“Our people came to investigate that very night. They analyzed the footsteps around the area, the behavior, and the people who collapsed. Our county has plenty of talented people; we wouldn’t be fooled by a village woman. Besides, there were eyewitnesses.”
"Who? Who saw me lay a hand on He Runqing?"
Zheng Fang, her eyes red, said, "Don't fabricate evidence. I'm not convinced! I'm not convinced! There's something fishy going on!"
"Just because you hold a high position and have a bit of money, you start bullying us ordinary people, right?"
Zheng Fang sat down on the ground: "Who will stand up for me? Just because I haven't contributed anything, just because I'm an old farmer, does that mean I deserve to be bullied by you?
When I was sobbing uncontrollably, I didn't get any comforting or anything.
Only Secretary Yu Liang said coldly, "I thought the villagers were all honest and kind people, but I didn't expect there to be some utterly wicked ones among them!"
"This time, Yongquan Village has really disappointed me!"
Upon hearing this, the village secretary and Chen Jianguo immediately went to apologize.
Everyone else in the village was watching.
"Can't Old Zheng control his daughter? She's become a culprit in smearing our village. She's no good at all."
"That's right, she framed Xiaofei, and the county even helped find evidence, but she still came here to throw a tantrum."
"Can't we ask the commune to move your family's household registration? Who would dare to live in the same village as your family in the future? They'd be killed."
"Chen Yifei worked so hard to build a good reputation for our village, and this happens on the very first day. If our village's future development is affected, it's all because of you rotten apples."
"..."
No one was saying anything harsh, and no one was deliberately targeting anyone.
It's just that Zheng Fang is so shameless! Everyone knows what she's up to! She's always up to no good, and she doesn't even know how to be shy!
Old Zheng couldn't save face.
Having raised a daughter has made him the target of everyone's scorn in the village.
Anyone would feel uncomfortable in that situation.
He quickly clenched his fist and took out the whip he usually used to drive the mule cart.
Kneel down!
Zheng Fang's eyes were red: "Dad, I'm already married, and you still hit me... I told you I didn't do it!"
"Are you going to admit it or not?"
"Who is the witness?" Zheng Fang shouted. "You've been refusing to say anything, all you do is play tricks here."
The secretary still didn't say anything because they wanted to protect the witness's reputation.
No one expected that at this moment, Xiao Hongmei, the village's famously beautiful widow, would step forward.
“It was me,” Xiao Hongmei stepped forward. “I was also going to fetch water at the time.”
"When I was pinned to the ground by that old bachelor from the east end of the village, I bit him and ran away."
“I hadn’t even recovered from the shock when I saw you all.”
“You almost killed He Runqing, and I was simply too weak to help. I couldn’t help then, but I can still testify now.”
"..."
At this point, instead of discussing how a woman almost killed Chen Yifei's wife, the villagers started making jokes about the widow.
"Wow, this old bachelor is so cunning; he even knows how to flirt with widows now."
"They say there's a lot of gossip around a widow's door, and I think that's true."
"How can you have the nerve to live here all this time? Your husband is dead and you didn't even remarry sooner."
Chen Yifei frowned: "Uncles and elders."
"Sister Xiao Hongmei stood up to help Qingqing, not to gossip about it. Don't put the cart before the horse."
“They’re all decent girls, don’t just think about scheming all day. I’m telling you this: if you’re going to be a bachelor, look for a wife properly. Don’t think you can bully Comrade Xiao Hongmei and do all sorts of bad things.”
"At that time, not only Zheng Fang, but anyone who does something wrong will be a disgrace to our village. Let's see who dares to hold us back!"
Chen Jianguo nodded in agreement with these words.
In the village, Chen Jianguo, as the village head, always took care of Xiao Hongmei as much as possible.
Being a woman is not easy, especially for women in villages.
Seeing his son being so responsible now, Chen Jianguo was very happy.
He's definitely getting old; the future belongs to Yifei's generation.
He sighed.
He said, "Xiao Fei is right."
"None of us should do bad things. Our village has finally risen up and become powerful. Are we going to let a bad reputation haunt us?"
“This time Zheng Fang did something so despicable, and we don’t understand the legal issues involved. But in our village, the Zheng family is no longer a family.”
Zheng Fang's parents quickly came out to apologize, and Zheng Fang's father kept whipping her.
At this point, Zheng Fang admitted her mistake:
"Chen Yifei, Chen Yifei, I beg you, please let me go, okay?"
“I was really wrong. From now on, I will treat He Runqing with utmost respect whenever I see her. From now on, I will stay far away from you whenever I see you.”
"I will never dare to say anything again!"
"Ahhh... Dad, it hurts so much, I was really wrong."
"I didn't expect her to be pregnant, otherwise I definitely wouldn't have dared to push her!"
"..."
Chen Yifei was itching to make a move, but Wang Zheng and the others stood on either side of him, saying, "Yifei, you're a person of status and position now."
"Getting my hands dirty will have a bad impact. I'll have to deal with whatever I have to do."
"In this situation, if the police come, what kind of judgment would they likely make?"
Chen Yifei felt that a sentence of a few months, like before, was too lenient.
“This counts as attempted murder,” Chen Yifei said. “If this is judged so easily, I will appeal to the court.”
The county magistrate said helplessly, "I'm already here. Who's going to make you suffer? Who asked you to appeal?"
"..." Chen Yifei scratched his head, "How could that be?"
"We will make the final decision regarding this kind of heinous act. It will be either a ten-year prison term or life imprisonment. The main reason is that they have a lot of criminal records, including previous poisoning cases, so we will conduct a comprehensive evaluation."
"You've seen the previous ones too?" Chen Yifei thought the county magistrate was pretty good.
He is someone worth entrusting your life to.
She seems to care about his affairs.
"Yes. This involves your affairs, so we won't be careless. Anyway, it's not easy for anyone, so we must be fair and just no matter what."
When Zheng's father heard this, he felt that everything was over, that everything was over.
They invested a lot of money in this daughter...
Now the whole family is involved.
"Ah!...I was really wrong."
Zheng Fang looked at Chen Yifei: "Could you please let me go for the sake of our past relationship?"
"After all, you're not the heartless kind of person, are you?"
"Well, I'm really sorry, but I just like to push people to the brink."
He smiled, a smile that was incredibly innocent and kind.
"Letting you go is impossible."
"Forget about it, just sit in jail for the rest of your life."
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