Chapter 23 The Story of Stealing Bacon



"Mom, Zhaodi is still a child. No matter what happened, she has admitted her mistakes. Let's forget it."

Wan Cuilan, who came out of the house, heard Li Zhaodi crying and couldn't help but persuade her.

Wang Ruizhen was silent for a moment, then sighed: "Okay, Zhaodi, stay."

Li Zhaodi gradually stopped crying and secretly looked at Wang Ruizhen with red eyes.

Wang Ruizhen didn't look at her, but picked up Pei Tiantian and walked into the inner room.

Li Zhaodi: “…”

Soon, Li Zhaodi discovered that although Wang Ruizhen let her stay, her attitude towards Li Zhaodi was no longer as warm as it was at the beginning, and she didn't even hug her again.

Li Zhaodi sneered inwardly.

Sure enough, her mother was right, her grandmother was extremely biased.

She just said a few words to Pei Tiantian, but Wang Ruizhen treated her like an enemy.

So what?

Pei Tiantian is her granddaughter, and Li Zhaodi is also her biological granddaughter. Why does she treat her like this?

After all, Wang Ruizhen didn't consider her as a family member at all.

Pei Tianyu and Pei Zhiqiang went around the village asking around for a while, and finally heard from Liu Changlong that they learned the details of Gu Rong's theft.

It turned out that a piece of bacon was missing from Zheng Tianfu's house.

Zheng Tianfu is a well-known miser in the village. His wife has been dead for many years. Because he is too stingy, the women in the village look down on him.

When he found out that the bacon was missing, Zheng Tianfu was so angry that he started cursing at the door for most of the day.

It was not until Zheng Tianfu's son Zheng Dahu told him that he saw Gu Rong take a piece of bacon home.

The Zheng family father and son brought a group of people and rushed to Gu Rong's house.

Sure enough, they found half a bowl of bacon in the pot on the stove.

Catching the culprit red-handed, Gu Rong instantly became a thief that everyone wanted to kill.

They all thought that Gu Rong was an orphan now, extremely poor, and could not afford to eat bacon at all, so the bacon in his pot must have been stolen by him.

Liu Changlong said: "Gu Rong was raised by Yongkang and his wife. I trust Yongkang's character. No matter how poor he is, he would never steal other people's food. So I don't believe Gu Rong would do such a thing. It's just that many people saw half a bowl of leftover bacon in Gu Rong's pot at that time, and Gu Rong didn't say anything, so..."

Liu Changlong sighed.

"I also believe that Gu Rong would not steal other people's things."

Pei Zhiwen said with a frown.

Why is Zheng Dahu always there?

When Tiantian fell into the water, he said he saw with his own eyes that it was Gu Rong who pushed him.

The result is not at all.

He also said that he saw the stealing of bacon with his own eyes.

This is such a coincidence.

"We still have to ask the parties involved what exactly happened that day. We have to ask the Zheng family kid and Gu Rong himself."

Pei Zhiqiang said in a deep voice.

Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them hurried back home. When they got home, they saw Pei Tiantian sitting on her special little stool, shaking her head and tapping on the little bowl with a small spoon, waiting for dinner.

"Uncle, you are back!"

Pei Zhiwen and Pei Zhiqiang couldn't help but pinch her dangling little tufts of hair.

"We have learned the whole story of Gu Rong's case. We heard that it was Zheng Dahu who pointed out that he stole the bacon. We think the whole thing should not be that simple."

Pei Zhiwen said in a low voice.

"Uncle, you are right. Brother Dahu is lying. He secretly cooked and ate the bacon. He was afraid of being scolded by his father, so he said the bacon was lost. Later, he saw Brother Gu Rong cooking bacon at home, so he directly accused him of stealing it."

After hearing such a detailed account, Pei Zhiwen and Pei Zhiqiang were both shocked. "How did you know?"

Of course it’s because she knows the plot.

Pei Tiantian said this silently in her heart, but on the surface she lied: "This is what Brother Gu Rong told me. The half bowl of bacon in his pot was secretly stuffed into his pot by Teacher Tao, who taught in the school before, because she felt sorry for him. Now that teacher is gone, there is no one to testify for Brother Gu Rong."

"So that's how it is."

Pei Zhiwen and Pei Zhiqiang suddenly realized.

"Zheng Dahu is such a rude kid. He loves to wrongly accuse others at such a young age!"

Pei Zhiqiang was furious

"Gu Rong's school should have the contact information of the volunteer teacher. So, tomorrow Zhiqiang and I will go to the principal's house and ask him to help find the teacher's contact information. Then I will go to the city and bring Teacher Tao back to testify. This way, Gu Rong can be cleared of the injustice."

Pei Zhiwen said in a deep voice.

When Pei Tiantian heard them say this, she nodded with a smile.

I can finally feel relieved. It seems that the problem of the villain going to school will be solved soon.

After the food was brought out from the kitchen, the Pei family sat around together.

As soon as she saw Wang Ruizhen, Li Zhaodi became nervous.

She was afraid that Wang Ruizhen would tell them that she had scolded Pei Tiantian during the day.

However, Wang Ruizhen finally gave Li Zhaodi face and swallowed what happened during the day. After all, Li Zhaodi still had to live here.

This made Li Zhaodi feel relieved.

Although Wang Ruizhen was still angry with Pei Zhiqin, she still told everyone the news that Pei Zhiqin was pregnant.

The Pei family members were all very happy, and the smiles on their faces were from the heart.

"It wasn't easy for Zhiqin to be pregnant this time!"

"She is considered an elderly mother. Zhiqin is already in her early thirties. We have to be careful."

"Why did Zhiqin leave right after she came during the day without even staying for dinner?" Pei Zhiqiang asked curiously.

Li Zhaodi's heart suddenly jumped to her throat.

Wang Ruizhen said: "Our conditions here are not good, it would be good for Zhiqin to go back and take care of the pregnancy."

Wan Cuilan, who knew about the quarrel between them, secretly rolled her eyes at Pei Zhiqiang and said, "Mom is right. Zhiqin's pregnancy is not stable yet, and she doesn't even have time to take care of Zhaodi and send her to us. It would be better to let her go back to the city to take care of the pregnancy."

After dinner, Pei Tiantian walked around in the dam to digest the food.

There are two or three orange trees planted outside the Pei family's house. The trees are very tall, but they are planted crookedly on the edge of the dam, and there is a steep hillside below.

Pei Zihao couldn't sit still. He was standing under the tree and poking the yellow oranges on the branches with a long bamboo pole.

After a while, oranges fell from the tree.

"Sister, hurry up and pick them up! These are your favorite oranges!"

Pei Zihao called Pei Tiantian who was standing next to him.

Pei Tiantian ran around with her short legs, picking up oranges on the ground with her little butt sticking out.

The two little hands are too small, and they can’t hold two of them.

Pei Tianyu took a colander, picked up the oranges that had fallen on the ground, and brought them to Pei Tiantian, "Sister, I'll peel the oranges for you."

Pei Tiantian touched her belly which seemed to have almost digested the food, and smelled the fragrance of the oranges in the basket. She also felt a little greedy.

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