"Of course I wouldn't dare to lie to you, sir. You should know my reputation as Wang Meng. I'm a man of integrity and I definitely wouldn't joke about something like this. I don't doubt the character of Brother Chu and Miss Zhou, but there are so many people in Willow Village, who knows if there might be a bad apple in there."
At this moment, Wang Meng couldn't think of anything like a space artifact, but once he noticed this kind of thing, he couldn't help but feel curious.
He wondered if the villagers in Liushu Village who were responsible for purchasing the firewood had traded with someone in the state capital.
Li Hezhen said, "I'll go back and ask Brother Chu about this. You just focus on the safety of our caravan. Willow Village isn't ours after all, so don't interfere too much."
Wang Meng scratched his hair and nodded repeatedly, concentrating on buying charcoal. After all, the caravan also needed charcoal to keep warm, as the weather was getting colder in recent days.
Li Hezhen hesitated for a while, but finally took the initiative to find Chu San and Zhou Jiaojiao to inquire about the situation.
When he found Chu San, he was changing Baoer's diaper and wiping his body clean. His movements were quick and neat, and it was obvious that he had done this countless times. In particular, in order to prevent Baoer from getting cold, he also used his internal force to hit him to ensure that he was warm.
Even though Li Hezhen had seen it many times, he was still a little uncomfortable. For him, a man taking care of a child was completely different from traditional education. The saying that men should work outside and women should work inside was not just talk. He was even surprised that Chu San didn't feel ashamed and did these things in front of everyone.
But after looking at it again, Li Hezhen felt that Chu San was a man of open character and someone worth making friends with. He had met too many young men from aristocratic families or scholars at banquets before, but none of them cared about face as little as he did.
Even among the military generals, most of them are rude, but it is only because of their rude living habits and carelessness. They still value face more than anything else.
Li Hezhen was originally a person who cared about face.
But this time, the family felt that they had saved face because of him, and they abandoned him all of a sudden, as if all the feelings they had for him for the past twenty years could be taken back immediately.
Li Hezhen felt cold all over.
Only after experiencing being abandoned can you understand how rare sincerity is.
The Li family only cares about profit and is cold-blooded.
"Brother Li?" Chu San saw him standing beside him, frowning and immersed in his own thoughts for a long time. Seeing his face becoming more and more ugly, he inadvertently noticed that he was really uncomfortable, so he simply interrupted him.
An expression that said, "If you have something on your mind, don't do it in front of me."
Li Hezhen came to his senses and apologized subconsciously.
"No need, just get to the point." Seeing that Li Hezhen was about to make a long speech to express his apology in a tactful way, and had to think about how to speak in a balanced way so as not to offend anyone, he felt a toothache. He didn't like to talk, and he especially didn't like these scholars who talked in a roundabout way and were indecisive.
Although Li Hezhen is not indecisive, he is quite decisive.
"Wang Meng discovered that the person in charge of purchasing in your village went out for a walk and came back without buying any firewood, but..." Li Hezhen paused and paid attention to his expression.
"But there is still a lot of wood in our village, right?" Chu San looked at him in surprise.
Li Hezhen was a little dazed.
I always feel that the way Chu San looks at me is as if he is making a fuss out of nothing.
"Please wait a moment, I will give you an answer." Chu San deliberately left him out in the cold. No matter how confused Li Hezhen was, he could only nod in agreement.
This way.
Chu San found Zhou Jiaojiao and told her about it. Zhou Jiaojiao smiled unexpectedly: "It took so long to be discovered."
"Ma'am, do you know?"
"Isn't it obvious? Although we have reminded them, the villagers are too dependent on Chen Lin and will definitely be discovered by outsiders." Zhou Jiaojiao has waited for so long and this is the effect she wanted.
She saw with her own eyes that some villagers were influenced by Shen Lin.
Even had some ulterior motives.
The fact that the villagers had not shown any mercy to Chen Lin for two or three months because of the incident she had caused previously had already exceeded Zhou Jiaojiao's expectations.
After all, the heroine's halo is no joke.
She briefly explained it to Chu San, and he understood. He frowned and felt that his enemy, Shen Lin, was really invincible.
"I can hurt her easily now." Chu San reported the results of the battle.
Unlike before, I had to scheme so hard to cause Shen Lin some minor injuries.
"That's right, husband, you should ask her to train more. What if someone is as lucky as her and can always dodge it?" Zhou Jiaojiao's tone was calm, but what she said made sense.
Before meeting Chen Lin, Chu San didn’t think luck was important, but now… he no longer dared to underestimate it, and he became more stable.
"Go call the village chief. He should know about this."
Chu San nodded, turned around and went to find the village chief.
"Chu San, what does Jiaojiao want to talk to me about?" The village chief asked with a frown, holding a pipe in his hand.
Chu San didn't ask what was bothering him, "I don't know either."
Okay.
The village chief could only walk past with his pipe between his teeth. As he passed by, he attracted the attention of Chu's mother, He Lincheng, Xiong Yunkun, Fang Guanghong and others. They all caught up with the village chief and walked past together.
When Zhou Jiaojiao saw so many people coming, she became more determined.
She looked at the village chief with a half-smile: "Village chief, why are all the people here?"
The village chief looked a little uncomfortable.
At the same time, he also realized that he had some difficulty controlling the people in the village.
The reason is simple. Now everyone has enough food and clothing, and they don't have to worry about escaping for their lives. They all have autonomy, which is the same as the situation in the village. What's more, the title of village chief is now in name only and has no threat at all.
Zhou Jiaojiao's tone changed immediately afterwards: "But it's just right that everyone is here. I don't have to yell at everyone one by one."
"Sister-in-law Chu, if you have something to say, just tell me." Xiong Yunkun said in a muffled voice. He was just curious but not forceful.
Others followed suit.
Zhou Jiaojiao said, "It's like this. The caravan noticed that none of us went out to buy firewood, but we still had enough."
As everyone's faces changed drastically, she said, "Chen Lin is exposed."
"This..." Xiong Yunkun asked anxiously and frankly, "What should I do then?"
The village chief sighed, feeling like the time had finally come.
Fang Guanghong snorted coldly when he heard this: "Isn't this something I should have expected? I told everyone back then not to listen to the Zhao family's instigation. They said that leaving something to Shen Lin would be a loss. We have this luck, so we should enjoy it. Why is it that only our village has this kind of artifact, and other villages don't? Although the artifact is in Shen Lin's hands, it should belong to the whole village."
"Once you indulge yourself, the traces will naturally show up."
"Shouldn't we be going with the others?" Huang Shuangming said unconsciously. He realized everyone was looking at him. He suddenly realized he was blaming Zhou Jiaojiao. Blushing, he explained, "I, I didn't mean to say Sister-in-law Chu was wrong. Without her, we wouldn't have survived this long."
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