Chapter 48: Any tortoise caught casually is an ancestor
In front of the ruins of the thatched house, the originally flat ground was dug into pits.
Lin Jianshan's expression could be called furious, no, no, no, none!
Where is the silver? Where did the money go?
Next to him, Lin Jianshui yawned as he hammered his hoe, "Brother, stop digging. We've dug all over and there's no money."
"Shut up!" Lin Jianshan glared at his younger brother. Lin Jianshui curled his lips, picked up the hoe and went to rest next to him.
The villagers were originally watching the fun with great interest. They watched Lin Jianshan dig for a long time and found nothing except mud and rocks. They gradually became bored. Many people went back to work, and the remaining few stayed with them to wait for the results.
Shang Wan knew what Lin Jianshan was looking for, but unfortunately, he could never find it.
She stretched out her hand to play with Lu Chengjing's long eyelashes. Seeing that his eyelids were trembling as if he was about to wake up, she immediately stopped her hand and started playing with her hair instead.
Little kid Yuanyuan had already slept well. Seeing her mother touching her father, she stretched out her stubby fingers to curiously poke her father's face, and then poked her own fleshy cheeks, blinking her big eyes. He stretched his little face towards Shang Wan, so that her face could be touched better.
Shang Wan squeezed her funny and fed her a drop of spiritual spring water when no one was paying attention.
"Found it!" Lin Jianshan shouted excitedly, and everyone who was so idle that they yawned immediately gathered around to take a look.
I saw a piece of red cloth lying in the pit, surrounded by loose soil.
Zhang Er frowned, "This is not silver."
"It's under the red cloth." Lin Jianshan said firmly, reaching out and grabbing the red cloth and pulling it up hard.
"Ta-ta-ta--" The soil fell like rain, and seven or eight gray stones were exposed.
Everyone: "..."
"How could it be a stone?" Lin Jianshan's eyes widened in disbelief. He raised the red cloth in front of him and took a closer look. It was the one wrapped with silver from his family. How could it be a stone?
Shang Wan glanced at the bottom of the pit, a smile flashed across his eyes, "Don't get excited, I'm a generous person, it's just a few stones, you can take them if you want, I don't need this at home."
"Who wants stones?" Lin Jianshan turned to Shang Wan and shouted angrily, "I want silver! My silver!"
"Bang!" Shang Wan slapped him on the face, reached out and picked him up and threw him outside, hitting him next to Village Chief Lin with a "bang".
"Brother!" Lin Jianshui rushed over and helped the man up.
Lin Jianshan's face was so angry that he stared at Shang Wan as if he wanted to eat someone.
Shang Wan looked at him coldly, "I asked you to search the place, and you dug a lot of holes. If you can't find it, apologize and get out of here. You lost your temper at me, did you lose face?"
The evil spirit that erupted instantly subdued everyone present, and many people looked at Shang Wan with fear.
Shitou swallowed his saliva and appeared. On the cart that day, his sister was so cruel to him. It scared him to death.
Shang Wan walked towards Lin Jianshan step by step, his momentum was breathtaking.
Lin Jianshan held on to his injured arm to hold on and kept from retreating, and said with an inward look: "What do you want to do?"
"Of course you are being reasonable." Shang Wan squeezed his fist, and the stone immediately turned into powder and flowed out from between his fingers.
Everyone swallowed their saliva, "Mother, what the hell kind of strength is this?" "Catch a thief and get dirty. You almost turned this land over and didn't find any money. Obviously the thief is not a member of our family. We were wrongly accused for nothing, our reputation was damaged, and our spirits were seriously damaged. We should not overcompensate. ?”
Without waiting for the Lin family to speak, others agreed for them, "It's not too much."
Shang Wan raised his lips with satisfaction, "Funds for reputational damage, mental damage and land leveling are added together. For the sake of the fellow villagers, I'll give you a discount, just... eighty taels." ”
"Why don't you go grab it!" Ms. Liu couldn't understand what Shang Wan said, but she understood the money. She pointed at Shang Wan and was about to export it. When Shang Wan gave her a cold look, her words suddenly choked in her throat.
"Sister Xiucai, Lu Xiucai's jade pendant appeared in the Lin family for no reason. It is understandable that the Lin family suspected Lu Xiucai of being a thief. It has not caused any damage to your family. Asking for eighty taels would be too much."
Father Qiu, who had been silent until now, stood up and stared at Shang Wan with his turbid eyes. "We are all from the same village. According to me, let the boy from the Lin family return the jade pendant and apologize to the scholar. I have to forgive him. Be kind to others and don't hurt your harmony."
Shang Wan had never seen Father Qiu before, "Who are you?"
Father Qiu is Qiu Xiaofeng's elder brother, and he was the one responsible for the marriage between Lin Jianshui and Chen Guifang. He went to the Chen family for the funeral. Because Liushu Village was too chaotic, he came back with the Lin family today and had not yet met Shang Wan.
He was older than Father Luo, and he had never been treated so rudely by his juniors in the village. His face darkened and he said, "What an unruly woman! This is how Xiucai Fair Day teaches you to disrespect your elders. Being rude to your elders?"
"Do you live by the seaside? You are so lenient!"
Shang Wan felt puzzled. Did the old man think that because he was older, others would have to worship him as a Bodhisattva?
“If you’re not a relative or an acquaintance, if you scold me for the first time when you meet me, who would be more unruly?”
"If you are considered an elder if you are old enough, you will be the ancestor of any tortoise you pick up from the river. I won't see you take less than a sip of the stew."
"If you want others to respect you, you have to keep your mouth shut first and don't say anything dirty and smelly to others. You're afraid that others won't know that your butt is crooked to the sky, right?"
Father Qiu's cheeks turned red with anger, and the finger pointing at Shang Wan was shaking, "What an unforgiving sharp mouth!"
"Thank you for the compliment." Shang Wan glanced at his hand, which he had not put down, "I want to ask, do you not want your hand anymore?"
"Yes." Lin Jianshui hurriedly rushed over to help Father Qiu press down his arm, and persuaded him while rubbing his back. The more he persuaded Father Qiu, the angrier he became, and his face turned purple with anger. However, Lin Jianshui still had nothing to do. I feel that I even feel that my persuasion is quite good.
Shang Wan felt that Lin Jianshui's brain might be retribution for the Lin family's many bad deeds.
She looked at the livid-faced Village Chief Lin, with a fake smile on her lips, "Village Chief, you have a lot of experience, you should know the consequences of being charged with stealing money on my husband-in-law. Fortunately, nothing was found. If these things are found, my husband Han Chuang’s reputation as a scholar who studied hard for exams will be ruined, and the loss cannot be erased by a light word. "
"You are the person who knows right from wrong. If people in the village do something wrong, no matter what their relationship with your family, they will be punished without mercy. Now that it is your family's turn, the village chief won't want to show favoritism, right?"
Everyone looked at Village Chief Lin, especially Father Wu and Father Liu, as if they were watching something good.
Village Chief Lin, who was being held up, pursed his lips and thought about countermeasures rapidly in his mind.
Shang Wan continued: "It's still early, why don't we figure it out, why does my husband's lost jade pendant appear in the Lin family? If we can't figure it out, we can still go to the Yamen to ask..."
"Every little thing can be handled by the village, so why go to the Yamen and disturb the peace of the gentlemen?" Village Chief Lin interrupted Shang Wan with a dark face.
Shang Wan raised his eyebrows, "Did the village chief promise to compensate me if I didn't go to the Yamen?"
(End of chapter)