peasant girl wedding

Chapter 104 The Thief
Lin hugged the bamboo basket vigorously, and quickly ran to the backyard.

The old lady Tong became even more frustrated.

This is Lin's blatant opposition to her, her dignity and authority are being questioned, how can she swallow this breath!
"You prodigal woman, stop for me..."

No matter what Mrs. Tong yelled behind her, Lin just pretended that she couldn't hear her.

After all, the physical strength of the young is better than that of the old. Mrs. Lin ran to her yard, hid the bamboo basket and came out again. Only then did Mrs. Tong reach the gate of her yard.

"mother……"

"Why are you running?" Mrs. Tong stared at her out of breath, her gaze seemed to be able to spew fire.

"Mom, I didn't run away."

"How dare you speak hard," Mrs. Tong glanced around, picked up a broom and greeted Mrs. Lin, "Tell me, what shameful thing did you do?"

"I'm wronged, mother, I'm wronged," Lin didn't dare to dodge, she knew that if she dodged by herself, it would only make Mrs. Tong even more unhappy.

"Then why are you running? Isn't it because you have a ghost in your heart?"

"I...I'm afraid that mother will scold me."

Lin said timidly, with tears on her face.

"Hmph, if you have the guts to run out and stop working, you have to have the guts to bear the wrath of my old lady." As she spoke, Mrs. Tong slapped Lin Shi again, "Say, do you still dare not in the future?" Dare to be lazy."

The broom that Mrs. Tong is holding is the kind of bamboo broom that is especially painful when sweeping people.Immediately, Lin wailed and begged for mercy: "Mother, I don't dare, I don't dare again."

Mrs. Tong was not relieved, and while cursing "let you run again, let you be lazy", she greeted Lin's skin and flesh, until her arms became sore and weak because of waving her arms, then she did not give up.

"What are you still doing, is it possible that you are still waiting for my old lady to serve you, and go to work in the kitchen for me."

Lin cried and ran to the kitchen, her fists hidden in her sleeves were tightly clenched. Sooner or later, she would make this dead old woman taste bad.

.........

"Mother, she beat you again." In the lit room, Tong Cui'er looked at the wound on Lin's body with distress, and said in a trembling voice.

Lin patted her head and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm not afraid of hurting my mother. Cui'er, my mother only hopes that you will marry a good family, so that my mother can follow you to enjoy happiness in the future."

"Marry a good man?"

Tong Zhiming said in a strange way.

"Why? With the beauty of our family, Cui'er, can't she marry into a good family?" Lin looked at him displeasedly and said.

Tong Zhiming snorted coldly, and said angrily: "With a mother like you, can she still find a good family?"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" Lin tremblingly stretched out her fingers.

Seeing that she was angry, Tong Zhiming stopped talking, but the expression on his face was clearly displeased.

Ever since Old Man Tong forced him to go to the forest of Tong Zhixin's house to pick mushrooms, he fell unconscious, and when he woke up, his temper changed, and he no longer treated Lin and Tong Cui'er as he used to.

Lin Shi was beaten by her mother-in-law today, and her husband looked like this again after he injured his head, he didn't follow her at all like before, immediately, Lin Shi got angry at Tong Zhiming.

"Tweety is also your daughter, is it human to say that? Huh?"

"You dare to hit me, you are so courageous..."

The couple quarreled and started to move their hands. You pinch me and I slap you. Tong Cui'er was terrified. She wanted to persuade her but she didn't dare to move. She just kept crying. .

Hearing her daughter's cry, Lin returned to her senses, kicked Tong Zhiming and ran over to hug Tong Cui'er in her arms to comfort her.

"Tweety don't cry, don't listen to your father's nonsense, mother will definitely let you marry a good family."

Tong Zhiming wiped the blood beads bitten out by Mrs. Lin on his hands, and said mockingly: "There is no dowry, it's a joke that a good family can fall in love with you as a mother-in-law."

Lin turned her head, raised her chin to look at him, and said word by word: "Why not?"

Seeing that she seemed to have connections, Tong Zhiming was also moved.

Lin then told Tong Zhixin about the glazed windows in the new house of Tong Zhixin's house.

Hey, this is the shiny silver beckoning to him.

"Daughter-in-law, let's do it when there is no one else at night," Tong Zhiming said flatteringly to Lin after knowing that there was a good way to make money.

Lin Shi couldn't bear his low appearance, but as a woman, her strength was really limited, so she nodded and agreed to his request.

In the middle of the night, in the dead of night, everything is silent.

Two figures quietly flashed out from the Tong family's old house and headed for the forest on the edge of the village.

.........

"It's broken, it's broken, it's broken..."

Early in the morning, Fang Cuiwei ran back after Tong Zhixin who had heard the door turned pale in shock.

"What happened?" Fang Cuiwei asked.

"I don't know who stole the glazed window of our house."

what?
Fang Cuiwei's body was about to fall, who would be so bold as to steal the glazed window of their house?
"Father, mother, let's report to the police."

Tong Zhi'er came out of the room and said with a serious face.

Upon hearing this, Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei, who had lost their minds, immediately packed up their things and walked towards the county together with Tong Zhi'er.

"Zhi'er, isn't this the direction to see the county master?"

This was the first time Tong Zhixin went to court, and when he saw the magistrate sitting under the plaque hanging high in the mirror, his legs went limp.After trembling for a while, I told the matter intermittently.

"How about it, what did the county magistrate say?"

Seeing Tong Zhixin come out, Fang Cuiwei anxiously went up to him and asked.

"Master Zhixian told us to go back and wait for news, and he will send someone to investigate the matter immediately."

The county master agreed to deal with the matter, and Fang Cuiwei felt at ease.

However, Tong Zhier is not so optimistic.

A total of four pieces of glass windows in their house were lost and replaced with silver. That was a lot of money, half of which was more than enough to buy off the county magistrate.

It was inevitable that such a thing would happen, Tong Zhier decided to investigate this matter himself.

"Father and mother, you go back first, I'll go shopping."

"Zhier, what do you want to buy?"

"I don't know, dad and mother, don't wait for me. There are a lot of valuable things in the house. Only the eldest sister and Zhu'er will guard them next year. It's too unsafe. You should go back quickly."

Tong Zhier's words touched the hearts of Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei, and they returned home in a hurry.

Watching Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei leave, Tong Zhi'er walked towards a restaurant.

"Guard Zhang, can you send me someone who is familiar with the shops and terrain in the county?" Tong Zhi'er said directly after meeting and greeting Zhang Guanshi.

"Okay, just what do you want to do, Miss Zhi'er?"

"To be honest, there was a thief in my house, and the glazed windows that were just installed in the new house were stolen."

This is a big deal.

Guanshi Zhang asked Tong Zhier to wait outside, and quickly went to the accountant to tell Qin An.

"The clerk in my store can't go away, so let me go with you."

Tong Zhi'er looked at Qin An and nodded slowly.

She is fighting for time now, the sooner the matter can be resolved, the sooner Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei can feel at ease.

No need for Tong Zhi'er to say much, Qin An took her to the shop selling glazed windows and asked her one by one, but nothing came of it.

"Perhaps the thief went to a neighboring county. You go back first. I'll send people to the neighboring counties to inquire about the news. I'll let you know if there's anything."

"Then I will trouble Shopkeeper Qin and leave."

On balance, Tong Zhi'er agreed to Qin An's suggestion and hired a carriage to go home.

Who would be the one who stole the glazed window?The workers who helped their family build the house?Lin who came here yesterday?Or someone else?

Tong Zhi'er thought deeply, if the thief stole the glazed tiles and was not in a hurry to sell them, wouldn't she be going in the wrong direction when she was inquiring about the glazed tiles shop today?

Calm down, be calm.

When Tong Zhi'er returned home, the helpers were shocked when they heard Tong Zhixin say that the glazed windows had been stolen.Tong Zhi'er quietly observed the reactions of these people, and was relieved to see that their shock did not seem fake.

Tong Zhi'er placed her doubts on Lin who came yesterday.

Tong Zhixin said that Mrs. Lin came to the house to borrow money, and before that, there seemed to be some dispute between the craftsman Lao Yu and Mrs. Lin.Lao Shi was working in the new house, and was able to have a dispute with Mrs. Lin. It seems that Mrs. Lin did something near the new house...

As far as Lin's temperament is concerned, if he can't borrow money from Tong Zhixin, he must hate it in his heart.Since she hates it, and she is also anxious for money to arrange a dowry for her daughter, she is even more motivated to steal the glazed windows in the house.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Mrs. Lin was suspicious, so Tong Zhi'er brought Lao Yu over.

"Uncle Yu, let me ask you something."

"If you have anything, just ask."

"Did my aunt come to our new house yesterday?"

Old Yu nodded, "When I saw her, she was standing in front of the glazed window of your house, motionless, and I didn't know what she was looking at? Later, I called her, she was frightened, Lost the basket in his hand, broke the eggs, and blackmailed me, asking me to pay five hundred Wen..."

Old Yu was rambling on.

Tong Zhi'er grasped the key words, it seems that Lin really moved Liu Lichuang's mind.

"Uncle Yu, thank you, I'm fine, you can go to work."

"Hey, I'll be busy then."

Tong Zhi'er went back to the house, and said to Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei: "Father and mother, I'm going to the old house."

Fang Cuiwei frowned tightly, "Zhi'er, what are you doing there?"

"Mother, I suspect that our glazed window was stolen by my aunt."

Fang Cuiwei and Tong Zhixin remained silent, not daring to believe this guess.

"Zhier..."

"I'll go to the old house now to see if it's her. I'll only know if I ask."

"Zhi'er, I'll go with you." Tong Zhixin stood up and Fang Cuiwei also stood up.

Tong Zhi'er shook her head, "No, there was a thief at home, the elder sister and Zhu'er were afraid, if father and mother were not around, they would definitely feel uneasy. Father, mother, don't you always praise me for being smart? I'll do it alone..."

(End of this chapter)