The female doctor farmed the land, bought a husband and set up a separate household

Led by Cao Yin, hundreds of people came to the burned-down shack of Jiang Sining's family.

Jiang Hua fainted just now. Several daughters-in-law pinched her Ren Zhong and poured cold water on her. She finally woke up now.

Seeing that other people's forests were all intact but her own was completely cleaned out, she felt so angry that she wanted to faint again.

Cao Yin found a big rock and stood on it, shouting, "Stop talking! We must find out how this fire started."

Everyone nodded.

The whole village came to put out the fire in such hot weather, and someone almost died. Shouldn't this be investigated thoroughly?

"Girl Mei," Cao Yin asked, "what were you three doing in the woods just now?"

When Jiang Qingmei saw Cao Yin calling her name, she became very nervous.

Although she didn't set the fire, she did want to set it, and she was caught by Muramasa when she ran out of the woods just now. She was afraid that she would not be able to wash herself clean even if she jumped into the Yellow River.

"Grandpa Muramasa, this is none of our business!" Jiang Qingmei said, "We were collecting firewood in the forest, and somehow the fire started."

"I don't know what's going on?"

Cao Yin was so angry that he almost laughed.

Do you think anyone would believe this?

"Oh, everyone knows that you are the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. You will marry into a wealthy family in the future," a villager said immediately. "You usually don't do housework, so when did you learn to collect firewood?"

"That's right. She usually wouldn't go out on such a hot day."

"We are really collecting firewood!" Jiang Qingmei said, "If you don't believe me, ask Jiang Yan! He knows!"

Cao Yin looked at Jiang Yan and asked, "Tell me what happened?"

"I..." Jiang Yan felt very nervous being watched by so many people, "He... they were picking up firewood..."

"Look, I didn't say anything nonsense, did I?" Jiang Qingmei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I already said it wasn't us."

"Xiaoyan," Jiang Sining asked, "how did you know they were collecting firewood?"

"Well...my cousin said that since they treated us badly in the past, they have to help us collect firewood." Jiang Yan said, "I don't want to, we have plenty of firewood at home, but they insisted on collecting it."

Everyone had an expression of "so that's what happened" on their faces at the same time.

You insist on giving it to someone even though they don't want it. No one would believe that there is nothing fishy going on!

"Just tell me, how could she be so kind?"

"To show your courtesy for nothing is to be either a traitor or a thief!"

"The three of them must have set the fire."

……

"Grandpa Muramasa, it really wasn't us!" Seeing that everyone was pointing their spearheads at her again, Jiang Qingmei was about to cry. She grabbed Jiang Hua's clothes and said, "Grandma, please say something! We really didn't set the fire!"

Jiang Hua still doesn’t know what kind of person her granddaughter is?

But she also knew that if this matter was really confirmed, it would not only be Jiang Qingmei who would be in trouble, but the entire Jiang family!

So even if I have to throw a tantrum today, I have to clean up this mess!

Not only do you have to clear yourself of the blame, you also have to find a scapegoat.

"You said it was my granddaughter who set the fire. Did anyone see it?" Jiang Hua pointed at Jiang Yan and said, "I think it was probably them who accidentally set the forest on fire while playing with fire at home!"

Cao Yin nodded slightly, feeling quite satisfied.

Jiang Hua's tactic of making random accusations worked well. Next, he could take advantage of the situation and smooth things over to get the matter over with.

Before he could say anything, Jiang Qingmei shouted anxiously, "Yes, it was them! They must have accidentally ignited the firewood pile and set the forest on fire!"

"We saw it too, he was just playing with fire!" Jiang Qinghai and his two brothers quickly echoed.

"I told him not to play, but he didn't listen!"

"I didn't!" Facing the Jiang family's false accusation, Jiang Yan was so anxious that he almost jumped up, "We didn't light a fire at all!"

"Yes! We all saw it!"

Cao Yin's face was rotten.

You three bastards, you’ll become dumb if you don’t talk!

Seeing that the blame was almost settled, Jiang Hua took a few steps forward, came to Cao Yin, and said righteously: "Cao Cunzheng, this little bastard burned our forest and made the whole village busy for a long time. We can't just let it go like this!"

Jiang Sining didn't wait for Cao Yin to speak before asking, "Then what do you think we should do?"

"What should we do?" Jiang Hua glared and said sternly, "Pay money! What else can we do?"

"How much compensation?"

"With so many trees, you have to pay at least 50 taels of silver!"

In order to get everyone to side with her, Jiang Hua said, "Also, everyone is almost getting sick from the heat from fighting the fire, and they are still worried. Everyone should pay 100 coins at least!"

Everyone looked at each other.

There are more than a thousand people in Liuyun Village. If each person is compensated 100 coins, that would be hundreds of taels of silver!

This old woman is determined to torture Ning's family to death!

"Cao Cunzheng, look, they have admitted it themselves!" "You need to uphold justice!"

Cao Yin wanted to slap her in the face.

A fool is a fool!

If someone dug a hole on the top of a mountain, she would happily climb up and jump in!

"Cao Cunzheng, please speak up!" Jiang Huashi wanted to make a final judgment as soon as possible, so she urged, "Everyone is waiting for your explanation!"

"It's not decided yet." Jiang Sining said, "Cao Cunzheng, please tell her where our family was when the fire started in the mountains?"

"Where else could you be?" Jiang Hua asked, "Even if you weren't at home, you must have seen that you got into trouble, got scared, and ran away!"

"Ahem," Cao Yin said with a light cough, "Ning's family of four were at my house and on their way here for half an hour before the fire started."

What?

Jiang Hua froze.

They are all at your house, why didn’t you tell me earlier?

"Ha ha……"

The villagers burst into laughter.

"Old Lady Jiang, what else do you have to say this time?"

"Hey, you did something wrong, but you have to put the blame on someone else. Now you're exposed, right?"

"Luckily, Muramasa was there to testify, otherwise you would have almost succeeded!"

"You just said that everyone has to pay 100 coins. Don't go back on your word!"

……

Jiang Hua turned around and glared at Jiang Qingmei and the other two, then said, "So what if it wasn't them? You don't have any evidence to say that it was my grandchildren who did it."

Upon hearing this, Cao Yin immediately said, "That's true. It's best not to jump to conclusions without solid evidence."

This is clearly an attempt to protect the Jiang family, right?

However, Jiang Sining had expected this to happen and said, "It's actually easy to find evidence. The person who set the fire must have something like flint on him."

As she spoke, she looked at Jiang Qingmei and said, "We just need to have someone search it and we'll know if it's true."

"Yes, yes!" Jiang Hua also said, "How can we set a fire without flint? Mei girl, let them search! If they can't find it, it's not you."

Jiang Qingmei's heart trembled and her heart sank in an instant.

She was so flustered just now that she forgot to throw away the flint in her pocket!

Seeing her pale face, Jiang Hua was also stunned.

Could it be that this eldest granddaughter really has a flint on her?

"Cousin," Jiang Sining said, "are you going to take it out yourself, or have someone search you?"

Jiang Qingmei knew that she was finished.

Just when she didn't know what to do, her mother Liu kicked her on the leg and whispered, "Why don't you run?"

Jiang Qingmei reacted instantly, yes, run!

If I just run a little further away and throw the flint away, won’t there be no evidence?

When the time comes, she can just say that she was scared and Grandpa Muramasa will definitely help her.

So she gritted her teeth, turned around and ran down the mountain.

But just after she ran a few steps, a small stone flew from somewhere and hit her knee accurately. The pain made her stumble and fall to the ground.

The women in the village reacted quickly and seven or eight of them rushed over and hurriedly took out the flint for making fire from her pocket.

"Look everyone, she is really carrying a flint!"

"The evidence is irrefutable! She was the one who set the fire!"

"Mrs. Jiang, you must give us an explanation today!"