Chapter 244

244. Chapter 244: Baseless Slander

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked up toward their gate. The sturdy gate was being slapped with a loud clatter. She didn't know how much strength the people outside were using, as if they wouldn't be satisfied until they broke the gate.

"Why would someone come at this time?" Jiang Wei frowned and came outside, looking at Du County Magistrate and the others, asking, "When you came, did you alert anyone in the village?"

Du County Magistrate shook his head in confusion. When they came this time, except for the coachman, they didn't dare bring anyone else, not even the two guards who usually followed Cishi Xie. They were also extremely careful and low-key when entering the village, so how could they have alerted anyone in the village?

Jiang Xiaoxiao also felt it was strange. The carriage they sat in was also ordinary, the kind common to ordinary families, not enough to attract the attention of the villagers. Why were there so many villagers coming to her house today?

"Forget it." Jiang Wei sighed, "Xiaoxiao, take them to the second-floor balcony to hide. I'll handle the rest."

"Alright." Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded and then took Du County Magistrate and Cishi Xie to the second-floor balcony.

The two didn't dare to delay and hurriedly followed.

Shen Que looked deeply at Jiang Wei, was silent for a while, and then said, "I've troubled you."

After saying this, he followed closely behind and went up to the second floor with the others.

After everyone was hidden in the corner of the balcony, Jiang Wei stepped forward to open the gate.

As soon as the sturdy wooden door was pulled open, Li Family Old Woman, who was frantically kicking the door, stumbled, her body falling forward uncontrollably, and she fell flat on her face.

"Ouch... it hurts me to death..."

Even Li Family Old Woman's sturdy body couldn't withstand such a fall. It hurt so much that she sat on the ground and couldn't help but cry and curse: "Jiang Shi, are you trying to kill me! If you kill me, you can be carefree and happy with that wild man, right?! Ouch, there's no justice! My son, you are so miserable! How could our Li family marry a woman like Jiang Shi who doesn't keep to her wifely duties? You've only been gone for a few years, and she's already wearing a green hat for you outside..."

Li Family Old Woman cried with tears and snot. Jiang Wei, who was a bit confused at first, gradually understood.

She looked at the Li Zheng and the many villagers who had followed, twitched her lips, and said, "Uncle Liu, what do you mean by this, coming to my house to cause trouble with the Li family?"

"Xiaoxiao's mother, you, don't misunderstand..." Li Zheng waved his hand hurriedly and then looked at Old Man Li, who was acting like a quail, and said angrily, "Old Li family, didn't you shout that Xiaoxiao's mother had done something to let down our village, and call for all of us to come and see? Now that we've all come, you'd better explain clearly, don't slander Xiaoxiao's mother's innocence out of thin air!"

"Exactly!"

The people around echoed one after another.

After the previous events, the villagers were already very dissatisfied with the Li family. If it weren't for the old couple of the Li family shouting all over the village that Xiaoxiao's mother was wanton and fooling around with a wild man behind their backs, they wouldn't have followed to prove Xiaoxiao's mother's innocence.

Being scolded by Li Zheng in front of so many people, Old Man Li's face looked a bit ugly, but he still stiffened his neck and said, "I, I didn't lie! This was seen with my own eyes by my eldest daughter-in-law!"

Hearing this, everyone looked at Sun Shi behind. She was currently supporting Li Jinfeng, whose lower abdomen was obviously growing, standing on the side. Hearing this, she sneered, "I never said such things, nor have I seen any wild man."

Li Family Old Woman, who was wiping tears on the ground, jumped up in anger, resisting the urge to rush up and slap Sun Shi twice, and then pulled out Yun Ying, who was hiding far behind the crowd, and said viciously, "Yun Ying, you tell them, after you were tied up at home by that bitch Jiang Shi that day, did you see her keeping a man at her house?"

Yun Ying was suddenly pulled in front of everyone and felt several hateful gazes fall on her.

They were from Auntie Guihua and Uncle Zhou.

Those eyes seemed to want to peel her skin and dismantle her bones, especially Auntie Guihua's terrifying hatred. If it weren't for someone pulling her, she would have wanted to rush over and bite Yun Ying.

Yun Ying shrank her neck in fear. Since returning to Yuhe Village, she hadn't dared to step out of the Li family gate, fearing she would meet these people from the village.

Now that she was pulled in front of everyone, under the watchful eyes of all, she was too scared to speak.

Li Family Old Woman didn't care if she was scared or not and slapped her on the back of the head directly: "Are you mute? Speak! Tell everyone everything you saw that day!"

Yun Ying could only stutter, "That, that day I, I was tied up at home by Jiang Shi... I saw a man in her courtyard, he, he threatened me with a firewood knife..."

"Threatened you with what?" Li Family Old Woman hurriedly took over the conversation, "Was it threatening you not to tell about that wild man at the Jiang house?"

Yun Ying glanced at the aggressive Li Family Old Woman, then looked at Jiang Wei, who was silent opposite, and then nodded vigorously: "Yes, one was holding a firewood knife, the other was holding a kitchen knife, threatening me not to tell about their affair, otherwise they would make me die a horrible death!"

"Heh." Hearing this, Jiang Wei couldn't help but sneer, staring fixedly at Yun Ying in front of her, and said word by word, "Yun Ying, do you know what the consequences are for lying and slandering others?"

Yun Ying was caught off guard by Jiang Wei's cold eyes and panicked suddenly, but she still pretended to be calm and said, "I didn't slander you! You really did hide a wild man in your house!"

Anyway, her situation was already so miserable, it couldn't get any worse.

Moreover, if it weren't for that bitch Jiang Shi tying her up and forcing her to tell the truth about child trafficking, she wouldn't have ended up like this!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Yun Ying simply steeled her heart and gritted her teeth, "Hmph, Jiang Shi, that day I just happened to see you fooling around with a wild man at home. To hide this, you tied me up in the kitchen and threatened me not to tell anyone. Later, you made me tell the truth about child trafficking in front of the whole village, trying to use this to divert everyone's attention and bury the fact that you were hiding a wild man!"

She spoke convincingly, and the sequence of events seemed to match up. The villagers, who didn't believe it at all at first, gradually became uncertain.

Everyone's suspicious gazes turned toward Jiang Wei. (End of chapter)