NCCnovel Chapter 173 If you want to come, come hard
Chapter 173 If you want to come, come hard
The news that Old Lady Qiao told shocked everyone present.
Everyone's eyes were filled with gossip, and it was obvious that everyone liked to eat melons.
Lu Qingrong was confused.
Obviously, no one expected that Mrs. Qiao would say such words and throw such dirty water.
He was so angry that he was shaking all over and pointed at Mrs. Qiao, "You are disrespectful."
"Nonsense, absolute nonsense."
Old Mrs. Qiao was like a victorious rooster, "You are the one who is disgracing yourself."
"You are a scholar, but you actually did something like stealing someone's wife behind his back. How shameless."
"If the Zhou family hadn't discovered your shameless widow step-wife and your little affair, would they have driven her and the Zhou family's offspring out?"
"After the two bastards were adopted by you, the Zhou family had no objection."
"Your two bastards eat and wear the same things as the young masters of a wealthy family."
"And your own son's tuition is earned by copying books himself."
This is what she heard from the villagers.
After she finished speaking, she asked everyone present: "Tell me, who is so stupid as to treat their own son so harshly and raise their stepson as a young master?"
"Can you do it?"
Everyone present shook their heads and said, "That's definitely not the case."
A biological son is one's own blood, but even if a stepson is registered under one's name, that blood belongs to someone else.
People will only adopt someone else's child when they are unable to have children and are forced to do so.
We are connected by blood, so of course our biological children are the most important.
There was a student in the county school who had always been at odds with Lu Qingrong and couldn't stand him.
Suddenly, as if he understood, he spoke, "I've heard people say it many times before. Mr. Lu treated his son very harshly and even sent him to the countryside to fend for himself."
"His own son actually has a talent for studying, but he just ignores it."
"He treats his stepson like his own son, providing him with good food, clothing and other necessities, and even paying for his education."
"No one could figure out why he was like this before."
"But if the stepson is also a biological child, it would make sense."
This person really thinks so.
He used to think that Lu Qingrong was a hypocritical and false person.
Especially when he accidentally heard people talk about how Lu Qingrong treated his own son harshly, he despised him from the bottom of his heart.
I thought this hypocrite was influenced by someone else's advice and treated his own son like that.
After all, if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather.
But now it seems that he still underestimated Lu Qingrong's shamelessness.
It turned out that he had an affair with his step-wife before marriage, and even had an illegitimate child after they got married.
Another student shook his head in disdain, "It's insulting. This is truly insulting."
Many people believed what Old Lady Qiao said.
After all, how could one treat his own son like this?
If the bastard is his biological son, it would make sense.
This couple is really shameless and cruel.
Of course, some people were skeptical. Would a scholar really do such a thing?
Lu Qingrong was so angry that his eyes went dark and he almost fainted. "Stop slandering me."
"My step-wife and I have always had a clean record."
"Her husband died, and my wife died, so I married her."
“We didn’t even know each other before we got married.”
"That's not what this shameless old woman said at all. Don't listen to her smear campaign."
"The Qiao family is full of scoundrels and rogues. Not long ago, they extorted money from my wife's family."
"Just go to their village and ask around and you'll know how bad their reputation is."
"How can we trust what a family like this says?"
At this time, Qiao Ye's stepmother stood up.
"You are so shameless, you dare to say you don't know each other."
"When I was still a girl, I went up the mountain with my sisters to pick wild vegetables, and I saw you two having a secret meeting."
"In our village, I'm not the only one who knows that you two had an affair before you got married."
"I know who they are. If you think I'm lying, you can find them and confront them."
Then she told the story of the time and place, as well as the sweet words they said while hugging each other on the mountain.
"Even if we report it to the police, we are not afraid because what I say is the truth."
She is not slandering or throwing dirty water on others, but she saw it with her own eyes, so she is not afraid.
Besides her, there are several other girls in the village who only know about this.
Last year, when they met Yu Wanzhi when they returned to her parents' home, they both cursed her as a vixen.
Lu Qingrong was so angry that he wanted to kill all of them.
"We have no private relationship, let alone an affair. My two stepchildren are the blood of the Zhou family."
"Stop throwing dirty water."
He snorted coldly, "I am innocent."
At this moment, a woman suddenly said, "Bah, he who pays back will be cleared."
"Who doesn't know about your mess with that bitch?"
"My eldest brother is so unlucky that he has to deal with a shameless bitch like Yu Wanzhi."
"Not only did she kill my eldest brother, but she also gave birth to two bastards with you."
"Otherwise, how could we, as husband and wife, drive the Zhou family's bloodline out as well?"
"Before, you were a scholar. We small merchants couldn't afford to offend you, and we didn't dare to publicize it."
"Now that your daughter-in-law's family has come forward, I can't help but say something fair."
"There is a secret affair between you two, and I saw it with my own eyes."
Everyone looked towards the woman.
Someone recognized her and said, "Isn't this the wife of the Zhou family?"
The person who came was Yu Wanzhi's sister-in-law, and also her former brother-in-law.
No one expected that she would come out to testify.
I heard from Lu Qingrong that the people of the Qiao family have a bad reputation and are considered scoundrels in the village.
Speaking of this matter did make everyone a little skeptical.
After all, could a scholar really do such a shameless thing?
But since Zhou's daughter-in-law said it, it is most likely true.
And upstairs.
Seeing Zhou’s daughter-in-law coming out, Qiao Ye turned his head to look at Lu Shao.
Giving him a questioning look that meant "You did this?"
Lu Shao nodded to her and admitted it.
But as people from the Qiao family, it is not easy to punish those two people for their affair.
After all, the Qiao family has a bad reputation, and his father can use this to fight back.
Although there are people who believe it, it is not enough.
Then he added fuel to the fire. No matter whether the bastard was his own son or not, he would become his own son today.
So it was indeed him who had someone find Zhou family’s wife.
downstairs.
I heard Zhou’s daughter-in-law come out to testify.
Everyone looked at Lu Qingrong with contempt.
"I never thought that a scholar would do such a thing."
"It's morally corrupt! It's morally corrupt!"
"No wonder he treats his own son so well. It turns out he has no shortage of sons."
"It's also lust that blinds one's mind."
"Is such a person also worthy of being a scholar?"
The students of the county school also came one after another and stood a little further away from Lu Qingrong.
I never expected this person to be so morally corrupt.
Lu Qingrong didn't expect that Zhou's young wife would jump out.
He looked at the young wife of the Zhou family with fierce eyes, "You and Yu Wanzhi have a deep grudge, and now you are deliberately throwing dirty water on us."
"You and your wife framed the mother and daughter in order to seize the Zhou family's property and drove them out of the Zhou family."
"Your words are simply not credible."
"You said that I had an affair with her, but words are not enough. If you have the guts, show me the evidence."
He was forced to say, "I can swear that Lu Zhoujin and Lu Zhoulan are definitely not my biological children."
Old Mrs. Qiao interrupted, "Then do you dare to swear that you and Yu Wanzhi don't have a private affair?"
"If you have an affair with her, you will never pass the imperial examination and become poor and destitute. You will also have no descendants."
The daughter-in-law saw with her own eyes that the shameless pair were having an affair, so she decided to do something ruthless.
(Future updates will be around 13:~)