Chapter 73 Peeping
"Sister, judging from this, your skills haven't diminished!"
Su Tong reached out and patted Wu Qiuyu on the head, saying:
"What? Should I still be proud of myself?"
Wu Qiuyu knew that her cousin was different now. She would no longer be sad about these things and was no longer afraid of teasing her.
At this moment, he also laughed and said:
"If it's really because of you that he got into trouble, it's not your fault! It's probably because Aunt Dequan and Aunt Dayou said bad things about you behind your back!"
Li Cuixiang just came into the room to get something, and when she heard Wu Qiuyu's words, she responded.
"You are talking about Dequan's family and Dayou's family! A few days ago, they said on the dam that Tongya had brought bad luck to Wu Erlai's mother, and that she deserved to be blamed. They were talking so loudly that many people heard it!"
Su Tong now became serious, "Second Aunt, are you saying that they really said bad things about me, and then these things happened at home?"
Li Cuixiang was originally rummaging through the kimchi jars in the corner. She stood up and looked at Su Tong, her face somewhat embarrassed as she said:
"Tongya, you can't blame Second Aunt for this. In this village... everyone knows that you are unlucky! Whoever is close to you will be unlucky! Whoever says something bad about you will be unlucky! Of course... you are not unlucky with your own family, this has also been verified! So Second Aunt has no intention of targeting you!"
Li Cuixiang's attitude towards Su Tong has improved a lot in the past few days. Not only because she can give her five yuan a month, but also because she never comes home empty-handed. In addition to the tempting white pork belly on the first day, there are also eggs and white noodles later...
Anyway, she didn't have any jinx towards her family, at least she had cursed her in private for so long and she hadn't seen any retribution...
Now, for the sake of these things, she would not confront her in person. Those things cost a lot of money!
Su Tong responded casually: "It's okay! Second Aunt! They can say whatever they want, I won't take it to heart!"
His expression gradually became serious.
Li Cuixiang breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Su Tong didn't mind. The girl bumped into the pillar and seemed to have become more capable. She also became more reasonable and no longer listless. She was much more likable than before.
Su Tong didn't mind, so Li Cuixiang started talking.
"You only know about Dequan's family and Dayou's family. The grandmother of Zhuzi on the dam was also killed by Tongya before. This time, all the vegetables in her garden died."
Li Cuixiang has a gossipy nature and now she is interested. She said mysteriously:
"When the Dequan family and the Dayou family were scolding Tongya that day, Zhuzi's grandmother also followed suit. I was thinking at the time, let you scold, and when Tongya uses her power later, you will all be in trouble!"
"mom--"
Seeing that her mother had no regard for Su Tong's feelings, Wu Qiuyu hurriedly spoke out to stop her.
Li Cuixiang glared, "What! I didn't say anything wrong. Didn't they all have bad luck later? When I heard that Dequan's family and Dayou's family were in trouble, I immediately went to ask about Zhuzi's family. They said they were fine. I was wondering why it didn't work this time? As a result, the next day, Zhuzi's grandmother found that all the vegetables in the field had died. They had planted a lot of cabbages and radishes in their backyard! Almost all of them were dead!"
Wu Qiuyu looked at Su Tong somewhat awkwardly.
Su Tong smiled, "It's okay! It's good that Second Aunt talked about it, otherwise I wouldn't know about these things!"
It was a rare opportunity for Li Cuixiang to have such a peaceful chat with this unlucky niece. Now that she was in high spirits, she started gossiping about the village's family scandals without caring whether Su Tong really wanted to listen or not.
The days are short in winter. By the time we left Wu Qiuyu's house, it was already dark and the air was bone-chillingly cold.
Su Tong followed the example of the locals and put his hands inside the sleeves of his cotton-padded jacket, then walked leisurely towards the cowshed.
Thinking about what Li Cuixiang said about retribution from gods and ghosts, I couldn't help but laugh.
Judging from the last time Aunt Wangcai was thrown, these were obviously man-made...
Someone dug up the path that Aunt Wangcai often walked on, causing her to break her leg.
Someone threw the meat and chicken that Aunt Dequan and Aunt Dayou had hung out to dry into the pit toilet.
Someone must have spilled something on Grandma Zhuzi’s vegetable garden…
As for those things that happened earlier, I'm afraid there are traces of them.
But who is this person?
Upon closer thought, Wu Tong's reputation really started to get ruined when her first fiancé died in a fall.
Since the rumor that she is unlucky in marriage spread slowly, the people around her have also started to suffer "retribution". It has been almost three years. What is the purpose of this person doing these things so persistently?
To vindicate her?
But the fact is that her reputation has been getting worse and worse because of these things, the rumors have been getting more and more outrageous, and she has been increasingly excluded by everyone. It's really for her own good that people should have come out to clarify things for her a long time ago, or they should have stopped a long time ago!
What if they wanted to ruin her reputation? But her reputation is already so bad, and it hasn't benefited anyone?
Su Tong couldn't figure it out, but since he had discovered the clues, he would never sit idly by.
After returning to the courtyard, I first boiled a large pot of hot water on the stove.
After Ma Daming helped her repair the roof of the west room, she sorted out the sundries in the west room, leaving a few usable items and cleared out the rest.
Then a brazier was lit at one end of the room, and a curtain was drawn on the other side, with a large bathtub placed inside.
This bathtub was made with the help of Zheng Liangping, and Su Tong also designed it himself.
A plug was added to the bottom, and a bamboo tube with broken nodes was used to pass through the hole in the wall and connect to the backyard. The water can be drained by pulling out the plug, and the floor inside the house will not get wet. However, the materials and labor costs are not small.
Ma Daming thought it was not worth it, but Su Tong still insisted on it. In this era, other aspects were backward, but getting a bathtub for a bubble bath was her last insistence.
The trouble was that the bathtub was a bit big, and Su Tong had to run back and forth several times with a small bucket before it was almost full of water.
Su Tong checked the courtyard gate, locked the door of the main room, and then went into the west room with his clothes.
As soon as I took off my cotton-padded jacket and sweater, I felt the cold air rushing towards me. It was only thanks to Ma Daming that he helped to seal the cracks in the wall, otherwise it would have been even colder.
When she was about to take off her sweater, her professional sensitivity made her feel that something was wrong. She always felt as if someone was watching her. She turned around suddenly and looked at the wall behind the bathtub.
It was just a mud wall without even a window, and the light was dim, so nothing was found.
She paused, then quickly pulled her cotton jacket over and put it on, then went out the back door carrying the oil lamp.
There used to be a vegetable garden behind the house, which was symbolically surrounded by a fence made of waist-high branches, so it could be considered a backyard.
Su Tong walked to the wall of the west room with a kerosene lamp and actually found a series of footprints at the base of the wall!
A series of men's footprints!
The shoe print is wide, with the common pattern of Jiefang shoes. Look at the direction of the footprint...
The man had already run over the fence in panic. The ground outside was not as soft as the vegetable field, and the direction of his footprints could not be seen clearly after they left the fence.
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