Zhou Chengbin called Lin Duoer and asked if the letter contained the man's address.
Lin Duoer nodded, stating that the man had included an address and said to write back if she agreed.
Zhou Chengbin had no choice but to call the police.
He reported the incident to intercept the letter being sent to the man's address.
Fortunately, the village committee had the man's address, and the police managed to intercept the letter at his post office.
After comparing the handwriting with Lin Duoer's and confirming it wasn't hers, the police called Lin Man to verify the handwriting.
Lin Man recognized her sister Lin Wan's handwriting and asked the police what trouble Lin Wan had caused.
Lin Duoer cried heartbrokenly, knowing even without thinking that Lin Wan must have impersonated her in the letter to accept the marriage proposal.
She had been thinking of taking care of her two younger sisters with her elder sister.
After learning the content of her second sister's letter, Lin Man also guessed what her sister had done. She felt a chill run through her. Was this person, like a poisonous snake, her own sister?
Lin Wan was summoned to the village committee. Upon seeing the letter she wrote, she even shouted that the village committee and the police had violated her privacy.
Zhou Chengbin showed her the back of the envelope, saying, "Don't worry, it hasn't been opened. This letter is evidence, and both the Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate have the right to open it."
"Now, our Kushanli Village Committee and Comrade Lin Duoer will sue you for theft and infringement of Lin Duoer's privacy."
"Stay here honestly. The police comrades will return to apply for a search warrant before they search your room."
"Don't show off your knowledge from those few days of legal training."
Lin Wan was fearless, "I'm only eight years old, you can't prosecute me."
Zhou Chengbin nodded, "You're right, but your guardian, Lin Er, can be prosecuted."
Prosecute her father?
Lin Wan shrank her neck. Her father could beat her to death with a walking stick.
She quickly turned to her soft-hearted second sister for help, "Second Sister, Second Sister, I was wrong, please forgive me, I'll never do it again."
"No!" Lin Duoer shook her off forcefully, "You want to ruin my entire life. I won't forgive you, never!"
Using Lin Duoer's momentum, Lin Wan deliberately fell to the ground, "Second Sister~"
Lin Wan's pretense made everyone frown. This girl was too difficult to handle.
Lin Erlai, supported by a nanny, arrived, "Duoer~, just forgive her for once."
Lin Erlai knew that as her guardian, he had to take responsibility. He didn't want any more lawsuits. Last year, he had to stay home and couldn't go out to exercise for the entire summer and autumn.
"Why?" Tian Jing, having heard the news, rushed over, "Lin Duoer is a staff member of the nursery. I just got her into the nursery, and you're all colluding to frame her."
"What? You don't like me anymore? Fine! I'll withdraw the nursery from Kushanli."
Tian Jing truly didn't expect Lin Wan to be so vicious as to secretly reply to Lin Duoer's letter.
Lin Erlai, who also understood the law, actually urged Lin Duoer to endure it. Why should she endure it?
The nursery moving out of Kushanli?
How could that be?
Even if the nursery's income was only half given to Kushanli, it was still a considerable amount, let alone being a specialized seedling base for national poverty alleviation programs.
Without village chief Zhou needing to say anything, Lin Erlai knew he couldn't ask his second daughter to drop the lawsuit against his youngest daughter.
"Why?" Lin Wan shouted at Tian Jing, "Team Leader Tian, why are you helping my second sister? Is it just because I asked for Mayor Li's medical expenses?"
"Too low-level!" Tian Jing looked down at Lin Wan on the ground:
"Your accusations and provocations are too low-level. One hundred thousand yuan is just a number to me."
"On the sixth day of the lunar new year, I called Lin Duoer to the nursery. At that time, I had already designated her as a staff member of the nursery."
"If a nursery staff member is bullied, and I don't stand up for them, who will?"
"It's the same principle as the village standing up for Lin Enhu."
"Let alone you and your father, even the village committee dares to force Lin Duoer to endure something, and I won't allow it."
"Lin Wan, no matter how you jump around, as long as you don't provoke my family or my nursery staff, I won't interfere."
"But you've caused trouble twice, and both times you've provoked me. I suspect you're targeting me."
"It's because my husband, Li Zhengguo, put Lin Enhu in prison and destroyed your family."
"You're seeking revenge on me, aren't you?"
"No, no, no." Lin Wan shook her head desperately, "I didn't, I didn't."
Her attempts to cover up only made it clearer to everyone in the office.
Tian Jing waved her hand at her, "On the morning of the sixth day, I asked Lin Duoer to go to the nursery with me. You knew about it, right?"
"At that time, you guessed that Lin Duoer might have been asked to work at the nursery. Otherwise, I wouldn't easily allow outsiders into the nursery."
"You took the opportunity to find Lin Duoer next door, discovered the letter, and then, under Lin Duoer's name, replied to her agreeing to the marriage proposal."
"When that man comes, he'll say Lin Duoer agreed herself."
"Lin Duoer agreed to work at the nursery and at the same time agreed to the marriage proposal, which is Lin Duoer slapping my face, right?"
"No, no, it wasn't." Lin Wan could only shake her head and deny it.
Tian Jing ignored her and said to Zhou Chengbin, "Village Chief Zhou, this matter is handled by my nursery. I will deal with it."
In front of everyone, Tian Jing took out her phone and dialed Zeng Jingrong.
She stated that there was a girl in Kushanli who was specifically targeting her and the nursery, and she suspected someone was intentionally trying to sabotage the seedling base.
Zeng Jingrong's tone was serious, "I will report this matter to my superiors. Are there any other suspicious aspects?"
"Not for now." Tian Jing paused, then added, "There's a man who often harasses a female staff member of the nursery."
Zeng Jingrong knew that Tian Jing hadn't mentioned this two days ago. The fact that she was mentioning it now meant she definitely wanted to help that female staff member. Such matters could be resolved by intimidating the other party.
"Then give me the man's address, and I'll handle it."
Tian Jing got the man's address from Deputy Village Chief Ou and reported it to Zeng Jingrong. Zeng Jingrong said he could resolve both matters in one or two days.
Tian Jing put the call on speakerphone, and everyone in the office heard the reply from the other end of the phone.
Deputy Village Chief Ou's ears were particularly sharp, "Is that Captain Zeng?"
Tian Jing nodded, "His unit is directly under higher leadership. I am the deputy captain of his unit."
"I didn't say it before because I just wanted to interact with everyone in an ordinary capacity."
"But ignorance breeds fearlessness. Fearlessness is fine, but the consequence of being fearless towards me is causing trouble everywhere, which is not good."
"As I said back then, if Kushanli can't contain me, I can create a future wherever I go."
"Starting this year, the nursery will only pay rent for the greenhouses to the village committee. All other income will be managed by ourselves."
"To clarify, the half of the nursery's income that I used to receive has always been returned to my unit because I don't care about that small amount of money."
"The villagers of Kushanli keep making foolish mistakes. Why should the nursery's income be shared with ungrateful people?"
"Village Chief Zhou, suppress the villagers' shares further. If you don't, they'll think they can walk all over you."
"Yes!"
Zhou Chengbin nodded vigorously. He never expected his aunt's identity to be so high, so high that he couldn't even catch up.
No wonder his cousin had repeatedly told him to get closer to his aunt and uncle.