After transmigrating into the body of a widow, I became the richest man in the capital.

Chapter 67 Su Xiaoxiao Investigates the Arsonist

After hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao snorted coldly and said, "What right do you have to come and judge? What have you done? Aren't you afraid that the government will come knocking on your door?"

Su Xiaoxiao's gaze sharpened, her eyes filled with icy coldness.

She said, "Don't think I don't know that you started the fire in our house. Liu Dazhuang, it was you who set the fire. I saw the tinderbox you used to start the fire at the scene, and your name, Liu Dazhuang, was on it."

After saying that, Su Xiaoxiao went into the house and took out the tinderbox with Liu Dazhuang's name engraved on it. "Everyone, take a look. This is Liu Dazhuang's tinderbox. It was found in our kitchen the day the fire broke out."

At this moment, Liu Dazhuang's feelings were very complicated, and his expression immediately changed.

Feeling somewhat guilty, she dared not look up at the crowd.

The villagers were also very puzzled, looking at Liu Dazhuang, hoping that he could come up with some explanation.

"You burned down my house. If I take this to the authorities, let's see what your explanation is then."

At this moment, Liu Dazhuang was speechless. He knew that there was no way to explain this matter, after all, the facts were right there.

Grandma Liu knew her son was behind it, but she stubbornly refused to admit it. "Dazhuang, don't be afraid of her. I'll back you up. Tell everyone, you didn't do it!"

As a result, Liu Dazhuang struggled for a long time, unable to utter a single word.

At this moment, the crowd parted to both sides, and a person walked out from inside. The first thing everyone saw was the village head.

"What kind of behavior is this, making such a racket in broad daylight?"

The village headman came over to uphold justice. He walked up to Liu Dazhuang and whispered in his ear, "Liu Dazhuang, don't think I don't know who you are and what kind of dirty things you've done. If I report you to the authorities, you'll be in big trouble."

Upon hearing this, Liu Dazhuang immediately tried to pull his mother home. He didn't dare say anything more and just wanted to leave as soon as possible.

"Why are you leaving? You spineless coward! The village head came over and said a few words to you, and now you're too scared to say anything here?"

At this point, Liu Dazhuang could no longer hold back and yelled at his mother, Granny Liu, "Mom, let's go! Don't keep embarrassing yourselves here!"

Grandma Liu was dragged away by Liu Dazhuang. The village head came over and said to Su Xiaoxiao, "Su Xiaoxiao, don't worry. If Liu Dazhuang and his gang come to harass you again, just tell your uncle, and your uncle will protect you."

The other villagers, upon hearing this, wondered what was going on.
When did the village head become so kind to Su Xiaoxiao? When did they meet? How can this be explained?

Su Xiaoxiao said to the village head, "Thank you, Uncle. Would you like to come inside and have a cup of tea?"

The village head waved his hand, "There are still many things to do in the village, so we won't drink today."

He then turned to the other villagers and said, "Are you all just wasting your time? Why don't you take care of how your rice seedlings are growing?"

Everyone thought it made some sense. They were just watching other people's affairs, which brought them no benefit and only made the village head unhappy.

Once everyone thought about this, they should quickly disperse.

After everyone left, Sanlang immediately ran over to comfort Su Xiaoxiao.

"Xiaoxiao, how was what I did? If you hadn't stopped me, I would have definitely taught them a lesson."

When Sanlang said this, he was already prepared to go and teach the Liu mother and son a lesson.

Su Xiaoxiao smiled brightly at Sanlang, "Yes, you're the best!" Upon hearing this, Sanlang immediately tried to ingratiate himself by coming closer to Su Xiaoxiao, ready to have a more intimate encounter.

Although their relationship is not yet officially confirmed, they often put their arms around each other and do some of the little things that couples do.

Just then, Sun's voice came from outside the door, "Xiaoxiao, are you home?"

Su Xiaoxiao quickly replied, "Sister Sun, I'm at home, what's wrong?"

Just as Su Xiaoxiao was about to serve the soup noodles she had made for breakfast, Sun Shi and Wang Er came in together.

"Such a hot breakfast! We're really lucky to have this."

Su Xiaoxiao now gets along with the Sun family like family, and they don't stand on ceremony with each other at all.

"Come and eat together!"

Su Xiaoxiao asked Sanlang to get another set of bowls and chopsticks so that Sun Shi and Wang Er could come and eat with them.

At the dinner table, Mrs. Sun asked Su Xiaoxiao, "Are we going to the market to sell jam again today?"

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head and said to Sun Shi, "Not today, all the jam is sold out. We need to go pick some more fruit today."

It turns out that they had run out of oranges for making jam, so they had to go back up the mountain to pick some more.

After the group finished eating, Su Xiaoxiao prepared to send the two children to Aunt Wang's house so that Aunt Wang could take care of them.

The Sun family's two children were looked after by their neighbors. Anyway, the children were not young anymore and could take care of themselves, so there was no need to worry too much.

Originally, Mrs. Sun wanted to ask the two children to come and help pick oranges, but considering that they were children after all, she was afraid that they might get into some danger in the mountains.

Sun and Wang Er, now full of energy, followed Su Xiaoxiao out with baskets on their backs.

Su Xiaoxiao locked the door of her house and went to Aunt Wang's house with Sanlang and the two children.

"Aunt Wang, could you please look after my two children for me?"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Wang quickly agreed, "Okay..."

When Su Xiaoxiao saw Aunt Wang, she didn't say anything else, but she seemed quite unwell, her face clouded with worry. Logically, her daughter-in-law should be fine now, having had a good postpartum recovery, and looking radiant. Why did she look so troubled?
Su Xiaoxiao didn't know what had happened, so she asked Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang didn't hide anything and told Su Xiaoxiao the whole story.

It turns out that her daughter-in-law is not in good health and has no milk at all. Su Xiaoxiao brought them chicken, stewed it, and they ate plenty of lactation-promoting foods, but they still didn't have any milk.

The village barefoot doctor came over several times and gave us some folk remedies, but even after we took them, they were ineffective.

The baby is so small, crying all day long for milk. The adults are more anxious than the baby, and the house is in complete chaos.

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao said to Aunt Wang, "Aunt Wang, leave this to me. I know a doctor at Ci'an Hall in town, and I'm sure he can cure your daughter-in-law's illness."

This matter was quite urgent, so Su Xiaoxiao decided to split up with Sun and the others. Sun and Sanlang would go up the mountain to pick oranges first, while she would go to town to find Mr. Li for treatment.

(End of this chapter)