Yang Ruxin’s eyes half-closed for a moment. Although the villagers might have various peasant-like mentalities, most of them were inherently kind. Despite their dislike for the Wang Family, they wouldn’t commit such a ruthless act as banishing someone from the village. Cutting someone off from their ancestral roots was an act even more severe than murder in such a feudal society.
Therefore, Guan Qingshu’s demand was impossible to satisfy.
At the same time, she realized that the Wang Family’s people had no shame and could yield and endure, making them quite frightening as there was no limit to their behavior.
Indeed, the subsequent handling of the situation was within Yang Ruxin’s expectations. The village did not banish them but made the Wang Family go and offer apologies to the Guan Family and to Li Yi.
It seemed that everyone could accept this solution.
Guan Qingshu, though discontent, had no other comments to add.
"Are apologies useful?" Li Jiaya snorted, "My father was beaten up; can a simple ’sorry’ erase his suffering?"
Yang Ruxin smiled; she liked the girl’s temperament.
"What would you have us do then?" Wang Wen was getting irritated.
"Let me hit you back the same way, and I too can say sorry to you just like you to my dad..."
"Yeah, my dad has been prescribing medicine and treating the villagers for years without ever asking for more money. Sometimes he even paid out of his own pocket, but now when trouble arises, they come to find fault. Why should we take it?" Li Jiamei was also upset, "If I had not come back today, I wouldn’t have known my father was bullied like this. If you don’t handle this fairly, I will take my parents and leave. My father-in-law has mentioned many times that he hopes my dad could move in with us..."
Li Jiamei had married into the Niu Family Village in Peach Blossom Town two years ago, to the only son of the village chief. By the next year, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Considering that Li Yi was a doctor and her in-laws treated her very well, plus her straightforward nature, she led a comfortable life.
The Niu Family Village was about forty li away from here, a journey by ox cart that took the better part of a day, but Li Jiamei would visit whenever she had the chance.
However, her visit home this time coincided with this incident.
But Li Jiamei’s words had left the villagers with a bitter taste. Indeed, Li Yi was a man easy to talk to. People came to him with their minor ailments and he usually treated them without ever asking for money. For some families in hardship, he even covered costs. If Li Yi really moved away, what would they do in the future...?
In this era, doctors were highly respected. With people eating grains, who wouldn’t get sick occasionally? The Niu Family Village had no doctor of its own, and every illness required a trip to the town, which was both troublesome and tiresome. Now that there was a doctor in the village, people were beginning to realize the good fortune they had been taking for granted.
The Wang Family members were somewhat stupefied as well; they had forgotten that Li Yi was the only doctor in the village. Although the Yang Family had a Divine Doctor, they knew they couldn’t afford to consult him, and they were now regretting their actions...
The scene momentarily became awkward.
"Your Wang Family has such black hearts and rotten livers..." Just then, a curse came from the distance, followed by Guan Tongshi running over and lunging towards Wang Wu, "You nearly destroyed my daughter..."
Lin Yue’e wanted to intervene, but she was held back by Wang Sheng. Any resistance at this point would only make things worse.
Wang Wu was already weak and had no strength to fight back, so Guan Tongshi scratched him several times.
What followed was the Wang Family begging for mercy, Lin Yue’e crying out, and the Tong Family and Li family’s anger all mixing together...
Yang Ruxin turned and walked away. After all, life must go on after the commotion, and she had plenty to keep her busy.