Jun Haoyue coughed lightly and explained to Chen Pi, "Chen Zhuo, Xingchen and I will marry separately."
Um? ? ?
Chen Pi stared, looking from him to Xu Xingchen. Was he mistaken? Or had she misheard?
But no one paid any attention to his shock and confusion, and everyone was more concerned about Zhang Xiaochun.
Zhang Xiaochun's home.
Zhang Xiaochun was just surprised and fell asleep due to crying, and she woke up when she moved.
At this time, the Zhang family's house was crowded with people, and so many pairs of eyes were staring at her that she was stunned.
Xu Xingchen asked, "Zhang Xiaochun, what happened? Why is Wang Muling in the sedan chair?"
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaochun's thoughts returned, as if he remembered something, his face stained with resentment and anger, "Wang Muling wants to replace me and marry Mr. Jun!"
The onlookers were in an uproar.
"On the way to the wedding, Wang Muling lied to me that she was going to plot against Widow Xu and stage a marriage between close relatives. After tricking me out of the sedan chair, she knocked me unconscious and had me taken to town."
Zhang Xiaochun burst into tears as he spoke, "I opened my eyes and there were so many people surrounding me that I couldn't even wear my wedding clothes anymore, sob."
Everyone's eyes turned to Chen Pi who brought her back. Chen Pi quickly raised his hands and said, "Hey, let me first state that I am the one who saved her out of chivalry. I didn't do anything."
Xu Xingchen also glanced at him. Chen Pi had indeed turned over a new leaf.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Aunt Wang, your niece is too shameless."
Someone in the crowd said something.
"That's right, you two are cousins, and you can do such a thing."
"Well, hasn't the Zhang family always been like this?"
"It's a close relative marriage. If Xu Xiaoniang hadn't run away from the marriage, what kind of den of wolves would she have ended up in?"
All these remarks made Aunt Wang, who was originally joining in the fun in the crowd, blush and turn blue. Wang Muling was indeed embarrassed by this move.
The public's target also shifted to Wang Muling, who shamelessly pretended to be married by "substituting a cat for a prince".
Wang Muling lowered her head and clutched her fingers without saying a word. She was still wearing Zhang Xiaochun's wedding dress, which was a little too big for her. When Zhang Xiaochun saw it, he rushed up and tore it off like a madman.
"Give me back my wedding dress and Mr. Jun, you bitch."
During the quarrel, Wang Muling also lost her temper, "You ugly thing, there's no way Jun Haoyue would fall for you. If it weren't for me, would he have said he would marry you?!"
"What did you say?" Zhang Xiaochun loosened his grip and asked in disbelief.
Wang Muling immediately shut up, pried her hands apart, turned her face away and stopped talking.
Xu Xingchen's eyes slid over to Jun Haoyue, and he understood.
I see.
Zhang Xiaochun cried and asked Wang Muling to explain, and the villagers also spit on Wang Muling. People in big cities are so cunning that they even scheme against their own sisters. They are so dark and dirty.
Aunt Wang was afraid that Wang Muling would be scolded by the villagers and run away, so she hurried forward to stop them. "Stop talking, stop talking. Muling is young and will make mistakes. Everyone made some mistakes when they were young. Please forgive her."
But the villagers didn't buy her story and kept pointing at Wang Muling and talking.
The scene was in chaos, with accusations, the crying of Zhang Xiaochun and her daughter, and Aunt Wang's pleading.
Xu Xingchen suddenly felt a headache, and the arrival of the village chief calmed the chaos.
The crutches hit the ground with a slightly hurried "thump thump" sound, and Aunt Fat and the village chief appeared in front of everyone.
The village chief looked around at the protagonists and thanked Chen Pi first. "Young man, I heard that you saved the girl from my village. Thank you so much. To show my gratitude, I'll have someone make a banner and some local specialties for you to take back."
Chen Pi thanked him repeatedly, "Village Chief, you are so polite."
Xu Xingchen suddenly said, "Just accept this gift from the villagers." Only then did Chen Pi agree.
After expressing his gratitude, the village chief's face darkened, and his previous amiable expression seemed to be an illusion.
He glanced at Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Muling and the others, "Aunt Wang, your niece turned this wedding into an incestuous marriage?"
Aunt Wang looked embarrassed and opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say. Wang Muling seemed to be confused by the villagers' scolding and did not explain or refute.
"Now that we've missed the auspicious date, and the wedding has turned out like this, such a mess, I think we should just forget about getting married. It'll be a laughing stock to the neighbors."
Zhang Xiaochun was a little dissatisfied. It was not her fault that the wedding was messed up. It was all Wang Muling's fault. Why should she cancel her wedding with Mr. Jun?
"Village Chief, my marriage to Mr. Jun is not chaotic. It's Zhang Tiansheng's family that is chaotic. Why do you want to cancel mine too?"
She "disappeared" at the beginning of the wedding, so she didn't know that Xu Xingchen had "escaped the marriage".
Zhang Tiansheng also jumped out and said, "That's right, Village Chief. Widow Xu was the prize I won at the marriage competition. How can you just cancel it?"
What did he mean by a 'prize'? Xu Xiaoniang was a perfectly normal person, yet he treated her like an object.
Before Xu Xingchen could retort, a villager had already refuted her.
The Zhang family's incestuous marriage caused dissatisfaction among the entire village, and naturally no one was on their side.
Is it necessary to get into a marriage that is not favored by everyone? Of course not, especially in this superstitious age.
They thought that the wedding had so many twists and turns because God did not support them getting married. Man cannot overcome God, so they decided to call off the marriage.
The villagers were not optimistic and told them to forget it. However, Zhang Tiansheng and Zhang Xiaochun were not convinced and they fought against the crowd alone.
After all the arguing, the village chief kowtowed with his cane to silence everyone. "Alright, this wedding is a mistake. No one should argue. If you're destined to be together, you can get married later. Not today!"
Zhang Xiaochun and Zhang Tiansheng are in despair. What will happen next? After today, will they still be able to get married?
Wang Muling, however, was like a ghost. He suddenly said with all his strength, "Widow Xu and Jun Haoyue are fake siblings! They are living alone under the same roof. I just discovered their secret. What's my fault?!"
Waves of trouble followed wave of trouble, and the scene fell into silence for a while.
Jun Haoyue stood up and said, "Xu Xingchen and I are indeed not real cousins."
Wow——
Widow Xu has such an unclear relationship with him, shouldn't she be thrown into a pig cage?
"But she and I are like siblings. Our parents had a good relationship, but my parents died in the war. Xingchen's parents took me in. We grew up together and call the same father and mother. Isn't this like being siblings?"
As Jun Haoyue spoke, there was still sadness and nostalgia on his face, and the villagers were moved.
"After my (adoptive) parents left, I traveled extensively and accidentally came here, taking refuge with Xingchen..."
The corners of Xu Xingchen's mouth twitched slightly. Jun Haoyue was really good at making up stories.
The misunderstanding was resolved and the villagers dispersed. On the way back, Xu Xingchen asked him what was going on with Wang Muling.
Jun Haoyue confessed everything and said that he had always known Wang Muling's thoughts and was just playing along with him.
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