Xu Xingchen didn't expect her to admit it, so he turned and went into the greenhouse. When he came out, he threw the broken lock in front of Aunt Wang.
"Do, what?"
"The lock of my house was picked." Xu Xingchen dropped his chin.
Aunt Wang jumped up and down on the spot: "What does it have to do with me if your lock was picked?"
"Aunt Wang, why are you in such a hurry?" Xu Xingchen sneered.
"There are professional and amateur ways to pick a lock. I've asked someone to make the decision." A clear and elegant voice rang out from the surrounding villagers.
Jun Haoyue walked slowly out from the villagers, stood beside Xu Xingchen, handed Munduner to her, picked up the pried lock and called out the invited people.
"Uncle Li, come and take a look."
The man called Uncle Li is the village locksmith - Li Kangfu. Li Kangfu has a kind face and it is hard to imagine that a locksmith would have such a face.
The villagers couldn't help but murmur, the scabbard is bent, how can it not be seen that it was pried open by brute force?
Li Kangfu looked at the broken lock and then looked at Aunt Wang. Aunt Wang's face turned pale as soon as he appeared.
"Aunt Wang came to me this afternoon to ask for my help in unlocking the door. She said she had left something behind and couldn't get in."
Everyone sighed, wondering if Li Kangfu had helped Aunt Wang open this shop. They had never expected Li Kangfu to be such an accomplice to evil.
"But after I followed her over, I found out it was Xu Xiaoniang's house. I didn't agree to open it, so I left."
The onlookers suddenly realized that they had almost wrongly blamed Li Kangfu.
Xu Xingchen took a step forward and asked sternly, "Aunt Wang, why are you trying to pry open my door?"
Aunt Wang panicked, thinking of the excuse she had just made up when she asked Li Kangfu to open the lock.
"I lost something when I passed by your house yesterday, and I suspect you hid it! I was kind enough to keep your face and didn't accuse you of stealing, but you're the first to complain!"
"What does it have to do with me if your things are lost?" Xu Xingchen retorted with Aunt Wang's first two sentences.
"Anyway, my things were lost after I passed by your house. Who else could it be but you?" Aunt Wang was shameless and made up excuses.
The little girl in Xu Xingchen's arms was crying out for a ring.
ring?
She suddenly realized that she was still holding a ring in her hand. Jun Haoyue said that she found it in the greenhouse...
Xu Xingchen showed the ring in his hand and asked, "Aunt Wang, is this what you were talking about?"
Aunt Wang nodded without even looking at it, "Yes, yes, that's it."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure, sure." Aunt Wang didn't want to be led by Xu Xingchen anymore, so she avoided her tentative questions.
"This was left by the lock picker."
Aunt Wang wanted to curse and say bullshit, but when she saw the ring in Xu Xingchen's hand, her eyes widened and she subconsciously touched her knuckles, but they were empty.
She immediately changed her words: "No, no, this is not what I said I lost, but this is also what I lost."
Xu Xingchen played with the ring and said with a half-smile, "Aunt Wang, you have to think it over before you speak. I said this was dropped by the lock picker, and you said it's yours. So you picked the lock, didn't you?"
Aunt Wang gritted her teeth and said, "It's not mine..."
"Aunt Wang didn't leave anything with me, so why did she pry open my door and destroy my wheat seedlings?"
Aunt Wang kept answering yes and no, and no and no, which made her sweat all over her forehead.
Xu Xingchen approached her and reasoned as he walked around her, "Let me guess. Aunt Wang probably got rejected by me yesterday. Feeling unhappy, she staked out my house early this morning. She discovered I was out, and only Mrs. Zhou was busy in the greenhouse. Then Mrs. Zhou went home to cook and rest, and you thought of sneaking into the greenhouse. You discovered it was locked, so you went to find Uncle Li to open the lock, but Uncle Li refused. Furious, you pried the lock open, broke into the greenhouse, and destroyed my wheat seedlings."
Every word Xu Xingchen said made sense. After listening to her reasoning, everyone was enlightened. They all blamed Aunt Wang for not only wrongly accusing Xu Xiaoniang, but also destroying her wheat seedlings. It was simply too much.
The onlookers were no longer as reluctant to take sides as they were at the beginning. They all stood on Xu Xingchen's side and surrounded her, either to comfort her or to express their sympathy.
Aunt Wang felt ashamed and wanted to leave secretly, but was stopped by Jun Haoyue.
"Aunt Wang! Where are you going?"
She turned around and smiled awkwardly: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding..."
Jun Haoyue lowered his eyes and looked down at her condescendingly.
How does it feel for a man who is over 1.8 meters tall to look down at a woman or child who is 1.5 meters tall?
It is coercion and invisible intimidation.
Aunt Wang was completely defeated in terms of momentum. She screamed with trembling lips: "Help! Someone is being beaten——"
This shout attracted everyone back. Jun Haoyue curled the corners of his mouth almost imperceptibly. What he wanted was to be in public.
"Hey, Aunt Wang, don't shout that nonsense. A gentleman uses his mouth, not his fists. But a gentleman's words are also polite. They're not like those country women who confuse right and wrong and talk nonsense."
"Besides, I'm just a weak scholar, how could I possibly hit someone? Don't you think so?" Jun Haoyue spread his hands innocently.
Jun Haoyue pretended to defend himself, quoted several examples from classics, and criticized the protagonist in the story in a roundabout way.
It can be said that he curses without using any dirty words.
Aunt Wang was so angry at his insinuations, both overt and covert, that her face turned red, but she didn't dare say anything.
Seeing that it was almost done, Jun Haoyue's expression became serious. "Aunt Wang knows that if you damage someone else's things, you have to compensate them. How is Aunt Wang going to compensate me for my wheat seedlings?"
"This, you...I." Aunt Wang was completely panicked when she heard that she had to pay compensation, and she stammered a few words.
The words are incoherent and the meaning is not clear, and there is no mention of how to compensate.
Jun Haoyue handed the initiative back to Xu Xingchen, "Cousin, Aunt Wang doesn't know how to compensate our family. Does cousin have any ideas?"
Aunt Wang played the emotional card and pleaded pitifully, "Xu Xiaoniang, you said we have been neighbors for so many years, and distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. I have never done anything to hurt you..."
"You throw dirty water on me everywhere, slander me, and destroy my wheat seedlings." Xu Xingchen interrupted her mercilessly.
The clumsy emotional card was bluntly exposed. Aunt Wang was embarrassed and wanted to push the person in front of her away and run away, but the eyes of the onlookers were like invisible shackles, shackled her firmly in front of Xu Xingchen.
Xu Xingchen is not a cruel person, and there is nothing she wants from Aunt Wang.
Money? Every household in Sanwan Village was as poor as the other? Besides, her wheat seedlings couldn't be bought with money.
She thought for a while and said slowly, "Then Aunt Wang, you can help me and be available whenever I call."
When Aunt Wang heard this, her first reaction was to refute. Are you kidding? In terms of seniority, she is Xu Xingchen's elder. Why should she, an elder, help a younger one?
Xu Xingchen's face turned cold: "Disagree?"
This is the most merciful compensation.
With everyone witnessing, Aunt Wang had to agree even if she didn't want to.
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