Amidst the uproar, the crowd seemed to explode like a boiling pot, "So, it’s not that Pork Zhang San has an affair with Ji Xinhe, but with Ji Xiulan?!"
Pork Zhang San choked for a moment, finally angrily shouted, "Bullshit! This is what you gave me! Who the hell is Ji Xiulan?!"
Ji Xinhe didn’t back down at all. Instead, she confronted Pork Zhang San’s angry eyes and said sharply, "Falsely accusing me is not working, so now you’re all flustered? Who do you think your third-rate trick can deceive? I, Ji Xinhe, am an innocent person, and I won’t let you succeed so easily! This hairpin has nothing to do with me, Wang Er Ya is illogical, and today’s events have nothing to do with me at all!"
She then turned to Li Zheng and said assertively, "Please, Li Zheng, help me clear my name!"
Immediately, some villagers echoed, "Xin He really has been wronged this time. A poor innocent girl was falsely accused by such a scoundrel. What a pity."
"That’s right. No matter what relationship Pork Zhang San and Ji Xiulan have, it has nothing to do with Xin He. It’s just that Wang Er Ya and Pork Zhang San joined forces and dragged Xin He into the mess. It almost made the poor girl suffer."
Pork Zhang San suddenly felt dizzy. Even though he was typically a simple-minded person, he couldn’t figure out what was going on. He looked at the hairpin in his hand, utterly confused and furious, but his body was shivering from the cold, and the rage made him cough, leaving him unable to utter a single word.
Wang Er Ya was not as stupid as Pork Zhang San. Seeing the hairpin in his hand, her face turned completely white. Now she finally understood that Ji Xinhe had outsmarted her from the beginning. She pretended to be fooled, then gave the hairpin to Pork Zhang San as a token of love, kicked him into the river, and ran away, leaving no trace!
Wang Er Ya looked at Ji Xinhe in terror, at that familiar, yet strange girl.
She was wrong, so wrong from the very beginning. She underestimated Ji Xinhe and the lethal strength of this incident. If she was exposed for lying and slandering, her reputation would be ruined, and she was still an unmarried girl!
Li Zheng said solemnly, "Xin He has indeed been wronged. The truth is now clear. I will personally bear witness here that this matter of love has nothing to do with Xin He. I’ve watched her grow up. She would never do such a shameful thing!"
Ji Dong finally breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his sister was cleared of the matter. As for what happens next... he’ll just enjoy the show.
After Li Zheng finished speaking, he paused, then turned to Wang Er Ya, his eyes filled with sharpness, "As for you, Wang Er Ya..."
Wang Er Ya looked at Li Zheng in terror, her legs almost giving in, ready to kneel down.
But at this moment, an angry and sharp voice suddenly cut through the night. "Which shameless bastard dares to gossip behind my back?! Whoever dares to ruin my daughter’s reputation, I’ll fight them to the death!"
With such a vigorous and fierce voice, who else could it be but Lady Ding?
Ji Xinhe sneered in her heart. When the scandal about her and Pork Zhang San broke out earlier, Lady Ding and her daughter, along with her worthless father, were like dead to the world, not even showing their faces. But now that they’d heard the fire had spread to Ji Xiulan, they rushed over so quickly.
Lady Ding, full of anger and indignation, rushed over and immediately shouted, "You’re all blind! How could my good daughter be involved with Pork Zhang San? It’s clearly this shameless girl Ji Xinhe who’s framing my Xiulan. You lot just follow and talk nonsense without fearing the wrath of God!"
With this statement, she cursed everyone. The villagers scowled, "What do you mean by that? We need evidence for everything. Tell us, how did your daughter’s hairpin end up in Pork Zhang San’s hands? And then he used it to frame Xin He. Did we make this up?"
Lady Ding’s eyes widened as she stared at the hairpin in Pork Zhang San’s hand, her face turning pale, "This, this, this is clearly a frame-up!"
Ji Xiulan was even more desperate, her eyes red, "No, it’s not. This hairpin must have been picked up by him. How could I be with Pork Zhang San... I just lost my hairpin tonight, I wondered where it had gone..."
Lady Ding directly shouted, "Yes! It was picked up! It was picked up by Pork Zhang San! You people stop talking nonsense! My daughter has nothing to do with him!"
Li Zheng looked at Pork Zhang San, who was coughing and shivering from the cold, and began to hesitate.
If Pork Zhang San falsely accused Ji Xinhe, it was possible that he also falsely accused Ji Xiulan. If this hairpin was really picked up by Pork Zhang San, it indeed couldn’t be considered Ji Xiulan’s fault.
Just as Lady Ding saw the chance to turn the tables and wanted to argue some more,
Ji Xinhe didn’t give her the opportunity, directly asking Pork Zhang San, "When you falsely accused me earlier, you said we exchanged tokens of love. Well, tell us, what did you give?"
Hearing this, the villagers’ eyes lit up, "Right! Tokens of love are mutual. Since Ji Xiulan insists she didn’t give out this hairpin and Ji Xinhe says it has nothing to do with her, where is Zhang San’s token that he gave? Once that’s found, everything will be clear!"
"Exactly!"
Ji Xiulan immediately straightened up, knowing for sure she hadn’t taken anything from Pork Zhang San and didn’t even want to look at him. She exclaimed angrily, "Ask him! I definitely didn’t take it!"
Even if he was an idiot, Pork Zhang San now understood that he had fallen into Ji Xinhe’s trap. He glared at Ji Xinhe as if he wanted to eat her alive, but in his heart, he was hesitant to speak up.
Ji Xinhe smiled cunningly, "Brother Zhang San, why be so shy? This is a good thing. Haven’t you always wanted a wife? If you and Sister Xiulan are in love and had already secretly exchanged tokens of love, perhaps there is still a chance, even if others disagree."
Pork Zhang San instantly understood something. He just wanted to find a wife; whether it was Ji Xinhe or Ji Xiulan, it didn’t matter so much. Although he wanted to strangle Ji Xinhe, he couldn’t let this opportunity go to waste.
Pork Zhang San immediately said, "I gave her a little golden lock that I carried with me!"
As soon as Ji Xiulan heard the words "little golden lock", her mind went blank with a loud boom.
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