Chapter 2: Slandered
Mother Cui roared and rushed over: "Li Wanyue, you are an unfaithful little whore. Our Gao family has never treated you badly, but you come here to cheat on me. I will beat you to death, you shameless slut."
Li Wanyue turned around, and Mrs. Cui couldn't control her strength and fell to the ground.
"Oh my god, Li Wanyue, this unlucky star, actually wants to kill my mother-in-law."
"Mom." Gao Zhiyuan was startled. Gao's eldest son Gao Zhiqiang and eldest daughter-in-law hurried forward to help her up.
Gao Zhiqiang said angrily: "Sister-in-law, it's ok that you usually disrespect mother, but you want to kill her when you are caught cheating on her. You are too vicious."
Li Wanyue sneered and punched him in the eye. After the original owner married into the Gao family, she was the one doing almost all the work in the Gao family, so she was quite strong.
"If you're blind, go find a doctor. Anyone with eyes can see who started it first. If she wants to hit me, can't I hide? Does she think I'm a fool?"
Gao Zhiqiang's wife Ding Hong saw her husband being beaten and stood up angrily: "Second brother's wife, he is your eldest brother, you are too lawless, as the eldest sister-in-law, I must control you."
As he said this, he raised his hand and greeted Li Wanyue in the face.
Li Wanyue kicked the man to the ground.
She retracted her foot and sighed inwardly. This body was still not working. If it were in her previous life, she would have kicked at least three meters away.
The onlookers were stunned. Is this still Li Wanyue?
When I usually see her, she is always polite, gentle and well-behaved. I have never seen her get angry with anyone. Why is she suddenly so tough?
This is her mother-in-law, elder brother and sister-in-law.
After Gao Zhiyuan was shocked, he immediately stopped her angrily: "Stop, Li Wanyue, these are all your family members, how can you hit them? It was obviously you who did something wrong, and you beat up your family members. You were so docile before, how come you become like this now? Or are you like this all along, and you were just pretending before?"
Li Wanyue was so angry that she laughed. Isn't this a classic quote from a scumbag?
It is obvious that he has changed his heart, but he does not take the initiative to break up. Instead, he uses cold violence and waits until the other party can't stand it anymore and argues with him. Then he looks disappointed and says that you have changed.
But she would never allow herself to be labeled like that. In this day and age, if she had a bad reputation, the girls in her village would also be affected.
She stared at Gao Zhiyuan coldly: "Your mother came up and without saying a word, she put the blame on me for not being a faithful wife. Your brother spread rumors and slandered me. When your sister-in-law wanted to beat me, why didn't you stop her?
After all, you are a family and I am an outsider, so I am the only one who can be splashed with dirty water and cannot resist. If I resist, it will be my fault?
Gao Zhiyuan, you are a scholar, you must know the laws of our dynasty, right? Spreading rumors and slandering others will result in thirty strokes of the cane, and if the consequences are serious, imprisonment will be five to ten years.
If I don't resist, I will be beaten and thrown into a pig cage. Your mother and your brother and sister-in-law will also be imprisoned. As their family member, can you continue to study?"
Gao Zhiyuan was shocked. How could she know all this? She was clearly an illiterate village girl, but she actually knew the law?
The original owner naturally didn't know, and Li Wan didn't know the laws of this dynasty either. She was talking nonsense. As long as one was a scholar, he would care about his reputation. Using this as an excuse made him most wary.
Seeing Gao Zhiyuan didn't say anything, the young girl at the side stood up and said, "Who spread rumors and slandered you? Did you really think no one saw it? I saw you and Zhang Laizi having a tryst here with my own eyes, and you were even pulling each other's legs. What good can come of being alone here? Luckily I quickly went to call for help, otherwise, who would have known that you are such a despicable person."
Li Wanyue took a look at the other person. The girl had dark skin and was wearing grey patched coarse cloth clothes. She was Liu Cui, a neighbor of Gao Zhiyuan.
Liu Cui admired Gao Zhiyuan. She was seen courting Gao Zhiyuan more than once, but the girl did not see the disdain in Gao Zhiyuan's eyes.
Li Wanyue replied, "You saw it? Whatever you say is true. I said I came here to wash clothes and happened to see you and Zhang Laizi having a secret meeting here. You found out and you were afraid that I would tell others about your affairs, so you wanted to slander me and push me into trouble to protect your innocence. You are really vicious."
Liu Cui immediately exploded and angrily defended herself: "You are talking nonsense, Brother Zhiyuan, don't listen to her, she is slandering me, anyone with eyes can see that I like you, how could I like that old and ugly Zhang Laizi?"
Gao Zhiyuan looked at him with disdain. What an idiot! He was led astray by just a few words.
"Oh, you know the pain when you poke yourself with a knife."
At this time, someone was puzzled: "Everyone is talking about Zhang Laizi, where are the others?"
Zhang Laizi: Thank you. I was at the bottom of my heart when you just remembered me.
Everyone immediately looked around. Someone noticed the fine ripples in the center of the river and cried out in surprise, "Someone has fallen into the water. Go and save him."
Those who knew how to swim jumped in immediately and pulled the person ashore in a short while.
Zhang Laizi had already passed out. Someone went to check his breath but couldn't feel any breathing. His face turned pale with fright.
"Zhang Laizi...is dead."
Everyone gasped.
Mrs. Cui jumped up immediately: "Okay, Li Wanyue, you and Zhang Laizi had a lot of fun, even playing in the water, but it was a pity that you went too far, and now Zhang Laizi is gone, and you have to pay the price. Everyone is watching, it's all Li Wanyue's fault, it has nothing to do with our Gao family."
"Cui Dahua." With a roar, before Mrs. Cui could react, a figure rushed over like the wind, grabbed her hair and pulled her to the ground.
The woman sat on Cui Pozi, and with her hands working left and right, she greeted her face: "You old woman, your mouth is foul. Not only do you like to eat shit all day long, but you also come out to spray shit everywhere. You ruin my daughter's reputation. You are the mother of a boy. With your moral character, your son will never pass the imperial examination in his lifetime."
Mrs. Cui screamed in pain. Ever since her two daughters-in-law came into the family, she had never done any housework. She was no match for Mrs. Li in terms of strength.
"Yueyue, don't be afraid, Dad is here." A burly middle-aged man walked quickly towards them from behind, looking worried.
"Little sister, how are you?" Li Erhu also followed.
Seeing that Li Wanyue's body was still wet, he immediately took off his coat and put it on her.
"Sister, whoever dares to bully you should ask my fist first." Li Sandong clenched his fist and stared at the people from Kaoshan Village viciously.
When Li Wanyue saw the people coming, her heart warmed. The original owner's father Li Youshan, mother Zhao Suying, second brother and third brother, as well as the villagers in Daohua Village who had a good relationship with her, came to support her.
Li Erhu got furious when he saw Gao Zhiyuan standing there in a disgraceful manner. He took advantage of the chaos to go behind him and kicked Gao Zhiyuan in the leg. Gao Zhiyuan fell to his knees, right in front of Li Wanyue.
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