Many people who were drying wheat in the threshing ground heard the noise and gathered over.
The people from the Xia family had not come out yet, but Su Yaohui, who had rushed over, had a dark face.
He grabbed Zhou Lihua and said, "You stupid woman, what are you talking about?"
"Am I wrong? Doesn't she want to cancel the engagement and marry you?" Zhou Lihua was like a firecracker at this moment, ready to explode at any moment, and could not be persuaded at all.
At this time, the people from the Xia family also came out because of the noise. Liu Yuehong was so angry that her face turned red: "Zhou Lihua, you... don't slander me!"
Zhou Lihua put her hands on her hips and sneered, "Shameless, am I slandering you? Didn't you ask your parents to cancel the engagement? Didn't you say you wanted to marry into the Su family?"
"Do you dare to swear to heaven? I do!"
"If I, Zhou Lihua, tell a lie today, I, Zhou Lihua, will be struck by lightning and deserve to be stabbed in the back and spit on for the rest of my life."
This move of hers was truly ruthless.
People in ancient times, especially those in rural areas, were very wary of such oaths.
For a moment, the villagers' eyes changed when they looked at the Xia family, especially Liu Yuehong.
"I... I can't live anymore. I won't live anymore."
Liu Yuehong was so angry that she almost vomited blood. With tears streaming down her face, she slammed into the millstone in humiliation.
"Stop her now."
Old Master Xia shouted loudly, and his eldest son Xia Qiang quickly hugged his wife's waist.
Old Mr. Xia looked very unhappy, and Old Mrs. Xia's face was not much better.
"Daughter-in-law Yaohui, if you have something to say, come inside and talk. Why are you making so much noise like this?"
Some villagers, out of respect for the head of the village, also helped to persuade him: "Yes, if you have something to say, just talk it out. We are all from the same village, don't make things too awkward."
"Come inside and talk?"
Zhou Lihua snorted coldly.
"I won't go in. If I go in and talk, this might make my Su family wrong. I want to make this matter clear in front of everyone today."
"It has only been a few days since our Su family finally figured out a way to make money. That shameless Liu Yuehong sent her youngest son Goudan to trick the recipe out of my Sanlang, and then took it back to her family."
"If you don't believe me, go to the town now and see if the shop selling toothbrushes and Chinese medicine tooth powder belongs to her uncle from her mother's side."
As she spoke, she looked at Old Man Xia with disdain: "Village head, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but as the saying goes, a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. Only your family can tolerate a daughter-in-law who always depends on her family for everything and is such a traitor. If it were any other family, she would have been divorced long ago."
The more Zhou Lihua spoke, the uglier Mr. Xia's expression became. In the end, he was so angry that his face turned blue and his whole body was shaking.
"Liu, is what she said true?"
Liu Yuehong felt guilty for a moment, but soon straightened her chest again: "She slandered me, I didn't do it at all."
"My mother's family owns a grocery store in town, but even if they sell toothbrushes and tooth powder, it can't be said that they are imitations of her Su family's, right?"
"Is the Su family the only one that can sell toothbrushes and tooth powder?"
"These things have long been sold in the big city. Are they only allowed to sell them by the Su family and not others? This is a bit too overbearing."
"You stinky bitch, you still dare to quibble?"
"In the whole town, my family was the only one that sold toothbrushes and tooth powder from the beginning. The toothbrushes and tooth powder sold in your mother's shop are exactly the same as ours, even the engraved patterns and the bottles that hold the tooth powder are exactly the same. Do you still dare to say that you didn't steal our recipe?"