Chapter 1129 Stepfather 40
"No, it just rained a few days ago, and there were a lot of mushrooms growing on the mountain. I was busy picking mushrooms and didn't pay much attention to it."
The captain was a little disappointed. "Go home quickly. It's getting dark."
"Uncle Captain, you guys should also be careful, the mountain is not quiet at night."
"I see. We have torches with us and there are so many of us that even wild animals won't dare to approach us."
The team leader took a group of villagers and hurried to the mountain.
Yuanchun returned home, put down the basket, and rubbed her shoulders that were hurt by the strangulation, when she heard crying coming from the backyard.
Listening carefully, it seemed to be Zhao Yingdi's voice.
Yuanchun cursed inwardly, "You deserve it."
Then pour out the mushrooms in the basket, pick out the debris, spread them flat on a winnowing basket, and wait until the sun comes out tomorrow to take them out to dry.
The firewood is scattered in the yard and needs to be dried before it can be burned.
After finishing these tasks, Yuanchun washed her hands and was about to go to the kitchen to cook when someone knocked on the courtyard door.
Yuanchun opened the door and a figure rushed over to hit her. Yuanchun subconsciously kicked him. The figure screamed and crashed into a large group of people behind him.
"You little bitch, you caused my son to be lost, and you dare to hit someone, you are all dead, didn't you see that I was beaten, why don't you go up and beat this little bitch to death, if I can't find my son today, I will make this little bitch pay with her life."
Yuanchun looked at the strange old woman who was scolding her, and her eyebrows knitted, "Who are you? When did I cause your son to get lost? You came up and hit me for no reason, and I can't fight back?"
At this time, Zhao Yingdi walked out from behind the crowd and said, "Xu Yuanchun, this is my aunt. After you went up the mountain this afternoon, my cousin went to chase you and disappeared. I suspect you killed my cousin."
Yuanchun laughed angrily, "You deliberately blocked me at the foot of the mountain this afternoon and asked me, a single girl, to take your cousin to the mountain to pick wild vegetables. I refused because I was afraid of gossip. What? I am wrong to refuse for the sake of my reputation?"
"You... I just asked you to help. If you agreed, my cousin wouldn't be lost. This is all your fault." Zhao Yingdi was being unreasonable.
Yuanchun looked at Cao's mother and said, "Aunt Cao, do you think so too? Do you think that a girl like me should agree to your daughter-in-law's unreasonable request?"
Cao's mother said awkwardly, "Yuanchun, I just asked you to take people to the mountain, not to do anything else. As long as you sit upright and stand straight, no one will dare to gossip about you."
Yuanchun sneered, "When I saved Cao Hui, I sat upright and stood straight. I was a hero, but it caused a lot of gossip. If I wasn't strong enough, I would have jumped into the river because of the gossip. I was still saving people that time, but this time we are a man and a woman hiding in the woods alone. Aunt Cao, do you think there will be no gossip?"
"This...this...but now the eldest son of the Zhao family is missing."
"What does that have to do with me? Just because I refused to take him to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, you want to force this matter on me. Do you think that I, an orphan girl, can be bullied?"
"At that time, Zhao Yingdi didn't work in the fields, and she didn't take her cousin to the mountains. Why should I, a girl, take a strange man to the mountains? Why should I agree?"
"No matter what, now that my son is missing, I'm coming to you to return him." Aunt Zhao said unreasonably.
"Why are you still standing there? Beat up this little bitch first." Aunt Zhao said to her sisters-in-law and nieces.