Mao Gen shrank back, feeling a little scared.
His mother was a widow. Before Xue Huan built a vegetable garden, he hired several women in the village to cook for the workers. Mao Gen's mother was one of them.
She had always been grateful to Xue Huan, so she didn't back down at this moment. She put her arm around Mao Gen's back and glared back, "Liu Guixi! Why are you trying to scare my Mao Gen? Mao Gen, don't be afraid. Tell me what you saw before. There are so many uncles and aunts watching us here."
Mao Gen nodded and recounted what happened on the lake that afternoon.
After hearing this, everyone looked at the Liu family with subtle eyes.
Shuisheng was originally a well-known bully in the whole village. In the past, many children in the village were bullied by him. This time, Shuisheng took the initiative to provoke Xue Jun again. Maybe he thought the girl was pretty?
Knowing that the little girl was ill, he still bullied her so unscrupulously.
Now look what happened, is this your retribution?
Xue Huan asked the key question: "Mao Gen, did Liu Shuisheng emerge from the water after we left?"
Mao Gen nodded and said, "After you left, he tried to steal my water chestnuts, but I didn't let him succeed."
Xue Huan looked at the Liu family and said, "After we left, Liu Shuisheng was still alive and well, so his death has nothing to do with our Xue family."
"You say it's okay, so it's okay? Who knows if what this kid said is true! Everyone in the village knows that his mother is close to your family! He must be deliberately siding with you!"
Liu Guixi was unwilling to accept this and insisted on putting the blame of Liu Shuisheng's death on the Xue family.
Xue Huan finally understood that, in the Liu family, the only one who was truly sad about Liu Shuisheng's death was probably Shuisheng's mother. The others just wanted to take advantage of his death to gain benefits!
She sneered, "So what do you want?"
Liu Guixi's eyes rolled. "That's easy. Your Xue family killed my son, so you must pay compensation! At least five hundred taels!"
The Xue family is rich now, so they can’t come up with five hundred taels?
Once he gets the five hundred taels of silver, he'll marry a concubine to give birth to a son! As for that yellow-faced woman, humph, she always has a sad face, he's tired of seeing her.
The villagers couldn't help but gasp when they heard his exorbitant asking price. It wasn't five or fifty taels! It was a full five hundred taels!
Liu Guixi is really bold to say that.
It's simply extortion.
The eyes of the other members of the Liu family suddenly lit up, and their faces showed the same greed.
Why did they spare no effort to help the eldest wife cause trouble at the Xue family? Isn't it to share the benefits afterwards?
If the Xue family really paid five hundred taels in compensation, they would also become rich!
Xue Huan observed the Liu family's reaction and sneered, "What if I don't compensate?"
"If you don't pay me, I'll sue you at the county government office!"
Xue Huan spread her hands indifferently, "Then go ahead and sue me. But I have to remind you that if you falsely accuse someone, you will not only be fined, but also beaten with a stick."
After saying that, she no longer paid attention to the Liu family, turned and walked into the yard, and slammed the gate shut.
Seeing that there was nothing exciting to watch, the villagers dispersed one after another and went home to sleep.
The Liu family was dumbfounded. They didn't expect that after making such a big fuss, they didn't get any benefits!
After entering the house, Xue Huan quickly helped Pei Ji treat his wounds.
Xue's mother and Xue Jun were still awake. After all, such a big thing had happened, and they were worried. How could they sleep? When they saw this, they hurriedly asked, "How did this happen?"
Xue's mother felt very distressed. After spending several months together, she had already regarded Pei Ji as her own child.
Xue Huan was still very angry, but she couldn't show it in front of Xue's mother, so she softened her tone and recounted what had happened before.
Xue's mother: "How could such a living person disappear in the blink of an eye? But the Liu family is really too much. They have nothing to do with our family, but they still insist on blaming us and extorting money. This family is really..."
As a mother who deeply loves her children, she really can't imagine how such a person can exist in the world.
If something happened to her child...she found it unbearable to think about it.
Xue Huan carefully applied medicine to Pei Ji, "Does it hurt?"
Pei Ji shook his head, "It doesn't hurt, Huanhuan, don't be angry." He raised his hand and smoothed her frown.
Xue Huan couldn't help but smile, "I'm not mad at you."
Xue Jun hung her head, feeling very heavy-hearted. Xue Yao noticed this and comforted her: "Don't be sad, Jun'er. This matter has nothing to do with us. It was Liu Shuisheng who drowned himself."
Xue Huan was also worried that the little girl would be traumatized. "That's right, don't blame yourself. This has nothing to do with you."
Xue Jun nodded, "Yeah, I know."
But in my heart, I still feel that I should not go out easily in the future, so as not to cause any trouble to my family.
The sensitive little girl couldn't help but feel guilty after all.
Seeing that her smile was forced, Xue Huan's anger towards the Liu family surged again.
"Mom, I think the Liu family will definitely not let this go. Who knows how long it will last. What if Jun'er gets sick again? Why don't we move to the county? There are private houses in the county, and it's much quieter than here."
Xue's mother also had this concern and immediately agreed, "Okay, let's set off early tomorrow morning."
After lying down, Xue Huan waited for Pei Ji's breathing to calm down before quietly leaving for a while.
When he appeared again, he was in a vegetable garden a few miles away.
Before she left, there was no one guarding the vegetable garden, so she had to make some preparations in advance to prevent the secret of the peppers from being exposed.
Xue Huan buried some gold, silver, jade and other stones underground around the chili field in a certain pattern and order, and then injected spiritual energy into it. The gold, silver, jade and other stones, which were originally dead objects, were instantly connected together to form part of the formation.
That’s right, what she set up was a formation that had a psychedelic effect.
After absorbing the purple energy contained in several objects obtained from Little Bodhi, the space inside the Five Elements Bead expanded again, revealing the building behind the stone road.
It is still a thatched hut, but this hut is used as a study and contains many books and collections.
One of the books was about formations. Xue Huan studied it for a few days and was finally able to perform the most basic illusion formation.
If an ordinary person wants to get started with formations, it will probably take several months or even years. How can it be mastered in just a few days?
However, Xue Huan is not an ordinary person. In her previous life, she was a person who gave many powerful people a headache. In terms of cultivation, she may not be as good as those gifted people, but she is very proficient in various miscellaneous matters such as formations, talismans, and refining.
After all, if she wasn't proficient in these things, she wouldn't have been able to survive for so many years after offending so many people, right?
Under the cover of the magic array, the pepper field instantly turned into an ordinary vegetable field.
Xue Huan summoned the mole beast again, fed it a bunch of food, and told it to look after the vegetable garden and pay attention to the movements in the village, but never show up in front of others.
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