Xiao Zhou taught her all of this. Xiao Zhou said that no matter who asks, she should say it this way.
After speaking for only a short while, Zhao Fang couldn't hold on any longer and drifted off to sleep.
Wang Lan was unaware of the true situation. Upon hearing this, she assumed that Zhao Fang had indeed been robbed and began to cry and wail, clinging to Wang Li.
“We must stand up for this! That damned bastard just wanted to kill someone.”
She still feels terrified when she thinks about it now; the sight of Zhao Fang lying face down in the river, covered in blood, scared her half to death.
Wang Li was also angry that Wang Shugen was a real menace. He used to be just lazy, lying in bed for ten days or half a month at a time, but these past few days he had heard that Wang Shugen had been chopping firewood every day. It turned out that he was actually there to keep watch on people.
Before leaving, I saw Granny Guo washing clothes in the corner of the front yard and asked her again.
Granny Guo was also furious. "These are the clothes that my younger sister was wearing at the time. The river was full of duck droppings. My younger sister is usually very clean, but she was lying in the river with blood all over her face."
You didn't see it, the cut on that forehead is so long and deep, and it bled a lot. I'll take you to Qingzhugou in the back to take a look.
Granny Guo gestured, indicating that the wound was about the length of an index finger, with the skin and flesh turned outwards, which was quite frightening.
Wang Li followed, and occasionally saw drops of blood on the small stones on the road leading out the back door. Now that there was little rain, there was only a little water in the river, and in some places the stones were exposed. There was even bloodstain on one of the stones.
Granny Guo pointed to the stone, "Right there. When I came, my younger sister was lying there. The young mistress was so anxious that she almost climbed down from here."
If it weren't for her leg injury preventing her from walking, I would have had to send Jinxiu to the front yard to find me. When Aunt Wang heard the commotion and came to investigate, she came leaning on her cane, and it gave her quite a fright.
Wang Li looked around and carefully observed the expressions of the Lu family members to see if they were lying.
Zhao Fang looked unwell, keeping her head down and avoiding eye contact, making it impossible to tell if she was lying. Qin Xiaozhou spoke very steadily, so he couldn't tell if she was telling the truth either.
What Wang Lan and the old woman said seemed to be true, not like they were lying. As for Jinxiu, the little girl spoke very nervously, saying she was frightened.
Wang Xiaoman quickly ran over, holding a ribbon in her hand. It was a light green ribbon with a meander pattern embroidered on the end, which was clearly made of silver thread under the sunlight.
"Dad, I've never seen anyone actually embroider patterns on a hairband with silver thread before. When we found Uncle Tree Root, he was hiding it in a tree hole. If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, who would have thought he would hide something so valuable in the mountains?"
Two taels of silver! That's enough for a family to eat rice for several months.
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