NCCnovel Chapter 174: Unable to Express Pain
Chapter 174: Unable to Express Pain
Lu Qingrong was choked by what Old Lady Qiao said.
Everything the old woman said hit him hard.
He still has to take the imperial examination to become a high-ranking official and live a prosperous and glorious future.
As for biological children, of course they will have them if they want.
His wife has been taking care of her body, and the doctor said there is still hope that she can get pregnant in the future.
If he really cannot have children, when he becomes an official and wants to have children, he can take two concubines and let his wives raise the children.
Besides, he really treats his step-children as his own children.
The children they have in the future will also be his grandchildren.
So this old woman is so vicious, no wonder she is the dead girl’s grandmother.
He said coldly: "What qualifications do you, an old woman, have to make me swear? This is simply nonsense."
"Anyway, you guys made an appointment today to throw dirty water on our couple."
"But we are innocent."
"I'll say this for the last time. Those who are innocent will be cleared."
"Words are not enough, if you have the guts, show us the evidence."
He didn't believe that the Qiao and Zhou families could produce evidence.
Old Lady Qiao also sneered: "My daughter-in-law and the girl from their village saw you having a secret meeting with their own eyes. This is the evidence."
"I dare not swear, you are guilty."
Then he added: "Besides, whether you have an affair or a bastard is none of our business."
"Today we are here to ask for an explanation."
"We are relatives. It was you and your wife who begged to marry my granddaughter."
"Now they have no conscience and are trying every possible means to drive her away and harm our Qiao family."
"I'm telling you, this isn't over yet."
Anyway, just spread the word, their main focus is money.
What's more, no matter how Ms. Lu argued, it seemed that everyone present believed them.
The wife of the Zhou family also said: "It was not long after my eldest brother passed away that I saw you two meeting and having an affair in a remote alley."
"You even hugged Yu Wanzhi to comfort her, saying that the man was dead, but you are still here."
"You will take care of them and their daughter in the future."
"I remember that at that time, your first wife had not yet passed away."
She even raised her hand and said, "I can swear that everything I saw and heard was true. Otherwise, God will punish me with lightning and my whole family will die miserably without any descendants."
She really saw this scene back then and what she said was true, so she was not afraid to swear.
Of course, the couple didn't drive away Yu Wanzhi and her daughter for this reason.
Fighting for family property is one thing, and having a deadly feud is another.
Back then, because of Yu Wanzhi's instigation, that damn elder brother treated them and their husband very harshly after their parents died, and swallowed up the property that should have belonged to them.
Yu Wanzhi also deliberately pushed her to have a miscarriage, killing her unborn son.
Those two bastards are heartless and bully her children openly and secretly.
That dead brother was not good to them, so why should he ask them to help raise his children after his death?
What's more, keeping this ungrateful couple around will do their children no good at all.
This brother and sister were very cruel, so they were driven away together.
These years, ever since Yu Wanzhi married Lu Qingrong.
Their family has been suppressed all the time. Yu Wanzhi instigated the Lu family to make trouble and discredit the couple's reputation everywhere in the county.
Let them have no way of speaking out their grievances and dare not offend each other.
Someone promised today that if she came out to testify, she could ensure that their family would not be retaliated against by Lu Qingrong.
Of course she came, she had been holding this resentment for many years.
The ancients believed in oaths. The Zhou family's daughter-in-law even swore a poisonous oath that her entire family would not have a good death and would have no descendants.
If it wasn't true, who would curse themselves, their entire family and their children like this?
Almost everyone present believed her words.
Moreover, the daughter-in-law of the Qiao family and other girls in their village had also seen the two of them having a secret meeting.
The students of the county school moved a little further away from Lu Qingrong.
"I never thought that Lu Xiucai was such a person."
"I've always felt that he was hypocritical and mean, but you still don't believe it."
"I heard that he was able to pass the exam and become a scholar because of the help of his father-in-law."
"But when his wife was sick, he flirted with other women and promised to have her in the future. He is such an ungrateful gentleman."
"He can do that to his own son, let alone his first wife."
"It turns out that the two of them had been having an affair for a long time, so they wanted to harm the child born to the first wife."
"It's so shameless. I feel ashamed to study with such a person."
"I will report this to the teacher. I don't want to be classmates with such a scum."
"I also need to go."
As he said this, someone actually came in to look for the teacher.
In addition to these students, people watching the excitement on the street also pointed fingers at Lu Qingrong, looked down on him and cursed him.
For such things, even in modern times, people would despise and scold them, let alone in ancient times.
Lu Qingrong's face turned blue with anger. "Slander, this is slander."
"You have a grudge against Wanzhi, so you slander us like this."
The Zhou family's daughter-in-law sneered: "I have a grudge against her. She deliberately pushed me to have a miscarriage and killed my son. Shouldn't I bear a grudge against her?"
"But I can guarantee that what I said is true. You are a pair of shameless bitches."
"I shouldn't have worried about your revenge back then, I should have gone to find the clan leader and others to catch the adulterer."
"Let you go directly into the pig cage."
There is no way to let the two of them do this now. After all, they only saw it back then and it can't be used as evidence now.
Lu Qingrong listened to other people's pointing and criticizing, and felt so angry that his chest ached. He had never felt so embarrassed before.
But there is no strong evidence to refute it.
These people's words are not based on evidence, and it is indeed impossible to convict the couple.
But it can also ruin their reputation.
What he valued most was his reputation and reputation, and what happened today was simply unacceptable to him.
If I had known earlier, I should have coaxed the Qiao family to go to a remote place to talk.
However, seeing that both the Qiao family and the Zhou family's daughter-in-law showed up to throw dirty water on him, these people might have planned it in advance.
He could only bite the bullet and say, "That's nonsense. I don't recognize anything you said."
"I still say the same thing, if you have the ability, then produce evidence, otherwise it is slander."
This kind of thing can never be admitted.
The Zhou family's daughter-in-law snorted coldly, "Whether you admit it or not is your business. I just can't help but say it out loud after holding it in for so many years."
"I believe that everyone has sharp eyes and can see through the true colors of you, a hypocrite, and that pretentious bitch."
"Everyone, watch carefully. Today I have revealed that Mr. Lu and my former sister-in-law had an affair."
"If there is a sudden retaliation or something goes wrong, it was done by Mr. and Mrs. Lu."
"I don't want anything else. I just want to talk about what happened back then."
"It would save my husband and I from having to bear the blame for the cruelty of driving away my sister-in-law and nephews and nieces all these years."
She burst into tears, "If it were you, should you kick him out?"
Over the years, the couple's reputation has been badly damaged by this pair of bastards.
As a result, the child’s reputation was also bad and he was bullied by the kids in school.
I finally got to take a shower today.
Someone who wanted to watch the fun said, "A woman who doesn't follow her husband's chastity should be kicked out."
"This bastard is not from your Zhou family, so you should drive him out."
"That's right. You two are kindhearted. You just chased them away without telling them that they had a child out of wedlock. Instead, you got a bad reputation."
"It hasn't been easy for you and your wife over the years!"
Although Lu Qingrong was only a scholar, he knew many prominent people in the county, and his status was much higher than that of a small merchant.
He had been oppressing the Zhou couple, making them bear a bad reputation, and the business in the shop was also very bad.
Now I know the truth of the matter.
In particular, Yu Wanzhi caused Zhou's daughter-in-law to have a miscarriage, and had an affair with Lu Xiucai, giving birth to a pair of bastards.
Everyone's attitude towards the Zhou couple has changed from dislike and disdain to sympathy.
When Zhou's wife heard what everyone said, she burst into tears.
They looked as pitiful as possible, which attracted many people's sympathy and they turned to scold Lu Qingrong and his wife.
Seeing this, Old Lady Qiao also started to curse. She stood up and walked forward, grabbing Lu Qingrong's arm tightly, demanding an explanation from him.
Lu Qingrong was not good at arguing, and he kept explaining, but no one listened or believed him.
I felt like I was about to collapse. I had no words to express my pain, and being held by Old Lady Qiao made me feel even more disgusted.
Just at this moment, the teacher of the county school came out.