coobybook Chapter 94 He doesn't even deserve to be called a human being
Chapter 94 He doesn't even deserve to be called a human being
The two officers, seeing the ferocious Jiang Bowen, said, "Young Master Jiang, um, please spare his breath..."
Jiang Bowen wouldn't listen to a word. Jia Yi, whose face was already swollen, was so badly beaten by Jiang Bowen that he could barely stand up.
Just then, Grandmother Jia, who had somehow heard the news, rushed over and saw Jiang Bowen beating her son. She quickly stepped in to pull them apart, exclaiming, "You're going to die, Bowen! This is your brother-in-law! How could you beat him like this!"
Jiang Bowen, who had been pulled away, was panting heavily, his hands trembling. He pointed at Jia Yi and said, "How can someone like him be worthy of being my brother-in-law? He doesn't even deserve to be a human being."
When Grandmother Jia stepped forward, she saw that her son had been beaten beyond recognition and was in pain at the slightest touch. She reached out to scratch him.
Jiang Xinyi was startled to see her younger brother give Jia Yi a good beating as soon as he arrived.
Zhou Hanzhang reacted quickly, pulling Jiang Bowen aside before Jia Mu encountered him, thus preventing Jia Mu from running into him.
When the two constables saw that Grandmother Jia actually wanted to attack the young master of the Jiang family, they quickly restrained her and told her not to go any further.
“Now that your son has committed a crime, if you injure Young Master Jiang, you will have to come back to the yamen with your son.”
Grandmother Jia beat her chest and stamped her feet. She pointed at Jiang Xinyi and said, "What has my son done wrong? He just kept the fact that he has a wife and children in the countryside a secret from you."
How can you blame him? What man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? Are you all so jealous that you want to send your husbands to jail? What kind of hearts do you have?!
Jiang Mingyun couldn't stand this old woman; her previous act of taking advantage of her age was already quite annoying.
"You old woman, this is utterly unreasonable! It is true that men in the Great Zhou Dynasty can take concubines, but there is no rule that says a man can marry another woman if he already has a wife and children. This is called marriage fraud!"
"Bullshit! What do you mean by marriage fraud? It was all consensual. Jiang Xinyi was willing to marry my son because she valued his talent. How is that marriage fraud?"
Everyone was stunned by Grandmother Jia's logic. Jiang Mingyun directly scolded, "Are you brainless, old lady? Jia Yi already has a wife and children at home. He told my sister Xinyi that he was unmarried. Isn't that marriage fraud?"
"You don't actually want my sister Xinyi to be your trash son's concubine, do you?"
"Who told her to be a concubine? She's a wife now that she's married into the family!"
"What you're saying makes no sense. Jia Yi already had a wife, so how could he marry another? Don't you know that in the Great Zhou Dynasty, a man who married two wives would be imprisoned?"
Grandmother Jia didn't care about any of that. Suddenly, a thought struck her: "A secondary wife? Aren't there secondary wives?"
Jiang Mingyun chuckled, "Grandma, don't you know? 'Level wife' is just a nice-sounding title; to put it bluntly, she's still just a concubine."
Seeing that she couldn't reason with Jiang Mingyun, Grandmother Jia turned directly to Jiang Xinyi and said, "Xinyi, we've already agreed that you'll be marrying into the family next month. It was wrong of us to keep the matter of Cui Niang and Baozi from you, but we did it for your own good."
Everyone has seen how our son has treated you these past few days; he's truly sincere towards you. Putting all that aside, just considering that our son once saved your life, you shouldn't treat him like this, should you?
"Okay, okay, I'll have my son and Cui Niang divorce right away, and you'll still be the legal wife. I won't sue him, alright? I promise you'll be the one in charge at home from now on. If Jia Yi treats you badly, I'll be the first to object."
Grandmother Jia was even planning to marry Jiang Xinyi to Jia Yi.
"You old woman, you have quite the nerve. Now that Jia Yi is deliberately hiding the fact that he is already married, his relationship with Sister Xinyi is doomed. Are you still dreaming?"
"If it weren't for your scheme that day, countless suitors would have been lining up to propose to my sister Xinyi. Would your filthy son even have a chance?"
"You fart!"
"Grandmother Jia roared."
"Xinyi, Xinyi, you still have Yi'er in your heart, don't you? You can't let him be taken away by the officials, it will ruin him."
As Grandmother Jia said this, Jia Yi was looking at Jiang Xinyi with deep affection.
Jiang Xinyi suppressed the urge to vomit and stopped calling Grandmother Jia "Auntie."
"Old Madam Jia, Jia Yi came to me to propose marriage without telling me that he was already married in the countryside. If I hadn't discovered this today and hadn't seen Cui Niang and Bao Zi, I would have been tricked into marrying him."
To be honest, I actually knew about this a while ago. We brought Cui Niang and Bao Zi here because we wanted to expose Jia Yi's true colors in public.
He kept saying he wouldn't let me down, but is this how he supposed to be honest? He not only deceived me, but also Cui Niang. Their son is five years old! Five years old! How could a human being do such a thing?
"But my son, my son did save you after all. If it weren't for my son, you might not even be alive. Don't you all say that you should repay a life-saving debt with your body? Even if my son has already married and had children, what's wrong with becoming a concubine to repay this debt?"
Even with her good temper, Jiang Xinyi couldn't help but laugh in anger when she heard Grandmother Jia tell such a distorted story. Just as she was about to speak, Zhou Hanzhang stopped her, saying, "Sister Xinyi, don't be angry."
"Grandma Jia, let's set aside whether Jia Yi really saved my sister unintentionally that day. Let's just assume he did. These days, my sister has taken such good care of your family, giving you gifts and running around for your future, regardless of her reputation. We have already repaid all the kindness we owe her."
You need to understand, not every favor requires a sexual favor. Don't you know what kind of person your son is? The mere thought of him is disgusting. It's a wonder my sister has tolerated you for so long.”
Zhou Hanzhang took a deep breath. "Grandma, you don't know this, do you? The officials came to arrest him not because he wanted to remarry, but because he wanted to murder for money."
“You’re just spouting nonsense to prevent Jiang Xinyi from marrying my son! Even if Jiang Xinyi changes her mind and doesn’t want to marry him, you still have to compensate us. The debt of saving our lives is greater than the heavens; how can it be repaid so easily? And you’re talking about murder for money? My son is a scholar who wouldn’t even dare to kill a chicken, how could he dare to murder for money?”
"It seems the old lady doesn't know about this? But I remember people were already talking about it when we were eating here last time. You couldn't have missed it, could you?"
The news was deliberately leaked by Zhou Hanzhang so that when it became a hot topic, Fang Niu would file a lawsuit and Jia Yi would never be able to rise again.
It's everywhere, in the streets and alleys.
There's no way the old lady couldn't hear.
Grandmother Jia suddenly remembered the rumors she had heard recently, but she refused to admit them.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. All I know is that my son risked his life to save Jiang Xinyi. He still has health problems because of what happened back then. You can dislike him, but you have to compensate my son with five hundred taels of silver (about two and a half million yuan in modern terms), otherwise this matter will not be resolved!”