One of the eggs in the camp had no idea that after the Queen summoned her underlings, she went to gather gossip.
The excitement factor has been activated and I can't stop.
My brain hasn't been studying gossip for a few days, and if I don't learn it soon, it'll rust.
But instead of going to the Kong family or the Zhu family, she stopped at the family quarters when she was looking for Liu Daya.
The younger brothers were completely bewildered.
They understand that listening to gossip means listening to those big mouths spouting nonsense.
But why did the Queen say that we should use our brains to learn gossip?
How do I learn?
What's the use of learning this?
"Where should we listen?" Li Zixing asked.
"Let's go listen downstairs at Little Egg's house."
Diligent military wives usually finish their housework in the morning. This time is when lazy people do their housework, and most of them gather in the washroom to wash clothes.
With no jobs and no farm work, there are quite a few lazy people in the family compound.
Where there are people, there is gossip. That day, when she was perched on a tree, she saw several people chatting and gossiping while washing clothes.
She heard them saying they were stupid, so she didn't follow suit.
She's not stupid at all; she's very smart. It would be foolish of her to learn from her.
Liu Daya's home is on the third floor, and they can't push their cart up, so they squat next to the water room on the first floor.
Li Zixing's younger brother was sent by the Queen to call Liu Daya's younger brother.
Liu Daya was taking care of her younger brother, who was only two years old. It was inconvenient to take him out to play, so she had to give up on that idea.
Moreover, her younger brother had a bad temper and always hit Daya. He would blame Daya when he fell down. Li Zixing didn't like children with bad tempers.
"Your Majesty, Da Ya is busy. Let's listen to it ourselves."
Her Majesty the Queen thought for a moment, nodded, and began to concentrate on learning the gossip.
There were three military wives washing clothes in the washroom. One was in her early twenties, another was in her mid-twenties, and the third was in her late twenties. They had just formed a couple.
"Hey, have you heard? The idiot from Battalion Commander Xie's family just did something big again?"
"What important matter?"
"She snatched all the marbles from all the children in the compound and made them cry."
"What? How could she do this?"
"They're spoiled by their superiors, so they act like they own the place."
"Hey, keep your voices down. If someone hears this and it gets back to the leaders, your men's allowances might be in jeopardy."
"What's there to be afraid of? At this time, only we will come to the water room. If you ask me, we shouldn't have brought that idiot back this morning after she ran away. We should have just let her fend for herself."
"Yes, I think so too. I heard that the reason Chief Xiao issued that warning was because that fool was bullied by Aunt He... blah blah blah."
Outside the washroom, Li Zixing, Shen Qin, and Shen Zhao looked at the person who was pouting one moment and then looking excited the next, and were a little confused.
Your Majesty, they're talking about you, why are you still happy?
They said those gossipers were talking nonsense, and asked if they should advise the Queen to leave since she wouldn't listen.
The Queen is so powerful, she even gave them marbles. She's a good Queen. How could those people criticize her?
Of course, Her Majesty was unhappy. She wanted to hear gossip, not gossip about herself.
She understood; they were insulting her.
To keep her mind sharp, she read along first, then went back to complain later.
Little Egg said they were all afraid of her Egg. Egg Mom and Egg Dad said if anyone bullied her, she should tell them and they would seek justice for her.
And then there's Dandan from Ding Dandan's family; she also said things like Dandan's parents.
Little Egg only has one egg, but she has several eggs to tattle on.
The three women inside got more and more excited as they talked, completely unaware that their husbands' allowances were waving goodbye to them.
A military wife whispered, "Hey, is that medicine effective for your stomach? If it is, please tell me, I'd like to try it too."
“I only gave birth to a girl, and my mother-in-law keeps urging me to have a grandson, but my pregnancy has stopped, which is very annoying.”
“I don’t know either. I’ve been taking it for two months. My husband is quite capable, but my belly just won’t budge.”
"Oh, has your man been quite something these days? My man comes home like a dead dog, doesn't want to move at all, let alone do *that* kind of thing."
"Hehe, my man gets tired too. I just nag him. If he doesn't move, I do."
"Oh right, how come I didn't think of that? I can tease my man tonight too."
"No way! Do you want to work your men to death? Besides, I've heard that if men are overworked, their 'things' won't be as good, and they won't be able to have sons."
"Oh? Really? That won't do, I want to have a son."
“My husband’s mother is so biased towards the first wife, just because I didn’t give birth to a son, while the first wife gave birth to three sons.”
"Really? I've never heard of that before. If that's the case, I really can't go through with it. I don't want my first child to be a money-losing baby."
"Actually, it's good to have a daughter as your first child, because when you have another child, someone will be there to help take care of the baby."
“Look at my family, the first one was a boy, and taking care of a child is exhausting. The second one was a girl, so I didn’t have to worry much. When the third one was born, my daughter took care of it, and now I can finally relax and be lazy.”
"That makes sense, but a poor child has no status at home, because the mother-in-law is biased."
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Li Zixing and Shen Qin were completely confused. Apart from the earlier remarks criticizing the Queen, they didn't understand much of what came afterward.
What I could understand was that they couldn't have children and didn't want to have girls.
Boys don't really care much about gossip, but their queen loves to hear it, so they just go along with her.
Moreover, the Queen's eyes lit up as she listened, growing brighter and brighter, as if she were the one who was about to give birth.
Their legs are numb from squatting, is the Queen's leg numb yet?
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