I'm already a concubine, who wants to fight with you?

Chapter 88 Framed Innocence
Everyone in the yard was in an uproar.

Fu Yu was stunned, as if he had not yet woken up. He scratched his ears and rubbed his eyes, and after a long while he said, "Madam, are you crazy?"

Behind Xiao Shirong, Mother Tang glared at her and said, "How can you speak when the lady is talking? Shut up!"

Fu Yu said in a sharp voice: "You insulted my daughter like this, why can't I say anything back? There were indeed bandits that night, but my daughter was never humiliated, don't even think about throwing dirty water on her!"

Xiao Shirong's eyes narrowed, "Slap!"

The old women were about to step forward, but Fu Yu shrank her neck and hid behind Xie Fei.

Xie Fei raised his hand to protect the person, frowned and said: "My girl is outspoken, please don't take it personally. But she is right, this matter is completely fabricated, please understand."

The women in the courtyard had all received favors from Xie Fei, and they were extremely anxious when they heard the groundless slander.

Several of them knelt down and tried to explain exactly what happened that night, but Xiao Shirong didn't even give them a chance to speak.

"Xie, no matter who is insulted, they will definitely not want to spread it." Xiao Shirong pretended to be sympathetic and said with a sad face: "Don't worry, as long as you are willing to go to the Buddhist temple to become a nun, I will do my best to cover up the matter and will never let the reputation of other daughters of the Xie family be implicated because of your loss of virginity!"

Xie Fei was amused by her hypocritical appearance.

"Madam, I don't know what nonsense Sun told you, but this is indeed slander."

Xiao Shirong leaned forward slightly, looked at her and said, "If it was Sun who said it alone, I would definitely not believe it. But besides her, there were others who also saw what happened that night."

Three unfamiliar women emerged from the crowd and knelt down beside Sun.

An old woman said, "Madam, we saw it with our own eyes. The bandits tore my clothes off and humiliated me."

Another younger woman said, "Yes, yes. Afterwards, the young lady gave us some silver to keep our mouths shut. She told us to keep our mouths shut."

Xie Fei said: "I can't even call out your names, when did I ever give you money?"

Sun took out two ingots of silver from her bosom and said loudly, "My dear, we know that you lost your virginity not voluntarily.

But a woman's reputation is the most important, not to mention that you are the noble concubine of the Pei family? A concubine being gang-raped is a shame for the Pei family!

We really don't dare to accept this money. You should listen to the lady and go to the Buddhist temple to wash away the filth on your body. Then you will be clean in the next life!"

The other three women followed suit, saying that it was all for Xie Fei's own good, and asked her to go to the Buddhist temple on her own accord and never come down the mountain in her lifetime, so as not to bring disgrace to the Pei Mansion and the Xie family.

Aunt Zou had a bad temper and was not as calm as Mother Liu. When she heard those people distorting right and wrong and throwing dirty water at Xie Fei, she got so angry that she picked up a stick at hand and hit them.

"You bunch of beasts! How dare you slander Xie Xiaoniang, who is such an obedient, kind-hearted person! Since the day of the bandits, how could she be separated from us? Whether she was insulted or not, we have seen it with so many pairs of eyes. You have no right to talk nonsense here!"

Aunt Zou was very strong and fierce. She hit them with her stick one after another, making the women led by Mrs. Sun crawl on the ground.

Sun held her head and resisted, cursing, "Zou family, you are the one who shouldn't be blinded by those dirty money! A woman who was raped by horse bandits is worse than a prostitute! Madam, you have spared her life, it's already a great favor. If I were her, I would have banged my head against the wall and died!"

"How dare you say that!" Aunt Zou was so angry that she hit Sun's shoulder hard with a stick. Sun wailed and rolled on the ground.

Xiao Shirong said angrily: "How dare you be so rude in front of me! Come, take her down!" Several maids stepped forward and suppressed Aunt Zou who was about to take action.

Xiao Shirong sneered and said, "I never knew that you, Xie, really have the means to win people's hearts. It hasn't been long since someone has given up on their status for you!"

In time, wouldn't the entire Pei Mansion be following her lead?
Xie Fei said: "Most people in the village know that I am innocent. With these few people talking nonsense and colluding with each other, you won't believe it, will you?"

Xiao Shirong said: "Based on the ink marks on the silver in their hands, it was indeed traced back to the Pei Mansion. If it wasn't given by you, could it be that they stole it from your room?"

Xie Fei said: "In such a huge Pei Mansion, I am the only one with money? Could it be that they colluded with someone else to frame me?"

Xiao Shirong remained silent.

At this time, Sun got up from the ground with a dusty face, and said with pain, "Xie Xiaoniang, I knew you were stubborn and deep-minded. You won't admit it just by persuasion. I have physical evidence here, don't even think about denying it!"

Xiao Shirong asked, "Oh? What other evidence do you have?"

Sun's lips turned white with pain, and she shouted, "That night, Miss Xie's clothes were torn open by the bandits. Under the firelight, I saw with my own eyes that there was a red birthmark on her lower back!"

Xie Fei's eyes narrowed, and she finally understood why Sun suddenly wanted to help her take a bath.

She immediately said to Xiao Shirong, "Madam, Sun insisted on helping me put on my clothes this morning. It was only natural for her to see the birthmark on my body. Can you conclude that I am really innocent just based on her lies?"

Sun shouted, "You have a maid, and I am just an old woman doing rough work in the village. When will it be my turn to serve you? I have never even entered your yard! Now that the evidence is in front of you, you still want to deny it!"

The pinned Aunt Zou glared at her fiercely. If she could not break free, she would have rushed forward and torn her mouth apart.

Shui Huaiyu and others were also extremely anxious. The incident with the horse bandits was not over yet, the village was in a mess, and yet the Sun family came out to make trouble again and implicated Xie Fei.

If we can't get through this level, we'll all be doomed.

But they didn't know what Sun and Xiao Shirong were up to.

Simply speaking up for Xie Fei would undoubtedly add fuel to the fire, and would only make Xiao Shirong think that they were speaking up for Xie Fei because they had received benefits from Xie Fei.

Not only was there a lot of noise inside, but the men outside were also running around in a panic.

The young boy Erniu climbed up the wall, lay on the roof to listen to the noise, and came out to tell what happened. The men were all stunned.

Don’t they know whether Xie Fei was humiliated by the bandits?

The Sun family's ability to spread rumors and create trouble is really amazing.

They were furious, but they couldn't rush into the yard and pull Sun out in front of Xiao Shirong.

But Sun Dalang was still in the village, so they shouted and took sticks and boards to settle the score with Sun Dalang.

In the main hall, Xiao Shirong said, "We can't conclude that what they said is true just by looking at the silver ingot. But if your birthmark was also seen, could it be a coincidence?"

(End of this chapter)