Chapter 38 She's Dead

"I'm not like you. You're smart, good-looking, and have a brother who protects you. But I have nothing. Tiande passed away early, Juan'er is a sickly child, and Erniu is still young. I can't do anything. I can't just watch them starve to death. I know you look down on me, and I look down on myself, but I have no other way. I have nothing but this wretched body."

Chunniang held her face in pain and cried inconsolably.

"Whether you believe it or not, I have never looked down on you. I just..." Liang Jinyu paused and said in a deep voice, "I just see myself in you."

I once retreated step by step and was finally forced into a dead end.

"Just hang in there for now. If everything goes well, I'll show you a different way." Liang Jinyu said, and quickly walked out of the room.

Chunniang looked at the door with tearful eyes, her lips trembling. It was a different road. Was there any other way she could take?

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The moon is dim and the night is dark.

In the woodshed, Liang Jinyu's carriage turned sideways.

She was thinking in her heart that Li Zheng had told her to go to Liuhe Manor in seven days.

According to the time calculation, tomorrow would be the seventh day, and she had to find a reason to go out.

Although Chunniang is now there to divert the Chen family's attention, Chen Lai Fu will still be wary of her when she goes out.

Especially since Liuhezhuang is too far away, it takes a whole day to go there and back, so ordinary excuses are useless.

"You shameless slut, you vixen who deserves to be killed a thousand times, I will beat you to death!"

Suddenly, Wang's sharp curses were heard from outside, followed by Chunniang's screams and old man Chen's scolding.

Liang Jinyu's heart skipped a beat and she quickly got up.

"Sister, why are you so noisy?" Liang Dingfang asked confusedly, rubbing his eyes.

"Something happened. I'll go take a look." Liang Jinyu only had time to say this before he put on his clothes and went out.

After taking a few steps, I bumped into someone with a bang.

"What's going on? Why did I hear your grandma swearing at people?" Liang Jinyu supported Dani who had bumped into him and asked anxiously.

Chen Dani pointed outside and said excitedly: "The old lady had her skin cut off - she opened her eyes. Lao Deng was talking to someone in the haystack, but he was discovered by the old woman and is making a fuss."

When Liang Jinyu heard this, her heart skipped a beat and she said, "Oh no, something bad is going to happen."

Chen Dani saw the excitement and said, "Yes, the old lady is almost going crazy. Let's go and take a look."

When Liang Jinyu rushed to the front yard, he saw Chunniang lying on the ground in dishevel, begging for mercy and crying heartbreakingly.

Wang sat on her, hitting her on the head and cursing, "You shameless bitch, that's your father-in-law, don't you have a man of your own? I'll beat you to death, you slut!"

Old man Chen was busy putting on his clothes and did not step forward to stop them.

Under the eaves not far away, Chen Lai Fu's face turned livid and he stared at Chun Niang with a look as if filled with poison.

"No, I'm sorry, please spare me, please spare me, I was forced... Help, help me." Chunniang struggled and begged bitterly.

But Wang was so angry that she would never listen to her. Instead, she became even more ruthless.

"stop!"

Liang Jinyu rushed over and grabbed Wang's arm, "If you continue to hit her, someone will die!"

"Someone died? She is shameless and stole a man. She deserves to die. What a scumbag! How dare she steal a man under my nose!" Wang was quite strong. She pushed Liang Jinyu away fiercely, turned around and slapped Chunniang a few more times.

Liang Jinyu felt as if a huge rock was blocking her chest, and she was having trouble breathing. She glared at Old Man Chen and said, "Do you want to watch Chunniang being beaten to death?"

Old man Chen's eyes flickered, his hands trembling slightly as he fastened his belt. He raised his head and said angrily, "She seduced me first, and I haven't settled the score with her yet! She dared to seduce me today, and who knows who she will seduce tomorrow. She deserves to be beaten as a whore, and beaten to death!"

Liang Jinyu had long known that Old Man Chen was ruthless and cruel, but she never expected that he could be so cruel.

"No, no, you forced me. You were the one who forced me from the beginning..." Chunniang shook her head and cried bitterly. She didn't know where she got the strength from, but she pushed Wang away and staggered out.

"You bitch, you still want to run away!" Wang rushed forward and grabbed Chunniang's hair.

Chunniang screamed miserably and suddenly knelt on the ground, holding her stomach.

"Stop fighting!" Liang Jinyu shouted hurriedly.

But the next moment, Wang kicked Chunniang on the back, pulled her hair and punched her twice.

"She's pregnant! She's pregnant!" Liang Jinyu shouted anxiously and rushed forward to try to push Wang away.

Wang grabbed Chunniang's hair tightly and instead of letting her go, she pushed her against a wooden stake nearby.

"Blood, bleeding!" Chen Dani covered her mouth in shock, stomped her feet and pointed at Chunniang's feet, "She's bleeding a lot."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked towards Chunniang's feet, where a large patch of blood was spreading.

Wang was so frightened that she let go of Chunniang with a scream, and sat down on the ground with her face turning pale instantly.

"I told you she's pregnant!" Liang Jinyu roared angrily, and hurried over to help Chunniang up.

Chunniang looked towards the door in despair. She was almost able to escape.

No, even if she went out that door, she couldn't escape.

"Chun Niang, Chun Niang, how are you?" Liang Jinyu looked at Chun Niang covered in blood, her voice trembling.

Chunniang blinked weakly, then looked at Liang Jinyu, as if she wanted to say something, but she tried to open her mouth, but no sound came out.

Liang Jinyu helped Chunniang up and tried to carry her on his back.

But before Liang Jinyu could get up, Chunniang's body fell crookedly in a pool of blood like a puppet with its strings cut.

Liang Jinyu was stunned and her mind went blank.

"She, she, she's dead? She's dead!" Wang screamed in horror and rushed into the house, rolling and crawling.

Old man Chen's face also changed drastically, and he shouted at Liang Jinyu: "What are you still standing there for? Take her to see a doctor, go now!"

Chen Laifu looked at Chunniang's corpse with disgust: "Why is she still seeing a doctor when she's already dead? She asked for it."

[What should I do? Does this count as indirect murder? How did it turn out like this? If I had known, I would not have told the old woman.]

Chen Dani was flustered and regretful.

She originally wanted to see a joke, but who would have thought that the old woman would be so cruel as to actually kill someone.

Hearing Dani's thoughts, Liang Jinyu looked at her in surprise, wanting to ask her what she had done, but she couldn't ask directly under the current circumstances.

After a while, Chunniang died.

I don’t know whether she was beaten to death by the old woman or because of excessive blood loss from miscarriage, the reason is no longer important.

Late at night, the Chen family gathered around Chunniang's body, discussing what to do.

Old Man Chen's face was gloomy: "What can we do? We can't let your mother go to jail."

"I won't go to jail. I won't go to jail! She was the one who cheated first, she deserves it. Anyway, there's no one left at home, so just say she was with a strange man." Wang shrank in her chair, saying fearfully.

Chen Laifu frowned and said, "Why not just throw it in the back mountain and bury it in a hole. There are many wild animals in the mountain."