Zhou Xiaomei subconsciously protected Su Luo behind her.
Su Luo got involved in this mess just to help her, and she absolutely couldn't let Su Luo get hurt.
The villagers surrounded them aggressively, and Zhou Liangwen and Zhou Liangwu became more emboldened. They took up their weapons and led the way to surround the two men.
Su Luo glanced at the people present.
There are not many of them with high combat effectiveness, and the strongest ones seem to be Zhou Liangwen and Zhou Liangwu.
Su Luo patted Zhou Xiaomei soothingly: "It's not a big problem, don't worry."
The head of Kengtian Village was also alarmed and came over: "What's going on? What are you all doing here?"
Mrs. Zhou started to blame the others, crying and shouting, "What a sin! There is a traitor in our Zhou family. He came to our house in broad daylight to steal things!"
Zhou Xiaomei looked at her angrily: "You are talking nonsense!"
Old Mrs. Zhou didn't even look at her. She grabbed the village chief's arm and said to the villagers, "Come and judge! My son and daughter-in-law are gone, and I'm left with only a house and a half-grown daughter."
"This girl will eventually get married, so we have to take back the house! We can't just accompany her until she gets married, right? In another four or five years, she will get married."
"But she refused to give in and insisted on taking over her father's inheritance. Not only did she take away all the deposits and property deeds, she even refused to let us live in the house and wanted to drive us out!"
"It's fine that she said we were after her money, but she ran away from home and came back today with a woman. She took away all the money and savings in the house, and even beat us up. She pushed an old woman like me to the ground and said I was not her grandmother."
In the countryside, a fourteen-year-old girl who has lost her parents is indeed not convincing.
The people around were silent. They knew about the situation of the Zhou family. Not to mention what the Zhou family was like before, both parents were gone suddenly, leaving only a fourteen-year-old girl. Which family would be willing to give such a large family fortune to a little girl to keep?
Old Mrs. Zhou cried and grabbed the village chief's arm: "Village chief, you have to make the decision for us. The child is holding our Zhou family's money, we can't let her snatch it away in broad daylight!"
Zhou Liangwen deliberately said: "I know, this little girl just wants to take these things to her aunt's house and give them to her aunt for a bargain, right?"
After all, they are villagers, and there is no reason for the village chief to help outsiders.
He looked at Zhou Xiaomei with a sullen face: "Xiaomei, you are still young and ignorant. Money and house deeds are not trivial matters. Be obedient and return them to your elders and let them handle it."
Seeing that everyone was staring at her aggressively, Zhou Xiaomei couldn't help but swallow nervously and held the box tightly without letting go.
Su Luo pulled her behind him and sneered at Old Lady Zhou: "What you said is not right, is it? I heard that Xiaomei's family was driven out by you five or six years ago? The family was divided a long time ago, what do you mean by your property?"
Zhou Xiaomei looked at Su Luo with gratitude.
On the way here, Su Luo asked her about everything at home in detail, and it turned out that they were waiting here.
Old Mrs. Zhou said sternly, "What business does an outsider like you have? This is our village, our family's business. Where are you from? Do you have a letter of recommendation to dare to come to our village?"
Zhou Liangwu also hurriedly said: "This may be from somewhere else. I will go find the captain and ask him to catch him for you!"
Su Luo smiled and said, "Put my question aside for now. It's not fair for you to bully a little girl who just lost her parents, right?"
Old Mrs. Zhou spat, "Who bullied her? You two are just thieves crying thief, running into my house in broad daylight to steal things, and you think you are right?"
"Your house?" Su Luo sneered and glanced at everyone present coldly: "Who here doesn't know who that house belongs to?"
She glanced at the villagers and said, "You just think that Xiaomei is a little girl who may or may not marry into any village in the future and will have no future. On the other hand, Mrs. Zhou's family will settle down in this village and become neighbors. In comparison, you are blindly helping the old lady's family without caring about right or wrong."
The villagers had evasive and guilty expressions on their faces.
Isn't this human nature?
If they stand on Xiaomei's side now, that girl will marry to another village in a few years and have no contact with them at all.
Even if I offend this little girl now, it doesn’t matter. I may not see her again in the future anyway.
But Mrs. Zhou's family was notoriously difficult to deal with, and they would always be our neighbors in the village. If we offended them, we would never have a peaceful life.
Su Luo said coldly: "You all know that when Xiaomei's family started running goods, they lost money and owed debts. In order to distance themselves from them, Old Madam Zhou and the two uncles' families split up the family on the spot and drove them out."
"Not only that, when the family was split up, how ugly was the Zhou family? They said they would never have any contact with each other again, that they would be two separate families from now on, that they would go their own way, and that no one would get close to anyone else. Didn't they say these words when the family was split up?"
"Zhou Xiaomei's parents were in debt and had nowhere to go. They could have asked their family for help, but they didn't expect to be kicked out."
"For three consecutive years, what did they say? Old Mrs. Zhou said that she only had two sons, and Zhou Liangwen and Zhou Liangwu only recognized each other as brothers."
"Even the children don't recognize Zhou Xiaomei as their cousin. They treat her like a stranger when they see her."
"You have all forgotten the three years of cold eyes and severance of contact, but Zhou Xiaomei will never forget."
"When Zhou Xiaomei's father was sick and needed money for surgery, Zhou Xiaomei's mother knelt at the door of Old Lady Zhou's house and begged for two days, but her family was so cruel that they didn't give her a single cent."
"But after they made a profit from the trade, they suddenly remembered that they had a son and a younger brother."
"The relationship between the two families was not good to begin with. Zhou Xiaomei's parents had already transferred the property deed to her name, just in case something unexpected happened during the delivery."
"As a result, less than a month after her parents passed away, this family moved in together, robbed her house, and even wanted to steal her savings book and property deed."
"It would be fine if they were a family living together, but they insisted that Zhou Xiaomei was the unlucky star that brought death to her parents and drove her out."
"Don't you all know all this?"
Su Luo looked at Old Lady Zhou coldly: "I have never seen an old lady like you who is thicker than a city wall, and still so sarcastic and disgusting at your age!"
Mrs. Zhou was scolded and she was so angry that she put her hands on her hips and said, "Who are you talking about? How dare you scold me! Do you know my son..."
"Bah!" Su Luo spat, "I'm scolding you, a family of shameless and heartless dogs!"
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