What a thief crying "stop thief".
As soon as Li Jinhua opened her mouth, she spoke with great confidence and was filled with righteous indignation.
"Sister Song, you don't know that this girl has been against me since the first day she came to the compound. It was her...it was her who made me faint! She also performed a caesarean section on my daughter-in-law. My good grandson has inexplicably turned into a little girl who loses money. I haven't even settled these accounts with her, but she actually set her sights on the two chickens I raised."
"You can ask around in the compound. Everyone in the compound knows that I have two chickens. They are big, fat hens that lay two eggs every day! I have been raising them for half a year, waiting for my daughter-in-law to give birth so that I can make chicken soup for her to nourish her body."
When Chu Yue heard this, she almost couldn't help laughing out loud.
Li Jinhua, such a stingy person, was actually willing to kill a chicken to nourish Wang Chunling. She was not afraid of her tongue being blown away by the wind when she said such a thing.
It's so ridiculous.
Li Jinhua, however, did not feel guilty at all. She brought out Wang Chunling, who had just given birth a few days ago, and tried to gain sympathy from Song Hongmei.
"Sister Song, my daughter-in-law Chunling is still in confinement after childbirth. Women in confinement need to nourish their bodies the most, and the way to nourish the body is to drink chicken soup. Yesterday morning! Yesterday morning, when I was about to kill the chickens, I suddenly found that the two chickens I raised were missing! I searched all over the yard...searched...searched door to door...just to find those two chickens...but I couldn't find them no matter how hard I looked..."
"Yesterday evening, it was her! It was her!" Li Jinhua became more and more excited, pointing her finger at Chu Yue, "She came back from the mountain, carrying two chickens, saying that they were caught in the mountain! Sister Song, listen to this, isn't it ridiculous! How could a little girl like her catch two chickens so easily in such a big mountain! How could such a coincidence happen in the world!"
"I came to take a look early this morning. I was shocked! This chicken is the one I lost! It's my chicken! Sister Song, we are the only ones who trust you in our compound. You must judge for yourself! I know she is the wife of Captain Lu and her status is different from ours. But it's not easy for an old woman like me to raise a chicken with all my hard work. My daughter-in-law is still in confinement and is waiting to drink chicken soup to replenish her body..."
As Li Jinhua spoke, her eyes turned red. She pretended to be crying in grievance and even wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves.
In fact, there were no tears in her eyes at all.
This series of behaviors is nothing more than a hypocritical attempt to win sympathy from Song Hongmei.
Song Hongmei watched Li Jinhua crying and making a fuss, but she did not listen to her side of the story. She said nothing and did not draw any conclusions.
She looked at Chu Yue, wanting to hear what Chu Yue had to explain.
Chu Yue simply said, "Mrs. Li, you don't have to embarrass Sister Song for such a small matter. We can solve the conflict between the two of us ourselves."
"Hmph, if you want to solve it, then go ahead! Give me back my chicken! And for the one you ate yesterday, pay me according to the market price... give... give me five dollars!" Li Jinhua thought Chu Yue was feeling guilty, and actually smiled smugly, "A chicken, plus five dollars. Since you are young, I won't bother with this girl."
Chu Yue ignored Li Jinhua's loud words and asked directly.
"You said this is a chicken you raised for half a year. Let me ask you, what color is this chicken?"
"It's an old hen, what color could it be? Of course it's yellow-brown, and a little black!" When Li Jinhua wanted to steal the chicken just now, she had already seen the color of the wild pheasant. It was different from ordinary old hens, mixed with large patches of black feathers. "The chickens I raise are different, with black feathers, so I can recognize them at a glance!"
Trying to set a trap for her? No way!
Chu Yue continued to ask, "What about the chicken feet? What color are the feet?"
"What other color can chicken feet be? Of course it's yellow! You're not going to ask me how many feet it has, are you? A little girl like you who has never raised chickens knows nothing." Li Jinhua was still smiling smugly, looking confident that she would take the chicken away today.
Little did they know——
"You're not right! Not right!"
Without waiting for Chu Yue to open the door, Lu Yuanbao, who was protected by Chu Yue behind him, rushed out with a pheasant in his arms.
He had never been frightened by Li Jinhua's posture from the beginning, and now with Chu Yue by his side, he was not afraid at all.
On the way down the mountain yesterday, Chu Yue taught him that wild pheasants are different from ordinary domestic broiler chickens.
"My chicken's feet are black! This is a black-bone chicken, from the neck to the feet, it's all black! You are wrong, this is not your chicken!"
Lu Yuanbao acted like a little adult and completely exposed Li Jinhua's lies.
Li Jinhua was an old country woman. She had never seen a black-bone chicken or a white-bone chicken. But she had heard of the three white-bone demons.
Now that she was exposed by a five or six-year-old child, she became angry and embarrassed and simply started to act like a spoiled child.
"It's black! It's black! I was just too impatient and said it wrong! How could I make a mistake when it comes to my chicken? Put the chicken on the ground and it will follow me when I call it."
If Lu Yuanbao really put the chicken on the ground, Li Jinhua would definitely reach out to grab it.
Neither Chu Yue nor Lu Yuanbao would believe this old woman who was full of lies.
Seeing that soft tactics didn't work, Li Jinhua revealed her sarcastic nature and wanted to snatch it directly, "Anyway, this chicken is mine! You must give it back to me! Give it back to me--"
Li Jinhua was about to pounce on Lu Yuanbao, completely forgetting how Chu Yue had slapped her twice just now.
For the sake of money, he really doesn't care about his reputation.
Song Hongmei frowned as she watched from the side, but she also did not approve of Chu Yue using violence to solve the problem.
Just at this moment, a voice was heard.
"Mom, Mom, please stop making trouble!"
The person who came turned out to be Wang Chunling.
It had only been a few days since Wang Chunling had a caesarean section, and her wound might not have completely healed. She didn't know what kind of severe pain she had to endure before she was able to get out of bed.
She walked into the yard and first hugged Li Jinhua, while giving Chu Yue and Song Hongmei an apologetic smile, accompanied by pleading.
"Mom, you're wrong. Sister Chu is a good person. She wouldn't be a chicken thief. Please stop making trouble."
Li Jinhua was already angry and was worried that she couldn't find a way to vent her anger. Now that Wang Chunling appeared, she just ran into the gunpoint.
"Wang Chunling, you are really asking for trouble! Are you from my Zhou family, or are you from the same family as Chu Yue? Not only did you not help me, but you even tried to stop me! Didn't she just give you some wedding candies and a mouthful of malted milk? Why are you so blinded by lard that you don't recognize me as your mother?"
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