Chapter 36

Listening to Zhao Chunhua’s crying, the village chief frowned. It sounded like Tian Yuzhen had stolen Yu Lulu’s money, but he couldn’t believe one side of the story.

Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua were just educated youth who came to the countryside, and in his heart he still preferred his own people in the village.

Tian Yuzhen knew that Zhao Chunhua was not a good person, and hurriedly spoke up to defend herself.

“Village head, I just sat down under the big locust tree to rest for a while, but the village didn’t stipulate that only the educated youth can rest here. How can you wrongly accuse me without any evidence?”

“I also said that it was Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua who took a fancy to my man and wanted to throw dirty water on me and steal my man.”

“Bah, what nonsense are you talking about? Who wants to steal your man? Your man is ugly and short, so you treat him as a treasure.”

“An ugly horse deserves an ugly saddle.”

“You two are a perfect match, and you have no idea what you are doing.”

Yu Lulu was so angry that she spoke without thinking.

She had seen Tian Yuzhen’s man, who was short, ugly, poor, had a pair of triangular eyes and liked to look around. It was disgusting to look at him. She would never like such a man.

The onlookers couldn’t help laughing when they thought of Tian Yuzhen’s man’s face. It really looked a bit like a horse’s face.

Zhao Chunhua also looked down on Tian Yuzhen’s man. She despised him in her heart, but she still acted like she was wronged on the surface, which added fuel to the fire.

“Sister Yuzhen, you don’t want fame, but we do. How can you say such things? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Even if you think your husband is handsome, you can’t force others to think he is handsome too.”

“Who is ugly? I will tear your mouths off today.”

Tian Yuzhen was so angry at the two men. She knew that she and her husband were ugly, but they said it so carelessly. Wasn’t it like a thorn in her side?

Yu Lulu also got angry.

“Aren’t we telling the truth? If you have the guts, sew up everyone’s mouths.”

“You two little bastards, I’m not done with you today.”

Tian Yuzhen screamed and rushed towards Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua, with a clear target, which was to hit their faces.

I’ll scratch your faces and see how you can seduce men.

Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua were also frightened and quickly stepped back to avoid it.

As a result, Tian Yuzhen was stopped by an angry shout before she could run a few steps.

“That’s enough.”

When the village chief’s majestic voice sounded, Tian Yuzhen shuddered with fear and stopped, and the other aunts also hurriedly pulled her back.

“Sister Yuzhen, don’t worry, the village chief will definitely give you justice.”

“Sister Yuzhen, the village chief is here, don’t get excited, let’s talk it over.”

The village chief looked a little more serious. “The village committee will not wrongly accuse a good person, but it will not condone bad people with dirty hands and feet.”

Then he looked at Yu Lulu again, “Since you think it was Tian Yuzhen who stole your money, then search her body. If you find the original items and return them, the village will also punish her.”

“But if you can’t find it, you should compensate Tian Yuzhen one dollar, so that she can learn her lesson and not wrongly accuse others.”

After these words were spoken, before Yu Lulu could react, Zhao Chunhua exploded first.

“Village leader, this is unfair. Who would hide stolen goods on their body?”

That was all her money, why should she give one to Tian Yuzhen? It was obviously her own money that she contributed, even if she was wronged, she deserved it.

Not far away, He Hongxiu, who had been watching, was also very curious and whispered to Jiang Yan, “Sister, who do you think they are talking about is true?”

Jiang Yan murmured, “Each party has its own story, and no one can come up with solid evidence. I think what Sister Yuzhen said is right. It’s not certain whether the money loss is true or not.”

After saying that, she glanced at Tian Yuzhen in front of her, just wanting to make things difficult for Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua.

But Tian Yuzhen’s eyes lit up.

She didn’t want to take the blame before and just said it casually, but now, listening to the discussions of the two people behind her and thinking about what Zhao Chunhua had shown off in the past few days, she became more and more certain that the two people were deliberately framing her.

In the crowd, the village chief frowned.

Why are these educated youth so unreasonable and difficult to deal with? But they have just arrived after all, and if the news gets out, it will bring bad reputation to the village.

So he suppressed his anger and asked, “So what do you want?”

“I can’t compensate her anyway.”

Zhao Chunhua didn’t know what to do for a moment, but paying money was absolutely impossible.

Upon hearing this, Tian Yuzhen was also dissatisfied.

She had already been wronged, and now she was being searched. It would have been fine if she could get one dollar, but Zhao Chunhua had already determined that she was the thief.

How can this be tolerated?

After listening to the discussions of the two people behind her, she already had an idea in her mind, and she looked at Zhao Chunhua with even more anger.

“You said I stole it?”

“Who knows if you spent all your money? Don’t you have any idea how much you bought these days?”

Tian Yuzhen’s words reminded the village chief that although there were petty thefts in the village, they were nothing more than someone’s family missing one or two eggs or a few handfuls of peanuts.

Such theft of dozens of dollars has never happened before.

Why did such a thing happen in the village as soon as these two educated youth arrived?

He looked at Yu Lulu and asked, “How much money do you have?”

Yu Lulu firmly believed that the money and notes were lost, and said without hesitation: “When I put the money and notes into my clothes pocket, there were 106 yuan, 12 sugar tickets, 20 feet of cloth tickets and 3 catties of meat tickets.”

The village chief nodded and asked, “How much do you have left now?”

Yu Lulu replied: “There are 49 yuan left, 7 sugar coupons, 10 feet of cloth coupons and 2 catties of meat coupons.”

While Yu Lulu was speaking, everyone was also thinking about it in their hearts.

Someone said, “Yu Lulu, you bought a pound of meat the day before yesterday, and it was Zhao Chunhua who ran errands for you to buy it in town.”

Then someone else said.

“Yesterday afternoon, Zhao Chunhua brought back a can of malted milk and boasted to us that it was sent by her family, but I clearly saw her go to the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday.”

At this moment, Yu Lulu’s heart skipped a beat. She really forgot that the thing was not placed here.

But even if she found the ticket, she was still short of more than fifty dollars! And how did the things become Zhao Chunhua’s?

She looked at Zhao Chunhua and asked, “Didn’t you say you would keep it for me? How did it become something your family sent?”

“I, I…”

Zhao Chunhua was also panicked and didn’t know how to explain, so she had to use the universal method of crying.

“Lulu, listen to my explanation. It’s not what you think. They wronged me. I said that because I didn’t want them to think that you spend money lavishly.”

Zhao Chunhua felt aggrieved, as if she had taken the blame for Yu Lulu.

Just when Lulu was about to believe what Zhao Chunhua said, someone else made things worse.

“I also saw Zhao Chunhua in town this morning. It seems she bought a job for a hundred yuan. I heard that she will start working next month.”

“What?”

Yu Lulu was furious. She looked at Zhao Chunhua and asked, “Where did you get the 100 yuan to buy a job? Didn’t you say you only saved 50 yuan over the years?”

Tian Yuzhen calculated in her mind and looked at the two of them sarcastically, “Her 50 yuan plus your 50 yuan is 100 yuan, what a sucker.”

Everyone also reacted.

“So the money wasn’t lost, it was spent by Zhao Chunhua.”

“They want to put the blame on Sister Yuzhen and make her take the blame. They paid over 50 yuan for nothing.”

“He’s an educated youth from the city, how can he be so mean?”

“Bah, get out of our village.”

“Let them go back to where they came from.”

…

Everyone was talking at once, and the words became increasingly unpleasant. Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua’s faces also became increasingly uglier.

Bang!

At this time, Yu Lulu also realized that she had wronged Tian Yuzhen.

The matter has become so serious that she must clear herself from the situation. How can she live in the village in the future?

Yu Lulu raised her hand and slapped Zhao Chunhua in the face. She looked at her angrily and said, “You thief, liar, you actually stole my money and tickets.”

Zhao Chunhua was stunned by Yu Lulu’s slap. He felt the burning pain on his face and was filled with anger.

She originally wanted to pretend, but when she saw Yu Lulu’s look that seemed to want to kill her, she knew that the two of them had already fallen out. Zhao Chunhua stopped pretending and the aggrieved expression on her face turned into hysteria.

“Steal? Cheated? You gave it to me willingly, why do you say it was stealing or cheating?”

“Yu Lulu, I’ve been your lackey for so many years, serving you like a squire. What’s wrong with me asking you for some money?”

“You really think you’re a lady. If it weren’t for your wealth and my family’s hard times, I would never want to be your maid.”

“Your arrogance and self-righteousness make me sick to death.”