Chapter 269 Who is lying?
Nan Zheng felt that she would not cry until she saw the coffin, and said loudly:
"Have you forgotten what I just said? I was on guard last night. If Jingyao really came out of her room to look for you, she would have been able to hide it from my eyes!"
Old Lady Zhao's face froze, but she refused to admit it and said angrily:
"That's just your one-sided story! You're all in this together. I think you've colluded with this little girl to embezzle my money!"
As she spoke, she looked at Yun Qingqing with a hint of anger:
"I respected you as guests who came from afar, and I thought you were some wealthy family, generous enough to treat us with delicious food and drinks. Now it seems that you must be worried about losing the hundred taels of silver, so you conspired with the little girl to steal it. You even staged this act, clearly trying to cheat an old country woman like me!"
Her voice was sharp and shrill, and it could be heard far away so early in the morning. Some villagers had already gathered at the gate of the courtyard.
Seeing this, Old Lady Zhao became more and more excited, and finally slapped her thigh and cried:
"How can the world be like this? How can an old woman like me, half buried in the ground, live like this?"
Yun Qingqing looked at her indifferently as she cried again, and curled her lips without a smile:
"Are you sure you put the banknote in the box in the room and it was stolen instead of you taking it?"
"Listen to what you are saying! Your little girl stole my silver, and in the end I am being bitten back and accused of blackmailing you?" Old Mrs. Zhao cried even louder.
Seeing that more and more people were watching the excitement outside, Lu Er couldn't help but whispered:
"Mom, there might be some misunderstanding here. Let's go inside and talk it out."
But Old Lady Zhao didn't care about his tricks and cried even harder:
"Everyone, please judge for yourself. I, Zhao Guihua, have lived a clean life, and now I'm being framed in my old age. How can I live like this..."
She looked emotional, but her accusation was clear and unambiguous. She described in a clear and organized manner how the little girl stole the banknotes and how Yun Qingqing and her group covered up for her and then turned against her.
After she made such a fuss, the villagers naturally began to trust their fellow villager, Old Lady Zhao, and their eyes suddenly became unfriendly when they looked at Yun Qingqing and the others.
However, at this moment, a charming woman in red pushed through the crowd and ran into the yard. She sneered at the shrewish look of Old Lady Zhao.
She raised the two banknotes in her hand and said loudly:
"You know whether it's a false accusation or not. Come, take a look and see if this is the banknote you said was 'stolen'."
Old Mrs. Zhao was stunned when she saw the banknotes in her hand, and even forgot to cry.
But when she saw Zhiluo's contemptuous look, she immediately came to her senses and pointed at the banknote in her hand and said loudly:
"Look, there are those two banknotes! I told you they were taken away by your gang, and now you have nothing to say..."
Before she could finish her words, two people rushed in breathlessly and rushed straight towards Zhiluo:
"Give me back the banknotes! You're robbing me in broad daylight. Is there any law?"
"That's the money I used to renovate my house! Where did you come from, you bitch? How dare you steal my money? If you don't come back soon, I'll report you to the police!"
Everyone was shocked by this sudden change.
Looking more closely, the two people were none other than Mrs. Zhao’s eldest son Lu Da and eldest daughter-in-law Li Lanhua!
The two men didn't even have the chance to rush to Zhiluo before they were stopped by the secret guards.
Zhiluo raised her red lips, held up the two banknotes and asked loudly:
"You say this banknote is yours. Who can prove it?"
Lu Da immediately looked at Old Lady Zhao:
"Mom! Please tell me something! These are the two banknotes you gave me yesterday! There's even a soy sauce stain on them that you accidentally put on them when you gave them to me!"
Seeing that Old Lady Zhao was standing there without saying a word and not noticing the surrounding atmosphere, he became increasingly anxious and said,
"Mom, what are you daydreaming about? Hurry up and make her return the money! If she dares not to return it, we will report it to the police immediately. I don't believe it. So many villagers can prove that she stole our money, how can we let her get away!"
Old Mrs. Zhao didn't expect her son to suddenly appear and expose her directly!
The villagers outside the door looked at her with changed eyes and began to point and talk.
"What? I clearly gave the banknote to my eldest son, and now I'm saying it was stolen. It's so real!"
"You're trying to extort more money from someone because they're well-dressed and well-mannered?"
"I'm the one who's blackmailing others, but the villain is the first to complain. I didn't expect Mrs. Zhao to be this kind of person..."
Yun Qingqing looked at Old Lady Zhao coldly and said:
"I just gave you a chance, but you insisted that the banknotes were not taken by you, but were stolen!"
"I...I..." Old Mrs. Zhao's face flushed and paled as she gritted her teeth and tried to make excuses. "I was just dreaming when I was half asleep, and I took it seriously... That must be it! I'm old, how many days do I have left to live? How could I possibly harm a young girl I just met for the first time?"
"It seems, it seems that this is all a misunderstanding. I'm so sorry, sir. It's just that I, an old woman, was confused..."
Yun Qingqing curled her lips without a smile, looked at her directly and said:
"When you were crying thief just now, asking the villagers to judge, you were very clear-headed. You kept saying that we stole your silver and turned around to blackmail you. If your own son hadn't put the blame on you, you would have made up your mind to extort more than a hundred taels of silver from me before you would stop, right?"
Up to now, the villagers have seen every move of Old Mrs. Zhao clearly. It only takes a moment to think about it and know that she is not confused at all. She has clearly planned to extort money from others!
All of a sudden, more accusatory voices and strange looks came over.
At this moment, Lu Hai's three brothers also came to their senses and shouted loudly, one after another:
"You old lady are so vicious! You hired us to kidnap the little girl and sell her off just to frame her for stealing money!"
"You're such a calculating savvy! You pocketed over a hundred taels of silver, then extorted another hundred taels, and then you hired us to kidnap someone and only paid us five taels!"
"That's right! Even after the incident was exposed, he still refused to admit that he was the mastermind and wanted us brothers to take the blame!"
"It's really fucking true that you get all the good things in the world, and other people do all the bad things, right?"
The villagers around were originally just talking in low voices, but after hearing what these three people said, there was a loud "boom" and everything exploded!
He hired someone to kidnap the girl for money and then had the girl sold!
This is completely different from simply extorting money, it is simply vicious!
Amidst the crowd's pointing and talking, Lu Er looked at Old Lady Zhao in disbelief:
"Mother...how could you do such a thing!"
Old Mrs. Zhao's eyes suddenly rolled back and she passed out with a burp.
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