Li Tingcen sat on the ground, covered in dust and dirt, with his head down, and his face could not be seen.
The person who was about to be dragged away was stopped. Aunt Wang's voice was so shrill that it seemed to pierce one's eardrums, "Widow Xu, you actually harbored a thief. Did you get a share of the lost things?"
Xu Xingchen stood there with his back straight, insisting on defending Li Tingcen. "I heard something was stolen in the village, but no one from him ever left my yard. How could he possibly know that there were things to steal from those families? Aunt Wang, please don't wrongly accuse me."
"Oh! Before this beggar came, nothing ever got lost in our village. How do you explain that?"
Aunt Wang has always been good at finding loopholes and can always discover small breakthroughs at the first time. Even the eloquent Xu Xingchen cannot explain this phenomenon.
In this case, the only way is to prove your innocence through evidence.
Xu Xingchen asked, "If I can find the lost things, can I prove his innocence?"
"Humph, if you were the ones who stole it and were discovered, and now you're using it as evidence, do you think we're kidding?"
“…”
That's right. In this way, even if the lost item is found, there is really no way to prove it.
What should I do then...Xu Xingchen fell into melancholy.
During the standoff, someone shouted from afar: "Aunt Wang... everyone..."
"Who is it? Calling for the soul! Calling, calling, calling."
Aunt Wang was in the right and was so proud of herself that she couldn't wait to press on with her victory and add insult to injury. She was so annoyed by being scolded that her tone became bad.
A woman came running over, repeating, "Oh no, it's a mistake, it's a mistake."
"What's wrong?" Aunt Wang frowned, and the wrinkles on her face were so big that they could kill a fly.
"It's the Qian family's stuff. There's a mistake." The woman walked up to her breathlessly and explained, "It's the Qian family's stuff. There's nothing to lose. The girl from their family secretly took it out to play house with the boy from the Mao family and forgot to bring it back. I brought it back today."
The villagers who had originally planned to attack the beggars saved by Widow Xu looked more excited than each other when they heard this.
What kind of thing is this? Old Qian is such a fool! He didn't even ask properly before he started shouting that there was a thief in the village. Now he has wrongly accused someone.
When Aunt Wang heard the news, her face turned green. She had finally managed to grab Widow Xu's braid, but before she could even catch it, she was slapped in the face, and her face was burning with pain.
A misunderstanding.
Everyone apologized to Xu Xingchen, but Aunt Wang refused to believe it and pulled the woman to confirm again and again whether the thing was really given to the child to play with.
Xu Xingchen could forgive the innocent villagers who were led astray, but he really could not forgive Aunt Wang.
"Aunt Wang, shouldn't you apologize to Li Tingcen?"
Aunt Wang's expression instantly twisted, "Li what? Who is that?"
Jun Haoyue, who was squeezed out of the crowd, returned to Xu Xingchen's back at some point and pulled up Li Tingcen, who was still sitting on the ground.
"The beggar you're talking about is actually named Li Tingcen. If Aunt Wang doesn't like outsiders in the village, she could have just told the village chief. Why resort to such tactics every time?"
"Who's doing something? What's going on? I suspect outsiders are harming our village. Is it wrong for me to care about the village?"
When Aunt Wang heard Xu Xingchen say that she was using tricks, she retorted with a guilty conscience but was unwilling to accept it.
Xu Xingchen twitched the corner of his mouth, "Haha."
As an ancient woman, Aunt Wang did not understand the ironic meaning of "hehe", but she still felt from Xu Xingchen's expression that this "hehe" was not a laugh.
She was so angry that she walked away on the spot.
When everyone saw that the "culprit" had left, they apologized to Xu Xingchen again before dispersing.
After the man left, Xu Xingchen exhaled a breath of foul air and said to Li Tingcen: "I'm talking to you, why don't you resist? If it's not you, then it's not you."
Li Tingcen lowered his head, looking very lost.
Seeing this, Xu Xingchen could no longer say anything harsh. Perhaps he was feeling inferior because of the burns on his face.
......
That night.
In Jun Haoyue’s small bamboo house.
In the darkness, someone rustled as he put on his clothes and tiptoed out of the bamboo house.
A few days later, Xu Xingchen was tidying up the cabinets in the house and accidentally opened the drawer containing the money and things that Menduner brought back. On a whim, he stopped tidying up the cabinets and sat on the kang to count the things.
Previously, the profit from malt sugar was considered good, but not bad either. In addition, due to wheat improvement, the ear-forming time has been extended, so malt sugar has not been produced recently.
She laid out the hanging coins in strings, exactly three strings, and some scattered copper coins.
After emptying the drawer, Xu Xingchen exclaimed, she remembered that the night pearls, agates and other colorful stones she had taken from Mendun'er's small storeroom were gone.
She thought maybe she remembered it wrong, so she turned on the light brain and entered Mundun'er's love hut. She opened Mundun'er's small warehouse and found that the night pearls and agate stones were not in the small box.
Strange...
Xu Xingchen put away his things, put the drawer back, walked out of the house and came to the small study.
Jun Haoyue was the only one reading in the small library. Xu Xingchen looked around, then knocked on the window frame and asked, "Jun Haoyue, why are you alone? Where's Li Tingcen?"
Jun Haoyue lifted his eyelids slightly from the book and said lightly: "I don't know. He was not in the room when I got up."
"All right."
After Xu Xingchen finished speaking, she searched the yard but couldn't find it. She thought, "Maybe he went out for some fresh air."
However, Li Tingcen did not return until evening.
Xu Xingchen was getting a little restless. Jun Haoyue was very upset to see that she was so anxious about another man that she didn't even have a good lunch.
Those who were worried about Li Tingcen's safety couldn't help but complain, "You two clearly live in the same room, and you don't even know where he's gone."
Jun Haoyue frowned quickly, becoming even more unhappy. "He doesn't want to stay, and it's no use forcing him to stay."
"So, you know where he went?" Xu Xingchen couldn't help but ask doubtfully after hearing what he meant.
"have no idea."
But after thinking about it, he decided to tell Xu Xingchen the truth to prevent her from being deceived by Li Tingcen. "He sneaked out at night for several days in a row. I don't know what he did there."
Xu Xingchen's almond-shaped eyes slowly widened, "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Jun Haoyue pursed his lips and said nothing. Tell her what to do, tell her, and then watch her stay up all night and watch him at his door?
Xu Xingchen's thoughts were racing as he sorted out Li Tingcen's behavior over the past few days.
"Xingchen, have you ever thought about the current national surname Ji?"
Jun Haoyue saw that she was distressed and gave her some advice.
"Ah? Guo's surname? What's wrong?"
Xu Xingchen's thoughts were interrupted, and he asked with a confused look on his face.
Jun Haoyue: “…”
Forget it, let’s wait until he investigates it thoroughly.
"Nothing, just telling you."
"What the hell does the national surname have to do with the current topic?"
Jun Haoyue replied with a wooden face, "It doesn't matter."
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