“He must have washed it because he had a guilty conscience, who else would wash cotton shoes in winter! He would be reluctant to wear it. After all, there are only a few people who can wear big-toed cotton shoes in Apricot Village!”
The people in the village were honest but not stupid, Su Jin Biao’s deceptive trick was not enough to trick those who had lived for decades.
Su Mian looked at Bai Yu Lan, “Second Aunt, are they right?”
The smile on Su Mian’s face did not diminish, yet deep inside she was suppressing a terrible anger.
She must teach Su Jin Biao a lesson today, and get him to know what he should do and what he should not do!
In her previous life, Su Jin Biao tricked Su Jin Long to the scene of the crime after he murdered someone. He wiped off the fingerprints on the knife and handed it to Su Jin Long, and let him look after the corpse, while he ran to report the murder.
In this life, Su Jin Biao repeated the same trick, hoping to frame Su Jin Long with the crime of assault.
If this succeeded, then Su Jin Long’s reputation in this life would be ruined, not to mention his dream of joining the army.
Bai Yu Lan stood in front of Su Jin Biao, for fear that he would be taken away, and looked at Su Mian fiercely, “Su Mian, just based on a few footprints, how can you conclude that Su Jin Biao is the assailant? There are too many people who wear the same shoes. It isn’t in our village, but there are others in other villages! I am not convinced, how can anyone be convicted just based on a few footprints?”
Several footprints were indeed insufficient evidence. Su Mian had prepared long ago. She pointed to the blood-stained wooden sticks on the floor just next to her, “Second Aunt, I guess there will be sticks that Brother Jin Biao used. There should be his fingerprints on them. He has his own fingerprints. Second Aunt, you should know about fingerprints, one set for one person, there is absolutely no duplicate!”
No matter how ignorant Bai Yu Lan was, she also knew that the fingerprints of a person were different from that of another person.
Shou How was stunned. It was inconvenient for the few of them to run away with a stick, so they just threw it here. Who would have thought that it would become evidence.
“Second Uncle, I really didn’t do it, you have to give me justice!” Shou Hou was really scared this time. Now, the few of them were to be caught red handed. As there were so many villagers, if they were to admit the crime, they would never be able to live in the village with their heads held up.
He simply pointed with his finger, “It was Su Jin Biao and Tiger, they were the ones who threatened me. They said that as long as Su Jin Long is put into detention, I will be a soldier after two months.”
Tiger at the side stomped his feet, “Don’t talk nonsense, who instigated you, didn’t you also do it?”
When Su Mian said that there were fingerprints on the stick, Bai Yu Lan’s expression immediately changed, and she pointed to Su Mian angrily, “Relatives should help each other, do you want to get Su Jin Biao into trouble? If this assailant is convicted, how will he be able to live in the future? How can he marry a wife? He is your cousin, what good will it be for you to point him out?”
Bai Yu Lan got more and more agitated as she talked about it. If it weren’t for the few villagers that had stopped her, she would have to pounced and tore Su Mian apart.
In the past, the way Bai Yu Lan behaved in front of the people in the village, except being a shrew, she had always been virtuous, respectable and pure. With her skillful mouth that was able to invert right and wrong, she also gained a reputation for filial piety to the elders and love for the younger generation.
The people in the village really had their eyes opened today. What was Bai Yu Lan up to? Her own son was a human, while someone else’s son should be sent to the police station.
Bai Yu Lan was carried away by someone, and was so angry that she clawed wildly. She was totally wrong. She used to think that Su Mian was a little sheep that could be slaughtered by anyone!
Unexpectedly, Su Mian just couldn’t care about anyone other than Su Jin Long. She just hadn’t literally held up a knife around her (Bai Yu Lan’s) neck.
Su Mian sneered, “Second Aunt, when Su Jin Biao framed Su Jin Long, why didn’t you think on behalf of Su Jin Long? Er Gou was beaten for nothing, why didn’t you consider him? You can’t just do things on a whim without thinking about the consequences. I just want to ask one question, why would Su Jin Biao frame Su Jin Long? They are cousins!”
