Ruan Qingyue didn't want the old lady to be angry at this New Year's Eve, so she spoke quickly.
"It's okay. It's just children playing around. It's not a big deal. I'll just go with them and take a look."
Ruan Qingyue coaxed the old lady to go back to the house. Ruan Qingyue picked up the broken lantern on the ground and looked at it carefully. Even the colored lanterns inside were crushed.
The two children were terribly wronged and kept crying. Listening to what Ruan Qingyue said, they were even more disappointed.
"Stop crying. Do you know where their home is? I'll take you there to find him for comment."
Ruan Qingyue picked up everything. Although one lantern was destroyed, it also made the two children cry very hard.
As soon as the two children heard Ruan Qingyue's words, they stopped crying, took Ruan Qingyue's hand and walked out.
Ruan Qingyue followed the two children into the yard. Before entering the house, she heard the noise of the two boys in their house.
"I want a lantern. I want a better-looking lantern than those two brats, so that they can envy me."
"I don't care, I want it."
Ruan Qingyue put on a smiling face, knocked on the door, and waited for someone in the room to speak. After waiting for a long time, someone came to open the door, and the sounds of the children in the room disappeared.
"Who are you? Our family doesn't know you."
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman with a bad expression. She seemed to be angry with the child.
"Come, call someone."
Ruan Qingyue asked the two children to come to the door. Their family didn't recognize her, so how could they not recognize the two children?
"Hello, aunt."
Both children felt aggrieved and looked a little scared.
"It's the New Year, so I have to say some auspicious words. Come on, I wish you a happy New Year."
The two children followed Ruan Qingyue's words and paid New Year greetings, and were very happy. The middle-aged woman felt a lot more comfortable when she saw this situation.
"Okay, okay, come in and talk."
The middle-aged woman invited people into the house. Ruan Qingyue came in and sat down, then put the broken lantern on the table.
"Sister-in-law, where are your Dazhu and Erzhu? Let them come over!"
Ruan Qingyue was always smiling, as if nothing had happened and there was no noise at all.
The middle-aged woman looked at the lantern on the table. She already knew what was going on. She stood blocking the door and refused to let her child come over to talk.
"Oops! It's the New Year, let the children play! Don't call them anymore."
The middle-aged woman closed the door with a smile and happily poured Ruan Qingyue a glass of water.
"Well, it's okay not to tell them. The two children were crying at home, saying that the lantern was destroyed by the big pillar and the second pillar. If this lantern was bought for only thirty cents and twenty cents, I wouldn't come here. It's really too big.
It’s too expensive, so you still have to tell me.”
As soon as Ruan Qingyue finished speaking, the middle-aged woman's expression suddenly changed and she turned against her on the spot.
"That's right if you say so! Who said that my son destroyed your child's things, which are just a broken lantern and a few cents, and you came here to look for them? You are really full."
When the middle-aged woman said this, she took away the glass of boiling water that she poured for Ruan Qingyue.
"The inner frame of this lantern is made of bamboo, and the fabric is made of Jiangnan yarn. The light bulbs inside are also ruined. The materials alone for such a lantern only cost six yuan, and the children were bullied. It’s so special during the Chinese New Year.
I cried a lot. If you don’t admit this, I will call the police. It wouldn’t be good if the police came in during the Chinese New Year!”
As soon as Ruan Qingyue finished speaking, the middle-aged woman's face suddenly became serious. She looked at Ruan Qingyue with eyes full of surprise, followed by even more anger.
"You wait."
The middle-aged woman walked out and dragged two boys in five or six minutes later. These two boys had grown quite tall and were not much shorter than Ruan Qingyue.
"The children are here, you can ask! If they admit it, I will compensate you."
The middle-aged woman looked at Ruan Qingyue arrogantly, as if she had made all preparations, just waiting for Ruan Qingyue to swallow the bitter pill without asking anything.
"You two are good boys, you won't lie, right?"
Ruan Qingyue was smiling, and she didn't look angry at all. She didn't look like she had come to seek trouble and complain.
The two boys nodded when they saw Ruan Qingyue being so talkative.
"Did you destroy this lantern in my yard? Tell me the truth."
Ruan Qingyue was pretending to be a close elder sister at the moment, without any anger or questioning. The two children obviously looked guilty, but they still looked a little wary when they looked at Ruan Qingyue.
"No, we didn't do anything."
The older one grabbed his younger brother's arm and spoke decisively.
Ruan Qingyue nodded and did not ask angrily.
"Okay, you must tell the truth! If you didn't do it, then I will call the police. There are fingerprints on these things. If you touch them, they will be left. If it is found that you did it, you will
Those who are arrested will not be able to go to school in the future. No school will accept students who have been arrested, but I choose to believe you."
After Ruan Qingyue finished speaking, she picked up the remains without any anger.
"Walk."
Ruan Qingyue greeted Hu Mei's two children and walked out.
Dazhu and Erzhu's faces turned pale, and even the middle-aged women were frightened. Ruan Qingyue looked at their faces and already had an idea in her mind. She just put everything away carefully in front of them and walked up.
Just about to go outside.
The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes several times and quickly came over to stop Ruan Qingyue.
"What are you doing! Do you still need to be so serious about things between children?"
Ruan Qingyue saw that she was panicking, but she still had that gentle smile.
"Of course it is necessary. These things are very expensive. This fabric alone was shipped from Jiangnan. It is so expensive. It was ruined like this. Of course, we cannot ignore it. What's more, the two children have been wronged.
It’s so unlucky to cry during the Chinese New Year! This matter must be investigated thoroughly.”
Ruan Qingyue's attitude made the middle-aged woman anxious and angry. When the two children Dazhu and Erzhu saw this situation, the older one quickly ran over and stopped in front of Ruan Qingyue.
"I did this. You can do whatever you want to me."
Dazhu was very hard-headed, looking at Ruan Qingyue as if she was ready to die generously.
"Sister-in-law, your son admitted it."
The smile on Ruan Qingyue's face did not change. She just looked at her without any tension. Just a simple sentence made the middle-aged woman's chest rise and fall.
"Okay, you wait."
The middle-aged woman turned around and walked to another room. She quickly came back, took five yuan and threw it on Ruan Qingyue's body.
