Chapter 1206: Chapter 1208 Beat You Until You Can’t Get Up _1
There was a pause before she said, "But I can have people beat you so badly you won’t be able to get up. Don’t want to pay taxes, huh? Good! I want to see, after we’ve injured you, whether you’ll need a doctor, whether you’ll need to spend money, and I especially want to see if the taxes the runaways evaded are enough to cover your doctor’s fees."
It has to be said that this was Yang Chuxia’s way of dealing with things, simple and violent, fighting evil with evil. It’s not that there weren’t better ways to solve the problem, but none were as swift and satisfying as this method.
Having said that, she directly instructed the group she had brought with her, "Go, subdue them for me. Hit them where it hurts. Ye Er, go over there and snatch away those sticks they’re holding. Be careful, and don’t let these women injure our people." Though a brawl between women may seem disreputable, women are best for subduing other women.
"Yes!" Ye Er and his companions were initially a bit stunned, but they quickly recovered.
Ye Er was the best martial artist among the several guards with the Ye surname, so with him taking action, no one else needed to move. They saw him already tossing aside the sticks and other objects the women had.
These village women, seeing Ye Er, naturally reacted as they had before, clamoring about him taking advantage.
Then the women hired by Yang Chuxia scoffed, "Don’t get too cocky; your old face is so wrinkled you could probably suffocate flies with it. Even if you stripped naked for a beggar, he’d turn up his nose. You think a young, handsome gentleman like him would take advantage of you? That’s just hilarious."
This was a formidable matron, who also domineered in the village, cursing people without dirty words, and never hesitating to strike a blow.
"Exactly, exactly. Sister-in-law, that old hag is disgusting."
"We really need to teach these shameless people a lesson."
"Isn’t it just? If I don’t rip these peoples’ faces off, I’m not a Wang! These evil-hearted things... if their commotion here ends up troubling our County Magistrate, we might not get the embankment repaired or the river dredged. If there’s another flood next year, all of us living by the Yanghe River might as well wait for death!"
"Right, Sister-in-law is correct. These people are wicked, and if because of them we all suffer, beating them to death wouldn’t be too much. Death to the shameless! They even had the cheek to consider not paying taxes, while the rest of us have. Why should they be exempt? Hit them, and hit them hard."
Everyone added their voices, fueling the anger even more than before.
Indeed, the words of that Sister-in-law had incited the crowd’s fury.
Originally, Ye Zi’an had planned to send a few Land Officers from the village to test the waters. Then, he’d spread the word that if they refused to pay taxes, embankment construction would stop, eventually inciting the anger of the nearby villages. Yangdong and its neighboring village might not care, but the other villages would, and naturally, they would confront the people from these two villages. How could two villages stand against so many others?
Appeal to the authorities? Not paying taxes was already an offense to the government; who would help them now?
It had to be said that the husband and wife were on the same wavelength.
"Who are these people who dare to cause a commotion in our village?" A group of women were fighting fiercely when the men hiding behind them finally came out.
Seeing this, Yang Chuxia shouted for the women to stop. These were shameless men, who did not adhere to the principle of not hitting women.
"Which two are the Land Officers? Come out here!"