"Your mother-in-law said with her own mouth that you slandered and defamed me behind my back, and you still won't admit it?"

Tang Suxiang has now become the target of public criticism.

She couldn't admit it; if she did, her backbone would be broken.

But even if she admits it, no one will believe her once she's said that!

At this moment, Tang Suxiang looked at her elderly father and her sixth sister, Tang Su'e.

They're the ones who caused this.

The person who made her spread rumors throughout the village that Yin Hua was a jinx was her own father.

The reason this matter came to light was because the biological father told Lao Liu that Yin Hua had secretly switched Er Bao's amulet.

Now she's being asked to be the bad guy and bear the consequences.

Tang Suxiang was furious just thinking about it.

At this moment, Old Master Tang had already fallen silent and did not want to drag the conflict into himself anymore; he only wanted to handle it quietly.

Tang Su'e stood in the crowd with a detached, detached expression the whole time, as if the whole thing had nothing to do with her.

Song Yinhua knew she needed to add fuel to the fire: "My uncle and aunt know I've earned a lot of money from my job, so they borrowed money from my dad..."

Song Dazhuang slapped Tang Suxiang on the head, knocking her to the ground as she was caught off guard.

The slap was solid, loud, and clear.

Just hearing about it makes me feel pain.

"How can you, as an elder, talk about younger people like that behind their backs? What kind of behavior is that?" Song Dazhuang snapped at Tang Suxiang. "How many times have I told you not to talk about other people's children behind their backs? Don't you hear me?"

Tang Suxiang was so dizzy from the slap that she didn't recover for a long time.

When Song Hanwen saw that his father was about to attack, he quickly went to protect his mother, and his resentment towards his second uncle and Song Yinhua grew even stronger.

Song Dazhuang knew that if he didn't find someone to take action against today to appease his brother's family, this matter wouldn't be over.

If the villagers found out that he and the third brother were scheming against the second brother's family, even taking his daughter's wages, then he would lose his reputation. The whole village's gossip would drown him.

"Tang Suxiang, why don't you apologize to Yinhua right now!" Song Dazhuang was giving his wife a death order.

Before Tang Suxiang could recover, Song Dazhuang was cursing and about to hit her again, but was stopped by his son Song Hanwen. When the granddaughter saw her grandmother being hit, she ran up crying and hit Song Dazhuang's leg, shouting, "Grandpa is bad, don't hit Grandma!"

"Bring the child inside!" Song Dazhuang shouted to his daughter-in-law.

Ding Xiaofen picked up her daughter and went into the house with her mother.

"What are you still doing lying on the ground? Get up and apologize!" Song Dazhuang winked at Tang Suxiang, signaling her to apologize quickly and finish the matter. If they continued to make a scene, they would be the ones who suffered. "If Erzhuang and Yinhua don't forgive you tonight, I'll divorce you!"

Tang Suxiang looked at her man and knew she had to apologize.

Song Hanwen helped his mother, Tang Suxiang, up from the ground.

"It was my fault, I shouldn't have said those careless things." Tang Suxiang said unwillingly.

Song Hanwen chimed in, "Second Uncle, Yinhua, my mother has already apologized. Let's leave it at that. We're all family. If we keep dragging this out and it gets too ugly, outsiders will laugh at us."

Song Yinhua cried and asked, "If family members make a scene, they're afraid outsiders will laugh at them. But when your aunt spread rumors and slanders against me behind my back, aren't you afraid outsiders will laugh at you?"

"Are you never going to stop?" Song Hanwen said angrily. "My mother has already apologized, what more do you want? Don't be so unforgiving!"

Song Yinhua: "If your mother truly admits her mistake and apologizes, she should return my jade pendant to me! That jade pendant must be real, otherwise why would you keep it for yourselves? And why would you try to frame me and smear my name?"

Tang Suxiang shouted, "I didn't take any of your jade pendants!"

"If you didn't take it, why are you spreading rumors and slandering me? Why are you apologizing to me now?"

Tang Suxiang was forced into a corner. She hadn't gotten anything out of her father and sixth sister's affairs, so why should she take the blame?

Her father kept everything from her about the jade pendant. He gave it to his sister's grandson as a talisman, but encouraged her to become a bad person and ruin her uncle's reputation.

Tang Suxiang also felt resentful.

"It was Hanwen's maternal grandfather who told me to say that."

"Nonsense!" Seeing that things were not going his way, Old Master Tang immediately jumped out. "I never asked you to harm anyone!"

Old Master Tang was trying to distance himself from the situation. He told Song Yinhua, "Don't drag me into your family's business with my fifth daughter! It has nothing to do with me!"

"Dad, don't deny it. You're the one who spread the rumor that Yinhua is a jinx, and you're the one who said that Yinhua stole Erbao's amulet, and you scolded her for being ill-mannered and having dirty hands." Tang Suxiang said everything in a fit of anger when she saw that her father wanted to put all the blame on her.

"Nonsense!" Old Master Tang was so angry he almost jumped up. "Yinhua is your husband's niece. I have no grudge against her. Why would I ask you to harm her? You don't like Erzhuang's family yourself, so don't use me as a shield."

Old Master Tang also chose to say things that were in his favor.

They resolutely deny the allegations made by Tang Suxiang.

"You said that Yinhua and Erniu were born in the same year, and that Yinhua is good-looking and will threaten Erniu's chances of finding a husband in the future. You gave me the idea to smear Yinhua so that in the future, good single young men in and out of the village will choose my Erniu first!"

Tang Suxiang's words caused an uproar among the villagers, who started discussing it animatedly.

"How vicious! In order to find a good husband for her own daughter, she slandered her brother-in-law's daughter, causing Yinhua to be twenty-five years old and still unmarried."

"You bet, how wicked must someone be to come up with this idea?"

"Having lived such a long life, instead of doing good deeds, you've done these despicable things. Be careful, the retribution might fall on your descendants..."

Grandpa Tang shouted angrily, "When did I ever say anything like Yinhua threatening Erniu to find a husband? Fifth son, I'm almost seventy. You caused trouble yourself, and you can't expect your seventy-year-old father to be your shield!"

Tang Suxiang was furious with her own father. "Dad, I'm your daughter. I beg you to tell me the truth and don't hurt me!"

The father and daughter had a brief argument.

At this moment, Song Yinhua said to Song Dazhuang, "Uncle, as long as Aunt apologizes to me publicly for half an hour each day at noon and 8 pm on the village radio station for three consecutive days, this matter will be over, and I don't want the jade pendant that was swallowed."

Tang Suxiang refused.

If she agrees, she'll lose all sense of shame.

"I didn't take the jade pendant; it was all your great-uncle's doing. Why should I apologize?"

“If Auntie isn’t willing, then we’ll lay everything out in front of all the villagers and let everyone judge,” Song Yinhua said, walking up to her father. “Dad, Uncle and Third Aunt…”

"It's settled then," Song Dazhuang agreed.

Tang Suxiang looked at her man in disbelief. Was he trying to humiliate her?

How will she face people in the village after this?

Old Master Tang added insult to injury, saying to Song Yinhua, "It's all because my fifth daughter did something inhumane. Don't blame your old uncle. It has nothing to do with this old man. I don't know anything about it."

Tang Suxiang fainted from anger.

Han Zhiyuan was overjoyed and excitedly shouted, "Great!"

Old Master Tang looked at Han Zhiyuan, "Your name is Zhiyuan, right? You're the son-in-law of my fourth daughter!"

Han Zhiyuan sensed something was wrong.

"Not long ago, you and Wanping spent the night at my house, so we've met. At your wedding with Wanping, you even toasted us. According to seniority, you should call me 'Grandpa' like Wanping does, and call Hanwen's mother 'Fifth Aunt.' Tonight, you were the one jumping around the most. Look how angry you made your Fifth Aunt!"

Some villagers gossiped, "Isn't he the one who got caught with Li Er's wife, the pork seller, at the foot of the mountain that day?"

"You're only recognizing him now?"

"Didn't they say his wife ran off with the money? How come Old Man Tang said he and his wife spent the night in Tang Village?"

Han Zhiyuan panicked.

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