The more assertive they were before, the faster they've cowered now.
Tao Yong struggled for a moment, trying to speak by making incoherent noises.
Seeing her older brother's distressed state, Tao Guihua said, "My brother has something to say, so let go of his mouth first!"
Wang Dazhuang stepped forward and removed the rag from Tao Yong's mouth, saying impatiently, "Spit it out. I'll give you a chance to argue."
Tao Yong was on the verge of tears. He knelt down on the ground with a thud and pleaded, "Chief, please forgive us. We'll never do it again. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about what happened in the village."
Seeing their leader back down, the others, though unable to speak, also knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
Some people even kowtowed until their foreheads bled, which looked quite pitiful.
Tao Guihua, no longer displaying her previous arrogance, knelt down and begged for mercy, saying, "Chief, I'm considered a villager now that I've married into your Changfeng Village. It's all my fault for being greedy for a moment. Please, release my elder brother and second brother."
Tao Guihua had only one thought in her mind: no one in her family could go to jail. Otherwise, how would her nephews and nieces ever get married?
Zhao Tingzhang remained unmoved. Seeing that her pleas were useless, Tao Guihua turned to her husband, Zhao Youqian.
"If you have money, please help me persuade the village head..."
Zhao Youqian was now in dire straits himself, and he looked dejectedly at the villagers below. Feeling guilty, he dared not utter a sound.
He really wanted to slap himself. Why did he have to listen to his wife's slander when he could have just lived a peaceful life?
What does his father-in-law's life or death have to do with him? They've been married for so many years and he's never helped his family financially, nor has he ever given him a kind look.
If their family hadn't scraped together a meager sum, racking up a mountain of debt, to marry Guihua, how would they have survived the rest of their lives?
Zhao Youqian grew angrier the more he thought about it, while Tao Guihua kept nagging in his ear.
"Enough!" Zhao Youqian shouted.
He looked at Tao Guihua with a flushed face, his heart filled with resentment.
"It's all your fault! If you hadn't been whispering sweet nothings in my ear every day, how would I have listened to you?"
Tao Guihua was stunned by the shout, and tears immediately streamed down her face.
She's usually stubborn and not one to be bullied. Besides, after so many years of marriage, Zhao Youqian has always listened to her; how could he dare speak to her in such a tone?
Tao Guihua was furious. She stood up angrily and wiped away her tears.
"Fine, very well! You're all not going to let me go, are you? Then I'll just smash my head against this ancestral hall and die today!"
As she spoke, Tao Guihua was about to crash into the pillar next to her.
Wang Dazhuang, quick-witted and agile, stopped them. It wasn't a holiday, and they couldn't afford to see bloodshed in the ancestral hall. Offending their ancestors would be disastrous!
"Enough!" Zhao Tingzhang roared, looking at Tao Guihua with displeasure. "You, who have made a mistake, still have the nerve to cause trouble here! Hold her down and don't let her move!"
Zhao Yanniang and Erhua's mother stepped forward from the left and right, tightly restraining Tao Guihua.
"Oh my God, please let my son go!" A heart-wrenching wail suddenly came from outside.
Zhao Youqian's mother, supporting her husband, walked slowly towards the gatekeeper, and the two of them knelt down before him with a thud.
"Chief, please, please release my son! He was just confused for a moment. You watched him grow up, you know he's a good person at heart." The rich woman cried and kept kowtowing. Heaven knows how heartbroken she was when she found out about this.
"Old sister-in-law, get up quickly! This is a matter for our whole village! Please get up and talk first." Zhao Tingzhang said, stepping forward to help Youqian's mother up.
The old man is over sixty years old; how could he possibly withstand such a blow?
But Youqian's mother insisted on kneeling on the ground. She wiped the tears from her face and said solemnly, "Chief, my family's wealth is all due to his wife's instigation. Ever since that woman married into our family, not a single good thing has happened."
“If you want to punish someone, punish this woman who has caused trouble, and all the people in Peach Blossom Village! They are wicked and have corrupted my son.”
As soon as the rich woman finished speaking, Tao Guihua looked at her in disbelief.
"Mother, what are you saying? I bore children for your Zhao family. Even if I haven't done anything meritorious, I've still worked hard for you. Why don't you remember any of that now?"
Although Tao Guihua knew that her mother-in-law was usually indifferent to her and she didn't expect her to plead for her, she didn't think she would go so far as to kick her when she was down.
This is completely disregarding her as a member of the Zhao family.
The wealthy woman glared at Tao Guihua resentfully. "When you married into our Zhao family, you were already three months pregnant. We don't even know if that little bell was born to our wealthy family!"
Now that things have come to this, the wealthy woman no longer cares about saving face at home and directly reveals what happened back then in front of everyone.
She had kept this matter in her heart for a long time, and she had wanted to ask it for a long time.
But these words undoubtedly tore away Tao Guihua's last fig leaf, leaving her utterly humiliated.
The elderly women below couldn't sit still after hearing such explosive news.
Goodness, Zhao Youqian's family has this kind of history?
No wonder, no wonder this baby was born at the wrong time. She was born a few months earlier than usual, but she doesn't look premature at all.
Tao Guihua is really something else! She started hooking up with men when she was still a young girl. She's shameless...
Yes, shameless.
Tao Guihua has lost all face today, and now there's nothing left to worry about.
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