Chapter 32: Framing

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Qin family, what are you doing? Let go of your mother-in-law!”

Village chief Qin Tianlin was a man in his fifties. He was born with a dark face and a strong body. He was also the patriarch of the Qin family Village.

When he saw Mo Ruyue’s rude actions, he immediately rebuked her. He had never had a good impression of Mo Ruyue.

Even though this woman had changed recently and no longer abused children and seemed to have become a lot more diligent, it was still difficult to change his old impression of her.

“Village chief, did you not hear what she said just now? She cursed my son to death, but I didn’t cripple her hand. I’m already giving her face. ”

Mo Ruyue’s voice was cold.

“The old woman said something wrong in a moment of anger. You’re her daughter-in-law. How can you offend your superior?”

Qin Tianlin glared at her, his tone becoming even more unkind.

As the patriarch of a clan, he had an old-fashioned personality and strictly followed the clan rules of etiquette. Even if the Qin clan had done something wrong, there were still the family rules of the ancestors. How could they tolerate Mo Ruyue, as a daughter-in-law, to lynch her mother-in-law?

“You can curse someone to death in a moment of anger? Not to mention that he was cursing his own grandson. If I beat or scold the child, you will all say that I’m vicious, and she curses her grandson to die in a moment of anger? Which ancestor made this rule?”

Mo Ruyue retorted sarcastically. Qin Tianlin couldn’t help but be stunned by her words, his eyes wide open and unable to say anything.

“You said you caught the thief, but where is he? I’ve only seen you tearing at your mother-in-law endlessly.”

Qin Tianlin couldn’t be bothered to argue and immediately changed the topic.

“The thief is in my hands. She’s also holding the clothes I put in the closet. The house is also a mess. Do you want to go to the scene to take a look?”

As soon as Mo Ruyue finished speaking, Er Bao ran over as if to confirm her words. “Mother, the house has been turned upside down. Little brother has no place to lie.”

When the surrounding villagers heard this, they looked at each other in dismay. The children should not be lying. Could it be that Qin Shi had really gone to Mo Ruyue’s house to search?

In fact, everyone believed it. Currently, the rumors in the village were that Mo Ruyue had gotten a large sum of money. The Qin family had always been mean, vicious, and greedy. Perhaps they had also thought of finding out something, but they were unlucky to be caught on the spot.

The village chief was about to speak when Mo Ruyue gave Er Bao a look and said, “Er Bao, bring uncle village chief to our house to see if we’re trying to frame someone.”

Er Bao immediately came to the village chief’s side. He raised his head and pulled his arm. “Uncle village chief, please come with me into the house to take a look. Otherwise, if my brother doesn’t have a place to lie down, we can’t even boil medicine for him.”

“Village chief, you can’t listen to those kids and that evil woman! They turned the house upside down and were just waiting to frame me!”

Qin Shi immediately began to wriggle and struggle again, trying her best to stop the village chief and Er Bao from entering the house to take a look. She knew very well what she had turned the Qin family into.

However, she did not expect that Mo Ruyue would catch the loophole in her words in such a hurry.

“If you didn’t break in when there was no one in the house, how would you know if our house is neat or dirty? Are we going to make a mess of the house every day and wait to frame you?”

Qin Shi still wanted to talk back, but the village head impatiently interrupted her. “That’s enough. Stop arguing. I’ll be back soon.”

As he said that, he followed Er Bao into the courtyard and came out not long later. When everyone saw his expression, they knew that Mo Ruyue and Er Bao were not lying. Otherwise, the village chief’s face would not be as gloomy as the bottom of a pot.

“Qin Shi, what else do you have to say now?”

As soon as the village chief came out, he pointed the spearhead at Qin Shi. This time, he didn’t leave her any face at all.

“Village chief, I’m innocent! I just wanted to drop by, but that evil woman Mo Ruyue captured me without any explanation and even messed up the house to frame me. Oh God, I’m innocent!”

Qin Shi immediately lay down on the ground and prepared to use her methods of making a scene. She didn’t expect that Mo Ruyue’s hand would lift her up and forcibly hang her whole body in the air, up and down, up and down. No matter how her legs kicked for a long time, she couldn’t lie down. In the end, she could only stand up again in a daze.

“Uncle village chief, mother was with us at the river to save little brother. When she came back, she found that someone had entered the house, so she asked me to come and look for you. Mother didn’t make a mess of the house.”

Er Bao immediately stood up to testify for Mo Ruyue. Even if he did not say it, all the onlookers already knew in their hearts that Qin Shi must have stolen some money while no one was thinking about it. In the end, she was caught by Mo Ruyue on the spot.

“Qin family, how do you want to solve this?”

The village chief also did not expect Qin Shi to admit her own crimes. He turned to look at Mo Ruyue and asked.

“How do we solve this? If we catch the thief, we will naturally have to see the officials. How else can we solve this?”

Mo Ruyue said indifferently. Unsurprisingly, she saw a flash of darkness in the village chief’s eyes.

“Qin family’s Mo Ruyue, you should think it through. Qin Shi is, after all, your mother-in-law. Qin Ming died in battle and has military merits. If people find out that his mother’s hands and feet are not clean and that she was even sent to the government, then the good reputation that Qin Ming has earned will be gone.”

Naturally, the village chief did not want Qin Shi to be sent to see the officials. Although the Qin family village was in the mountains, if the scandal of a daughter-in-law complaining about her mother-in-law spread like wildfire, the reputation of the entire village would be ruined. The villagers would not be able to raise their heads outside.

Mo Ruyue did not care about this at first. However, when she turned around and saw Er Bao, she thought that the baby’s reputation would be affected. She took the opportunity to say, “It’s not that we can’t send her off, but since she has already kicked us out, we might as well be thorough. ”

“The property that should be given to Qin Ming can’t be any less. It all belongs to the five children. I’m not that generous to give it away. Also, the household registration of my children and I must be returned to us. Otherwise, if there’s a day when someone makes trouble with our household registration, we won’t be able to say anything. ”

She stopped here and looked at the village chief,

“These two requests aren’t too much, right? At that time, she chased us out of the house and swallowed Qin Ming’s pension, military merit reward, and so on, only giving this broken house that couldn’t even block the wind and rain. If it wasn’t for our mother and son’s luck, we would have died long ago. Now that we’re getting what we should get, the village chief and the villagers won’t stop it, right?”

Her words were equivalent to checkmating the village chief, especially in such a situation. Who could say no?

“Mo Ruyue! You’re dreaming! You jinx, and you still want to get a share of the Qin family’s property? You won’t be able to do so in your next life!”

When Qin Shi heard that not only would she not be able to get a single copper coin from this trip, but she would also have to give away a portion of the family property, she was immediately mad with anger.

She didn’t care that she was still being held tightly by Mo Ruyue and pounced towards her. Her empty hand ruthlessly grabbed towards her face.

Although Mo Ruyue was talking to the village chief, she had always been on guard against Qin Shi’s movements. At this time, when she saw her pounce over, she just slightly tilted her body to the side and let Qin Shi’s movement pass. At the same time, she pushed the hand that was holding her forward. Qin Shi was brought down by the force of her forward charge and fell hard to the ground.

“Village chief, as you can see, I didn’t make the first move.”