Quick Transmigration: Refusing to Be a Victim's Child

The Shao family in the village is unaware of the brothers' situation.

But since yesterday, the villagers of Shanghe Village have practically turned the village upside down in their search for Shao Linshen and his daughter.

A group of people were making a ruckus, preparing to go to the yamen to file a complaint.

This story begins shortly after Shaolin Shen left yesterday.

Not long after the father and daughter from the eldest son's house left the village.

The three women, Zhao and her mother-in-law, were awakened by the stench in the pigsty, and then began to wail and shout that they wanted to settle accounts with Shao Linshen.

Their original intention was to make the other party back down as a sincere apology, and it would be best if they agreed to return Shao Daya to Widow Wu, so they could get the five taels of silver.

After all, these days, there are only so many daughters who get married. If that brat gets married in the future, they can use the debt of raising her to make another fortune.

But that idiot, for some reason, became stubborn again and refused the money that was offered to him for free.

The thought of this made Zhao's heart ache. Forgetting she was still in the pigsty, she slumped to the ground, slapped her thighs, and began to wail:

"Oh my God, what a misfortune for our family! I never imagined that after all my hard work for most of my life, I would end up raising such an unfilial son."

Everyone come and judge! Someone is beating up a mother! Old man, where have you been? That unfilial son, Shao Changfu, is utterly inhuman…”

"Mother! Stop wailing! The house... the house has been robbed!" Qian, the second wife, cried out in alarm.

"What are you doing? Can't you see I'm busy?" Zhao said with a displeased expression.

She was performing a ritual with her eyes closed, and before she could even finish chanting the words, her arm was shoved several times.

As she spoke, she opened her eyes and glared at her second son's wife, but to her surprise, the woman looked as if she had seen a ghost, her hands trembling as she pointed around.

Zhao frowned, looking in the direction the finger was pointing, puzzled. She discovered that the two large, fat pigs that should have been in the pigpen, as well as the flock of chickens and ducks in the corner, had all disappeared.

"what--"

Zhao let out a miserable scream, a sound far more genuine than when she was acting.

The three women, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, rushed out of the pigsty in a panic and began searching everywhere in the yard. They discovered that in addition to the livestock, everyone's house had also been searched.

"Damn it, which bastard stole all my money?"

"It's all over, it's all over, Changgui and I have lost all our savings."

"Ah! The five feet of fine cotton cloth that I just got from my parents' home last month is all gone. This was what I was planning to use to make shirts for the two children."

"Damn it, that thief must be a rat! I hid my things in the ground, and they still dug them up!"

……

The three women—mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law—checked the house repeatedly. Each time they discovered something was missing, their faces darkened, and they let out occasional wails of distress.

In the end, when the three of them met, they found out that everything of value in each room, such as bedding, cotton clothes, food and cloth, had been stripped bare. All that was left were old and tattered clothes that could be torn into strips less than two fingers wide.

Zhao was so angry that she vomited blood, her body went limp and she lay stiffly on the open ground in the front yard, panting heavily.

Qian and Sun, standing to the side, were also ashen-faced, their eyes bloodshot, tears streaming down their faces.

At this moment, the surrounding villagers also heard the shouts of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. One by one, they picked up hoes and held wooden sticks and rushed to Shao's house. When they saw the three of them, they hurriedly asked about the whereabouts of the thieves.

After all, it's astonishing that such a huge incident happened in the village and no one noticed.

What if someone comes into the village and kidnaps the village's babies? Wouldn't they regret it too late?

In the crowd, someone saw that Zhao was still lying on the ground and urgently asked:

"Auntie, where is the thief? Please say something! If we hurry, we might be able to help you get your valuables back."

The villagers standing nearby also urged them on.

At that moment, Madam Qian from the second wife suddenly pointed to the only locked door in the east wing and screamed:

"It was Shao Changfu; he stole things from the house."

Mother, sister-in-law, look around, which room in our house hasn't been broken into by thieves? How come the lock on the main room door is still intact?

Besides, the reason our family suffered this tragedy today is because he knocked us unconscious.

"What? Second brother's wife, you're saying the eldest brother knocked out the three of you earlier?"

Shao Dashan, who had just returned from the fields upon hearing the news, was shocked.

*

Shao Dashan, as the father, knew better than anyone what kind of person his eldest son, Shao Changfu, was.

If it were said that the old woman and her two daughters-in-law had knocked the eldest son unconscious today, Shao Dashan thought that given their personalities, they really might have done such a thing.

But now they're insisting that the eldest brother beat someone and stole valuables from the house? Impossible.

"Tsk, who would believe that?"

“Ms. Qian, don’t try to find a scapegoat and pin the debt on someone else just because you’ve lost your money. We have to have a conscience.”

In the crowd, an elderly woman frowned and spoke slowly.

As soon as she finished speaking, many people echoed her words, all of them villagers who were speaking up for Shaolin Shen.

This left Ms. Qian speechless with frustration. She opened her mouth, but didn't know how to refute it.

Sun, who had originally intended to chime in, stopped in her tracks upon seeing this and immediately hid behind her sister-in-law without hesitation, keeping her head down and remaining silent, just like a wooden doll.

But at this moment, Zhao, who had already recovered, was instantly enraged upon hearing her second son's wife's words, and she scrambled to her feet.

She glanced anxiously at the tightly locked door of the east wing, then eagerly grabbed her husband's arm, urging him on:

“Old man, we’ll know whether it is true or not once we find the person. This matter is definitely related to that wretched child.”

Shao Dashan frowned, but before he could utter a single word, Zhao Shi shut him down with a barrage of words:

"My second son's wife is a liar. Do you think I'd just go along with her nonsense? We've been married for so many years, don't you trust me?"

Upon hearing this, Shao Dashan frowned even more deeply, pursed his lips tightly, and without saying a word, turned and walked towards the woodshed.

Everyone watched as he pushed open the door to the woodshed and went inside. A short while later, he emerged, looked up at the villagers, and, in a hoarse voice, repeatedly bowed and clasped his hands in greeting.

"My Shao family is unfortunate to have raised such a beast. I'll have to trouble everyone to help me find that beast!"

"Hiss! This, this really was Changfu who did this?"

Upon hearing this, the villagers present exchanged bewildered glances, each feeling somewhat dazed and confused as to how things had come to this.

But things had come to this point, and no one dared to continue the discussion. After all, out of consideration for their fellow villagers, no one would refuse to help find the person.

But despite the entire village, young and old, searching thoroughly inside and outside the village several times, they still couldn't find the person.

Furthermore, everyone saw that Shao Erya and the others had brought back several baskets of pig feed from the foot of the mountain, and they also learned from the three of them about Shao Daya's earlier return to the house.

Then, several children playing at the village entrance timidly spoke up:

“When we were playing at the village entrance, I saw Uncle Changfu taking Sister Daya away from the village.”

"Yes, yes, we all saw it."

"However, they left empty-handed; I didn't see them carrying any large luggage."

These words completely overturned the previous accusations by the Zhao family (mother and daughter-in-law) that Shao Linshen was a traitor within the family.

After all, everyone heard it clearly just now. Qian's loud voice said that all their cotton clothes, quilts, chickens, ducks, and pigs had been taken away completely.

Some villagers mingled in the crowd and whispered among themselves:

"Actually, I was just about to say this: if Changfu really did all the work of losing so many things from the Shao family, how could he have left the village without anyone else's knowledge?"

Putting everything else aside, just look at those two pigs the Shao family raises. Those things eat a lot and squeal a lot; how come if someone catches them, they don't make a sound at all?

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present turned their gaze to Shao Dashan and the others.