"The clothes have been washed, I just want to wash the sheets," said Lin Xiangyi.
"Then give me the bed sheets and I'll wash them for you. You just rest at home," said Xie's mother.
Ever since Lin Xiangyi and Xie Qingxiao went out to earn money, Xie's mother no longer despised Lin Xiangyi for being spoiled and Xie Qingxiao for being lazy. She would take the initiative to take care of the housework, such as cooking. Except for the lunch, all other meals were cooked by Xie's father and mother.
But how could Lin Xiangyi feel embarrassed to help Xie's mother wash the sheets? Not to mention that Xie's mother was her mother-in-law, just saying that the sheets... were very dirty, she was embarrassed to let Xie's mother wash them, so she said:
"No need, Mom. I'm just bored and I'm just going out for a walk."
When Xie's mother heard this, she thought it made sense. Ever since Xiangyi got married, she had been busy with business and had hardly gone out, so it would be nice for her to take a walk around the village.
"Okay then," Xie's mother said with a smile.
Lin Xiangyi took the bed sheet and went to the well to wash clothes with Xie's mother.
The wells in the village are all public, and the openings are built particularly large. Because of this, in order to prevent people from falling in when drawing water, the well mouths are square. It is not easy to fall in when standing on either side of the corner to draw water.
Next to the well, there are several small square pools built to make it convenient for villagers to wash clothes.
Generally, the people who come here to wash clothes are women, and this place has become a paradise for gossip. When you come here every morning, you can definitely hear the latest gossip in the village.
The latest gossip in the village is that Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi are out doing business.
The villagers knew about it the first day they went out to do business.
Everyone was very surprised at the time, and they asked the same question as Xie's father and mother had when they first learned that Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi were going to do business: Can they do business now?
As the days passed, Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi were fine, and they began to believe that they could really do business outside.
Then some people speculated how much money Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi made from their business outside.
Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi ran around the county town all day, but they couldn't catch the couple.
When asked about Xie's father and mother, although Xie's mother wanted to tell everyone how much money Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi had earned and slap the faces of those who had said her son was useless in the past, she held back.
Every household in their village is poor, and some people may not even earn a hundred yuan in a whole year.
Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi can earn a month's salary of others in one day. If they tell others about it, won't they be hated?
They said they could barely make ends meet.
The people in the village went to ask Aunt Xie and Su Xiaomei whether Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi had asked them to work.
Aunt Xie and Su Xiaomei were not stupid. They did not mention the issue of wages at all. They just said that they were all family members and it was nothing wrong for them to come and help.
Of course the villagers didn't believe it.
Today, when they saw Lin Xiangyi coming to the well to wash clothes, they took the opportunity to ask her.
It was even more impossible for Lin Xiangyi to show off his wealth, and he basically just brushed it off so that no one could find any loopholes.
So much so that Xie's mother, who was listening nearby, admired her very much and secretly gave Lin Xiangyi a thumbs up.
Lin Xiangyi laughed, and saw Xie's mother's eyes light up, "Huifen, are you here to wash clothes too?"
Lin Xiangyi followed her line of sight and found a woman who looked a few years older than Xie's mother. Her clothes were very worn out and her face looked a little haggard. She smiled at Xie's mother and said, "Yes."
"Come here, come and wash over here, I want to talk to you," Xie's mother said enthusiastically, pointing to a small pool next to her.
But the other party didn't buy it. He carried the clothes in the basket to the pool farthest from Xie's mother and said with a wry smile: "The pool over there is too small. I have a lot of clothes. I'd better wash them here."
Lin Xiangyi looked at her clothes carefully and found that she had a large basket of clothes, which was stuffed very tightly. It was obvious that she was washing clothes for the whole family.
"But I want to chat with you," Xie's mother said with a smile, "How about you, are you free later? Come to my house and we two old sisters can chat. By the way, Pengfei is here too."
Who knew that when the woman heard that Zhang Pengfei was there, her face suddenly changed, with fear and nervousness, and finally gritted her teeth and said: "I'm busy, don't look for me."
It's not that Xie's mother couldn't see that Liu Huifen didn't want to pay attention to her from the beginning, but she pretended not to see it. Now that Liu Huifen rejected her so coldly, she couldn't pretend anymore and forced a smile: "Well, okay."
Lin Xiangyi looked at her mother-in-law, then at the woman, her face full of confusion. On the way back from washing the clothes, she couldn't help but ask, "Mom, who was that woman just now?"
"She is Pengfei's mother," Xie's mother said with a sigh.
"Zhang Pengfei's mother?" Lin Xiangyi suddenly remembered what Xie Qingxiao had said about Zhang Pengfei's life experience, and said hesitantly: "I know that Pengfei was brought here by his mother after she remarried, but did anything happen between them?"
She saw that Zhang's mother was very scared when she mentioned Zhang Pengfei. A mother looked so scared when she mentioned her own child. Something big must have happened between them.
"A lot of things did happen, but I don't know much about the details," said Xie's mother. She was not familiar with Zhang's mother, and they only greeted each other when they met. "I only know that Pengfei was a very rebellious child since he was young. I heard that he often stole his stepfather's money and beat his stepbrothers and stepsisters. Once he even... molested his stepsister, so he was kicked out of the house."
Lin Xiangyi!!!
No wonder Zhang Pengfei has to live in the county town. I have been working at their house these days and I haven’t seen him come home.
"Is there any misunderstanding?" Lin Xiangyi hesitated and said, "I don't think Pengfei is that kind of person."
"Really?" Xie's mother said, "In the past, people in the village said that Pengfei was a bad kid, and I believed it. After spending the past few days with him, I found that he is not a bad person and is a good person. But it is not a good idea for him to continue to quarrel with his family like this. I don't know where to live outside. It's too pitiful. So when I saw his mother just now, I wanted to talk to her about this matter, but I didn't expect... Oh."
What Xie's mother didn't say was that she used to hate Zhang Pengfei, and even Xie Qingxiao's reputation in the village was at least half ruined because of hanging out with Zhang Pengfei. She didn't want Xie Qingxiao to play with him, but Xie Qingxiao didn't listen to her.
Even a few days ago, when she learned that Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi were looking for Zhang Pengfei to do business, she also wanted to talk to Lin Xiangyi to see if they could stop looking for Zhang Pengfei.
Now she was just glad that she didn't tell Xiangyi.
"..." Lin Xiangyi sighed and said, "Forget it, Mom, this matter is a bit sensitive. Zhang Pengfei's mother is like that... It's probably a thorn in Zhang Pengfei's heart. Mom, don't get involved. It's easy to please both sides."
"You're right," Xie's mother sighed. She was soft-hearted for the moment, but after thinking about it, it was really difficult to manage, so she decided to just forget it.
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