Lin Xiaoman walked up to Sister-in-law Zhao, raised her chin towards her, and stared at her condescendingly. The sarcastic sneer hanging on her lips made Sister-in-law Zhao's heart skip a beat, and the words she said made her blush with anger, "

You said that Xiangxing gave your son the veil, then take it out and look at it. If you don’t take it out and look at it, how can you prove that it belongs to Xiangxing? Maybe your son stole it from some girl, so he has to rely on Xiangxing.

On the head."

"You say my son is a thief?" Sister-in-law Zhao raised her voice, "Tie Zhu, they have all falsely accused you of being a thief. Are you still thinking of her reputation and not taking out the veil?"

"I'm not a thief!" I don't know if Lin Xiaoman was right, but Li Tiezhu's defensive voice revealed a guilty conscience.

Lin Xiaoman snorted coldly: "Since you are not a thief, then take out the veil and tell me when and where it was and why Xiangxing gave you the veil."

Li Tiezhu took out a handkerchief from his arms, held it in his hand, and unfolded it to the people inside and outside the courtyard, "I said that my family was poor and had no money to give a betrothal gift. Xiang Xing said that she only liked me and didn't want my family.

She also brought a dowry as a betrothal gift, and she was afraid that I wouldn’t believe it, so she gave me this square veil as a token, with her name embroidered on it. Well, the apricot blossoms embroidered on it also have Xiang Xing’s name.”
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Li Tiezhu, who was holding the handkerchief, seemed to be confident, and his eyes were shining with satisfaction when he looked at Lin Xiaoman.

The villagers also looked at the handkerchief in his hand. The stitches were messy and the embroidery work was rough. They could barely tell that it was an apricot flower.

After Lin Xiaoman saw this square handkerchief, his heart felt completely at ease, and he understood the reason for the guilt in Lin Xiangxing's eyes.

This damn thing was not embroidered by Lin Xiangxing at all, okay? It was clearly embroidered by Lin Xiaoman as a gift to Lin Xiangxing a few years ago when she first learned embroidery. The name embroidered below is not Xiangxing, but her Lin Xiaoman

The word 'Xiaoman'.

Similarly, Lin Xiangxing also embroidered a harvest handkerchief for Lin Xiaoman, with the word "Xiangxing" embroidered under her name.

Is Li Tiezhu blind and unable to see such a big word "Xiao Man"?

Oh, yes, he is a tenant who rents the land from the owner, where does he get the money to study? It’s not surprising if he doesn’t recognize him.

However, even if Xiangxing was kicked in the head by a donkey again, she would not give the handkerchief she embroidered as a token of love to a man, but it could be stolen by Li Tiezhu, so she should have carried it with her. This shows that Xiangxing values ​​​​the friendship with herself.

What?

Looking at Li Tiezhu who was proudly showing the handkerchief to the villagers of Hedong Village, Lin Xiaoman's smile was full of ridicule.

Sure enough, someone raised a question: "Xiangxing's embroidery skills are well-known in our village. She can earn a tael of silver from selling her embroidery items to the cloth shop every month. Did she embroider this? Why do I not believe it so much?"
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"But the embroidery on it is red apricot. Could it be that she embroidered it when she was just learning embroidery?"

"Come on, didn't you see the name embroidered under the veil? It's obviously Xiaoman's name! A while ago, I heard Xiaoman's mother say that she couldn't do embroidery well and couldn't make money for the family."

"Hey, Xiaoman, do you think you embroidered this veil?"

"Yes! Didn't I open a shop in the city? I have been running around the village and the county all day long, and I don't know when the veil was stolen. Xiangxing, it's me who caused you to be plotted by the bad guys.

My mistake, can you forgive me?"

Lin Xiangxing didn't expect that things would turn around so quickly, but she still shook her head and couldn't stop the tears in her eyes. "I don't blame you. They say that a thief can be a thief in a thousand days. How can a thief be guarded against in a thousand days? Who can

To think that some people would be so shameless!"

"That's right, you can't blame Xiang Xing. This family has evil intentions. They also want to ruin my granddaughter's reputation and cost me a big girl and a dowry. Bah! Shameless! But Xiaoman, you are really bad at this embroidery job.

, and learn from Xiangxing in the future."

"I understand."

After Lin Xiaoman finished speaking, she covered her face with her hands. Although she had washed away the reputation of Xiang Xing and Li Tiezhu's private exchanges, she still wanted to face such a public execution.

Everyone burst into laughter because of her shameful and angry action, "Xiangxing, you have to stop talking about her breasts. Xiaoman is a big girl now, she wants to lose face!"

"That's right, even though our little Man can't do embroidery, he can make money! He's also as good at cooking as her mother. Whoever marries her in the future will be lucky."

Seeing that the topic had changed again, Li Tiezhu and the other three were also dumbfounded. Li Tiezhu took the handkerchief and looked at it again and again, but he knew this "little" guy and thought Xiang Xing was embroidering Xiao Xing or Xiao Xiang. He couldn't believe it at all.

The veil he stole from Xiang Xing actually belonged to another girl.

But in which family can two girls give each other veils?

Sister-in-law Zhao also regretted it. She refused to give the betrothal gift because she was the nanny of the eldest son of Liujiazhuang, and most people looked down upon her. If Lin Xiangxing was good at embroidery, she could still take on embroidery work to help the family, but she favored Li Tiezhu.

The handkerchief I brought back was such an embroidery job. Even if Lin Xiangxing wanted to take it on, she was afraid that she would have to pay for the material.

Now I heard from villagers that Lin Xiangxing can earn more than one tael of silver for her family by doing embroidery work in a month, which is more than what two strong laborers can earn.

If I had known that she was a sweetheart, even if she didn't want to give a bride price, she would have been gentler and married him back. Now it's really a waste of money.

But it was obviously too late to regret it. Amidst the accusations from the villagers, it was confirmed that they had stolen the veil. No matter what they said was true or false, they would be regarded as dirty water.

Seeing Sister-in-law Zhao pulling Li Tiezhu away, Lin Xiaoman said: "These people came to our village to ruin the reputation of the girls of our Lin family. If we don't let them suffer, no one will dare to ride on our village in the future."

Shit."

When everyone heard that Lin Xiaoman was right, they rolled up their arms and sleeves and came forward to catch the three of them.

Several strong men pushed Li Tiezhu to the ground and kicked and punched him, while the women grabbed Sister-in-law Cheng and Sister-in-law Zhao and scratched them. The three of them kept begging for mercy, but no one in the Lin clan was soft-hearted and interceded for them.

Xiangxing looked at her and felt relieved. When Lin Xiaoman came to her side and held her hand, Xiangxing cast a grateful look at Lin Xiaoman and said, "Xiaoman, if it weren't for you this time, I wouldn't know how to survive." Can you survive?"

Lin Xiaoman shook his head at her placatingly, "What a big deal, I will tell you about a strange woman I once met. Her experience was worse than yours, but she is not afraid of scumbags at all. You also beat up the scumbag. By the way, don’t you want to beat him with your own hands a few times to make him angry?”

Lin Xiangxing looked at Li Tiezhu who was holding his head and being kicked on the ground, gritted his teeth, wiped his tears, lifted up his skirt and rushed forward.

Shen Guihua also followed behind her daughter. Compared to Lin Xiangxing, who has thin arms and legs and has never done farm work, Shen Guihua is much stronger and can kick harder than those strong men in the village.

There were shouts from outside the crowd: "What are you doing here? I haven't been back for two days, and everyone is going to rebel?"

Lin Xiaoman heard it was Lin Daqiang's voice. He had been keeping an eye on the city for the past few days. When did he return to the village?

When the Lin clan members heard the clan leader's voice, they all stepped aside, revealing Lin Daqiang and a group of people behind him.

At a glance, Lin Xiaoman saw Lu Jin, who stood out from the crowd, and Qing Shu, the scholar beside him.
Chapter completed!