Chapter 17 Self-Help

"How can this be reasonable, doing evil in broad daylight is simply unlawless." Although Shen Zisheng is a scholar, he does not do any work like Shen Zhi, but he is very hardworking, and his body is much stronger than that of a scholar who is weak. Holding the skinny Xiao Xia is not difficult at all.

A horse-drawn carriage passed through the village, and many people saw it, and by this time there were already many people working in the fields. Seeing that the carriage stopped and clashed with Shen Zisheng, who was herding cattle, they all rushed over with the work in their hands.

Mrs. Liu saw that many people were coming over here, and the two of them would definitely suffer, so she hurriedly explained to the young man opposite: "Seeing that you are also a scholar, you should know the etiquette, Shen Xiaoxia is already the daughter-in-law of our Li family, but I have given a dowry and handed over the marriage letter to Ming Media is marrying." ”

"What are you talking about with a little white face?" Li Da stroked his arm and wanted to do it.

Of course, Xiao Xia would not admit Mrs. Liu's words, and Li Da was so cooperative. "I didn't know them at all, they tied me up when they came into my yard, my father went to work in the fields, and my mother went out of the village to catch pigs, and they were not at home. They must have seen that there were no adults in my house, and they were disgusted. ”

Xiao Xia saw that his crying had attracted many men in the village, and continued to cry: "They must be liars, they catch children while my father and mother are not at home, I don't know if there are other children in the village who have been arrested." ”

Xiao Xia wants everyone to recognize these two people as abductors, so that he can return to the village. The Shen family wanted to sell her without telling her father and mother, and it depended on whether they were willing or not.

The men in the village listened to Xiao Xia's words, and sure enough, two of them ran to the village, and the others also asked them to help see if the family had lost their children. In these days, there were many abductors, so they liked to kidnap children between the ages of five and ten and sell them to sell them as slaves in large families to get a lot of silver. And these two people, a strong man with a fierce face, still have to do it, and the other mother-in-law is dressed well, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a crutch.

Mrs. Liu didn't expect Xiao Xia's mouth to be so powerful, and she provoked the people in her village without a word. Knowing that staying any longer would not lead to results, she had already handed over the dowry gift, even if she couldn't take people away today, she could let the Shen family personally send people over.

Xiao Xia saw that Mrs. Liu was dragging Li Da to leave, and hurriedly spoke: "Stop them quickly, they must be weak and want to escape, if they still catch the baby in the village, if they run away, where will we find someone?" ”

At this time, there are five or six men in the village who are still there, and when I hear this truth, every family has a baby, what if the baby in the village is taken away? immediately stepped forward to stop the two Mrs. Liu who were leaving.

"Don't listen to that girl's nonsense, we are from the family of Landlord Li in Pingtou Village, Zhenxi." Mrs. Liu hurriedly explained.

"I haven't heard of it, you don't want to deceive people, when everyone in our village is stupid?" How could Xiao Xia give them a chance, and he must bring them all back to the village. Only by retiring the dowry can this marriage contract not be counted, otherwise even if you hide today, you won't be able to hide in the future.

When the people in the village heard that this mother-in-law still wanted to deceive people, they immediately became angry, pressed the two of them, and led their carriage to the ancestral hall in the village. As long as the big thing in the village is solved, it is in the ancestral hall of the village, so the sight of a mighty group of people pressing a mother-in-law and a strong man to go to the village shocked the whole village.

Mrs. Jia was counting the silver in her room at this time, two large silver ingots of twenty taels, and she was happy when she looked at it.

"Oh no, no. Mother, that...... Mourning Star...... It's back again. Zhao's eyes were red. Originally, she dealt with Shen Xiaoxia's return to the house, but Shen Zhi actually praised her for doing a good job this time. So she went around the village in a good mood, and after two turns, she saw a group of people coming to the village, and after a closer look, she was terrible, and quickly ran back to report the news.

"Who's back?" Old Mrs. Jia looked at the out of breath Zhao who was running, and quickly put away the silver in her hand.

"Little ...... Natsu is back. ”

"She's back? Landlord Li returned it? How can this be? "Mrs. Jia is also in a hurry, and the twenty taels in her hand haven't been covered yet!

"No, it was brought back by the villagers." Zhao took a breath and finally explained. "I'm heading to the ancestral hall now! The people in the village treated Mrs. Liu as a kidnapper. ”

"How so?" Mrs. Jia was confused, why did something go wrong after everyone was taken away.

"Mother, I think this Xiao Xia has been very weird since he got sick, it can't be that he is possessed by some ghost, right? We can't keep her! "Zhao is really a little scared in his heart, if it is really something unclean, he will not seek revenge on himself!

The old lady was also said to be a stirring spirit.

Shen Hui hadn't left the house when Mrs. Liu came before, so what if she was afraid that she would be taken in? Narcissistic people are always prone to overthinking, and they only left their house when they heard Zhao's yelling. I just heard Zhao's words, and immediately felt that this was the case. Otherwise, everything was fine in the Shen family before, but since Xiao Xia recovered from her illness, it has been a mess, and everyone's life is not easy.

"Mother, I think what my sister-in-law said is right. Do you remember that day? Obviously, she was about to die, and she was still alive the next morning when she was thrown into the pigsty, even if a good person was outside all night. ”

The three of them think about it, don't they? Suddenly I felt a cold air in the house, very gloomy.

"Mother, what should I do then?" The Zhao family was frightened, if it was really something unclean, he would definitely seek revenge on himself.

"You must not let her enter the door of the Shen family again!"

The three of them discussed and decided to go to the ancestral hall to see the situation, and called the Wang family, who was sleeping in the house for lunch. Xiaochun and Xiaoqiu were locked in the Westhouse by Mrs. Jia.

When Xiao Xia's group of people arrived at the ancestral hall, there were already many people who had heard the news in advance, and it was a big deal to catch someone in the village and kidnap him, and he might have to be an official.

The people in the village were the first to inform the village chief Shen Shouxiao, and at this time he and several senior old people were sitting in the ancestral hall.

Xiao Xia is much better now, but her body is very embarrassed, and when she enters the ancestral hall, she hides behind Shen Zisheng and cries, like a frightened doll.

When the village chief heard that someone had kidnapped someone in the village and arrested Shen Xiaoxia, he was very angry and a little uneasy, and always felt that things would not be so simple.

"Xiao Xia! Don't cry, what the hell is going on? It is really hateful to dare to go to our Shenjia Village to abduct the baby, and Shenjia Village will definitely not let them go. Then he turned his eyes to look at the people in the village: "You have all gone home to see, but which baby has been lost?" ”

The people in the village looked left and right, and a man who went back to the village in advance to look for the baby replied: "There should be no more, we went back to the village to see the kidnappers when we saw them, and the babies of other families were not lost." ”

Mrs. Liu was quite calm, and when she saw that the person sitting on the top seat was the village chief, she felt that she had finally found someone to talk to. "Village chief, you misunderstood, we are not kidnappers."

Where did Xiao Xia give her a chance to explain, on the way back, she asked Shen Zisheng to find someone to help her call her father back. I may not be able to come back for a while, and now I can only delay time. "How can a bad person say he is a bad person? You all tied me to the car and confessed. As he spoke, he showed his wrists, and there were indeed two strangulation marks on them that were very conspicuous.

When the people in the village saw it, they all looked at Mrs. Liu and the two of them with resentful eyes, fortunately there were adults in their own family, otherwise their babies might have been abducted, if they didn't have Xiao Xia's luck, they might not know where they were sold.

The village chief slapped the table. "There are human and material evidence, you don't have to quibble, I'll go to the town to report to the official."

Mrs. Liu didn't say anything, she was really not afraid of them reporting to the official, she had the marriage book of the Shen family in her hand, and the official was also in charge. But I just can't swallow this breath, where is the style of my whole body like a human crutch?

Xiao Xia can't do it at this time, so she can only wait for her father and mother to come back, as long as they don't agree to the marriage, she won't count.

At this time, Mrs. Jia's family arrived, and even Master Shen came. Old man Shen would go around his field every day, and he also went today, and as soon as he got home, he met Mrs. Jia leading her daughter-in-law and daughter out in a hurry. After understanding the cause and effect, I almost lost my anger, why didn't the angry old lady discuss it with him beforehand, and the aftermath was not clean.

When he entered the ancestral hall, he heard the word 'report to the official', and Old Man Shen hurriedly stopped him. "Don't go." As he spoke, he led a large family into the ancestral hall.

The people in the village heard it strangely, and they didn't let their granddaughter report to the official if she was abducted?

The village chief also thought too much. "Brother, don't worry, Xiao Xia was rescued as soon as she left the village, and besides, she is still young, so it will not affect her reputation."

Several men in the village who had seen it with their own eyes also spoke up.

"The village chief is right, the kidnapper was stopped by us before he left the village." He raised his head proudly as he spoke.

"I can also testify, I was there at the time."

"Yes."

Old man Shen listened, and hated a few nosy men in his heart. But you still have to have a smile on your face. "Thank you, but you really misunderstood, these two are not crutches at all."

The people in the village, including the village chief, are confused, what the hell is going on? They all turned their eyes to look at Xiao Xia, and felt that Xiao Xia, who was embarrassed at this time, didn't look like he was lying? It's all confused.

When Xiao Xia saw the Shen family coming, he knew that this scene would appear sooner or later, and he was silently anxious why his father and mother hadn't come yet.

"The two are the stewards of the Li landlord's family in Pingtou Village, Zhenxi, and this time they are here to marry Xiaoxia girl. It's just that Xiao Xia is ignorant and actually did something to deceive the whole village, it doesn't hurt if I teach, I can't compensate you here. "The old man's brain is still very sufficient, and on the way here, he thought about putting all the responsibility on Xiao Xia, but he couldn't ruin the reputation of the Shen family.

Xiao Xia was just about to open his mouth and was reprimanded by Old Man Shen, he knew that Xiao Xia's mouth could be said to be white if it was black, and it could be said that it was alive if it was dead, and he would never give her a chance to speak.