Chapter Fifty: Caught Red-Handed
This sound was as earth-shattering as a thunderclap.
Everyone else was woken up, but none of them got up immediately.
Xu Haiyu is still acting.
"Brother Mingzhou, do you know how much I like you?"
"I've never considered you my brother. From the day you told me you would take care of me, I fell deeply in love with you."
"You have no idea how upset I was when I heard you married that Xin Li."
"My heart is really aching, it's aching so much!"
Xu Haiyu reeked of alcohol and spoke with a slurred speech, as if he were drunk.
Xin Li couldn't help but let out a silent scream in her heart.
Xu Haiyu has finally gotten her act together; she even knows how to feign drunkenness.
She probably thought that even if He Mingzhou rejected her, she could still shift all the blame onto alcohol.
If that bottle of wine knew it would eventually be pushed out by Xu Haiyu to take the blame, it would probably rather rot in the factory.
The other women had never seen anything like it before. Especially since Xu Haiyu's words were so explosive, everyone remained tacitly silent without needing to exchange any words.
So everyone in the room strained to listen to Xu Haiyu's one-man show.
Why are you ignoring me? Don't you trust me?
"If you don't believe me, touch my chest. You'll know whether I'm telling the truth or not."
“Brother Mingzhou, do you know how much your words hurt me that day? I never thought you would treat me like this because of that Xinli. She's just a little prettier and a rich girl from the city. What else does she have that I don’t?”
"I've been the one taking care of you all these years."
"You said you would always take care of me, so why did you become a completely different person after that woman came along?"
You can't do this to me.
Xu Haiyu became excited as she spoke.
"Brother Mingzhou, touch me, feel me, okay?"
Xu Haiyu's every sentence ended with a hook-like sound, and she also twisted her body erratically.
Any man being hugged by her would probably be losing his temper by now.
But unfortunately it isn't.
Xu Haiyu forcibly grabbed the aunt's hand and made her touch her chest, constantly rubbing her soft breasts against her. The aunt couldn't hold back any longer.
"Xu Haiyu, look carefully at who I really am!"
Once that aunt spoke, everyone else couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Someone walked over and lit the kerosene lamp. Xu Haiyu saw that five or six people stood up one after another in the room, while Xin Li leaned against the headboard and looked at her calmly. Xu Haiyu's face turned as white as a dead person.
"The world is going to the dogs! I never imagined that you, Xu Haiyu, would be this kind of person!"
The aunt looked at Xu Haiyu with disdain: "It's one thing if you like raising your own brother, but after all, you're not blood-related. It may not sound nice, but no one will interfere."
"But your brother is already married, and you come here in the middle of the night, reeking of alcohol, offering yourself up as a bedmate. Do you know that's a crime?!"
"I used to speak up for you, thinking you were a kind-hearted girl. Everyone believed you and thought Xinli was bad in this way and that way. Now it seems we were wrong about you!"
"Luckily we realized it early, otherwise we don't know how much you would have fooled us! You are truly disgusting, Xu Haiyu!"
These people blushed with shame whenever they thought about how they had listened to Xu Haiyu and spoken ill of Xin Li behind her back, and how they had even provoked Xin Li to her face.
Especially considering that Xin Li is so forgiving and doesn't care about the past at all, and is even willing to teach them how to catch seafood without holding back any knowledge, it makes them seem even more brainless.
The culprit behind all of this is Xu Haiyu!
They were saying, "How come Xu Haiyu, who usually stays on the island and doesn't go out often, knows so much about Xin Li?"
Even though they didn't have much contact, Xu Haiyu spoke ill of Xin Li in every single word.
Not only that, she seemed to know exactly what kind of person Xin Li was in Shanghai, describing it vividly as if she had seen it with her own eyes!
At that time, they only thought that Xu Haiyu was also Xin Li's sister-in-law, and the two of them must have had more contact than others, so it was normal for them to know these inside details.
Looking back now, it's really unreasonable in every way!
"I'll go next door and call Sister Lu over."
Zhang Jinhua is the cadre in charge of these matters; it's the right thing to do to find her.
Upon hearing this, Xu Haiyu swayed unsteadily: "No, aunties, you've misunderstood me. I just drank too much and went into the wrong house. I'll go back right now."
Xu Haiyu turned to leave as she spoke.
An older woman strode forward and stopped the person.
"Why are you leaving? After doing something like this, you think you can just walk away?"
Xu Haiyu burst into tears.
If this gets out, she'll be too ashamed to show her face on the island.
Moreover, Zhang Jinhua was already extremely disappointed in her, and if he were to find out about this, she would probably lose her last support on the island.
"I was really just drunk. I'm in a bad mood because Mingzhou hasn't been talking to me lately... Please let me go back."
"I will never do it again next time."
Xu Haiyu was practically kneeling before these people.
Seeing the child they had watched grow up so anxious, like an ant on a hot pan, everyone felt a pang of sympathy.
Unable to make up their minds, they all looked at Xinli.
Xin Li, who was watching the show, suddenly found herself in the spotlight. She gave everyone an awkward smile and said, "Aunties, you should handle this yourselves."
Everyone felt sorry for her when they saw her like this.
Xin Li is the biggest victim of tonight's incident.
Xu Haiyu's reckless behavior is utterly shameless.
Remembering how Xu Haiyu had slandered Xin Li and even deliberately disappeared to make everyone misunderstand her, the hearts that had just softened hardened again.
The aunt who was being harassed by Xu Haiyu said directly, "Come on, you're being played for a pitiful role. You weren't like this when you were shoving my hand into your chest."
"Xu Haiyu, a young lady should be more reserved. Tell me, what kind of things have you done!"
Xu Haiyu never expected her to say this in public, and covered her face in shame and indignation: "I..."
She tried to defend herself, but found that no matter what she said, she was in the wrong.
After all, everything she said and did was irrefutable evidence that she was seducing a married man.
If this gets out, no one will believe that she didn't do it on purpose.
"Auntie...I know I was wrong, please give me another chance..."
Xu Haiyu finally realized the meaning of fear.
At this time, having an affair or disrupting a military marriage is a very serious crime.
She was someone He Mingzhou treated like a younger sister, and coveting her own brother was something the world found utterly shameful.
If she weren't afraid of these rumors, she wouldn't have been so afraid to have any ideas for so many years.
Unexpectedly, her carefully concealed thoughts over the years were completely exposed in this desperate gamble!
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