Family or Thieves?

Shen Meijing forced a smile on her face and said, "Apologies to village head and the elders. My mother-in-law is simply being too emotional, she doesn't know what she's saying because of her anger…"

Grandma Liu was fuming with anger. Previously her face was hit by Liu Xiaolan, and now even her own daughter-in-law dares to hit her face…

Liu Xiaolan smiled towards Shen Meijing and asked, "You still haven't answered the question, why did you guys come by my house?"

Shen Meijing thought about the reasons why they came here and cursed Liu Xiaolan under her nose.

Originally, she didn't want to come anywhere near this stupid girl. It was only when they knew that Liu Xiaolan had some stupid luck and managed to earn quite a bit of money in the city, Grandma Liu started thinking about what she could do with the money and wanted to take it away.

Last time when they came to her and made some trouble, Ren Lanfeng wasn't happy and even helped the girl. Today they saw her going away to the city, so they thought they could use this time to go to her home and take away the things she bought, and perhaps they could even find her money hidden somewhere inside the house.

As for when Liu Xiaolan comes back and notices that it's missing? Who cares, they wouldn't be here anymore and she wouldn't be able to prove anything.

In this way the could earn some money for their family and at the same time make sure their family's reputation won't be damaged.

But who could expect this dead girl to suddenly hook up with some wild men? Not only did they not get any money, but now even the way other villagers looked at them changed…

Village Head Ren had some years on his head already and could see at a glance that something was wrong with this situation. He turned his attention towards the Liu family and asked "Grandma Liu, Madam Shen, quickly explain, why did you suddenly decide to walk past Liu Xiaolan's home?"

"No special reason, village head…" Shen Meijing said with a fake smile and continued, "Grandma Liu wanted to move her legs a little so we simply decided to pass by here since it's close to the mountains and perhaps we could see some animals passing by…"

"Well, now you're ashamed of yourselves and don't want to tell the truth?" Liu Xiaolan wouldn't give the Liu family any face and straight up said the truth, "Village head, elders, please give me justice. A few days ago I managed to sell some things and earned a little money. The people in the Liu family saw me coming back with some things and wanted to take them away last time, but they didn't get them thanks to Uncle Ren's help. Now that I went to the city, they wanted to try their luck again. If not for Mu Yuchen being here, perhaps they would steal all my things…"

Liu Xiaolan forced some tears to flow down her eyes again and continued, "Why do they treat me like this? I'm not part of their family anymore, I'm already an orphan, yet they still want to come here and take away my things. They think that because I'm alone they can bully me and get away with it…"

Stealing things is a crime itself, even more so stealing away the only things that an orphan family managed to get. If someone got caught red handed stealing in the village, they could even face the punishment of being canned and perhaps die…

The villagers in Liuojia Village were simple folk, but they still had a little intelligence with them. Knowing the Liu family, one of them said, "I knew it was weird that the Liu family would pass by this side of the village…"

"Exactly, usually they can't be bothered to take care of their own fields, and now they even go to the edge of the village just to walk without any reason?"

Su Jingyi looked towards them and said, "Now everyone needs to be careful and take care of their things at night. Today they had an idea on Liu Xiaolan, who knows if they won't be their next target tomorrow?"

The faces of nearby village people changed. If the Liu family today dared to try to steal from someone who had their own blood, what if tomorrow they take the idea of another person in the village? No matter what, even if the villagers are pretty poor, they still worked hard for their own belongings. Now thinking that they might be stolen by the Liu family, their faces were dark.

Mu Yuchen didn't understand what exactly was going on. He took Liu Xiaolan's hand and said, "The lady doesn't need to be afraid. I'm here with the lady, if the bad guys dare to come again I won't let them hurt the lady anymore. I'll chase them away and won't let them take anything that belongs to the lady…"

Liu Xiaolan blushed a little and the look on her face softened. "That's good my little fool, you have to take care of me in the future, alright?"

"Take care and protect the lady, no problem!" Mu Yuchen happily replied, ignoring the fact that he was called as a little fool again.

The faces of the Liu family weren't too good at this time. Grandma Liu looked at the folks pointing their fingers towards them and talking badly about their behaviour, she yelled, "What do you mean we wanted to steal? You should be filial to your elders and if they ask you to give away your things, you should just listen to them and do what they asked you to…"

Shen Meijing blushed and lied, "Exactly, your grandmother just wanted to ask for some things. It's not like she would take anything if you weren't home, we would just come back and ask again another time…" Although she felt that she was losing her face by saying such blunt lies, she had to get the crime of stealing away from her family...