"Don't talk nonsense!" Tang Suxiang's finger almost poked Song Yinhua's face. "My Erniu is not a jinx."
“When I was little, I never heard anyone say that I was a jinx. It only started to spread after I fell into the cave and picked up that jade pendant when I was twelve years old.” Song Yinhua started crying again as she spoke. “Song Erniu and I were born in the same year, only two months apart. My grandparents died shortly after Song Erniu was born. Even if I were a jinx, Song Erniu would be the one who fits the description more!”
The surrounding villagers thought it made sense!
Tang Suxiang angrily retorted, "Song Yinhua, my Erniu is already married. What has she done to wrong you? Why are you slandering my Erniu like this? I think you're just jealous that my Erniu married into a wealthy family!"
Han Zhiyuan was furious. "The old man in the family died after your daughter was born, so it must be because your daughter brought bad luck to him! And you've been spreading rumors about Song Yinhua behind her back, slandering her as a jinx who caused her grandparents' deaths. That's so vicious..."
"When did I spread that rumor?" Tang Suxiang shouted, pointing at Han Zhiyuan. "When did I ever say that Yinhua was a jinx? Don't slander people, or you'll get slapped!"
"Are you afraid of me?" Han Zhiyuan didn't live in this village and wasn't afraid of her family causing him trouble. "A few years ago, when my mother was playing cards at the Han Family Village store, you often went there to play. My mother heard you say it with her own ears. There were many people there at the time. If you don't admit it, we'll call all those people over right now."
Tang Suxiang was speechless for a moment.
Before her granddaughter was born, she often went to the card-playing den in Hanjiacun to pass the time by playing a few rounds and chatting casually at the card table.
"That was all just idle chatter." Tang Suxiang was clearly no longer as confident as before.
Song Yinhua pressed her advantage, "It was only after I picked up the jade pendant that rumors spread that I was a jinx. Now you and Uncle are slandering me again, accusing me of stealing the jade pendant and ruining my reputation behind my back. People who don't know the situation might think that you, Aunt, are deliberately ruining my reputation and spreading rumors that I am a jinx in order to covet the jade pendant I picked up!"
She only learned about these things from her mother, Qiao Guilan, a few years after she married Han Zhiyuan in her previous life.
In her previous life, Cai Xing experienced a difficult childbirth, and the doctor recommended a cesarean section.
Her mother-in-law, Huo Jinfeng, was reluctant to spend money, so Xie Daguang listened to his mother in everything.
He himself didn't have any money, and the little he had was spent on food and drinks with others.
After repeated urging from the doctor, Xie Daguang went to a small shop near the hospital and used a public phone to call Song Hanwen's elder brother, asking him to tell his mother, Qiao Guilan, to bring money to the town's health center.
I don't know what's wrong with Song Hanwen. He agreed on the phone but didn't mention anything after hanging up.
Xie Daguang waited and waited but no one came, so he had no choice but to call the public phone at the Songzhuang Village store.
The mother, Qiao Guilan, had no money; the family's finances were entirely controlled by the father.
By the time her mother finally managed to borrow the money and rushed to the clinic, it was too late.
On the night Cai Xing died, Xie Daguang and his mother went to Song Hanwen's house and made a scene.
Song Hanwen swore to God that this had happened, saying that he had never received a call from Xie Daguang and that he did not know that Caixing had a difficult childbirth.
When Song Erzhuang, the father, returned home from work, he learned that his fourth daughter had died. He rushed up and grabbed Song Hanwen, asking him why he hadn't helped her.
The two sides started fighting.
My father is straightforward and stubborn; in a fit of anger, he blurted out everything.
Previously, my mother managed all the family's money. Later, when Baogen broke his leg and needed money for surgery, my mother took the money back to her parents' home and gave it to my seventh aunt to spend. After that, my eldest uncle and third aunt secretly advised my father to take control of the finances himself, so that my mother would not use the money to subsidize her parents' home again.
His father trusted his eldest brother very much.
The eldest uncle even suggested that their mother, Qiao Guilan, be made the bad guy, so much so that she and her younger siblings once thought that their mother was greedy for their wages and refused to pay them back.
When Cai Xing had her accident, her father was building a factory in town. Her mother couldn't find her father, so she went to the neighbors to borrow money.
My uncle's family was the first in the village to buy a motorcycle, and Song Hanwen was also the first person in the village to own a mobile phone.
The mother thought she had a good relationship with her uncle's family, so she went to borrow money, but she was turned away.
She had no choice but to go from house to house to borrow money, borrowing tens of yuan from one family and a hundred yuan from another. By the time she finished borrowing the money, she had already wasted a lot of time.
He had always believed that his older brother was good to him and that his father was on his side. After learning these things, his father started fighting with his older brother.
Fearing that her husband would suffer, Tang Suxiang picked up a leftover brick from building the pigsty and smashed it open on her father's head.
Both parties went to the police station.
After this incident, my parents discussed getting all the money they had lent out back, but neither my uncle nor my aunt acknowledged it.
The father couldn't produce any evidence either.
In rural areas, relatives often don't have the habit of writing IOUs when lending money to each other.
My father is simple-minded and values his own brothers. If anyone mentions me writing an IOU to him, he'll get angry.
This incident shocked my father. He never imagined that his closest and most trusted older brother and third sister would treat him this way.
This really pierced his heart like a hornet's nest.
The father was so angry that he complained everywhere and threatened to fight his elder brother's family, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Baogen's wife, who thought he was causing trouble.
The mother, Qiao Guilan, sided with her son and daughter-in-law, telling him to shut up.
This caused chaos in the family, with arguments happening every few days.
Later, my father suddenly stopped talking, no longer complaining or arguing.
When her mother got up in the morning, she saw her father hanging from the roof beam, his body completely cold.
Being betrayed by your most trusted relative is probably a sign of depression.
But in those days, people in the countryside didn't understand anything about depression; they just thought that the father was making trouble for no reason.
There was a lot of gossip in the village about my father's death.
Bao Gen's wife's family and Song Hanwen's wife's family live in the same village.
When Song Hanwen's wife, Ding Xiaofen, returned to her parents' home, she often talked about her husband's family.
Ding Xiaofen told her mother that her mother-in-law and third aunt often laughed at her second uncle's family for being poor, saying that her second uncle's eldest daughter was a jinx who married into a poor family with a paralyzed father and three children, and suffered as a stepmother.
She also mentioned that the rumor of her being a jinx was first spread by her mother-in-law.
All because of a jade pendant that they found.
She said she heard all of this from her man himself.
Ding Xiaofen's mother was also a loose tongue, and all these words were spread out. Coincidentally, Baogen's wife's family overheard them, and they reached the ears of her mother, Qiao Guilan.
The mother didn't dare to go to her uncle's house to argue, but she was really angry, so she specially came to Han Zhiyuan's house and told her daughter everything.
In her past life, after learning all this, she had no time to care about it and could only let it go.
But she had no intention of letting this go so easily!
"Dear uncles, aunts, grandpas and grandmas, I would like to ask you to be my witnesses tonight."
Song Yinhua wiped away her tears and spoke loudly.
“You all saw what happened here just now. My great-uncle lied to my dad, saying that the jade pendant I found in the cave behind the mountain was a fake, but he kept it for himself. Then my aunt started smearing me all over the village, calling me a jinx, and now she’s accusing me of stealing the jade pendant and ruining my reputation. She’s trying to extort money from my family. Isn’t she just jealous because I’ve worked for ten years and earned a little money?”
"Song Yinhua, don't talk nonsense. We didn't extort your family, nor are we after your meager salary!"
Tang Suxiang was unwilling to take on this responsibility. With so many villagers present, if she admitted it, her reputation would be ruined, and she would be constantly criticized in the village!
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