Kingston looked at Eevonne's younger cousin with an innocent expression. "May I ask the beautiful lady, who has a logical mind, outstanding looks, and is well-educated, which ear of yours heard that I was married or which eyes of yours saw that I have a wife and a child?"
"You..." she uttered.
"Pfft!" Those villages standing outside the gate were originally waiting to watch how Eevonne would be taken away. When they heard Kingston refute Eevonne's
fashionable younger cousin so slowly and orderly until she was dumbfounded, they could not help but burst out laughing.
"The beautiful lady with a logical mind, outstanding looks, and is well-educated, if you are unable to answer the question, I have to remind you that it's against the law to slander and defame someone. You will be held responsible in the court of law! Not to mention that you've slandered and defamed me in public! You have to provide the police, and also me, the victim, with an explanation." Kingston’s tone was very gentle and slow.
However, Eevonne's younger cousin could feel that she had been bitten. Also, she had been clearly bitten to the point that she could not shake him off even if she wanted to! She suddenly felt that she had encountered a huge problem at that moment. It was a huge problem that she could escape at all.
When she thought about it carefully again, when did she start to be so certain that the man in front of her was an indecent man, and also a man who was already married and had a family? In fact, it truly was just a rumor. She had never heard Eevonne mention this man before. She had only heard her cousins say that there was a middle-aged man from another town who was dressed like a laborer and had a face full of messy beards. He just looked like a poor laborer from another town at a glance. Also, he was already slightly older, so he certainly has been married and had a child. Such a man who had been married and had a child had traveled the distance to come looking for Eevonne.
Eevonne has a huge debt, which meant that it certainly has something to do with the man. After making a step-by-step deduction, and also relating to the way the man was dressed, all three of the cousins deduced that Kingston was a person who has a family, has done some poor-quality construction, has a debt, and has run away to another town by himself to abduct young girls.
However, Eevonne's younger cousin had indeed never heard with her own ears and seen with her own eyes what kind of person Kingston truly was.
"W-Well...” She stammered and could not answer.
"Speak!” Kingston suddenly shouted at her angrily. “If you don’t tell us today, I'll sue you for defamation! Defamation in public!"
Kingston's stern shouting frightened her so much that she shuddered. She looked at Kingston with fear, and she seemed to have clearly realized that this helper of Eevonne's was not easy to deal with. They probably would not take advantage of them anymore that day.
At that moment, Eevonne’s mother, aunt, uncle and his wife also walked out of the house and saw that Kingston was scolding Eevonne's younger cousin. Eevonne's mother immediately scolded her." Eevonne, you damned thing! You've done shameful things yourself. How could you bully your cousin instead?"
Eevonne looked coldly at her mother." Mom, have you actually seen me bullying my cousin? Aren't the police here to uphold the law and order in our house? Weren't my cousins hoping for the police to come? The police are here now. This man of mine and myself can't run away anymore, right?"
Eevonne's mother was speechless. She was at a loss for words after hearing what her daughter had said.
Her mother asked with a slight catch in her throat, "Eevonne, what are you doing? Do you have to make a big deal out of this?" Eevonne smiled miserably. "Mom. I don't wish to make a big deal out of this. I was thinking that even if my uncle and aunt truly had taken the house away, beat me up, and then dragged me out to parade the village, I would have accepted it. I also did not intend to make a big deal out of this matter. However, the police are here! My friend isn't leaving, and my cousins also did not intend to let him walk out of this courtyard. Mom, I don't have any other ways. We don't have any other ways! This is the way things have to be now!"
Her mother was speechless.
Eevonne raised her head to look at the police officer and said without any expression. "Officer, please make sure you investigate everything thoroughly. Don't let anybody who has broken the saw get away!
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