After mutual threats to call the police, the two parties sparred with cross-eyed glares for a long time before reluctantly shaking hands in reconciliation. They then shared what information they had gathered.
Only then did they discover a time gap of over a day on Old Man Tian's side and about three minutes on Lü Jianjun's side.
They sat down together and engaged in intense discussion, each wanting to figure out where the jar had gone.
However, after questioning all the Tian family members, including Tian Jing, no suspicious individuals emerged.
Seeing no further leads, Tian Jing offered her help. "Lü Zhiqing, how did you know there was something in the Tian family's backyard? As you can see, there are so many people in the Tian family, and only four of them knew. How did an outsider like you find out?"
Old Man Tian slapped his thigh. That's right. Losing so many gold bars had made him lose his wits.
Lü Jianjun looked at Tian Jing, who had asked the question. For the first time, he found that Tian Ping's timid younger sister was so beautiful, so beautiful that she didn't seem like a member of the Tian family.
Tian Jing: "..." You've hit the nail on the head.
Tian Jing smiled faintly. "Lü Zhiqing, please answer the question."
Lü Jianjun withdrew his gaze. Beauty couldn't be eaten. She was just a village girl. "Tian Ping told me."
This statement caused a huge stir.
Old Mrs. Tian, who had been heartbroken and almost fainted, immediately found a scapegoat and began to scold Chen Yun, saying all sorts of nasty things, her hands constantly scratching Chen Yun's face.
Chen Yun, unable to dodge, received a few scratches on her face. Her skin burned. Seeing that her mother-in-law was still unrelenting, she raised her hand to block her mother-in-law's hand. "Mother, how can you believe rumors so easily? This Lü Zhiqing is slandering Ping Ping because she's not home."
Tian Ping is not home?
These five words made both sides, who had temporarily ceased fighting, have a thought.
Could it be that Tian Ping had done something wrong and deliberately stayed away?
Something flickered in Lü Jianjun's eyes. He asked Old Man Tian, "Where did Tian Ping go?"
"To her maternal grandmother's house."
Old Man Tian didn't understand why Lü Jianjun was asking about Tian Ping's whereabouts at this moment. However, seeing Lü Jianjun's opened bundle on the table, with proof of returning to the city inside, Old Man Tian suspected that this young man intended to steal the items and flee overnight, without taking responsibility for Ping Ping.
"How far is her maternal grandmother's house?" Lü Jianjun pressed.
"What? Are you planning to take her with you when you return to the city?" Old Man Tian thought he had guessed Lü Jianjun's intention, and his tone became nasty.
"No," Lü Jianjun shook his head immediately. He didn't believe that Old Man Tian, who had searched his bundle, wouldn't understand. "Don't forget, I have a time difference of about three minutes here."
Old Man Tian's eyes narrowed. What did Lü Jianjun mean?
He immediately turned around and said to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who were still fighting, "Second wife, go to your parents' house immediately and bring Tian Ping back."
Tian Jing smiled. "Great, the show is about to reach its climax."
Second Master Tian took the flashlight and went out of the Tian house with his wife.
Tian Jing moved the kang table, which was by the kang, onto the kang. She lay down on the kang table and dozed off. Although the climax was approaching, it would take at least an hour to walk to Tian Ping's maternal grandmother's house. Even if they rushed back to inform them after discovering Tian Ping wasn't there, it would take more than forty minutes. Added together, it was nearly two hours. She would take a nap first.
The people in the room also started yawning.
Old Man Tian waved his hand. "Eldest and third sons, take Li Wen and Li Wu and stay to watch Lü Zhiqing. The rest of you go back to your rooms to catch up on sleep. You still have to work during the day."
No matter how big the incident, one still had to work to earn work points.
Tian Jing heard this and didn't want any special treatment. She got off the kang and went back to her room to lie down.
In a daze, she heard a commotion outside. She got up quickly. There was a spectacle to watch.
When she opened the door, she saw Tian Ping, who was being punished by kneeling in the middle of the courtyard. The Chen family and the Tian family were confronting each other, and the courtyard walls were crowded with onlookers.
Old Mrs. Chen struck a teapot pose, pointing at the Tian family opposite them. "Your Tian family is rotten from the root. You've done such immoral things and also implicated our Chen family's reputation. You must give us an explanation."
Old Mrs. Chen was also a notorious shrew in the Li Shi Production Team. She disliked her granddaughter from the beginning. Who would have thought that the night her daughter sent her back, she disappeared? This scared her so much that she immediately asked her son to call his elder and younger brothers' families, and they went to search for her together.
After searching for more than two hours, they found her granddaughter sleeping under a big tree at the entrance of the Tian family village, hugging a large bundle. When she was woken up, she tried to run away. After being caught, a few threats made her confess honestly, saying she was waiting for a young male intellectual to elope with.
If you were going to elope, wouldn't you elope from the Tian family? Why elope from the Chen family?
"The root also has half of your Chen family's share. It's your daughter who didn't teach her well."
As soon as she heard the Chen family dare to criticize the Tian family, Old Mrs. Tian, who was at the forefront of the Tian family, could not stand it. She immediately retorted.
"Fine, since it's half of the Chen family's, then I'll take my granddaughter back to the Chen family. Don't worry, our Chen family will definitely teach her well."
Hmph, taking her back would not only allow her to vent her anger but also get a city-dwelling grandson-in-law. What could be better?
Old Mrs. Tian was secretly pleased and was about to agree when Old Man Tian stopped her. "Shut up. Making such a racket will make others laugh at us."
Only then did Old Mrs. Tian see that the Tian family's courtyard walls were filled with onlookers. The mocking expressions on their faces were very glaring under the torchlight. Thinking of the disgrace she had suffered today, Old Mrs. Tian was filled with rage. She picked up a broom and swept at the three walls. "Get out, all of you, get out."
"Tch, who do you think is eager to watch? It's not like you're making others unable to sleep in the middle of the night?"
"Exactly, exactly. You don't let people sleep, and you don't let people watch the fun. There's no justice."
As the two old women who were swept down by Old Mrs. Tian retracted their heads, they left two provoking remarks that made Old Mrs. Tian's chest heave. Tian Jing suspected that she would faint in the next moment.
The heads on the courtyard walls were dispersed. Old Man Tian beckoned his in-laws to come into the house to discuss matters. It would only make them a laughingstock if they stayed in the courtyard.
Old Man Chen did not want to make things too difficult for his eldest daughter, so he nodded in agreement.
The two families moved their base to the main hall. Tian Jing, standing at the door, was exposed. Tian Ping, who was kneeling, saw Tian Jing, her eyes almost spewing fire. "You dead girl, was it you? Did you steal the thing?"
Tian Ping had always disliked Tian Jing because her face looked like a vixen, so she often bullied Tian Jing, making her afraid to look up.
These past two days, this dead girl had been like a changed person, daring to stand tall and chest out, making her so angry that she wished she could bite her to death. Therefore, she casually threw the blame from herself onto Tian Jing. Su Dan Novel Network.
Tian Jing felt sorry for Tian Ping. This poor girl was completely a half-diviner with sharp judgment, who was delayed by the era.
Shaking her head, Tian Jing looked at her with pity. "The Tian family has already questioned me, and I have no suspicion. On the contrary, you have a lot of time and space to commit the crime. And that Lü Zhiqing was caught by me. Don't thank me too much."