Chapter 1247: Marriage Recovered Through Fraud (13)

"Hey, have you heard? Wang Minxi ran outside late last night. I don't know what he was doing. As a result, he fell in the bamboo forest at the end of the village and broke one hand and one foot. He was not found until dawn and was sent to the hospital. Tsk tsk..." Aunt Huang said to her companion Liu Sansao with a gossipy look on her face.

Mrs. Liu nodded immediately with shining eyes: "Of course I know! I heard that Wang Minxi had an accident because she was having an affair with a man late at night. Do you think she has been raped by the man?"

"Who knows? But what good girl would go out so late at night? Wang Minxi has always been coquettish and flirtatious, with her butt twisting all the time. She doesn't look like a decent woman. It's very likely that she went out to spend the night with a man..." Aunt Huang said seriously.

"How shameless! It's a pity that the man didn't fall down with her, otherwise she would have been caught red-handed." Liu Sansao had obviously taken her own conjecture as the truth, and she cursed Wang Minxi indignantly, "A woman like Wang Minxi deserves to be thrown into a pig cage!"

"Yes, he doesn't work all day and just lives on the money from his family. He is lazy and frivolous. He has led the girls in the village astray..." Aunt Huang felt jealous when she thought of Wang Minxi bringing back things sent by her family from the post office from time to time.

"Who do you think her mistress could be?" Mrs. Liu San asked Aunt Huang curiously, her eyelids drooping and her eyes rolling around.

"Just look at which man didn't come home last night." Aunt Huang said, and then her hand that was picking beans suddenly stopped, "But this man is such a jerk. Even if Wang Minxi is shameless, at least she was with him. Wang Minxi fell like that, but he didn't bring her back. He just let her lie on the ground all night. Isn't he afraid that something will really happen?"

Aunt Huang self-righteously criticized the imaginary man, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.

Mrs. Liu said, "Maybe that irresponsible man was frightened, and was afraid that the noise would be heard and their affair would be discovered, so he left Wang Minxi behind and ran away?"

"This must be the reason! Wang Minxi really deserves it..." Aunt Huang said with a pout.

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Like Aunt Huang and Mrs. Liu, many people were talking about Wang Minxi. The hottest topic in the village was that she had broken her arms and legs and lay in the bamboo forest for most of the night. Everyone was speculating why she went to the bamboo forest so late at night and who she met. Some speculated whether she was meeting her lover, and then the question spread, who was Wang Minxi's lover? All the men in the village were suspected...

Although Shi Chu didn't often interact with the villagers, this incident was so shocking to the villagers that even the neighbors who had a grudge against Shi Chu couldn't help but talk to her about it when they saw her, so that's how Shi Chu knew about it.

She was a little suspicious that this was Duzhou's work, but then she thought that Duzhou didn't go out last night, so it was impossible for him to meet Wang Minxi in the bamboo forest. Moreover, based on her understanding of Duzhou, it would be impossible for Duzhou to meet Wang Minxi alone late at night because he had to be cautious. If he was caught by someone, he would have no way to explain himself. Duzhou would not risk getting into trouble just to deal with Wang Minxi.

Since he couldn't figure it out, Shi Chu decided to ask him directly when he got home from get off work.

So when Duzhou got home from get off work, he saw Shi Chu, Du Xiaoling and Du Xiaoshi, smiling and greeting him at the door.

Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but feel flattered: "Why are you waiting for me at the door so enthusiastically today?"

"Because Auntie said that after a day's work, Dad will definitely want to see us the first thing he does when he gets home from get off work..." Du Xiaoling ran up excitedly, hugged Du Zhou's legs, raised her little face and said in a baby voice.

Du Xiaoshi also rushed up and hugged his other leg, imitating his sister and acting like a spoiled child with her father. Du Zhou had no choice but to drag these two sweet burdens, moving his legs with difficulty, while not forgetting to push the bicycle back to the yard at the same time.

Shi Chu looked at the scene with a smile and followed them in.

At night, when the brother and sister fell asleep, Duzhou took a shower and returned to the room, and Shichu came to find him.

Duzhou had just finished taking a shower. His handsome face with clear outlines had a faint blush. His hair was not completely dry, and occasionally drops of water dripped onto his slender neck and spread to the front of his vest... He looked very handsome.

No wonder so many women are thinking about him.

Shi Chu sighed. It was a pity that he was not a man she could touch. She could only look at him as a benefit but could not get involved...

Thinking too far, Shi Chu quickly regained his integrity and rationality, looked at Duzhou and said, "I have something to ask you."

Duzhou wiped his hair and said, "What do you want to ask?"

"Wang Minxi broke his limbs in the bamboo forest last night. Did you know about this?" Shi Chu asked straight to the point.

"Broken limbs? That means the feet are also broken? This is beyond my expectation." Duzhou raised his eyebrows.

"Don't you know that she broke both her hands and feet?" Shi Chu was a little surprised.

"When I left for work in the morning, I only heard that a villager was seriously injured and was sent to the hospital. I didn't know that her hands and feet were broken," Duzhou explained.

"Did you do this?" Shi Chu asked, staring at him closely.

Duzhou suddenly chuckled and said calmly, "Why do you think so? I was at home all night last night and didn't go out. Xiaoling and Xiaoshi both got up at night. They can testify for me."

When Shi Chu heard him say that and looked at his guiltless expression, he couldn't help but doubt his previous judgment. Could it be that he really didn't do it? Was it just Wang Minxi's bad luck?

"It's really not you?" Shi Chu looked at him suspiciously.

Duzhou smiled and said, "I am a good person who abides by the law."

It really wasn't him who did it, but he knew that two years ago a man from the village went up the mountain to find something to eat, but unfortunately stepped on a trap and broke his leg. Because he had no money to see a doctor, his leg became lame. That man went from being a strong laborer who could earn ten work points a day to a disabled person who could only earn six centimeters. He was often ridiculed as a cripple, and his family also despised him.

Duzhou didn't do anything. He just "kindly" told the man quietly that the trap that caused him to break his leg and become a cripple was dug by Wang Minxi.

Duzhou did not lie. The trap was really set by Wang Minxi. She was ridiculed by other educated youth as a waste. Without the support of her family, she would not be able to support herself, let alone eat meat.

Wang Minxi refused to accept this and argued that she could certainly support herself. The other educated youth then refused to believe her and said that unless she earned food through her own efforts, they would not admit that she was not a waste.

Wang Minxi is lazy and likes to eat. It is impossible for her to do heavy farm work to earn work points in exchange for food. Moreover, the food will not be distributed until several months later, which takes too long. So she had a crazy idea. She didn't do farm work, but she could go hunting in the mountains. If she caught prey, it would also be food. Who could laugh at her for being a waste?

But she didn't know how to hunt, so she dug a lot of traps...

(End of this chapter)