Hearing Su Qingluan's words, Zhao Tianbao was so frightened that his face twitched.
However, he has been around for so many years, and it is not like he has never seen bluffing. Many times, as long as he denies it to the end, others usually have no way to do anything to him - after all, although his hands and feet are often dirty, he usually commits petty theft.
What's more, over the years, he has gained a lot of "experience" in trying to fight with others - he speaks vaguely and ambiguously, especially when meeting women, he will arrange things that slander a person's reputation. Many people want to avoid making the matter a big deal. , If you don't look embarrassed in front of outsiders, you will just grit your teeth and suffer the loss of being dumb.
However, today the eldest girl of the Su family didn't know why, but she didn't take her words to heart at all, and even said that she "didn't bring it upon herself"?
Did he really slip up unintentionally?
No, no, no - Zhao Tianbao shook his head secretly - he didn't say when and where he got the tip, and there was nothing he could do if he wanted to confront him.
Just when Zhao Tianbao was trying his best to comfort himself, he heard Su Qingluan sneer: "It seems that you can't shed tears without seeing the coffin. Since you said that after I 'gifted' this sachet to you, you were always hanging on Place it close to your body, let me ask you, how do you hang this sachet around your neck?!"
When everyone heard Su Qingluan's question, they subconsciously looked up at the sachet.
Originally, Su Qingluan's hand was holding the closing part of the sachet. It could be vaguely seen that the part held by the hand was a tightened string, but it was a mess and it was not clear what the length was.
But most sachets are tied around the waist.
Su Qingluan understood that someone like Zhao Tianbao who had temporarily stolen the sachet would not say it was "tied around the waist" - after all, if that was the case, the red sachet was very eye-catching, and in the countryside Farmers have never seen anyone wearing a sachet. If they say that they have worn it for many days, but no one sees it, this lie is very easy to expose.
Since it can't be "tied around the waist", it's natural to find another place - and it doesn't sound like the sachet can be exposed to the outside.
In this case, "hanging it close to the neck" is very good. It is not easy to be questioned whether you are really wearing it, and it is easier to add an ambiguous and fragrant color. If you meet a girl with a thin skin, I am afraid that I'm going to die of shame and anger.
However, Zhao Tianbao thought wrong. Su Qingluan was not an ordinary young lady. She had already died once. In a sense, she could be thicker-skinned than the city wall. To her, this level of "rumors" It's worse than a mosquito bite.
Su Qingluan smoothed out the tangled rope bit by bit, letting it slowly reveal its original appearance - it was just a thin rope with a length of three inches at best, not to mention it was put around the neck of an adult. It can barely fit on the little lady's wrist.
"I'd like to invite this... um, the young man of the Zhao family to tell me," Su Qingluan suppressed her thoughts about wanting Zu An. After all, she didn't announce the "splendid articles" such as "little brat" and "bastard". Yukou said, "How on earth did you hang it on your neck with such a short string?"
"I...this..." Zhao Tianbao hesitated for a long time, but he seemed to be a bit rogue, "I used another straw rope to pass through it, but I don't know when it broke!"
In fact, although the folks in Huaxi Village are all simple-tempered, they are just honest and honest, not stupid or mentally retarded. Seeing that Zhao Tianbao was so guilty and didn't match what he said before, he basically understood that he was just being tough and refused to admit to stealing.
Therefore, even if he came up with a new reason, some people still shouted: "Just admit it quickly - it's not the first time, everyone is used to it."
"Hahahahahaha..." The people around burst into laughter.
Zhao Tianbao was quite a scoundrel. He scratched his neck, his face turned red and he said unconvinced: "I said I didn't steal it! You have no evidence, so you can't slander a good person like this!"
Su Qingluan said in her heart that if you were considered a "good person", all the "bad people" in the world would be dead!
However, she could see who was good and bad, and she just wanted to quickly get rid of the person in front of her and then have a good rest - she was too tired today.
So she turned her palms and faced everyone: "Everyone, please look!"
"Hey!" Su Guangfu looked at his eldest daughter's palm and was startled, almost letting the restrained Zhao Tianbao escape.
Zhao Tianbao originally felt that the force of the restraint on his body had weakened and wanted to jump up and run away. However, Su Guangfu regained consciousness and pushed him down again. He was grinning in pain and howling like a wolf.
"Da Ya, your hand is bleeding?" Su Guangfu pressed the chicken-like Zhao Tianbao under his hand again, but his eyes were fixed on Su Qingluan's palm.
Su Qingluan was obviously shocked when she saw her father's reaction. She quickly waved her hands to comfort her: "Don't worry, father, it's just fading."
The elders who were not very involved in laundry were a little unresponsive, but the two daughters-in-law who came to help with the big pot of rice suddenly realized: "Hey, eldest girl of the Su family, weren't you holding that red sachet just now? ?”
The other one also nodded and took over the conversation: "Hey, the color has faded so much in such a short time? Whose fabric is it from? I won't be able to buy it next time!"
Su Qingluan smiled and shook her head: "I can't remember which one, but just because the fabric has faded so badly, the color is fresh, but my mother-in-law has never used it to make clothes for us."
As she said that, she wiped her palms casually: "I just sweated a little on my palms and the fabric faded so badly. I wonder how the clothes of this 'personal keeper' were stained?"
When everyone saw this, they looked at Zhao Tianbao again.
A few meddlesome people stepped forward and shouted: "Search him! He said he would carry it with him, so let's take a look at his clothes and see if there are any marks of this red cloth!"
Since a little sweat on the palm of your hand can cause serious staining, if you carry it close to your body, it is impossible for your clothes or skin not to be stained at all.
So several people rushed to take off Zhao Tianbao's clothes. Although Su Qingluan didn't have any self-restraint of "see no evil", she also understood that, at least in front of outsiders, she still couldn't go too far.
So she turned around very consciously and allowed Zhao Tianbao to cry like a ghost.
Finally, Zhao Tianbao's clothes and skin were naturally very clean - but his hands were a little lighter red than blood. It was obvious that he stood on them while stealing things.
The evidence was now conclusive. If Zhao Tianbao had not vowed before that the sachet was "carried close to the body", the crime of theft would not have been confirmed. However, now, because of his usual desire to falsely accuse the woman of her innocence, his guilt has become certain.
Now that the evidence is available, according to the laws of the Sheng Dynasty, no matter how low the value of the stolen items is, as long as it is proven that the person has stolen, he will be whipped at least fifty times.
