He Dadong obviously couldn't accept Mingyue's words. He immediately walked towards Mingyue without thinking and reached out to pull Mingyue.
"Sister-in-law, didn't you say that before..."
But before he could finish his words, the villagers of Zhoujia Village rushed forward. Some of them were holding hoes and some were holding sickles. They all spontaneously protected Mingyue behind them.
The lady standing in the front pointed a sickle at He Dadong and asked loudly, "What do you want to do? Just talk, don't do anything."
The people of Zhoujia Village were very united, and the villagers next to them were not to be outdone. They followed suit and said, "What? You want to attack Mingyue in our Zhoujia Village? Look carefully, this is not your He family's territory."
"We don't know if your disease is contagious or not, so please stay away from Mingyue."
"That's right. You still want to bully Mingyue in front of so many of us. I don't know how much Mingyue has suffered in the He family before. No wonder you were so exhausted when you came back."
"That's right. I almost cried when I went to see her. How could such a good girl be treated like she was being abused after marrying someone..."
The villagers looked so ferocious that He Dadong didn't dare to approach them. He resented the people of Zhoujia Village for meddling in his business, but he hated Mingyue even more for her cold indifference.
He Dadong looked at his brothers again and shouted their names: "Da Nan, Da Bei, Da Xi, Da Zhong, stop crying. Kneel down and beg sister-in-law to save us."
When the younger ones of the He family heard what their second brother said, they immediately knelt down in front of Mingyue and cried more pitifully than the other.
As he spoke, He Dadong stared at Mingyue with red eyes, trying to make her feel guilty: "Sister-in-law, you are the only relative we have. You can't treat us like this. We agreed..."
But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the kind-hearted lady with righteous words: "What are you talking about? What have you done? Don't you know? What did your father and elder brother do? Don't you know? If you have any shame, you won't come to our Mingyue again. You hurt people and still want others to support you and provide for you. How can such a good thing be possible? When other people's daughters are not valuable, how can your family be so precious?"
Mingyue praised the aunt in her heart, but pretended to be sad on the surface, lowering her eyes: "After I knew what your father and eldest brother did, I felt very sad for a while, but I thought that they had suffered retribution for their bad deeds, so I didn't want to blame you. I thought that you were already helpless, and we would take care of each other in the future, but I didn't expect..."
Mingyue blinked her eyelashes and two lines of tears fell from her eyes. She reached out and wiped them away gently. She sniffed and then continued, "I just didn't expect that the viciousness of your He family would be contagious. You should go back. I don't dare to get close to people like you anyway."
With just a few words, Mingyue established an image of a kind person who was betrayed.
She had been soft-hearted before and had tasted the bitter fruit of that, so it was natural for her to be hard-hearted now, and no one could find fault with her.
He Dazhong looked at his hand that looked like a monster, and cried with snot and tears, saying repeatedly: "Sister-in-law, we won't dare to do that again. We won't do that again in the future. Please save us, sister-in-law."
He Dabei looked at Mingyue with hatred in his eyes, and he jumped up from the ground with his hands, pointing at Mingyue and scolding: "Isn't it just a son? He's dead, so he's dead. We've already said sorry, why do you still care so much? In the final analysis, isn't it because my father and eldest brother are dead, and we brothers have no one to support us? You vicious woman, if I had known earlier, I would have killed you too."
"Dabei, stop talking nonsense." He Dadong felt bad when he saw Laowu's look, but by the time he yelled, it was too late.
When the people in Zhoujia Village heard He Dabei's righteous words, they felt a chill in their hearts.
How can a 10-year-old kid say that he wants to kill his sister-in-law? It's too scary. Mingyue praised He Dabei, who was dragging his feet, but her hands were clenched into fists, her whole body was shaking, and she shouted loudly: "Get out, all of you get out."
The villagers saw that she seemed to be shocked, and immediately ignored everything else and rushed over to help her and persuade her.
Mingyue said in a trembling voice that she wanted to go home, and immediately a kind-hearted villager offered to take her back.
He Dadong suddenly fell to the ground with a blank look on his face. He knew that the plan was not going to work out. After Lao Wu's words, the Zhou family would never let his brothers live there again, and his sister-in-law would never forgive them.
He Danan and He Daxi acted quickly and wanted to follow Mingyue back, but they were soon stopped by the villagers with farm tools.
After a while, Mingyue disappeared. Some villagers saw that the lumps on their bodies seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, so they couldn't help but kindly reminded them: "You should think about it carefully. What did you eat recently? Or what did you touch? If you have figured it out, go see a doctor as soon as possible!"
Someone immediately pulled the villager and muttered, "No matter how they got sick, they have their own faults. This has nothing to do with us villagers. Uncle Tiemen, don't let your kindness get the wrong rap."
"Okay, let's all go home. My wife should have prepared dinner. Let's go back and eat because we still have to work in the fields in the afternoon!"
"Yeah, let's go back~"
As the villagers dispersed in groups of three or two, the He brothers, who were covered with pimples, were soon the only ones left in this area.
Knowing that his sister-in-law no longer cared about them, He Dazhong cried breathlessly, fearing that he would turn into a monster and die here.
Influenced by his crying, He Danan and the others were also filled with anxiety and were so scared that their eyes were filled with tears.
At this time, He Dadong took a deep breath and suddenly said, "Let's go back to find Aunt Wu."
He seemed to be trying to convince himself and his brothers: "We have been eating at Aunt Wu's house for so long, and we haven't eaten anything except the basket of mulberries yesterday. If there is something wrong with us, it must be Aunt Wu's responsibility."
He Dabei replied without thinking: "Yes, and sister-in-law Meng Hua, she has always been unhappy that we eat at her house. Maybe she deliberately drugged the basket of mulberries. That's right, that's it..."
Hearing what Lao Wu said, He Dadong clenched his fists and then unclenched them. He was increasingly disgusted with this younger brother who was always causing trouble but could not accomplish anything.
But He Dadong suppressed his irritability and made a decision: "Let's go back to Dagou Village."
He Danan and his friends have no opinions of their own, so naturally they listen to their second brother in everything.
The five brothers came with full confidence, but returned dejected and covered with inexplicable rashes.
(End of this chapter)