“You’re talking nonsense!” Fatty Wang retorted without hesitation.
In his mind, his father was a proper, old-fashioned man whose ancestors were all scholars and who had family rules that a husband could only take a concubine if his wife had no children by the age of thirty.
His father never had any extramarital affairs. Even when he went to brothels, he never let anyone get pregnant. He dared not violate the family precepts and let women cause trouble at home.
Moreover, his father and mother got married before his father passed the imperial examination. That means that when his father went to Langzhou to take up his post, he already had a wife and daughter. He took his whole family with him to take up his post. How could he possibly have an affair with a woman outside?
"Whether I'm lying or not, people in this world know. If you don't believe me, you can go to Luzi Village in Chenyuan County, Langzhou, and ask the oldest elders in the village. Back then, your father and I were kidnapped by bandits and imprisoned in one place. I was only thirteen years old then, not yet of marriageable age. The bandits told your father to humiliate me, or they would kill him. Your father agreed, and they had him humiliate me first, then they all humiliated me together. Your father just watched as I told them to kill me, and when they pounced on me, I told them to kill me. He didn't. To save his life, he obeyed the bandits. To save his life, he personally lit the incense the bandits had given him for amusement. He said that once his men rescued him, he would give me a proper status, he would kill all the bandits, no one would know my past, and he would let me stay in his mansion, giving me a safe haven. He told me to obey the bandits and live. I believed him and gritted my teeth and survived."
“Then, every day the bandits would give him an incense stick to fuel their passion, and he would light it while a group of people watched us do our thing in the house. When the bandits got excited, they would join in. Several times I wanted to kill myself, and I begged him to kill me. He told me to live, and he would give me a new life. I survived because of those words. Then I was rescued, but he didn't kill all the bandits; one of them escaped. I thought he had brought everyone to justice, that he had killed them all. I knew I wasn't worthy of his status, and I only begged him to testify that I hadn't been harmed. He was the magistrate, and the people in our village would surely believe him, and then I would have a slightly better life.”
"He helped me. He didn't mention his promise to me and let me go home with him. But a month later, I became pregnant. At that time, the escaped bandit was caught. All my shameful deeds were exposed, but the bandit didn't say that he had touched me every day. I was afraid to go out in the village; everyone shunned me. At this time, he didn't stand up and say anything; he just imprisoned the bandit. I couldn't bear the pressure, so I told my mother what had happened in the mountain stronghold. My mother went to the yamen to find him. He wouldn't see my mother; he told her to come see my mother." That night, my mother died; she smashed her head against the yamen (government office) and died. My brothers and sisters-in-law couldn't tolerate me anymore, and dared not offend the county magistrate. They gave my mother a hasty burial and then sold me to a traveling peddler. I left Langzhou with the peddler. Several months later, I gave birth to a son. But the child was born with defects; the doctor said it was because I hadn't taken good care of myself during pregnancy. What could I do? I was just an ordinary village woman, nothing more. Could I take a knife and kill the culprit? I could only raise my son well.
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