Chapter 77: Say the softest words and do the cruelest things
"Brother Ma..."
She felt her arm tighten, and he grasped it like a chicken and lifted it up to her knees. At that moment, Ye Xiaomei's mind was filled with images of them entangled with him and the feeling of electric current running through her body.
"Comrade Ye, someone is looking for you outside."
Ye Xiaomei quickly regained her senses and subconsciously pushed the man's arm away, causing the stool under her butt to fall to the ground with a thud.
"I'll go back first." Ye Xiaomei ran faster than a rabbit, her heart beating fast.
Ye Xiaomei left the campus and thought it was her mother-in-law who wanted her to go home together, but unexpectedly it was her aunt Wang Minzhi.
She smiled the same way she always does, with a fake smile, but she also looked quite sincere:
"Xiao Mei, I have something to tell you."
Ye Xiaomei didn't feel good when she saw this smile: "Auntie, just say whatever you want."
"Hey, it's not easy to find you. I went to the Ma family first, but no one was home. I went to your mother's watermelon field, but you were not there either, so I asked around. Fortunately, I learned from the villagers that Ma Qijun was repairing tables in elementary school, so I guessed that you should also..."
"That's not what Auntie asked me to talk about." Ye Xiaomei's face was calm, with the sweet smile that Brother Ma had just teased her with still hanging on the corner of her mouth:
"Auntie, you must be looking for me to tell me that Sister Xiaolin ruined my man's child, right?"
Wang Minzhi's eyes suddenly widened, and she opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word for a while. She looked Ye Xiaomei up and down with a strange look, as if she was looking at a monster.
She was the only one who knew that her daughter was pregnant with the Zhang family's child and had nothing to do with the Ma family.
But her daughter said that the Zhang family looked down on her, and it would be useless even if they used the child as a threat, because there was no legal protection. Even if the child was born, the man would at most give some alimony. But in this way, her daughter's reputation would be completely ruined, and she would never be able to get married again.
It would be better to rely on Ma Qijun and have a long-term meal ticket. Who would have thought that Ye Xiaomei not only did not react but also smiled sweetly. In an instant, Wang Minzhi felt that this smile was a bit weird.
"Auntie, if you have nothing else to do, I have to go back to feed the sheep, so I'll leave first."
Ye Xiaomei didn't explain much and just pushed the bicycle, took two steps and walked away.
"Hey hey..." Wang Minzhi was stunned.
He quickly chased after her, grabbed Ye Xiaomei's back seat, and forced her to ride the bike under his crotch:
"Ye Xiaomei, are you crazy? The person who first went to war with Ma Qi was your sister, and the child she was pregnant with was your man's. How come you didn't react at all?"
The county town of Qingyuan County is bustling in the morning.
At this moment, Wang Minzhi's voice was so loud that some people who were passing by to do business couldn't help but look over.
"Oh? Really? What reaction do you want from me?" Ye Xiao's eyes were as charming as stars and her tone was gentle.
But in Wang Minzhi's eyes, such gentleness seemed like she had seen the wrong person. She had changed. Just as her mother-in-law said, with the support of her husband's family, she could be wild, but she could not be a fool.
Wang Minzhi didn't recognize the child anymore. Seeing that she was about to leave, Wang Minzhi made up her mind - as long as she insisted that the child was Ma Qijun's, she would be able to escape death.
"You are such a stubborn girl who won't cry until you see the coffin. If my Xiaolin can't live well, you can forget about living a good life." Wang Minzhi pointed at Ye Xiaomei with gritted teeth.
Ye Xiaomei looked at the distorted face, which looked like a cornered dog that wanted to jump over the wall on the spot. Suddenly, she smiled lightly and walked over, saying something in the old lady's ear in a calm and relaxed voice.
When Ye Xiaomei straightened up again, Wang Minzhi's eyes widened and she trembled as she squeezed out a few words with difficulty: "How did you know?"
Ye Xiaomei raised her chin. She originally thought that as long as she trusted Brother Ma, she could let Auntie and her daughter do whatever they wanted. But this was too much of an insult.
"I saw with my own eyes what Xiaolin and Zhang Changjiang did in the wild woods. Auntie, look, there are so many people on the street. You want me to speak out loudly, right? Have you ever thought that if this matter gets out of hand, Sister Xiaolin's reputation will be completely ruined?"
Ye Xiaomei's voice was as gentle as ever, and no one could hear the slightest hint of anxiety or anger in her voice.
Wang Minzhi's heels were unsteady. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked around in shock. Sure enough, several people were looking at her and whispering. She lowered her voice and shouted angrily:
"Who told you? Was it that damn girl Wang Juan?" Otherwise how would she know that Xiaolin was pregnant with Zhang Changjiang's child. It couldn't be anyone else except her.
Wang Juan? Ye Xiaomei suddenly remembered this person. She used to come to the Ye family to look for Xiaolin, so Ye Xiaomei knew that she was a nurse in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the county hospital. It seemed that she also knew that the child was Zhang Changjiang's.
Ye Xiaomei rolled her eyes and made up her mind: "No."
Wang Minzhi fell into deep thought, muttering to herself - if not her, then who else could it be?
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Xiaomei rode her bicycle and left. When Wang Minzhi looked up, the girl had already left the county and set foot on the mountain road back to the village.
Wang Minzhi hurried home without stopping.
In the east room of the Ye family, when Wang Minzhi said this, Ye Xiaolin's face became particularly ugly.
Wang Minzhi frowned: "Xiao Lin, please tell me something. What should we do? You are pregnant, not just a farm child. The longer you wait, the more you will have no way out. Why don't we get an abortion?"
Ye Xiaolin clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, "No, you said Ye Xiaomei knew that my child was from the Zhang family, but that's nothing. If everyone in the village knew that my child was Ma Qijun's, what would be the point of relying on her mouth?"
Ma family.
When Ye Xiaomei came back, she found the door of the old house was wide open and Wang Lan was sitting on a chair in the main room in a daze.
There were pots and pans everywhere in the kitchen. It was obvious that mother-in-law had no mood to cook after coming back. Ye Xiaomei rolled up her sleeves and started to prepare without saying a word.
She brought a bowl of porridge and fried salted vegetables with minced meat to the old house and sat down: "Mom, eat something. Don't think too much. Brother Ma is not that kind of person."
Wang Lan, who had no appetite at first, suddenly looked up at her daughter-in-law after hearing this: "You, you also think Qijun would not do such a thing?"
As soon as she said this, Wang Lan's face turned red. It seemed that the girl had heard what she said at school. Now she suddenly felt embarrassed and smiled:
"Actually, I don't believe it either, but what if..." Wang Lan stopped talking suddenly. She was too confused. How could she say that in front of her daughter-in-law?
Wang Lan was just worried that Qijun had done something wrong in the past, but she didn't dare to admit it. This was a knot in her stomach.
"Nothing will happen, Mom. Just eat whatever you want." Ye Xiaomei pushed the bowl and chopsticks towards her mother-in-law, thinking that if Ye Xiaolin had good sense and didn't do such nonsense, she, Ye Xiaomei, could ignore it. After all, in her heart, living her life steadily was more important than anything else.
Who would have thought that before Wang Lan had even finished half a bowl of rice, she heard someone shouting outside:
"Is Auntie home?"
When Ye Xiaomei saw that it was Liang Hui, she quickly asked him to pour tea and bring a stool.
Liang Hui looked at Ye Xiaomei with a worried look on his face, and hesitated to say, "Xiaomei, I have something to talk to Auntie alone."
Ye Xiaomei responded and went to the kitchen.
"Auntie, what's going on? Why did Auntie Ye say that Xiaolin was pregnant with Brother Ma's child and went to my father to complain? Brother Ma is a soldier. If this matter gets out of hand, the impact will be more than just a little bit. Xiaomei is also affected. She just got married and Xiaomei is also affected."
"Plop!" The bowl in Wang Lan's hand fell to the ground, spilling the rice porridge all over the floor.
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