Thinking of this, Gao Xiaoyu was very excited; she felt she had found the truth.
“Now An Xiaojiang’s neighbor can testify that you had an argument at An’s house on the morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month. She heard with her own ears that you framed An Xiaojiang and threatened to kill yourself. Young Master Li can also testify that you once approached him and said that the child was his.”
According to you, Gao Xiaoyu and An Xiaojiang's first time was on the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, almost two months ago. However, Dr. Hua diagnosed Gao Xiaoyu as being more than three months pregnant. Yin Zhihua finished speaking and slammed his gavel. "Dr. Hua's medical skills and character are known to everyone. Now, will you confess or not?"
The Gao family members were so frightened they couldn't stand up straight.
Gao Xiaoyu glanced at the handsome Li Xian again and made a decision in her heart.
She said, "The child belongs to Li Xian, because before... before we had a fight, and I thought he didn't want to take responsibility for me, so I tried to pin it on my cousin. Originally, I was going to frame my older cousin, but I didn't expect that the water I put on him with a sleeping potion would be drunk by Brother Jiang."
An Xiaohai, standing outside the courtroom, was dumbfounded. It turned out that he was their target!
Gao Xiaoyu thought that Li Xian would take responsibility for her, so in order to protect Li Xian's reputation, she only said that she and Li Xian had a falling out.
Having slept with so many women, Li Xian could tell what Gao Xiaoyu was thinking just by hearing her words and seeing her expression. Did she really expect him to take responsibility?
Pshaw, how ridiculous!
However, Gao Xiaoyu had no idea what Li Xian was thinking. She continued, "Actually, nothing happened between me and my cousin. He was fast asleep that night, and we didn't do anything at all. I didn't want to frame him. I wanted to jump into the river, but my mother said she had a way to solve it..."
Gao Xiaoyu pushed all the blame onto Wen Xiuli.
Wen Xiuli looked at her daughter in disbelief, then burst into a tirade: "You shameless brat! It was you who got pregnant out of wedlock and said that Young Master Li didn't want you anymore. You were the one who said that your second aunt's family was rich and that you could ask An Xiaohai to take over. It was your idea, but now you're blaming me! You ungrateful brat, you good-for-nothing! You should have been drowned in a chamber pot the moment you were born!"
Still not satisfied with her scolding, Wen Xiuli rushed over and beat Gao Xiaoyu without holding back.
If it weren't for the constables stopping him, Gao Xiaoyu would be finished today.
The An family was furious, while Wen felt a wave of lingering fear, thinking to herself: Thank goodness.
Yin Zhihua slammed his gavel: "Silence! No noise or disturbance is permitted in the courtroom, or you will be severely punished!"
Everyone immediately fell silent in fright.
With tears streaming down her face, Wen Xiuli recounted how Gao Xiaoyu had persuaded her to frame An Xiaojiang.
In fact, the rest of the Gao family really didn't know the inside story, otherwise they wouldn't have made it to the authorities.
They had always believed that the child was An Xiaojiang's, which was why they were so confident when asking for money. Now, hearing Wen Xiuli's words, they all wished they could kill the mother and daughter.
After Wen Xiuli finished speaking, she begged An Dafu's family to forgive her.
How could the An family possibly forgive her?
Because the victim refused to forgive, and the rest of the Gao family had been deceived into believing that Gao Xiaoyu was pregnant, only Wen Xiuli was punished in the end, receiving twenty lashes.
In addition, they also have to return the two taels of silver that the An family had given them before, and compensate the An family with another two taels of silver.
The Gao family had already spent the two taels of silver that the An family had given them. Now, not only did they have to return it, but they also had to return an extra two taels. This meant that the Gao family would have to come up with four taels of silver, which was simply unbearable.
The Gao family pleaded desperately, but to no avail. They had been so aggressive, demanding sixty-eight taels, then one hundred taels, and had even beaten people and threatened to harm Xiao Jiang and Xiao Hu. The An family was disheartened by all of this, and no matter how much they begged, it was useless.
With the Gao and An families' affairs resolved, Gao Xiaoyu asked Li Xian, "Young Master Li, I'm pregnant with your child, and you've acknowledged it. So, we..."
"What about us? I never said the child was mine."
Gao Xiaoyu was startled. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that Li Xian had only said that she was pregnant with his child, but he hadn't said that the child was his!
Gao Xiaoyu was scared. If Li Xian didn't take responsibility, then she...
Gao Xiaoyu cried out in distress, "Young Master Li, please believe me, there's really nothing between my cousin and me, the child is yours!"
Li Xian sneered, "That's not necessarily true. A woman like you even framed her own brother. Who knows if I'm just another sucker? You should go find the child's biological father."
Gao Xiaoyu felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.
"It really is yours! Really!" No matter how hysterically Gao Xiaoyu screamed, Li Xian ignored her and got into the carriage and left.
"Young master, Miss Gao is chasing after us, are you really not going to do anything about it? That child..."
Do I need more children?
Upon hearing this, the servant fell silent. Indeed, his young master had no shortage of children, nor of women to bear them.
Li Xian continued, "If she were an honest and upright woman, it wouldn't matter if she were taken into the inner quarters, but she's cunning and ruthless. She even harmed her cousin and accused her own mother. She's utterly heartless and ungrateful! The An family are Yang Cui's relatives, yet Yang Cui dares to offend them. She's simply foolish!"
Li Xian initially didn't believe she was pregnant, thinking she was using pregnancy to try and get into the Li family. So he broke up with her on the eve of the Lunar New Year, giving her ten taels of silver as a breakup fee.
I never expected her to be so restless, greedy, ruthless, and stupid. Once she enters the backyard, there's no going back.
Lee Hyun-scum is clearly a scumbag.
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