Chapter 35 Sandalwood Tree
With a few words, right and wrong were reversed and all the mistakes were pushed on Xi Feng alone.
Xi Feng sneered, "My grandma, you said I misunderstood this time. So, when the sandalwood trees and nanmu trees were cut down and sold by the people in the big house when they were separated, I misunderstood?"
Xi Feng respectfully kowtowed to the old sect leader and cried, "There are only thirty adult sandalwood trees in the forest village. When my grandfather was alive, he accompanied the sect master's uncle to go to the farm to see it. My grandfather also promised to give the sect master a sandalwood coffin a hundred years later. When my grandfather died, he specially told my father about this matter. However, unexpectedly, as soon as my grandfather's funeral was over, my uncle took people to the farm and cut all the thirty sandalwood trees and sold them. I didn't give us a penny for the second house."
"Our second house only found out after the uncle sold the tree. Since the uncle of the sect leader and the farm were divided into our second house when the family was separated, the trees on the farm were our second house. Why should the people in the big house cut and sell them?"
"I didn't say anything, and I didn't give a penny to the second house. What's the difference between this and the bandits and robbers?"
"Uncle the Sect Master, although our Xi family is not a scholarly family and a family of farming and studying, it is also a well-known gentry family in Hangzhou. My uncle made such shameless behavior, which is a shameful face of our Xi family."
"My father thought of being a brother, so he didn't make a big deal. He suffered a lot of losses. But in the next few years, the people in the big house became more and more overwhelming, almost forcing our second house to a dead end."
Xi Feng cried and told him that he had not concealed any of the things that Dafang had done over the years and had said.
"How much grain does a hundred acres of rice harvested by paddy fields cost tens of thousands of kilograms? The grain and oil shop buys seven cents per kilogram of rice, but my uncle's grain and oil shop buys my rice, and only gives five cents per kilogram, and also needs to eat a scale. It is obvious that 30,000 kilograms, but I have to say 25,000 kilograms, and I give a lot of money less... I force myself to buy and sell, wuwu..."
"Uncle the Sect Master, if it weren't for the second house being the one who was forced by the big house, we wouldn't have any way out, and we wouldn't have fought back. If we really endured it, we would have no way to live..."
"Today, we are asking our uncle to come. We are not different, but we want our uncle to help us and seek justice."
Ruan and Xi Tongfang were also beside Xi Feng, knelt down, kowtowed to the old sect leader, and begged the old sect leader to be fair to the second house.
The old sect leader's face turned pale. He glared at Xi Tonglin, "What A Feng girl said, but it's true? Xi Tonglin, did you really cut down all the thirty adult sandalwood trees on the second house Linmu Village?"
It takes hundreds of years for a sandalwood tree to grow from planting to adulthood, and then to growing a wood that can be used as a coffin. It takes another hundred years for a sandalwood tree to be planted for two or three hundred years before it can be used as a coffin.
Chapter completed!