The next day the sky was bright, layers of clouds appeared where the sky and the earth joined, and a red sun emitted a dazzling light.
This sunny and good weather makes people happy.
Aunt Jinhua went to the town to buy ingredients as originally planned, while Su Qing went to the ancestral hall to watch a play. Fortunately, Wen Sheng and Wenhai were sent to the school to stay last night, otherwise Su Qing would have to be distracted and take care of them.
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The ancestral halls in the village enshrine those who have made contributions to the village, or the tablets of long-lived old people who are over 100 years old, which are meant to preserve blessings so that future generations can live long and prosperous lives.
The village chief stood at the ancestral hall and asked: "Is everyone here?"
"Village chief, Aunt Liu is not here, and no one has seen her in the past few days." A villager shouted from the crowd. He is a distant relative of Mrs. Liu's husband's family, and he moved to the West Village in recent years.
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Although he had little contact with Aunt Liu, they were related and had seniority, so they had to care about her.
"It's not too early now, and it's the busy time for farming, so time is precious and we don't have to wait." The village chief is nearly seventy years old, but his body is still strong and his words are full of energy.
In an era where the average age is over fifty, living to seventy is considered a long life.
"Bring the people up." The village chief said seriously. Although his back was a little stooped and his body was old, he still stood there with a cane. It was obvious that he was serious about this matter.
Tian Li made a fuss after being brought here, "Why are you arresting me? Believe it or not, I will report it to the officials and have you all arrested and put in jail."
Her pair of hanging eyes were wide open, and she was staring at the village chief. On the other hand, the old widower had his eyelids lowered, his head buried in silence, and he was surprisingly quiet.
His reaction subconsciously made people think that he had accepted his fate, but Su Qing didn't think so. She didn't believe that the old widower would give up so easily.
Su Qing looked at him suspiciously, and the more she looked at him, the more she felt that he looked a bit like the headless black shadow that night. As if something suddenly occurred to her, a light flashed through her originally calm eyes, like water ripples on the lake.
Slowly calmed down.
"You are poaching others and trying to bury Su Qing's family alive. You have no reason to do so. Bah." A woman put her hands on her waist and scolded Mrs. Tian Li.
She looked at Tian Li with disgust and spat at her with disdain.
"Daughter-in-law of the Li family, don't get angry with her, it's not worth it." Another woman comforted her. She didn't like Mrs. Tian Li either. She thought she was a bit harsh, but she didn't expect that she had a vicious mind.
"People like Tian Li should be put into the pond to avoid harming others again."
The commotion in the ancestral hall was mostly caused by the villagers' accusations against the behavior of Tian and Li.
"Quiet." The village chief tapped the ground with his cane. His face turned red from the excessive exertion. "There are no rules at all in front of the ancestors. They are all ashamed."
He frowned his white eyebrows, glanced at everyone seriously, took a deep breath and said: "I understand that everyone is angry because of their shameless behavior. But this is an ancestral hall, not a vegetable market, and all the ancestors are watching from above."
The village chief led the crowd and kowtowed to the enshrined altar to show respect for their ancestors and at the same time to express that it was an unintentional mistake.
He stood up unsteadily with crutches. Someone originally offered to help him, but he waved them away.
"Ms. Tian Li, what else do you want to say? If you sincerely admit your mistake, I can give you a lighter sentence." the village chief asked her.
"Admit your mistake? I'm right. Su Qing deserves to die." If Tian Li hadn't been escorted by two big men, she might have rushed in front of Su Qing by now.
She kept struggling and wanted to pounce on Su Qing, her madness showing, "It was you who harmed my son, you deserve to die."
When the village chief heard what she said, he was furious and kept tapping his cane, pounding his chest and coughing.
Could it be that Su Yatou was responsible for Tian Er? It wasn’t her, the mother-in-law, who raised him crookedly.
If she hadn't doted on him blindly, would Tian Er have grown into an unreasonable scoundrel?
"Do you have anything to say?" The village chief turned to look at the old widower.
The old widower raised his eyelids and glanced at him, but in the end remained silent.
The village chief sighed, shook his head, and waved weakly, "Send him off to the official."
It was all his dereliction of duty. He failed to take care of Xixi Village and this happened.
"No, why are you? You are all Su Qing. You and your mother deserve to die." Mrs. Tian Li roared and screamed.
This time she was in jail and it would be even harder for her to get out. All of this was caused by Su Qing. She cursed Su Qing to die a good death.
Her triangular eyes burst out with intense hatred. If her eyes could turn into darts, Su Qing would probably have hundreds or even thousands of holes in her body.
"Oh, didn't you force my mother to death?" Su Qing said with a mocking look on her face.
When she saw Ms. Tian Li looking stiffly at the old widower, Su Qing vaguely felt that there might be something fishy about Mrs. Tian's death.
Sighing silently, this is not easy.
"Girl, you have changed a lot recently. You are much more sensible than before. If you didn't look the same, I would have thought you were swapped." The Li family's daughter-in-law joked with Su Qing.
When Su Qing heard what she said, alarm bells started ringing in her heart. Could it be that she has been too obvious recently and will be discovered? She was thinking in her heart, but there was no difference on her face. She said calmly: "Auntie, you are joking, I no longer have a mother."
Now, I can’t lose Aunt Jinhua anymore.”
Su Qing felt sad. She wanted to cry. She sniffed and her eyes were red, but she knew that this was the emotion of the original owner.
"I don't want to see Aunt Jinhua work so hard, so I want to grow up so that I can protect my brother and Aunt Jinhua."
Seeing how pitiful she was, Li's daughter-in-law felt a pity in her heart. Women with children around them couldn't help but feel sad when they heard what Su Qing said, and thought of the changes in her family.
My mother died of illness, and there was no news about my father. The three siblings were left to suffer the murders of Tian Li's evil mother-in-law. This can understand why Su Qing has changed so much.
These days, a child with a mother is like a treasure, while a child without a mother is like a piece of grass, not to mention the fact that both parents are not around. Who can say that they feel the sadness and pain involved?
It's really hard for the three siblings to have to endure such suffering at such a young age.
The Li family's wife sighed silently and left, thinking that she would just help the three siblings more in the future.