Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

All the villagers were silent. They even looked at Zhang with disgust as she kowtowed continuously. They were too lazy to even lift their eyelids and did not believe the lies told by the mother and son at all.

The main reason is that a while ago, they had made a big fuss and announced to the public that they were related by marriage to the princesses. Now that the lie had just been exposed, another lie came up. Did they really think that everyone was stupid and so easy to be fooled?

"Really, I'm not lying, it's true. My mother and I were really framed, and we are the victims." Zhang shouted in defense at the top of her voice.

"Tsk, who would frame you, such a heartless person?"

"The scholar turned his back on me after getting the upper hand. Now that he sees the princess's family getting better, he's trying to get close to them again. Who would believe what such a shameless person says?"

"Do you really think you are a royal relative? You are framing me. What do you want from me? Is it because your house is shabby and you don't have much silver? Or is it because you are in debt and have a bad reputation?"

"Shut up, shut up." Zhang turned around abruptly and glared at the villagers who were talking and laughing and teasing her. "Someone really harmed us. It was the kind-hearted Princess Le'an whom you always praise. It was that bitch, Sanya Lin, who harmed my mother and me?"

At this point, in order to clear herself and her son, to escape the current difficult situation, and to preserve her son's reputation, Zhang could no longer care about anything else and simply burned her boats and fought to the death. She revealed the mastermind behind the conspiracy that framed her and her son in one breath, hoping to get out of her current predicament.

But her self-righteous defense was met with constant scolding and accusations from the villagers around her.

"Please, have some shame! Don't you think you are such a nobody that the princess would condescend to frame you?"

"It's so hilarious, not only is it lewd but it's also cruel, and at this point in time, they're still slandering and making random accusations."

"You said that the princess framed you. Let's not talk about who you are. Where is the princess? Where is she? All we saw was you two, mother and son, having an affair and doing something dirty."

Everyone saw that Zhang was so shameless as to do such a despicable thing and even tried to slander Princess Le'an. They thought she was really shameless and showed the shamelessness and meanness in her bones to the fullest. This was something that even the uncle could tolerate, but not the aunt.

"No, what I said is true. It was really that bitch. It was that bitch who drugged us mother and son..." Seeing that no one around her believed what she said, Zhang was in a state of confusion. There was only one thing in her mind: she must explain it clearly, otherwise, they, mother and son, would be finished.

The village chief was too lazy to listen to the crazy woman's nonsense and shouted at the villagers, "Why don't you shut this crazy woman's mouth? She is just spewing shit and polluting the atmosphere of our Shanghe Village."

The villagers had long been fed up with the mother and son of the Xi family. Now that the village chief had spoken, everyone rushed up, pinned them to the ground, and tied them up with hemp ropes like dumplings, tightly and airtight.

The mother and son wanted to resist again, but unfortunately they were no match for the villagers and were pinned to the ground.

The cold ground rubbed against the wound on their face, making it even more horrible to look at, with blood splattering everywhere. Pain and fear intertwined, constantly corroding their brains, but at this moment, the mother and son were still shouting at the top of their lungs, "It was the princess who framed them, and everything was the princess's revenge."

The village chief was furious, his hands were shaking, and he pointed at the women and children nearby, "Shut their mouths, shut them up, don't let them say a single dirty word to slander the princess. If this gets out, our whole village will be finished."

He Dazhi was still shouting arrogantly, "Let's see who dares to touch me. I am a scholar, I am a scholar. You lowly people, do you believe that I will report you to the government and let the county magistrate exile you three thousand miles away? Let me go, let me go..."

"Yes, you can't touch my mother and me. My son is a scholar, and I am a scholar's mother. Wuwuwu..."

Before the mother and son of the Wei family could say anything more shamelessly, the crowd found two rags for mopping the floor in the yard and stuffed them into the people's mouths, stopping them from saying anything.

"First detain the mother and son in the ancestral hall and keep them well. We will discuss this matter later." The village chief turned his eyes away in disgust, feeling that looking at the mother and son any longer would make his eyes dirty. He waved his hand and asked the villagers to drag the two away and detain them in the ancestral hall first.

"No, village chief, are we going to lock up such dirty people in the ancestral hall? Isn't this simply defiling the eyes of our ancestors?"

"Yeah, these two guys can just go to the pigs, why bother putting them in prison, they are inhuman beasts."

"People like this should be sent off as soon as possible."

"Even if it's the village chief, we will never agree to lock this mother and son up in the ancestral hall. It not only pollutes our ancestral land, but also ruins the feng shui of our village."

As soon as the village chief said this, all the surrounding villagers expressed their dissatisfaction. They protested loudly and demanded severe punishment for the mother and son.

The mother and son of the Wei family were tied up with their hands and feet tied up, and their mouths stuffed with rags, like dead pigs, with blood all over their faces and messy hair. They were in a state of disgrace. As they listened to the villagers' condemnation of them, they broke out in a layer of fine sweat all over their bodies. They struggled desperately, like two fat worms, constantly squirming on the ground, and whimpering continuously from their mouths.

But compared to this pain, what made them more desperate was the upcoming judgment.

In this dynasty, although immersion in a pig cage was an extremely cruel punishment, it was a spontaneous punishment method among the people and would not be held accountable by the government.

"Silence." The village chief's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. After taking two deep breaths, he shouted impatiently, "Alright, I know what you think. But if you use lynching to put them in a pig cage, it will be our hands that are dirty. Since everyone disagrees to detain them in the ancestral hall, then send them to the government office and let the county magistrate make a judgment."

When the villagers heard this, some of them felt that once the two people's dirty deeds were exposed in the county government, it would tarnish the reputation of the entire village.

However, think about what the village chief said. It is not worth dirtying their hands for these two beasts who do not know human ethics. But they can't keep such people in the village anymore. Instead of doing this, it is better to send them to the government and let the county magistrate decide their fate.

……

Lin Xiaoyue and the others did not stay to watch what the people of Shanghe Village would decide later. After all, the fate of these two people would not be good.

Mounting the horse again, galloping across the land, the wind blowing in Lin Xiaoyue's face made her feel refreshed. At this moment, one of the two mountains in her heart has been removed, and the other one... just wait, I'll settle the score with you.