Chapter 135 Put Away Your Overly Kind Heart
"Ye Hua, who is the adulterer?"
One sentence drained all the color from Ye Hua's face.
"Ye Hua, you've only been a widow for Wang Hu for half a year. If you wanted to remarry, you should have just told me. You wouldn't have ended up like this. What are you trying to achieve?"
Village Chief Wang looked at Ye Hua with a displeased expression.
Wang Hu has been dead for half a year. It's only natural for a woman to remarry if she can't survive on her own. But Ye Hua chose to secretly have an affair with a man, and now she's been exposed. If he doesn't do something about it, it will ruin the atmosphere in Wangjia Village.
"Village chief, there is no adulterer, I am innocent." Ye Hua knelt down in plain clothes, defending herself.
It was still chilly in early spring, and kneeling on the ground for a short while made me very cold.
"If there's no adulterer, where did the men's underwear in your house come from? Don't tell me it's Wang Hu's. When Wang Hu died, you had everything burned! Not even a sock was left."
"Yeah, we can't just keep a pair of underwear as a keepsake, can we?"
"Pah, shameless! She seems so proper all the time, but I never imagined she'd be sleeping with a man like that behind his back. I was even thinking of telling her to my brother!"
"You guys say the more chaste a woman is, the more wanton she is in bed, right...?"
The villagers were all talking at once, pointing and gossiping about Ye Hua. There's always a lot of gossip around a widow's house.
"Quiet!"
Village Chief Wang sternly stopped the foul language, then looked at Ye Hua with a serious expression, "I'll give you one more chance. Who is the adulterer? You've been deceived. Tell me and I'll treat you leniently."
Having received favors from Ye Wan, he naturally treated Ye Hua with extra care. As long as she revealed the man's name, he would target that man.
Ye Hua's face turned pale. "Village chief, I'm not that kind of person. How could I possibly have an adulterer? I don't know what happened to these pants either."
She had no idea that a woman would come and search her house this morning and find men's pants, specifically their underpants.
Then she was accused of cheating on her husband, and she was completely speechless.
Village Chief Wang sighed, "Ye Hua, if you don't talk, then you'll have to be punished. According to the rules, it's ten lashes."
According to the village rules, a widow who commits adultery will be punished with a whipping.
This is why, in the past, they would have been arrested and drowned.
Ye Hua's lips trembled. As a woman, to be accused of such a crime and publicly whipped was no different from being stripped naked in public.
From now on, everyone will say she's immoral, but she really doesn't know that.
"be mine!"
Wang Ming suddenly spoke up from the crowd.
"Brother Ming! What nonsense are you talking about?" Yingzi hurriedly pulled Wang Ming away.
Wang Ming didn't even glance at Yingzi, but pushed through the crowd and stepped forward. "The village chief's expression is because I have feelings for her. I've been pestering her relentlessly, and when she didn't agree, I did it on purpose..."
At this point, Wang Ming looked at Ye Hua and saw the puzzled look on her face. He smiled bitterly and continued, "I deliberately hid my pants in her house so that I could use them to blackmail her into marrying me. But I didn't expect that someone else would find out."
The village chief frowned. "Wang Ming, think carefully before you speak."
This is no small matter; if it's confirmed, Wang Ming's reputation will be ruined.
Wang Ming's parents died early, and his grandmother raised him. She was an upright person and would not do such a thing.
"Yes, Brother Ming, you forgot that there are me and Grandma at home. You can't say anything just to save Sister Hua."
Yingzi covered her mouth and cried out.
Wang Ming knelt down. "I've already admitted it myself, so what else do you not believe? Village Chief, you shouldn't have hit Ye Hua, you should have hit me."
"What a terrible thing to do."
Grandma Wang shouted from the crowd and suddenly fell backward.
"Grandma, Grandma!"
Yingzi panicked and cried out to Wang Ming, "Wang Ming, are you going to kill Grandma with anger?! You…!"
Wang Ming hurriedly stood up, glanced at Ye Hua, and hesitated in his eyes.
Ye Hua shook her head. "Wang Ming, leave me alone. There's nothing between us. You don't need to drag yourself into this."
Wang Ming gritted his teeth and rushed out to carry his grandmother to the clinic.
"Village chief, it's not Wang Ming." Ye Hua breathed a sigh of relief.
She cannot implicate others for no reason.
"Who is that!"
"I don't know who it is either."
The village chief's face darkened. "Since that's the case, you'll take the ten lashes."
Ye Hua had no way to refute it, so she closed her eyes.
"stop!"
Just as Village Chief Wang raised his whip, Ye Wan arrived on horseback.
"Little sister!" Ye Hua saw the surprise flash in Ye Wan's eyes, which quickly turned into worry.
"How can you hit people without even knowing the facts!" Ye Wan dismounted, stood in front of Ye Hua, and pulled her up from the ground.
"Village Chief Wang, ask him what you promised me?"
He took her money but did nothing.
Village Chief Wang's face was somewhat grim. "It's not that I want to make things difficult for her, but Ye Hua is having an affair. If this kind of trend sets in, everyone in the village will follow suit, and then how will we manage them?"
Ye Wan sneered, "Cheating? What about the adulterer? Why are you only blaming my eldest sister!"
"As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you need to catch him red-handed; to catch an adulterer, you need to catch them in the act. You can't just convict my older sister based on a pair of pants."
No sooner had Ye Wan finished speaking than someone shouted.
"If she didn't steal anyone, where would she get men's underwear? If you ask me, we should strip her naked and beat her, so the villagers can see what happens!"
"Exactly! She's a widow and still so shameless. If she can't stay a widow, she should just get married already! What's with being a prostitute!"
Most of those shouting were women, while the men stared at Ye Hua with ill intent.
"Shut up!"
"According to you, if you found your father-in-law's pants in your room, does that mean you and your father-in-law had an affair? You should be drowned in a pig cage!"
"And you, carrying that guy's stuff all the time, rolling around in haystacks with him every day, making all sorts of lewd noises, what are you pretending to be so important for!"
Ye Wan called out names one by one to the woman who was calling out to her.
The women's faces changed drastically. "You're lying! We didn't!"
Ye Wan sneered, "You think you can just say you don't have any evidence? What if you produce proof? Aunt Hui, search their house!"
Hui-gu returned with several pairs of men's underpants and women's lingerie in one trip.
"These were all found in those women's houses!"
"And these women's undergarments were found in the homes of bachelors!"
Ye Wan said directly to Village Chief Wang, "Village Chief, these people are stealing people. Make them kneel down and be whipped!"
Even Village Chief Wang was losing face listening to this, and reminded Ye Wan, "This...you can't talk nonsense."
“Village Chief Wang, how do you know I’m talking nonsense? I’m telling the truth.”
Ye Wan said seriously, "These are what they found in these people's houses. If you don't believe me, we'll bring people to search again!"
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