Song Yutong looked carefully at the person coming. Cheng Xiuwen was wearing clothes full of patches. The cloth on his trouser legs was in tatters, and most of his calves were exposed on both legs.
Although her hair is messy, her little face is extremely clean, her features are pretty, and she has the potential to be a bit of a young girl.
His figure is as slender and tall as a bamboo, and he looks like a young man with some character.
He stood in the crowd, staring at Song Yutong with a pair of eyes, with a hint of hatred in his eyes, and repeated what he just said.
"I told you, I stole the money."
Song Yutong didn't quite understand why Cheng Xiuwen looked at her like this, and why he had to admit it like this.
After all, he doesn't look like someone who would steal money. Is there something hidden in this?
"You said you stole the money, why did you steal the money?" Song Yutong asked, looking into Cheng Xiuwen's eyes.
The villagers around him and Cheng Gui and his son had already begun to shout.
"If you don't learn well at a young age, you won't be a good person when you grow up."
"We have a bad family tradition. We have a brother-in-law who knows how to steal and a sister-in-law who is playful and playful. What good things can he teach in the end?"
"You can't say that. It's not time for anyone to change their ways."
Cheng Xiuwen listened to the discussions of the villagers without saying anything. He lowered his head and wondered what he was thinking.
But Song Yutong clearly read from his body that he was unwilling to admit it as a last resort.
"Cheng Xiuwen, tell me! Why did you steal the money?" Song Yutong suddenly became anxious when she saw that he hadn't spoken for a long time and shook him.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Cheng Xiuwen couldn't stand still and fell to the ground.
It was also this fall that allowed Song Yutong to see the scars on his arms and calves, as if they were struck with a whip.
Song Yutong immediately squatted down and rolled up his sleeves. The scars one after another were shocking. The villagers who were talking about it were attracted by the scars and stopped talking.
Song Yutong wanted to help Cheng Xiuwen stand up, but he didn't expect to be pushed away by him.
"No need for you to pretend to be kind, it's all because of you."
Song Yutong was confused after hearing this, and didn't understand what Cheng Xiuwen meant when he said it was all because of her.
"Because of me? If you have something to say, you can't just say it."
Regardless of Cheng Xiuwen's resistance, she took Cheng Xiuwen's arm and directly lifted him up without any courtesy.
Suddenly, I realized that this child had no strength at all, as if he had been hungry for a long time.
"You go inside first and sit down." Regardless of Cheng Xiuwen's objection, she led people into the house first.
Before going out, I asked him a few questions. "You didn't steal the money at all. It was Cheng Gui and Cheng Hui who didn't get the money to hire me, right?"
Cheng Xiuwen remained silent. After hearing Song Yutong's analysis, he suddenly raised his head, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.
Seeing his expression, Song Yutong knew that she was right.
"Did they inflict the injuries on you to force you to admit that you stole the money?"
Cheng Xiuwen still didn't speak, but there was a glint in his eyes, and then he turned his head away with a slight sneer.
Song Yutong understood that it was Cheng Xiuwen's disdain for her.
But she was too lazy to argue with a child, turned around and went out and closed the door.
"Cheng Xiuwen admitted that he stole five taels of silver from our subordinate. Now that the money has been given to your family, should you return the money to us?"
When Cheng Hui saw Song Yutong walking out of the house, he said shamelessly.
"I can give it to you, but I have a question."
Song Yutong glanced sharply around the crowd, and finally returned to Cheng Hui.
"You said that the money for this engagement was borrowed by you in pieces. I would like to ask where the IOU is and who lent you the money."
Cheng Gui and Cheng Hui, father and son, have a bad reputation in the village. They may not be able to borrow money in the village, let alone borrowing money from people they don't know outside the village.
Cheng Gui immediately became impatient after hearing this: "This is not what you should ask. Someone lent me money, why should I tell you?"
"Oh, it's nothing, I just want to see if I know the person you borrowed money from?" Song Yutong's words made both Chenggui and his son change their expressions.
"Don't keep asking me what you have or don't have. Give me the money quickly." Cheng Hui came up and asked for the money.
"Are you afraid to tell me, or you haven't borrowed the money at all, and you want to fall in love with me, a free hand?" Song Yutong smiled and said.
"Please think about it, fellow villagers, if you got such a sum of money, would you let anyone other than yourself know where to put it?"
The villagers who were watching listened to Song Yutong's reminder and thought about it, if there was an outsider in the family, they would have to be on guard at all times.
How could anyone know where the money was?
"Fifty taels of silver is not a small sum. If you had lost your money and knew that it was a member of your family who gave it to an outsider, you would probably have knocked on the door with a pole. Why did you just run away without saying a word?
Go to someone’s kitchen to move food.”
"Isn't this a bit unreasonable? Since you are the victims, you should feel confident. Why are you so guilty?"
"And!" Song Yutong's momentum became stronger and stronger, and even gave him a sense of oppression. "Cheng Xiuwen lives under the shelter of your family. He doesn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes. If you are unhappy, he will be beaten.
, How dare he steal money."
"Why didn't he run away after stealing the money? Why did he continue to stay at your house? Isn't he afraid of being beaten by you? He knew that he would be beaten and scolded after stealing the money, but instead of running away, he jumped out and admitted it."
"Do you really think we are fools? Do you think that all the villagers have no brains and just believe what you say without thinking about it?"
Song Yutong answered all the questions in one sentence after another.
If not, it would be a blow to the head, causing all the villagers who had heard about it to start thinking and speak to Song Yutong and Cheng Xiuwen.
It seems that if you don't care about her, you are really a brainless person. Even if you are really not smart, who would be willing to admit that you are brainless?
Song Yutong was not very good at controlling public opinion, but it was enough in such a simple little village.
"Not to mention whether Cheng Xiuwen dares to steal money, but whether anyone is willing to lend you money is still the same thing."
"You!" Cheng Gui became angry after hearing Song Yutong's words. He swung his stick and wanted to hit someone, but Aunt Li immediately led others to stand up.
"Chenggui, when your eldest brother and sister-in-law went there, how did you promise to Li Zheng that you would take good care of these two brothers? Now look at how these two children have been squeezed by you?"