Chapter 52: We Are Sociable

Lin Jianshan hurried to Yuan's house to tell his family about this.

Upon hearing that Tiedan was missing, Liu, who had just woken up, suddenly regained her strength as if she had a last burst of energy. She hurriedly took her two daughters-in-law out to look for the child, and didn't even care about her own husband.

Village chief Lin was also anxious. He ignored Yuan Musheng's dissuasion and ran out with his injured arm hanging to look for someone.

Although Madam Rong disliked the Lin family, when she heard that the child was missing, she put down her work, asked her two children to look after Yuan Musheng, and ran out to help find him.

News spread quickly in the village. When they heard that Tiedan was missing, every family sent people out to help find the child. For a while, the village was filled with voices shouting "Tiedan".

"Tiedan! Go home for dinner!"

"Tiedan, come out quickly, your dad won't beat you!"

"Tiedan!! If you hear that, respond immediately!"

“Iron Egg!!!”

Shitou called out a few times, but seeing that he couldn't find anyone, he hurried back to tell his family about it.

"Sister, let's help look for it." Shitou hated the Lin family, but what the adults did had nothing to do with the children. Many of the holes on the ground had not been filled yet, and he was worried that Tiedan might have rolled in.

"No need to look for him." Shang Wan glanced at the distant forest. "Tiedan is in the wolf den, Xiaohui is guarding him."

Shitou was surprised. "Why is Tiedan in the wolf den?"

After asking, he felt something was wrong and asked, "Sister, how did you know?"

"The Lin family deliberately lured the villagers to the old elm tree, using the quarrel to delay time so that Tiedan could come to our house and bury the silver."

Shang Wan looked at Shi Tou and told him the whole story.

"If Xiao Hui hadn't been here, Lin Jianshan would have dug up silver, and we would have become thieves. Lin Jianshan has your brother-in-law's jade pendant, so he'll definitely be blamed. With no academic title left, and your brother-in-law crippled, what do you think will happen if he gets carried away and goes to extremes?"

"Yes, yes..." Stone opened and closed his mouth several times before uttering the following words, "Suicide."

Shang Wan didn't think Lu Chengjing would commit suicide. Even if he did, he would probably drag a few people down with him.

Shitou clenched his fists angrily. "My brother-in-law has never had any grudge against the Lin family. Why do they want to kill him?"

"Use your brain." Shang Wan raised his hand and patted Shitou's forehead. "Think carefully, is it really the Lin family who wants to harm your brother-in-law?"

This slap hurt quite a bit, and Shitou's forehead turned red. He rubbed it while thinking, and suddenly thought of the key point, "Why is my brother-in-law's jade pendant in the Lin family?"

Lu Chengjing's jade pendant disappeared in prison. If it was for money, it might have been taken away by the bailiffs. But now the jade pendant appeared in the Lin family as evidence to frame Lu Chengjing. Obviously, the person who took the jade pendant did not do it for money, but who has the ability to reach into the prison?

The person behind the scenes had gone to such great lengths to deal with Lu Chengjing, and it was obvious that he had a grudge against him. However, in Shitou's memory, although Lu Chengjing's temperament was a bit cold, he was sensible and never had any enemies.

Shitou scratched his head but couldn't figure out who was behind Lu Chengjing's attack, so he looked at Shang Wan for help, "Sister, I really can't think of it, just tell me who it is."

"If I knew, what else would I want to do?" Shang Wan shrugged, his tone full of confidence.

Stone:"……"

No, wasn't his sister testing him? Why didn't his sister know? Was she teasing him?

Shi Tou's dull expression once again pleased Shang Wan. She patted the boy's shoulder and said, "Remember to use your brain. If you can't think of it this time, keep trying next time."

Shi Tou: I hope this doesn’t happen again!

He shook his head and brought the subject back to the topic, "Sister, every family in the village has sent people to help look for someone, so why don't we shout a few times too, to appear sociable."

"No rush, didn't you help look for it just now?" Shang Wan stretched lazily, "Go help Xiaohuan set the table, I'll come after I finish moving the rest of the wood."

"good."

Xiaohuan made four dishes and a soup. The rice was stewed with sweet potatoes, and it tasted like the sweet aroma of sweet potatoes.

Shang Wan picked out the sweet potatoes, let them cool down, and fed them to the little guy who was waiting eagerly.

Yuanyuan likes the sweet taste of sweet potatoes. She doesn’t even eat egg custard, she only eats sweet potatoes.

"Is the rice and flour at home almost gone?"

Hearing Shang Wan's question, Xiao Huan swallowed the food in her mouth and said, "I can still cook two more meals. Sister, should we buy it in the village or go to the county town?"

"Go to the county town and take a look at the situation in the county town."

Shang Wan said as she picked up a piece of stir-fried pork slices and put them into Lu Chengjing's bowl.

"There are many houses in the village that were damaged by the disaster. Repairing them will probably fall on the Zhang family, and they will definitely be overwhelmed. We can't delay building a new house either. I'm thinking of going to the city to find a bricklayer. If the wages are right, I'll hire him to come back and build a new house for us."

Shitou couldn't help but mutter, "Sister, we haven't gathered enough money yet, it's too early to think about building a new house now."

Shang Wan didn't care. "Won't it be all right once the Lin family sends the money over?"

"That's only eighty taels."

Xiao Huan reminded Shi Tou, "There's also the Chen family's fifty taels, which makes a total of one hundred and thirty taels."

"No, it's one hundred and sixty taels." Shang Wan corrected. Since the Lin family planned to bury the silver in her territory, don't blame her for accepting it.

Xiaohuan didn't know that Tiedan was planning to bury silver in her house to frame her. Shitou briefly told her about it, which made Xiaohuan so angry that she scolded the Lin family for raising a bad child.

Lu Chengjing finished his bowl of food, put down his chopsticks, and calmly added: "It's two hundred taels. If I send the jade pendant to the pawnshop, it can be worth at least forty taels."

The four of them looked at each other, Shitou was the first to burst out laughing, Xiaohuan covered her chest happily, Shang Wan was amused by the exaggerated appearance of the two, and Lu Chengjing's lips also curled up.

Little Yuanyuan was concentrating on eating sweet potatoes and smacking her lips. Although she didn't understand what everyone was laughing at, it didn't stop her from joining in with her two bright teeth grinning.

While one family was happily enjoying their future happy life, the other family was in a dark cloud and had even shouted themselves hoarse trying to find someone.

"Brother, what did you ask Tiedan to do? It's already this late, don't hide it!" Lin Jianshui knew that Lin Jianshan asked Tiedan to do something, but he didn't know what it was specifically.

Lin Jianshan glanced at his father. Village Chief Lin looked very unhappy. On the one hand, he was anxious because his grandson was lost, and on the other hand, the wound on his arm was really painful.

"Dad, will Tiedan..."

"Let's talk about it when we get back." Village Chief Lin interrupted his eldest son, glanced at the villagers who were still helping to look for someone, and said in a low voice, "This is not the place to talk."

Liu said anxiously, "Master, we haven't found Tiedan yet, we can't go back!"

"Yes, Dad." Zhou agreed. "Can't we wait until Tiedan is back to talk about it?"

In the past, Zhou would not have dared to go against Village Chief Lin like this, but now that her son is missing, she is so anxious that she doesn't care about many things. She is just afraid that Tiedan will meet with an accident and die young like Daya. What's the difference between that and digging out her heart?

Village Chief Lin glared at the two of them and said, "Shut up, you from the second family stay and continue searching, everyone else come back with me."

(End of this chapter)