Chapter 32: Lies
"Ms. Wang, you said you saw Xiao Hao and the others stealing something from Old Murong's house. Why don't you tell us what you stole and let everyone know, so that we can see if Xiao Hao and the others really stole anything."
Li Zhenggang looked at Mr. Wang in the crowd with a straight face.
Mrs. Wang said with some guilt, "It doesn't count as seeing it with your own eyes!"
"Have you seen it?" the village chief asked displeasedly.
Seeing that the village chief was angry, Wang finally told the truth, "I... I just saw them carrying a lot of things out of the village in the morning, and I thought what could they have? It must have been stolen.
They sell their grandmother’s things.”
"What's in the backpack?" someone asked her curiously.
"I didn't see clearly what it was, I just vaguely saw some green leaves."
Wang thought for a moment and then said, "I guess those must be vegetables from the Murong family's vegetable patch."
After hearing her words, everyone looked at her with strange eyes, and then looked at Murong Fu and the others.
Wang was looked at as somewhat baffled.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Wang, what exactly did Murong Hao and the others steal?" What the village chief asked was exactly what the people around wanted to ask.
Some people really don't want Ms. Wang to speak again, that is Ms. Zhao and others.
They said the missing thing was a hairpin, bracelet and inkstone.
Now Mrs. Wang said it was green vegetables or something.
Doesn't this prove that Murong Yue and the others did not steal their things?
Won’t the money they want be gone?
Those things add up to at least ten taels of silver!
Zhao and Yao winked at Wang vigorously.
But Mrs. Wang misunderstood what they meant and thought she was right. She happily said to the village chief, "It's the vegetables that Mrs. Zhao and the others grew. The vegetables are still green and moist with dew! I can see clearly."
Chu." Wang said so hard that she almost believed it.
And the people around her looked at her like she was an idiot.
"Ms. Wang, what Murong's family lost is not green vegetables." A kind-hearted person reminded.
"No...no?" Wang was stunned after hearing this.
Then he looked at Zhao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who looked at her angrily.
This Wang family doesn't even know how to spread rumors. She really succeeds more than fails.
Murong Yue sneered and glanced at Wang as if she were a fool.
"Grandpa Village Chief, do you think this can prove our innocence?"
"Fart, you just stole my things." Mrs. Zhao was very unwilling. She would definitely not miss this great opportunity to blackmail Murong Hao and the others. It was only ten taels of silver!
"Village Chief, you would not put something as valuable as this hairpin bracelet in a backpack. You would wrap it carefully and hide it in your arms. The things in the backpack must be used for cover, so what Wang saw
It’s just some vegetables, or weeds, etc. As for the inkstone, put it directly among the weeds in the basket, so naturally it won’t be visible.”
A scholar is a scholar, and his mind works very quickly.
But so what? Aren’t you still failing the examination to become a scholar?
"Murong Hao, what do you say?" The village chief did not make any judgment, but asked Murong Hao and the others.
"Village Chief, we have nothing to say." Murong Yue said it before Murong Hao spoke.
"Here, is Murong Yue admitting it?"
"That's for sure! Murong Hao and the others are speechless. Can you admit it?"
Everyone was talking about it, but Murong Yue stood there with a magnanimous look, letting others point their fingers.
Murong Hao now somewhat guessed Murong Yue's plan.
Murong Qi was convinced that what was in the basket was only known to the three of them, so no matter how much they explained, it would be in vain.
We can't go back in time, dig out the contents of the backpack, and let the villagers check it, right?
So after hearing the village chief's question, she didn't even bother to explain, but she didn't admit that they had stolen anything.
After hearing Murong Yue's words, Zhao and others were very proud, as if the money was about to be in their hands.
"Then give the money to your grandma quickly! We are all one family, so this matter is over." Murong Fu's expression also softened a lot.
After hearing this, Murong Yue was very angry. She just couldn't refute Murong Qi's words. When did she admit that they stole things?
A flash of light flashed in Murong Yue's eyes, and she suddenly had a plan in mind, "How much are those hairpin bracelets and inkstones worth?"
"Twelve." Zhao said eagerly.
Chapter completed!