Chapter 168 The lion opens its mouth

She responded: "Well, the village chief is..."

She glanced at Qin Xiaomei, who couldn't help but hide behind the village chief when she saw him.

The village chief smiled and said: "Oh, well, I have something to ask you. This Xiaomei said that she asked you to borrow some money but you refused to lend it. Is that so?"

Qin Zhiyi responded: "That's what happened."

The village chief nodded and asked again: "Xiaomei said that you refused to lend it to her and even broke her head. Of course I didn't believe it, so I came here to ask you."

"How did her head break? I believe she knows better than anyone else. Isn't the village chief curious about how much money she needs to borrow and what she needs to borrow the money for?"

The village chief sighed and said: "Ask me, this girl said that her mother wanted to marry her to a fool in Dongzhuang, and her mother also accepted his money, so I want to ask you to collect some money and return the bride price to her. I'm thinking about it.

It’s not a big deal, but you have to figure it out, and you can’t tarnish your reputation.”

She could accept what the village chief said.

She raised her voice and said: "Qin Xiaomei, tell everyone in front of everyone, how much money did you ask me to borrow, and how did you get the injury on your head?"

Qin Xiaomei never expected that the village chief came not to question Qin Zhiyi, but to clarify.

She clenched her fists bitterly and couldn't figure out why the villagers didn't help her, but instead spoke for the little widow.

So she said: "I asked her to borrow two taels of silver, but she refused. The other ladies and sisters in the village must have seen it. I knelt down for her, but she didn't even want to borrow it. And my head... it was her

Hit with a rolling pin!”

As soon as this was said, many people started talking.

"I saw Qin Xiaomei crying in front of her house in the morning. It turned out to be to borrow money."

"She deserves to be beaten if she goes to someone's house crying early in the morning. If it were me, I would beat her even worse than her!"

"That's too unlucky. No wonder people don't borrow it."

Everyone said something to each other, which made Qin Xiaomei dumbfounded. She simply held her head and shook it, looking like she was about to fall down.

Mrs. Qin realized this and hurriedly supported Qin Xiaomei and began to cry: "This miserable daughter, who was beaten like this and still has to be blamed, does she want to live her life?"

Fei Chengsheng, who was standing aside, said sternly at this time: "Today you will tell me carefully what happened to her head. If you don't tell the truth, I won't mind implementing this crime."

This shout immediately frightened everyone.

Everyone looked at Fei Chengsheng and saw that he clenched his fists and the veins on his arms popped out, as if he could raise his fists at any time and beat people to pieces.

"explain."

He said this word again, and Qin Xiaomei was trembling with fright.

But she still kept her mouth tightly closed and said nothing.

Qin Zhiyi knew that Fei Chengsheng had indeed scared everyone.

I finally understood why Fei Chengsheng had such a bad reputation among the public. It was probably because of his unwillingness to explain and his terrible temper.

At this moment, she took a step forward, walked to Qin Xiaomei, looked at the cloth wrapped around her head, and then took it off one by one.

Qin Xiaomei was startled by her and said, "You, what are you doing?"

"Don't move."

She continued the movements in her hands until the last circle of cloth was removed, and then she said slowly: "I'm just curious about where the wound was when I hit you in the morning, and what kind of wound it got, hiss..."

She hissed, and everyone looked at her.

"With such a big hole, I'm going to be so heavy-handed? Dabao, bring me your mother's rolling pin."

Dabao clenched his fists. He knew that A Niang had been framed, and he was very angry now.

But he knew that grandma had her own way, so after hearing grandma's order, he rushed into the kitchen to get something.

Soon Dabao brought the rolling pin. The little man raised the rolling pin high with a determined look on his face.

Qin Zhiyi touched Dabao's chubby little face, and Dabao's face turned slightly red.

Then she showed the rolling pin to everyone: "Look, this is my rolling pin. According to her, I beat her in the morning, but there is no blood on it."

Although everyone knew that Qin Zhiyi would not do such a thing, they still took a look out of curiosity.

After reading it, Qin Zhiyi handed the rolling pin to Dabao again: "Dabao, help grandma put the rolling pin back."

Dabao responded, took the rolling pin with both hands, and left happily.

Qin Zhiyi continued: "But I see that Xiaomei's injury didn't seem to be from this morning. There is incense ash on her head, and the wound is scabbed. The most important thing is that if it was really caused by a rolling pin, there should be marks..."

Others craned their necks to take a look.

But Qin Xiaomei's head was indeed scabbed and turned into dark brown, and the blood stains on the wrapped strip of cloth also turned black.

She changed the topic and asked again: "Also, Xiaomei, did you really ask me to borrow two taels of silver this morning? Do you dare to swear to God that you didn't lie?"

Of course she didn't dare to make this oath, so looking at Qin Zhiyi, Qin Xiaomei felt scared.

"Yes, do you dare to swear?"

Others also started to encourage at this time.

Qin Xiaomei looked around in fear, her eyes showing her uneasiness. Finally, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and say, "I said I would like to borrow fifty taels."

"Fifty taels?"

The crowd was in an uproar again.

Fifty taels is not a small sum. Ordinary people like them eat and grow their own food. The most they spend in a year is more than ten taels of silver. Qin Xiaomei asked for fifty taels. How dare she?

Qin Zhiyi said calmly: "Why didn't you tell everyone that you wanted to borrow one hundred taels from me at first."

"This is too much!"

"That's right, Qin Xiaomei, didn't you say you just want to repay the bride price your mother got? Why do you want so much money?"

Even Mrs. Qin looked at Qin Xiaomei with surprised eyes at this time. She did not expect that her daughter would dare to speak so loudly.

The direction of the wind suddenly changed, and all the fingers were pointed at Qin Xiaomei.

While everyone was still blaming Qin Xiaomei, Dabao ran over and said, "Mom, I saw blood stains on the pillars of my cousin's house. I don't know how it was done. It's scary."

Everyone looked in the direction of Dabao, but when they saw the innocent face of the little boy, they all believed it.

"Tong Yan Wu Ji, that should be true."

"There are blood stains in the house. Could it be that the victim was injured by himself?"

Someone said this, the village chief touched his beard and said immediately: "I'll find someone to take a look."

"I'll go take a look too."

"I'll go too."

Qin Zhiyi looked at Qin Xiaomei: "Let's go, let's go take a look and see what's going on at your house."

When Mrs. Qin heard this, her face turned pale with fright. If everyone saw the blood on the pillar, wouldn't they know that she was forced to sell her daughter?

She hurriedly stepped forward and stopped the person: "Village Chief, Village Chief, please wait, the blood in my house was actually caused by me killing a chicken yesterday."
Chapter completed!