Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

Village chief Li always kept an eye on Li Mengyue. Wherever Li Mengyue looked, he would follow.

"Hey, this footprint is so big, it must be a man's."

The villagers who were watching also saw the footprints and echoed the sentiment.

"It's just men's. Women's feet aren't that big."

"What should I do? How can I find out who it belongs to?"

“I don’t know if he is from our village.”

"You are talking nonsense, how could you be from our village? Everyone knows how useful waterwheels are for irrigation. If it weren't for waterwheels, we would probably still be carrying water for irrigation. And if it weren't for bamboo pipes to bring water down from the mountains, there's no doubt that we won't have a good harvest this year."

"Of course I understand what you said, but I can't guarantee that anyone has bad intentions."

"Village chief, I feel the same way. You can't tell a person's true heart from his appearance. Who knows if someone did it on purpose?"

Village Chief Li looked at everyone talking at once and did not answer. He turned around and asked Li Mengyue in a low voice: "Yue girl, what do you think?"

"Grandpa Village Chief, I have an idea. I wonder if you agree with it."

"Girl Yue, don't worry, just speak up."

“You can ask all the adults in the village to come and stand on the footprints.”

After Li Mengyue said this, not only Village Chief Li, but also the villagers who were watching understood what Li Mengyue meant, and then someone took the lead to step forward.

"I have no objection. I'll stand up right now."

"Look, it's not me."

"I am coming too."

Then all the villagers near the river tried it.

The result is obvious, no one's footprints match.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that it wasn’t done by the villagers, it just means that it wasn’t done by the people by the river.

"If you have food, go home and get the gong, and gather all the villagers to the river."

"Okay, Dad."

Li Youliang's efficiency was quite high. In less than a quarter of an hour, the riverside was crowded with people, young and old, men, women, and children.

At this time, many people were confused and didn't know why the village chief asked them to come here.

However, those standing in front had already seen the miserable state of the waterwheel and bamboo pipes.

The people who came later also learned about this from people who knew the situation, and most of them had the same reaction, hating the bad guys very much.

Of course I am willing to cooperate and find out the person who caused the damage as soon as possible.

However, there was one person in the crowd who was hesitant and wanted to sneak away when no one was paying attention.

Goudan's mother was chatting with Dazhu's mother when she was bumped into. She stopped talking and saw Liu walking out of the crowd with her head down. She said casually, "Hey, Liu, it's not our turn yet. You can't leave yet."

Unexpectedly, Liu jumped up and down as if she was stung by a bee and replied loudly.

"When did I say I was leaving? Which eye of yours saw me leave?"

At first, Goudan’s mother didn’t think there was anything wrong and just asked a casual question.

If Liu had talked to her nicely, she wouldn't have cared. But now seeing Liu's guilty look, she felt that something was wrong and she couldn't let Liu leave.

So he gave a look to Dazhu's mother, Li Yan's mother, and Beibei's mother, and they worked at Li's house every day.

They are all good at work and chatting doesn't bother them, so they chat every day.

The content of the chat was nothing but gossip about other people. Of course, he knew about the Liu family and was also aware that when the well was being dug, Liu jumped into the pit in an attempt to stop it.

Living in the same village, they were very clear about what had happened to Liu.

Although I feel a little sympathetic for Liu, who gave birth to three daughters and had a hard life in her husband's family.

Wang Lai beat her every few days, and the three girls were also beaten and scolded every day.

But they did try to persuade her, but although Wang Lai Niang was not as cruel as Old Lady Li and spoke softly, what she did was shocking.

The more people advised people not to torture Liu's mother and daughter too much and to be nicer to them.

The more Wang Lai Niang became aggressive towards Liu, the more she didn't do it directly. She just mentioned it to her son.

Wang Lai's character is not very good, but filial piety is one of his strengths, and he does not doubt what his mother says at all.

Whenever Wang Lai'niang said that Liu did something wrong, Wang Lai would definitely not ask any questions and would just grab Liu and beat her up.

Although it is common for men in rural areas to beat their wives, none of them are as cruel as Wang Lai.

It was as if Liu was not the wife who slept in the same bed with him and gave birth to his children, but his sworn enemy.

Every time he beat Liu, he wished to beat her to death, but Liu always passively took the beating and had no intention of resisting at all.

Because in her opinion, Wang Lai is her heaven. No matter what Wang Lai wants to do to her, she cannot resist. Instead, she must try her best to cooperate.

But the consequence of this was that Wang Lai became more and more unscrupulous. Whenever he was not happy or saw something he didn't like, he would take it out on Liu.

The three daughters they had had never had a good day since they were born.

During the confinement period, Liu had to work, including doing housework and working in the fields.

Wang Lai Niang despised her granddaughter as a money-loser and didn't even look at her.

Liu had no choice but to leave her daughter in the house and feed her after she finished her work.

When the child was older, Wang Lai Niang arranged for him to do some work.

It is true that children from poor families grow up early, but when Liu's eldest daughter could not even walk steadily, Wang Lai Niang arranged for her to work.

Their village was originally poor, and all the children in the village were able to work.

But we always wait until the children are three or four years old to go to the woods to collect firewood, and never let the children do any heavy work.

But Wang Lai Niang didn't care about all this and left all the housework to Liu and her three daughters.

The reason why Goudan's mother, Dazhu's mother, Li Yan's mother and other women who worked in the Li family knew so much about Wang Lai's family's affairs.

That’s because Goudan’s mother is the Wang family’s neighbor, and the two families are separated only by a fence. Standing in the yard, one can see the Wang family’s situation clearly at a glance.

Goudan's mother couldn't stand the way the Wang family treated their children, but she was an outsider after all and couldn't say anything.

It was in this environment that Liu, a normal person, became a little crazy. She became jealous of the women in the village who lived better than her and wanted to take her daughter to die with her.

Some time ago, the water level in the river dropped and the wells in the village stopped producing water.

Without water to drink, the villagers would die of thirst in a few days.

When Liu learned the news, she was not afraid, but felt secretly excited.

She felt that God was still kind to her. Seeing how hard she was suffering every day, he stopped raining, leaving the people in Xinghua Village without water to drink, and they died of thirst like her.

This way, she and her daughter would not be so lonely on their way to death, together with the villagers.

But just when she was waiting for everyone to become thirsty and die together with the villagers, she didn't expect Li Mengyue to show up halfway.