Chapter 176: Chapter 176 The Yu Family Plays Dirty
Yu Siyuan was the closest to the crowd when he picked up a photo from the ground, his face turned pale immediately.
“Dad, Mom, the people on this…”
He brought it over to his parents, and it was indeed a picture of his own daughter embraced with a man.
Yu’s mother clutched her chest as darkness flickered before her eyes.
The villagers also picked up the photos, unable to help but inhale sharply.
Although photos had only recently become common, the villagers often gathered to watch TV and were aware of what they were.
In those days, without the photo editing technologies of later times, everyone believed that photos developed from film must be real.
Just now, when Lin Chunju said that Yu Yaxian was fooling around outside with someone else, the people did not fully believe her.
After all, the face-saving Kung Fu of the Yu Family was impeccable, and Yu Yaxian had a good reputation in the village.
However, at this moment, when they saw the bold girl throwing herself into a man’s arms in the photo, the villagers’ gazes at the Yu Family instantly changed.
The village always had fair-weather friends, especially when evidence was right before their eyes, and the crowds readily changed their tune.
“Look at this, I’ve always said Yue Jiandong isn’t that sort of person, we’ve all seen how good he’s been to Yu Yaxian, how could he possibly do such a thing?”
“The Yu Family really has no shame, their daughter claims to be studying outside, but is this what she’s learning—to seduce men?”
“Disgusting, this photo makes me want to vomit just looking at it.”
The speaker, while voicing their disgust, quietly slipped a photo into his pocket.
Yu’s mother suddenly screamed and charged forward, trying to tear the photos into shreds.
The villagers stepped back in fright at her behavior.
Yue Jiandong added indifferently, “Go ahead and tear them, I still have the negatives. I can print as many as you’d like, and then distribute them from the start of the village to the end—let everyone know whether it’s Yue Jiannan’s fault or if Yu Yaxian is worthless?”
Yu’s mother hesitated in her movement, then sat on the ground and wailed.
“You’re soulless, why would you take photos , how will my daughter face anyone now?”
“Just because we owed the Yue Family a bit of money, do you have to destroy my daughter’s life?”
“She’s someone who’s going to college, Yue Jiannan, can you really be so heartless?”
She cried pitifully, but the villagers felt no sympathy.
“Wasn’t it your family that accused others first, slandering Yue Jiannan, treating us like pawns?”
“Pah! Your daughter herself messed around with a random man; a dog who’s fed for three years can become familiar, but your Yu Family just can’t,”
“Yue Jiannan was so good to your family, heartfelt, isn’t your daughter’s reputation a reputation, and his not?”
This was the backfire brought by public opinion—the extent to which the villagers had sympathised with the Yu Family was now the extent of their hatred.
Treating the old man like a fool to be spun around, pah!
Tao Huamao, after all coming from the city, could at least speak up at a time .
“Alright, we admit defeat this time. What do you want to do with us? We’ll just compensate you with money!”
Yue Jiandong asked him, “Compensate? You think you can get away with the same three hundred you paid for the engagement?”
Tao Huamao clenched his teeth and said, “We can add more. Yue Jiannan indeed spent quite a bit on Yu Yaxian, but it was all out of his own volition, wasn’t it? No one forced him.”
Upon hearing this, Yue Jiannan couldn’t help but laugh out of anger, “Alright, by your logic, I shouldn’t want a penny.”
Yu’s mother, upon hearing this, stopped crying, “Really?”
“Yes, I don’t want the money; I want to sue you for marriage fraud and see you go to jail!”
Yu’s mother’s eyelids fluttered and she fainted on the spot.