Farm Tough Girl
Chapter 490 - 490 491 Untouchable_1

Chapter 490: Chapter 491: Untouchable_1 Chapter 490: Chapter 491: Untouchable_1 “Indeed, even if she had admitted it back then, the Village Head wouldn’t have done anything to her, yet she stubbornly maintained her honor, claiming she wasn’t violated. Now she’s given birth to a bastard, how shameful, especially since it’s born of a bandit’s seed, and it caused someone’s death!”

The crowd was buzzing with excitement when they suddenly saw Dabao’s Mother, propping herself up and running out holding the child, with a big handprint on her pale face, smeared with tears. As she ran, she cried out, “Mother, I beg you, this child truly is from the Xu Family, he’s not a bastard. Please spare him, don’t kill him, please!”

Madam Li immediately chased after her and grabbed Dabao’s Mother by the hair, her voice fierce, “You’re begging me now? How can you still have the face to say this child is from the Li Family? How could our Li Family produce such a bastard? If we don’t kill this bastard, our Xu Family’s reputation will be utterly destroyed! Hand over the child, I’ll throw him into the river and drown him myself!”

Dabao’s Mother had chunks of her hair ripped out but still refused to let go, desperately protecting the child, “No, this child is from the Xu Family, I wasn’t violated, I wasn’t violated! Shouzhuo, Shouzhuo, believe me, I’m truly innocent, this is our child, our own flesh and blood. You have to protect him, you can’t let them throw him in the river, he really is your blood!”

Shouzhuo, however, brutally shook off Dabao Mother’s hand, saying with deep pain, “I used to trust you so much, but how did you treat my trust? If he truly was my flesh and blood, why does my own blood reject him? I even swore to my mother that you wouldn’t lie, wouldn’t deceive me. How have I wronged you in the slightest over the past half-year? Yet now this child is a bastard, where does that leave my honor?”

Dabao’s Mother felt as though the sky was collapsing; she had been full of hope that her child would be born safely, that others would see her innocence. But why can’t the blood mix? How did it come to this!

Madam Li, not bothering to waste words with Dabao’s Mother any longer, directly tried to snatch the child from her hands, “Why waste words on her? While this child lives, he’s a laughingstock to our Xu Family. Better to let him die quickly! You vile woman, you still argue your case, even now. It would be best if the Village Head drowned both you and your son in the pond!”

The villagers, hearing Madam Li’s words, showed not the slightest objection. They had already made the greatest concession by initially sparing these dishonored women, but for someone like Dabao’s Mother, who had “hidden” the truth, and even given birth to a bastard, it was truly unsettling to them. After all, they lived in this era; it wasn’t just Madam Li who couldn’t let this go – even the other onlookers had no pity for Dabao’s Mother at this moment.

Dabao’s Mother had run out hoping for rescue, but to her shock, not a single person was willing to speak up for her. Instead, they all looked on with cold and disgusted eyes, indifferent. Indeed, in their eyes, she was a defiled woman; why would they protect her?

Dabao’s Mother closed her eyes in despair, allowing her tears to flood down, “If you must kill my son, then kill me first, let mother and son go together.”

With no one around believing her, not even her own dear husband, who would believe her no matter how hoarse her cries? Poor child, at such a tender age to suffer such calamities, truly pitiable!

Madam Li cursed, “I can’t just let you be! After such a disgraceful act, did you really think I would spare you?! I should just sink you dirty things in a pond with a bamboo cage! Our Li Family simply can’t bear such shame!”

Muniang was furiously indignant. It was a living being; how could one talk so cavalierly about killing? It was bad enough that Madam Li, that shameless hussy, had no humanity, but were these villagers also so indifferent?

“Hold on! You all keep calling Dabao’s Mother dirty, but weren’t you aware of the situation when enemy scattered soldiers caused chaos in the village? The child isn’t the spawn of some adulterer. It was you who forced Dabao’s Mother to suffer this fate. Even if this child is not from the Xu Family, what right do you have to insult her? If you were really so noble, why didn’t you think of that when you pushed a woman out as a human shield?!” Muniang rebuked them sharply.

The villagers’ faces turned red with shame; that incident was a disgrace to the whole village, something nobody wanted to bring up. Now exposed by Muniang’s blunt words, they found it hard to save face, especially the men.

“Qiao Muniang, what nonsense are you spouting? Do you expect me to dote on and raise this child? Let the entire village watch this bastard grow up in our Xu Family? I don’t care what happened before; this child is definitely not from our Xu Family, and I absolutely cannot tolerate it!” Madam Li spat out unapologetically.

“Quite right, after all, it was you who pushed Dabao’s Mother out first. And now you are the one shouting about protecting the Xu Family’s honor. It’s a pity that Dabao’s Mother wasn’t as strong-willed. Had she dragged you out with her and had your body violated, I would like to see if you’d still be clamoring to preserve the Xu Family’s honor and then throw yourself into the river!” Muniang replied coldly.

At these words, there was an uproar among the villagers. The fact that Madam Li, in order to save her own life, had been the first to push her daughter-in-law out to be defiled was undeniable. They were all clear-eyed, and although they hadn’t given much thought to it before, Muniang’s reminder made them see the matter in a different light, and their looks towards Madam Li turned markedly strange.

Madam Li was so provoked that she began to hop with rage, pointing at Muniang’s nose and cursing, “Hey, you shameless little *****! Why do you insist on speaking up for a woman carrying a bastard? Could it be that you have some kindred sympathy with her? For all I know, your own unborn child might not be clean either!”

Before Muniang could speak, Qingya jumped up and yelled back, “Madam Li, don’t you dare slander! Is our Lady someone you can malign? Watch your tongue or someone might rip it out at night! Our household is not to be trifiled with like before. Be careful or I’ll tell our Lord, and you’ll have enough to endure!”

Madam Li, hearing this, actually became a bit scared. She had heard about Qiao Muniang’s man. When she was foolish before, it hadn’t mattered much, but once she came to her senses, he had taught many people a lesson. Wasn’t the old Qiao family wiped out by her man? She dared not provoke him.

Madam Li’s face changed, and she immediately turned and howled at the Village Head, “Village Head! This is lawlessness! Our Xu Family has such a shameless daughter-in-law, giving birth to a bastard that tarnishes our name, and I’m not allowed to deal with it? You want to drive me to death? I’m nothing but an old bag of bones now, how will I face our Xu Family’s ancestors in the afterlife?”