Chapter 442: Chapter 442: Bloody Past
They had no children, and when her husband passed away, he left a lot of money to the woman.
The woman diligently cared for her husband’s parents until, several years later, they also passed away one after another.
From then on, the troubles that often befall a widow started haunting her.
People in the village pointed fingers at her and often spread rumors that she was involved with someone or flirted with a young man from a neighboring village.
What Bai Zhi’er saw was a woman constantly entangled and troubled by rumors.
She originally wanted to leave the village.
But her husband’s grave was in this back mountain area.
She wanted to keep watch for her deceased husband for twenty years.
Soon, another man appeared.
Whenever there were rumors in the village, he would stand up to clarify for the woman.
He took care of her, brought her things, and helped repair her roof on rainy days.
This kindness, without expecting any return, gradually moved the woman.
Thus, in the tenth year after her husband’s death, the woman married this later man.
In the first two years, married life was relatively happy.
But for some reason, the rumors about the woman began to spread again.
This time, even her husband believed in those tales.
The once gentle husband seemed like a changed person.
He hit her, cursed her, and forced her to reveal the name of the adulterer.
Even though he stayed by her side every day and found nothing, he still did not trust her.
The woman cried herself to despair.
Eventually, the woman fell ill, and her husband went to town to buy things.
While she was deeply asleep, she suddenly heard cursing coming from home.
After being dragged up, she discovered there was another man lying beside her!
And this person was none other than the vagabond whom everyone in the village scorned!
Her husband flew into a rage, shouting filthy words, accusing her of adultery.
The villagers became agitated, demanding to dunk her in a pig cage!
The woman desperately explained, even pulling at the vagabond: "Tell them we don’t know each other at all!"
She had even once given food to this vagabond!
Yet the vagabond merely shrank his neck, hugging his head, saying nothing.
Ultimately, the woman was pelted with stones by the villagers.
She was also forcibly tied up and thrown into a coffin.
The villagers felt that such an impure and disloyal woman was a disgrace to the entire village.
Therefore, they decided to seal her alive in the coffin.
The villagers dug a grave pit overnight.
The next day, they intended to bury her alive!
She struggled non-stop, crying and screaming.
And that husband, who used to be loving with her, looked at her with unfamiliar cold eyes.
At this moment, the woman suddenly sensed something wrong.
The man beside her seemed dead set on wanting her dead.
On the final moment before the coffin was sealed, the man walked to her side, lowered his head, and spoke to her.
"Feng Fu, although you have money, I am still young, since you love your late husband so much, then go down to accompany him, I’ve done the last good thing for you."
"Rest assured, since you’re so good to me, I won’t be so heartless as to not leave you anything."
"I’ve piled some of your wealth inside this grave, so go in peace."
The woman glared, enraged: "Xu Wei! You heartless, shameless thing!"
In a fit of anger, she lifted her head and fiercely bit the man’s earlobe.
The woman tore at it viciously, the man furious, reached out a slap.
In front of all the villagers, he covered his bleeding ear and accused: "I wanted to ask if you admitted to your wrongs, yet you said you’d never regret!"
"Fine! In that case, our marital bond is severed this lifetime, I don’t want to ever see you, seal the coffin!"