Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

Chapter 168: The person behind the scenes is the captain?

Seeing that they agreed, the village chief turned to look at the young wives in the crowd.

"You married into Xishui Village, so you are a member of the village. We in Xishui Village don't slander others for no reason. Did you see the things you said about Xiaolin the educated youth with your own eyes?"

The young wives didn't dare to speak and just lowered their heads without answering.

The village chief was silent for a while, then asked loudly: "Who among you saw it? Speak up!"

"I, I didn't see it!"

“I didn’t see it either!”

"I heard it from her." Another young wife pointed at the captain's niece-in-law and said,

The captain's niece-in-law looked up and saw the look in the village chief's eyes, and she shuddered with fear.

"I, I didn't see it either!"

"Didn't you see it? Then where did you hear what you just said? Did you make it up yourself?" the village chief continued to ask.

The captain's niece couldn't bear the pressure from the village chief, and she also thought of the instructions from home.

He gritted his teeth and said, "It's me. I made it up!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she attracted incredulous looks from the people around her, and she closed her eyes in pain.

It's over. I'm going to be beaten when I go back. Thinking of this, tears started streaming down my face.

The village chief looked at them speechlessly, "You made it up? You are also women, don't you know how important reputation is to women?"

The village chief looked at their lowered heads.

"I will talk to your husband about this matter. You spread unconfirmed rumors today and hurt Xiaolin Zhiqing. You guys should apologize to her. Once she forgives you, today's matter will be over."

"Apologize to her, she, she also beat us!" One of the women touched her face and could still feel the burning pain.

"You guys were the ones who spread the rumor first. If you didn't spread the rumor, why would she beat you?"

Wang Lanlan finally couldn't help but say something back, and under her father's gaze, she slowly retreated behind Ye Yi.

The women hesitated for a long time, thinking of their families and the people around them. Not only would they be beaten, but they would also have to apologize to the person who beat them. They felt aggrieved, but dared not speak.

In the end, he could only whisper something to Lin Qingyan.

"sorry!"

After saying that, he ran away crying.

Lin Qingyan said calmly to their backs and the crowd that were still watching,

"If I hear this kind of gossip again, I won't just be beaten."

The village chief felt his eyelids trembling. This child usually looked very good, why did he seem so overbearing today? He raised his eyes and looked at Lin Qingyan.

Lin Qingyan noticed his gaze and smiled at him.

She ignored the crowd outside and turned to look for her friends. Ye Yi and Wang Lanlan looked at her with starry eyes.

"Qingyan, you were awesome today!" Wang Lanlan couldn't help but praise.

Ye Yi also stepped forward and asked, "Are you okay?"

"You can see that I'm fine. They are the ones who are in trouble."

"Don't pay attention to what they say. Their mouths are on their bodies, and we can't sew their mouths shut."

"I can't sew it up, but I can let them sew it up themselves. This time it's a scare, and they won't talk about it casually in the future."

"These people are really going too far. They know the details of the situation, but they insist on making up stories and giving you a bad reputation."

Lin Qingyan saw that the people at the door had all left, and they did not go to Wang Lanlan's house. Lin Qingyan took Wang Lanlan and Ye Yi outside, and the three of them stood not far from Wang Lanlan's house and talked.

"Who is the leader today?" Lin Qingyan then asked Wang Lanlan.

"She is the captain's nephew's wife." Wang Lanlan directly pointed out the interests involved.

Lin Qingyan frowned when she heard this. Ye Yi looked at her frowning and said nothing, and asked worriedly, "Qingyan, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, maybe I'm just overthinking it."

Lin Qingyan didn't plan to tell them her guess for the time being. When she asked just now, she felt that there was something wrong. That woman had never had any contact with her, so why was she so hostile for no reason?

"What do you mean by being suspicious?" Although Lin Qingyan didn't intend to say it, Ye Yi and Wang Lanlan were worried, and they couldn't help but ask her.

"I have a feeling that she might be instructed by someone else." Lin Qingyan expressed her suspicion.

"Under someone's orders? Who?" Wang Lanlan couldn't understand.

Ye Yi was silent for a while, then asked Wang Lanlan: "What do you think of Li Cuihua?"

"You don't think it was Li Cuihua who ordered this, do you? She doesn't have the intention or the ability to do this. She can't even order her cousin to do anything."

Wang Lanlan directly denied her guess, and now she also remembered the entanglement between Lin Qingyan and Li Cuihua.

After saying that, he hesitated and said, "It shouldn't be Li Cuihua. She really doesn't have such intentions, and she's not smart either."

Ye Yi found her description a little funny, but when she thought about it, Wang Cheng chose Li Cuihua, it was definitely not because she was smart, but because her status and position were currently in his favor.

Lin Qingyan, who was listening to Wang Lanlan and Ye Yi's discussion, had a different opinion. She also felt that Li Cuihua could not order her cousin's wife around, and Wang Cheng would be even less likely to do so. She was of no help to him now, and he was too lazy to set a trap to harm her reputation.

It could be that the captain was dissatisfied with her, but would a grown man do such a disgusting thing? Lin Qingyan was skeptical.

But you still have to be careful recently and don't leave any evidence behind.

"Wang Lanlan, why didn't you go to see Ye Yi yesterday?" Lin Qingyan changed the subject and asked directly about the purpose of their visit.

"Ah? It was snowing heavily yesterday morning. I was helping to clear the snow at home and making snowmen with my nephews. My clothes got wet, so I didn't go out."

Wang Lanlan recalled that she was playing in the snow with her nephews yesterday and had a snowball fight. She got her clothes wet and was scolded by her mother.

If she hadn't bought Lin Qingyan's old clothes for everyone in the family a few days ago, her sisters-in-law wouldn't have said good things for her when they saw her being scolded, and she might have been beaten.

Thinking about her mother, Wang Lanlan sighed helplessly. She had given her mother so many good things, but she still beat her from time to time. In her mother's words, she deserved a beating.

Wang Lanlan expressed her sadness.

"No wonder you didn't come. Remember to read when you're at home. Don't fall behind."

Ye Yi was amused by her funny expression, but still reminded her not to forget to read.

"It's a rare occasion that you two come together today, but you are here to see me, right?" Wang Lanlan asked Lin Qingyan and Ye Yi belatedly.

"Yes, Ye Yi was worried about you. Seeing that you didn't go out yesterday, she was afraid that you would be beaten at home, so she came to see you to see if you needed any help."

Lin Qingyan directly expressed Ye Yi's concerns, which moved Wang Lanlan so much that she went up to hug Ye Yi.

Said to Ye Yi: "Ye Yi, you are really my good sister, you are my real sister."

Before she finished speaking, she heard a faint voice from behind.

"How come I don't know? When did I have a daughter?"