Su Jiudong's sprinkled expression did not make Su Xinglian give in and admit her guilt, Su Xinglian continued to play tricks: "There are more people wearing this kind of pink and green style shoes, why are you sure that this is my shoes?" ”

Liu Yunniang persuaded Su Xinglian with kind words: "Xinglian, my mother-in-law took the initiative to recognize the shoes brought by the official, and I have determined that they are your shoes." No matter how much you deny the superior elements, you might as well admit it as soon as possible and see if you can get it lightly. ”

Su Xinglian didn't buy it, and continued to deny it: "I bought so many pairs of shoes, and there are two or three pairs of pink and green hair, and my name is not written on the shoes you took out, and A-Niang may also admit the wrong shoes!" ”

Su Jiudong didn't want to delay like this anymore, so he looked at the fourth official who brought Su Xinglian back from the county seat. After receiving Su Jiudong's eyes, the official let go of Su Xinglian, untied the backpack behind him, and took out a pair of shoes from the backpack.

The shoes are new, the materials are expensive, the stitches are fine, and the upper is embroidered with a peony pattern, which is a customized style at a glance.

Su Jiudong took the new shoes in his hand, opened the satin inside, and revealed the word "Yun Niang" embroidered inside, which was the new pair of shoes that Su Jiudong specially ordered for Liu Yun Niang.

Su Jiudong held up the satin surface of the shoes with words embroidered on them to show the public: "Everyone has seen the words in the shoes, right?" These shoes belong to my mother. This is the shoes that I customized for my aunt in the ready-to-wear shop in the county, and this is the only pair in the whole Qishan County. ”

"Su Xinglian, it's impossible for you to tell everyone that you have changed your name to Su Yunniang, right?" As soon as Su Jiudong's words came out, the onlookers all laughed.

Su Xinglian's face was embarrassed, and she couldn't think of a rebuttal for the time being, so she could only be ridiculed by the villagers.

Su Jiudong pointed to the slightly convex and deformed satin at the front end of the new shoes, and sneered:

"Your feet are bigger than my aunt's, and when you wear my aunt's new shoes, which are not suitable for your feet, the front of the shoes is stretched out...... Or you have to say that you deliberately want to buy small shoes to wear, so as to squeeze your big feet smaller. ”

People in the village need to work in the fields on weekdays, and the custom of wrapping small feet is not in vogue from time to time, so the women in the village are free from the pain of foot binding, and let a pair of feet grow freely, so they are all normal women's foot size.

Su Xinglian is stronger than other women, and her foot size is a little bigger than that of ordinary women, so she made Liu Yunniang's new shoes with ordinary women's foot sizes bigger.

Su Xinglian was speechless by Su Jiudong's repeated questions, but her expression was still a look of indignation and grievance that had been wronged.

Su Jiudong asked the fourth official, "Please also tell everyone where these shoes were found?" ”

The official replied: "It was found in the bedroom of Su Xiaoshan, the daughter of the third room of the Su family, and Su Xiaoshan confirmed that Su Xinglian was wearing these new shoes when she visited the third room house yesterday." ”

Su Jiudong contempted, "Su Xinglian, I gave this shoe to my mother, but it was inexplicably worn by you on your feet...... People have stolen money, and you dare to quibble that you didn't steal these new shoes? ”

"I ...... I ......"

Su Jiudong blocked Su Xinglian speechless, coupled with the conclusive evidence of the shoes, Su Xinglian suddenly lost the arrogance of shouting injustice and denial just now, fell to the ground in despair, and finally admitted the crime of stealing shoes.

Su Jiudong completely suppressed Su Xinglian so much that he couldn't raise his head, and his heart was very happy, and he tried to ask Su Xinglian calmly on the surface: "Su Xinglian, you stole my mother's new shoes, was it a temporary idea or a long-term plan?" ”

Su Xinglian said frankly: "I just saw that the second sister-in-law's clothes and shoes were very new, out of jealousy, and I was deflated in your house before, and I was not convinced, so I deliberately bumped into the second sister-in-law, causing her to spill tea and wet her clothes and uppers." ”

"Then when the second sister-in-law changed her shoes and came back to entertain the guests, I quietly went into the room, took off the old boots on my feet, changed into the new shoes, and then left, but I didn't expect to forget to take the old shoes with me, I hated it......"

"Why didn't you steal the new clothes because you only stole the shoes?"

"It's purely because the clothes are too conspicuous after taking them, and they are easy to be discovered in the future, and the shoes are covered by dresses, and not many people usually pay attention to them, so the risk of being found is relatively small, so I only took the shoes."

Thinking that she was going to be locked up in the county jail for three days next, Su Xinglian's depression turned into discouragement, and Su Dayou and Li watched from the sidelines and were anxious, but they couldn't help much.

"Jiu Dong'er, Xinglian didn't mean to steal your mother's shoes, you just treat her as an ignorant child and make nonsense... You'll let her go this time. ”

Li opened his mouth to plead with Su Jiudong, but he had no sincerity, but instead used the phrase "she is still a child" that Su Xinglian hated the most, and Su Jiudong was even more disgusted with Su Jiudong in his heart.

Su Jiudong snorted coldly: "Su Xinglian is already twenty-seven years old, and she is not too young, how can you treat her as a child?" She couldn't see my aunt wearing new clothes and shoes, so she was jealous and stolen shoes, which is not something that a child can do at all. "First Chinese Network

"And I have already reported this matter to the government, now is not the time for me to decide, how to deal with Su Xinglian in the future will still have to be judged by the county government."

Li was very dissatisfied with Su Jiudong's action in dealing with the loss of shoes: "Isn't it just a loss of a pair of shoes, you see that you are stingy and searching, why do you have to report to the government to make trouble?" Do you know that family ugliness should not be publicized? ”

Su Dayou also came forward to play haha: "Yes, yes, Jiu Dong'er, you have so much silver at home, and you don't lack this pair of shoes, why make it so ugly?" If you want me to say this, let's discuss this matter privately with our own families, and you can go to the county government office and withdraw the case. ”

Looking at the ugly faces of the Su family, Su Jiudong, who was jealous and hateful, was even more determined to be unjustly angry, and he must let Su Xinglian learn a lesson, so that Su Xinglian could understand the beating from society.

Su Jiudong rolled his eyes in front of everyone and said, "Master Su, your words make people angry. Did I deserve to be stolen because I had a lot of money? After losing my shoes, I went to report to the official, but I was a little family? ”

"Old Madam Su is right, I, Su Jiudong, am indeed a stingy person, and I don't allow outsiders to covet anything in my house. Su Xinglian violated my family's interests by stealing shoes, and of course I have good reasons to defend my own interests. ”

Su Jiudong directly put the new shoes on the table to display, and simply said: "These shoes were customized by a special master in the ready-to-wear shop, and the master's shoe-making skills are worth a lot of money, and the materials are expensive, which cost me almost two hundred taels of silver." ”

The villagers were shocked when they heard that a small pair of shoes cost two hundred taels of silver.

Two hundred taels of silver is enough to buy a lot of grain, rice and noodles, enough for a poor family to live without worrying about food and drink for two or three years......

The villagers present couldn't help but sigh that Su Jiudong spent money lavishly, and also sighed that Su Jiudong was really rich and wealthy after opening a medicinal restaurant, and he was willing to spend two hundred taels of silver to buy a pair of shoes.

"Two hundred taels of silver is not a small amount, let me ask who lost two hundred taels and didn't report to the official?" Su Jiudong walked back to Su Xinglian's side and said proudly: "Two hundred taels of silver, enough for you Su Xinglian to stay in prison for two or three years." ”

"What? Two or three years? Isn't it just three days? Su Xinglian and the Li family were dumbfounded.

Su Xinglian thought that she could be released after just three days, but now that she heard that it might take two or three years, Su Xinglian suddenly couldn't sit still, and rushed over to pull Su Jiudong's group side, pleading with tears and snot:

"Jiu Dong'er, I didn't mean to steal your aunt's shoes! For the sake of our family, you can go and withdraw the case, and I will never trouble you again or speak ill of you......"

Let Su Xinglian and the Su family take turns to intercede, Su Jiudong was unmoved, and motioned to the official to handcuff Su Xinglian and take her back to the county government to draw a confession.

Su Xinglian, who was sobbing and sobbing, followed the four officials back to Qishan County, while Su Jiudong and Liu Yunniang returned to Lin'an Mansion in the carriage of the Wen Mansion, and Li and Su Dayou could only look at the back of the carriage leaving and cry and grab the ground.

After finding the lost new shoes, Liu Yunniang wrapped the shoes and hugged them in her arms and couldn't put them down. Shoes, which already had a special meaning, have been lost and regained this time, and they have become more and more precious.

The soft-hearted Liu Yunniang began to worry about Su Xinglian; "Jiu Dong'er, Xinglian is really going to be locked up for two or three years?"

Su Jiudong shrugged his shoulders and replied slowly: "Two or three years is what I casually talked about, and I don't know how the county officials will judge." However, these shoes are worth two hundred taels, and they must not only be closed for three days, but also for at least ten days to be worthy of this price. ”

Liu Yunniang chirped: "You don't know yourself, and you are talking nonsense to scare Xinglian......"

Su Jiudong's disdain for the Su family has been put on the surface: "She also brought it upon herself to scare her." The Su family can't see that we are doing well, this time we are stealing shoes, who knows what we will steal next time? Locking her up just made her reflect and let the Su family stop a little. ”

It just so happens that he can also use this incident to make an example of the monkey, so that the Su family knows Su Jiudong's attitude and methods, so that after they enter Beijing, the Su family will continue to spread rumors and cause trouble for them in Qishan County.

The case of stealing shoes has been solved, and the fog of solving the case today has been resolved, and Liu Yunniang also asked the last question in her heart: "Jiu Dong'er, did those officials really take the wrong shoes at the beginning?" ”

"What did you say?" Su Jiudong asked rhetorically, with a meaningful smile on his face:

"If I don't make up a story about an official who accidentally took the wrong shoes, what will the villagers think of us who use their connections to borrow power from the county government? What will they think of the officials and county officials who are forced by power to help us fabricate lies and deceive the people with good intentions? ”

"So there was no bandit murder case from beginning to end, just a cover for you to borrow power from the county government?"

"Otherwise, how can we find the thief who stole the shoes so quickly?"

"This method is a little insidious, but as the saying goes, a cat that can catch mice is a good cat. We recovered the lost shoes, the government caught the thief who stole the shoes, and Su Xinglian learned a lesson, killing three birds with one stone. ”