Chapter 123 It’s just the beginning, why are you in such a hurry?
The whole audience was in an uproar when these words were spoken, but Xu Yu's face remained calm without any fluctuation.
The village chief raised his gray eyebrows and sneered: "Okay, then tell me in detail how Xu Yu hurt you, when he hurt you, and where he hurt you!"
"Hand...his hand..."
Wang Dachui shuddered violently, overcome by an lingering fear. With a head covered in cold sweat, he shivered and said, "He broke my arm with his bare hands!"
"ha!"
The village chief blew a white mist of anger from his nostrils and repeated through gritted teeth, "What time was it? Where was the injury? Did anyone else see Xu Yu injuring you?!"
"explain!"
Wang Dachui was already dazed, and the village chief's thunderous rebuke startled him. He suddenly shuddered, remembering that he had fainted in the backyard, and blurted out, "In my house! I was beaten in my house!"
"Yin... no... it's Mao time!"
"It was fought at the hour of Mao!"
"At midnight? Are you sure?"
Wu Changgui, who rushed over after hearing the news, looked at Wang Dachui with disgust and said in a subtle tone: "At the hour of Mao, in your backyard?"
Wang Dachui answered decisively: "Yes!"
“Nonsense!”
Wu Changgui pointed at Wang Dachui, who looked so confident, and said unhappily, "Xu Yu and I went to the foot of the mountain at three o'clock in the morning. At the beginning of the morning, Xie Shuanzi and I went into the woods together. It was around the beginning of the morning that the three of us came down the mountain together. Xu Yu went straight to the fields at the foot of the South Mountain. How could he have the leisure to come to your house?"
"Yes, yes, I know that!"
Xie Shuanzi raised his hand and said, "He's been with us the whole time, Wang Dachui. How could he have the time to do this?"
Mrs. Wu, who was standing behind Wu Changgui, also said, "That's right. When Xu Yu and Shuanzi went to my house to call Changgui, it wasn't even the morning hour yet."
"Besides, you're such a grown-up, living being, how could he beat you like this in your own home? Didn't those two yelling women in your house hear anything? If he really got beaten in your backyard, would they have waited until daybreak before thinking of calling a doctor for you?"
The words were superficial and could not withstand scrutiny. Wang Dachui's sudden confidence was blocked back. He trembled as if the pain was getting worse, and shouted in despair: "It's the hour of the morning!"
"I can't be wrong about hearing a rooster crow!"
"Then you must have heard wrongly."
Xu Yu shook his head helplessly: "The rooster crowed three minutes ago, and Brother Wu, Brother Xie and I were already at the foot of the mountain."
"How is that possible?!"
Wang Dachui seemed to have more strength in his anger. He was about to struggle up and confront Xu Yu, but he accidentally touched his soft and broken arm. He screamed in pain and rolled out of control from the door panel to the ground.
Sang Zhixia's shoulders and back stiffened when she heard the cries of pain coming from behind her. Xu Yu raised his hand to pat her shoulder soothingly, then looked at Wang Dachui as if he were looking at a child who was making trouble. "Are you sure it was me who hurt you?"
"Besides the time and place, do you have any evidence to prove me?"
The contrast between Wang Dachui's screams and Xu Yu's indifference was obvious. Sister Wang was so irritated that her eyes turned red and she yelled, "What more evidence do you need?!"
"It's obvious that you were the one who harmed him, you..."
"Oh, that's all nonsense."
The uncle who had been standing in the crowd watching for a long time sighed and said quietly, "I think you drank too much yellow soup and have completely forgotten everything. You want to take this opportunity to blackmail the Xu family so that you can extort some money for the yellow soup?"
"What's with all that talk about Yin-hour and Mao-hour? And what about hearing a rooster crow? Were you home at that hour? You've been drunk, haven't you?"
The uncle snorted in disdain and said, "I got up early and went out for a stroll. I saw you wandering back at dawn. What does this have to do with Xu Yu?"
"Hey, Third Brother, did you see it too?"
The young man called Lao San hesitated for a moment, then said with a twisted face, "I vaguely saw it was him, but I couldn't see it clearly from a distance, but..."
"But Xu Yu was with Chang Gui and the others at that time, so he couldn't be wrong, right?"
The words were self-explanatory, and Xu Yu didn't need to say anything more. The faces of the villagers watching at the door showed the same disgust.
Everyone knows what kind of person Wang Dachui is. He drinks too much yellow wine and speaks without restraint. He often stirs up trouble and gets beaten up. It's not uncommon for him to get injured here and sprained there. Even if his injuries today are more serious than ever before, doesn't he deserve it?
Wang Dachui was still unconscious from the piercing pain. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other and said anxiously: "That's not right!"
"My son came back after dark yesterday. He has been at home the whole time. How is it possible..."
"So he was being beaten in the backyard, and you really didn't hear anything?"
The village chief, completely frustrated by their unreasonable demands, said angrily, "So many people are watching! This has nothing to do with Xu Yu!"
"How long are you going to keep making such nonsense and slandering people?!"
If only one person said it, that would be fine, as one person alone cannot provide evidence, but are all these people blind?
Who is helping Xu Yu lie?
The village chief angrily turned around on the spot, squatted down, stared at Wang Dachui, whose face was pale and bathed in cold sweat, and scolded him: "Did you really see that it was Xu Yu?!"
“I…I…”
Wang Dachui's eyes became dazed as the severe pain in his hands continued to whip him. He subconsciously looked towards Xu Yu, but was met with Xu Yu's eyes that were ice-cold to the bone.
That look was like a knife, able to pierce into the deepest part of a person's heart where they feared the most.
Wang Dachui suddenly became scared.
His cracked pale lips kept trembling, and in his fear he could no longer muster the confidence he had just now. Seeing this, what else could the village chief not understand?
He spat with a gloomy look on his face, stood up and said, "What a bunch of bastards!"
"Every one of them just talks nonsense! They can't even say a single word! They come to knock on the Xu family's door without any evidence!"
"Do you really think that the Xu family, being outsiders, can be bullied at will? Do you really think there's no one in Luobei Village who can speak fairly and make decisions?!"
"absurd!"
"No one knows where you got into trouble, and no one wants to know why your arm was broken! But I'm warning you, Wang family, that since the Xu family has entered the village, they belong to the village! Clean up all those shameful and cunning things in your family, and don't bring them out to embarrass others!"
"Hurry up and take this disgraceful thing back! If you and your family dare to make trouble again, pack your bags and get out of the village! Luobei Village can't afford to be embarrassed by people like this! Get out!"
The village chief is a good-tempered old man who treats people kindly and warmly. No matter whether they are from the village or from outside, as long as they do not take the initiative to cause trouble, the old man will always smile and be very friendly.
But even an old man with a good temper will get angry.
The good old man rarely got angry. Before the distraught mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Wang family could react to what was happening, the villagers who could not bear to watch rushed over and lifted the door panel to throw Wang Dachui back to his house.
Mrs. Wang staggered to her feet as if she had lost her soul. Her bloodshot eyes moved with difficulty, and she looked at Xu Yu as if she had seen an evil ghost from the underworld in broad daylight.
Without warning, she shook off Old Lady Wang's trembling hand, rushed over, and gave Xu Yu a hard shove. As Xu Yu took a few steps back in surprise, she grabbed his clothes with both hands and gritted her teeth, "It must be you... If it's not you, then it must be someone else in your family..."
"It's...it's you...it must be you!"
There was an inexplicable bitterness between Xu Yu's eyebrows, and he stepped back and turned sideways as if trying to shake off her hand.
Just as he lowered his head and frowned, Sang Zhixia, who was protected behind him, heard him say softly: "It's me, what can I do?"
"It's just the beginning, what's the rush?"
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