"Speaking of which, Cuifang, when I got there I only saw you lying on the ground. She said she didn't push you. What exactly happened?"
The village chief's wife then remembered this matter again.
"She pushed me... Mother, you have to stand up for me!"
On the one hand, Liu Cuifang wanted Wei Yuyan to pay compensation, and on the other hand, if the Sun family knew that someone else had pushed her, they wouldn't blame her too much.
Early the next morning~
"My dear in-laws, Cuifang, what happened? The baby is gone?"
Before Liu Cuifang could finish speaking, Sun's mother pushed open the door and came in.
“My dear in-law, you don’t know this, but yesterday Cuifang was just taking a walk in front of her house when a shrew in the village pushed her, which led to this situation…”
The village chief's wife was also afraid that the Sun family would blame her daughter for not being able to protect the child, so she quickly shifted the blame onto Wei Yuyan.
"Isn't Cuifang's father the village chief? How come even an ordinary shrew dares to bully the village chief's daughter?"
Sun's mother was a little puzzled. How bad was Liu Cuifang's character? She had caused trouble before, resulting in her son being beaten. This time, she must have offended someone again, and now she had lost her baby.
"My dear in-law, you may not know this, but my husband stepped down a few days ago and a new village chief was elected."
"I never expected that after only a few days of not being the village chief, these people would start riding on our necks."
The village chief's wife's words were reasonable and well-founded, and Sun's mother also felt that they made sense. As the saying goes, when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.
"We can't let this go like this. Where does that shrew live? Let's go find her and settle the score."
Sun's mother wasn't standing up for Liu Cuifang; she was just saddened by the loss of her unborn grandson.
"That's exactly what I was thinking too."
The village chief's wife, along with Sun's mother and the old village chief, headed aggressively towards Wei Yuyan's house.
Along the way, curious onlookers couldn't resist following along to watch the spectacle.
"This is it."
The village chief's wife pointed to the tightly closed gate of Wei Yuyan's house.
"Bang bang bang~ bang bang bang~ Open the door, open the door! If you're so capable of doing bad things, why are you hiding inside like a coward?"
"Hmph, if you don't come out soon, I'm going to report you to the authorities, you murderer."
Sun's mother was a servant in a wealthy family, and she was very good at scaring people. What are ordinary people afraid of? They are afraid of the government and the yamen.
"Huh? A murderer?"
"Could it be that Wu Chen killed someone? He came back from the battlefield."
"No way, could there be a murderer in their family?"
The villagers following behind erupted in uproar upon hearing the word "murderer."
“Your family has a murderer…your whole family are murderers.”
Chen Yu had just returned from buying tofu when he heard Sun's mother cursing loudly at the door, so he immediately went to confront her.
"Who are you? Are you from this family?"
Sun's mother didn't recognize the so-called shrew, but when Chen Yu came forward to defend her, she judged that he was from Wei Yuyan's family.
"Uncle, Aunt, what does this mean? It's the New Year, why are you coming to my door and cursing me like this?"
Before Chen Yu could speak, the door opened, and Wu Chen smiled as he opened it, looking at the old village chief and his wife.
"It's all your wife's doing, Wu Chen. Your wife pushed my daughter, causing her to miscarry. What do you suggest we do about this?"
The old village chief stopped backing down, stepped forward with his pipe, and accused Wei Yuyan of causing his daughter's miscarriage.
"My wife and your daughter didn't exchange a single word, nor did they even touch your daughter. You think you can just cling to my family with your mouth? Dream on!"
Wu Chen sat down by the door with a stool, and his imposing manner made them dare not come forward.
"You think it's true just because you say so? My Cuifang already said it was your wife who pushed her."
You caused my grandson to be unable to be born. Do you think you can get away with it just because no one saw it?
If you don't admit it, I'll report you to the authorities this afternoon and you'll be in big trouble.
Sun's mother wasn't afraid of Wu Chen at all. She thought Wu Chen was just an uncultured country bumpkin who was too green to fight her.
"Go ahead and report it. You have no evidence to prove that my wife did it. The officials will probably kick you out."
Wu Chen casually pulled out a handful of sunflower seeds and started eating them as he spoke, exuding a relaxed and at ease demeanor.
The old village chief and his wife, along with Sun's mother, were so angry that they began to speak incoherently.
"You just wait~".
Sun's mother waved her sleeve and turned away angrily.
The old village chief and his wife followed along, looking bewildered. They couldn't win an argument, they couldn't win a fight, and there was no point in standing there.
The main problem is the lack of evidence; it's impossible to convict someone based solely on Cuifang's testimony.
"Mother-in-law, what should we do now? We can't just suffer this loss for nothing."
The village chief's wife couldn't think of any other way.
“I have a way to make her family suffer, but this requires spending money to grease palms.”
Sun's mother already had a plan in mind; now she would go to town and bribe a few officials.
Let them come and arrest that shrew, torture her into confessing, and make her pay ten or twenty taels of silver before the matter is settled.
"This... it would cost money to bribe them, so it would be better to use that money to buy some nutritional supplements for Cuifang."
When the village chief's wife heard that money was needed to bribe officials, she hesitated.
"So you mean we should just let this go?"
Sun's mother was still angry from Wu Chen's rebuke, and hearing the village chief's wife say this made her even angrier.
People were already riding on her necks and pooping, and she still wanted to say forget it.
"We're just farmers, where would we get the money to bribe anyone? This is all we have."
The old village chief thought for a moment, then took out two taels of silver from the house and placed them on the table.
My daughter suffered a loss in this matter, and no matter how reluctant I am, I cannot skimp on this.
My mother-in-law is right. Now that I'm no longer the village chief, these people have started bullying my family.
She lost her daughter's child; how could she swallow this insult?
"Alright, I'll cover the majority of the cost, but don't worry, once they pay us back the money, we'll get our money back."
Sun's mother put the two taels of silver into her pocket, got up and left.
"Where did she go?"
The village chief's wife belatedly asked the old village chief a question.
"He went to see the officials, didn't I just say so?"
The old village chief tapped his pipe, feeling very annoyed.
"She really managed to find it?"
The village chief's wife still felt a little intimidated when she heard the word "official".
"Money can make the devil turn the millstone, don't you think?"
The old village chief had dealt with the officials before, so he naturally knew what kind of people they were.
"I really hope we can get justice for our Cuifang."
…
"They just left like that? And they even called me a murderer?"
Wei Yuyan hadn't gone out at all; since Wu Chen was blocking her way, there was no need for her to go out.
However, she had been eavesdropping on their conversation. These people were really bold to say that they hadn't done anything wrong, yet they were being labeled as murderers.
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