The old man just stared at Yang Ruxin for a long while without speaking.
"Dad, we’ve lost our daughter-in-law, and I like this one, let’s buy her." Big Pole suddenly snapped out of it as if awakened, and rushed over, "Shit Egg, I’ll give you fifty catties of corn, this wife is mine..."
Yang Ruxin’s mouth twitched. Was she only worth fifty catties of corn? After all, Xun Hui had sold for ten taels of Silver, and so had Qian Xiaoyun. Wasn’t she being sold too cheaply?
Not far away, Xiaohei barked in reminder: Don’t get distracted, is now the time to worry about this?
Yang Ruxin came back to her senses, alright, don’t worry about it.
"I won’t!" Lin Xiwang stretched out his hand to protect Yang Ruxin behind him, "She’s my wife, I won’t allow it."
"Are you stupid?" Big Pole slapped Lin Xiwang’s head, "You’re still young, your balls haven’t even grown yet, what’s the use of keeping a wife? You can only look... When your balls have grown, I’ll get you another wife..." Saying this, he reached out to pull Yang Ruxin.
And no one else stopped him.
"I don’t want anyone else." Lin Xiwang was very stubborn, pushing Big Pole away with his hand, "I want only this wife, none of you think about taking her away..."
"You ungrateful brat, have you lost all respect?" Another young man charged over, "Watch me skin you..." he said, reaching out and slapping Lin Xiwang, immediately swelling his little face.
"Second Pole, even if you kill me, I won’t let you, nobody is taking my wife away today..." Lin Xiwang yelled.
"Then I’ll kill you." Second Pole said, lifting his foot to kick towards Lin Xiwang.
"Right, kick this little beast to death, why should he be the one to have a wife?" The people around not only refrained from helping but also incited further, "Kill him, and the wife is everyone’s..."
Yet Lin Xiwang’s eyes turned red, and although he couldn’t beat the others, he still clenched his fists and charged, soon bleeding from the corners of his mouth and eyes, and his legs were kicked to the point of not being able to stand, but he still insisted on standing up, just not falling down, even stealthily telling Yang Ruxin, "Sister, run when you find a chance..."
Yang Ruxin was moved; a child who was a complete stranger to her could protect her like this, far stronger than those who were related by blood.
"Village Chief, is this little wife ours or not?" A man with two patches of hair lost from his head, exposing spots of ringworm asked the old man, "If she’s ours, let’s just bury Shit Egg..."
"Agreed." The old man glanced at the woman standing there, not knowing whether she was scared stiff or what, but ultimately nodded, "This woman will serve as a shared wife for the whole village, everyone takes turns with her..."
"I disagree!" Lin Xiwang spat out a mouthful of bloody water, staring angrily at the old man, "She’s my wife; whoever dares to touch her, I will fight with my life, unless you kill me first..."
Inside the house, Xun Hui and Qian Xiaoyun were so scared that they shivered. Xun Hui was already in tears; she wanted to go out—it was her daughter, after all, and she couldn’t just watch her being defiled by the whole village—but Qian Xiaoyun was desperately holding her back, whispering in her ear, "Auntie, if Xinxin doesn’t ask for us, we can’t act; we can’t add to her trouble..."
"But..." Xun Hui wiped away her tears, "She’s my daughter, I can’t just watch her being defiled, I’m her mother, it should be me going to die..."