Chapter 171: To Uphold Justice

The rooms in the new dormitory building were bought one after another. Most of the people who bought dormitory had family members who were living with them. Sharing a room with other people could be troublesome for them, especially for young couples. Lu Lin charged a really fair price, most fishermen couls afford 3 tales of silver.

Chen Xiao Cai later learned that Zhou An got married, he gave Zhou An a big red envelop with cash gift inside, he also gave Zhou An six buffet tickets. Li Xiaoyu was very happy that his husband was working for such a thoughtful boss.

Zhou An and Li Xiaoyu held a simple wedding ceremony. Although the ceremony was very small and simple, Li Xiaoyu still was very excited.

Even though Li Xiaoyu's first husband had given him a lot of betrothal gifts, but his parents had taken them all from him.

Li Xiaoyu had been working in the fleet after he married Zhou An.

Li Xiaoyu was quick and neat with work, he always delivered no matter what his task was. Before this, he married an old lady to do a side room outside. He attributed it to the years he worked as a servant in his first husband's house.

Shen Chi and a group of fishermen was counting the squid when Han Feng rushed over to him.

"Madam Shen, bad news!"

Shen Chi glanced at the person running over and asked calmly, "What happened? Talk to me."

"A few people from Big Pear Village have come. They say that Zhou An's wife Li Xiaoyu is their son, they will take him back unless Zhou An is willing to pay them twenty taels of silver as betrayal gift." Han Feng said.

Han Feng thought to himself, "Li Xiaoyu's parents have gone too far! They want twenty taels of silver, and they are not willing to budge. We can still find a way to chip in and pool money if it's a small number, but 20 taels! I feel so sorry for Zhou An, does he have to part with his wife now?'

Shen Chi glanced at Han Feng and asked, "What about Zhou An and his wife? Have you talked to them about this?"

"Zhou An is here. His wife went out and hasn't come back yet," Han Feng glanced at Shen Chi in a strange way. Han Feng felt that Shen Chi was too calm, it almost felt like Shen Chi knew that this would happen.

Shen Chi nodded and said, "I'll go take a look."

Shen Chi walked to the open space in front of the dormitory buildings. Two old people, a young man and several villagers of Big Pear Village were confronting the fishermen.

"Madam Shen is here, Madam Shen is here."

The fishermen had cleared the way for Shen Chi.

When Li Hong, Li Xioayu's older brother, saw Shen Chi, he raised his head and said arrogantly, "It looks like you are the boss here, aren't you? Here is the thing, one fisherman in your fleet has abducted my younger brother. We're here to take my brithe away," Li Hong was contemptuous of Shen Chi because Shen Chi was a Bio.

Shen Chi glanced at the fishermen beside him. Some of them had probably just argued with Li Hong considering how indignant they looked.

"Your brother? Who is your brother? "

"My younger brother's name is Li Xiaoyu. Oh, wait, I believe he goes by Zhou Yu now."

"Zhou Yu is Zhou Yu, Li Xiaoyu is Li Xiaoyu, why should I take your word for it and believe Zhou Yu is Li Xiaoyu? Then I say that he is your father!" Shen Chi pointed at a fisherman.

The fisherman chuckled and said with a glib tongue, "Good son, call me daddy."

The few fishermen started to cheer up. "Old He, your son is ugly!"

"Old He, your son looks nothing like you and he isn't behaving well, go teach him a lesson."

......

Li Hong's real father was there too, he blushed with embarrassment.

Li Hong's face darkened and he said, "Please don't talk nonsense. The people in our village have said that Zhou Yu looks exactly like my younger brother Li Xiaoyu."

"Who said that? Bring him to me! This is a big world, of course there are people who look alike," Shen Chi said calmly.

Li Hong and his parents were shaken by what Shen Chi just said, they actually didn't know whether Zhou Yu was Li Xiaoyu.

The fishermen held their heads high, "Exactly! There are people who look alike, how dare you charge into our place and slander us!"

Li Hong gritted his teeth and said, "If you are so sure about this, why don't you call Zhou Yu out and we can have a look!"

"You guys are from Big Pear Village, right? I remember that I heard that someone called Li Xiaoyu in Big Pear Village was sold to a dying villager for money, but the boy committed suicide to avoid being sold. You just want to find a similar person to serve as a stopgap, don't you? But mind you human trafficking is illegal," Shen Chi said with a stern tone.

The Li family's parents were frightened by Shen Chi's words. "It's our son, we are not doing anything illegal!"

"Your son is dead, he has committed suicide due to you! Ah, I see, you have already taken that dying person's money, so you just want to find a similar person to marry that dying man so you don't have to cough up the money, right?" Shen Chi continued.

Shen Chi thought to himself, 'Li Xiaoyu's parents sold him for 10 taels of silver, and they are now asking Zhou An to pay them 20 taels! How greedy!'

Shen Chi's words were reasonable. The fishermen all found that make sense.

"How dare you people bully one of our fellow fishermen in the fleet! It's not easy for him to get married, and now you are trying to take away his wife from him!" A fisherman shouted.

"Yeah! These bastards, all they want it money!"

......

Most of the fisherman felt that these people are here trying to take advantage of Zhou An, and there were fishermen who had guessed the truth, but none of them said anything because they didn't want to rub Shen Chi the wrong way.

"Get these people out of here, feel free to make them leave if they cause a scene," Shen Chi waved his hand.

The fishermen were more than ready to flex their muscles.

The fishermen all worked in the same fleet and they looked out for each other like real families, so they were more than willing to teach the Lis a lesson.

This was the fisherman's dormitory building, of course they could assemble a large number of people to defend themselves in no time.

Soon more than 50 fishermen showed up and they were ready to fight.

There were only about ten people from the Big Pear Village who were here with the Lis, they were clearly outnumbered.

"Brothers, someone is making a ruckus, time to teach them a lesson!" a young fisherman exclaimed.

It has been a while since they joined the fleet and worked side by side with each other, they genuinely saw each other as brothers. They didn't appreciate the Lis' doing.

The innocent villagers who were here with the Lis took to their heels, but several young fishermen blocked their way out.

Seeing that the situation was totally under control, Shen Chi waved his hand signaling the fishermen to stop.

When they saw that the people who came here to cause trouble were beaten down, the fishermen exclaimed and they were happy that they had protected their brother.

In fact, the villagers of Big Pear Village knew that the fleet belonged to Magistrate Lu. They hesitated when the Lis asked them for help, but they figured they were the victims and they had every right to take away Li Xiaoyu so they came with the Lis, and now they bit their tongues off.

Lu Lin actually knew who this 'Zhou Yu' was, he investigated it before he helped Zhou An to register his wife under his household. But he despised what Zhou Yu's parents had done to him, so he turned a blind eye to it.

And naturally both Chen Xiao Ca, and Shen Chi knew the truth as well.

Shen Chi glanced at Li Hong's retiring figure and said to the fishermen, "In the future, if these guys come again, just beat them up and drive them out!"

"Consider it done, Madam Shen."

"You are right, Madam Shen. We can't let anyone bully our brothers!"

"Exactly! Trying to bully our brother, we will make sure they regret for messing with us!"

......

The crowd burst into a warm echo.

Shen Chi waved his hand and asked everyone to go back to work.

Zhou An walked over to Shen Chi after everyone else had left. "Madam Shen, thank you so much, but actually..."

Shen Chi interrupted Zhou An, "Old Zhou, as I said earlier, there are many people look alike in this world. As long as your wife doesn't think he is Li Xiaoyu, then he is not Li Xiaoyu. You know what I mean?"

Zhou An was stunned for a moment and nodded violently. He suddenly understood that Shen Chi knew everything, and he was just helping him out.

Shen Chi waved his hand and said, "Go back to work now, you just got married, just work hard and I will reward you."

Zhou An was in a daze for a moment and hurriedly said, "Thank you, thank you so much, Madam Shen."

Shen Chi narrowed his eyes, he knew everything. Li Hong, Li Xiaoyu's elder brother, was a scoundrel. He didn't do anything all day, but his parents doted on him. It was Li Hong's idea to sell Li Xiaoyu to the dying person for money. He took the money before Li Xiaoyu knew about it.

After that, Li Xiaoyu committed suicide and people all thought he was drowned. The dying man's family asked Li Hong to return the money.

Li Hong had already gambled the money away, naturally he had to ask his parents to return the money for him.

Shen Chi was furious when he heard the story, he hated it when parents showed favoritism. Most parents thought less of their Bio kids just because they were Bios.

Zhou An walked into the house and found Li Xiaoyu.

"Xiaoyu, where did you just go?"

Li Xiaoyu blinked and said in a panic, "I heard that my family came just now. I was scared, so I hid."

Just now, there was a ruckus outside and Li Xiaoyu also wanted to come out to see the situation, but Han Xiao Zhou knocked on his door and asked him to hide away, saying that it was Shen Chi who asked him to do so.

Zhou An nodded and said, "It's good that you have hidden away, no need to talk to those greedy people. The matter has been resolved, you don't have to be afraid any more."

Zhou An then told Li Xiaoyu what Shen Chi said. Li Xiaoyu couldn't help but cry.

At dusk, Shen Chi returned to his residence.

"You're back?" Chen Xiao Cai looked at Shen Chi with a bright smile on the face.

Shen Chi blushed slightly and said awkwardly, "Why do you look at me like this? Did you hear anything?"

Chen Xiao Cai smiled and said, "I heard that you, Ah Chi, have upheld justice for our fisherman today."

"At the sight of injustice, draw a sword and render help, that's my principle" Shen Chi said casually.

Chen Xiao Cai narrowed his eyes and said, "To deal with that kind of person, you have to use some strategy. Ah Chi, you did well."

Li Xiaoyu's story reminded Chen Xiao Cai of his childhood, his Second Uncle tried to sell him for money as well. Chen Xiao Cai felt sorry for what Li Xiaoyu had gone through.

Shen Chi smiled and said, "Maybe. Our people have beaten them up, I don't think they have the guts to come to our dormitory and look for trouble again."