Chapter 83 From Suspicion to Confirmation: Shi Yu's Reputation is Ruined
"What's the meaning?"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked puzzled.
Shi Yu frowned.
"Alright, everyone disperse! Those who need to fetch water, fetch water; those who need to do something else, go do what you need to do." At this moment, Lu Yizhou spoke in a deep voice.
He spoke, and everyone had no choice but to suppress their curiosity and get back to what they were doing.
Lin Zhicheng stared at Lu Yizhou with a cold gaze.
His protectiveness of Shi Yu made him very jealous, but he didn't dare to confront him directly.
He could only feel a lump in his throat, neither rising nor falling, feeling incredibly stifled.
"Lu Yizhou, let's go!"
Shi Yu was too lazy to look at Lin Zhicheng's depressing state, so she simply pulled Lu Yizhou away.
Watching Shi Yu holding Lu Yizhou's hand, Lin Zhicheng felt a strange sense of irritation rise up from his anger.
Damn it!
He won't just let it go like that.
"Don't you really want to know why Shi Yu went to such lengths to dig this well?" After suppressing his sinister thoughts, Lin Zhicheng suddenly raised his voice and let out a loud "Awooo!"
Everyone turned to look at him.
Although he didn't speak, he subconsciously stopped what he was doing.
Seeing this, Lin Zhicheng spoke up smugly, "It's because of me!"
"She likes me, but I don't want her, so she got angry and deliberately dug a well to sabotage my business in order to get my attention."
"It's just a tactic to force me to back down and coax her."
"No way?" After a brief silence, someone in the crowd finally voiced their doubt.
Shi Yu is highly regarded among them now, as she is beautiful, kind-hearted, and selfless.
Are all of these illusions?
Is she just petty and jealous?
"Hmph! If you don't believe me, go to Chang'an Village and ask around, and you'll find out about me and her."
Just looking at the bucket after bucket of water being drawn from the well makes Lin Zhicheng's fingers tremble uncontrollably, and he feels like he's about to have a heart attack.
So after saying that, he turned around and left.
Everyone looked at each other.
Although no one said anything, the seeds of doubt had already been sown in their hearts.
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The next day, when Shi Yu and Huang Ying went to work, they found that everyone was acting strangely.
It seems the initial enthusiasm has faded.
Moreover, he would occasionally point at her.
When the fish noticed that they were looking over, the people immediately looked away, pretending that nothing had happened.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Shi Yu was filled with doubt.
But when Shi Yu thought about what Lin Zhicheng had done yesterday, she felt that he was somehow involved.
Sure enough, Aunt Zhang came over and cleared up her doubts.
Rumors spread overnight.
It is said that when Shi Yu went to town to buy pigs last time, she spent a huge sum of five yuan to buy a box of jujube paste cakes because she was jealous of Lin Zhicheng and a little girl.
The young girl involved went to the island this morning.
They have solid evidence and their story is very detailed and convincing.
If people only suspected that Shi Yu was digging a well for Lin Zhicheng before, now that suspicion has been completely confirmed.
Now, everyone's respect for Shi Yu has faded.
They no longer appreciated it, and instead felt speechless.
"Sigh!" Aunt Zhang sighed, truly feeling sorry for Shi Yu. "These people! They refuse to believe what they see and instead listen to others' nonsense."
Shi Yu didn't care. "Ignore them, let them be."
"Oh, right..."
Aunt Zhang wanted to say something more, but she was suddenly called away.
So another rumor has also spread among everyone: if Lin Zhicheng is willing to talk to Shi Yu, Shi Yu might damage the well in order to please him or to make up for her mistake.
Aunt Zhang didn't have a chance to say those words.
In the afternoon, Jiang Haiwang approached Shi Yu and handed her a set of drawings. "These are drawings for Lu Yizhou. Please make the trip and deliver them to him now."
Shi Yu glanced at it.
The words above are indeed Lu Yizhou's.
After confirming that there were no problems, Shi Yu reached out and took it, saying, "Okay!"
Then, Shi Yu took the blueprints and left the dock.
But to her surprise, when she reached the edge of the grove, Shi Yu discovered two people talking inside.
She subconsciously turned her head and glanced inside.
"Hmm?" Shi Yu frowned as she recognized who it was.
At that time, there was also a girl wearing a red dress.
That is, the source of the rumors that started when I argued with her about jujube cake in town last time.
That's strange.
How did they meet?
Moreover, the two were standing face to face at this moment. Shi Nian looked at the girl in the red dress with a gentle gaze that carried a hint of cautious flattery, and his smile was so wide it almost stretched to his heels.
It's obvious that this idiot has his eye on her.
At this point, whether Nian lives or dies is none of her concern.
Shi Yu didn't want to get involved.
But then, a single sentence from the girl in the red dress made her abruptly stop in her tracks.
"Brother Shi Nian, only Aunt Huang Ying can save my grandma. You will help me, right?"
"Yes, yes, don't worry! I'll definitely help you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Nian nodded vigorously like a lapdog.
Because it involved Huang Ying, and inexplicably mentioned that it could save her grandmother, Shi Yu immediately took it to heart.
She leaned closer, ready to listen carefully.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the girl in the red dress glanced back before speaking loudly.
“My grandmother’s health is deteriorating day by day. We had someone look at her birth chart and they said that she needs the blood of a woman born on the 13th day of the seventh lunar month, when the yin energy is at its strongest, as a medicinal ingredient to help her recover.”
"Auntie is the perfect fit."
"Brother Shi Nian, don't worry, it won't take too much, just two big bowls will do."
"Your grandma is my grandma. I will definitely make sure nothing happens to her. When do you need her?"
"Tomorrow, it has to be fresh."
"no problem!"
"Brother Shi Nian, you are so good to me, you are simply my hero."
Shi Yu's small face turned completely gloomy.
At this moment, her eyes were sharp, and her fists were hard.
He was easily fooled by a few words and still wanted to bleed his own mother dry?
Was Nian still a human at that time?
Oh shit!
They are worse than pigs and dogs.
Shi Yu wanted to rush in and yell at people.
But then she stopped in her tracks, as if remembering something.
no!
She knew Shi Nian's character all too well—a self-righteous, chauvinistic man, especially when he was driven by lust.
More importantly, she didn't want to upset her mother.
While she was pondering to herself, Shi Nian's cheeks were already flushed from being coaxed, and she happily walked away from the other side.
Only the girl in the red dress remained in the woods, and Shi Yu then went inside.
Upon suddenly seeing Shi Yu, the girl in the red dress seemed unsurprised, but her smile vanished, and she crossed her arms, staring at Shi Yu with hostility.
Their eyes met, and Shi Yu cut to the chase, "What do you want?"
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