Chapter 13 The eyes of the masses are discerning.
Wow!
Upon hearing this, everyone went wild and rushed inside.
Some of them hadn't even finished urinating when they pulled up their pants and crawled inside using only their legs.
In an instant, the dilapidated fishing boat was surrounded by people.
Old Hu, the latrine cleaner, really had a feast today; he gave away all the descendants he had saved up over the past ten years.
He covered Qin Lanlan's mouth with one of his rough, bark-like hands, while the other hand groped and searched her smooth skin.
At this moment, Qin Lanlan lay on the ground like a wilted eggplant, her eyes vacant.
She didn't know what had happened; she just felt a slash to the neck and passed out. When she woke up, she found an old man pressing down on her and moving around.
She wanted to fight back desperately, but she was too badly injured and too weak from hunger these past two days.
She was no match for this old man at all. When she tried to explain that it wasn't her, the old man gagged her.
She was forced to endure humiliation that was not hers to bear, and the tender flesh in her mouth was bitten to pieces.
Just when she thought the old man had finally finished, the old geezer pulled out a whip from his pocket and started lashing her thighs.
She was in so much pain that she was rolling on the ground screaming. Just as she was begging for mercy, the two of them heard shouts from outside.
Old Hu hurriedly put on his clothes, when he heard a loud crash as the roof was ripped off.
Two pale, naked bodies were exposed to the sea breeze.
"ah--"
Qin Lanlan finally managed to push the rag out of her mouth, only to find that the roof of the boat had been ripped open.
She was completely stunned, looking at the rough men surrounding her in layers upon layers, and she screamed as she scrambled to pull her clothes off her body.
In the rush, I made a mistake and couldn't put it on no matter what I did. In the end, I was so anxious that I had to put the clothes over my head to cover my face.
But it was too late.
Among the crowd was a classmate from her school, who suddenly shouted.
"Qin Lanlan, that woman is Qin Lanlan."
What?
Qin Lanlan!
The pampered adopted daughter of Widow Jiang who never does any chores.
Is she already out cheating on her husband at such a young age?
I wonder which old man in the fishing village got such a good deal; he's lost all his teeth but still gets to eat such tender grass.
The men felt regret and pity, but that didn't stop their gazes from brazenly sweeping over the areas where Qin Lanlan had exposed herself.
Tsk tsk tsk...
This woman's fair and delicate skin is a hundred times better than the woman at home with her black, hard testicles.
It's such a pity, why didn't it end up in their mouths?
"Stop looking, stop looking, all of you step back."
Upon hearing the news, Captain Xiao Changgeng rushed over, though he outwardly refused to concern himself with his brother's family affairs.
But now that such a big thing has happened, he can't just stand by and watch.
He quickly found two fast-moving young men to inform Jiang Ruzhen, while he grabbed a tattered sheet from the boat and wrapped it around Qin Lanlan.
Only then did they have time to see who the old man was, but after looking at him several times, they were certain that the old man was not from their village.
Could Qin Lanlan have been raped?
"Who are you? I don't recognize you. Old man, did you force yourself on her?"
Despite Old Hu's ruthlessness towards his wife, he is cowardly and weak when facing outsiders.
Commonly known as a bully at home.
He hurriedly knelt down before Xiao Changgeng, crying and pleading his innocence.
"Oh, sir, I'm innocent! This is my lawfully wedded wife, and I paid five hundred dollars for her as a bride price!"
ah?
What precious girl is worth 500 yuan in betrothal gifts?
In their small fishing village, fifty yuan is considered the absolute maximum for a bride price.
Xiao Changgeng thought that Old Hu didn't seem to be lying, but since this matter involved his brother's family, he couldn't just let it go.
"Take them all and take them back to the brigade headquarters."
At his command, several strong young men grabbed Old Hu and lifted him up.
Some men on Qin Lanlan's side wanted to take advantage of her, so they squeezed and jostled to help her up.
Xiao Changgeng glared at him, "Let the women go first, what are you men doing squeezing in? Trying to take advantage?"
The men dared not disobey their captain and shrank back.
The first few women who heard the news squeezed out from the crowd, pretending to support Qin Lanlan, but their minds were actually full of first-hand gossip.
They tried every trick in the book to get information out of Qin Lanlan, but Qin Lanlan was so desperate she wanted to die; she wouldn't pay them any attention.
She was crying loudly on the surface, but in reality, she was trying to figure out how to clear herself of any wrongdoing.
She really didn't want to marry that smelly old sparrow.
Thinking about how she had been slept with by that old bastard Baden, she felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.
When everyone arrived at the brigade headquarters, Xiao Changgeng told the onlookers to leave.
Everyone nodded and agreed, but no one actually moved.
Xiao Chang was so angry he was panting. Who could bear to leave when there were so few entertainment options in the fishing village? Now that such a big news story had finally happened, who would want to leave?
Unfortunately, during the stalemate, Jiang Ruzhen finally got what she was hoping for.
As soon as Jiang Ruzhen entered the room, she hugged Qin Lanlan and burst into tears, raising her fist and repeatedly pounding it on Qin Lanlan's back.
"You brat, so what if I didn't let you have your sister's college admission? Do you have to ruin yourself like this?"
Not only did you run away from home, but you also randomly picked an old man to upset me! You're tearing my heart out!
Everyone perked up at the mention of that!
It turns out there's a big scoop hidden here. According to Widow Jiang, Qin Lanlan didn't get into university herself, but she wanted to steal the girl's spot.
As a result, Widow Jiang refused, and in a fit of anger, she ran away from home to find another man.
My God!
Qin Lanlan is so young, why is she so reckless and courting death?
Everyone in the village knows that Widow Jiang treats her like the apple of her eye; she can't be hit or scolded, and is treated like a goddess in the family.
They've raised them to be so big and chubby, and they're still not satisfied.
She would run away from home at the slightest dissatisfaction and even find a husband to sell herself.
That's incredibly unfilial! This isn't raising a daughter, it's raising a heartless wretch!
"Qin Lanlan, are you crazy? Why are you giving up such a good life?"
"Yeah, what a fucking bastard. If she were my daughter, I would have killed her long ago. How could she still be alive?"
"I heard that he didn't study well during his school years, flirted with other girls, and even extorted money from male classmates!"
"Really? No wonder, this Jiang sister spoils the child too much, look at what she's done to him!"
"If you ask me, other people's children are just impossible to raise properly; they're not on the same page as you."
"We can't entirely blame Jiang Damei. She dared to find a husband on her own before anything even happened. If something really happened, she would have ruined her family."
Listening to the discussions around her, Jiang Ruzhen was filled with mixed emotions.
That's why they say the eyes of the masses are discerning; she must have been blind in her past life.
Qin Lanlan was initially terrified, but seeing that Jiang Ruzhen still treated her with a kind motherly heart, she rolled her eyes and then burst into tears.
"Mom, I didn't do this willingly! Please save me, please save me..."
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