Chapter 269 Who is lying?
Nan Zheng felt that she would not cry until she saw the coffin, and said loudly:
"Have you forgotten what I just said? I was on guard last night. If Jingyao really came out of her room to look for you, she would have been able to hide it from my eyes!"
Old Mrs. Zhao's face froze, but she refused to admit it and said angrily:
"That's just your one-sided story! You're all in this together. I wonder if you've colluded with this little girl to embezzle my money!"
As she spoke, she looked at Yun Qingqing with some anger:
"I respected you as guests who came from afar, and I thought you were really rich and generous, and treated us with delicious food and drinks. Now it seems that you are worried about the 100 taels of silver, so you colluded with the little girl to steal the silver, and then staged such a scene. It's obvious that you want to cheat an old country woman like me!"
Her voice was sharp and shrill, and it could be heard far away so early in the morning. Some villagers had already gathered at the gate of the courtyard.
Seeing this, Old Lady Zhao became more and more excited, and finally slapped her thigh and cried:
"How can the world be like this? How can an old woman like me, half buried in the ground, live?"
Yun Qingqing looked at her indifferently as she cried again, and curled her lips without a smile:
"Are you sure you put the banknote in the box in the room and it was stolen instead of you taking it away?"
"Listen to what you are saying! Your little girl stole my silver, and in the end I am being bitten back by you. You accuse me of blackmailing me?" Old Mrs. Zhao cried even louder.
Seeing more and more people outside watching the excitement, Lu Er couldn't help but whispered:
"Mom, there may be some misunderstanding here. If you have anything to say, let's go inside and talk it out."
But Old Lady Zhao didn't care about that and cried even harder:
"Everyone, please give us your judgment. I, Zhao Guihua, have lived a clean life, but now I am old and being framed. How can I live like this..."
She looked emotional, but her accusation was clear and unambiguous. She described in a clear and logical manner how the little girl stole the banknotes and how Yun Qingqing and her group covered up for her and then turned against her.
After she made such a fuss, the villagers naturally began to trust their fellow villager, Old Lady Zhao, and their eyes suddenly became unfriendly when they looked at Yun Qingqing and the others.
However, at this moment, a charming woman in red pushed through the crowd and ran into the yard. She sneered at the spiteful look of Old Lady Zhao.
She raised the two banknotes in her hand and said loudly:
"You know whether it is a false accusation or not. Come and see if this is the banknote you said was 'stolen'."
Old Mrs. Zhao was stunned when she saw the banknotes in her hand and even forgot to cry.
But when she saw Zhiluo's contemptuous look, she immediately came to her senses and pointed at the banknote in her hand and said loudly:
"Look, there are just two banknotes! I said you guys took them away. What else do you have to say now..."
Before she finished her words, two people came in breathlessly and rushed straight towards Zhiluo:
"Give me back the banknotes! You are robbing people in broad daylight. Is there any law?"
"That's the money I used to renovate my house! Where did you come from, you bitch? How dare you steal my money? If you don't come back, I'll report you to the police!"
Everyone was shocked by this sudden change.
Looking more closely, these two people are none other than Mrs. Zhao’s eldest son Lu Da and eldest daughter-in-law Li Lanhua!
The two men didn't even have a chance to rush to Zhiluo and were stopped by the secret guards.
Zhiluo raised her red lips, held up the two banknotes and asked loudly:
"You say this banknote is yours, who can prove it?"
Lu Da immediately looked at Old Lady Zhao:
"Mom! Please tell me something! These are the two banknotes you gave me yesterday! There are even soy sauce marks on them that you accidentally left when you gave them to me!"
Seeing that Old Lady Zhao was standing there without saying anything and not paying attention to the atmosphere around her, he became more anxious and said:
"Mom, what are you daydreaming about? Hurry up and ask her to return the money! If she dares not to return it, we will report it to the police immediately. I don't believe it. So many villagers can prove that she stole our money, how can we let her get away!"
Old Mrs. Zhao didn't expect that her son would suddenly appear and expose her directly!
The villagers outside the door looked at her with changed eyes and began to point fingers.
"What? I clearly gave the banknote to my eldest son, and now I'm saying it was stolen. It's as if it were real!"
"You think you can extort more money from her because she's well-dressed and well-mannered?"
"I'm the one who blackmailed others, but the villain is the first to complain. I didn't expect that Mrs. Zhao is this kind of person..."
Yun Qingqing looked at Old Lady Zhao coldly and said:
"I just gave you a chance, but you insisted that the banknotes were not taken by you, but were stolen!"
"I...I..." Mrs. Zhao's face turned red and white, and she tried to make excuses, "Maybe I was dreaming when I was confused, and I took it seriously... This must be the case! I am old and how many days do I have left to live? How could I harm a little girl I just met for the first time?"
"It seems, it seems that this is all a misunderstanding. I am so sorry, sir. It is me who is confused..."
Yun Qingqing curled her lips without a smile, looked at her directly and said:
"When you cried thief and asked the villagers to judge, you were very clear-headed. You kept saying that we stole your silver and turned around to blackmail you. If your own son hadn't ruined your plan, you would have made up your mind to blackmail me for more than a hundred taels of silver before you would stop, right?"
Up to now, the villagers have seen every move of Old Mrs. Zhao clearly. A little thought will tell that she is not confused at all. She has clearly planned to extort money from others!
All of a sudden, more accusatory voices and strange looks came over.
At this time, Lu Hai's three brothers also came to their senses, and they rushed to speak loudly:
"You old lady are so vicious. You hired us to kidnap the little girl and sell her off just to frame her for stealing money!"
"You really have a good plan! You embezzled more than 100 taels of silver, and you extorted more than 100 taels from others, but you hired us to kidnap someone and only paid us 5 taels of silver to send him off!"
"That's right! He still refuses to admit that he was the mastermind even after the incident was exposed. He wants us brothers to take the blame!"
"It's really fucking true that you get all the good things in the world, and the bad things are all done by others, right?"
The villagers around were originally just talking in low voices, but after hearing what these three people said, there was an explosion!
He hired someone to kidnap the girl for money, and then had someone sell her!
This is completely different from simply extorting money, it is simply vicious!
Amidst the crowd's pointing and talking, Lu Er looked at Old Lady Zhao in disbelief:
"Mother...how could you do such a thing!"
Old Mrs. Zhao’s eyes suddenly rolled back and she passed out with a burp.
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