Jun Haoyue wanted to grab Aunt Wang's hand, but for some reason, that person became even crazier.

She kept saying something. Xu Xingchen leaned closer and vaguely heard Zhu Xiaoling's name.

She thought to herself, "What happened to Zhu Xiaoling?"

Aunt Wang didn't answer at this time. Her eyes were wide open. She turned around and walked back, giggling foolishly as she walked, as if it wasn't her who had just said Zhu Xiaoling's name.

Xu Xingchen became suspicious and immediately forgot about his rumbling stomach and pulled Jun Haoyue back.

"I think we should go to Zhu Xiaoling's house."

Jun Haoyue had the same idea, and the two hit it off. They quickly rushed to Zhu Xiaoling's house, climbed onto the roof using the wall, and began to observe.

At the beginning, everything was normal. Zhu Xiaoling cooked and ate, and did nothing else.

But after finishing his meal, the man suddenly walked back to his room and closed the door.

This behavior is very strange.

Xu Xingchen and Jun Haoyue followed quietly like cats that smelled fish.

In the room, Zhu Xiaoling crawled under the bed and took out a red wooden box.

Open it again.

Wow, the beautiful skirt they had embroidered together earlier was lying quietly inside! The pattern on the top was the one Xu Xingchen copied, so she recognized it at a glance.

She gritted her teeth and said, "No wonder she suddenly spoke up for me that day. It turns out that the thing was in her hands!"

"No, I must give her a good beating today and let her know how to write the word regret!"

As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves.

Jun Haoyue, who was standing beside her, gently pressed Xu Xingchen's shoulder and warned her, "If you go down and confront her now, she will definitely not admit it."

Xu Xingchen raised his eyebrows: "The evidence is all there, can she still deny it?"

Jun Haoyue said: "As long as they can, they can always find an excuse to push this matter away."

"Then there's nothing we can do to her?"

Jun Haoyue thought for a moment and then said, "I do have an idea, but I need enough witnesses. We'll go find the village chief later and catch him red-handed."

Seeing that he looked confident, Xu Xingchen did not insist any longer and just stared fiercely at the person on the ground.

Perhaps because her eyes were too fierce, Zhu Xiaoling below shuddered suddenly and raised her head.

She almost found out!

Fortunately, Jun Haoyue reacted very quickly. He covered Xu Xingchen's mouth before she saw it and dragged her to the side, so she escaped.

Zhu Xiaoling shook her head and smiled: "That must have been my illusion just now. How could anyone know that the skirt was with me?"

She rubbed it against her skirt and put it back away.

After Zhu Xiaoling left, Jun Haoyue took Xu Xingchen to the village chief's house to explain the situation. Because the amount of money involved was huge, Village Chief Wu took it very seriously.

When he heard that the person who stole the skirt was Zhu Xiaoling, his brows were twisted into a "川" shape.

"Do you have any evidence?"

Xu Xingchen didn't want to tell the village chief about climbing onto the roof to peek, so he told the village chief what Aunt Wang said when she went crazy.

In addition, she also made up a little lie, saying that Zhu Xiaoling had sneaked into her room.

Village Chief Wu didn't say anything and seemed to be thinking.

Xu Xingchen took the initiative and said, "Village Chief, I know that these few words cannot convict me, but I can swear that these are all true! If you don't believe me, you can take people to search Zhu Xiaoling's house."

Having said that, Xu Xingchen paused for a moment and added, "If anything goes wrong, I'll take the responsibility!"

Seeing how serious she was, Village Chief Wu felt a little relieved and nodded: "Okay, then I'll take people to take a look today." He found two helpers and the group went to Zhu Xiaoling's home.

When they arrived at the place, Jun Haoyue signaled them not to alert the enemy and let Xu Xingchen go first.

"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the gate, and then Zhu Xiaoling's voice came from inside.

"Who is it?"

Xu Xingchen reported his name.

Her arrival made Zhu Xiaoling nervous.

Her relationship with Xu Xingchen wasn't particularly good, so why did she suddenly come to her house at this time? Could it be that the skirt incident had been discovered? Feeling guilty, she didn't immediately open the door. Instead, she said through the door, "Sister Xu, why are you here at this hour? I'm feeling a little under the weather today and have already gone to bed. Let's talk about it tomorrow."

Xu Xingchen had long expected that she would be too guilty to open the door, so he deliberately lowered his voice and pretended to have been crying.

"Xiaoling, I want to talk to you about the skirt. This matter is very important to me. I want to talk to you in person."

"But I don't understand. Isn't the skirt still not found?"

Xu Xingchen sighed and said, "It's precisely because I haven't found it yet that I came here. Well, I'll tell you the truth, I came here this time to borrow some money from you."

Xu Xingchen vividly described himself as a poor man who had no money and wanted to borrow money to pay back the deposit.

She also took the initiative to promise that as long as Zhu Xiaoling was willing to lend her money, she would repay her tenfold in the future.

ten times……

This figure made Zhu Xiaoling's heart flutter. If she could get the money for the skirt, wouldn't she be rich? By then, she would be the richest person in Sanwan Village!

As she thought happily, she opened the gate: "Since Sister Xu is begging me—ah! What are you doing!"

Just as Zhu Xiaoling opened the door, a figure jumped out, grabbed her hands, and pressed her against the wall.

She tried to struggle: "Who are you? Let me go!"

Xu Xingchen stepped forward with a smile: "Who else could we be? Of course we are your elders and fellow villagers. Oh, and today we have another identity, that is, the ones who reveal your true face."

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