Chapter 373: The Chu Couple Lose Everything, Left with Nothing!

Rumble rumble rumble—

Bee-doo bee-doo~~(b?w?)~~~~

After everyone got into the cars, with police lights flashing, seven or eight vehicles roared as they headed north.

Very soon, they drove out of Chu Family Village…….

Only then, as the villagers watched the police cars’ taillights disappear, did the whole village erupt into an uproar, loudly discussing the strange events that had happened today.

After all, swapping a rich man’s child was the kind of thing they’d only ever seen in the news at most, and now it had actually happened right beside them, to people they knew…….

How could the villagers not marvel at it?!

No doubt for a long time to come in the future, the story of Chu Ling being a wealthy heiress who’d been swapped at birth would be savored by the villagers as juicy gossip for after-dinner chat.

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“Oh my gosh~~~ that little girl Chu Ling wasn’t actually Chu Xiong and Tao Yan’s biological daughter?! She’s the child of some rich family in the city?”

“Good grief! No wonder Chu Xiong and his wife hated their ‘daughter’ so much. Turns out she wasn’t even their biological daughter?!”

“That woman Tao Yan can really hide things, huh; she managed not to show her hand for a full eighteen years!”

“If the police hadn’t come to arrest them today, maybe someday in the future those vicious two really would’ve succeeded. Scary!!!”

“Those richly dressed big shots, I think I’ve seen them on TV. One of those man-and-woman pairs even looked like nationally famous movie stars…….”

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“Never would’ve thought! Chu Ling that girl’s background is so extraordinary, this is soaring straight to the sky!”

“From a poor commoner, leaping classes and becoming a rich city heiress just like that!!!”

“I’m so jealous I could die! I’m going straight home to hang my dad up and beat him for seven days and seven nights until he admits I was swapped; my real dad is actually the richest man in the world!!!”

“Hell, what dream are you having in broad daylight? You think a good thing like that would land on you?!”

“Man, if I’d known this day would come! Back then I should’ve helped that kid Chu Ling out a bit more. That way, maybe her rich parents could just let a little slip through their fingers, and it’d be enough to change the fate of my ancestors for three whole generations!”

“………..”

All kinds of unbelievable cries kept coming out of the villagers’ mouths.

Most of the people here actually knew and had seen Chu Xiong and his wife.

After all, the village was only so big, everyone saw each other all the time.

In the villagers’ eyes, Tao Yan and Chu Xiong were birds of a feather, always lazy, always bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

But no one could have predicted……..

That they would be so brazen as to swap their own daughter into a wealthy family and even manage to pull it off for a full eighteen years.

Until today, when by sheer chance, it was finally exposed!!!

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“Holy crap! I remember now! Eighteen years ago, it really seems like a young couple passed through our village, stayed at Chu Xiong’s place, and then had a premature birth.”

“I vaguely remember too. I was still young then, driven by curiosity, I even sneaked over to Chu Xiong’s doorway to watch the commotion!”

“So, it must’ve been at that time…… that crazy couple Tao Yan and Chu Xiong, secretly swapped the two newborn babies when nobody was looking.”

“……….”

More and more villagers recalled the past and exclaimed in shock.

All because, after Xu Shuyun gave birth that year, the motorcade the Tang family sent to pick her up was so luxurious that it blew the minds of these country folk who’d never seen the world, making the memory stick.

But who would’ve thought that from that very day on, the real and fake heiress identities had already been swapped?

This also neatly explained the doubts the villagers had buried in their hearts for years………

Why could Chu Xiong and his wife be so ruthless, abusing and beating their ‘daughter’ from childhood, turns out she wasn’t biological at all, so they didn’t feel the slightest pain when they hit her, huh?!!

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“Chu Xiong is done for! He offended big shots from the city, once he goes, he definitely won’t come back! Maybe he’ll get taken out by assassins tonight!”

“Kid, you’ve watched too many movies! Our Huaxia is a place that follows the law. So, what if you have power and influence? You still can’t do whatever you want! The law will naturally make a fair judgment!”

“(⊙o⊙) Uh…. maybe! But Tao Yan and her husband broke the law! Even if they’re not executed, they’ll still be locked up for many years, right?”

“Hmph! They deserve what they get! If after swapping the child, they’d treated Chu Ling well, that would be one thing. But what did they do? Two beasts, this is exactly the outcome they deserve!”

“I propose we kick this vicious couple out of the ancestral hall genealogy!!! They’re not worthy! Even if they have a chance to come back in the future, they should be driven out of the village immediately!”

“Agreed, agreed! I really hate those two bastards! Our Chu Family Village used to have a decent reputation among the nearby villages! But now… one rat dropping has ruined the whole pot of porridge!!!”

“Forget about the honorary title, what worries me more is that once the village’s name is stinking, which family’s daughters will ever dare marry in here? It was already hard enough to get a wife; now it’s adding insult to injury!”

“Crap! How did I forget that—my son still hasn’t gotten a wife yet! If that bastard Chu Xiong drags us down and cuts off my family line, how am I supposed to face my ancestors?!”

“Quick, quick, quick! Hurry! Immediately! Right now, strike these two pieces of trash out of the genealogy! From today on, they’re no longer people of Chu Family Village. If they dare come back, chase them out on the spot.”

“For the sake of the young men in our village being able to get wives, we must completely draw a line with these two!!!”

“……….”

The villagers were fired up, collectively shouting to expel Chu Xiong and Tao Yan, these two malignant tumors, from the village.

Nowadays in the countryside, not only does the bride price keep rising, it’s also extremely hard to find a wife.

Some rural girls would rather not marry at all than ‘settle.’

Especially those who have worked in the city, once they’ve been dazzled by the glittering world, they absolutely refuse to marry back into the countryside.

This led to the problem of more men and fewer women in the village becoming increasingly severe.

Often, a single rural girl can go on blind dates with dozens of older unmarried men at the same time, picking until her eyes blur.

Even divorced women with children in a second marriage, or even women in a third marriage, become extremely sought-after in the marriage market.

In short, in a situation of many wolves and little meat, if you don’t want to marry her, there are plenty who do, tough luck!!!

Now that this whole Chu Xiong mess had blown up, it was highly likely to affect the village’s reputation and cause those young men surnamed Chu to be unable to find wives in the future, how could everyone not be anxious?!!

Two and a half minutes later, after a collective vote by the villagers.

In the end, everyone in the village unanimously decided to erase the Chu couple’s existence from the genealogy.

From now on, the pair would no longer be considered villagers of Chu Family Village.

If the two dared to return, they would be beaten out with clubs on the spot, never allowed to step into the village again.

“Since Chu Xiong is no longer a person of Chu Family Village, I propose we split up the stuff they left in the village!”

“After all, he’s the one who damaged the village’s reputation; this bit of compensation is necessary and reasonable.”

“………..”

In the crowd, no one knew who proposed it first, but it once again received the villagers’ one-sided unanimous approval.

Very soon.

The villagers gathered in front of Chu Xiong’s adobe house and swept through like a swarm of locusts.

A few pigs in the pigpen, firewood in the woodshed, mattresses, underwear, bricks, a fleshlight, used condoms, pots and pans……..

Basically, everything visible to the naked eye that could be taken was completely cleared out and carried away by the villagers.

In the end, only an empty mud-brick house was left.

After another collective vote and discussion, they decided to refurbish it into a free public toilet for the village.

From that point on, completely abandoned by their clansmen, Chu Xiong and his wife, without even knowing it, thoroughly lost their last place of belonging in the human world………