Chapter 1541: Netherworld, Other Shore Flower 16
Su Yan was puzzled
"Didn’t you say that the one involved with her was from your village?
Knowing she’s married, yet still willing to have an affair with her.
Aren’t the people in your village indiscreet? What kind of behavior is that?"
The villager shrugged
and spoke
"Little girl, you’re still young, you don’t understand many things. How can men be the same as women?
It was the woman who seduced first, it was clearly her fault, how can you blame others?"
Su Yan was momentarily confused,
"That logic doesn’t make sense."
She couldn’t even completely understand what the person meant.
The villager was somewhat scornful of Su Yan’s ignorance.
He just said
"In short, Hu Rou having her face scratched and being drowned in the lake was her deserved retribution."
After he finished speaking, the villager weighed the Silver Ingot and asked
"Do you have anything else to ask?"
Sang Ming smiled and asked
"Do you know where Hu Rou’s grave is?"
The villager spat.
"She was drowned, no remains left; how could there be a grave?"
After saying this, the villager seemed to remember something
"However, her official was infatuated with her and even made a grave mound, burying her clothes.
If you want to see it, it’s over there behind the woods, in the graveyard of our village.
One of the graves has a wooden plaque with nothing written on it—that’s Hu Rou’s grave."
After saying this, and after Sang Ming thanked him, the two walked toward that place.
Sang Ming smiled and said
"Soon, you will be able to meet Hu Rou.
I hope by then you can help me to seek justice for the villagers."
Su Yan didn’t respond.
Sang Ming seemed to understand what was on Su Yan’s mind.
He said
"I know that as a woman, you probably sympathize with her plight, wanting to argue in her defense, to explain that she’s not such a person.
But...this was the decision of the entire village.
And it was judged by the most respected and just people.
It can’t be wrong."
Su Yan glanced at him.
She spoke
"I’m just confused as to why those married men weren’t drowned."
As soon as she finished speaking, Sang Ming was taken aback
"Why would you say that?"
Su Yan was puzzled
"Why not say that?"
Sang Ming spoke
"For women, it is right and proper to preserve their chastity and be faithful, husbands should be the head of the family.
There is no such constraint for men."
After hearing this, Su Yan nodded, indicating she understood.
Once more, Sang Ming was stunned.
Originally, he thought Su Yan was indignant, wanting to stand up for Hu Rou.
But now it seemed.
She apparently just wanted to ask.
While thinking this, Sang Ming smiled, his attention once again falling on the Other Shore Flower hairpin on Su Yan’s head.
He spoke
"The hairpin is very pretty."
Su Yan nodded
"It’s alright."
Then Sang Ming pondered for a moment
"But the flower on this hairpin is too flamboyant, it seems vulgar.
If you wore a Plum Blossom hairpin or a Magnolia hairpin, it would surely suit you better."
Su Yan said nothing.
Sang Ming smiled and said
"You seem to really like this hairpin, since you’ve worn it both yesterday and today."
Xiao Hua snorted,
"You’re vulgar; your whole family is vulgar."
Ever since Xiao Hua resided in this hairpin, the Other Shore Flower hairpin became its image.
To insult the hairpin is to insult it!
Su Yan saw that Sang Ming was constantly focused on the hairpin, talking incessantly.
She reached out.
She took the hairpin off her head.
Then she tucked it into her bosom.
She spoke
"I don’t like wearing hairpins."
After saying this, there was nothing more to say.