Chapter 81

“That damn thing! He’s asking for a lightning strike!”

Xinghua’s mother spat, her saliva landing on the ground. Her face was full of disgust.

Tang Wan was nervous. Just then, Xinghua took her hand.

“Comrade Tang, let’s go and see together.”

She was also very curious. Tang Wan was eager to go. She nodded.

“Okay.”

The two of them chased after the crowd and soon arrived at the cowshed.

This was the first time Tang Wan had seen the cowshed in its entirety. She didn’t have time to observe before she heard a scream.

“My Goudan! You were such a good young man. How could someone hurt you like this?

All of you, come out! Qin Su, right? You’re the one who hurt my son!”

The words “Qin Su” made Tang Wan’s heart skip a beat. She stood in the crowd and saw Brigade Leader Mao sigh helplessly.

“Go and call everyone in the cowshed out.”

They were all from the same brigade. The brigade leader couldn’t let the villagers lose faith in him.

The only solution was to have them come out and explain themselves.

Someone went into the cowshed. Mao Goudan was lying on a stretcher. He wasn’t doing well.

His leg was broken. The barefoot doctor had bandaged it. He was wearing a random piece of clothing and looked a little disheveled.

He was gnashing his teeth and yelling, “It was Qin Su! It must have been her husband!”

“If he really bullied her, it’s only right that her husband beat him up.”

Xinghua mumbled, warming Tang Wan’s heart. At least there were still normal people in this brigade.

If it weren’t for their status, they would have directly accused Mao Goudan of being a hooligan!

Amid Mao Goudan’s ranting, the people living in the cowshed came out one by one.

The last ones were Qin Su and Tang Shi. To everyone’s surprise, Tang Shi was also limping, and he looked weak.

Tang Wan widened her eyes in surprise. She looked at her parents with concern from across the crowd.

“Are you looking for my wife?”

Tang Shi limped over to the crowd. He coughed lightly. “I’m sorry. I twisted my ankle while chopping wood last night.

I also caught a cold. I can’t get too close to you.”

Everyone: …

How could he be tied to the big tree at the entrance of the village when he’s like this?

“Brigade Leader, he’s pretending! It must have been him who tied me up!”

Mao Goudan yelled angrily. Even though his face was contorted in pain, he still wanted to drag Tang Shi down with him.

Tang Shi looked at Mao Goudan with a confused expression. “Comrade, who are you?”

“Cough…”

Brigade Leader Mao coughed lightly and explained, “This is Comrade Mao Goudan, a villager in our brigade.

He woke up this morning and found that he had been beaten and tied to the entrance of the village.”

“It was them?!”

Mao Goudan still insisted. Tang Wan’s eyes turned cold. She knew she should have poisoned his mouth.

To make him unable to slander people!

“Comrade Goudan, why do you think it was our comrades in the cowshed? We have no grudge against you.”

Tang Shi’s expression was very confused, and he didn’t seem to be faking it. It made the brigade leader suspicious.

“Qin Su flirted with me and asked me for food. I refused, so they got angry!”

This was the excuse Mao Goudan had thought of all the way here. He couldn’t reveal that he wanted to take advantage of Qin Su.

So he could only blame her. He firmly believed that Qin Su was involved.

“You…”

Qin Su’s face flushed red with anger. She was a young lady who had been pampered since childhood. Her upbringing didn’t allow her to do such a low thing.

Even if she died, she would never betray herself.

So when Mao Goudan said this, Qin Su yelled with grievance, “You’re lying! I have a husband.”

She didn’t say it out loud, but she thought that Mao Goudan wasn’t even a match for Tang Shi’s little finger. How could she possibly do such a thing?

However, she didn’t say it. The villagers understood what Qin Su meant.

Looking at Tang Shi, he must have been an excellent person before. It was a pity that he wasn’t anymore.

So everyone was still a little suspicious.

They suspected that Qin Su really did that.

Tang Shi and Tang Wan were both furious. Tang Wan was about to speak up.

Tang Shi subtly shook his head at her. Then he said loudly, “How could my wife, a weak woman, tie you up?”

This question went straight to the heart of the matter. Everyone was stunned. Mao Goudan’s mother argued,

“Didn’t you help her?”

“I need someone to help me walk.”

Tang Shi lifted his pants leg. It was red and swollen, probably from a sprain.

Tang Wan saw it from afar. Her heart skipped a beat, and her eyes turned red.

For the sake of realism, her dad was really willing to go all out.

“Maybe it was one of the other men in the cowshed…”

Goudan’s mother mumbled. Everyone’s eyes fell on the people in the cowshed.

Except for Tang Shi and Qin Su, the others were all elderly people who looked frail.

Even the younger ones were weak. They didn’t look like they could take down Mao Goudan.

“I was knocked unconscious!”

Mao Goudan was about to go crazy. For the first time, he experienced the feeling of being almost killed and being helpless.

“What kind of stick was it?”

Tang Shi kindly suggested, “Why don’t you take us to the place where you were knocked unconscious?”

Mao Goudan: …

If he really said that he had been squatting here early in the morning, the villagers would definitely know his intentions.

The atmosphere was tense. Tang Wan whispered to Xinghua, “Didn’t Mao Goudan often do sneaky things before?”

“Yes, every time he did something wrong, Goudan’s mother would make a fuss. Everyone knew it was him, but there was no evidence.”

Xinghua spat. “We’re all neighbors. Everyone tolerated him.”

As for the wives who had been taken advantage of, they were afraid of ruining their reputations, so no one said anything.

“He even has the nerve to say that someone flirted with him.”

Tang Wan’s eyes narrowed slightly. She had a plan. For now, she could only wait and see.

“Of course. If he was a good person, how could he be thirty years old and still not married?”

Xinghua couldn’t help but say loudly, “Brigade Leader, didn’t he do something wrong to someone? That’s why he’s accusing them?”

Hearing this, Mao Goudan was startled. He glared fiercely at Xinghua. Mao Sifu protected her.

“What are you glaring at my Xinghua for?”

Mao Goudan was a coward. When he heard this, he could only turn to the brigade leader and say,

“I don’t care. It was them who hurt me. They have to pay!”

“Shut your mouth.”

Brigade Leader Mao was annoyed by the noise. Even though the people in the cowshed were not as high-ranking as them.

He couldn’t just accuse them of crimes.

He angrily said to Mao Goudan, “Besides them, who else have you offended?”

Someone couldn’t help but joke, “He’s offended a lot of people. Not only in our brigade, but also in town. He probably has enemies everywhere?”

“Goudan is not a good person. I think we should just let it go.”

“Yeah, look at these people in the cowshed. They don’t have the ability to do this.”

“…”

Everyone didn’t believe that the people in the cowshed could do such a thing. After all, they did the hardest work in the brigade. They didn’t have the strength.

The youngest, Tang Shi, was still injured. Mao Goudan’s words were unconvincing.