"You little bitch, I should have strangled you when you were born, how dare you smear your cousin!"
With the villagers chiming in, Xu Shi and Xu Dagui felt even more emboldened to curse, glaring fiercely at Jiang Hua as if they wanted to strangle her right then and there.
Just as Xu Dagui was about to continue his outburst, someone in the crowd spoke up again. Jiang Hua looked at him; it was the village chief, Xu Wanli.
"Xu Dagui, Xu Shi, now that things have already happened, what do you want to do?" Xu Wanli said, then looked at a man holding the hand of a child who looked about seven or eight years old.
“Xiao Jiang, although Er Ya was in the wrong first, the news about you and Er Ya today has already spread. It wouldn’t be right for you not to take responsibility.”
After hearing Xu Wanli's words, not only Jiang Xingzhou, who was mentioned, frowned, but Jiang Hua was also somewhat shocked. Was the position of village chief bought?
Jiang Xingzhou glanced at Jiang Hua, then looked at Xu Wanli: "Village Chief Xu, what do you think we should do?"
"Aunt, Uncle, since Sister Er Ya and Brother Jiang have already been intimate, and it's become known throughout the village, why don't we let Sister Er Ya marry Brother Jiang?" Lin Shuyan advised understandingly.
"This..." Xu Shi and Xu Dagui were also unsure of what to do.
Xu Wanli also agreed with Lin Shuyan's words and chimed in to persuade her.
“It’s not impossible for us to marry Er Ya into the family as a stepmother. Now, we’ll get our money back for all the money we’ve spent raising her over the years.”
An old woman came out of the house. This was the original owner's grandmother, Madam Xu.
"How much silver do you want?" Jiang Xingzhou asked directly before Village Chief Xu could even ask.
Jiang Hua could tell that he didn't want to stay there and wanted to resolve the matter quickly.
“Fifty taels of silver!” said Madam Xu, holding out her palm.
Everyone present gasped in shock. Fifty taels?
They had never seen a family accept fifty taels of silver as a wedding gift for their daughter in their entire lives.
"Big Xu, what kind of joke is this?" Village Chief Xu asked with some dissatisfaction.
"What's wrong with fifty taels of silver? Even though he touched my Er Ya, that girl has been eating for free in my house for fifteen years. Asking for fifty taels is already merciful!" Madam Xu said loudly and shamelessly.
What do you think?
Seeing Jiang Xingzhou suddenly look at her, Jiang Hua finally realized what was happening: "Consider this fifty taels as a loan to you, and I'll go with you."
Having just sorted through the original owner's memories, Jiang Hua realized that the best course of action now was to escape this home. Since an opportunity was readily available, she seized it.
After all, he was new here and hadn't figured out what was going on, or about the system that had suddenly appeared in his mind.
Seeing Jiang Hua nod, Jiang Xingzhou felt a slight surprise, but he still looked at Madam Xu with a normal expression: "Then it's as you said, fifty taels of silver, I'll give it to you in three days."
"That would be perfect!" Madam Xu then put away her sharp and sarcastic expression and looked at Jiang Xingzhou as if he were a god of wealth: "However, you can take Er Ya away whenever you bring the money."
"Fine." Jiang Xingzhou replied indifferently, then took the child in his hand and left.
"Er Ya, you've turned misfortune into blessing! Look at you, who else is as lucky as you? When you get married, your children will be calling you 'Mother'!" Madam Xu forced a bright smile onto her wrinkled face as she looked at Jiang Hua.
Jiang Hua felt that in this grandmother's eyes, she was now just a walking fifty taels of silver.
"It's true that anything you say sounds different coming from Grandma's mouth. The truth is, Grandma sold me to Jiang Xingzhou for fifty taels of silver, didn't she?" Jiang Hua sneered.
"Since Grandma thinks this is a good fortune, why not let my cousin marry him?"
Upon hearing Jiang Hua's words, Madam Xu's face immediately fell.
"You little slut, you dare to compare yourself to Yan Yan? You went out of your way to drug her, it's your shamelessness that's the problem, what does it have to do with Yan Yan?" Xu Shi cursed.
Jiang Hua looked at the innocent-looking Lin Shuyan with a half-smile. She knew best whether Xu Erya had been eager to drug Jiang Xingzhou.
Zhou Yingxuan's house was right next door, and the distance between it and Jiang Xingzhou's house was like the beginning and end of a village. Anyone with a brain could see that something was amiss.
However, everyone present now believes in Lin Shuyan.
"Of course, because she is the female lead, she has the female lead aura!"
After a long silence, the system seemed to have guessed Jiang Hua's doubts and kindly offered a reminder.
"Er Ya, you're still bleeding from your head. I'll take you back to get some medicine." Zhou Yingxuan suddenly took a few steps closer to Jiang Hua and said, trying to hold her hand as he used to.
Jiang Hua glanced coldly at Zhou Yingxuan, who had reached out his hand to her. At that moment, a sharp pain flashed through her heart—the original owner's disappointment in Zhou Yingxuan.
Just now, from the original owner's memories before death, I saw that the original owner was dragged off Jiang Xingzhou's bed by Xu Dagui and beaten all the way back.
When the original owner of this body was beaten to the point of near death, she was still explaining to the man in front of her that she was still innocent and had never had anything to do with Jiang Xingzhou.
She became drowsy after drinking a glass of water that Lin Shuyan handed her, and when she woke up, she found herself lying in Jiang Xingzhou's bed.
Before she could think any further, Lin Shuyan had already brought the villagers to find her.
In his memory, when the original owner mentioned Lin Shuyan, Zhou Yingxuan's face was full of disgust, and his words pierced the original owner's heart even more:
“Xu Erya, don’t blame Yan Yan for the disgusting things you did. She’s different from you. You’re rotten to the core, which is why you came up with such a sinister plan.”
Because of this sentence, the original owner became furious and used all his strength to get up from the ground, wanting to strangle Lin Shuyan. Before he could get close to Lin Shuyan, Xu Dagui kicked him to the ground, and he crashed into the stone steps.
The poor original owner, before dying, watched as the man she admired protected the woman who had framed her behind his back, his eyes filled with deep disgust as he looked at her.
This reminded Jiang Hua of a sentence she had seen before.
I thought you were my salvation, but I never imagined you would become my abyss.
"What, you don't think I'm dirty anymore, Zhou Yingxuan?" Jiang Hua glanced coldly at Zhou Yingxuan before turning and walking into the kitchen.
Since drinking the water Lin Shuyan handed her yesterday, Jiang Hua hasn't eaten anything since sunset today. Right now, she feels like she won't be able to hold on if she doesn't eat something soon. Fortunately, the blood from the wound on her head has already clotted.
"This brat actually knows how to work."
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