Chapter 136: Not a Honey Trap
Tong Huaqiong's mouth twitched.
Gu Taohua cursed really unscrupulously.
Everyone looked at Mrs. Yan and then at Xu Si, their eyes filled with contempt.
Logically speaking, Tong Dajiao could be Xu Si's mother, and she was a widow. Even if she still had charm, Xu Si would not have made a move on Tong Dajiao.
Besides, Tong Dajiao is not someone you can easily mess with, and she has a stepson and two biological sons, making three sons together.
Xu Si would rather not mess with anyone, but he chose to mess with Tong Dajiao.
Many villagers thought that this was a trap set by Tong Da Jiao because she was fighting with Yan Pozi for land, and that she had killed Yan Pozi's favorite Xu Si.
Although everyone thought this in their hearts, they were all happy.
I think Tong Da Jiao is getting rid of a scourge for the people.
As long as Xu Si is not eliminated, the young girls and wives in Qinghe Bay will have no peace.
But after hearing what Tong Huaqiong said and Gu Taohua's scolding, everyone guessed that today's incident might not have been a deliberate plot by Tong Dajiao against Xu Si.
This was because Yan Pozi and Xu Si, mother and son, saw that Tong Da Jiao had opened a shop in the town and her business was booming, so they teamed up to defame Tong Da Jiao's innocence and made Tong Da Jiao marry Xu Si, so as to take away Tong Da Jiao's shop.
"How come Xu Si is still young? Tong Dajiao can be his mother and she even has a grandson. Can Xu Si really do something for the shop?" A young man whispered.
Anyway, if it were him, he wouldn't do that.
"You are young, so why can't you? Xu Si is young, can youth be spent as money? Tong Da Jiao's shop makes a lot of money every day, and Yan Pozi always says bad things about Tong Da Jiao behind her back. Isn't that jealousy? Don't underestimate the attraction of money. Some people let their teenage girls become concubines of eighty-year-old men for money. Why can't Xu Si covet Tong Da Jiao? What's wrong with being the stepfather of someone older than you at a young age? What's wrong with being a grandfather as soon as you get married? Compared with money, these are nothing." An old lady glanced at the young man and sneered, "Besides, with Yan Pozi's despicable character, there is nothing she can't do. Maybe she has already planned to let Tong Da Jiao marry Xu Si. At worst, she can get the money from the mother-in-law and force her to death, and then the shop will be hers."
As soon as the old lady finished speaking, an old man next to her shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts."
So they sang the same tune and beat Yan Pozi and Xu Si to death. They wanted to take over Tong Huaqiong's cake shop, so they did the whole thing about the haystack.
The three brothers Gu Dahan, Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe listened to the discussion and their faces turned pale.
Okay, Xu Si, you even want to be their wild dad, how can we tolerate this?
The three brothers looked at each other and wanted to beat Xu Si again, but were pulled away.
"I might as well just die!" Tong Huaqiong cried, wiping her tears.
"Mom, you can't be so depressed. Dad is gone. If you are so depressed, what will you do with this family?"
Liu Yue'e was holding a handkerchief while talking to Tong Huaqiong, but she was wiping tears towards her father and uncle.
What it means is that the Gu family is small and powerless, and we, the Liu family, must seek justice for my mother-in-law.
If her mother-in-law loses reputation and justice in the village, she will have no face in the village in the future.
"Don't worry, mother-in-law. I, Liu Tiechui, will definitely seek justice for you." Liu Yue'e's father comforted Tong Huaqiong, his face livid as he said, "Why haven't the head of the Xu family and the village chief come yet? Do we still need a sedan chair to invite them?"
"Whether the head of the Xu family and the village chief care about it or not, if they don't, we will send Xu Si to see the authorities." Liu Yue'e's uncle Liu Tielian followed up with a sentence.
Gu Jingzhe's face turned pale and his mind was working rapidly. He saw Liu Tieshan's son Liu Tong standing behind Liu Tieshan. He quietly walked over and whispered something to Liu Tong. Liu Tong left the crowd, ran home, harnessed the donkey cart and drove towards the next village.
"The village chief is here."
"The head of the Xu family is here."
Someone shouted and everyone automatically made way.
Mrs. Yan sat up and straightened her back.
The clan leader and the village chief came to support her.
As the largest family in the village, the Xu family can be said to have the final say in Qinghe Bay. Even the people from the second largest family, the Liu family, have to avoid the Xu family when they meet them.
As the village chief of the Xu family, Xu Yong naturally sided with the Xu family.
Xu Si's tyranny in the village and Yan Po's rampage in the village are inseparable from the village chief's daily favoritism and attempt to smooth things over.
"Uncle Kun, Uncle Yong, look at Si'er, his roots are all cut off. Widow Tong is going to cut off the incense of our Xu family." Old Lady Yan cried, pulling the trouser legs of clan leader Xu Kun and village chief Xu Yong, one in each hand.
Xu Kun, the head of the Xu family, had his hands behind his back and his face was ashen.
"What's going on?" Village chief Xu Yong glanced at Xu Si, whose head was swollen like a pig, and smiled faintly at Tong Huaqiong.
Tong Huaqiong thought to herself, screw you, why are you acting like a big shot here?
The Liu family's young man took such a long time to invite them, but the two of them finally arrived.
It's just that he thought that Xu Si wouldn't be the one who would suffer anyway, so he could delay it as long as possible.
Now that they have arrived at the crime scene, they discovered that it was the Xu family who suffered the loss, and they began to act like the boss and intervene.
Xu Yong's tone seemed calm, but it contained a condescending interrogation attitude.
Tong Huaqiong was very unhappy and immediately possessed by Tong Da Jiao. She let out a roar and rushed to Xu Yong, pushing Yan Po away with her butt. She grabbed Xu Yong's clothes and covered him with tears and snot.
"Village chief, you are here. If you don't come, I will hang myself at your door. Look at what Xu Si did. I was turning the wheat in the threshing floor early in the morning, and Xu Si, the filthy bastard, acted rude to me."
"Everyone has seen it. Since the death of Old Gu, I have kept the door of Gu's house tightly closed, for fear that people would say that widows are prone to gossip. I took all kinds of precautions but failed to prevent Xu Si from attacking me in the threshing ground. Although Xu Si did not succeed in his hooliganism against me, he still had people spread rumors behind my back. Do I still want to keep my reputation? Does my son still want to walk around the village? Does my daughter still want to open a shop in town? Does my grandson still want to get married? Village chief, you have to give me an explanation today. Do you want me to be hanged at your doorstep or drowned in the well of Old Lady Yan's house?"
"Oh, who knows how others will bully me behind my back in the future. They will make something out of nothing. Besides, everyone knows that Xu Si was a hooligan to me. Oh, Lao Gu, tell me why you died so early, leaving us, an orphan and a widow, to be bullied."
Tong Huaqiong howled and wiped her snot on the village chief.
He almost hung himself on the village chief.
The village chief knew that Tong Dajiao was not someone to be trifled with, but he didn't expect her to be such a tough nut to crack. He couldn't even pull her hands away.
"Oh, Mrs. Yan and her son deliberately want to destroy my innocence just to seize my land and shop. Why should I live when I am bullied like this? I might as well die." Tong Huaqiong howled even louder.
Tong Huaqiong glanced at Yan Pozi, who was pushed away by her, and sat in front of the village chief's feet, pulling up the village chief's trouser legs with her hands. Tong Huaqiong stepped on Yan Pozi's hands with her feet, crying and cursing while jumping up and down.
Every kick crushed Yan Pozi's hands hard.
"Ouch, my hand is going to die." Mrs. Yan screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
Tong Huaqiong just stepped hard and couldn't move.
The village chief was almost unable to breathe because of the noise made by Tong Huaqiong and Yan Pozi. He could only hear a buzzing sound in his ears.
"Shut up, everyone." The village chief couldn't pull Tong Huaqiong away, so he yelled.
Then he signaled the daughter-in-law of the Xu family who came with him to pull Tong Huaqiong away.
"Who dares to touch my mother?" Gu Taohua roared, scaring the daughter-in-law from Xu's family.
"Widow Tong... No, Dashu Niang, please stop crying first."
"Sister-in-law, stop howling."
The village chief frowned and spoke to Tong Huaqiong and Yan Pozi.