: Asking for guilt

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

: Asking for guilt

After leaving the bookstore, Xia Yuan followed the crowd and went to a large market. He found a stall there to eat some food, bought various fabrics of colors, and bought snacks and candy cubes, and bought a new toothbrush for his young wife.

The toothbrush she brought over was almost gone, and it didn't look like a toothbrush, but a cigarette gun.

Anyway, a toothbrush is not as expensive as you think. You can buy one for twenty or thirty cents.

When Xia Yuan arrived at the entrance of the village with a package containing various items, it was just dusk.

People in the village eat two meals a day and eat early, and basically have supper at 4 pm. Usually, most people have already filled their stomachs and are sitting under the big tree at the entrance of the village to enjoy the cool air and chat.

But when Xia Yuan beat the entrance of the village, he saw no one. He walked home with doubts, and there were basically no people on the way.

This made him feel an ominous premonition in his inexplicable heart slowly rise.

When I walked to the door of my house, a small figure was squatting in front of my yard, wearing a cloth dress, with a nose on my face, and holding a wheat straw in my hand and slashing on the ground.

Seeing Xia Yuan come back, Erniu threw away the wheat straw in her hand and ran over and said, "Brother Yuan, your bride has been captured by the clan leader and the others in the ancestral hall."

When Xia Yuan heard the words "being caught" in the ancestral hall, he didn't know that something happened. The situation was obvious. It must be that the village knew that his new wife was thrown away, so he caught Zhao Yuerong and asked, or even more so, it should be said that he was guilty.

Having no time to delay, he thanked casually. Xia Yuan threw the things he bought on the ground, turned around and hurriedly ran towards the ancestral hall.

Erniu originally wanted to go with her to watch the fun, but when she saw Xia Yuan thrown the package on the ground, she hesitated for a moment, then squatted down silently to help see the things.

When he arrived outside the ancestral hall, Xia Yuan stood at the door and saw that the courtyard of the ancestral hall was full of people. The villagers of Xiajiazhuang gathered here, and were talking nonsense.

"How can Zhaojia Village do things like this? Isn't it ugly?"

"This is simply bullying our Xia family."

"The patriarch must be punished severely."

"Yes, it must be severely punished."

Hearing the word "severe punishment", Xia Yuan thought it was not good and hurried into the crowd, "Dear uncles and aunts, please give it a little, please give it a little."

Hearing the voice, the villagers turned around and saw Xia Yuan coming back. A few familiar questions asked: "Brother Yuan, why did you come back? Do you know that your wife was replaced?"

Xia Yuan opened his mouth and was about to answer when he heard a sound of scolding from the ancestral hall, with obvious anger. It was the voice of the elder of the clan.

Hearing the sound, he didn't care about anything else and quickly said, "I know, why don't I know? Come on, let me go in and take a look."

As he said, Xia Yuan struggled to pass through the crowd and quickly walked into the lobby of the ancestral hall.

The patriarch, as well as several elderly people in the clan, and his own uncle were all in the church.

The young wife Zhao Yuerong knelt on the ground, with red eyes and helplessness. Her little body was so scared that she trembled slightly, and her face looked helpless.

Seeing Xia Yuan come in, her eyes lit up, and then became a little redder, and tears instantly filled her eyes.

Xia Yuan gave her a look of not being afraid and bowed to the elders in the hall in a manner. Before she could speak, she heard a cold snorkeling sound.

"Hmph." The patriarch held the armrest of the Grand Master's chair and snorted coldly, deliberately turning his head away from his courtesy. "You are a scholar and a scholar with fame and fortune. If you don't worship the officials, you are a bad old man. How dare you accept your courtesy?"

Faced with such seemingly sarcastic but actually angry words, Xia Yuan changed his mind and instantly understood the reason why the other party was angry.

In this era when the patriarch was equal to the village director, the moral construction officer, and the police station director, the patriarch had to tell the clan leader about all matters, and let him help him make a decision.

But I didn't tell him about the marriage fraud, which made the old man feel that he didn't take him as the patriarch seriously.

After understanding the reason, he gave a deep tribute to the old man, "Uncle is an elder and a patriarch, so this tribute will naturally be received."

This time, the patriarch took it calmly, his expression slightly eased a little, and he half-closed his eyes and asked, "So you think I am the patriarch and an elder. Then I ask you, your wife has been replaced, do you know this?"

"I know." Now that things have come to this point, Xia Yuan has no intention of hiding it and nodded and admitted it.

Seeing Xia Yuan nodding and admitting, the clan leader slapped the table in anger: "Since you know why didn't you come to find uncle directly yesterday?"

The old patriarch was impatient. Before Xia Yuan could answer, he was so angry that he slapped the table again, "What is the Zhao family trying to do, it's so outrageous!"

"It's so damning to do such a cheating move."

"Take this woman with us, let's go to the Zhao family now to ask for an explanation."

"If they refuse to admit this, I, Xia Youde, even if I, don't want this old face, I, want to go."

Speaking of this, the patriarch's eyes slanted and saw the Xia Yuan clan uncle standing there, and said, "Xia Ru, your nephew is bullied so much, why are you still standing there? Go, write a letter of paper. If they don't recognize it, we will go to the yamen to sue the official!"

With the old man's order, two thick women walked into the lobby, each stretched out their hands, and clamped Zhao Yuerong's slender arms.

Zhao Yuerong was so scared that his little body shrank for a moment. He wanted to struggle but didn't dare. The tears in his eyes instantly blurred his eyes and said crying: "Husband, wuwu."

She felt that she was dead this time and her husband would definitely not be able to save her. She was completely disappointed and felt very unwilling to accept that her good life had only been a day and a night.

There is no bridal chamber yet and no children are given to your husband.

At this moment, she suddenly felt that the two hands that were holding her arms tightly lost their strength, and then her body fell into a warm embrace.

In a trance, she only heard a soft voice sound.

"Dear uncles and aunts, let's give up this matter. I have decided to let her stay."

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire ancestral hall lobby could hear the needles. Everyone was unable to react for a moment, and perhaps they were more suspicious of their hearing.

In this era, women are the most famous, but men are the same. It is a shame for a newlywed wife to be replaced. If you still swallow your anger, you will definitely become a laughing stock.

Everyone looked at Xia Yuan in a daze, not understanding what he was thinking.

In front of everyone, Xia Yuan only symbolically hugged the little wife in his arms, feeling the little body in his arms trembling slightly. He gently patted her back to comfort her, and then leaned into his ear and said softly: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

After saying that, he loosened his hand.

Zhao Yuerong looked up with red eyes, the sunset shone in, Xia Yuan stood with light on her back, bathed in a halo, and couldn't see it clearly, but it made her feel unprecedentedly safe.
Chapter completed!