“Pah.”

Wang Dujuan slapped Yang Chunxiao hard across the face and glared at him, "If you dare to talk nonsense about your sister again, I'll tear your mouth apart."

Yang Chunxiao's face was hit to the side, which showed that Wang Dujuan was really furious about this sudden change. The slap was a little stronger than usual.

She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and lowered her head so that no one could see her expression. "You'll know if I'm talking nonsense when you go in and see."

The pink clothes scattered on the ground stung Wang Dujuan's eyes, and she realized whose clothes they belonged to. The butterfly and crabapple embroidered on the sleeve of the outermost dress was the one she had picked out with Yang Chunxue.

Wang Dujuan failed to harm the person she wanted to hurt, and she only felt a bitter taste in her mouth. She rushed into the house and felt a severe headache when she saw the two people who were unconscious but still hugging each other.

"My son."

Li Shangcai was not a good person. His methods of torturing people were so unheard of that the villagers had never heard of it. Yang Chunxue's body was covered with bruises and marks from pinching and biting. There was hardly a single good spot on it.

There were many people outside the house and it was impossible to go out. Wang Dujuan wrapped Yang Chunxue tightly in the quilt with trembling hands, and then picked up clothes from the ground and put them on her.

The men were blocking the way outside and trying to crane their necks to look inside, but they were blocked tightly by the women in the yard and couldn't see anything. One curious woman leaned over the window and opened it a little, then saw what was going on inside and was so scared that she screamed and ran away.

"What's wrong? What did you see?"

The woman patted her chest as if she had witnessed something truly extraordinary, and waved her hands and shook her head, "Don't ask, don't ask."

The more she said this, the more curious others became and they surrounded her, chattering and asking questions.

One of them interrupted, "I think Haruyuki doesn't look right. With all the commotion outside, he's still not awake. Something's not right."

Aunt Xiang didn't want to ask, so she moved away from them and pulled Zhang Lanzhen over to ask, "What's going on? Why is Donghu with you?"

"Yeah, yeah, didn't Dujuan just say it was Donghu? How did it become Chunxue now? And how come there's a stranger in the house just when Donghu came back? He's causing trouble for Chunxue."

The woman who was speaking lived in the house in front of the Yang family. She glanced at Yang Donghu while speaking, and her words and actions seemed to imply that Yang Donghu had seduced a man from outside the family.

Zhang Lanzhen glared at her unhappily. "What are you talking about? If Wang Dujuan doesn't let outsiders in, can Dong Hu still force them in?"

The woman chuckled. "I just can't bear to see a girl like Chunxue being raped. Nothing happened on other days, so why did it happen on the day he came? Isn't that strange?"

"Her reputation is just a reputation, but Dong Hu's reputation is unimportant. You're throwing dirty water on him, isn't he wronged? Wang Dujuan dared to leave someone in the house. Even if Dong Hu didn't come today, something would have happened. You're not careful yourself and you're blaming others. How can you say such things?"

Yang Donghu had injured his foot and couldn't stand for a long time. Now he was sitting with the old lady. Hearing this, he said, "Grandma raised me. It's not right for me to come and see you when you're not feeling well? In the past, they refused to let me in, but today they specifically called me. Don't you think it's strange? You're blaming me for what happened?"

"According to what you said, I called the person here and hid him in her house in advance? How can I be so capable that I can hide someone in someone else's house without being discovered? If it's as you said, if her son fails to pass the imperial examination, she will blame me for cursing him. And if her hens don't lay eggs, she will blame me for the conflict between her family and hers. It's really unreasonable."

The woman felt that she was the elder and was embarrassed to be spoken to so humiliatingly by a junior. Just as she was about to open her mouth to refute, she was interrupted by another voice.

The loud-mouthed aunt had been following Wang Dujuan the entire time. She was present throughout the incident and said to the woman, "Don't talk nonsense. Dujuan herself said that the man was a good friend of Yang Yaoguang in town and that he stayed at her house for the night. He has nothing to do with Donghu."

"Why doesn't it matter?"

Wang Dujuan shouted and rushed out of the house, reaching out to pounce on Yang Donghu, but was stopped by Zhang Lanzhen and Aunt Xiang.

"It has something to do with him. Otherwise, how could I, Haruyuki, stay in the house peacefully and become like this for no reason? It must be you. You must have done something. You hate me and my family, so you want revenge on us."

This matter has nothing to do with her family, and Wang Dujuan is still thinking about dragging Yang Donghu into it.

Yang Chunxue's reputation has been ruined. If Mr. Li agrees to marry her after she sobers up, it will be fine. If he doesn't agree, Yang Chunxue will have to live alone for the rest of her life even if she doesn't die. No good family would be willing to marry a girl who has slept with someone else before getting married.

Wang Dujuan's eyes were red, and she wished she could tear Yang Donghu apart. She was pinned down, unable to struggle. Her voice was shrill: "You are so shameless. You just cling to people because they have money. Otherwise, why don't you come at other times, but have to wait until Master Li is here? You failed to seduce me, and now you are resentful. Poor Chunxue."

The woman who was helping Wang Dujuan felt as if she was right when she heard what she said. She stood with Wang Dujuan and shared the same hatred for the enemy: "I think what Dujuan said is reasonable. Donghu was married off in a dishonorable way. Who knows if she has been tortured by the Zhao family and has become so bad-tempered that she came up with such a harmful method to take revenge."

There was a commotion in the crowd, with people saying all sorts of things, and quite a few people actually thought what Wang Dujuan said made sense.

Yang Chunxiao was about to explain from behind Wang Dujuan when someone outside the crowd interrupted him coldly: "Why, did you see me torture someone with your own eyes?"

Zhao Luochuan grabbed Yang Yaoguang and walked through the crowd from behind, followed by the village chief Yang Wencai.

The woman who was talking about Zhao Luochuan's quarrel immediately shut her mouth tightly when she saw the tall man with a dark face, and hid behind Wang Dujuan and stopped talking.

As soon as Zhao Luochuan entered the room, he saw Yang Donghu sitting on a stool. The injury on his foot was covered by his clothes, so it was not visible. However, when he thought of Wang Dujuan's words about the fabricator, he became angry and his face turned even colder. He roughly threw the bundled Yang Yaoguang at Wang Dujuan's feet and said, "Who are you calling immoral?"

"Mother, mother, save me, save me!"

"Yaoguang, my son, what's wrong with you?" Wang Dujuan hurriedly squatted down and pulled the vines on his body with both hands. She was so confused that she wanted to tear Zhao Luochuan apart.

"Why did you tie him up?"

Yang Wencai grabbed her arm and pulled her back: "Okay, if you have something to say, why can't you just talk it out nicely? Why are you making such a fuss?"

He knew that the Yang family loved to stir up trouble, but he didn't expect them to be so diligent that they could cause two troubles in less than a year.

It was hot and he hadn't rested enough at home when he heard someone coming to him in a panic to say that something had happened to the Yang family again.

When Yang Wencai heard about the incident, he was probably overwhelmed. This matter that was about to result in death was much more serious than the previous severance of the relationship.