Wang Guifen readily agreed, turned around, and ran home.
She needs to quickly bring her father-in-law, who is the village chief, to uphold justice!
Seeing that Wang Guifen had gone to fetch the village chief, the other women surrounded Shuiqing's family and headed towards the Fan family's house.
"Come on, we'll go with you and make Sun Jinhua give us an explanation!"
"Don't be afraid, the village chief is coming soon. If you ask me, you two from Fan's family, you can't be foolish and actually use knives. If you hurt someone, you'll never get away with it in court."
“Aunt Li is right. It’s not so easy to get into the yamen. Let’s make Sun Jinhua return the mushrooms and give her a guarantee.”
...
Shui Qing's family never intended to kill or slash; they only carried weapons to intimidate others.
Now, with the help of a large group of aunties and older women, and with enough intimidation, they immediately agreed, "The aunties and older women are right. We were just confused because we were angry before."
"I will remember the kindness of the aunties and grandmothers. When my husband comes back, we will visit them one by one to express our gratitude."
In the village, it's perfectly normal for neighbors to help each other. So when they suddenly heard that Shuiqing valued it so much and wanted to come and thank them, they naturally waved their hands repeatedly.
"No, no need."
"It's nothing, there's no need to come and thank me, please don't."
I've decided right now that I must say a few more words for the Fan family later!
Shui Qing didn't show it on her face, but silently added in her heart: Of course I'll go. Saying thank you is secondary; getting the water chestnuts is the main thing.
A large group of people headed towards Sun Jinhua's house.
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Fan Qian sat on a long bench, smoking his pipe, watching his wife picking bamboo mushrooms under the eaves.
He puffed on his pipe and mumbled incoherently, "It's not even noon yet, and you've already brought back such a big basket of bamboo mushrooms. It seems pretty easy. You can go pick more tomorrow."
Sun Jinhua rolled her eyes so hard they almost reached the sky.
The person in charge is truly ignorant of grains and lazy!
No one else knows what time she left in the morning, but surely the head of the household knows? She had a seven-year-old girl with her; even if she tried, she couldn't gather this many bamboo mushrooms!
Fan Zhaodi glanced at her mother discreetly, then said to her father, "Father, these mushrooms were taken by Mother from my eldest and second eldest sisters. Should we return them?"
She saw her mother narrow her long, narrow eyes, her face dark and gloomy, and her thin body tremble. She dared not tell anyone that her mother had pushed her second sister down the stairs.
Fan Qian was stunned, and asked Sun Jinhua incredulously, "Did you steal this from Daya and Erya?"
"Those two girls were just pretending to be well-behaved at home! Now that they've separated from the family, they've become arrogant. All I want from them is some mushrooms, and they make excuses and refuse to give them any."
"I told you before that you couldn't tame her, but you didn't believe me. Now you won't even give us a mushroom to eat. Tell me, what's the point of raising a girl like that?" Sun Jinhua snorted indifferently.
Fortunately, she was taller and stronger than those two girls, otherwise she might not have been able to snatch the mushroom.
Fan Qian slammed his pipe and said sternly, "Foolish! Mushrooms are everywhere, you can pick them yourself. Why do this for a few worthless mushrooms? What will the villagers think of our family if word gets out?"
"We have four sons in our family. Don't you want anyone to arrange marriages for them?!"
Sun Jinhua retorted, "So what! As their aunt, I'm just taking some mushrooms from them as a token of my respect. If word gets out, no one will say anything about me; they'll just say they're being inconsiderate."
Besides, am I eating these mushrooms all by myself? I'm risking a bad reputation for the good of my whole family!
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