Chapter 220: Li Shoude's True Face

"I say, Li Dayong's wife, keep your mouth clean, don't just drag Xiaoxiao into this for no reason."

"That is, even if Xiaoxiao wore satin material, her family wouldn't have anything to do with that kidnapper." The villagers said one after another, "The Jiang family has helped our village so much, how could they help outsiders harm the children in our village."

Li Dayong's wife just said it casually, not expecting to be scolded by so many people as soon as the topic was thrown out, and her face turned black immediately.

She still underestimated the status of the Jiang family in the hearts of the villagers.

"I think this material looks familiar..." At this time, Zhu Shi, who had no presence, spoke up.

She stared at the blue cloth piece in Uncle Zhou's hand, seemingly falling into memory. A moment later, she looked at Yun Ying on the side with a strange expression, "Isn't this from the clothes you gave to Eldest Sister-in-law?"

Yun Ying's body shook, almost kneeling down on the spot.

Zhu Shi continued: "I remember Eldest Sister-in-law didn't want it at the time, and you took it back."

The Eldest Sister-in-law she spoke of was naturally Sun Shi.

When Yun Ying first came to the Li family, she tried her best to please everyone in the Li family, including Sun Shi, and even specially picked a few feet of good material to give to Sun Shi.

Of course, Sun Shi didn't want it.

"Second sister-in-law, you must have remembered wrong." Li Shoude stood out. His face was very calm, without any sign of panic, "The material Yun Ying gave to Sun Shi was dark blue, not this color."

"Is that so..." Zhu Shi scratched her head, she herself wasn't very sure.

It was something from several months ago. Yun Ying gave it to Sun Shi privately, and she only glanced at it slightly when passing by, so it was hard to avoid remembering the color wrong...

Li Shoude faced the crowd, looking very calm: "That dark blue cloth is still kept in our house. If you don't believe it, you can take everyone to see... If you still don't believe it, you can search my house directly. If you find that kind of blue material in my house, I, Li Shoude, don't need anyone to say anything, I'll go to the county yamen to surrender myself."

Li Shoude's words made people believe him much more.

Plus, with his career and future as a guarantee, it shouldn't be wrong; it must be Zhu Shi who remembered wrong.

"Sigh, forget it, forget it. I believe no one in our village has anything to do with this matter." The Lizheng stood out and said, "I'll go to the county yamen to inquire tomorrow morning and ask if this matter can be filed."

With this, after the Lizheng spoke, the matter was considered to have come to an end.

The villagers didn't argue about this matter anymore and went home one after another.

But in their hearts, a trace of suspicion had already been buried regarding what Zhu Shi said.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was even more certain that Yun Ying and Li Shoude were accomplices in kidnapping the children!

As for the cloth material in Zhu Shi's words... Hmph, looking at Li Shoude's determined expression, that cloth material had probably been disposed of, and it definitely wouldn't be found in the house.

As for the only witness, Sun Shi, whether she would tell the truth for the sake of Li Shoude's career and future was not certain.

And Yun Ying, who returned home while barely maintaining her composure, was terrified.

Fortunately... that material had already been thrown into the stove and burned to ashes.

But even so, she was still afraid, afraid of being exposed, afraid of being discovered by the villagers that the matter of children going missing had something to do with her.

"Shoude..." she said tremblingly, "Let's go, let's leave tomorrow. I can't take it anymore. If we stay any longer, the things we did will probably be discovered..."

Li Shoude's face sank, and he didn't speak.

How could he not know that the longer they stayed in the village, the greater the risk of exposure.

But he couldn't say anything to his parents...

"We can't leave yet." Finally, Li Shoude closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "If we leave like this, wouldn't it look like we are guilty and make people even more suspicious?"

"Suspicious? Is it less suspicious if we continue to stay here!?" Yun Ying roared almost in a breakdown. She did this kind of thing for the first time. Although she didn't have half a guilt when kidnapping those children, now that she was about to be discovered, she was really so scared that she couldn't stay for even a second.

"Hmph, who told you to be kind and leave money for those people." Li Shoude said coldly, "If you hadn't left those few pieces of broken cloth, how would they have suspected us?"

Yun Ying was rendered speechless.

She was kidnapped into a brothel when she was a child.

Later, her parents came to look for her and were sent away with five taels of silver.

So, she thought that as long as she left money, the parents who lost their children would let it go...

It was just a few little girls, five taels of silver was more than enough.

But she didn't expect that in this Yuhe Village, some parents valued a few little girls more than money!

Yun Ying couldn't say the inexplicable jealousy in her heart. She pinched her sleeves tightly, as if she had made up her mind, and immediately stood up: "If you don't leave... I will!"

After saying this, she began to pack her luggage.

Li Shoude didn't stop her, just looked at her calmly: "If you leave, I can only follow them and identify that it was you who did it."

His words made Yun Ying stop her movements suddenly.

She naturally understood the meaning of Li Shoude's words.

If she left, Li Shoude would have no scruples and would push all the blame onto her.

Yun Ying gritted her teeth, as if seeing Li Shoude's true face for the first time, and glared at him fiercely.

Li Shoude met her gaze and smiled silently.

They were now grasshoppers on the same rope, and neither could leave.

At night.

A candle was lit in the Jiang family's main room, and the room was bright.

Jiang Xiaoxiao sat at the table practicing calligraphy.

Shen Que rarely didn't return to the ear room, sitting on the side watching the words she wrote.

Practicing calligraphy for half an hour before going to bed every night was already a mandatory homework for Jiang Xiaoxiao.

Although the words she wrote were still not good-looking, they were much neater than the crooked words before.

"... What can fill a room, guess a riddle..." Shen Que read out the last line Jiang Xiaoxiao wrote, "What is it?"

"Does Lord Shen not even know such a simple riddle?" Jiang Xiaoxiao tilted her small head playfully to look at Shen Que.

"Sand?"

"Stones?"

"Water?"

Shen Que said several answers in a row, all of which were denied by Jiang Xiaoxiao shaking her head.

"None of these can fill the room. Whether it's stones or sand, there will be gaps left when put into the room."

Hearing this, Shen Que couldn't help but look at Jiang Xiaoxiao a few more times, seeing her expression innocent, cute, and her cheeks flushed, which was a bit more childlike than usual.

"What's the reward if I guess it right?" Shen Que said with a light laugh, his gaze sweeping over the candle on the side, "If I answer correctly, will you do something for me?"

"Okay." Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded without a second thought, not noticing the look her mother was giving her on the side.

It was the look of a fool.

A fool who was tricked and still helped others count money. ===== CHAPTER 221 =====