my wonderful zoo

Chapter 69 Compensation
"I guessed it myself." Chen Liu didn't know whether Chen Xun would hold the woman responsible for leaking the secret afterwards, so he didn't say much.

"I'll show you something."

Chen Xun did not deny it, which shattered the last trace of luck deep in Chen Liu's heart.

It turned out that those pirates were really sent by Chenjiazhuang.

Gradually, Chen Liu looked at Chen Xun with more and more fierce eyes!
Now that they are the only two in this room, it can be said to be the best opportunity for revenge.

Do you want to do it?

"Actually, when we landed on Lantau Island that day, we didn't cause too many killings." Chen Xun took out a ledger from inside: "I had already told them before going to the island that as long as they were unarmed and unresisting villagers, try to avoid hurting them as much as possible. .”

"To put it nicely, my eldest brother died in the hands of those pirates." Chen Liu looked at Chen Xun's calm demeanor and felt angry, so he couldn't help but interject.

"This is inevitable. After all, there will always be villagers who will resist with weapons." Chen Xun readily acknowledged it.

It was his own fault that Haiwei pretended to be a pirate and went ashore to attack innocent villagers. He had already expected that someone would come to hold him accountable, so he seemed very calm.

Because he has already made a decision, as long as he does not have to pay for his life, he will fulfill his responsibility to compensate.

"Can you know the name of the eldest brother of the Chen family?"

"Chen Er." Chen Liu replied directly, staring at Chen Xun closely to see how he would defend next.

I saw Chen Xun looking at the ledger in his hand, pulling it with his hand from time to time. After a while, he turned the ledger to Chen Liu and said to him: "Chen Er is not dead."

"How is that possible? My daughter saw with her own eyes that my eldest brother was stabbed by a pirate and the blood spurted onto the pirate's face."

"Yes, Chen Er was indeed seriously injured that day. You see, his name is among the seriously injured." Chen Xun pointed to the top of the list and introduced: "But the eldest brother of the Chen family is lucky and survived under our treatment." , he was the only one to survive among the four seriously injured people."

"I don't believe it." As Baozheng, Chen Liu knew some simple common words. The words on the account book in front of him were indeed what Chen Xun said. He came suddenly today, and he could not have prepared for such a coincidence.

But this is just one side of Chen Xun's words.

"It doesn't matter, Chen Er is on Penghu Island now. If you want to see him, I will arrange for you to take a boat to Penghu Island the day after tomorrow. You can see him when you go." Chen Xun said.

"How do I know you won't use deceit to trick me into going to sea and then take my life." If you can pretend to be a pirate, there is nothing you dare not do.

Chen Xun stood up, took down a short knife from the wall, and handed it to Chen Liu.

"Look at this knife."

Chen Liu took the knife in confusion. Did he want to atone for his sins and let himself kill him?This moment made Chen Liu completely confused.

"Look at the quality of this knife." Chen Xun reminded again.

"Oh!" Chen Liu pulled out the knife. The blade was cold and sharp. He flicked it and made a soft sound, confirming that it was a Baili Steel Knife.With a strong downward swing, the three-finger-thick corner of the table was easily cut off. It was a good knife.

"Give it to me." Chen Xun reached for the knife.

Chen Liu held the knife in his hand and looked at Chen Xun who was only half a step away from him, feeling a conflict between heaven and man in his heart.

The other party is unarmed, and he holds a sharp blade. He is only half a step away. As long as he stabs the knife forward, he can know the life of the murderer behind this and avenge his eldest brother.

But the faces of his daughter and son flashed in his mind, as did the smiling faces of the villagers in Yushan Village when they were building new houses. Chen Liu finally turned the dagger upside down and handed the handle to Chen Xun.

……

As everyone knows, Chen Xun was relieved when he saw Chen Liu handing the knife handle to him.

If he hadn't acquired the specialty of being "good at flying" now, he wouldn't have used such an extreme method to gain Chen Liu's trust.With Chen Xun's current physique and agility, it was impossible for an ordinary person like Chen Liu to hurt him with a weapon half a step away, so he dared to do this.

Taking the dagger, Chen Xun held the handle with one hand and the tip with the other.

"You look good."

Then in front of Chen Liu, he raised the scimitar with both hands at the same time. The blade of the short sword bent sharply and suddenly broke from two-thirds of the blade. The broken blade in the middle flew up and stuck on the beam above his head.

"If I want to harm you, I don't need to lure you overseas." Chen Xun said calmly.

Chen Liu felt a strong rush of luck. Fortunately, he didn't act rashly. Otherwise, even if he was holding a sharp blade, he would definitely not be the one who survived.

"You said all the captured villagers in Yushan Village are on Penghu Island?"

"Yes, you can look at this list. There are villagers from Yushan Village who survived and were captured by us. They were all moved to Penghu Island." Chen Xun pushed the account book along the table to Chen Liu: "There are 230 five people in total, Nine of them were injured and rescued.”

Chen Liu picked up the account book and started to look through it. The names of the villagers in Yushan Village were indeed recorded on it. Not only that, but there were also gender, age, specialties and other items on it. They were very detailed and basically the same as what Chen Liu remembered.

"You can scroll forward, and there is a list of villagers who died in that incident."

Chen Liu turned the list forward and soon saw death raising its head.

Chen Lengwa, Chen Qiang, Chen Sangou and Chen Jiulang.

A total of seven people.

"These seven people died because of my wrong orders. I will not shirk responsibility. Their families have been investigated clearly behind the list. Those whose families are in Penghu have been compensated by me. Those whose families are in the private port, you are here today. You can take the compensation back."

"You can't pay for your life with money." Chen Liu actually understood that Chen Xun's method was the best solution, but he still couldn't help but said something harsh.

"I can only do this. As for paying for my life, I will not pay for my life, nor will I let my men go." Chen Xun refused directly.

The room fell silent for a moment.

Chen Liu's eldest brother is not dead, and most of his previous courage to turn back has been lost. Although the seven people who died were all villagers in Yushan Village, they were not close relatives after all, and he did not have a strong inner need to avenge them.

Up to now, Chen Liu's attitude has become the same as that of the elders in the clan.

He finally understood why those elders chose that way.

The dead are dead.

Those who are alive will continue to live.

What's more, Chen Xun will also give compensation. Looking at the compensation amount in the account book, it is 100 taels of silver per person.

That's a huge amount of money!
It is a huge amount of money that ordinary people cannot refuse.

In this cannibalistic world, countless people have died in vain due to wars, rebellions, and bandits. However, no one will compensate them, so they all died in vain.

If he refused, Chen Liu couldn't say it.

"How will you treat the villagers of Yuanyushan Village in the future?" Chen Liu asked.

"You have been in Chenjiazhuang for a long time. Look at the Han people in the North. I will treat them equally." Chen Xun replied.

(End of this chapter)