"Yang Rusong, you bastard." Ma Gouzi was furious as anything and charged right over, "If you dare touch her, I’ll cripple you..."
"Shut up!" Yang Mancang roared.
Ma Gouzi instantly cowered and didn’t dare to move forward, only looking at Wang Baozhu with a stuttering gaze.
But at that moment, Wang Baozhu didn’t even want to look at Ma Gouzi, and was even annoyed that he had come out to cause more trouble for her.
"If I haven’t done it, then I haven’t." Yang Rusong exhaled, "A clear conscience fears no accusation." Just now, he had really been afraid that Ma Gouzi would come up and hit him; he was not one to fight.
"Then call your witness," Yang Mancang said, beckoning to Li Cheng who was coming over, "Just in time, you know what’s going on too, I guess it’s probably time to report to the officials..."
Li Cheng nodded, feeling a headache about all these affairs of the old Yang Family too.
No one had expected the witness to be Zheng Kuan.
However, Zheng Kuan came over and spoke very sincerely, not claiming outright that it was Yang Rusong who did it. But he said that when he entered the village, he saw Yang Rusong looking disheveled and rushing into the village, which made him suspicious. Right at that moment, he heard cries for help nearby. Rushing to check, he found Wang Baozhu, but as a man, he felt it improper to intervene, so he went back to inform his daughter and asked her to find people from the Wang Family...
This testimony, though not explicit, made it easier for people to believe that it was Yang Rusong who committed the act.
The members of the Yang Family fell silent, and the looks that the surrounding people gave Yang Rusong began to change slowly.
Lin Yue’e cried out even more vigorously, clamoring to report the crime and catch the rapist.
At this point, Wang Sheng stepped forward and suggested that since things had come to this, the Yang Family should quickly offer a betrothal gift and take the girl into their household, so everyone could be happy.
Normally domineering, Yang Anshi too, cowered. She suddenly threw up her hands, glanced at Yang Baichuan and his wife, "Your son, deal with it yourselves." Then she turned and walked into the house.
Yang Rusong stood there with mixed feelings, embarrassed, annoyed, and most of all, disappointed, wishing he could crawl into a hole. Suddenly, an idea popped into his head: if his eldest cousin sister were here, wouldn’t she be able to clear his name quickly?
With that thought, Yang Rusong quickly scanned the crowd, then suddenly bolted for the door. He had only one thought: only his eldest cousin sister could save him now.
"He’s trying to flee the crime..." The first to react was Wang Wen, who hurriedly followed in pursuit.
While Yang Rusong was a weak scholar, he suddenly exploded with an incredible burst of speed. Desperately running, Wang Wen could not catch up to him immediately, and the rest of the people also chased after him.
The assumption was that Yang Rusong was leaving the village, but unexpectedly, once outside the village, he turned a corner and arrived directly at the entrance of the Yang Family’s main house courtyard, and began to knock rapidly on the door: "Eldest cousin sister, save me..."
Yang Ruxin was still at the Gu Family at the time, but Gu Yao was present here. He had just helped Yang Baixiang change his clothes and lie down, when the knocking startled him.
"This..." Xun Hui and Erni stood at the door at a loss, unaware of what was happening outside.
"Don’t come out, I’ll check it out." Gu Yao walked to the gate and opened it, yelling fiercely, "What’s all this?"
"Gu Yao, I’m looking for my cousin sister, only she can save me..." Yang Rusong shuddered, but didn’t step back. Instead, he grabbed Gu Yao’s arm, "I really didn’t do it..."