The casual life of the flat space

After Bai Tieying finished speaking, he ignored Aunt Yang and went straight to Baoer's mother and said, "Aunt, is the person who talked about Baoer on the mountain today here now?"

"Yes! It's the one with the white headscarf over there and the one next to her!"

"Aunts, you are not children anymore, I won't give you the money. But I don't mean to embarrass you, I just have one question: who told you that Baoer stole the money?"

Bai Tieying spoke faster and faster, and his voice became more and more severe. When he said the last sentence, the man in the white headscarf got scared and quickly said, "San'er's mother told me!"

"Okay, is this 'San'er's mother' here?"

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After Bai Tieying went to great lengths to make the whole village angry, everyone discovered that the rumor actually came from Lingzi, Chunhua and Laidi.

The three of them were not there, but Chunhua and Lai Di's families were there. The last one, Aunt Qi, said that she was pasting shoe soles behind the shoji at home when she heard the three children talking outside the shoji. The two families were immediately unhappy.

"Aunt Qi, please don't be unhappy when I tell you the truth. Everyone in Niujiao Village knows that you are a gossiper. I'm afraid you just picked a child to take the blame because our Chunhua is not at home? This is really not very kind of you!" Chunhua's mother rolled her eyes and said.

"That's right. You are well-informed, aren't you? The child didn't tell us that Baoer stole the Yang family's money, so how could you 'just happen' to hear it? I think Chunhua's mother is right. It's just that since our child was not at home, you had no place to hide it, so you blamed it on our child." Lai Di's mother also responded.

Aunt Qi heard the two people's accusations and snorted coldly, "Humph! Did I give you two a chance? I, Wang Bobo, spread gossip because you gave me something to spread. Why should I make it up? Is your family worth me making up?"

One tried every means to sell the child at a high price. Whenever the county magistrate came, he would paint the child with makeup and send him to the emperor. Bah! Chunhua was only seven years old and was sent to the wolf's den by her own mother. Did I make that up? Do I need to make that up? Anyone with eyes can see it, right?

Don't look back, Lai Di's mother! Look at the names you gave your children - Lai Di, Nian Di, Zhao Di, Pan Di. Are those names given to people? Didn't they come out of your belly?

If you don't give birth to a son, it's because your belly is not willing to give birth to a son. If you have the ability, don't take your anger out on the child! With your current condition, don't even think about giving birth to a son in this life!"

"You old hag, you gossipy, black-hearted old woman, I, I'm going to fight you!" Lai Di's mother felt hurt by Aunt Qi, and she immediately rolled up her arms and sleeves and was about to go forward and pull Aunt Qi's hair.

"Enough!" Bai Tieying shouted, and Mu Qingqiu immediately stepped forward and pressed their acupoints with his palms.

Giving Mu Qingqiu an appreciative look, Bai Tieying continued, "I'll beat you later if I want to. Now let me ask you, did Lingzi go out with your child?"

Lai Di Niang was being held in place by Mu Qingqiu, her eyes wide open, saliva dripping from the corners of her mouth that never closed, her whole body numb and stiff, unable to move, and she had no time to answer Bai Tieying's question. Seeing how powerful Mu Qingqiu's palm was, Chun Hua Niang swallowed her saliva and replied:

"Ah? Yes, yes, yes, so what? Young lady, even if the child spread this matter, couldn't she tell others about stealing money so that everyone would be on guard? Besides, they didn't tell anyone else. Didn't Aunt Qi overhear it?"

"Haha, we should put it aside for now if we overheard it. The children from both your families went out with Lingzi, right?"

"Yes, yes! How did you know?"

"How else can I know? There was such a big commotion in the village but the three of them didn't come out. How do you think I knew? You'd better think about when they left, where they went, and which road they took!"

"You, what do you mean?"

"What do you mean? He was fooled and thought he was responsible for someone's death, so he ran away!"

"What? What life?"

"Hey, I say, are you really not worried that you might not be able to find the child? Why are you still wasting time with me?"

"Yes, just now... Oh, right, not long after that little girl named Bao'er fainted, Lingzi came home and said that her father had sent a letter to the family, saying that he had made money in the county town and asked Lingzi to go to the county town to get it. Chunhua and Lai Di accompanied her and gave each of them ten cents. I, I let her go..."

"Ah!" Lai Di Niang was slapped by Mu Qingqiu again. After screaming, she also reacted and hurriedly said the same words as Chun Hua Niang.

The crowd watching also figured out something was wrong, and they all shouted at Chunhua's mother and Laidi's mother to chase after them quickly.

"Brother Mu!" Bai Tieying called out to Mu Qingqiu. Mu Qingqiu nodded, turned around to untie the Jiaomujiao tied to the hitching post, jumped on the horse, pulled the reins, and the Jiaomujiao started to move forward. In just two steps, it crossed the stone bridge and headed towards the county town.

"Okay, stop crying here, go home and find someone to look for the person in other directions! We can wait for the matter of Baoer, we have to catch the person red-handed to convince people!"

"Miss Bai, you mean..." Aunt Yang thought of something and exclaimed.

Bai Tieying ignored her and took Baoer's hand and walked into the main courtyard.

Some villagers felt sad when they heard Chunhua's mother and Laidi's mother crying, but there were also sober people who were determined to find the children first no matter what.

Bai Tieying led Bao'er into the house while asking Bao'er's mother what her plan was. After Bai Tieying's questioning, Bao'er's mother had a clue in her mind, so she smiled and replied, "It's all up to the master."

"Are there any other relatives back home?"

“My mother’s family is close, but my brothers and their families said they wanted to move south, so naturally my parents followed them.

When you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; when you marry a dog, you follow the dog. Baoer's father wanted to move north to live with his relatives. Besides, we didn't expect that our husband's family couldn't even give us a temporary place to stay.

Baoer's father followed the shop where he was an apprentice to work in the west, and later he started to learn how to do small business and started a family. We only went back once when Baoer turned one year old.

His father was sent away when he was young, and he had always given his monthly salary to his family. Later, he said that the housekeeper asked for monthly salary for business, but his family refused to give it to him... At that time, Baoer's father was also young and energetic, and he borrowed money from others to do his first business. From then on, he only sent money back, and he refused to return it. "