Chapter 77
The boy suddenly asked, "Mom, why do you have to undress for men to see?"
The woman froze, and the tears that had built up in her eyes began to fall, one by one.
"Ah Bao mustn’t ask Mom such questions! You mustn’t!" Ah Yun’s mother cried.
"Enough! Everyone get inside! You’re making a spectacle!" A Zhao family woman yanked the boy away with one hand and dragged the woman towards the house.
"Ah Yun! Ah Yun!" Ah Yun’s mother clung to her daughter, refusing to let go.
Several women emerged from nowhere, all hands and feet, they pulled the mother and daughter apart. The woman called Ah Yun didn’t struggle or resist; she was as numb as a corpse, allowing them to carry her into the house.
The door slammed shut.
Without the spectacle to watch, the villagers were left with nothing but idle gossip, talking about how shameless Ah Yun was, how she couldn’t live without a man, how she became promiscuous without a man by her side. Some even took delight in the disaster, mocking the impotence of the Zhao family men, bluntly gossiping about how one day, in some place, Ah Yun had wrapped her arms around him and made him touch her breasts...
Enraged, Ah Yun’s mother picked up a carrying pole and struck out, cursing him for talking nonsense and wishing him a lineage cut short.
The man ran off laughing, "You can’t even talk about Ah Yun being a slut!"