Lin Jianshan hurried to Yuan's house to tell his family about this.

Upon hearing that Tiedan was missing, Liu, who had just woken up, suddenly regained her strength as if she had a last burst of energy. She hurriedly took her two daughters-in-law out to look for the child, and didn't even care about her own husband.

Village chief Lin was also anxious. He ignored Yuan Musheng's dissuasion and ran out to look for someone with his injured arm hanging.

Although Madam Rong disliked the Lin family, when she heard that the child was missing, she put down the work in her hands, asked her two children to look after Yuan Musheng, and ran out to help find him.

News spread quickly in the village. When they heard that Tiedan was missing, every family sent people to help find the child. For a while, the village was filled with voices shouting "Tiedan".

"Tiedan! Come home for dinner!"

"Tiedan, come out quickly, your father will beat you!"

"Tiedan! If you hear me, respond immediately!"

"Iron egg!!!"

Shitou helped shout a few times, but when he couldn't find anyone, he hurried back to tell his family what happened.

"Sister, let's help look for it." Shitou hated the Lin family, but what the adults did had nothing to do with the children. Many of the holes on the ground had not been filled yet, and he was worried that Tiedan might have rolled in.

"No need to look for him." Shang Wan glanced at the distant forest. "Tiedan is in the wolf den, Xiaohui is guarding him."

Shitou was surprised, "Why is Tiedan in the wolf den?"

After asking, he felt something was wrong and asked again, "Sister, how did you know?"

"The Lin family deliberately led the villagers to the old elm tree, using quarrels to delay time so that Tiedan could come to our house to bury the silver."

Shang Wan looked at Shi Tou and told him the whole story.

"If Xiao Hui hadn't been here, what Lin Jianshan dug out from the ground would have been silver, and we would have become thieves who stole the silver. Lin Jianshan has your brother-in-law's jade pendant in his hand, and the blame will definitely fall on him in the end. By then, he will have lost his title as a scholar, and your brother-in-law is disabled. If he gets stuck in a dead end and goes to extremes, what do you think will happen?"

“Yes, yes…” Shitou opened and closed his mouth several times before uttering the following words, “seeking suicide.”

Shang Wan didn't think Lu Chengjing would commit suicide. Even if he did, he would probably drag a few people down with him.

Shitou clenched his fists angrily, "My brother-in-law has never had any grudge against the Lin family, why do they want to kill my brother-in-law?"

"Use your brain." Shang Wan raised his hand and patted Shitou's forehead, "Think carefully, is it really the Lin family who wants to harm your brother-in-law?"

This slap hurt a lot, and Shitou's forehead turned red. He rubbed it while thinking, and suddenly thought of the key point, "Why is my brother-in-law's jade pendant in the Lin family?"

Lu Chengjing's jade pendant disappeared in prison. If it was for money, it might have been taken away by the bailiffs. But now the jade pendant appeared in the Lin family as evidence to frame Lu Chengjing. Obviously, the person who took the jade pendant did not do it for money. But who has the ability to reach into the prison?

The person behind the scenes went through such a long detour to deal with Lu Chengjing, and it was obvious that he had a grudge against Lu Chengjing. However, in Shitou's memory, although Lu Chengjing's temperament was a little cold, he was sensible in dealing with things and had never made enemies with anyone.

Shitou scratched his head but couldn't figure out who was behind Lu Chengjing, so he looked to Shang Wan for help, "Sister, I really can't think of it, just tell me who it is."

"If I knew, what else would I want to do?" Shang Wan shrugged, his tone was so righteous.

Stone:"……"

No, wasn't his sister testing him? Why didn't his sister know? Was she teasing him?

Shitou's dull expression once again pleased Shang Wan. She patted the boy on the shoulder and said, "Remember to use your brain. If you can't think of it this time, keep working hard next time."

Shi Tou: Please don’t let this happen again!

He shook his head and brought the topic back, "Sister, every family in the village has sent people to help find someone, let's shout a few times too, to appear sociable."

"No hurry, didn't you help look for it just now?" Shang Wan stretched lazily, "Go and help Xiao Huan set the table, I'll come after I finish moving the remaining wood."

"it is good."

Xiaohuan made four dishes and one soup. The rice was stewed with sweet potatoes and tasted like sweet potatoes.

Shang Wan picked out the sweet potatoes, let them cool down, and then fed them to the little guy who was waiting eagerly.

Yuanyuan likes the sweet taste of sweet potatoes. She doesn’t even eat egg custard and only eats sweet potatoes.

"Is the rice and flour at home almost gone?"

Hearing Shang Wan's question, Xiao Huan swallowed the food in her mouth and said, "We can still cook two more meals. Sister, should we buy in the village or go to the county town?"

"Go to the county town and take a look at the situation in the county town."

Shang Wan said as she put a piece of stir-fried pork slices into Lu Chengjing's bowl.

"There are many houses in the village that were damaged by the disaster. The Zhang family will have to take care of the repairs, and they will definitely be too busy. We can't delay building a new house. I'm thinking of going to the city to find a bricklayer. If the wages are right, I'll invite him back to build a new house for us."

Shitou couldn't help but mutter, "Sister, we haven't gathered enough money yet, it's too early to think about building a new house now."

Shang Wan didn't care, "Won't it be all right when the Lin family sends the money over?"

"That's only eighty taels."

Xiao Huan reminded Shitou, "There is also the Chen family's fifty taels, which adds up to a total of one hundred and thirty taels."

"No, it's one hundred and sixty taels." Shang Wan corrected. Since the Lin family planned to bury the silver in her territory, don't blame her for accepting it.

Xiaohuan didn't know that Tiedan was planning to bury silver in her house to frame her. Shitou simply told her about it, and Xiaohuan was so angry that she scolded the Lin family for corrupting their child.

Lu Chengjing finished the food in the bowl and put down his chopsticks, and calmly added: "It's two hundred taels. If the jade pendant is sent to the pawnshop, it can be worth at least forty taels."

The four of them looked at each other, Shitou was the first to hold back his laughter, Xiaohuan covered her chest happily, Shang Wan was amused by their exaggerated appearance, and Lu Chengjing's lips curled up.

Little girl Yuanyuan was concentrating on eating sweet potatoes and smacking her lips. Although she didn't understand what everyone was laughing at, it didn't stop her from joining in the fun with her two bright teeth grinning.

While one family is happily enjoying their future happy life, the other family is in a dark cloud and they have even shouted themselves hoarse trying to find someone.

"Brother, what did you ask Tiedan to do? It's already this time, stop hiding it!" Lin Jianshui knew that Lin Jianshan had asked Tiedan to do something, but he didn't know what it was specifically.

Lin Jianshan glanced at his father. Village Chief Lin looked unhappy. On the one hand, he was worried because his grandson was lost, and on the other hand, the wound on his arm was really painful.

"Dad, will Tiedan..."

"Let's talk about it when we get back." Village Chief Lin interrupted his eldest son, glanced at the villagers who were still helping to look for people, and said in a low voice, "This is not the place to talk."

Liu said anxiously, "Master, we haven't found Tiedan yet, so we can't go back!"

"Yes, Dad." Zhou agreed, "Can't we wait until Tiedan is back to talk about it?"

In the past, Zhou would not have dared to go against Village Chief Lin like this, but now that her son is missing, she is so anxious that she doesn't care about many things. She is just afraid that Tiedan will meet with an accident and die young like Daya. What's the difference between that and digging out her heart?

Village Chief Lin glared at the two of them and said, "Shut up, you from Lao Er's family stay here and continue searching, everyone else follow me back."

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