Moreover, cooking porridge at night is very convenient. Just light a honeycomb briquette, wash the rice, put it in an earthenware pot, and you can go to sleep.

When Aunt Wang arrived, she heard that someone had poured feces into the porridge pot last night, and she cursed several times as well.

After she finished cursing, she asked Shen Mingzhi, "Who is so despicable as to disgust us like this for several days in a row?"

"Who else do you think I can help me with? I'm going out to buy a new jar. Could you keep an eye on the porridge in the rice cooker for me?" Shen Mingzhi said to Wang Sao.

Aunt Wang was stunned for a moment, then frowned and muttered softly, "This Jiang Yinyin is too much... What grudge did she hold against you? Didn't she bully you first?"

Shen Mingzhi did not respond.

Instead of immediately buying a jar, she went to the blacksmith's shop.

After asking many people, I finally found a blacksmith and bought a few wild boar traps to take home.

After trapping the wild boar under the wall, she finished all that, cooked half a pot of porridge, and then went back to her room to rest.

In the middle of the night, she heard a scream outside, but ignored it.

I had a good night's sleep.

But early the next morning, the door of the courtyard was being pounded on.

Wang Wu, wearing slippers, went to open the door. As soon as he unlatched the door, a woman in a cheongsam ordered her henchmen to rush in.

"Who is Shen Mingzhi! Bring her out here!" the woman demanded loudly as soon as she entered.

Wang Wu was confused, but he still turned around to find Shen Mingzhi.

Shen Mingzhi was already waiting in her room.

When Wang Wu arrived, the woman came along with him. Upon seeing Shen Mingzhi, she immediately directed her henchmen.

Four or five people rushed up, twisted Shen Mingzhi's hands, and then kicked her in the back of the knee.

Shen Mingzhi knelt on the ground, looked up at the woman, and asked innocently, "What did I do to deserve this?"

The woman stepped forward and slapped Shen Mingzhi hard across the face. Then she grabbed her hair and yelled, "You filthy slut who steals men everywhere when she doesn't have one! You tricked my son into climbing over the wall to be with you at night, and then you set a wild boar trap under the wall, almost breaking his leg! And you're still pretending?! If I don't beat you to death today, I'll have lived a life of misery!"

"Wang Wu!" Shen Mingzhi called out to the young man who was still standing there in a daze.

Wang Wu remembered that Shen Xiuzhu had told him to take good care of Shen Mingzhi before he left, so he quickly turned around to find someone.

"Bring him back!" the woman shouted immediately.

Upon hearing this, Wang Wu ran as fast as he could.

Shen Mingzhi called out from behind him, "Let's go to the police station first!"

Wang Wu was terrified and ran out of the courtyard. He bumped into Wang Sao and grabbed her, saying, "Go to the police station and tell them someone has been killed here. I'm going to find Young Master Shen. Hurry! If you're too late, Miss Shen will be dead!"

Wang's wife was confused, but she still carried her basket and ran to the police station.

Seeing Wang Wu run away, the woman said to her henchmen, "Beat her face to a pulp! Hurry up, and then leave!"

Shen Mingzhi was grabbed and slapped across the face repeatedly.

She didn't know how many slaps she had received... The two children in the room were crying uncontrollably, her face was so sore she couldn't move, and her head was buzzing.

"sister!"

The commotion attracted Wang Xinian, who was preparing for the exam in another courtyard.

Seeing Shen Mingzhi being slapped repeatedly, he rushed over and raised his fist to hit the person.

Shen Mingzhi struggled to lift her eyes and saw the gloom in his eyes. Enduring the sharp pain in her cheek, she reminded him, "Don't hit me... You still have to take the exam. Don't let the police find out what you did wrong."

Wang Xinian's fist froze in mid-air. In that moment of hesitation, the man the woman brought kicked him in the stomach.

He took several steps back and sat down heavily on the ground.

Before she could even get up, a fierce-looking man grabbed her hair and forced her to the ground.

He struggled and was slapped.

A sharp pain shot through his ears, and the familiar, piercing ringing echoed in his mind.

Seeing him being beaten, Shen Mingzhi's anger surged, reaching its peak. "Why are you hitting him?! He doesn't know anything. I'm the one who set the wild boar trap. If you're angry, take it out on me!"

Seeing her like this, Wang Xinian thought of the days when he was beaten by his own father whom he didn't like, leaving him outside shivering in the dead of winter. He also thought of the days when his stepmother's husband made veiled insults at his stepmother's house. Back then, neither his mother nor his stepmother dared to stand up for him.

During the days when he was verbally abused and beaten, both women he wanted to rely on chose to remain silent.

They were afraid of those two men...

Shen Mingzhi was slapped several times for defending him. She fell to the ground, gasping for breath in pain.

When the police arrived, Shen Mingzhi was taken to the clinic.

Sister Wang also brought Jiang Guofu over.

She carried the two children in a bamboo basket to the clinic.

“Yinyin is really outrageous! Miss Shen is already in such a state, and she still makes things difficult for her at every turn! A few days ago, in order to get a new house for the child, she went so far as to make and sell ointments…” Aunt Wang cried as she recounted the efforts Shen Mingzhi had recently made for the child.

Speaking of the manure being poured into her jar, she couldn't help but choke up, "Someone climbed over the wall and ran to our place, got her foot caught in a wild boar's trap, and then that woman who came to beat her accused her of having an affair. Do you think I don't know whether she had an affair or not? She's busy from morning till night, either digging for medicinal herbs in the mountains outside the city or selling them under the scorching sun. Where would she have time to hang out with men?! These people are bullying her, a widow and her child, and they're smearing her!"

Jiang Guofu's face turned ashen.

Seeing the nurse come out of the ward, he quickly went up to her and asked, "How is the child?"

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