"Then where does the clan leader go? A stranger showed up at our house in the middle of the night. Did the clan leader ask how my family was doing? Were we hurt? Were we being bullied? Is anything missing?"
"Of course I have to ask, you beat people up like this, you don't even know if they're dead or alive, and then look at you, aren't you doing fine?"
Hearing this, Chen Heng laughed in anger: "If we hadn't resisted, we would be the ones getting hurt right now."
At this time, the patriarch's wife, Li, said in a raspy voice, "Everyone, look at this woman. She's so murderous! Oh, she even dared to challenge the patriarch. This is simply the behavior of a shrew. How could the Xie family produce a shrew like you?"
Everyone started talking, and a few people even pointed at them.
"Li Sheng is awake." Li Dou shouted.
Li Sheng had just woken up, but he had been pretending to be unconscious to see how his uncle and aunt would handle the situation. Now that he saw that it was in his favor, of course he would wake up.
"Cousin, what's going on? What are you doing here?" Li Dou squatted down and asked, winking at his cousin: "Are you being tricked?"
The two had been in cahoots for years, and Li Sheng understood instantly. He pointed a finger at Xia and said, "It was this woman who seduced me. This woman is unfaithful to her husband. Her husband has been dead for many years and she's been lonely. I, too, was obsessed with sex." He slapped himself and continued, "After coming here, who would have thought I'd fallen for their scheme? This family threatened to tell me if I didn't pay them ten taels of silver that they would molest me."
"I, I didn't." Xia didn't expect to be blamed, and said in a panic, "I have always been law-abiding and followed the rules. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. I didn't."
"Sister-in-law, don't say anything." Chen Heng stroked Xia's cold hands and glanced at Xie Jian. The young man remained silent, but his eyes were very scary. When she looked away, she saw blood dripping from his hands. It was difficult to be noticed in the dark night.
Injured? Probably not. Did your fingernail pierce your palm?
Chen Heng felt bitter and angry at the young man's injury, and worried about him being silent yet with a murderous look on his face. She had always felt like an outsider, but now she was Xie Jian's wife, not an outsider.
"What? Are you feeling guilty?" Seeing that the three of them were silent, Li Dou raised his voice.
"Aheng?" Xia looked at her sister-in-law helplessly.
"I'll take care of everything, don't worry." After calling her sister-in-law for so many days, the mother in front of her was several years younger than her. Shen Heng tucked Xia's messy hair behind her ears. As a young person who had been beaten by society for several years, she was still very resilient and could handle this kind of situation with ease. She looked at everyone and said, "If you have done nothing wrong in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night. Li Sheng, do you have any evidence for what you said?"
"What kind of evidence do you need in this case? A widow hooked up with a man and never asked for evidence." Li Sheng said viciously.
"Clan leader, elders, neighbors, this thug is slandering me because he can't produce any evidence," Shen Heng said loudly, "but it's true that he broke into my Xie family in the middle of the night. Moreover, I have evidence that he intended to bully my sister-in-law."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone began to whisper.
"Impossible." Li Sheng cried out in injustice. He hadn't succeeded yet, so what would happen even if he did? The woman could tell whether she was willing or not: "I am wronged."
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