The composting wastewater splashed onto their feet, and the sour, foul smell filled their nostrils.
"Ugh! What's that smell? It's suffocating!"
Qiu Chunfang, Li Hongjuan, and the others hurriedly took several steps back.
"It's you..."
Upon seeing Deng Cuixiang, the faces of the group instantly turned grim. They opened their mouths to lash out, but then remembered the entanglement of the past few days, and swallowed their words.
Only the pregnant woman who had come to join the fun suddenly stood up, put her hands on her hips, rushed over and poked Deng Cuixiang's nose, and started cursing.
"What were you thinking, throwing feces at us?! You shrew!"
Seeing that her belly was so big it looked like an overturned pot, indicating she was at least seven or eight months pregnant, Deng Cuixiang didn't want to directly confront her, so she took a step back while holding the wooden basin.
Seeing this, the pregnant woman assumed she was feeling guilty, rolled her eyes, and started yelling at her.
Zhou Qiqi stepped forward, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "Who are you calling a shrew?!"
"A shrew's curses..."
The pregnant woman reacted faster than Qiu Chunfang and the others. She realized something was wrong as soon as she spoke, and her bloodshot eyes darted around twice.
Seeing the woman in front of him wearing a stylish dress and with charming features, he immediately realized what was going on.
"Oh? You must be Zhou Qiqi? Just as my sister-in-law said, you're no good!"
As she spoke, she stuck out her belly.
"I'm pregnant! How can you treat me like this? You even insulted me! Don't you know how to be more considerate?"
Zhou Qiqi blinked, looking completely bewildered.
"You're not carrying our child, and it won't call us 'Mom' after it's born, so what are we supposed to do?"
"you..."
The pregnant woman was speechless, and Li Hongjuan walked over with a swaying waist, glanced at Zhou Qiqi, and said sarcastically.
"Let's go, Xiaoyan, don't bother with them. They're a big shot in Commissar Lei's eyes. We can't afford to offend them!"
After saying that, she pulled Qiu Chunfang and the others forward. The pregnant woman wanted to argue, but seeing that they had all left, she realized that she couldn't get anything out of it by herself, so she could only turn around and glare at Zhou Qiqi and Deng Cuixiang.
Zhou Qiqi was too lazy to pay attention, but Deng Cuixiang, remembering that she was pregnant, said something.
"Let me give you a piece of advice: since you're heavily pregnant, stay home and rest more. Don't go out and get involved in these kinds of troubles. And stop talking about who's cursed whom. Do something good for your unborn child and don't let him learn any foul language in the womb!"
The pregnant woman wouldn't listen to a word, and spat next to Deng Cuixiang.
"Who do you think you are? You country bumpkin! It's none of your business to teach my kid!"
With that, she strode away, clutching her belly and looking arrogant.
"Sister Cuixiang, are you alright? Who was that person?"
Zhou Qiqi quickly came over.
"It's nothing~"
Deng Cuixiang waved her hand, "That person is Section Chief Liao's sister, Liao Xiaoyan. She just came to our compound a few days ago."
Zhou Qiqi was a little confused, "Section Chief Liao's sister? Isn't she from the village too? Why is she calling us country bumpkins?"
Deng Cuixiang gestured with her chin, inviting Zhou Qiqi into the room to talk, while explaining.
"Isn't that because she married a city guy?"
She was turning over the soil in the backyard to fertilize it when she naturally handed Zhou Qiqi a hoe and said something while hoeing the ground.
"Her husband, like Hu Chunxiao, also works at the G City Materials Bureau, but he has a low position and is just a clerk. The whole family of five or six people are crammed into a one-bedroom apartment of 30 or 40 square meters. The pregnant woman was in her late stages of pregnancy and felt cramped living there, so she came to her brother's place to rest and prepare for childbirth."
At this point, she shoveled the hoe twice with force, half angry and half speechless.
"They say it's to help with pregnancy, but all I get to do is spend every day hanging out with those gossipy women, talking behind their backs. In my opinion, it's not helping with pregnancy, it's just scaring the baby!"
Zhou Qiqi had already taken the hoe and was helping to hoe the ground while laughing.
"Needless to say, it's just us crickets?"
"Of course! You're the female lead, so let's also talk about Yingying and me."
"Let them say what they want, it won't hurt you."
Compared to Deng Cuixiang's excitement, Zhou Qiqi was more relaxed.
On her first night in the compound, she clashed with Qiu Chunfang. The next day, because she was on good terms with Yingying, she indirectly offended Li Hongjuan. Since then, these two women have talked about her behind her back a lot, which she has long been used to.
Consider it a spice to spice up a mundane life.
Hearing her say that, Deng Cuixiang calmed down and sighed.
"That's true. I wanted to say something to her before, since she was pregnant, but now I think it's really not worth it. Whether her child is healthy or not is her own business. Why should we meddle so much? Just live your own life!"
As she spoke, she pointed to the newly turned furrows of land.
"By the way, now is the perfect time to plant garlic and spinach. The ground freezes over in early November, and they won't sprout then. If you plant them now, they'll turn green again next spring!"
"So early?"
Zhou Qiqi was a little surprised. The village where the original owner lived was located a bit to the south, and the ground wouldn't freeze until the end of November or December. Planting would have to wait until next month.
"Yes, when Director Zhou delivered the daily necessities to each household when we first arrived, didn't he also remind them about these things?"
Deng Cuixiang nodded, looking at Zhou Qiqi's surprised expression with some curiosity.
"Didn't Director Zhou tell you all this?"
"No, really not..."
Zhou Qiqi shook her head with a wry smile.
Hearing this, it seems that Director Zhou is quite good to the military wives, delivering supplies to each household. But for some reason, by some twist of fate, he has a very serious prejudice against her.
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