My Childhood Sweetheart Is a Crazy Beauty
Chapter 180: Wanting to Cry but Unable to Shed a Tear

Chapter 180: Chapter 180: Wanting to Cry but Unable to Shed a Tear

Her eyes nearly popped out of her head!

Tang Jianbing rubbed his eyes, hardly believing what he had just seen.

Luckily, Gu Beihuai released Tang Chuxia’s slender waist quickly, leading Tang Jianbing to think his eyes had deceived him.

Then the chaos began: they rushed into the crowd and rescued Zheng Duoqing, who was still tied up.

Seeing them, he burst into tears.

"Aren’t you messing around with the girl, eh?" Tang Jianbing scolded, clearly annoyed.

Where would Zheng Duoqing dare to object?

He looked at them with a pitiful expression, but nobody felt sorry for him.

Dragging him along, they ran off.

Behind them, the villagers were in pursuit, unable to stomach the sight of their nearly-cooked duck flying the coop.

It was getting dark, but thankfully the moon peeked out, or else they couldn’t see their own fingers, and they really feared falling into a ditch.

When they reached where they had hidden their vehicle, they quickly pulled it out and, without worrying about roles, they threw people on and sped off.

Thus, no one noticed that Tang Chuxia ended up on the back seat of Gu Beihuai’s bicycle.

And Tang Chuxia, afraid of falling, clung tightly to Gu Beihuai’s waist throughout.

Gu Beihuai felt the woman behind him exuding a faint fragrance, intriguingly alluring!

Finally, they shook off their pursuers.

They stopped to rest.

Cycling furiously had exhausted them.

Zheng Duoqing plopped down on the ground.

He really cried.

He had nearly lost his innocence.

"Tell me, did you or did you not kiss that girl?" Tang Jianbing shouted exasperatedly.

Zheng Duoqing felt wronged.

"Rubbish, no matter how careless I am, I wouldn’t do such a thing. It was that woman, she actually insulted me!"

He covered his face with his hands.

"Here I am, an innocent young man, defiled by a woman!"

"Wuu wuu..."

"I can’t go on..."

Zheng Duoqing’s misery became more pronounced.

He really was crying with hiccups.

Tang Chuxia wasn’t listening.

"How exactly did she ’defile’ you?"

She was genuinely curious.

How did it become a settled deal that she would marry him?

Zheng Duoqing, still sobbing, recounted the event, and when everyone had heard the story,

they all had the same impression.

This guy had it coming.

He asked for it!

Turns out, Zheng Duoqing came to this village to buy chestnuts and peanuts, naturally chatting with the locals. Somehow, he struck up a conversation with this young woman.

The girl wasn’t unpleasant to look at, a robust type of countryside girl with a good deal of strength.

Zheng Duoqing preferred the gentle and delicate girls, but he had always relied on his looks to charm others.

Little did he expect, this girl was indeed charmed by him, even helping him connect with others in the village to trade peanuts and chestnuts. Somehow, though, he bumped into the girl quite literally.

Zheng Duoqing, who was accustomed to treating girls kindly, had simply helped her stand when she fell.

Now, he was in a tragic situation, as the girl’s parents witnessed the scene.

Recalling it, Zheng Duoqing still felt a little apprehensive.

"You have no idea! I felt like her dad was about to tear me to pieces at the time!"

Zheng Duoqing even started feeling wronged, but he didn’t mention where his hand was placed at the time.

He didn’t want the girl’s parents to force him into marrying her.

Country folks have conservative thinking; if you touch their body in front of their parents, you’re expected to take responsibility.

Tang Chuxia gave Zheng Duoqing’s calf a kick.

"We run off like this, what about the girl? If she’s the type who cares about face, she might just decide life isn’t worth living!"

Zheng Duoqing looked somewhat unnatural.

"That serious?"

He still couldn’t quite believe it.

Tang Chuxia looked to Tang Jianbing and the others who had followed, all scolding Zheng Duoqing.

"You must explain this clearly. If it costs a life, I want to see how you’ll handle it!"

Zheng Duoqing started crying again.

He hadn’t yet prepared himself to marry someone with whom he had no emotional connection.

"There is another way. You find a fiancée, bring her along to explain things clearly to them. Then promise to find the girl a beau from the city!"

That was Wu Haipeng’s suggestion.

It was a desperate measure.

It was true he had touched her briefly, but Zheng Duoqing had really not done much.

Wearing so many clothes, it hardly constituted a real touch; it just sounded bad when spoken aloud.

Tang Chuxia shook her head, "This method won’t solve the problem at this point. Let’s go back, I’ll talk to the girl’s parents. Worst comes to worst, we’ll give them the contract for the purchases, let the girl earn some money. With money, people have confidence."

Finding a beau was unreliable.

What if the girl still couldn’t see a way out?

With Zheng Duoqing’s appearance, Tang Chuxia was sure that if the girl had truly taken a liking, it would be hard for her to fancy someone else.

Zheng Duoqing nodded vigorously in agreement.

"I can’t deceive people!"

He was better off not talking; as soon as he did, Tang Jianbing took him down a peg.

They had planned to return to the city to rest for one night before coming back to solve the problem, but Tang Chuxia had a bad premonition.

Insisting on going back to explain everything, they couldn’t afford to delay. If something happened, it would be too late for regrets.

They had no choice but to hurry back.

As they approached the village, they could hear a commotion inside. Tang Chuxia and Gu Beihuai went in first, not daring to let Zheng Duoqing in, for fear of inciting public fury.

When they arrived at the noisy spot, they saw a few men actually trying to drown a girl in a pond.

Tang Chuxia and Gu Beihuai were shocked.

It was a good thing they came back.

Tang Chuxia had Gu Beihuai distract attention; she dragged the person up.

In this cold winter, really drowning the girl, she probably would not survive.

Gu Beihuai didn’t hesitate, he just went ahead and did it.

Relying on her agile movements, Tang Chuxia rushed over, grabbed the huge cage, and with one effort hoisted it up, telling the scared girl inside, "Curl up and hug your head!"

The girl, probably already in utter despair, didn’t respond when told what to do.

Seeing that she wasn’t heeding, Tang Chuxia shouted, "I’m here to save you!"

The girl looked dazedly at Tang Chuxia. Seeing her lifting a cage that normally took four people to move, she suddenly reacted, rolling into a ball and hugging her head.

With a loud shout from Tang Chuxia, the villagers holding torches were startled, and then she smashed the cumbersome cage down toward the edge of the lake.

The cage instantly shattered, sparing the girl inside from injury by Tang Chuxia’s deliberate avoidance of force.

In an instantaneous silence, everyone watched the scene unfold.

Tang Chuxia went to help the girl up.

"Don’t be afraid. In this new society, vigilante justice is not allowed, or you’ll be arrested!"

Her gaze swept over the crowd, scolding sharply, "Are you all out of your minds? What has she done wrong to deserve this from you?"

An elder shouted, "She dishonored our village, she deserves to be drowned!"

Tang Chuxia cursed to herself.

If any honor had been lost, it was Zheng Duoqing’s fault, what had it to do with the girl?

"Honor? What honor? Do you know I could have every one of you here drowned as well?"

She kicked a huge rock at her feet, flying debris striking many, and screams ripped through the silent sky.

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