The folk customs in the small mountain village have always been simple and simple, and such petty theft is rare.

Jing Li was stunned for a moment before running after him: "Stop!"

The other party ran very fast, and in an instant he had reached the field ridge in the distance. Jing Li was not used to walking on such a field path, so he tripped over a gravel in the field and fell to the ground.

The skin on his palm was scratched by gravel, and Jing Li frowned in pain.

"Isn't this the husband of Qin Zhao's family? What's wrong?" Li Dali saw Jing Li fall from a distance and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up. "Isn't he fallen? I don't know how to be careful when walking. Why are you so anxious?"

Jing Li completely ignored him and raised his hand to point in the distance: "Brother Dali, that person -"

Before he finished speaking, he heard an exclamation from in front of him.

The man who had already run away tripped over something, fell from the side of the field bank, and rolled into the ditch.

Jing Li: "..."

Jing Li: “???”

Isn't it a flat road there?

Li Dali helped him walk over, but he fell on the rocks beside the river ditch, dying.

"Ayu? What are you doing here?" Li Dali recognized the man and shouted into the ditch.

Jing Li asked: "Do you know him?"

"This is my cousin."

That man's name is Li Hongyu, the son of Li Dali's father's younger brother, and also... Axiu's biological brother.

It took Jing Li a while to figure out this complicated relationship, and he also roughly understood why he did what he did.

Qin Zhao had previously rejected Axiu's overtures. Neither he nor Qin Zhao took this episode seriously, but from the elder brother's point of view, he probably felt that his sister had been bullied.

Today it happened that the second uncle of the Li family was visiting Qin Zhao's house, so Li Hongyu took advantage of this opportunity to go to his fields to do some bad things.

Who knew that instead of doing the bad thing, he ended up like this?

"Are you trying to take revenge on us?" Jing Li asked.

Li Hongyu's fall was serious. His left forearm was probably fractured and he couldn't move it.

Hearing Jing Li ask this, he said angrily: "I didn't—"

"Don't move!" As soon as he opened his mouth, he was scolded by Dr. Ge who was helping to bandage him, "Don't you want your arm?"

Li Hongyu closed his mouth angrily.

He is only one year older than Axiu, has not yet started a family, and looks childish.

They are now at the village chief's home. Li Dali moved a stool and sat by the door. After listening to the whole story, he slapped Li Hongyu on the head angrily: "You little bastard!"

His hand was too strong, and Li Hongyu screamed in pain: "Brother Dali, why are you facing outsiders? They treat Axiu like this——"

"Shout louder, do you want the whole village to hear this?" Li Dali interrupted coldly.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became: "This matter is originally the fault of Aunt He and my aunt. Qin Zhao was polite enough by not exposing this matter. Why don't you stop? Why, the whole village must know about it?"

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"I didn't, I just..." Li Hongyu's voice gradually weakened, "I just wanted to teach him a lesson."

Li Dali: "You bastard——"

"Dali, calm down first." The village chief brought them a few cups of tea and said calmly, "I just went to see it. Fortunately, Qin Zhao's husband found it in time. The roots of the seedlings were not damaged. They can be planted back in time.

live."

Li Dali nodded: "Okay, I'll plant the seedlings again in a moment."

"As for Hongyu, according to village rules..."

Before the village chief finished speaking, footsteps were heard outside the door.

"You bastard, I haven't seen you for a few hours and you're just messing around with me!" A strong voice came from outside the door, and a big man walked in.

Li Hongyu didn't care about his unwrapped arms and jumped up from the chair.

Unexpectedly, he felt a heartbreaking pain in his arm, and his face turned pale from the pain. His father caught him and said: "Dad, please stop hitting me, my hand is broken!! Ouch——!!"

The wailing was terrible, and at this moment, Qin Zhao hurriedly walked in.

Jing Li waved to him: "Qin Zhao, I'm here!"

He paused for a moment before walking up to Jing Li, his eyes falling on his bandaged hand: "Why are you injured? Does it hurt?"

Jing Li wanted to say that she was fine, but when her words came to her lips, she changed her voice and whispered: "I fell, it hurts so much."

The young man who was clean before going out now has a lot of mud on his clothes, his face and hands are dirty, and he looks quite pitiful.

Jing Li's hand was actually not serious. He just fell and bruised his skin. After healing, there won't even be any scars left.

However, his skin was white and tender, and his injuries looked particularly terrible. Doctor Ge simply applied medicine to him and wrapped them up directly.

Qin Zhao wiped away some stains on his chin with his fingertips and pulled him up: "Let's go home first."

The village chief stopped him: "Qin Zhao, this side of the Li family..."

"My husband is injured. I want to take him home first. As for other things..." He glanced at Li Hongyu with his peripheral vision and said calmly, "Let's talk about it another day."

After that, regardless of the attitude of others, he led Jing Li out of the door.

The sun had completely set, and there was only a little afterglow of the setting sun on the horizon. Qin Zhao wiped the thin sweat from his forehead and led Jing Li on the stone road.

Jing Li gently pulled his sleeve: "Did you run here?"

"Yeah." Qin Zhao whispered, "The village chief sent someone to report that you had a conflict with Uncle Li's son, and I'm worried about you."

Qin Zhao could not exercise strenuously, his face was slightly pale at this time, and his breath was not stable.

But Jing Li felt a little secretly happy.

Qin Zhao was very worried about him.

Jing Li's uninjured hand was held by Qin Zhao. His palm was dry and warm, but very strong.

He covered his mouth and coughed lightly, hiding the corners of his mouth that couldn't stop turning up, and said seriously: "If you just leave like this, won't Li Hongyu pursue you?"

Qin Zhao asked back: "Do you want to pursue it?"

Jing Li thought for a while: "The village chief said that the seedlings can be saved, and Brother Dali also said that he would help us replant them. It seems that we have nothing to lose..."

Qin Zhao paused slightly and turned his head to look at his gauze-wrapped hand: "Then it's not a loss?"

"This is just..." Jing Li's words stopped and he changed his words, "Yes, this is also a loss, we can't just forget about it."

Qin Zhao asked: "So?"

"Um?"

Qin Zhao said calmly: "It is you who he offended, and it is up to you to decide how to pursue him, not me."

Jing Li said "Huh" and didn't answer for the time being.

When he first saw someone doing trouble in his field, Jing Li was indeed very angry. But later, when he learned that there was no loss, he was not so angry.

As for the fall, it was just that he ran too fast and couldn't stand firm. It had nothing to do with that person.

He really didn't seem to know what to do.

Qin Zhao seemed to notice his hesitation and said warmly: "It doesn't matter, you still have a few days to vent your anger however you want."

Jing Li didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

Qin Zhaodao: "This matter will not be forgotten like this."

"This matter itself is not a big deal. The village chief has to mediate countless minor frictions between neighbors every day. But the nature of this matter is different from others."

Jing Li blinked: "Is it because of Miss Axiu?"

"Yes." Qin Zhao said, "For the Li family, they are worried about whether this matter will be exposed, because it will affect Miss Axiu's reputation."

Jing Li asked worriedly: "You won't tell the truth, right?"

The reputation of a woman is the most important thing in the village. If the news is really spread, not only Axiu but also Li Hongyu and his family will find it difficult to gain a foothold in the village.

He felt... Qin Zhao should not be this kind of person.

Qin Zhao shook his head: "Of course not."

Jing Li breathed a sigh of relief: "Then why did you say..."

"But the Li family doesn't know."

Jing Li fully understood: "So you deliberately refused to accept the village chief's mediation today just to disgust them?"

Qin Zhao turned his head to look at him and smiled softly: "Isn't it possible?"

Jing Li: "..."

He found that although Qin Zhao looked serious, he was dark inside.

While the two were talking, they had already walked back to the door of their new home.
To be continued...