Chapter 1248: Marriage Recovered Through Fraud (14)

In the first few days, Wang Minxi wanted to prove that she was not a waste, so she went to the mountain to check the traps every day, but no prey fell into the traps every time, so she had to return empty-handed. Later, she became more and more impatient, and gave up completely after four or five days. However, the traps were not dealt with properly and were just left alone.

As a result, Shi Datou, who went up the mountain, suffered bad luck. He accidentally stepped on a trap she had dug and broke his leg.

Shi Datou did try to find out who dug the trap, but no one in the village admitted it. In the end, he could only let it go and consider himself unlucky.

Wang Minxi did not admit it because she had long forgotten the traps she had dug. Of course, even if she remembered, she would not admit that she was the one who harmed Shi Datou.

After investigation, Duzhou found out that the letter attempting to frame Shi Chu was indeed written by her. Just because she wanted to escape labor and get close to him, she regarded Wan Cao'er, who had taken the lead over her, as a thorn in her side, and thus came up with such a vicious plan.

Duzhou naturally had no good impression of her. Even though Shichu was not the one he wanted to marry, he had already married her, so she was a member of his Du family. Wang Minxi was plotting against Wancao'er, which meant that she didn't take him seriously. Duzhou would not tolerate her behavior.

But for a moment, Duzhou did not find a good way to deal with Wang Minxi. After all, she was a single female educated youth. If he took action against her himself, it would easily attract gossip. He did not want to become the topic of conversation among the villagers.

Just when Duzhou was at a loss of what to do, he inadvertently heard two female educated youth sarcastically talking about how Wang Mingxi bet with them two years ago that he could earn rice, but in the end he didn't earn a single grain of rice. He also had a wild idea of ​​going to the mountains to hunt, but didn't bring back even a single hair of an animal.

Duzhou suddenly had an idea, and asked other educated youths about it. As expected, he found out that Wang Minxi had dug a trap on the mountain after making a bet some time before Shi Datou broke his leg!

So what happened next was a natural progression, and Duzhou "accidentally" revealed the truth to Shi Datou.

He didn't expect Shi Datou to act so quickly. Just a few days after he learned the truth, Wang Minxi broke his limbs. This could be considered a tit-for-tat.

Duzhou used this trick to kill someone with a borrowed knife and got his revenge effortlessly.

Of course, this not-so-righteous thing cannot be told to Shi Chu, even though she is the real victim.

Duzhou made up his mind, and said to Shichu very gently: "Now that Wang Minxi has broken one of his limbs, he must be in great pain, and he no longer has the energy to frame anyone. Let's just treat this as revenge, okay?"

When Shi Chu heard him say this with a smile on his face, he always felt that he was like a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken, with no good intentions, and his words were vague and hinted at something. Shi Chu's eyes darkened. Even if he didn't do what happened to Wang Minxi, he must have had a hand in it...

But what did he do? Shi Chu glanced at the man who was still wiping his hair and acting harmless. Finally, she thought, forget it, don't think about it. Anyway, what she wanted was for Wang Minxi to have a hard time. She would definitely not have a good life now. Her hands and feet would not be healed in three to five months. She would suffer.

Now that he got the desired result, what Duzhou did was not so important. After figuring it out, Shi Chu no longer had the heart to continue questioning Duzhou.

"Then I'm leaving. Good night." Shi Chu waved to Duzhou and said straightforwardly.

She just stood up, and somehow she tripped and stumbled. In order to keep herself steady and not fall, she quickly grabbed the arm of the person next to her...

My head accidentally bumped into his neck, and my lips seemed to have accidentally brushed against something...

She moved away suddenly, and when she saw clearly where she had accidentally kissed, her face instantly felt hot. She was so ashamed and embarrassed that she wanted to bury herself in the ground like an ostrich so that she wouldn't have to face the current situation.

What she kissed was Duzhou's delicate Adam's apple! The air seemed to freeze instantly. When Duzhou was kissed by her, his pupils shrank sharply and he looked at her in shock.

After Shi Chu realized what he had done, he quickly pulled his hand back as if he had been electrocuted, and stammered to apologize to Du Zhou: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I kissed you by accident, it was an accident, I left immediately..."

After saying that, she fled out of Duzhou's room.

Although Duzhou felt a little embarrassed after experiencing this accident, he did not react as strongly as Shi Chu. He just blushed unnaturally and continued to wipe his hair as if nothing had happened.

But at this moment, he didn't notice that the hair he had just trimmed had already been wiped dry...

After Shi Chu returned, he recited the Heart Sutra several times and finally restored himself to a state of peace and tranquility.

There was nothing unusual about Duzhou, except that he had a messy dream with all kinds of weird colors for most of the night. When he woke up the next day, he was embarrassed to look Shi Chu in the eye.

However, Shi Chu was the same as every day before. Seeing Du Zhou was also very calm, as if the accident last night had never happened. When he found this, Du Zhou was inexplicably a little depressed. How could she care less than me? Did she really have no demands on me?

Completely unaware of Duzhou's inner struggle, after breakfast Shi Chu took his two children to the village's gossip center - under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, to listen to the gossip of the mothers-in-law and aunts.

When she got there, she heard them discussing what they were most concerned about.

"Wang Zhiqing said that when she fell, she saw a figure running away. She must have been that person who hurt her, and she asked the team leader to help her find that person."

"Did she see the man clearly?"

"Of course I didn't see it clearly. If I had seen it clearly, I would have just sent someone to catch him. Why would I need the captain to investigate?"

"That's a shame. Why couldn't Wang Zhiqing be more clear? Oh, did she tell me what she was doing in the bamboo forest? It was late at night. Isn't this asking for trouble?"

"Who knows? She refused to admit that she had a secret meeting with someone, and just gritted her teeth and said that someone wanted to harm her. She said that to everyone who asked her, tsk tsk..."

"If you don't tell the truth to anyone, how can the captain investigate?"

"I think it could be Chen Mazi. He just loves to wander around at night. After all, he's a bachelor and he doesn't have a wife to warm his bed at home, hehe..."

"It could also be Old Man Qian. His wife is dead. He loves to go to the bamboo forest the most."

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(End of this chapter)