Chapter 415 (1/2)

Chapter 415: Let's Go!

Telling from their reaction, the woman knew what she was most afraid of finally came to pa.s.s . Fear and grievance intertwined in her heart at the sight of the stinky mud on her clothes and at the thought of things that might happen . She couldn't refrain her tears and tremblingly asked the clan leader, ”What's wrong?”

The brawny man furiously looked at her and yelled, ”You allowed a man to live in your house! How dare you ask us why? How dissolute! You have brought shame to the whole clan . ”

The woman lowered her head in silence . She was panic-stricken and didn't know what to say . There was nothing between the man and her, but she knew they wouldn't trust her . And what's worse, she was clear that she was indeed dissolute, and she indeed had expected that something could happen between the man and her .

The clan leader coughed and prevented their rude behavior from continuning . He walked to the woman, looking at her lowered head, and meanwhile taking a glance at her plump breast, and then he sighed, ”Linzi, although you are from the Yuelun Kingdom, did we treat you bad after you married to our village?”

With her head lowered, she said in a trembling and begging tone, ”I'm thankful to Fourth master and the other clansmen . ”

Suddenly the clan leader looked cold, and he said, ”Chengge has died, and I have asked you to marry another one but you refused . You said you would preserve your chast.i.ty for him . So we didn't force you to remarry . But why do you have such an affair with that man?”

The woman raised her head at his words . She glanced at the brawny man and thought to herself sorrowfully, ”You asked me to marry your son, how could I do that? Chengge had died after falling down the cliff when picking herbs, and he was just beside Chengge . Who knows what happened at that time?”

At the moment, Chao Xiaoshu walked out .

The villagers were enraged in an instant, seeing that he would dare to stay in her house and appear before them . They waved their hoes, preparing to hit him to death .

But strangely the clan leader prevented them .

Chao Xiaoshu had been listening in the house for some time, and he knew what was happening . He had learned in Chang'an that people in the Great River Kingdom were conservative . In some remote villages the status of women was extremely low . However, he never expected they would cause such a disturbance .

He walked to the clan leader and sincerely explained .

The clan leader shook his head emotionlessly, saying, ”It concerns the reputation of our clan, so how can we randomly forgive this dissolute woman?”

Chao Xiaoshu calmly said, ”If there is really something between us, will you also punish me?”

After a moment of silence, the clan leader looked at him and said, ”I know you are from the Tang Empire, so you can just leave after apologizing to us and leaving us an amount of silver as compensation

. ”

Chao Xiaoshu glanced at the trembling woman and asked, ”How about her?”

Hardly had the clan leader opened his mouth when the brawny man severely said, ”Drown her!”

It seemed the villagers were extremely excited at the two words . Their thunderous cheers filled the small yard . They all shouted to drown her, strip her naked and beat her .

Chao Xiaoshu looked around, to see the greedy and obscene expressions of those villagers and their twisted faces caused by excitement . He gently said, ”It seems this kind of men can be killed . ”

The small yard under the big banyan tree suddenly calmed down .

It seemed that those clansmen had heard something, yet didn't believe what they had heard . The clan leader suddenly became gloomy and looked at Chao Xiaoshu, preparing to say something .

But hardly had he opened his mouth when Chao Xiaoshu turn to the woman and said softly, ”Can I kill them?”

The woman had just recovered from her astonishment .

Already in despair, she was now seeing hope again from Chao Xiaoshu's gentle expression .

Looking at those hateful clansmen, she suddenly trembled and cried, ”I'm not a native of the village . I'm from a forest of Yuelun Kingdom . I was sold to the village by a human trader . My husband died, so they wanted me to marry the son of the clan leader . But I don't want to marry him, I don't . . . ”

She never told an outsider about these things, because there was no outsider in this remote and secluded village . n.o.body trusted her . Even if they trusted her, they dared not show sympathy for her .

So she wanted to know stories from the outer world, and expected to experience the outer world .

She finally shouted out her inner thought, because she wanted to live .

”That's good . ”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at those people in the yard and asked, ”Which of them should be killed?”

Pointing at the gray-haired clan leader and the brawny man, the woman quavered, ”These two deserve to die the most . ”

Chao Xiaoshu walked a few steps ahead .

Those clansmen in the yard raised their steel forks and hoes, aiming to hit him .

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The fence was stamped on and scattered all over .

Chao Xiaoshu picked up a bamboo blade .

And then he waved it twice .

The heads of the clan leader and the brawny man, flew away .

Those clansmen were frozen at the scene, turning pale in an instant . Somebody shouted and then all of them crazily ran away, with no one caring about the two corpses leaning against the fence .