Chapter 126:
Luo Zhi’er entered the room to tidy up a bit, then took Miaomiao into the village!
Unexpectedly, they caught her so quickly!
Miaomiao also asked her, she clearly hadn’t broken any corn but still had to compensate with silver!
Why?
She just wanted to let this thief relax her guard, let her quickly reveal her true colors and commit the crime again!
She hadn’t expected her to be so unable to stay calm, getting caught so quickly.
These six hundred wen weren’t much to her, it was worth it to catch the thief!
She didn’t want to bear the reputation of a thief, making Miaomiao unable to hold her head up in the future.
Mother and daughter tidied up cleanly and arrived there.
Many villagers had already gathered at the grinding stone, surrounding a woman in the middle.
Everyone was cursing: “How is it you, Er Wa’s Wife?”
“I said it, there’s no way our village has so many thieves!”
“It’s you, that’s right!”
“Pah!”
“Er Gouzi is paralyzed, and you’ve taken over!”
Luo Zhi’er pulled Miaomiao and squeezed in, glimpsing that person through the gaps in the surging crowd.
It matched the person she had envisioned. Wasn’t this person exactly Li Ergou’s wife Yang Juhua? Unexpectedly, there was also Gou Sheng that child.
Village Chief Li Zhengxin saw Luo Zhi’er arrive and nodded slightly to her. This matter was her idea to them!
Unexpectedly, they really caught her. That day they deliberately had the villagers keep it secret, letting everyone temporarily believe the thief was caught, and that person was Luo Zhi’er.
To let the real thief relax her guard, then sent Zhao Hu and a few others to hide in the shadows, silently observing!
Luo Zhi’er said that since this thief had tasted the benefits, she would surely not be able to resist committing the crime again, because she determined that that day she had gone in a hurry without bringing her belongings.
Moreover, she couldn’t help drooling over that Chinese cabbage, let alone the thief who hadn’t touched a single one. This time she would definitely make full preparations, and sure enough.
When she couldn’t control herself and committed the crime again, that would be the best time to catch her!
Li Ergou’s Wife saw everyone surrounding her and pointing, she couldn’t stand it anymore and wailed loudly, “You’re just bullying my man because he’s paralyzed in bed and can’t move, using me and my son as scapegoats!”
“Er Wazi’s Wife, what you’re saying, we’ve caught you red-handed, and you’re still quibbling?”
Village Chief Li Zhengxin said angrily.
“Exactly, we’ve caught you in the act, and you’re still mouthing off. If you ask me, sit on the Chun Deng and you’ll come clean!”
A villager said.
“No, I, I was just like Luo Zhi’er, taking Gou Sheng to catch crabs!”
“Gou Sheng, tell them, didn’t Mother take you to catch crabs?”
Gou Sheng’s snot was dangling long, probably scared and cried for half a day!
He didn’t dare make a sound, now hugging his head, “I don’t know, I don’t know, I was just helping in the field!”
Ju Hua Shen refused to admit it no matter what, still saying the same thing as when she first arrived!
There was indeed a wooden bucket on the ground, with two crabs inside, and quite a few frogs had already jumped out.
They jumped to Luo Zhi’er’s feet.
“Croak! Croak!”
Luo Zhi’er frowned upon seeing this!
Nearby there was also a bamboo basket, covered with pig feed, revealing some fresh green corn cobs.
“Make way, make way!”
Zhao Hu brought two people carrying a bamboo basket over!
“Village Chief Uncle, we found the things, all here!”
Li Ergou’s Wife looked up and saw, “This is it!” She trembled in fright and accidentally wet her pants.
Normally if Li Ergou were still able-bodied, the couple would coordinate, and Li Ergou would have dealt with it and hidden it long ago.
Now Li Ergou couldn’t move, he could only watch helplessly as Zhao Hu and the others searched out the things, his eyes bulging with anger but to no avail.
“This isn’t, this is corn I broke from my own field!” Yang Juhua said stubbornly!
“Oh?”
Village Chief Li Zhengxin dumped the bamboo basket upside down in front of everyone, goodness, more than a dozen Chinese cabbages rolled out together.
“This corn matches the size and variety of the corn found at your home. As far as I know, your family’s field had no corn harvest this year.”
This couple, Li Ergou didn’t do proper work, Yang Juhua managed both home and field alone.
In the field, to hurry, they scattered corn kernels on the ground, plus the dry weather in the first half of the year, the corn grew poorly, with few cobs.
Even if there were any, they were very small, without kernels.
“And this Chinese cabbage, you can’t deny this, right?”
Yang Juhua couldn’t think of an excuse for the moment!
“You Yang Juhua, so it’s you, this wicked-minded woman.”
“His mother, calm down, calm down.”
Li Erdan was afraid his wife would get overly agitated.
“You made me wrongly blame Luo Zhi’er yesterday, you wicked woman, I’ll make you pay!”
Li Erdan’s Wife let out two yells and rushed over to hit her.
This time Li Erdan didn’t stop her.
He just covered his eyes, leaving a gap!
Better let her vent! Better!
Before Village Chief Li Zhengxin could send someone to pull her away, Li Erdan’s Wife went over and grabbed her hair.
She yanked it several times, pulling so hard that Li Ergou’s Wife squealed like a pig.
“Murder! Oh no, murder!”
“Scream! I’ll make you scream!”
A few slaps across the face, making Li Ergou’s Wife’s ears buzz loudly.
Blood flowed from the corner of her mouth too, seeing her like this, Li Erdan’s Wife still didn’t feel relieved.
But when a foul stench came from under her, and seeing the wet stain on the ground,
Li Erdan’s Wife disgustedly dropped her, cursing: “Bad luck!”
“Help! Heavens, Li Erdan’s Wife is going to kill!”
“Yang Juhua, scream again, see if I don’t beat you to death!”
Li Erdan’s Wife was extremely annoyed hearing her shout, and thinking of that pile of things ruined by her on the ground, she trembled with anger!
She rolled up her sleeves to fight again!
“Er Dan’s Wife, enough, you’ve hit her, let her explain the situation first!”
Two more slaps!
“Ah! What sin! Help, someone save me!”
Village Chief Li Zhengxin couldn’t bear to watch and quickly stopped it.
“Stop! Stop!”
“What more is there to say, caught red-handed, Yang Juhua you thief woman!”
“Um, Er Dan’s Wife, cool down, calm down! Everyone knows what’s going on, her family has a record!”
“We should handle this fairly first, otherwise people will say our Zhao Li Village is using private punishment. It’s not worth it to cause a death over some corn cobs!”
Zhao Zuzu added.
Li Erdan’s Wife glared at the woman on the ground and disgustedly clapped her hands!
So dirty, this thief woman, hitting her dirtied her hands.
The sounds of spitting, ridicule, and accusations all entered Li Ergou’s Wife’s ears, she really wanted to bury her face in the dirt!!
“Don’t hit me, it was all my mother who told me to go help!”
Gou Sheng saw his mother beaten like that, Village Chief Li Zhengxin squinting at him, scaring him into immediately yelling and confessing honestly.
“Drive them out! Drive them out!”
“Our village doesn’t welcome them, not one good in this family!”
They could see it too, this Gou Sheng had learned his parents’ ways, stealing and trickery.
It wasn’t that they were heartless, this Li Ergou family had always been a scourge to them.
Many young women from other villages, hearing Zhao Li Village had such people, weren’t willing to marry over.
They had vented quite a bit to families from other villages arranging marriages, now it’s so hard to get a wife.
Others would vaguely mention it, before they would brush it off.
Saying that was in the past, ever since his legs were broken he had given up those thoughts.
But recently he got another leg broken!
Now even better, his wife and son had started working too.
Not to mention their own things not being safe, this had ruined Li Shi’s reputation.
“Er Wa’s Wife, what do you have to say?”
Village Chief Li Zhengxin said sternly and very fairly, staring at her.
“No, you can’t drive us out, I, I really didn’t steal!”
“Hm?”
He gave her a cold glance.
“You sure?”
“No, I, this isn’t stealing, I just saw that corn growing well and took some.”
“Took some? Damn it, you took some by randomly breaking and pulling in my field?”
“Why don’t you take some from your own and give to everyone!”
Li Erdan was furious!
Still dare to say took some?
Did they think he Li Erdan was easy to bully?
