Rebirth in a Book: The Road to Breakthrough

After dinner, Su Ting began to feel restless. She paced back and forth in the room, fiddling with the corners of her clothes, wondering whether she should go meet the mysterious and strange woman.

Time passed by minute by minute, and when it was close to midnight, Su Ting struggled for a while, and finally made up her mind to go. She did not choose to go through the main entrance, but carefully climbed over the wall to go out.

She groped her way forward in the darkness, relying on the weak lights of the villagers to identify the direction with difficulty, and finally arrived at the village office. As she didn't know the exact location of the granary, she could only wait quietly by the side wall of the village office, her heart full of uneasiness and anxiety.

The guard noticed her, but did not alarm her. He watched her quietly, trying to figure out what she was up to.

As time passed, Su Ting felt that he might have been teased. Even the guards thought that the girl was sleepwalking. The scar-faced wife walked towards him from the north.

"Oh, you are quite active." Scar's wife teased.

"Hmph, just say whatever you want to say here!" Su Ting responded impatiently.

"If you want to know whether Heizi is the person you are looking for, do you need to pay anything?" Scar's wife spoke as if she was negotiating.

The guard became anxious when he saw Scar-faced Wife appear. He was far away and could not hear what they were talking about.

At Widow Wang's house, Yuan Zhe woke up after Su Ting left. He originally thought that Su Ting would be back after a while, but he didn't expect that he had been out for so long and still hadn't come back. He didn't go with them at the time, and for a moment he didn't know where to look for him. He could only patrol the entire village back and forth, searching like a carpet.

The captain said that when catching a thief, you have to take the stolen goods. So does this count as stolen goods now? The guards were extremely anxious.

When Scar Wife appeared, the system woke up Yu Congcong. Yu Congcong quickly got up, put on a coat and walked out. She planned to send Scar Wife away this time.

When the guards were hesitating whether to sound the alarm and arrest him, Yu Congcong came over. The guards saw Yu Congcong and asked with their mouths, "What should we do?"

Yu Congcong mouthed the reply: "Don't worry, wait and see."

"I have told you everything you want to know. Isn't it time for you to go with me?" Scar's wife told Su Ting about Heizi's affairs, including the fact that Heizi's wife was Su Jingshu.

Su Ting ignored her. She was immersed in the reality that Su Jingshu had passed away and found it hard to accept it.

The wife with scar on her face thought she was going to go back on her word, so she reached out and pulled her towards the granary.

The guard looked at Yu Congcong and asked silently: "What should we do? Should we stop it?"

Lush Congcong shook her head.

Su Ting was still a little dazed and didn't react, allowing his wife with scar to pull him away.

When they reached the window of the granary, Scar's Wife was about to knock Su Ting unconscious. At this moment, Yuan Zhe, who had arrived, kicked her away. Yu Congcong sighed, it seemed that this time his efforts were in vain. He still had no actual evidence, and could not drive Scar's Wife away.

Yu Congcong and the guards came out. Yu Congcong looked at Yuan Zhe with resentment but had no one to complain to.

Other guards also gathered around. Yuan Zhe and Su Ting looked at them, confused.

Scar's wife understood why this happened. It turned out that they had been prepared for this and wanted to catch her in the act. Humph, they really underestimated her.

The guards took the three people to the village office and went to find the team leader.

When the captain arrived, he was surprised to see Yuan Zhe and Su Ting! He didn't understand how these two got involved in this matter.

"Tell me! What's going on? Why are you running to the granary in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?" The captain sat down and asked.

"Captain, I'm going to catch rats. You see, I also brought rat poison. I thought there must be a lot of rats in the granary. I happened to have rat poison at home, so I thought of spreading some on the outer wall of the granary. It can be considered as a contribution to the village."

"Oh, what about you two?" The captain didn't believe a word Scar's wife said.

Yuan Zhe looked at Su Ting. She was still in a daze and didn't seem to know how to respond. "I'm here to see Su Ting. She has a sleepwalking problem."

Su Ting still did not respond, so the captain asked the guard, "What did you see?"

"Captain, Su Zhiqing has been here for a long time. She was standing at the side wall here at first, without making any noise, as if she was sleepwalking. Later, Scar's wife came and talked to her for a long time. I couldn't hear what they said because I was far away, and Scar's wife blocked my view, so I didn't know if Su Zhiqing spoke or not. And Su Zhiqing was dragged to the granary by Scar's wife." The guard's voice became smaller and smaller. He felt useless and seemed to know nothing.

The captain thought that Yuan Zhe and Su Ting were probably just coincidences. So he looked at Yu Congcong, who nodded to him.

"You guys go back!" the captain said to Yuan Zhe and Su Ting.

The wife with the scar also turned around and wanted to leave, but the team leader stopped her: "Where do you want to go? You haven't explained clearly yet."

"Captain, didn't I tell you? I just wanted to help catch some mice, I didn't do anything bad."

The scarred wife had an attitude of "I didn't do anything bad, don't even think of doing anything to me". This made everyone so angry that they wanted to beat her up, but fortunately the captain stopped her.

"Scar Wife, you don't have to have that attitude. We all know what you have done in the village over the years. This time, I didn't say you did anything bad. Just explain what you did tonight and you can go back."

"Captain." Everyone was a little indignant and didn't want to let Scar's Wife off like that. The captain waved his hand, signaling everyone to stop talking.

"Oh, I saw mice at home, and I thought that today's grain would not be stored in the granary. There must be mice, and I had rat poison at home, so I sprinkled some in the granary. When I came over, I saw Su Zhiqing, and I asked her what she was doing. She didn't respond, and I was afraid that she would be in danger alone, so I wanted to take her with me. I pulled her along, and I wanted to wake her up. What happened next is what you saw. Yuan Zhiqing kicked me, and then you showed up."

Scar-faced Wife spoke without much emotion. If Yu Congcong hadn't known the truth, she would have convinced him. The villagers' reactions showed that they felt she was wronged and looked embarrassed.

The captain and Yu Congcong definitely didn't believe it, but so what, there was no evidence. They had no choice but to let her go.

Yuan Zhe pulled Su Ting towards Widow Wang's house. She didn't react at all. She couldn't accept that her aunt, the smart and wise girl in her heart, actually married a Japanese, lived with him here and gave birth to a child.