Chapter 15: Gossip. You must learn moderation!

Zong Xiao did not go any further. After all, it had happened many years ago and there was no point in bringing it up again.

Everyone is gone, what else can we do?

Qiu Xuan felt empty inside. She had guessed that Zong Jia Dalang should be gone, but she didn't expect that the couple died on the same day.

"It was the first snow on the day my eldest sister-in-law passed away." Zong Xiao looked towards the beams and said, "So mother named the little girl Huaixue."

Revisiting the past is like reopening a healed wound, which always makes people feel painful and sad.

"My eldest brother has only this one child, and everyone in the family loves him dearly. If you hadn't stopped me today, I would have gone to the third wife's house to seek justice." Zong Xiao knew that this was impulsive, but he was protecting his child.

Qiu Xuan's eyes moved, and she asked hurriedly, "I stopped you from going, are you angry?"

Zong Xiao smiled and said, "I'm not angry, really. It's a good thing you stopped me, otherwise it would be a question whether the Zong family kid can get off the kang tomorrow."

Zong Xiao was afraid that she would overthink it, so he added, "If I'm still so impulsive next time, you should stop me."

Qiu Xuan smiled knowingly, "Okay."

In the dark night, the two of them were busy all day.

As soon as they stopped talking, they both fell asleep.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already daylight and the aroma of food wafted in through the window.

Qiu Xuan did not delay. She couldn't wait until the food was on the table before showing up.

In the kitchen, Zong's mother was looking at Zong Xiao with a troubled expression.

Although some questions were inappropriate, the clan mother felt that she still needed to remind him.

The mother coughed lightly and whispered, "Erlang."

Zong Xiao turned around and asked, "What's wrong, mother?"

The clan mother: "Well...Xiaoxuan hasn't woken up yet?"

Zong Xiao misunderstood her intentions, thinking that Zong Mu was dissatisfied with her for getting up too late, so he explained, "Mom, she went to bed late last night and was tired, so she just wanted to sleep for a while. I'm here in the kitchen."

That wasn't what Zong Mu meant. She glared at Zong Xiao, raised her hand and twisted his arm, angrily scolding, "Is mother that kind of person? You'll be fine if you get some more sleep. I mean you."

"Me?" Zong Xiao got up before dawn and even fed the chickens and ducks in the backyard early in the morning. How could he make a mistake?

The clan mother leaned closer and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Child, even though you've just married, you can't do that every day... well, you understand. Qiu Xuan is weak, and her little body can't withstand the tossing. You have to learn to be restrained!"

Zong Xiao's face turned red, and he really had no words to express his grievances.

Not to mention sex, they don't even get into bed together...

But he couldn't say this, he could only bite the bullet and admit the "guilt".

He said angrily, "I understand, mother."

When the grandmother saw that he admitted his mistake, she left satisfied.

The breakfast was much simpler, with only a small plate of pickles and a plate of fried fish hair.

I just had a taste of it yesterday, but today I ate it with white porridge and fried fish hair.

The taste is so delicious that it’s beyond words.

"While the weather is hot and there are many fish in the river, I'll go catch some more today." Seeing that she liked it, Zong Xiao felt that he should make more of this thing so that he would not be unable to eat it during the winter.

"I want to go too, I want to go too." Zong Huaixue wanted to go yesterday, and when he heard about it today, he raised his hand and competed to go.

The patriarch's mother was reluctant to let her go. The stream water was cold. What if she got sick? It wasn't that she was worried about the money for medicine, but the patriarch's mother really didn't want her to suffer.

Qiu Xuan thought of what happened last night and changed the topic. "Didn't we say we were going to walk around the village today? I haven't even seen our village yet. But Huaixue, it's fine for you to go fishing with your uncle. I can walk around the village by myself."

When Huaixue heard this, she was fooled. She quickly changed her tune and said, "Of course I'll follow Auntie! Then let's walk around the village today and go fishing tomorrow."

"Okay, let's catch fish another day."

As for the date of the rescheduling, it all depends on the clan mother.

After dinner, Zong Xiao went into the mountains alone, carrying a bamboo basket and a wooden pitchfork.

He felt warm in his heart. Just before leaving home, Qiu Yun went to the kitchen to get him two dry steamed buns. The dry steamed buns were cut in the middle with a knife and some fried fish hairs were stuffed in them.

This wasn't the first time that Zong Xiao was missed by his family, but this time was different.

This time, it was the wife he married who cared for him and thought about him.

Thinking of this, he felt so satisfied that a barely perceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

At home, Qiu Xuan re-braided the little girl's hair. Maybe it was because she had been praised by others, but the little girl thought her braid looked good.

Qiu Xuan enjoyed it so much that she changed the pattern for her today and pinned a small pink flower on it.

"Grandma, let's go out."

"Go, go." Qiu Xuan felt relieved seeing her grandmother. Now that no one was bothering her at home, she could do more work during the day.

The village where the Zong family lives is called Shanbao Village. Because it is surrounded by mountains and everyone lives off the mountains, the village got its current name.

Qiu Xuan held Huai Xue's hand, and the two of them began to walk around the village.

Shanbao Village is not very big. There are about 200 people in the village, most of whom are from the Zong clan, and there are also some from other families, but their number is not as large as that of the Zong clan.

"This is Bonnie's house. She is two years older than me." The little girl didn't know the people around her, but she remembered her friend's house very clearly.

"This is Lianhua's family. She is three years older than me. This is Qiuguo's family..."

While listening to her, Qiu Xuan carefully observed the terrain. She found that compared with Datun Village, the forest around Shanbao Village seemed deeper and the villagers seemed...not easy to talk to.

After all, the further she walked into the village, the more people looked at her with "bad intentions."

Sure enough, when they reached the big locust tree in the middle of the village, several women spoke up to stop them.

"Hey, Xiaoxue, this is your second aunt."

"Tsk, she's really pretty..." The woman looked Qiu Xuan up and down, feeling disgusted by her thin body.

"If you ask me what goes with what pot, then Erlang is lucky enough to have a wife. Why are you being so picky?"

Although Zong Huaixue is young, she can still understand good and bad words.

She opened her arms to protect Qiu Yu behind her and said confidently, "My uncle and aunt are doing very well."

The woman burst out laughing. "You kid, whatever you say is what it comes down to."

After the woman finished speaking, she looked up at Qiu Yun and said with disdain, "She's certainly not as pretty as the daughter of Liu the Butcher from the next village. But they still want to marry into Liu the Butcher's family. I think they're just dreaming."

Qiu Xuan hasn't figured out their background yet, and she doesn't want to cause trouble for the Zong family at this time.

She gently tugged at Zong Huaixue and said with a smile, "It's getting hot and noisy, let's go home."

The women were startled, how could they not hear the hidden meaning in her words.

But the other party didn't mention anyone by name, and they couldn't rush to acknowledge him, so they just cursed him behind his back.

Qiu Xuan had a smile on her lips, not caring at all.

The noise continued to come from behind, and the women were still talking about the Liu family.

"That's right. I heard that Butcher Liu wants seven taels right away!"

"Seven taels! That's too much. Why don't you just go and rob people?"

"Not only that, they also asked families with many brothers to separate the family property, fearing that their daughter would be wronged."

"God, I have truly opened my eyes."

After the two of them walked away, Qiu Xuan asked the little girl beside her, "Do you know those women?"

"I know them, Second Aunt, you don't have to pay attention to them. Grandma said they are just nagging." Zong Huaixue was afraid that she would be unhappy after hearing that, so he coaxed her.

Qiu Xuan patted her head and said with a smile, "Yes, since they are chatterboxes, we should not take their words to heart and just treat them as gossip."

"Um!"

Qiu Xuan seemed to have thought of something and asked again, "Did you ever promise that the daughter of Liu the Butcher would be given to your second uncle?"

Zong Huaixue knew about this, and she shook her head, "I mentioned it to my uncle a few days ago, but he didn't believe it after that."

Qiu Xuan thought that the marriage probably didn't go through.

As the sun gradually rose, the two of them quickened their pace and hurried home.

Unexpectedly, before entering the yard, I heard a roar coming from inside.

"Are you trying to piss me off to death? If you don't want such a good girl, what else do you want?"

"Not interested?"

"Just you, you haven't even taken a fancy to me, you bastard!"

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