in a low and careful voice.

Liu Sisi raised her head to look at him, lowered her head again, and said nothing.

“Sisi, hurry up and speak! What the hell is going on? If you tell me, I can help you too.” Di Yelei was extremely anxious.

“Help what? You can help by sitting on the side.”

Unexpectedly, Liu Sisi directly drove him away.

“You? …”

Di Yelei obviously hadn’t expected Liu Sisi to say this. His face was amazed.

Lowering his head, he only then realized the figure curled up in her arms. He looked at the person from the left to the right: “Who is this? How are you…”

“Stop asking!”

Liu Sisi’s voice rose by an octave, with inexplicable harshness.

But it really made Di Yelei stunned!

Sisi actually yelled at him! This was really surprising!

“Alright, alright…I won’t ask anymore, you…”

Di Yelei wanted to speak again, but was glared at by Liu Sisi fiercely, and quickly stopped talking, and sat aside in a lackluster manner.

The scene regained its quietness.

Di Yelei’s heart was like a little kitten scratching in it, extremely anxious. The feeling of being the only one left in the dark by everyone was really bad.

“Old Man Li is here!”

At the doorway, someone shouted. The people in the whole room buzzed and discussed it.

“He’s here! Old Man Li is here!”

“Let’s see what he has to say, this shameless one, who can even do such ungrateful things.”

“He’s so shameless! He should be expelled from the Upper Village by Mr. Land Officer, which is simply a disgrace to our Upper Village!”

“Someone like him should be skinned alive, and if his cheap life is spared, God knows how many people he’ll hurt…”

Accompanied by the voices of the crowd, Liu Sisi also raised her head, glaring at the doorway of the house.

And the person lurking in her arms couldn’t help shrinking, and moved even more into Liu Sisi’s embrace.

Old Man Li’s figure finally appeared at the door.

But before he appeared, the cursing voice came.

“Let go! Let go, I tell you guys, if you bump into me, be careful that I’ll eat at your house every day!”

There he was, Old Di, dangling from the arms of two tall villagers, both left and right, his feet kicking in mid-air constantly: “Let go, you disrespectful offspring…ow! …”

Thump!

The two men holding him didn’t care about his roaring, they just threw him in front of Mr. Land Officer, and he fell clumsily.

“Haha……it serves him right!”

“Spit! What the hell is this? Respecting the elderly too, are you worthy?”

“He’s so shameless, he really should be beaten to death…”

The villagers laughed, pointing at Old Man Li who was rolling and making a scene in the center.

Old Man Li struggled for quite a while, and finally barely managed to get up from the ground. He spat a mouthful of mud, right onto a bunch of mocking faces.

“Spit! Spit!-You bunch of damn beasts! Be careful when I, Old Man Di, strike it rich one day, I……”

“When you strike it rich, what are you going to do?”

Suddenly a cold voice came from behind him. Old Man Li shivered, instinctively turned his head and looked back, and his anger suddenly deflated.

“Mr… Mr. Land Officer, why are you here?”

Mr. Land Officer raised his hand and heavily slapped it on the small table beside him. The teacup on the small table immediately turned over, and it jumped wildly on the small table, eventually rolling off the small table and falling on the ground, making a “pop” sound.

Suddenly, the boiling tea and the fragments of the teacup scattered all over.

“Ouch! …It burns…it hurts like hell!”

The hot teacup splashed right onto Old Man Li’s hands which were crouched on the ground. It scalded him and made him jump!

Land Officer’s beard was bristling with anger!

“You know that it’s hot? You know it hurts! I thought you were already a dead man without any feelings! I’ve been protecting you and remembering you! Thinking about the many years we’ve been fellow villagers, I left you some face. But what happened? You went and lost all my face…”

As he spoke, his right hand kept slapping the table, his face changing color with anger, his lips trembling non-stop.

Old Man Li shrank on the ground, neither speaking nor explaining. The only thing moving were his old, yellow eyes, swirling in their sockets.

This only made Mr. Land Officer angrier!

He angrily walked up to Old Man Li, trembled as he raised the crutch in his hand and hit him: ” I’ll beat you to death, you disrespectful old thing! I’ll kill you, shameless old immortal! I’ll hit you, you constant wrongdoer….”

Mr. Land Officer was truly angry. He was not merciful in his strike at all. Only on the first hit, Old Man Li’s forehead was bleeding.

“Stop hitting him! Stop hitting him! If you hit him anymore, someone will die…”

Old Man Li was wailing loudly, constantly protecting his head. Rolling on the ground, he was completely without any dignity.

Mr. Land Officer was panting heavily from hitting him, and he could hardly stand steady.

The cheers from the nearby crowd were endless. Everyone kept pointing and laughing at Old Man Li, who was tumbling and making a fuss in the center.

“Enough! Whether it’s hitting or cursing! Whether it’s true or a play for me to watch! The one who should be judged should be duly judged. If you continue to drag it on, it won’t solve the problem. Mr. Land Officer, don’t you think… that’s the point?”

A voice came suddenly from the diagonal, and the speaker was none other than Liu Sisi who had been sitting at the top left side!