Zhou Lan said with a smile, "If it weren't for your request today, Third Sister-in-law, to brew medicine for Third Brother, I might have gone with Second Sister to see what's new."
This gave Ning Huan a wake-up call. It turned out that the person who had been conspiring with Niu Dadan was actually Zhou Yan, the second sister of the Zhou family.
She gave a cold laugh. Since the enemy was in the open and she was in the shadows, she wasn't in a hurry to go over there.
Moreover, if I go now, even if I have an alibi, Zhou Yan might still say that I ran away.
So he simply waited for the medicine to be brewed before taking Zhou Lan with him.
Ning Huan smiled and said to Zhou Lan, "Big sister, I also love watching a good show. In that case, let's go take a look together later!"
Although Zhou Lan found it a little strange, she didn't say anything. She smiled and replied, "Then let's wait until Third Brother finishes his medicine, and then the two of us will go and see him together."
When Zhou Jing'an was taking his medicine, he saw Ning Huan standing beside him, smiling faintly.
The smile wasn't exactly happy, nor was it a sneer; it was more like the feeling of a child who had secretly played a clever trick.
He smiled too: "What are you laughing at? And didn't you say you were going out? Why haven't you left yet?"
Ning Huan then came to her senses and said with a smile, "I wasn't laughing at anything. I was originally going out, but when I saw my older sister arrive, I thought I'd chat with her a bit more. We'll go out together in a little while."
Zhou Jing'an raised an eyebrow; he couldn't recall when his older sister and Ning Huan had become so close.
Zhou Lan smiled and replied, "Yes, my sister-in-law and I are going out to see what's going on. Now that the medicine is ready, you can drink it slowly, my brother. We'll head out first."
When Ning Huan and Zhou Lan slowly walked to the dilapidated house, they happened to catch everyone talking about her.
Yang said angrily, "Sister, you weren't here just now, you don't know..."
Zhou Yan quickly interrupted Yang Shi and then questioned her before she could, "Third sister-in-law, what have you been doing all night?"
She was now thinking that as long as Ning Huan said she went out tonight, she would deny Ning Huan's affair with Niu Dadan.
When Zhou Yan saw her walking with her older sister, she knew that the matter was over and that Ning Huan couldn't be blamed for it.
But she always clung to a sliver of hope: what if it was Zhou Lan that Ning Huan encountered on the road?
As long as the eldest sister says that her encounter with Ning Huan was accidental, there is still hope.
Before Ning Huan could speak, Zhou Lan said with dissatisfaction, "Second sister, what do you mean by that accusatory tone? What else could Third Brother's wife be doing tonight? If she's not home to take care of Third Brother, what else could she be doing?"
Zhou Yan snorted coldly: "Big sister, don't take her side. Did you two meet on the street?"
Zhou Lan glanced at her second sister and said, "Zhou Yan, didn't you understand what your eldest sister just said? Third sister-in-law has been at home all night. When I arrived at third brother's house, she was brewing medicine for him."
"I was the one who said I wanted to take her out for a walk, and that's why she came out of the house. How did it become that we met on the street?"
Ke Ruxiu said angrily from the side, "Impossible! I clearly heard her and Niu Dadan talking on the mountain today about having a secret rendezvous in the dilapidated house tonight!"
Ning Huan then realized that there were actually two people on the ground. She originally thought that only Niu Dadan would be discovered, but she did not expect that Ke Ruxiu would also be there.
Judging from her tone, she must have overheard what Niu Dadan and she said when they met on the mountain today.
Ning Huan raised an eyebrow and said, "Do you have any evidence to prove that? Who saw the two of us on the mountain today?"
Before Ke Ruxiu could say anything, several aunties whispered, "Isn't this something? We saw Madam Xu on the mountain this morning, but Niu Dadan followed her down the mountain not long after she came down."
"According to this timeline, doesn't that mean that this Mrs. Xu and..."
The old woman stopped mid-sentence, no longer daring to continue.
Ke Ruxiu panicked and collapsed to the ground. She never expected that the evidence she had intended to use to eavesdrop on the two's secret meeting this morning would be seen by others as proof that she had been having an affair with Niu Dadan for a long time.
She clung to Xu Xian's leg, crying desperately, "Husband, I really didn't! You have to believe me, it really was that bitch Ning Huan! How could I be with someone like Niu Dadan!"
Hearing this, Ning Huan coldly asked her, "Ke Ruxiu, what do you mean by that? Do you think I would be with someone like Niu Dadan? Don't forget who my husband is. Do you think I would abandon my own husband to be with someone like Niu Dadan?"
Then she paused, "Besides, my husband even thinks about you..."
Before she could finish speaking, Ke Ruxiu's expression changed: "You bitch, shut up!"
At this moment, Xu Xian finally couldn't hold back and slapped Ke Ruxiu hard across the face: "You bitch, shut up!"
He knew that Ke Ruxiu had never let go of her feelings for Zhou Jing'an, and that she had heard some things from others after returning home. Xu's father had already said a lot to him behind his back.
But he always believed that if he treated Ke Ruxiu seriously, sooner or later this woman would see his good qualities.
But today's events completely changed Xu Xian's mind.
Having already been bullied by Niu Dadan and humiliated by the villagers' pointing fingers, Ke Ruxiu was now being treated this way by Xu Xian, and she completely broke down.
She sat on the ground, wailing and crying, "I really didn't!"
Seeing Ke Ruxiu crying so miserably, Xu Xian, who was originally furious, took off his clothes and went forward to cover Ke Ruxiu with them.
Bai cried out from the side, "What a terrible thing!"
If she had known this would happen, she would never have arranged such a marriage for her son.
After Xu Xian covered Ke Ruxiu with his clothes, he turned to Bai Shi and said, "Mother, I believe in my wife."
Upon hearing this, Madam Bai was stunned, even forgetting to cry: "Son, what did you say?"
Xu Xian said quietly, "Mother, I said I believe her. I believe Ru Xiu didn't do such a thing. Shall we take her home together?"
Bai looked at Ke Ruxiu, who was sitting on the ground and crying bitterly, and then at Xu's father, whose face was ashen, and nodded.
Regardless of whether the daughter-in-law's story is true or false, we can't let the villagers continue to laugh at the Xu family.
But an old woman nearby said, "Sister Bai, according to custom, a woman who commits adultery should be drowned in a pig cage..."
Before Bai could speak, Xu Xian said, "I believe my wife did not do such a thing."
Bai continued, "My daughter-in-law wouldn't do such a thing. Maybe that daring Niu was lustful and deliberately humiliated her. So we need to take her back and comfort her properly."
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