What amazing ability does she have? It's just that she amplifies her own sense of smell.
System: [Just tell me if it's easy to use or not?]
Lin Qixia gritted her teeth: "It works! But if I get suffocated by the fumes, you'll lose me as your host!"
system:【……】
The system silently lowered Lin Qixia's sense of smell.
Lin Qixia sniffed, finally feeling much better.
"Let's go find that thief!" Lin Qixia said, walking directly out of the courtyard.
Lin Xiao and He Zhilan exchanged a glance and followed suit.
Lin Jiudong and Lin Yi also planned to go, but He Zhilan turned to her and said, "You and Lin Yi stay here and watch the house, so that no one else can steal it."
"Fine," Lin Jiudong replied unhappily, ultimately giving in.
Lin Qixia then led her brother and sister-in-law out of the courtyard, following the scent and some subtle traces, and searched along the village road.
Finally, Lin Qixia stopped in front of a house about one kilometer away from the Lin family's courtyard.
"Is this the place? Isn't this Zhao Datian's house?" He Zhilan asked in surprise when she saw Lin Qixia stop at the door of this house, knowing that she must have discovered something.
Lin Qixia nodded: "This is it!"
The unpleasant smell she detected was strongest here, second only to the Lin family's.
She turned her head and glanced at the few pieces of clothing hanging on the bamboo pole in the yard.
Those must be the dirty clothes that the Zhao family thief took off and washed after he stole something and got them dirty. However, even though they were washed, the smell was still there.
"Hey! You dogs from the Zhao family! Come out here!" Lin Xiao roared without any politeness.
Lin Qixia shouted, "Come out! You have the guts to steal, but not the guts to admit it?"
After a while, no one answered in the courtyard.
Seeing this, Lin Qixia simply went up and kicked open the courtyard gate.
Zhao Datian and his mother Qian Ju, who had been hiding in the central living room, finally came out of the house.
"What are you doing? Lin Xiao, what gives you the right to slander me without my knowledge?" Zhao Datian yelled at him, "You think you're so great by not beating you up last time?"
"Last time?" Mentioning the last time only made Lin Xiao's face darken. "I'm here to settle scores with you! From the last time you came to my house and humiliated my family, to this time you came to my house in the middle of the night to steal things, I think you're getting more and more outrageous!"
"You're talking nonsense! I didn't steal anything from your house!" Zhao Datian denied it outright.
However, he still looked somewhat guilty.
"You didn't steal anything from my house? Then let me ask you..." Lin Qixia walked straight to the bamboo clothes rack next to her and tore off the clothes on it.
She noticed that the clothes not only had the familiar smell of the pickling jar from her home, but also had a tear from broken ceramic shards.
She sneered, "Tell me, what is this?"
"What? What?" Qian Ju feigned ignorance, "Those are my clothes! What makes you think we stole them?"
At this moment, many villagers heard the commotion coming from the Zhao family's courtyard and came over to see what was going on.
Everyone found this strange. "Did Zhao Datian really steal something from the Lin family's yard?"
"It doesn't seem likely. The Lin family has no evidence whatsoever."
"The Lin family girl used someone else's washed clothes as evidence? How can that be considered valid?"
Hearing what those people were saying, Lin Qixia, who was in the courtyard, immediately shouted, "Why doesn't it count?"
As she spoke, she beckoned to He Zhilan, signaling her to come over and hand her a shard of ceramic.
After taking the shards, Lin Qixia held them up and introduced them: "This is a ceramic jar that the thief accidentally broke when my house was robbed yesterday. There was some strongly smelling pickled vegetable juice that had been sitting in the jar for several months."
"When the thief accidentally broke the jar last night, it had already been tainted with the taste of this pickled vegetable brine."
As she spoke, she raised her other hand, "And these clothes are the same clothes that the thief wore last night, and they still have the same smell of pickled vegetable brine on them."
"If you don't believe me, you can smell it and compare."
As Lin Qixia spoke, she took the clothes and the ceramic shards and showed them to the onlookers to confirm whether what she said was true.
Liu Ermei curled her lip: "Lin family girl, isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to conclude that the Zhao family stole your things based on this alone?"
"What's wrong with it? Isn't this evidence?" Lin Qixia said, handing over the item.
Liu Ermei shook her head with a look of disgust and did not take it.
Li Shufen, who was standing next to her, took it and sniffed it from both sides before coughing as if it had been snatched away: "That's right! They all smell the same!"
Liu Ermei, "Zhang family's daughter-in-law, why have you been so biased towards the Lin family lately? How did you know they smelled the same?"
"Where did I show favoritism?" Li Shufen rolled her eyes at her. "Although every household pickles vegetables, they don't all taste the same, you know that, right?"
"And I've eaten the pickled vegetables made by Sister-in-law Lin before, so I'm naturally familiar with their taste."
Although the pickling brine had been sitting for a while and the flavor was stronger than before, she could still immediately recognize that it was made by Sister-in-law Lin.
Even the smell on the clothes was exactly the same!
Li Shufen was very certain, "This isn't the first time the Zhao family mother and son have done this. Last time they tried to extort money from the Lin family but failed, and then they went to steal from them in the middle of the night. They are really despicable!"
"Li Shufen! What have I done to offend you? Why are you slandering me like this?" Qian Ju was so angry that she was about to rush up and hit her, but Lin Qixia stopped her.
"Slander? The evidence is irrefutable!"
Lin Qixia's imposing manner made Qian Ju hesitate to step forward for a moment.
Lin Qixia continued, "Aunt Li is right. Who else in the family can make pickled vegetables with the exact same taste as ours?"
"If you have any doubts, you can come and smell it yourself to confirm!"
Her words were so forceful that everyone else looked at the Zhao family with disdain and began to whisper among themselves.
"It seems that the Zhao family is indeed behaving improperly."
"Stealing from the Lin family is also immoral. The Lin family has been suffering a lot recently. It's only recently that things have gotten a little better since the Lin family girl learned to hunt."
"Aren't the Zhao family going too far?"
Zhao Datian looked displeased by the accusations, and Qian Ju was also unwilling to accept it.
She quickly sat down on the ground and began to cry pitifully, "Oh dear, you all sympathize with the Lin family, but what can this old woman do?"
My grandson is starving to death!
Reminded by his mother, Zhao Datian rolled his eyes and went over to hug Qian Ju and her son, crying, "Mother, it's all my fault for being unfilial. The crops in our fields have all fallen because of the drought, and we're facing a complete crop failure!"
"Waaaaah, Dad... Grandma, I'm so hungry..." Zhao Dazhuang, Zhao Datian's son, was also affected by their cries and started to cry.
Lin Qixia stood aside watching, her head throbbing from the noise.
Seeing this, many people around also had complicated expressions.
"Speaking of which, my family's land is also in bad shape this year, and it looks like we're going to have no harvest."
"The drought is so severe that the crops are almost completely destroyed."
"The Zhao family is unlucky; their land is the farthest from the Nuo River and is the most water-scarce."
"Yes, it's pitiful...no wonder they would steal."
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