Liu, who was already in an abnormal mood, showed signs of going crazy again under the stimulation of Widow Chen.

"Ah! Bitch, go to hell."

It seemed that Liu was about to crawl up to Widow Chen and start a fight of scratching her face and hair.

The two women standing nearby quickly grabbed Liu and saved Widow Chen from the disaster.

"Widow Chen, that's enough. I haven't settled the score between you and Wang Lai yet. If you continue to provoke Liu, your crime will be even more serious and your punishment will be increased."

Widow Chen stopped talking after hearing this, but she threw a coquettish glance at Liu.

Liu thought that Widow Chen was provoking her and wanted to struggle away from the two women and teach Widow Chen a lesson.

The village chief saw that Mrs. Liu and Widow Chen had finally calmed down, and his frown deepened instead of relaxing.

After all these years, he still hated dealing with conflicts between women.

Sometimes just a small thing, a word, a look, or even a blade of grass can become a reason for a quarrel.

Xinghua Village is neither big nor small. With a population of more than 400 people, there are conflicts among the villagers every day.

As the village chief, he had to deal with trivial matters all day long, which troubled him for a while and he didn't know how to solve them.

Fortunately, Li Mengyue found work for everyone. Every day they were busy catching locusts in the fields to make money. They had no free time to argue with others over trivial matters.

If you have that much time, it would be better to catch a few more locusts.

It can be said that during the time he spent catching locusts, he was both busy and fulfilled. Seeing the village thriving, he felt so happy and lived an extremely comfortable life.

He never expected that when he was so happy about the changes in the village, a bad apple would appear and mess up the whole village, leaving everyone with nothing to eat.

He can tolerate anything and not care about anything, except when it comes to the issue of food and clothing for the village. No matter who sabotages it, he will never tolerate it.

Otherwise, if everyone follows suit, then what’s the point? We’ll just have to live the same life as before, with hunger and cold.

In his opinion, Wang Lai's family had nothing better to do than to get rich through hard work and instead of relying on their own hands, they resorted to unorthodox means.

Today he did nothing but correct this trend and give the villagers a warning so that they would not follow the example of Wang Po and Wang Lai and have any evil ideas.

"Wang Lai, you said you were at Widow Chen's house last night, so now explain to me why your shoe prints overlap."

"Village Chief, how would I know that? Now everyone knows that I was wrongly accused, you should have someone untie me!"

Seeing that he had been cleared of the charges, Wang Lai no longer felt the panic he had felt before. Instead, he stood up, walked up to the village chief, and proudly asked him to find someone to untie the rope for him.

But the village chief was not so easily fooled. He asked Widow Chen to come over to find out the real murderer.

Even if it's not Wang Lai, he is closely related to Wang Lai.

Besides Wang Po, the only person who could easily get Wang Lai's shoes was Liu.

Mrs. Wang loves her son dearly, so she would never do anything to harm him.

In other words, even if Wang Po wanted to do something bad in the village, she would only wear her own shoes.

What he couldn't understand was why Liu did this.

As a woman, what reason did she have to harm Wang Lai?

No matter how bad Wang Lai is, he is still his man.

"Wang Lai, it's not that I don't trust you. Even if you have an alibi now, you need to give a reasonable explanation for the shoe prints, otherwise it must be something you did in collusion with others."

Mrs. Wang tore the sleeve of the village chief's clothes and was held back by Zhou Juan, unable to move.

Worried about her son, Mrs. Wang finally had to compromise and paid five copper coins to settle the matter.

Afterwards, he hurried to the ancestral hall, fearing that his son would suffer.

She happened to come over and her son hadn't been beaten yet, so she was thankful.

But when I heard the village chief ask his son,

"Village head, Widow Chen has already proved that my son is innocent, why don't you believe it? What? You still want to put the blame on my son? I don't want that."

"Even if you are the village chief, you cannot abuse your power and convict my son without any reason!"

The village chief couldn't stand Wang Po's unreasonable behavior any more, so he asked two people to take Wang Po away.

"What are you doing? Don't touch me. My son is here. I won't leave..."

Mrs. Wang's noisy voice was getting farther and farther away.

The village chief looked at Wang Lai again, this time his expression was no longer gentle, and he said in a cold tone: "Wang Lai, if you can't explain the shoe prints, you will be beaten with fifty sticks!"

Wang Lai thought that he would be fine with the Widow Chen's proof, but he didn't know that the village chief also wanted him to reveal the shoe prints.

If he knew why the shoe prints were exactly the same as his, he wouldn't have to be tied up.

"Village chief, you are making things difficult for me. You don't know, so how can I know? Let someone release me quickly."

"Wang Lai, I don't think you will cry until you see the coffin."

"Li Nian, Li Yan, give me fifty blows of the stick for Wang Lai."

"Yes, village chief."

Li Nian and Li Yan moved a long bench out of the ancestral hall and pressed Wang Lai onto the bench.

The two men held sticks in their hands and raised them up and were about to drop them.

Wang Lai shouted when the stick was about to make close contact with his butt.

"Wait, I remember."

The village chief was waiting for Wang Lai to say this, and immediately waved his hand, signaling Li Nian and Li Yan to stop fighting.

"Village head, I know. It was Liu. The shoe prints were made by Liu."

After Wang Lai said this, there was an uproar in the crowd.

What Wang Lai said was really outrageous. How could a woman like Liu do such a thing?

"It was not worth it for Liu to marry Wang Lai. Not only did she give birth to three daughters for Wang Lai, but she also had to work from dawn to dusk every day. Even for this, she was often beaten and scolded by Wang Lai. Now that Wang Lai is in trouble, he has pushed Liu out without hesitation."

"Who said she wasn't? I still remember when Liu first married Wang Lai, she was very pretty. After all these years, if someone hadn't told me who Liu was, I really wouldn't have recognized her."

"I think it was most likely done by Liu. Even if Wang Lai is a bad guy, he wouldn't push his wife into the fire pit!"

"What's the big deal? There's an old saying that goes, 'Husband and wife are birds of a feather, but they fly away when disaster strikes.' Now, as long as Wang Lai can get himself out of this situation, he will hold on to the other party no matter who he is. Just wait and see!"

"Hey, I'm just a little curious, why did Wang Lai mention Liu? Is there something strange about this?"

"Who knows? We can only ask Wang Lai."

……

"Wang Lai, you said it was Liu, show us the evidence, you can't just say it was her without any evidence."

"Village chief, isn't this obvious? The shoe prints overlap with my shoes, so someone must have worn my shoes and done it. Who could have gotten my shoes in the middle of the night? My mother couldn't have gotten them, so the only one left is Liu."

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