Seeing Su Ruyi's fearless demeanor, everyone momentarily wondered if she was deliberately framing him.
"Is there some mistake? Jingxuan's wife is indeed very busy. We see her carrying the dwarf to town early every afternoon. How could she possibly have time to beat your precious daughter?"
"Yeah, you should be glad your daughter was only beaten. If she had run into some scoundrels, she might not have been able to keep her innocence..."
"No, didn't any of you notice what Su Ruyi was doing in someone's field so late at night?"
Luo Yunhe felt that someone had finally hit the nail on the head, and she couldn't help but give that person a thumbs up in her heart.
Her reaction was quite quick; since someone had brought it up, why not seize on it?
"What? Su Ruyi fainted on my land? Where is it? Is it the place where we're building a house or somewhere else?" Luo Yunhe seemed very nervous.
"She fainted in your old thatched hut!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, and Luo Yunhe was immediately shocked.
"Oh no! Where did I put my money?!" So Luo Yunhe rushed out in front of everyone, heading straight for her dilapidated thatched hut without saying a word.
As everyone watched him rush off in that direction, some people couldn't help but follow him.
Back at the dilapidated thatched hut, Luo Yunhe frantically searched for a long time, but couldn't find what she wanted. People who came by were completely baffled when they saw her searching for things there.
"What's wrong, Jingxuan's wife?"
What are you looking for?
Luo Yunhe burst into tears, though not truly. Instead, he looked at the newcomer with a wronged expression and said, "We finally saved up some money to build a house. We paid part of the deposit yesterday, but I left the rest here. I thought no one would come, but who would have thought it would be gone now..."
Upon hearing this, the villagers' faces immediately fell.
Luo Yunhe didn't even need to say anything; these people automatically filled in the blanks in their minds.
"It must be him, it must be Su Ruyi. Now that my husband can't work, they can't wait to send us away. Yesterday he came to my place again, he must have been trying to steal my money. She must have taken it. I have to settle accounts with them..."
She spoke with a hint of grievance, and hurriedly ran towards the ancestral hall.
The villagers following behind also hurried to the ancestral hall.
"Village chief, you must do me justice... I never imagined that someone would be so heartless as to steal from our village! All the silver I left there is gone! I was going to build a house with it..."
I only paid a partial deposit yesterday... That's all of Jingxuan and I have saved up! If we just lose it all, how are we supposed to live?
Luo Yunhe spoke while crying. The people around her looked at each other, no one daring to speak, and some even felt a little sorry for her.
At this moment, almost everyone's attention was focused on Su Ruyi.
After all, she went there last night. And she even fainted there.
Although it's unclear who hit her in the face, she was definitely there.
When they found it this morning, the place was also in a mess, clearly indicating that someone had gone there to steal things.
"No, I, I didn't... I didn't..." Su Ruyi panicked as she felt the malicious gazes around her.
"Don't talk nonsense! They don't even have that much money to build a house, so how could they have lost money? Maybe they've been doing some petty theft and other dirty work lately, made some money, and now they're trying to extort money from us. Don't listen to this little bitch's rubbish!"
Su Chenshi sensed something was wrong. They had come here today to seek justice, but how did things turn out the other way around?
Now she has become the victim.
"Waaaaah, you all have to stand up for us! Even though we've been separated from the village, we're still villagers."
I've been busy these past few days, going out into the mountains to find many precious medicinal herbs to sell, which gave me some money to pay for my husband's medical treatment and build a house. Now the money is gone, how am I going to live...?
"If I report this to the authorities, that's all my life-saving money... Waaaaah..." Luo Yunhe said, covering her face and crying incessantly.
"Su Ruyi, if you've taken other people's money, return it right now. Don't embarrass our village!"
"Yes, if you want money, you can just say so openly. What kind of sneaky thing is this? Aren't you just making a fool of ourselves in Moonlit Village?"
"Village chief, we can't have people like this in Moonrise Village... If word gets out, will the girls in Moonrise Village ever get married?"
The crowd chattered amongst themselves, each offering their own explanation, which made the village chief's face turn extremely ugly.
Only after the village chief raised his hand to stop everyone from continuing did he look at the crowd.
"I know that Jingxuan's wife went up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs to sell, and I saw that she did have a lot of silver in her hands before."
Girl, how much money did you lose?
"Fifty taels! I gave the foreman a deposit yesterday, and I'm thinking of keeping the remaining 50 taels here and paying him back after this is all over."
After all, my husband needs a lot of money to get his legs checked, and I thought it wouldn't be safe to carry so much money on my person, so I put it in the clothes under the thatched roof.
"But I just looked inside and there's nothing left, not a single penny. It's been stripped and rummaged through. You have to stand up for me! After all, this is a shameful thing. If word gets out, it won't do our village any good. Since they stole my money, they have to take it back!" Luo Yunhe said while crying, and occasionally she could see through her fingers that the Su family members' faces had turned ashen.
"I'm innocent, you damned bitch, you're framing me! I didn't steal!"
"You have to believe me..." she pleaded with everyone, as if she had gone mad, ignoring her own swollen face, trying to convince them to believe her.
"My daughter couldn't possibly do such a thing! This little bitch must have framed her. You're talking nonsense here, I'll tear your mouth apart!" Su Chenshi was furious and rushed over to hit Luo Yunhe.
How could Luo Yunhe possibly let herself suffer in silence at this time?
So she cleverly turned around, and just then, Su Chenshi's slap landed on her hair bun.
With that effort, Luo Yunhe's hairline came loose, completely obscuring her face.
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