Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 408 Sophistry
When the villagers heard this, they looked at each other in blank dismay.

Mr. Ye breathed a sigh of relief, and thought to himself, this round of fooling was finally over.

Unexpectedly, a villager stood up and said: "You made up a good lie. Last evening, I saw you eating roast chicken while hiding by the river."

Ye Fengxian is a greedy and selfish person, yesterday someone was going to town, so he dug out a few copper coins as service fee, asked that person to bring him a roast chicken back from town, and ordered that person People, you must give him the roast chicken quietly, and the two will meet at the riverside, so that Mrs. Ye and Mr. Ye cannot find out.

Mr. Ye is not greedy, but Mrs. Ye has been very talkative these days. If she finds out, there will only be half of this roast chicken left.

After Ye Fengxian got the roast chicken, he found a remote place by the river, and ate it happily.

"You said that I ate roast chicken by the river last night, what evidence do you have?" Ye Fengxian said immediately.

"I'll take you to the riverside to have a look, won't it be enough? Your pile of chicken bones is piled up behind the grass." The villager said.

"You wronged me!" Ye Fengxian immediately retorted, "Maybe it's the chicken you ate? Are you deliberately trying to frame me?"

"The chicken I eat? Can I afford the roast chicken in the town? People in the village don't know how our family lives, right? We can only weigh a catty of pork during the Chinese New Year!" That The villagers sneered.

"Oh, I get it, so you must be a hater of the rich. You see that our old Ye family is better off than yours, so you hold a grudge against our old Ye family and deliberately want to wrong me!" Ye Fengxian said loudly, wanting to Overwhelm the opponent with momentum, "It must be like this, you are too bad! Patriarch, deal with him quickly!"

"Patriarch, I am wronged!" the villager yelled in panic, "I really saw him eating roast chicken by the river yesterday evening! If I dare to tell half a lie, I will be struck by lightning!"

Now, everyone no longer doubted the authenticity of his words, and looked at Ye Fengxian with suspicious eyes.

Ye Fengxian rolled his eyeballs, and immediately said: "Maybe he misidentified the wrong person? The place by the river has deep grass and trees, so he must not be able to see the front face clearly. It is not surprising that people can recognize the wrong person just because of their body shape!"

Seeing that Ye Fengxian managed to turn danger into good luck, Mr. Ye breathed a sigh of relief again.

"Are there any other witnesses?" asked the patriarch of the Ye clan.

"I didn't see him eating roast chicken, but I saw him walking back from the river yesterday evening." Madam Mao said.

"You're lying!" Ye Fengxian retorted when he opened his mouth.

"Last night, around the time of Hai, I got up and went to the latrine, and I saw Mr. Ye, Ye Fengxian, You Yue'e, and Ye Qiongdan passing by my house. I didn't know what they were going to do." Another person said .

"You are lying! You are all lying! You are just jealous of the wealth of my old Ye family, and deliberately want to discredit our old Ye family, please be aware of the patriarch!" Ye Fengxian was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and his throat was almost hissing when he shouted.

"It's possible for one person to wrong you, but it's impossible for them all to wrong you, right?" The patriarch naturally didn't believe it. "If you can't produce strong evidence to defend yourself, then I will only believe them."

"Who doesn't know that our old Ye family has a great granddaughter now? Even if they are all jealous of our old Ye family, isn't that normal? Regarding these sour people, it's not too much to speculate on them with any bad thoughts. "Ye Fengxian said with a cold snort.

His words immediately aroused public outrage.

"Hey, you are shameless! How dare you slander us!"

"Exactly! Conscience of heaven and earth, no matter how poor we are, we will definitely not do such a thing of pushing people into the fire pit! We have never done wicked things, but you have done a lot."

"Back then, their eldest family could even dig out the coffins of Ye Qiongdan's parents from the soil. What else could their eldest family of Ye family not do? No matter how vicious we are, we are still little witches in front of their eldest family. Have you met the great witch?"

……

"That's enough, stop arguing!" The patriarch of the Ye clan shouted loudly, and then he looked straight at Ye Fengxian, "Can you provide any other evidence for yourself?"

Over the years, he became more and more disappointed with Ye Fengxian.

In the past, Ye Fengxian was one of the hopes of their Ye clan, because he was admitted as a scholar at a young age, and his future is boundless.

But it was precisely because he was admitted as a scholar at a young age, so he was full of ambitions, and since then he has indulged in fun, and his studies have plummeted, and he has failed the expectations of the entire clan.

Afterwards, the absurd things he did were too numerous to enumerate, making the people of the Ye clan more and more ashamed of him.

Ye Fengxian lowered his head and thought for a while, seeing that he couldn't think of any good idea, he said angrily: "Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with me, it's all the fault of that widow alone! I'm a victim! If you insist on pulling If you are alone in the pig cage, then let Widow Zhang be immersed in the pig cage!"

"Ye Fengxian, you can say such a thing, you are so cruel!" Widow Zhang touched her belly, "Have you ever thought that maybe I am pregnant with your child now?" Ye Jigang and Ye Jiwu of your Ye family’s eldest family are both absconding, and they may have been killed. If the child in my belly can’t be kept, your Ye family’s eldest family will lose all children and grandchildren!”

"Why are you pregnant with my child?" Ye Fengxian certainly didn't admit it, "I don't know if I had anything to do with you last night, why are you relying on me? How despicable! Who knows how many men you have hooked up with, and whose seed is in your belly? You are not afraid of your dead husband crawling out of the ground in the middle of the night, you are really bold!"

"Ye Fengxian! You are so shameless! You will definitely go to hell after you die!" Widow Zhang was furious.

"You die if you want to die, don't drag me along! I am an innocent victim anyway, this matter is all due to Widow Zhang, she is plotting against me!" Ye Fengxian said ruthlessly.

The patriarch of the Zhang clan looked at Widow Zhang and asked sharply, "Do you accept Ye Fengxian's identification?"

"I don't admit it!" Widow Zhang said loudly, "I am a well-behaved little woman, if I was not forced by others, how could I commit myself to others? I am afraid that everyone will be prejudiced against me, so Ye Feng first molested me. , After forcing me, I can only swallow my anger, and I can only hope that Ye Fengxian will get tired of me as soon as possible and give me a peaceful life."

As she spoke, Widow Zhang began to cry pitifully again.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing whose words to believe.

Among them, many women sympathized with Widow Zhang. Originally, widows had a lot of gossip, not to mention those stinky men who liked to bully widows, because there was no man in the widow's family to support her.

"This Ye Fengxian is usually very lustful, so it's normal for him to be forced to be a widow?"

"That's right, otherwise you can hang around in the flower street and willow alley all day? And you also took in a concubine who is as beautiful as a flower?"

"After that little concubine eloped with other men, he even flirted with many women in the village. It's a pity that he is too thin, and sometimes he can even be slapped by women!"

……

When the patriarchs of the two clans heard that Ye Fengxian's reputation in the village was so bad, they immediately felt that this matter could not be slapped with a slap, maybe both of them were at fault.

"It seems that the truth has come to light. These two people really have a relationship," said the patriarch of the Zhang family, "Widow Zhang, you have done such a shameless thing, it is really insulting to the family, today, you have to die! Be a warning to others!"

The patriarch of the Ye family also said to Ye Fengxian: "Ye Fengxian, you are still a scholar in vain, you have read all the sage books into the dog's stomach, no, even the dog knows more shame than you! The defense of the two of you Although there are discrepancies, it can be seen that there must be an improper relationship between men and women between you! Today you must be thrown into the river! Otherwise, if everyone learns from you in the future, we will not have to Has it been degraded into a place of barbarians who have no sense of propriety, justice and shame?"

"I'm wronged!" Ye Fengxian quickly struggled to his knees and kowtowed to the patriarch, "This matter has nothing to do with me, I'm really a victim!"

With tears in her eyes, Widow Zhang also began to beg for mercy: "Two patriarchs, I don't dare anymore! Please give me another chance! Can I move? I will leave here and go far away, I promise I won’t come back again, just treat me as dead!”

"No!" The patriarch of the Zhang clan said loudly, "This is a rule passed down from the ancestors and cannot be abolished!"

"Patriarch, please let me go, saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda!" Widow Zhang cried even louder, "What's more, I really knew I was wrong. God has the virtue of good life. You Just spare my life!"

"The rules of the clan are clearly written in the ancestral hall. If you knowingly committed a crime and now want me to forgive you, it's just a dream!" The patriarch of the Zhang clan snorted coldly, "If I let you go today, Then who will obey my discipline in the future? You are responsible for sinking into the bottom of the river today! If you dare to do such a shameful thing as adultery, you must be mentally prepared for it!"

At this time, Ye Fengxian was still shouting loudly: "I am innocent! I am a victim! You can't do this to me!"

It can be said that he vividly interprets the image of a dead duck who is still stubborn at the end of his death.

"Two patriarchs, is there no room for change in this matter?" Old Master Ye asked sadly.

"No." The two patriarchs said in unison.

Grandpa Ye burst into tears immediately. Sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person is one of the most tragic things in life.

"Girl Dan, you have to think of a way, otherwise," Mr. Ye suddenly had a look of expectation in his eyes, "You donate some money to the two clans and let them let Ye Fengxian go!"

"No, I don't take money!" The patriarch of the Ye clan said, "When something like this happens, the clan is already losing face. If the clan collects money and lets them go, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?"

"That's right!" The patriarch of the Zhang clan also nodded.

"What about 1000 taels of silver per person?" Mr. Ye asked.

The faces of the two were ashen. If they took the money today, they would lose their prestige in the clan in the future.

"What about 2000 taels of silver per person?" Mr. Ye asked again.

The faces of the two became even uglier.

"What about 3000 taels of silver per person?" Mr. Ye was unwilling.

The two snorted coldly.

"How about 5000 taels of silver per person?"

This time, before the patriarchs of the two clans had time to show any expressions, Ye Qiongdan said, "Grandpa, where did you get so much money?"

"As a niece, shouldn't you spend money to buy your uncle's life? Of course you will pay for it!" Mr. Ye said seriously.

(End of this chapter)