Jiang Zhi was almost driven mad with anger, but still stubbornly said, "... They're slandering me out of thin air. I just said the wrong thing because I was caught off - guard!"
"Who's slandering you out of thin air!" The aunt put her hands on her hips and continued to scold. "You're really your mother, Xu Cuilan's, daughter. How dare you say I'm slandering you? Weren't you the one who came to the village a few days ago to threaten us not to talk nonsense, saying that your boyfriend is the boss of a big company and that if we didn't listen, you'd send us to Southeast Asia to have our hands and feet chopped off?"
Another aunt also stepped forward. "If it weren't for you using your boyfriend's status to pressure us, how could we have agreed to you just for two thousand yuan?"
"Your mother, that slut, deserves to be in prison. She even shamelessly seduced my husband back then. I'm being nice by not hitting you!"
Listening to these offensive words, Jiang Zhi's chest heaved with anger. "Why are you slandering me! I know. You must have been bribed by Jiang Miaomiao to frame me, right?"
"Stop lying, you woman!"
Chen Xi in the corner walked up to Jiang Miaomiao, her eyes instantly turning red. "Sister Erya, is it really you?"
Jiang Miaomiao nodded, her eyes feeling a bit sore. "It's me."
Liu Mingyue asked in confusion, "Erya?"
Chen Xi sniffled. "Of course. Everyone in our village knows that Xu Cuilan is heartless. She didn't even give Sister Erya a proper name. She always called Sister Erya 'little dog' in front of people. It was the old people in the village who thought 'little dog' sounded bad, so they told everyone to call her Erya."
Another old grandma came out to testify. "Erya was so pitiful since she was a child. Her adoptive mother never gave her a full meal. She was always on guard against her as if she were a thief, locking all the food in the cabinet.
This child either lived with the chickens or slept with the dogs all day long. She wore the same two tattered clothes all year round. It was the villagers who felt sorry for her and gave her their children's unwanted clothes. Otherwise, this poor child would have frozen to death in winter!"
"No wonder we didn't recognize Erya at first. Erya was so skinny in the village, with no flesh on her face. She was all black and thin. Now, after two years of being with her biological parents, she's grown into a beautiful young lady. It's really not easy."
The people from the program team were dumbfounded.
No one expected Jiang Zhi to bring such a thing to light.
However, the popularity of the program seemed to be getting higher and higher.
On the bullet - screen, Jiang Zhi's trolls were still trying hard.
[What these villagers said is not believable at all.]
[Exactly. What evidence do they have to prove that Jiang Zhi bribed them?]
[Are you a troll or a fan of Jiang Zhi upstairs? They even showed the bank card. Isn't that evidence?]
Among the guests, Wang Yufei was the first to stand up. "Jiang Zhi, I really didn't expect you to be so vicious. When you gave me the saliva chicken soup before, I thought you just had some moral issues. But now it seems you have a character problem. Your biological mother abused her for eighteen years, and you actually had the nerve to bribe the villagers to give false testimony for you!"
Fu Xue'er followed closely. "If it weren't for my sister - in - law's good fortune, she would have been abused to death by your mother. How dare you have the audacity to plead for your mother? Your face is thicker than the city wall!"
"And Gu Beichen, do you think you were so cool and domineering just now? Hanging out with a woman like her, it just shows that birds of a feather flock together. What, are you going to use the power of the Gu family to get your despicable mother - in - law out of prison?"
Gu Beichen's face instantly turned cold, and he furrowed his brows, looking at Jiang Zhi. "Zhizhi, what's going on? Didn't you say your mother treated Jiang Miaomiao well?"
Jiang Zhi bit her lower lip tightly, her black eyes filled with tears. "Beichen, what I said is true. You have to believe me."
As she spoke, she looked at Jiang Miaomiao viciously and said harshly, "You almost drowned when you were a child. If it weren't for my mom saving you, you would have died long ago! Now, instead of being grateful for her life - saving grace, you want to kill her. Are you such a kind - hearted person?!"
Jiang Miaomiao was so angry that she laughed. "Why don't you tell me why I almost drowned? It was because your mom punished me to soak in the pond in the middle of winter just because I ate an extra steamed bun when I was hungry. She saved me because she would go to prison if I died!"
The whole place erupted in an uproar.
"No way! Jiang Zhi's mother is so evil!" Zhou Huai couldn't help but exclaim.
The netizens who had been misled by the trolls before were furious.
Damn it!
Jiang Zhi actually dared to play them!
[Damn it! Jiang Zhi is so shameless. She still has the nerve to plead for her mother!]
[Why does that ID upstairs look so familiar? You weren't just posting all over there praising Jiang Zhi, were you?]
[I'm a troll, but after hearing what was said just now, I decided not to take this money. Jiang Zhi is really despicable. If I keep praising her against my conscience, I'm afraid I'll get retribution.]
[Even the trolls can't stand it anymore.]
Listening to the accusations around her, Jiang Zhi was on the verge of a breakdown.
What did these people know!
How dare they accuse her of being vicious!
Jiang Miaomiao glanced at her and directly revealed the whole truth of what happened back then. "Two years ago, when my mom picked me up, I was covered in injuries. The injury appraisal from the hospital and the case - filing receipt from the police station are still there.
Moreover, what happened back then wasn't an accident. Your mother, taking advantage of her position as a nanny, deliberately swapped the newly - born babies."
[What! It wasn't an accident?]
[If it were an accident, Jiang Zhi's mother wouldn't have abused the child like this.]
[So despicable! She swapped her own daughter to enjoy a good life and also abused someone else's daughter. How could there be such a vicious person!]
[But the villagers in this village are really nice. They can't be bribed with money.]
Jiang Miaomiao, who happened to catch this bullet - screen message, lowered her eyes.
In fact, the truth was that she offered more money than Jiang Zhi did.
There was only one road from this village to the town. When the bus drove on this road, she realized something was wrong. How could it be such a coincidence that it was this village?
So, before getting off the bus, she sent a message to her eldest brother.
Her elder brother reacted quickly and arranged for some people to pretend to be villagers who had returned from working elsewhere and blend into this village. They discovered Jiang Zhi's plot before dusk.
It's human nature. Five hundred thousand yuan is a huge sum of money for villagers who have farmed all their lives. It's understandable that they couldn't resist the temptation.
In her memory, the villagers in the village were all nice to her. They would secretly give her food when she was hungry and give her clothes to wear. Human nature is complex.
"Zhizhi, is what she said true?" A layer of frost covered Gu Beichen's handsome face.
Why was what Jiang Miaomiao said completely different from what Zhizhi had told him?
Had Jiang Zhi been lying to him all this time?
Jiang Zhi lifted her eyes, and in that instant, the anger and hatred deep within her mind grew wildly.
Jiang Miaomiao exposed her in front of so many people just to completely ruin her!
This bitch!
She was really vicious!
Now, she could only cling to Gu Beichen as a last - resort.
"Beichen... Don't you believe me? I'm just an ordinary person, with no money or power. Where would I get the money to bribe these villagers! But these villagers are all siding with Jiang Miaomiao. I think it's Jiang Miaomiao who paid them off!"