Chapter 9
9
Several aunts were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and two of them sat on the ground and threw a tantrum, saying that Cheng Yeran had wronged them.
Cheng Yeran watched coldly from the side: "Shout, shout louder, let the whole village hear that you are having an affair with the man in the village."
"Don't you dare talk nonsense, boy from the Cheng family! Are you trying to kill us?" Aunt Li was so angry that her eyes turned black and she almost fainted.
"You also know the importance of reputation? If you know that, why are you still spreading bad things about my wife behind her back? If you don't want my wife to live, then no one else should live." Cheng Yeran looked at them coldly, his expression was terrifying.
The aunts were frightened by his murderous face and stammered, "We heard it from Erzhu and the others. We heard them say at the entrance of the village that day that your husband had slept with them and that he could sleep with them for a few coins. Now that you are pregnant, they had no choice but to let you take over."
After listening to their words, Cheng Yeran thought of a rural drama that he had just watched recently.
That drama was an ensemble drama, and he was not just the protagonist. In the drama, he played a hot-tempered bachelor who had a crush on a girl from the same village. He knew he was not worthy of her, so he could only observe her secretly from behind.
Later, he heard several wretched men from the same village making up obscene rumors about the girl behind her back. Although he was usually hot-tempered and often quarreled with others, he pretended not to hear anything, fearing that if he got out of this, everyone would find out about his secret love.
He did not stand up for the person he loved until he learned that the girl committed suicide because she could not bear the rumors. He then regretted it deeply, which became the biggest regret in the play.
Now that a similar plot has appeared in this variety show, it is hard not to suspect that the director wants him to make up for the regrets in the play, and let him stand up for Shen Yuntang and teach those guys who spread the pornographic rumors a lesson.
"Erzhu, right? Where is their home? Point it out to me." Cheng Yeran quickly got into the role and his emotions were immediately aroused.
Aunt Li pointed in a direction fearfully, and everyone was so frightened that they forgot that Cheng Yeran should know the location of Erzhu's house.
"Where are you going?" Shen Yuntang pulled his sleeve with some concern, "You have to go back to my house today."
"I'll take a moment to get justice for you." Cheng Yeran calculated the time. They set out for the market at around three in the morning, and it was only around seven in the morning. They still had time to have a fight and come back later.
The rural drama he acted in before was full of quarrels among family members every day, and fights would break out at any time. In the drama, their village had its own rules.
Whether a person is right or not depends on the number of men in his family and his fighting ability. If he does not fight back, he will be ridiculed by the villagers as a coward in the future, and the whole village will look down on and bully him.
Since this variety show has a similar plot, the background rules should also be similar.
He regarded going back to his wife's parents' home with her as the main task, and quarreling with the person who spread the rumor as the side task.
Today I will complete the side quest first, and then do the main quest.
Shen Yuntang saw him rushing to Erzhu's house angrily, and followed behind him worriedly. His legs were not as long as Cheng Yeran's, so it was a bit strenuous for him to chase him. When he arrived at the door of Erzhu's house, Cheng Yeran had already started arguing with Erzhu.
When Cheng Yeran arrived at Erzhu's house, he picked up a big stone from the ground and smashed his window. Erzhu ran out angrily and grabbed his collar, "You are crazy!"
Cheng Yeran also grabbed his collar. Erzhu was a skinny guy, so he was easily lifted up by him. "Did you say bad things about my wife behind her back? Remember this, if I hear any bad rumors about him in the village again, I will burn your house down!"
The phrase "set the house on fire" was a line from a previous rural drama. At that time, he played a rather crazy man who would fight with people at every turn, and his catchphrase was "set your house on fire".
That drama has been quite popular recently, and he said that line on purpose, wanting to give a surprise to the viewers who were following the drama when it was aired.
But his words angered Erzhu's family. Erzhu's brother, his younger brother and his father all ran out with hoes and cursed at Cheng Yeran.
The scene was in chaos, as if a bloody battle was about to break out. Many villagers came to watch. Shen Yuntang was scared, but he heard many of the onlookers praising Cheng Yeran, saying that he was a real man and much better than the coward he used to be.
Their village is indeed like this. It is not a place where reason is used. Everyone looks down on whoever is more ruthless.
Shen Yuntang still remembered that in his previous life, many people spread rumors about him, saying that he was a bad person and who he had slept with before getting married. Xia Xiaowu heard this and almost beat him to death.
Many girls and boys in their village have been rumored to have such sexually explicit things. If the men in their families stand on their side and fight with others bravely, no one will dare to say anything about it anymore. If they just refute and prove themselves, the rumors will only spread bigger and bigger. If the men in their families also believe those rumors, then the people who are rumored will have no way out.
Shen Yuntang had seen two girls from the village hanged before. It was not an exaggeration to say that spit could drown a person in that era.
Before he got married, someone told him
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She had been eyeing the lazy guy for a long time, and falling into the water together was just a deliberate attempt to seduce him. He thought he would never be able to hold his head up for the rest of his life, and he never expected that Cheng Yeran would stand up for him.
He couldn't let Cheng Yeran get beaten to death because of him, so in desperation he ran home to call his father and brothers.
The older brothers were obviously very scared and cowardly. Seeing the way these kids looked, their father couldn't help but scold them, "You cowards! Can a second pillar scare you to death? You're not even as good as a lazy man. Even if you're scared, just bear it and don't lose your momentum."
The four brothers were extremely ashamed when they heard this. Although they were afraid, they still took their hoes and shovels and went with their father. They stood behind Cheng Yeran to make up the numbers and prayed in their hearts that they would not really fight.
Cheng Yeran also has many relatives in the village, all of whom are close relatives, so they naturally stood behind Cheng Yeran. Even the village chief came over.
In the past, relatives in the village thought Cheng Yeran was too cowardly and were unwilling to associate with him. But today, when they saw him standing up for his family, they felt that he had finally grown up and become a man.
Erzhu looks like a thin pole and has a very wretched appearance. His family is relatively poor in the village and not many people look up to them. Naturally, no one stands on his family's side.
Erzhu has always wanted to marry Shen Yuntang, but everyone knows he is not worthy of her without asking, so he has been talking about it behind her back.
Anyway, Shen Yuntang is just a boy and can't do anything to him. Although there are many members of the Shen family, they are all very honest. Not to mention that lazy guy Cheng Yeran, who is becoming more and more daring.
When Cheng Yeran came to find him, he had the nerve to argue with him. But now that he saw so many people behind Cheng Yeran, several times more than his family, he immediately got scared. He wanted to let go and hide back home, but he couldn't put down his face. "I just made a few jokes, why do you take it so seriously? We are all from the same village, we will see each other sooner or later. Do you really have to embarrass us?"
"You also know that we are all from the same village? What you are doing is destroying the unity of the village. You are a troublemaker." Cheng Yeran thought to himself that this NPC's acting skills were too good. It could make people angry to death.
The village chief came over and asked them to stop. After all, he was the village chief and could not be too biased towards Cheng Yeran. He scolded Cheng Yeran and Erzhu in front of everyone and told them: "In the future, you are not allowed to gossip behind their backs or cause trouble or fight. If you do this again, you will be severely punished according to the village rules."
The village chief asked everyone to disperse, "Don't just watch the fun, just do what you need to do."
Erzhu pretended to let go reluctantly, but he was actually scared to death in his heart. From then on, he didn't even dare to speak casually, let alone spread rumors.
Cheng Yeran also loosened his collar, pointed his finger at his eyes and then at him: "I'm watching you. Next time there are rumors, I will never let you go even if my cousin punishes me."
The village chief patted him on the back and said, "That's enough. We are all from the same village. Let's be merciful when we can."
"Hey, uncle is right." Cheng Yeran kept calling his uncle left and right. He was just trying to get close to the villagers and let them know his relationship with the village chief, so that they would not be so rude to him in the future and should not bully Shen Yuntang.
The cousin saw what happened behind the crowd and clenched his fists. Cheng Yeran could actually do this for Shen Yuntang? And why are all those relatives of the Cheng family standing behind him to help?
He remembered that after Cheng Yeran died in his previous life, these relatives came to snatch his house and land and drove him out of the house.
If these people hadn't driven him away, how could he have remarried so quickly because he had no place to live? Without these hateful Cheng relatives, he would have waited another one or two years, and after his cousin died of childbirth, he would have been able to marry Xia Xiaowu.
There are also his uncle and four cousins. In his previous life, when the Cheng family was trying to rob him of his property, they did not stand behind him so firmly. They even advised him to let it go and took him back home.
Why is it that when it comes to Shen Yuntang, all of them stand behind him? Why is there such a difference in treatment? What had he done wrong to these people that made them look down on him like this?
When he becomes an official's wife in the future, none of these people will be able to escape and he will take revenge on them.
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