Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

However, Li Yuan was a newcomer who had just registered today.

The village head, Xue Dacheng, didn't fully trust him either.

"Xu San, do you have any evidence that Li Yuan stole your purse?"

The man on the ground pointed to the cloth bag in Li Yuan's hand and said.

"That's the evidence! It's all my money inside!"

The village head turned to Li Yuan again and asked.

"What do you have to say?"

Li Yuan sneered.

He lifted the purse in his right hand.

Allowing everyone around to see it clearly.

Then, he pointed to the two characters on the purse and said to the man on the ground.

He was illiterate, so of course he didn't know what the characters were.

He didn't even know there were characters on the bag.

Li Yuan pointed to the characters on the bag and said to everyone.

"These say 'Wan Jun'."

"My legal wife is called Chu Wan Jun, this is her purse."

The village head and several strong men nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

Now the evidence was conclusive.

It must be Xu San who broke into their house and stole Chu Wan Jun's purse.

Upon hearing this, Xu San on the ground knew things were going badly.

He quickly rolled his eyes, and with a ruthless thought, shouted.

"You newcomer wouldn't know."

"I and this household's Chu Wan Jun are lovers."

"She gave this to me."

Xu San's trick was extremely vicious.

He knew he couldn't take the purse away today.

But to vent his anger, he wanted to tarnish the reputation of the Chu sisters.

If you don't let me get the money, I'll spread rumors and make sure your family doesn't have it easy.

If Li Yuan didn't handle this well.

The rumor that Chu Wan Jun and Xu San were having an affair would spread.

Regardless of whether it was true or false, there would always be some ignorant people who would use it as gossip, which would be very unfair to the Chu sisters.

At this moment, Xu San revealed a cold smile, thinking.

You newly arrived pauper, I'll let you know how powerful Master Xu San is.

The village head frowned at this moment, he knew this rascal Xu San too well.

He was like a dog skin plaster, once he stuck to you, you'd be in trouble.

However, he looked at Li Yuan, wanting to see how this young man would handle it.

Li Yuan smiled coldly, lifted the purse in his hand, and said with the sound of metal clinking.

"I'll give you a chance, you say the purse is yours, then can you say how much money is inside?"

This immediately stumped Xu San.

Of course, he didn't know how much money was inside, he could only guess based on the size of the purse.

"I was in a hurry at the time, I don't remember."

"About one hundred and fifty, no, one hundred and eighty coins."

Li Yuan's expression became even colder.

He handed the purse to the village head and said.

"There are a total of 167 copper coins in this purse."

"In addition, there are two pieces of broken silver, totaling three qian."

"Village Head, please count them yourself to prove my innocence."

The village head took the purse and carefully counted the copper coins and broken silver inside.

Sure enough, it was exactly as Li Yuan said.

Li Yuan had already learned about the sisters losing money in their casual chats with them.

He had already asked carefully how much silver and money there was.

As soon as he took it, he knew that this purse was the one that the Chu sisters had been stolen.

Now, Xu San on the ground couldn't say anything.

Li Yuan picked up a wooden stick from the side and said to Xue Village Head.

"This person stole my family's silver and money, and also slandered my wife's reputation."

"Village Head, I will never spare him!"

Stealing money and slandering someone's reputation were both very serious crimes in the village.

The village head naturally wouldn't protect him.

He said to Li Yuan.

"You can break one of his legs, just don't kill him."

Li Yuan nodded, "Village Head, don't worry, I know."

After speaking, he swung the wooden stick and struck Xu San on the ground hard.

Li Yuan was naturally strong and full of anger.

Naturally, he wouldn't hold back.

Xu San on the ground was beaten by Li Yuan until he cried like a wolf, howling like a ghost, and soon passed out from the beating.

The village head was afraid that Li Yuan would beat someone to death, so he had several strong men come over to check.

They saw that Xu San was beaten until his whole body was bruised and purple, and one of his legs was broken.

He looked really terrible, but fortunately, this lazy man still had a breath left.

Seeing that there was no danger to his life, Xue Village Head was relieved.

Stealing someone's things and slandering someone's reputation and having a leg broken was considered a very reasonable punishment in the village.

No one could say anything about it.

Seeing that Li Yuan had vented his anger, the village head cupped his hands and said.

"Li Yuan, you go home first, we'll take this Xu San back first."

"Tomorrow, we'll hand him over to the military fort's criminal yamen for disposal."

Li Yuan quickly cupped his hands and thanked him, then turned and went home.

Entering the courtyard, he saw the Chu sisters holding wooden sticks guarding the door.

Li Yuan asked them to go inside first.

After closing the door, he threw the purse in his hand to Chu Wan Jun.

"See if it's yours?"

Chu Wan Jun took the purse and looked at it, and said in surprise.

"That's right, it's the one I lost."

"Eh? Strange, it was clearly lost the day before yesterday, why did it appear on Xu San today?"

Li Yuan crossed his arms and said with a smile.

"This matter is not difficult to understand."

"It should be that the day before, Xu San broke into the house to steal millet."

"He accidentally discovered the purse in the house."

"When he was carrying the purse and millet over the wall, he accidentally dropped the purse in a hidden corner."

"He wanted to turn back and pick it up, but he was startled by the patrolling strong men."

"You two thought the purse had already been taken away, and didn't search carefully at home."

"Tonight, this Xu San wanted to sneak back and pick up the purse."

"As a result, I caught him red-handed."

The sisters were still afraid.

"Fortunately, there is a husband in the house, if that guy had bad intentions, we sisters would really be in danger."

Li Yuan looked at Wan Jun and said.

"Now this is my home, don't worry, I won't let anyone bully you."

"That guy Xu San, I've already broken his leg."

"Tomorrow he will be sent to the criminal yamen of the military fort."

"Okay, Wan Jun, you count it and put the purse away, let's go to sleep."

The sisters were naturally very happy to have the purse back.

It was so good to have a man guarding the house.

Nothing was said all night until dawn.

Xiao Zhu got up early to make breakfast.

In the morning, Chu Wan Jun, who was newly married, served Li Yuan to get up and wash.

Breakfast was a bowl of millet porridge for each person, along with the meat left over from last night's welcoming banquet.

It was also very delicious to eat.

Just after eating breakfast, Xue Village Head and the old village elder sent someone to inform them.

At si hour in the morning, the newly registered military households had to gather at the threshing ground at the entrance of the village.

The village scribe and village elder would confirm the allotted land for everyone.

Distributing land was a major event, and it couldn't be taken lightly. After eating breakfast.

Li Yuan took the Chu sisters out to go to the entrance of the village.

It was just past chen hour, but the military households were eager to see where their land was.

Almost everyone had arrived.

At si hour in the morning, the scribe and village elder also came.

The scribe was a middle-aged man with thin eyebrows, small eyes, and a short, fat figure.

When he spoke, his nostrils were facing the sky, bossy, and had a very big air.

Because his surname was Gou, some villagers privately called him Gou Scribe.

Li Yuan didn't like this person very much.

However, the military households were eager to confirm their land, and everyone was respectful to him, and no one dared to disobey him.