Xia Lian's matter made a big fuss.

At first, Xia Lian didn't believe that she had been deceived, so she didn't listen to the man's words and went back to the village, but just wore a wedding dress and went straight to the town's neon clothes and feather clothes, grabbed the guy and asked them if the young owner's family was called Qin Dong and if they were married today.

The guy looked at her like a madman, and bluntly said that the owner of the store was indeed surnamed Qin, but the name of the young owner was not Qin Dong, and he was already married, and he had a very good relationship with his wife, and he had both children under his knees.

When it came to this, the last trace of luck in Xia Lian's heart was shattered, the man didn't lie, she was really deceived.

Thinking of everything that happened today, thinking that there may already be that person's flesh and blood in her belly, where does Xia Lian still have the face to go home? She wanted to die.

But people who are greedy for vanity are often greedy for life and afraid of death, so she didn't have the courage to die at all, so she had to bow her head in the mocking eyes of everyone, tug at the hem of her skirt tightly with both hands, and drag her staggering steps back to the village alone.

Naturally, such a thing can't be hidden from the people in the village, how envious everyone was for Xia Lian's family at the beginning, and how disdainful they are now.

The pure personality is just a few words of discussion and a few sighs, and those long-tongued women arrange all kinds of versions, slamming Xia Lian to the point of being incomplete, and even worse, they directly came to the door to ask for the happy money they gave at the beginning, and for a while, Xia Lian's family was unmatched in the limelight in the village.

Especially after those creditors learned about Xia Lian, they came to the door to ask for money, but the Xia family couldn't take out a single copper coin at the moment, so they had to say all kinds of good things and ask for forgiveness, but not every creditor was so good at talking, so in just a few days, everything that could be moved at home was moved, and Xia Carpenter's hair turned white in an instant, and he looked more than ten years old.

When Xia Lianniang sold her jewelry for silver money to Xia Lian to ask the doctor to have a fetus, but was discovered, this matter was directly pushed to the forefront.

Several clan elders who usually stay at home led the village chief and a large group of people to Xia Lian's house in a mighty way to sink Xia Lian, an unmarried and pregnant person with morally corrupt morals.

Xia Carpenter and his family were naturally eager to protect their daughters, and they didn't let them live or die, but there were too many people who couldn't resist it, so the ancestral hall in the village was opened, and Xia Lian sat on the ground with her hands tied, bowing her head blankly, listening to the clan elder read out her guilt sonorously.

Opening the ancestral hall is a big event, and all the people in the village have been summoned, and Liu Jun and Liu Jiaojiao are naturally no exception.

Looking at Xia Lian, whose eyes were gloomy and seemed to have a will to die, Liu Jiaojiao whispered to Liu Jun with some embarrassment: "Brother, although I don't like Xia Lian very much, she has already learned a lesson in this matter, and the loss of people and wealth is enough to make her collapse, and then ask for her life, isn't it too ruthless?" ”

She didn't know at this time that Xia Lian would end up where she is today because of Niu Haoran's handiwork, but even if she knew, she wouldn't watch Xia Lian being sunk in the pond, not that she had the disease of the Virgin, but she felt that it was appropriate to teach her some lessons from what Xia Lian had done, but the sin was not enough to die.

Liu Jun explained softly: "A woman's reputation is bigger than the sky, if she is just cheated of money, it's okay, but it's just a few words, when the limelight passes, just find a man with worse conditions to marry far away, but she is pregnant and has been discovered, this is a big taboo, no one can keep her." ”

Liu Jiaojiao then remembered that she was in an era when women had no status, even if she was as enlightened as modern times, she would be pointed at if she was pregnant before marriage, the only difference was that she would not be sunk in the pond, but would only be criticized by the population.

Should she follow the local customs and watch Xia Lian being sunk in the pond? Or should we stand up and fight against all evil feudalism?

Liu Jiaojiao was a little entangled.

After counting the evidence of Xia Lian's crimes, the clan elder took the case and said angrily: "There has never been such a brazen woman in our village for hundreds of years, in order to correct the village style and alert future generations, Xia Lian must sink into the pond, and Xia Lian's parents must also leave the village, and they can't discredit our village!" ”

Xia Lianniang, who had been crying and pleading, fainted when she heard this, she didn't expect that not only could she not save her daughter, but she and her husband would be kicked out of the village, how would she live in the future?

Xia Carpenter is also an old tearful and horizontal, on the one hand, he is sad that his daughter has suffered such a tragic thing and has to be sunk in the pond, on the other hand, he is sad that he has no home in old age, the world is big, but this is the place where he was born and raised, where can he go?

"Patriarch Kaig! Ask the old man for mercy! After helping his fainting wife aside, Carpenter Xia kept kowtowing to the elders, and every time he hit the floor with a bang, but after a while, his forehead turned red.

The village chief couldn't bear to help him up, then looked at the clan elder and pleaded: "Clan elder, Xia Carpenter has always been honest, and most of the people in the village have received his favor, so forget about the expulsion from the village!" ”

The village chief spoke, and immediately some villagers rose up accordingly, all of them were interceding for the two of Xia carpenters, and after several clan elders discussed in a whisper, one of them spoke: "For the sake of so many of you pleading, the matter of expulsion from the village is over, but Xia Lian must sink into the pond, this matter is not negotiable!" ”

No one dares to intercede for this, after all, who doesn't have a child? Those who have men in the family dare not intercede, for fear that if they encounter such a daughter-in-law and be poked in the backbone, those who have daughters in the family dare not intercede, for fear that their daughters in the boudoir will be affected by the pond fish.

Just when Liu Jiaojiao was hesitating whether to say something fair for Xia Lian, Xia Lian, who had been bowing her head and being silent, suddenly raised her head, glanced around at everyone, kowtowed to her father and mother with difficulty, and then straightened up with great difficulty, and said slowly: "Father, my daughter is not filial, and she did not let you follow me to enjoy happiness, but pushed you to a position where you will never recover." ”

"Lian'er! O my wretched daughter! Carpenter Xia suddenly cried out hoarsely, then spat out a mouthful of blood, and fainted from overstimulation.

Xia Lian also had tears in her eyes, looking at her father and mother who had fainted with guilt, biting her lower lip desperately, biting her blood hard, and then looking up at the clan elder with a serious face.

"Clan Elder, you just counted so many of my crimes, some of which I can admit, but some of which I can't admit! I admit that I framed Liu Jiaojiao, and I still want to calculate Liu Jun; I admit that I am greedy for vanity and unruly women, I can't know people clearly, and I am blinded by the rhetoric of liars, resulting in both people and money. ”

As she spoke, her voice jerked up.

"But I don't recognize the water-based poplar flower as much as possible! It's wrong for me to not keep the bottom line when the love is strong, but why do you say that I am as good as I can do? What is the reason why men seek and have fun, and you regard it as a beautiful talk, and women who do not keep the bottom line are and women? Is it true that a man is a human being, and a woman is not a human being? ”

"I am sinking in the pond today not because what I did is unbearable, but because I am just a woman!"

After saying this, Xia Lian suddenly stood up directly, and then ran straight to the outside of the ancestral hall, because the movement was too fast and sudden, no one thought to stop her for a while.

By the time everyone reacted and chased out, she was already standing by the river, with her back to the river, looking at everyone with her eyes Lingran, and the momentum exuded from her body was as if it was inviolable and criminal, making people dare not approach.

"I can die, I'm better off dead than alive anyway, but I will never allow me to die so badly! I, Xia Lian, swear here, that today's matter is over, and if anyone uses this matter to hurt my father and mother again, I will not let him go! ”

As the words fell, she jumped into the river, unable to swim at all because she was tied with a rope and her hands were bound, and she struggled to rise and fall a few times before slowly sinking to the bottom.

No one would go into the water to save her, and no one dared to go into the water to save her, and everyone could only watch a young life die at the bottom of the river.

The village chief shook his head, sighed long, and then said in a very stern tone: "Xia Lian has already received the punishment she deserves, the so-called disaster does not affect the family, this matter is over, if he lets me know that someone is hurting and slandering the Xia carpenter family with this matter, I will not spare it, have you heard it clearly?" ”

Everyone said yes again and again, but whether they really listened to the words of the village chief, or were frightened by Xia Lian's words before she died, it is unknown.

After Liu Jiaojiao and Liu Jun went home, the whole person was very happy, with deep eyebrows, as if something difficult had happened.

Liu Jun asked worriedly, "Jiaojiao, what's wrong?" Aren't you scared? ”

Liu Jiaojiao shook her head, looked at Liu Jun, looked serious, and asked, "Brother, if one day I encounter something like Xia Lian and be cheated of money and sex, will you also watch me sink into the pond?" ”

Liu Jun was shocked, "How is it possible?" You're so smart that you would never have encountered anything like that! ”

"I mean, if the world is unpredictable, who knows if I'm going to meet it? If so, what would you do? ”

"If you really encounter such a thing...... Liu Jun was forced to substitute his imagination, but as long as he thought of such a scene, he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, his fists were clenched, the green tendons on his forehead flashed, and he gritted his teeth when he spoke, "I will take you away and go to a place where no one knows us, and then ...... Even if I chase to the ends of the earth, I'm going to slaughter that bastard! ”

Liu Jiaojiao did not show a satisfied smile, but sighed helplessly.

"Jiaojiao, what's wrong? Am I saying something wrong? Liu Jun asked anxiously.

Liu Jiaojiao smiled bitterly and shook her head: "No, I just think that we are actually quite selfish, when things don't happen to us, we will choose to watch coldly, but when things happen to us, we can protect each other." ”

"Jiaojiao, the selflessness of sacrificing one's life for righteousness is indeed admirable and great, but I can't be a great person, I just want to protect the people I want to protect. If you can't even protect the people you want to protect, what's the use of being so great that they'll go down in history? ”

Liu Jiaojiao was stunned, so, is she hypocritical?