Chapter 13: Face to face
The crowd followed the woman all the way forward and finally stopped in front of a liquor store.
"Where's your son?"
Walking into the wine shop, Wang Xue's eyes swept around, and finally landed on a shallow footprint on the side of the counter.
But she didn't speak immediately, but quietly turned her head to look at the woman, "Call your son too." ”
"How do I know where that kid went? I guess where I'm playing now. ”
As soon as the woman's words fell, a little boy with a sugar gourd in his hand squeezed in outside the door, looking at his age, about seven or eight years old.
"Mother! The sugar gourd I just bought is delicious, would you like to take a bite too? So saying, the little boy lifted up the sugar gourd in his hand and handed it to the woman.
The woman knew that the occasion was not right, so she did not discuss with her son whether to eat sugar gourd, but pulled him and came to Wang Xue and the others, and said, "My son is here, you say, how do you want to slander my son?" ”
Wang Xue raised her eyebrows, "Slander? This aunt, I haven't said a word, and you think I'm slanderous? ”
The woman glared, "Nonsense! The facts are in front of you, it's clear that this cheap girl stole the money in the shop, and you still say that my son stole it, isn't this slander? ”
Wang Xue kept observing the little boy's expression while the woman was talking, and sure enough, when the woman said 'stealing money', the little boy's face changed significantly, but he quickly hid it again.
I have to say that this kid is not very old, but his mind is very deep.
Otherwise, if you change to an ordinary child, I'm afraid you'll be panicked at this time.
So after the woman finished speaking, Wang Xue smiled and said, "Auntie, I didn't explicitly say that your son stole it, or maybe your son was present and happened to see someone else stealing money in the shop?" I just want to give Miss Shen justice. ”
"Hmph, justice, I think you are deliberately covering her, but it's okay, let's make it clear in front of everyone today, and let everyone see the true face of this stinky girl!" The woman said in a very vicious tone.
Shen Yazhi did not choose to retreat at this time, but stood beside Wang Xue, looked at the woman, gritted her teeth and said: "I said, I didn't steal the money, but no, you said I stole it, so do you have evidence?" Don't say anything about me alone in the shop, I said, there was him in the shop at that time, and he was there at the time, and if I remember correctly, I went to the toilet because of stomach discomfort, which is at least a stick of incense, why don't you ask your son if he stole the money from the shop during the time I went to the toilet? ”
"You fart! My son won't steal money, what does my son want to eat, what does he want to play, will I, as a mother, buy it for him? Do you want him to steal money? It's ridiculous. The woman immediately retorted, and her words were full of sarcasm.
Shen Yazhi was about to speak again, but was stopped by Wang Xue.
She didn't look at the woman, but took a few steps forward, walked up to the little boy, smiled and asked, "Little brother, you and your sister are honest, did you steal the money in the shop?" If you really stole it, you will admit it obediently, so that you are still a good boy, and your mother will not blame you. ”
The little boy looked at Wang Xue blankly, and said as if I didn't understand what you said, "What money?" Was the money in the shop stolen? Mother? Who stole the money in the shop? Could it be that my sister stole it? So what can I do, I heard my father say that the money earned in the shop will have to be saved for the next year to open a liquor store. ”
As he spoke, the little boy looked at Shen Yazhi and said with an aggrieved face: "Sister, if you steal the money, hand it over, don't make your father and mother angry and sad." ”
Shen Yazhi's face changed, and she said hurriedly: "Shen Xiaohu, don't talk nonsense, I didn't steal money!" ”
"Why is the money in the shop gone?" The little boy tilted his head and asked with a puzzled expression.
"Because you stole it." Wang Xue tilted her head like a little boy and said with a smile: "Because you stole the money, that's why it won't be there, stinky boy, what are you pretending to be stupid." ”
The little boy's face turned pale, his eyes immediately turned red, and he was about to cry.
Seeing this, the woman hurriedly stretched out her hand to protect her son behind her, glared at Wang Xue, and scolded, "What are you doing? What are you capable of scaring a child? ”
Wang Xue straightened up, squinted at the woman, and said, "What I said is the truth, how can it become a scare for children?" ”
"You fart, what's the truth? Oh, the fact you are talking about is that my son stole the money, don't you spew blood, do you think everyone believes what you say? Occasionally, by the way, you just said it yourself, stealing money requires evidence, what about the evidence? You say my son stole the money from the shop, do you have any proof? ”
Wang Xue turned around, walked back to Shen Yazhi's side, turned to look at the woman, the corners of her mouth hooked, and said slowly: "Me? Of course I have. ”
"You put..." Seeing Wang Xue's glare, the woman finally swallowed the fart word, snorted, and said, "Hmph, then you can tell me, what is your evidence?" ”
Wang Xue nodded, walked to the counter, gently tapped the countertop with her white fingertips, and then looked at the woman and said, "Let me ask you, who sits behind this counter on weekdays?" ”
"Me, and her." The woman said truthfully.
"So, no one else will go in except the two of you?"
"Nonsense, it's just the two of us, so it's even more unlikely that it's my son, who never went over there." The woman insisted that her son had never touched the counter, and her attitude was very sure.
Wang Xue did not refute her words, but in the incomprehensible eyes of everyone, she walked to the side that entered the counter and pulled the door, and then pointed to the shallow footprints on the ground, and said, "Then may I ask this aunt, who left these footprints?" Don't tell me that such a small footprint belongs to Miss Shen, I have just seen that her feet are indeed not big, but they will definitely not be as small as a child's feet. ”
After a pause, she continued: "Of course, if you think it's impossible, then ask your son to come over and draw it, and then it will be clear whose footprints are." ”
When the woman heard this, her face changed.
Because she looked in the direction of Wang Xue's finger, she did see the shallow, but clearly visible, shoe prints with a little yellow mud on the ground.
And the shoe print was clearly in the direction of the sliding door behind the counter.
And it was not only the one footprint, but when the woman looked closely, she could even see a series of footprints stretching from the doorway to the sliding door.
Now the woman was really panicked.
Many onlookers also whispered.
"Hehe, this is interesting, it turns out that it was his son who stole things, and this is a shame."
"Who's to say it isn't."
"It's... Even if this footprint is my son's, doesn't that mean that my son stole the money? In case it's my son... Was it my son who was playing in the shop and accidentally walked there? ”
"Oh? So, the footprints behind this sliding door were also deliberately played by your son and walked in? Wang Xue opened the sliding door, pointed to the shallow footprints behind the sliding door, and asked with a smile.