Chapter 121 You said I was the one who beat you, where is the evidence?
The next day, when the sky was bright, the greenhouse was in a mess.
Uncle Xu was furious like a provoked beast. He kicked the dirt on the ridge with his foot and said through gritted teeth, "This must have been done by the Wang family! Who else but that family could do such a bastard thing!"
The village chief looked at the seedlings that were ruined and leaning all over the place, and he kept taking a deep breath in pain. When he heard these words, his eyes widened.
The old man's face was gloomy. He looked at his hard work that had been destroyed and lowered his eyes and said, "Third brother, don't talk nonsense."
"Why am I talking nonsense?"
Uncle Xu said angrily, "Except for the Wang family, our family has never had any grudges with anyone else! Such immoral things are only..."
"Do you have any evidence?"
The old man looked at him coldly: "To accuse a criminal, you need evidence, and we don't have any evidence."
Anyone can guess what's going on.
No one would deliberately come in the middle of the night to destroy the Xu family's rice fields. Without any gratitude or grudge, no one would do such a immoral and evil thing.
But the difficulty lies in not being able to catch them in the act.
The green seedlings were destroyed, and many small holes for ventilation were maliciously poked around the greenhouse. This was obviously malicious revenge.
But if you can't provide evidence, you can't say such things in front of others.
Uncle Xu was spinning in circles like a trapped animal, breathing heavily from his nostrils. Sang Zhixia, who was inspecting the fields, exhaled, looked up, frowned, and said, "Grandfather, it can be fixed."
The person who came must have the intention to destroy the world, but unfortunately he does not have the ability to match his ambition.
Judging from the footprints and traces left in the field, there were two or three people who came to cause damage.
At first, these people probably wanted to pull out all the seedlings, but after a long time, perhaps because they were tired or because they were afraid of running into Xu Yu who came back to check in the middle of the night, they hurriedly stopped. A rough look showed that the affected area was not large enough to be unbearable.
The old man's expression softened considerably when he heard this: "It's already been ripped out like this, can it still be repaired?"
"able."
Sang Zhixia raised her chin at Xu Yu's signal, not understanding what was going on. Seeing him grab the hem of his undershirt to wipe the sweat off her, a flicker of unnaturalness crossed her eyes as she turned her head away and said, "A lot of them were pulled out, but I've seen that most of the roots are healthy."
"It's almost time to separate the seedlings and transplant them, so I just took this opportunity to transplant the seedlings I could. I'll save as many as I can."
The old man closed his eyes with an unclear expression: "Okay."
"Just do as you say."
Uncle Xu said anxiously, "But if we don't catch the perpetrators, it won't be of any use even if we plant the seedlings!"
"What if we've already prepared everything, but the maggots hiding in the dark come out and cause trouble again? Wouldn't all our efforts be in vain then?!"
"Third Uncle."
Xu Yu bent down to pick up the seedlings that had been pulled out and thrown to the surface to float, examined their root systems, and piled the ones with good roots together. He said calmly, "Even if we're worried about someone causing trouble, we won't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
"We still have to do what we have to do."
If we stop and do nothing because we are worried about being sabotaged, wouldn't that be exactly what those people want?
When Uncle Xu San thought about what was happening, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger rising to his head.
"Can we just let this matter go?"
"we……"
"Grandfather! Big brother!"
Xu Mingyang, breathless from running, slipped and rolled like a mud ball from outside the shed curtain into the greenhouse. He couldn't stop and tumbled into the paddy field. Before the adults nearby could react and pull him up, he fluttered in the water with his hands and feet and said anxiously, "Something happened! Something happened!"
"The Wang family is knocking on our door again!"
"What did you say?!"
The old man stretched out his big hand and pulled Xu Mingyang out of the field, who had rolled around in the water, like pulling onions out of dry land. He was surprised and said, "The Wang family went home at this time?"
You did something wrong and yet you still actively run into someone else's door. How can you be so arrogant?!
Xu Mingyang spit out two mouthfuls of water mixed with mud and sand, panting and saying, "Yes, yes, I went there!"
"My mother asked me to come and tell you to go back quickly, saying..."
Crash!
There was a sound of splashing water, and Xu Yu anxiously stretched out his long arm to hold Sang Zhixia's waist, lifted her out of the paddy field, and strode to the edge of the ridge in two steps.
He put Sang Zhixia on the jacket he had taken off, and took off his coat and covered Xu Mingyang's head with it.
"Xu Yu, you..."
"Zhizhi, you come back with Mingyang later. Uncle San and I will go back and take a look first."
"Wait for me!"
The stunned village chief quickly jumped up and said, "I'll go with you!"
The men who got the news strode towards home. Sang Zhixia wrapped Xu Mingyang, who was covered in mud, with Xu Yu's clothes and strode towards home with him.
But when she was nearing home, there was a hint of surprise in her eyes.
"Mingyang, are you saying that Wang Dachui's arm was broken, and he was crying out that it was your eldest brother who did it?"
Xu Mingyang took a deep breath wrapped in his ridiculously large clothes, and finally picked up the tail end of his unfinished sentence: "That's what Old Lady Wang said."
"She said her son's arm was broken by the eldest brother, and she wanted to take the eldest brother to pay for her son's life. But sister-in-law, when did the eldest brother hit him?"
It was only Sang Zhixia who started the fight that day, and the one who was beaten was Wang Dachui's wife.
Wang Dachui’s arm is broken, what does it have to do with his elder brother?
Countless vague thoughts flashed through Sang Zhixia's mind, and in the end, she only had time to say, "Your eldest brother is with us all the time. How could he have the time to do this?"
Xu Mingyang's face was full of anger, and he obviously believed it.
There was a hint of concentration in Sang Zhixia's eyes.
Without thinking too much, she gestured to Xu Mingyang to follow her and ran. As soon as she reached the door of her house, she heard shrill shouting and crying.
"It's devastating! Someone's murdered someone!"
Old Lady Wang fell to the ground like a rolling gourd, kicking the ground with her feet and crying and yelling at the top of her lungs: "This family of evil-hearted and rotten-lung evildoers, first they beat my grandson, and now they've broken both of my son's arms!"
"This is going to kill our whole family!"
Mrs. Wang was also crying and ready to rush forward: "If you dare to harm my man, I will fight your family!"
"Try it if you can!"
Second Aunt Xu blocked the pale-faced Xu Wenxiu and Third Aunt Xu with one hand, and with the other, tightly gripped the hatchet in her hand, threateningly slashing forward. She was clearly shaking with fear, but she managed to maintain her composure: "You're talking nonsense! Nonsense!"
"Your man has done so many evil things, what does his retribution have to do with my family? What makes you say his arm was broken by my family?!"
"You still dare to say no?!"
Frightened by the sharp edge of the hatchet, Wang's wife stumbled back a few steps and sat on the ground. Pointing at the Xu family members in front of her, she shouted, "Dachui said it himself. Your Xu Yu threatened to break his neck that day in revenge! Who else could have done this but him?"
"you……"
"I did say that, and I admit it, but was it his neck that was broken today?"
Xu Yu pushed aside the onlookers and stepped forward, taking the hatchet that Second Aunt Xu could barely hold and was about to drop to the ground. "Second Aunt, you two go into the house first."
Xu Wenxiu fought back tears and said, "Yu'er, but..."
"You go in first."
The old man and Uncle Xu followed closely behind, looking coldly at the Wang family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law making a fuss and said calmly, "We will take care of what's going on outside. Go inside and comfort the kids so they don't get scared."
Sang Zhixia, who arrived a step later, patted Xu Mingyang's dripping head and said, "Go in with your mother."
"Second Aunt, Mingyang fell in the field and got his clothes wet. Please take him to change his clothes first."
Xu Mingyang was held in Aunt Xu's arms as he walked back to the house, looking back every few steps. The door creaked with a dull sound, and more and more villagers gathered in front of the door after hearing the sound.
Xu Yu glanced at Sang Zhixia calmly, his sight directed towards the west shed.
Sang Zhixia crossed her arms and shook her head.
Without waiting for Xu Yu to make another move, Old Lady Wang excitedly climbed up from the ground, pointing at Xu Yu and shouting frantically, "That's him!"
"He's the one who killed my son!"
"He's the one who broke my son's arm!"
Xu Yu looked at her struggling to raise her skinny fingers to poke at his face, his expression very subtle: "You said I hit you, where's the evidence?"
"Do you have any evidence?"
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