"What's wrong? Don't you want to know who set my house on fire?"
Jiang Wanqing deliberately acted innocent, frowning and looking extremely aggrieved.
“Yeah, Jianwei, maybe we’ll find out who started the fire at your house today. Wouldn’t that be perfect?”
"Let's catch the murderer while we're all here, so we won't be afraid later and end up suffering the same fate."
Everyone chimed in with their concerns, urging Jiang Wanqing to go back and retrieve the "evidence."
"Go quickly, Wanqing, catch the murderer so we can go back to sleep."
"Yes, everyone from our village is here. This is a rare opportunity."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
She glanced back at Jiang Jianwei, who felt even more guilty. Sure enough, before she had taken two steps, he immediately grabbed her arm nervously.
"No rush." He took a breath, forcing himself not to stutter: "I... cough cough, let's go to my house first and see if anything was left behind. There are many people here, so it's good to help each other."
She shook her hand away and disdainfully patted off the black coal dust that had fallen on it.
"You'll have to ask everyone else."
Jiang Xiu's mother knew what had happened at Jiang Wanqing's house, and seeing that their wealth was about to be exposed, she immediately pretended to be injured, fell to the ground, and wailed.
"Oh dear... Please have pity on us, everyone. My whole body aches. Let's find the evidence together before comparing it. Please help us first."
They can't even act properly. At their age, they're so pretentious and disgusting. They only dare to act so recklessly because they're in such a bad mood tonight.
"Sigh, let's go inside and help them move their things. That damned murderer, doesn't he fear the death of his whole family!"
Hearing this, Jiang Wanqing stood calmly to the side. Everything has a cause and effect, and since it didn't start because of her, she naturally wasn't afraid.
Everyone else went into Jiang Jianwei's house to help, while the couple lagged behind, their eyes fixed on Jiang Wanqing. Finally, they couldn't help but ask.
"Ahem... Wanqing, what evidence did you find?"
"It's nothing, aren't you just moving things? Come on, I'll go in and help you."
As she was speaking, she started to walk inside, but Jiang Jianwei and his wife quickly blocked her way.
"No...no need, you should go back and rest. The villagers are helping us."
"Really not going to?"
"Really, no need! Let's go back!"
Jiang Wanqing smiled slightly: "Alright then, I'll go back."
She had no interest in helping them; she was just waiting for the real show to begin.
After she left, Jiang Jianwei clapped his hands anxiously: "You mean that bitch really found my things?"
"I don't know if it's true or not, but be careful, she's got a lot of tricks up her sleeve." Jiang Xiu's mother glared fiercely at the departing figure.
"No, I'm still not at ease. If she really proves that I set the fire at his house, we won't be able to hold our heads high in the village anymore, and we might even be arrested and imprisoned!"
"Then what do you suggest we do? Follow them and snatch the stuff?"
"You make it sound so easy. What if she catches us off guard..." Jiang Jianwei said, his eyes suddenly lighting up: "That's right, catch us off guard... Let's take her down before she exposes us!"
The people inside were helping, while the two of them were plotting outside. When someone saw that the couple hadn't gone in yet, they shouted at the top of their lungs.
"What are you two doing out there? Come in and get started!"
"They're here!"
Jiang Jianwei pulled his wife inside, a look of joy spreading across his face. It was unclear what he was plotting. Jiang Xiu's mother tugged at him.
"Don't just walk away, tell me what you're going to do. Don't try to steal a chicken like you did before..."
"Don't say anymore, I'm 90% sure this time, and I have to thank her for the inspiration she gave me."
"ah?"
...
Jiang Wanqing was awakened at dawn by the crowing of roosters and barking of dogs in the village, and heard a cacophony of voices around her.
"Jiang Wanqing, come out here! You vicious woman!"
"Come out and give us an explanation! Why did you set fire to your uncle and aunt's house?"
"How could someone so young be so vicious? We even believed you didn't do it!"
"You really should be in jail!"
A barrage of vicious words followed. Jiang Wanqing pushed open the door and went out, only to find a group of people already standing in the courtyard.
"Heh, they're quick," she thought to herself with a cold laugh, calmly meeting them head-on.
Just as a rotten cabbage was about to hit her, Uncle Shuan quickly blocked it, cursing under his breath.
"Are you taking advantage of Wanqing's parents not being home?! I'm still her uncle! Even if I'm not her biological uncle, I'm still better than some heartless bastards!"
"Are you alright? You go in first, I'll talk to them."
Shuanshu and her father had a very good relationship. He watched her grow up from a young age. During the long period when her father was ill, he would take care of her in the village. He was a very good elder.
Jiang Wanqing was grateful, and naturally she wouldn't actually go in and become a coward, so she shook her head at Uncle Shuan.
"I'm fine, please move aside, I'll handle it."
"You have no idea about your wicked uncle and aunt..."
"It's really nothing, don't worry. The truth can't be faked, and the fake can't become the real."
Jiang Wanqing looked at Jiang Jianwei and his wife with an extremely cold gaze.
The two men blinked nervously a couple of times, and then a troublemaking villager stepped forward and pointed at Jiang Wanqing, spewing insults.
"Stop playing these truths and lies. Last night, when we were helping Jianwei clean up his house, we found your things lying near the fire site. You didn't go in to help, so it's only possible that you started the fire and they accidentally fell down! What else do you have to say?"
"Oh? What did I leave behind? What is it? What a coincidence! Yesterday I said I wanted to find evidence that someone set fire to my house, but Jiang Jianwei wouldn't let me. And now, just a few hours later, he's found evidence that I set fire to his house?"
Jiang Wanqing's tone was calm yet powerful. She was just waiting for that stupid couple to take the bait, and she couldn't wait any longer.
"You... don't change the subject! You started the fire at my house! As for who started the fire at your house, only you know. You're not going to say it's related to me, are you? That would be revenge!"
Listen to them, they turn black into white and white into black, trying to gain the upper hand and leave her speechless and bitter. Unfortunately, their stupidity won't turn into wisdom overnight.
Jiang Wanqing scoffed disdainfully: "First, take out what you found and let me see. Whether it's mine or not isn't something you can decide with just words!"
"Take it out if you want, who's afraid of who!"
Jiang Xiu's mother patted her husband's arm twice with her neck outstretched, urging him in a low voice.
"Quickly take it out and show it to everyone."
He licked his chapped lips, and there were still burn marks on his hands from last night.
"They didn't burn them enough. Only when these people are burned to ashes will they stop doing evil!" Jiang Wanqing thought to herself.
He slowly took something out of his pocket; it was a string of beads, jade beads, crystal clear.
"Look at this! We can't afford something like this. I've seen you wear it before. You dare say it's not yours?"
Jiang Wanqing raised an eyebrow. It was hard for them to produce this. The item was indeed hers, but unfortunately, these two idiots were brainless. She reached out and snatched the item away.
"So it was in your hands all along."
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