Chapter 57 The foundation was destroyed

He ran home quickly.

"Dad, the foundation of our house has been destroyed."

"What!"

Lin Changlu hurriedly ran out of the house.

"I just went to see how the foundation of the new house was doing, but I didn't expect that the southeast corner was smashed by someone."

Lin Changlu frowned and said, "Let's go and ask the village chief to take a look together."

When the village chief heard about this, he immediately followed them to see the scene.

"It looks like it was dug out with a hoe."

"Village Chief, we have to ask you to make the decision for us. Our family never takes the initiative to cause trouble. I don't know who hates our family so much. The destruction of the foundation is a big deal, but it will affect our family's future luck."

The village chief nodded solemnly.

"Don't worry, Changlu. I will definitely investigate this matter strictly. This matter is simply too bad."

The Lin family's new foundation is relatively far away from the village. There are only a few households here. The village chief quickly finished asking questions, but no clues were found.

The Lu family currently only has a few servants and the cook at home, and they didn't notice anyone coming here at night.

Just when the village chief was in a dilemma.

Ah Li squatted on the ground to look, and soon picked up a half-broken wooden hairpin beside the mound of soil.

The place where the hairpin fell was partially covered by leaves, so you can't really see it unless you look carefully.

"Uncle Village Chief, who does this thing belong to?"

The village chief took the wooden hairpin from Ah Li's hand and felt it looked familiar, so he showed it to the people who came to watch the fun.

"Look who this thing belongs to. It's impossible for women's things to come here for no reason."

At this time, a woman in the crowd said: "This hairpin seems to belong to the Wu family."

As soon as she said this, several women next to her also nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I saw her wearing it too."

At this time, Ms. Pei remembered that she had beaten Ms. Wu before.

"It's really possible that the village chief did the foundation work for our house."

The village chief also heard about their fight, thinking that Wu really had this motive.

"Second daughter-in-law, go and call Mrs. Wu and tell her that I have something to ask her."

The second daughter-in-law immediately nodded and went to the village.

Wu soon followed and saw a large group of people gathered around, with a look of surprise on her face.

"Village Chief, what happened? Why are there so many people around here?"

"Ms. Wu, have you been here in the past two days?"

"No, what am I doing here?"

Mrs. Wu looked a little confused when she saw Mr. Pei looking like he wanted to eat her.

"Just tell me what happened to the village chief. I still have work to do at home!"

"The Lin family's new foundation was destroyed, so I wanted to ask you about it."

Upon hearing this, Wu was furious, "Village Chief, you don't suspect that I did this, do you?"

"You had a fight with Changlu's wife some time ago, so now I have reason to suspect that you have a grudge."

"Village Chief, if you don't do things like this, do you think it was me who did it just because I have a grudge against Mr. Pei?"

Wu said and howled, "You are so bullying, slandering people without any basis."

The village chief brought the hairpin to her.

"Please see clearly whether this is your thing or not. We are not arbitrarily blaming anyone."

When Mrs. Wu saw that the hairpin was broken, she was a little confused, "Isn't this the hairpin that I lost for a long time? Why is it here?"

"This hairpin was picked up by A Li girl beside the mound. You said you didn't make it. How did your things get here? There are people working here during the day. They didn't find it yesterday. That's why you did it yesterday.

I dropped it when I was secretly doing bad things, do you have anything else to say?"

Wu panicked. She immediately waved her hands and said, "Village Chief, I really didn't do this! My hairpin has disappeared a long time ago. Someone must have framed me."

Suddenly she remembered that she had discussed this topic with Mrs. Qin a few days ago.

"I know who did it. The village chief is Qin, so it must be her. I once had this idea and told her about it. Then I forgot about it when I went back."

Qin, who happened to come over to watch the excitement, heard Wu mention her and rushed over immediately.

"Ms. Wu, what are you talking about? That day you came to me and wanted to sow discord between our two families. Did I say at that time that even though we didn't deal with each other, we were still one family after all?"

"Yes, you are right to say so, but I don't know if you are telling the truth. I think you did this to deliberately frame me."

Wu and Qin quickly turned from a quarrel into a fight as they exchanged words.

The village chief was standing nearby, whether to pull or not to pull or not. Both of them were women, so it was not easy for him to get started.

He had no choice but to let the woman watching the fun pull them apart.

The two of them had equal fighting abilities. You pulled my hair, I scratched your face, and the situation got out of control for a time.

Mrs. Pei took A Li and hid from a distance to watch them dog bite dogs.

In the end, the village chief shouted with all his strength: "Stop it—"

Only then did Wu and Qin stop, and their hair was messy and they snorted at each other.

"Can you please save me some peace of mind for a day? It's not like starting a fight if we disagree. If you do this, admit it immediately. You should apologize and pay for it. Otherwise, I will ask the Lin family to report it to the police. When the time comes,

I'll put you in a prison and you'll have to shed your skin even if you don't die, you have to think about it yourself."

Mrs. Qin straightened her messy hair and said, "If you report it to the official, report it to the official. Anyway, I'm not afraid. It's not like these people who have all the evidence and don't admit it quickly, and have to go to the Yamen to be punished."

Wu was really panicked when she heard this. She had her hairpin in her hand, and she knew a little about government affairs. For a case like this, she would definitely put the accusation on her head and the case would be closed hastily.

When the time comes to figure it out, it will not only cost money, but it will also probably cost you a lot of trouble.

She was worried and said directly: "Yes, I did it."

As soon as she admitted it, Mrs. Pei came over and pointed at her nose and cursed, "Oh Mrs. Wu, I didn't expect it was you who did it. You are so vicious. If you see that I am not feeling well, come to my door to make noise and beat me."

I will accompany you all, and don’t do evil things in secret.”

The village chief said from the side: "From the Changlu family, please calm down first."

Then he lectured Ms. Wu and asked her to apologize to the Lin family in front of everyone.

Although Wu was very reluctant, she still walked up to Lin Changlu and Pei and bowed slightly.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done this, please forgive me."

Ms. Pei didn't want to accept her apology and tilted her head to the side.

Lin Changlu sighed, "Oh! Mr. Wu, you are too old, how could you do such a thing! To be honest, it's hard for me to forgive you, but let's leave it as it is!"

The village chief also knew that it would be difficult for the Lin family to calm down with an apology.

So he said to Mrs. Wu: "If you pay another five taels of silver to the Lin family, we will have to find someone to build the damaged foundation again."

"Five taels..."

"Why is it too little? Then six taels."
Chapter completed!