Village Chief Wu had witnessed the whole process in the Lu family's house. At this moment, he didn't believe Wang's sophistry at all. He laughed and said: "Ha! Someone else dug the hole? Why don't you see other people fall in? It's just you every time!" "
Chief Chu was also shocked after hearing Chu Yi's words. He had always thought that after the Chu family had two quarrels last time, they separated and completely severed their relationship, finally they were in trouble, and then it was time to calm down. , who knew that Wang was such a restless person, how could he know how to handle it!
"Ms. Wang, what else do you have to say! The whole village has seen with their own eyes that your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are pretending to be ghosts and scaring people. How can it be fake!"
Wang was at a loss for words at this time and could only shake her head and keep repeating her excuse: "I didn't, I just wanted to scare the Lu family. It was Chu Yi who plotted against me. I was tricked." !」
Chu Ren, who had just been choked by Chu Yi, realized at this moment that when his house was set on fire during the day, his intuition was not wrong at all. His mother-in-law had indeed done something stupid again behind the family's back. Not only that, she actually did it this time. Together with Mr. Li!
But at the moment, these crimes cannot be admitted. Once you admit this matter, it will not be as simple as being said to be coveting the younger generation's business and causing harm behind the scenes. If you admit it this time, it will be equivalent to admitting the relationship between yourself and the family. The whole village is the enemy, and I am afraid it will be difficult to make a living in the supporting village from now on!
"Village chief, clan chief and fellow villagers, please listen to me! Although my mother-in-law is a bit domineering on weekdays, she can never be so evil as to harm the whole village. Just like what Li just said, they Today I just want to scare the Gero family. What happened before has nothing to do with my Chu family, and my mother-in-law was just being used!
My cousin said that my mother-in-law did this in order to disrupt their business, but folks should know that my family has not sold paper money for a long time. My family does not sell paper money, and there is no competition between our two families. Auntie, why is she having trouble with your cousin? "
When Mrs. Wang heard Chu Ren excusing herself, she nodded desperately: "Yes, yes! That's it! My family doesn't even sell paper money, so why should I ruin your family's business? I just don't like the Lu family. , I heard it was haunted recently, so I was confused for a moment!"
Chu Ren lowered his head and bowed to the apologetic Chu Yi, but his mouth seemed to be uncontrollable, and he smiled contemptuously: "Cousin, my mother did do a lot wrong before, cousin, I will do it for her. I apologize to you and your siblings. It’s just that this time the village is haunted and the impact on your family’s business has nothing to do with my mother-in-law. My cousin can’t blame what happened to your family in the future just because of some misunderstandings that happened before. Everything is related to my grandma, these are just your guesses, they don’t count, let alone the suspicion that there is deliberate intention here!”
Others might give Chu Ren some face, but Shen Songze would not do that at all. Anyone who bullies his sister and brother-in-law is bullying him. He directly said sarcastically: "As expected of a scholar, I can say this in detail today. My son was caught and all the stolen goods were stolen. You actually came out and apologized. What did you do earlier? I think you shouldn’t be called Chu Ren at all. It’s all in vain! You should be called Chu Xu. You’re hypocritical. It’s empty!”
"you!"
Youdao is when a scholar encounters a soldier, and you can't explain the truth clearly! A hypocrite like Chu Ren who is used to being sanctimonious is naturally more afraid of meeting a straight and muddy person like Shen Songjie. It was inconsistent with his identity to argue with him, and continuing to explain seemed to corroborate the other person's words.
Among the relatives near and far in the Chu family, Chu Ping's eldest cousin was the one who had been annoyed the most since he was a child. He always felt that he was very fake, but he was always the one who suffered the loss. Now after listening to Shen Songjie's words, he felt as if he had found As if he knew his best friend, he hurriedly echoed: "That's right, eldest cousin, are you too unkind? How can you act as if you only know these things today? It's not a good idea to blame it all on your own mother-in-law." Son! You said that we were all guessing and it didn’t count, just like what you said yourself. Do you have any evidence that we deliberately set you up?"
Chu Ren was so angry that he turned livid. In the past, he was the only scholar in the village. No matter whether he was an elder or a commoner, everyone was polite and courteous to him. Even in the past two years, he had failed many tests and the Chu family's reputation had become worse and worse. It was getting worse, but no one still dared to say anything in front of him. Today, the Shen family and Chu Ping were doing well. One said he was hypocritical, and the other said he was unkind. Really
As if he, Chu Ren, have always been so great in his life!
"Evidence? Haha, someone just set a fire in my yard this afternoon. Chu Yi, do you dare to say it wasn't you? During the day, I was wondering, who hates my family so much? I never thought it was my grandpa and grandma. My grandson! Haven't you ever thought about what to do if the fire is not controlled? Or is it that you, Chu Yi, just want my whole family to follow the fire? !」
Everyone really didn't expect that such an incident would happen in the Chu family during the day, and they all looked sideways at Chu Yi!
"It's true. I never heard that the Chu family is in trouble today! Aunt Xu, your family lives next to Mr. Chu's house. What did you see?"
When asked, Aunt Xu thought for a while and said, "I didn't see it. Our two families live next door. If his house is flooded, my family can't know at all. Old man, did you see anything?"
"I thought I heard someone shouting that there was a fire. I went out to see if there was not much smoke, and then went back!"
Chu Ren listened to everyone's discussion and continued to question Chu Yi: "Chu Yi, what else do you have to say? A man who doesn't even care about the lives of his own grandpa and grandma, what else can he say that is credible?"
"My eldest cousin just said that he wanted to tell me the evidence, but now he wants to accuse me directly. I don't know what he means! The village chief, the clan chief, the whole village is here today, you can ask in front of everyone , can anyone prove today that it was me, Chu Yi, who made his family angry?"
Arson is not a trivial matter. Village Chief Wu glanced at everyone present: "Has anyone seen it?"
Everyone, look at me and I'll look at you. We were having a lively conversation just now, but now no one can stand up and identify him. Chu Yi looked straight at Chu Ren and continued: "It seems that the eldest cousin has no evidence. But it doesn’t matter, I have it!”
"First, Mr. Wang found someone to spread rumors about his ancestors having dreams. Although I have no direct evidence for this, I can go to the county government office with these families to report it. If I am even half-false about this, I can do whatever I want."
Chu Ping echoed: "Why are you obsessed with Auntie, Aunt Zhao, and the others? Come with us at the Yamen tomorrow. If you find out who it is, you can just put it in jail. You can also save the money for the Chinese New Year." The official is coming to our village again!"
Those people were just thinking about making some money at the beginning, so how could they have known that this matter would become more and more serious. In fact, they had regretted it as early as when the village started to be haunted. Now, they are all shrinking like quails. My neck didn't even dare to respond.
The more these people behaved like this, the more guilty they seemed. There was nothing that everyone didn't understand. There were also people from other villages like Jiang Quan and the Shen brothers present. Village Chief Wu suddenly felt extremely embarrassed. He asked angrily: "Speak! Is it you or not?"
"We...we were all asked to do this by Mr. Wang. We thought we were just chatting...Village Chief, we were wrong. Don't report it to the official!"
When Mrs. Wang saw those women grabbing her, she was so anxious that she seemed to be going crazy. If she hadn't been tied up with Mrs. Li, she might have thrown herself in front of those women at this moment: "Fart, you guys." Shameless, you are talking nonsense!"
Chu Yi ignored Wang's shouting and continued: "Then the Liu family pretended to have a ghost in their house. His neighbor said that he saw a white ghost running from his house all the way to the backyard and then disappeared. We Outside the backyard of the Liu family, two white rags were found on the dead grass on the roadside. The one on Ms. Li’s body was the original one from the Liu family. It was made from the filial piety cloth left by the Liu family!”...
The fat aunt and the Qian family had been rubbing their hands together for a long time. When they heard Chu Yi talking about this, they stepped forward and took off the white robe from Li's body. After searching carefully, they really leaned down behind her. He found two damaged areas and hurriedly handed them to everyone: "Look, this is it! This is the one from the Liu family. They are a group of people. They have already discussed it, and they are here to deceive and scare us all. of!"
Mrs. Li was completely confused when she heard this. Where had she checked it? She had hidden the robe in the shop since she got it. She would only take it out when she needed it at night. Who would notice if there was any damage to this place? : "No, no..."
The one who was more confused than Mrs. Li was undoubtedly the old lady of the Liu family. She sent this robe to the Chu family that day.
I was afraid that the Chu family would send it back damaged, but I had clearly checked it in advance and didn’t see any damage at all!
"Impossible, that's not my family's, my family's is not broken!"
The fat aunt put her hands on her waist and glared at her: "You farted, maybe it was fat aunt that I broke for you just now in front of so many people!"
The fat aunt said this without any guilt, even though she knew that Zhao Cheng and Chu Yi had lost the wrapping of the cloth, and the damage on it was caused by Shen Luzhu's instructions after she and Qian made the white robe.
Speaking of this matter, it was Riyuan Shuang who brought it up. They only had evidence that Wang hired someone to steal the molds, but there was no evidence at all for pretending to be a ghost and scaring people. What if the other party refused to admit it? ?
So Shen Luzhu thought of such a trick, and made a new white robe for pretending to be a ghost. After making a mark, he used the incident of a fire in the backyard to attract everyone from Uncle Chu's family away, so that it would be convenient for Chu Yi. They exchanged the white cloth with Zhao Cheng. There was no evidence, so they gave the aunt the evidence themselves!
Chu Yi said calmly: "Who passed away in the village, how old and when, each family tree has records, and the filial piety cloth is also specially cut and purchased at the cloth shop according to the age of the man and woman. If the Liu family doesn't recognize it, they can just take it from their own family. Bring it out and confront Xiaobu!"
Chu Yi had long guessed that this filial piety cloth was probably not the only one in the Liu family. After all, ordinary people did not have a lot of white cloth, and the old lady of the Liu family had specifically told Wang that she would need this piece of cloth later. If the cloth is quickly returned to her, it will be impossible for the Liu family to take out another piece of mourning cloth and confront them.
The old lady of the Liu family was held there, unable to move in or out: "I, I... anyway, this is not my family!"
"Do you mean to admit that your family also has a set of white robes for ghosts? Didn't you just say that yours is not broken?"
"me……"
"It doesn't matter, it's up to the villagers to judge what's right and wrong. Here's the last thing. Wang asked someone to steal my family's paper money making mold, and asked the village chief to find someone to search it now. There is something specially made by my family. If you still don’t recognize the mark, I can also call the person Wang hired with money to confront you!”
