Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

When Li Yu rushed to the village from home, Qian was still slandering her unscrupulously.

"You see, all the customers at her stall are men, not a single decent girl.

In my opinion, she must have a private relationship with those people.

Poor Xiu Wen, he spent more than ten taels of silver to marry a wife, but ended up marrying a promiscuous woman.

You guys think... could it be that Xiu Wen was killed by Li Yu?"

The last sentence was so horrifying that the noisy scene suddenly fell silent.

Everyone felt that Han Xiuwen's death was sudden, but no one thought about anything else. After all, there were several people who died suddenly in the village in recent years.

But after Qian said this, they felt that it was not impossible. For a moment, the expressions of several people changed.

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A dozen meters away, Aunt Wu, who had dragged Li Yu to argue with Qian, was so angry that she wanted to slap her hard, but was stopped by Li Yu.

"You stay here and watch while I tell her."

Li Yu pursed her lips and smiled suddenly, "Mrs. Qian said that I harmed Xiu Wen, do you have any evidence?"

No one expected Li Yu to come, and everyone looked at her.

Qian felt a little guilty, but soon, that guilt was replaced by jealousy, "Of course."

"Oh? Really? Well, since Sister Qian said I killed someone, let's go to the county now. After all, I'm a murderer, and you have to ask the county magistrate to arrest me."

When Qian heard the county magistrate's title, she shuddered subconsciously and said, "I won't go." The county magistrate was very scary, and she didn't want to be beaten.

Li Yu didn't let her go. "How can you not go, Sister Qian? You said I committed a heinous crime, so you have to send me to jail and let the county magistrate chop off my head. Otherwise, you won't be able to sleep well. After all, I am a murderer. I might kill you one day."

Qian was frightened by the words "beheading" and "murder" in her words and dared not move.

Li Yu looked at the other villagers and said, "Everyone heard what Sister Qian said just now. I think for the safety of the village, Sister Qian should go to the county with me. Don't you agree?"

"Of course it should be done." Aunt Wu understood what Li Yu meant and said, "Qian, since you have evidence, why don't you go to the county and have Li Yu beaten and thrown into jail? That way we can feel at ease."

Some villagers were incredulous at Aunt Wu's words and whispered, "Aren't you on good terms with Li Yu?"

Aunt Wu grinned, "No matter how good the relationship is, life is more important. I think we should go to the county. If Li Yu is really the one who killed Xiu Wen, then she deserves to die. If not, she can be cleared of all charges.

If we don't go to the county, and the matter is unclear, who knows how everyone will frame us privately, and won't Li Yu be wrongly killed and no one will care?"

"The Wu family is right." Old Lady Wang came over at some point, "We have to make things clear, otherwise everyone will be scared in the future.

Don’t forget, we all came here to escape famine from other places. We have finally found a stable life, and we must not ruin it.”

The reason why Qingshui Village has multiple surnames is that it is a village made up of people who fled famine. Everyone reclaimed wasteland and cultivated crops on this land, which led to its current scale.

"Grandma Wang is right." A villager said, "Qian, you should go to the county."

"Yes, go ahead. I'll go with you and see what the county is like."

"I want to go too, but unfortunately I have to take care of the children, that's all."

"It may not be possible for us to go alone. We should ask the village chief to come. He knows more."

"indeed so."

When they heard the village chief arrive, everyone came forward to talk to him.

The village chief barely understood what everyone meant, and was very angry when he learned that Qian had fabricated Li Yu's murder.

On the day Xiu Wen died, he only had contact with Li Yu when he picked up the bride in the afternoon, and they both observed etiquette during that time and did not have any physical contact. He died suddenly while entertaining guests. The doctor confirmed that he was not poisoned and died suddenly, but Qian was still talking nonsense. She was really idle.

At the same time, he was also surprised that Li Yu took the initiative to go to the county.

Is the county government a place where one can go whenever one wants? She is not afraid of being beaten.

But on second thought he understood Li Yu's intention. The villagers were used to talking nonsense. If he didn't make it clear now, if something happened in the village in the future, someone would say that Li Yu was responsible.

The village chief held his brows tightly, his eyes sharp, "In that case, if anyone wants to go to the county with us, let's go now."

Go ahead. This Qian Shi does not follow the rules. Let her go to the county to learn her lesson. By the way, give other people a warning and urge them to keep their mouths shut and not talk nonsense.

Seeing that the village chief really wanted to go to the county, Qian became afraid and panic flashed in her eyes.

"I..." She shouted, "I still have to sell snails in the afternoon, I won't go!"

Aunt Wu raised her voice and threatened, "Does selling snails have a life that's more important than selling them? You should go and deal with Li Yu first, or she will come to your house tonight and kill you."

Others said, "It's like this, Sister Qian, you were the one who said Li Yu killed someone, and you have evidence, so you have to go."

"If you don't go, it's useless for others to go."

Qian shook her head, "I won't go, I won't go."

Li Yu watched the show for a while and spoke again, "Mrs. Qian, since you have evidence, why don't you go? You see, you are selling snails now, and your business conflicts with mine. If I die, your business will improve. You have never dared to go, are you lying?"

Qian: “…”

The villagers are not fools. Seeing this situation, there is nothing they don’t understand.

"This sister-in-law Qian is too much. If you don't like someone, just say it honestly. How can you commit murder for no reason?"

"She's not afraid of retribution!"

"Luckily I didn't listen to her just now."

Qian was furious when she heard this. "Even if you didn't kill anyone, it's true that you seduced someone. Whose daughter-in-law can do business like you? No one saw it. She was on the street, she was so wanton, like a vixen."

The smile on Li Yu's lips disappeared: "How can I be dissolute?"

Qian: "Don't you know how you laughed when you talked to those men? You should cry when your husband just died!"

Li Yu: "What does Sister Qian mean by this? You can't smile at customers when doing business? If you're not respectful to customers, then why are you setting up a stall? Come to think of it, Sister Qian didn't seem to have much business today. Well, I really can't do the same as you. Xiaomei and Han Zheng are still young, and I have to earn some money to support them in their food, drink and schooling."

Qian: “…”

Li Yu crossed her arms and said, "Sister Qian, I am different from you. I am a widow and I have always been afraid of rumors. You slandered me without any scruples. It can be said that you want me to die. I have a bad temper and I will never tolerate it. Today I will give you two choices. Either you apologize to me in front of the whole village and tell everyone that you deliberately lied and said bad things about me, or we go to the county and ask the county magistrate to judge the matter."

Qian's anger overshadowed her fear of losing face in front of so many people. "You keep asking the county magistrate for help. Do you think I'm afraid?"

"It seems that Sister Qian wants to choose the second path. Okay, let's go to the county now and let the county magistrate make a good judgment. But I have to say this in advance. This is because you agreed to go. When the time comes, whether the county magistrate beats you with a stick or fines you, it is all your own fault and has nothing to do with me."

Some families knew that they could eat meat if they followed Li Yu, so they stepped forward and said without waiting for Li Yu to ask: "Xiu Wen's wife, everything must have a witness. I will go with you."

Li Yu nodded.

Qian: “…”

"What are you arguing about?" A thin man rushed into the crowd and slapped Qian in the face before anyone could react. "I was wondering why you didn't go home. It turns out you're here to cause trouble for me."

Facing her own boss, Qian released her grievances and tried to get him to help: "Boss, Li Yu brought others to bully me!"

Wu Dagou had actually been here for quite a while, but because he was short, he had been standing at the back and no one else saw him. Now, looking at his own wife who was embarrassed, he wanted to beat her to death, not to mention helping her.

But since everyone in the village was there, he could only hold back and turned to rebuke Qian: "You are the one who deliberately caused trouble for others, and you are still complaining. Come on, apologize to Xiuwen's wife."

Qian couldn't believe it: "Boss, Li Yu bullied me."

Wu Dagou couldn't bear it anymore and slapped Qian's face seven or eight times, "Hurry up and apologize, or I'll divorce you!"

Qian was horrified. She couldn't be divorced, otherwise she would not be able to live a normal life.

Not daring to provoke Wu Dagou again, Qian turned to Li Yu and said, "I'm sorry, I was talking nonsense."

Li Yu said: "No one in the village is here. Let's wait until the evening. Then we can call everyone out and talk to you then."