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The situation in their vegetable field was quickly known to the villagers. After seeing the lush vegetable seedlings, those who had been hesitant before couldn’t resist and went to find Wang Jinhe.
When they stood at the entrance of Wang Jinhe’s house, they nudged each other, reluctant to be the first to enter. In the end, Wang Jinhe came out with a puzzled expression, asking, “What are you here for?”
“We… we just want to apologize to you,” one of them said in a small voice.
Upon hearing this, Wang Jinhe couldn’t help but smile. “You’re here to apologize to me?”
“Yes, we were wrong before. We shouldn’t have said those things about you. Please forgive us.” Apologizing to a younger person was truly humiliating for them.
Forgive?
Wang Jinhe looked at the person who was currently bowing and apologizing, suddenly feeling a sense of irony.
How firm they were before, and now how they were slapped in the face.
She reached out to cover her chest, wondering if she was willing to forgive them.
“Go on, you don’t sincerely think you were wrong. You’re here to apologize because you saw Uncle Kang and the village chief’s vegetable fields doing well, and you want to make money. That’s why you came, claiming to realize your mistake.” Wang Jinhe looked at them, and with just one glance, she knew why they had come.
It was just about making money, just about not wanting to be poor all their lives.
They never truly believed they were wrong; bowing their heads was merely because their interests were threatened.
“We’ve already apologized. What more do you want?” Seeing Wang Jinhe’s reaction, everyone frowned, asking discontentedly.
“I don’t want anything. I just don’t want to forgive you,” Wang Jinhe said, turning around and closing the door, cutting off everyone’s sight.
Outside the door, people looked at each other in bewilderment. “We’ve already come to apologize. What does she want? Does she want us to die here?”
They thought that by apologizing, Wang Jinhe wouldn’t take any drastic measures. Little did they expect her to refuse forgiveness.
“Yeah, just because she has some power now, she thinks she’s something special.”
As they angrily spoke, the door opened from inside, and Qiuyi, holding a basin of water, splashed it towards them.
“Our Miss is nothing special. She can only help the villagers make money, and you won’t gain anything.”
The person splashed with mud and water angrily exclaimed, “You… How dare you use dirty water to splash us?”
“If you dare to come to our doorstep again, I won’t splash you with vegetable washing water. I’ll splash you with manure. It might be dirty, but I won’t hesitate.” Qiuyi spoke angrily with hands on hips.
“Insincere apologies, and they even expect our Miss to forgive them? What audacity!” Qiuyi was not polite at all.
In the house, upon hearing Qiuyi’s words, Wang Jinhe couldn’t help but laugh. “Qiuyi is quite something.”
Normally, she seemed gentle and delicate, but now she was unexpectedly fierce.
But it’s good this way, preventing others from bullying her.
Qiuyi soon returned, looking at Wang Jinhe discontentedly. “Miss, they are really shameless. Clearly, they came to apologize for money, yet they act as if you did something wrong.”
Seeing Qiuyi speaking up for her, Wang Jinhe couldn’t help but smile and shake her head. “It’s nothing. Their apology is their business, and whether I forgive them is my own affair. We just need to focus on our own matters.”
“Yes.”
Wang Jinhe didn’t forgive the villagers, and the news spread to others.
The Jiang family, upon hearing this, breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s a good thing we didn’t go. We would have been humiliated if we had gone, right?”
“That’s right. Those who went to apologize were really unlucky.” They apologized but gained nothing. It was a lose-lose situation.
Those who had apologized heard their comments and fell into silence. It wasn’t because they were being mocked, but because of Wang Jinhe’s words.
Wang Jinhe said they apologized only for money, not because they genuinely thought they were wrong.
For Wang Jinhe, it wasn’t a sincere apology at all.
Suddenly, someone realized that Wang Jinhe wasn’t rejecting their apology because she refused to accept it. It was because they had never seriously considered whether what they did to Wang Jinhe and her family was right.
They had cursed at Wang Jinhe, even when the village chief said she wasn’t part of the village. Why did they do that?
He remembered Wang Jinhe once asked them a question: Did she desecrate their ancestors’ graves, prompting them to treat her and her family this way?
Upon careful consideration, the man felt a bit lost. The Wang Jinhe family had never done anything wrong to them. Even if she was pregnant before marriage, she wasn’t from their village. Talking about tarnishing the reputation of the Xie family village was just nonsense.
Why were they so indignant back then?
Was it just a simple desire for a life?
No, it shouldn’t be said as just one life; it was two lives, two vibrant lives that almost ended in their hands.
“What you’re saying is wrong. The unlucky ones are not us. It’s only natural that Xiao He wouldn’t forgive us,” the man looked at the Jiang family seriously and spoke.
Others who had come to apologize stared at him as if he were speaking nonsense. “No, what are you talking about? What do you mean by ‘only natural’?”
“What she said is right. We didn’t genuinely come to apologize. Why should she forgive us? Let me ask you, why did we want to force Wang Jinhe to the brink of death so desperately back then? Saying she tarnished the reputation of the Xie family village? But have you forgotten that the village chief made it clear back then? She’s not from our Xie family village, won’t cause us trouble, and won’t tarnish our village’s reputation. Why did we make everyone sweep their doorstep and do such things?”
The words silenced everyone present, especially those who had come to apologize.
Yes, why did they treat Wang Jinhe with such harshness back then, almost wishing her dead in that river?
Everyone was perplexed.
No one remembered why it was necessary to dunk Wang Jinhe in a pig cage. They only recalled someone saying that Wang Jinhe must die; otherwise, the village’s children wouldn’t be able to get married.
Looking at them, the Jiang family felt that these people were simply embarrassing themselves.
“How can you say such things? She did something so disgraceful, and you still won’t let others speak or criticize?”