Chapter 45: Even busier than Caishikou

Shitou stepped forward and asked, "What happened?"

"Lin...Lin..." Li Xiaoshan held his knees with his hands, panting, "The Lin family is back."

Shang Wan scooped a bucket of water and handed it to him, "Drink some water first and then talk slowly."

Xiaohuan thought the water scoop looked familiar. Isn’t it used by those monkeys?

Li Xiaoshan took the water scoop without noticing anything. While drinking, he glanced at Shitou's messy hair and asked curiously, "Brother Shitou, why is your hair like this?"

"You don't understand. This is a sign of a good relationship." Shitou raised his hand and casually picked at it twice, feeling good about himself. "You want it but you don't have it yet."

Li Xiaoshan: “…”

No, he didn't want it at all! His brother would beat him to death if his hair looked like this.

Seeing that his breathing had calmed down, Shang Wan asked, "The Lin family is back, what next?"

"They had a quarrel with the villagers."

Shang Wan had heard the noise a long time ago but didn't listen carefully. He then asked, "What's the noise about?"

"The village chief is unreasonable." Li Xiaoshan clenched his fists, a little excited. "The village chief said that Uncle Wu and his men came up with this system of recording work points without waiting for him to come back to discuss it. It's reckless and an attempt to seize his power. He wants to tell the head of the village and have Uncle Wu and his family kicked out of the village."

"Uncle Liu spoke up for Uncle Wu, and the village chief said he wanted to drive the Liu family out as well, to prevent them from raising another Liu Hu to bring disaster to our village."

Lu Chengjing suddenly interrupted, "But the villagers told him that Liu Hu was taken away by the officials?"

"No." Li Xiaoshan shook his head, "No one had time to say it."

Shang Wan glanced at Lu Chengjing and saw that he had his eyes downcast as if thinking about something, so he asked Li Xiaoshan, "What else did you argue about?"

"Aunt Liu is unreasonable," Li Xiaoshan said angrily. "She said the villagers stole thirty taels of silver from her family and she's yelling that she wants to catch the thief."

Shitou asked, "Who does she suspect stole it?"

"No one, they just said it was stolen by the villagers." Li Xiaoshan said with a droopy face, "When they came back, the lock on the Lin family's door was still hanging. Everyone was busy with their own things, and no one had entered at all."

Xiao Huan was puzzled: "They were arguing, why did you come to see my sister?"

Li Xiaoshan glanced at Lu Chengjing and said in a muffled voice, "The village chief said that the scholar proposed this theory, so... so..."

"They want to drive our family out of the village as well." Shang Wan continued for him.

Li Xiaoshan nodded and said what was in his heart, "Sister, I don't want you to move away."

This was also the reason why he rushed to find Shang Wan. He felt that Shang Wan was the only one in the village who could deal with the Lin family.

"Whether to move or not, the Lin family's words don't count." Shang Wan reached out and rubbed the child's head, thinking to himself, he is taking chicken feathers as a token of authority, does he really think that the Lin family has the final say in Elm Village?

When Li Xiaoshan heard that there was a way, he grinned so hard that even his back teeth were exposed.

After glancing at the piles of things he had cleared out, Shang Wan whistled towards the direction of the forest.

A moment later, the howling of wolves could be heard one after another in the forest, scaring all the small animals into trembling.

"Let's go and see what's going on and see how powerful this Village Chief Lin is."

Shang Wan took Yuanyuan from Lu Chengjing's arms, Shitou stepped forward and carried Lu Chengjing on his back, and Xiaohuan put the kitchen knife behind her waist. The momentum of their walk did not seem like they were going to watch the excitement, but rather to join a group fight.

Li Xiaoshan inexplicably straightened his back, raised his chin, and walked with a domineering eight-character step.

When the group arrived at the center of the chaos, under the old elm tree, the quarrel between the two sides had already reached a fever pitch.

Liu was like a fighting cock with red eyes, with her hands on her hips, firing at the whole village and cursing in a very ugly way.

Several aunts were so angry that they started to curse at her. Zhou and Chen Guifang naturally couldn't just stand by and watch, so they helped their mother-in-law to curse. Seeing this, the aunts' wives also came out to help.

The two sides went back and forth, starting with personal attacks and escalating to the eighteen generations of ancestors of each family. Shang Wan was so surprised that he even wanted to pick some melon seeds.

Yuanyuan was woken up. She rubbed her eyes with her little hands and rubbed her chubby face against Shang Wan's neck.

"Be good, go back to sleep." Shang Wan patted the little guy's back gently, and the little ball of flesh that had been rubbing against him gradually became silent. He looked down and saw that he had fallen asleep again.

Shang Wan continued to watch the show, and was thinking that it would be better to just have a fight instead of cursing, when the two sides actually got so angry that they started rolling up their sleeves, pulling each other's hair and clothes, and rolled together in an instant.

Now that they had started fighting, the others naturally couldn't just stand by and watch. They all rushed forward, some to separate the fight, some to help. For a moment, the situation was extremely chaotic, even more lively than Caishikou.

Shitou was enjoying the fun and cheered for Aunt Zhou and Aunt Yao from the side.

Xiaohuan stared at Village Chief Lin coldly, and her right hand reached for the kitchen knife behind her several times.

Lin Jianshui stayed by the side of Village Chief Lin, not giving Xiaohuan any chance to take advantage of her. Xiaohuan had to regretfully give up her plan to stab Village Chief Lin.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Old Man Wu and the others shouted, their cheeks flushed with anxiety. "Pull them apart! Pull them apart quickly! We're all from the same village. If there's anything you want to talk about, why don't you sit down and talk it out?"

"Stop it!" Old Man Liu called out to his son anxiously, "Big Boss, quickly pull your Aunt Zhou away!"

Lu Chengjing sat on the stone, looking at the commotion in front of him expressionlessly, and suddenly yawned with his hands covering his mouth.

Shang Wan secretly raised his eyebrows. Is he bored of watching the fun?

"Enough!" Village chief Lin shouted with a dark face, his voice almost breaking.

The scene suddenly became quiet, and those who were trying to separate them took the opportunity to pull apart those who were fighting.

Liu's hair was all messed up, and there were not only slap marks but also several nail marks on her face. No one knew who had made them.

She shook off the support of her two daughters-in-law and sat on the ground crying.

Aunt Zhou's hair was also half pulled out. She was held up by her two sons, but she still stuck her head out and spat at Liu.

"Who doesn't have a few bucks? The whole village is watching, and no one has ever entered your house. You might have secretly taken the money to support your parents. How dare you slander us here? Bah!"

"Zhou Yingchun, you're talking nonsense!"

"I'm talking nonsense?" Aunt Zhou snorted. "On the tenth day of last month, Xiaohe Village held a big market, and you secretly asked someone to bring something to your parents' home. I saw it with my own eyes. It was such a big bag, who knows if you secretly put some silver in it?"

Upon hearing this, Village Chief Lin's gaze immediately slashed towards Liu like a knife.

Liu shrank her neck, a trace of guilt flashed across her eyes, but she still insisted: "I didn't go out that day, you recognized the wrong person."

"Mom, I drove you there in a donkey cart that day. Have you forgotten?" Lin Jianshui asked, "You also told me not to tell Dad..."

He paused and thought, "It's over, it's over. How could I have just said that?"

Liu: “…”

Why didn't she strangle this idiot to death? Is there anyone who would betray his own mother like this?

"I did bring some things home, but they were all old clothes, no money." Mrs. Liu didn't dare to argue anymore and looked at Village Chief Lin, "Master, you kept all the money. Even if I wanted to give it to my parents, I don't have any."

Village Chief Lin had a gloomy face.

"We found the evidence!" Lin Jianshan and his group strode over, holding a jade pendant with excellent water content in their hands.

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(End of this chapter)