Ma the Butcher was found by his family in the middle of the night, lying by the roadside. He really had terrible luck. No one had passed by for all that time. It was only because Madam Ma noticed that her son still hadn’t returned late at night and made inquiries that she learned he had gone to the roadside to block Jiang Yutong.
At first, Madam Ma thought Ma the Butcher had gotten carried away having fun and forgotten to come home. But the more she thought about it, the more something felt wrong. In the end, she sent her other sons out to search for him.
Unexpectedly, they found Ma the Butcher lying helplessly in the grass by the roadside, groaning in pain.
Ma the Butcher had been calling for help for so long that he had almost no strength left. His hands and legs hurt terribly. When he heard his brothers calling for him, he used the last bit of his strength to cry out for help.
When his brothers found their eldest brother lying in such a miserable state in the roadside grass, none of them could believe their eyes.
“Big Brother, what happened to you? Are you drunk?”
“You’re the one who’s drunk! Hurry up and carry me home!”
His brothers carried Ma the Butcher home. After Madam Ma questioned him repeatedly, they finally learned that Jiang Yutong had beaten him.
Ma the Butcher originally didn’t want to tell anyone about such a humiliating incident, but he couldn’t withstand his mother’s relentless questioning.
Madam Ma immediately called a physician for him in the middle of the night. Then she took several of her sons and went to smash up the Jiang family’s house. Before dawn, she sent her youngest son to the county town to find her son-in-law.
How dare someone bully their Ma family like this?
She was determined to teach Jiang Yutong a lesson.
Jiang Yutong thought about what had happened with Ma the Butcher. There was no doubt that they would eventually have to confront each other head-on.
Although this body wasn’t strong enough yet, she still wouldn’t let the Ma family get away with things easily.
She carried the medicine to Xiao Yifeng and gave it to him, then continued sewing the clothes.
Sure enough, the constable arrived very quickly.
Several men from the Ma family came with him, and Ma the Butcher was also carried over by his brothers to Jiang Yutong’s door.
“Open the door! I’m Constable Yu from the county town.”
Jiang Yutong happened to be in Xiao Yifeng’s room helping him change his bandages.
The moment Xiao Yifeng heard that it was a constable, he suddenly locked an arm around Jiang Yutong’s neck and pinned her against the wall.
Jiang Yutong hadn’t even had time to react and nearly suffocated.
She cursed inwardly nonstop.
I saved an ungrateful bastard! Jiang Yutong, your sympathy has gotten you nowhere. Now you’re nearly getting yourself killed by the very person you helped.
She secretly swore, I’m kicking this bastard out as soon as possible. I’ve had enough.
Seeing Jiang Yutong’s face turning red from lack of air, Xiao Yifeng loosened his grip.
“Who did you report this to?”
Jiang Yutong was furious that Xiao Yifeng had attacked her without even asking what happened.
She immediately kicked toward his most vulnerable area.
At the same time, the shouting outside the door continued without pause.
Xiao Yifeng hadn’t expected Jiang Yutong to be so ruthless. His leg was injured, and as he tried to dodge her attack, he lost his balance and allowed Jiang Yutong to break free.
Jiang Yutong immediately moved far away from him.
“Listen to me. I didn’t call the constable. I got into some trouble, and the constable came looking for me. Of course, if you don’t want to be discovered, you’d better hide somewhere far away.”
Xiao Yifeng gave Jiang Yutong a deep look, then dragged his injured leg toward the back door.
Jiang Yutong took a moment to steady her breathing.
After watching Xiao Yifeng disappear completely, she finally went into the courtyard and opened the gate.
By then, the people outside had grown extremely impatient.
When they saw Jiang Yutong open the door, the man in the constable’s uniform at the front spoke.
“You’re Jiang Yutong?”
Jiang Yutong nodded.
“What are you all doing shouting and making such a racket in front of my house?”
When Ma the Butcher saw Jiang Yutong come out, he inexplicably felt a little afraid.
Still, he pointed at her and said to his brother-in-law, “She’s the one who beat me and left me by the roadside.”
Jiang Yutong dug her ear with a finger.
“Do you really expect anyone to believe that? A grown man like you was beaten by a weak woman like me and then left by the roadside. Do you believe that yourselves?”
Jiang Yutong’s eyes darted around before finally settling on Constable Yu.
Constable Yu rubbed his nose.
He didn’t really believe it either.
When he had received the message from his brother-in-law earlier, he had also thought there must have been some mistake. Even now, he still suspected that his brother-in-law had simply taken a liking to the woman.
“Enough nonsense. If they say you did it, then you did it. Don’t even think about making excuses.”
Ma the Butcher was furious at Jiang Yutong’s calm, completely shameless expression.
“You stinking woman! You beat someone and now you’re trying to deny it!”
Jiang Yutong walked up to Ma the Butcher and clicked her tongue twice.
“Looks like you’re really badly injured.”
Then she lowered her voice so only the two of them could hear.
“Get lost. Otherwise, next time I won’t just dislocate your arms and legs.”
A chill ran through Ma the Butcher.
He knew she was capable of doing it.
“Constable, I think you should personally find the person who injured Ma the Butcher. You can’t let a criminal go, but you can’t wrong an innocent person like me either.”
At that moment, the village head arrived with several people.
Someone had already gone to inform the village head when Constable Yu entered the village.
“Constable, I’m the village head here. May I ask what brings you all the way here?”
Constable Yu replied, “Someone reported that one of your villagers deliberately injured someone.”
The village head asked, “Are you talking about Jiang Yutong? Who did she injure?”
At this question, Constable Yu felt somewhat embarrassed to answer.
“Jiang Yutong injured Ma the Butcher. She dislocated his arms and legs and left him by the roadside.”
The crowd immediately burst into laughter.
“Hahaha! Jiang Yutong beat Ma the Butcher? That’s got to be a joke!”
Once someone said that, everyone began discussing it.
“Exactly. Jiang Yutong doesn’t even have two ounces of flesh on her whole body. How could she possibly beat a big, burly man like Ma the Butcher? I don’t believe it.”
“You don’t know? Jiang Yutong’s stepmother took money from the Ma family and planned to marry Jiang Yutong off to him. Maybe this is just their way of trying to force her to go with him.”
“So that’s what happened. Now it makes sense.”
“That stepmother of Jiang Yutong’s is heartless too. Who doesn’t know what kind of person Ma the Butcher is?”
The village head looked at Constable Yu.
“Constable, I think we should investigate this matter carefully. As you can see, Jiang Yutong clearly isn’t a match for Ma the Butcher. Perhaps Ma the Butcher simply got drunk and fell down himself.”
Constable Yu glanced at Ma the Butcher, as if asking how they were supposed to resolve this situation.
Ma the Butcher’s face alternated between red and pale.
He had no way to explain himself.
He was also afraid that Jiang Yutong would beat him again, so he didn’t know what to say.
Constable Yu received no useful response and could only speak for himself.
“Since someone has filed a complaint, Jiang Yutong still needs to come with me.”
Everyone knew that once someone was taken away by a constable, even if they didn’t die, they would at least suffer badly.
Jiang Yutong, on the other hand, actually wanted to go with them.
She could beat them all up one by one.
They had dared to come knocking on her door again, which only meant she hadn’t beaten them hard enough the first time.
“Constable, shouldn’t you investigate everything thoroughly before taking someone away?”
“Do I need you to teach me how to do my job? Take her away.”
The villagers stepped forward and blocked their path.
Their intentions were obvious.
Constable Yu had seen this kind of thing many times before. As long as he frightened these villagers a little, they would obediently move aside.
“Anyone who obstructs the government from carrying out its duties will be taken away too.”
The villagers looked at one another.
Some of the more timid ones had already stepped aside.
Jiang Yutong spoke up.