Chapter 53 Slander!
Feng Lan took a deep breath, walked over and opened the gate.
At the door, two groups of men appeared, their faces threatening. The leaders were none other than the heads of the Qian and Li families. Behind them, their beloved sons were being carried on door panels. Young Master Qian and Fatty Li, one with a thick bandage wrapped around his waist, the other with both hands tied high with wooden planks, their faces pale and groaning, like pigs waiting to be slaughtered.
A plump woman dressed in silk, the mother of Mr. Qian, pointed at Feng Lan's nose and cursed her the moment she saw her. "Feng Lan, you are so arrogant! How can you let your husband take care of my son after he beat him like this?"
Fatty Li's father, a butcher with a face full of flesh, stabbed his butcher knife into the ground and roared viciously, "If you don't pay three hundred taels for medical expenses today and kneel down and kowtow to my son and admit your mistakes, I will force your entire family to leave this village!"
Behind them, a thin figure was peering out. It was Chen Kangnian. He saw Feng Lan's gaze and immediately retreated guiltily, but he whispered something to the Qian and Li families, fanning the flames. Clearly, he was behind this incident, orchestrating it.
Feng Lan looked at this group of people and sneered in her heart.
She didn't get angry. Instead, she showed an embarrassed and innocent expression and spread her hands. "Two gentlemen, two ladies, what you said is very strange. Your son ran to the mountain behind our house and plotted against my daughter, Da Ya. As a man, I am eager to protect my daughter, so I hit him a little harder, which is understandable. How come you say that it is our fault?"
"Bullshit!" Mrs. Qian screamed. "It was clearly your little bitch, shameless, who seduced my son! Otherwise, why would my son run off to that desolate back mountain for no reason?"
"That's right!" Butcher Li also shouted, "My son said that the girl came up to them because she saw how well they were dressed! She started a fuss because she thought the money we gave was too little! Now she's turning the tables on us. How shameless!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the villagers who were watching the excitement around were suddenly in an uproar.
Daya and Erya hid in the house, listening to the foul language outside, shaking with anger. Daya's face, which had just regained a touch of color, turned pale again.
Feng Lan's expression darkened completely. She knew that it was impossible to reason with this group of people.
"Okay." She suddenly smiled, and there was an indescribable chill in that smile. "Since you all say that it was my daughter who seduced first, then let's not settle it privately. Let's just report it to the police."
She raised her chin, her voice not loud but clearly heard throughout the place.
"Let's go to the county government office now and beat the drum to protest! Let the county magistrate conduct a trial! Let's see if it was your son who raped the girl, or if it was my daughter who behaved improperly! When the time comes, the right and wrong will be determined by justice! If it is truly my daughter's fault, we will accept the punishment! But if your son abuses his power to bully others and falsely accuses someone of innocence, then according to Daliang law, this crime is more than just paying a few hundred taels of silver!"
Go to the county government office?
The Qian and Li families were stunned.
They had assumed that these country folk were most afraid of seeing the authorities. If they made enough noise, the other party would surely pay to avoid the disaster for the sake of reputation. Who could have imagined that Feng Lan was such a tough guy, ready to go to the authorities the moment she opened her mouth?
They knew their own son's character well. If this matter were to go to court, it would be clear who was right and who was wrong. In that case, they would be the ones to be embarrassed.
Mrs. Qian and Butcher Li looked at each other and saw a hint of retreat in each other's eyes.
At this moment, Chen Kangnian, who had been hiding in the back, saw that the situation was not good and became anxious. He took a few steps forward and whispered a few words to Mrs. Qian. Mrs. Qian's eyes lit up and her face became arrogant again.
"Let's go to the county government office! Who's afraid of who?" She put her hands on her hips and sneered, "But before we go to the county government office, there are some things that need to be made clear in front of the villagers! Chen Kangnian!"
She suddenly shouted loudly.
Chen Kangnian, as if receiving an imperial decree, immediately stepped out from behind the crowd. He cleared his throat, put on a look of deep sorrow, and bowed to the surrounding villagers.
"Dear fellow villagers, dear uncles! Our family has suffered misfortune and such a scandal has happened. I, Chen Kangnian, feel ashamed!" He paused, his eyes swept over Feng Lan coldly, and finally fell on the frail figure at the door.
"My eldest brother and his wife have been living a prosperous life since they separated from us. But my niece, you know, has been terrified of poverty since she was little, and now she's bewildered by wealth. Yesterday, when she saw Young Master Qian and Young Master Li dressed so well, she became possessed by evil intentions. Under the pretext of picking mushrooms, she lured the two young masters deep into the jungle, intending to... to commit an indecent act and demand money!"
"The two young masters are well-educated and sensible people, so they naturally refused to obey. My niece was so angry that she and her sisters attacked two of my classmates! My eldest brother heard the news and rushed over, and without asking any questions, he beat them severely! Now, they are trying to complain first!"
He confuses right and wrong in his words, and speaks with great emotion, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
With a loud "boom", the crowd was completely shocked.
A girl who was almost sold to a cripple seduced a rich young man. This story was quite interesting. Many people looked at Daya with contempt and disdain.
"You're talking nonsense!" Erya rushed out angrily, pointing at Chen Kangnian and cursing, "You scoundrel! It was you! You tricked my eldest sister into going to the woods! You sold her to them for money!"
"You little girl, you're slandering me!" Chen Kangnian's expression remained unchanged, but instead he looked aggrieved. "I know you hate me because I refused to help you. But you can't slander me like that! I'm your uncle!"
"You--" Erya was so angry that she couldn't speak.
In the room, Daya listened to Chen Kangnian's heart-piercing words and the villagers' unbearable discussions outside. She felt dizzy and her whole world was collapsing.
It turned out that this was the "justice" her parents sought for her.
It turns out that in everyone's eyes, she is such a shameless bad woman.
Humiliation, anger, despair... all the emotions, like evil spirits, were tearing at her madly.
Why is she still alive?
Is the purpose of living to be pointed at and criticized like this and to be treated as a joke?
An idea was growing wildly in her mind.
When you die, you can't hear anything.
If I die, I won’t bring shame to my parents anymore.
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