Chapter 173 The Consequences of Adultery in This Era

Lin Meili's case caused a shock.

After all, she wasn't a widow; her husband was still alive, and her son was still young. Yet she was having an affair with a man in the sorghum field. The most crucial thing was that the whole brigade caught them in the act, making it one of the most bizarre things that had happened in recent years.

I've seen people having affairs, but I've never seen someone caught naked.

No one expected that the usually fierce and shrewish person would be involved with one of the gang's hooligans, and some even speculated that Cao Hao might be the child of their affair.

The Cao family lost all face. Cao Nongguo felt like he had been cuckolded, and that very night he beat Cao Hao severely, making him look completely unlike himself.

Mao Chun stopped treating Cao Hao like a precious gem and let him cry with tears and snot all over his face. He even said angrily, "Cry, cry, cry, are you mourning your shameless mother?"

If she weren't unsure whether he was a member of the Cao family, she would have liked to slap him a few times. After all, she didn't want to raise someone else's bastard for twelve years for nothing.

Cao Hao was no longer a child, and he knew that all of this was because of his shameless mother. He hated her to death and vowed that he would never forgive her for the rest of his life.

The other branches of the Cao family were all speculating: "Is this Cao Hao really a member of our Cao family?"

Lin Meili was beaten and verbally abused that night. Several people had a grudge against her, especially Chen Xiang's mother-in-law, who picked up a stone and smashed it on Lin Meili's head, causing her to bleed.

Chen Xiang screamed in fright and quickly grabbed her mother-in-law: "You can't do this! What if you kill her?"

Her mother-in-law glared at her: "So what if she's dead? People like her deserve to be beaten to death. Have you forgotten how she stole your job?"

Lin Meili cried, shouted, and cursed. The wild man next to her was much more docile than her, letting her be beaten and cursed. Finally, unable to bear the beating any longer, he actually said, "Lin Meili seduced me."

This shocked Lin Meili and made her even angrier, and she started hurling insults at him.

Someone laughed and said, "Tsk, dogs fighting, how interesting."

Chen E didn't step forward to beat her, but just sighed, "I never thought she would have an affair with a man."

Lei Yongxia said, "Who would have thought? We would never have noticed it before."

Many people were surprised, but no one will sympathize with her, since almost everyone hates her and now they're kicking her when she's down.

They hit and cursed, as long as they were half-dead, it was incredibly satisfying.

Not only was her reputation ruined, but her family members also lost face. Moreover, her extramarital affair was a serious offense and she was sentenced to prison.

In this era, the punishment for infidelity is very strict.

Even in an era of underdeveloped communication, the spread of information was not slow at all. Not to mention the entire brigade, almost everyone in all the brigades under the commune knew about it.

The commune cadres were furious, feeling that this was a serious case of promiscuity, and demanded that the woman be paraded through the streets as a public spectacle.

The man who had an affair with Lin Meili was a bachelor from Jinniu Brigade named Zhang San. He was unmarried and a notorious good-for-nothing in the village.

Wang Yuqing suddenly remembered that Lin Meili had brought the Cao family to settle accounts, and he was among the crowd.

He lived alone, with no relatives or friends, and it didn't matter if he was scolded, beaten, or even executed.

Lin Meili is different; she still has her family and a son.

When Lin Meili was being paraded through the streets, she passed by her parents' home. The gate was tightly shut, and no one came out, as they all felt ashamed.

After all, they felt ashamed that their daughter had cheated on them, and of course, they were also criticized by their neighbors.

The Lin family's reputation has been completely ruined by Lin Meili. Even if they didn't hate her, her family members wouldn't dare to come out and see her.

Lin Meili looked at her parents' house in a disheveled state and suddenly felt a chill in her heart. In the past, she would bring a lot of good things every time she went back to her parents' house, but now they were avoiding her.

The sounds of ridicule and mockery were incessant.

She started out shouting, but then she became numb.

After being paraded through the streets for a whole day, several cadres from higher up came the next day and held a criticism meeting at the brigade headquarters. The entire brigade stopped work, and everyone, from the oldest to the youngest, had to attend.

Lin Meili and Zhang San were forced onto the stage with their arms tied behind their backs, and then made to kneel on the ground.

Everyone is calling them shameless, immoral, and morally corrupt. To put it bluntly, they're called horny, sluts, and whores...

Lin Meili, her hair disheveled, searched through the crowd before finally settling on Wang Yuqing.

She hated him so much, she wanted to pounce on him and bite Wang Yuqing to death.

If it weren't for Wang Yuqing, my affair with Yang Er would never have been discovered. I'm in this state now all because of Wang Yuqing.

If only I had let Lin Xuemei sell her to a remote mountain village earlier, none of this would have happened.

Tang Wan sat down next to Wang Yuqing, frowning: "Look at her, it's clearly her own fault, why is she blaming us?"

Wang Yuqing deliberately gave Lin Meili a smile.

This enraged Lin Meili, who struggled frantically, trying to pounce on him, but was eventually subdued by the militia.

Everyone thought she was unwilling to accept this, and a few of the more aggressive people rushed up to beat her. Then more people joined in and beat her until she was half dead, before the officials finally stopped them.

Neither her family nor the Cao family came.

Cao Hao, who had been kicked out, watched all this from a distance, sobbing and unable to accept it.

He was perfectly fine the day before yesterday, and even ate several pieces of meat. Now he'll never eat meat again, and he's no longer the young master of the Cao family.

The denunciation meeting lasted all day.

Lin Meili and Yang Er were taken away later; it was said they would be sentenced.

Before leaving, Lin Meili said, "I want to see my son."

The leader agreed and instructed someone to go find Cao Hao.

Ji Xiaoming had already spotted Cao Hao hiding not far away. He said, "Cao Hao is right next to that haystack in the back."

Cao Hao didn't want to see his biological mother, so he ran away, but was eventually caught and brought back.

He looked at Lin Meili with hatred and disgust in his eyes, and even spat in her face, shouting, "You're not my mother, you're a slut!"

Lin Meili's pupils widened, and she trembled with a chill.

Cao Hao turned to look at Yang Er beside him. He had looked down on Yang Er since he was a child. Now many people said that they were Yang Er's offspring. He was furious and suddenly stepped forward to punch and kick Yang Er.

He felt that the more fiercely he fought, the more he could prove that he was not Yang Er's son.

Lin Meili was also a mother. Even though Cao Hao treated her this way, she still decided to think about Cao Hao's future. Before leaving, she said, "I swear, I'm telling the truth. Listen to all of you, Cao Hao is a member of the Cao family, not Yang Er's son."

Yang Er himself didn't even know whose son Cao Hao was.

Although people don't believe it, they have no way to prove it.

Cao Hao was overjoyed.

Without even glancing at Lin Meili, he turned and ran home, wanting to tell his grandmother and father the good news that he could continue eating meat.