A few days later.
In the town's herbal medicine shop, Song Yinhua sold some herbs she had picked from the back mountain and used the money to buy a pound of pork to take home.
She had only taken a few steps with a pound of pork in her arms when Xie Daguang surrounded her, bowing and scraping as he joked with her, and making sure to apologize.
Song Yinhua knew perfectly well that this was a case of a weasel paying respects to a chicken—it meant no good.
When the butcher saw Xie Daguang lingering around another woman, the butcher's wife slammed her butcher knife down hard on the cutting board, startling her husband.
"It's not a bone, you don't need to chop it so hard! I'll do it, you can go home."
Li Er took the knife and set up his business.
With his beautiful wife arriving, the pork shop's business improved significantly. However, he could tell that some customers who came to buy pork were staring at his wife, looking her up and down, and occasionally making sarcastic remarks about her.
He usually lets his wife stay at home most of the time, only letting her help him when he gets up in the early morning to slaughter a pig.
As Zhao Huizhen walked past Xie Daguang, she gave him a disapproving look.
Xie Daguang helped Song Yinhua carry her things and help her with her basket, saying all sorts of nice things, all in an effort to start a relationship with Caixing, without even glancing at the butcher shop owner.
"As long as you marry Cai Xing to me, you'll be my older sister. I'll protect your family and never let anyone bully you." Xie Daguang was practically raising his hand to swear an oath.
Song Yinhua ignored him, but Xie Daguang blocked her way. "What do you want me to do to make you let me date Caixing?"
"You used a sedative on a dog to attack our family, and you even tried to do that kind of thing to Cai Xing. Luckily, I wasn't knocked unconscious by the sedative, and my dad and Bao Gen came home in time, so you didn't succeed. How dare you say these things to me?"
"That's because I love Cai Xing too much!"
"Get out of here!" Only a fool would believe that.
Song Yinhua strode away, and Xie Daguang, unwilling to give up, chased after her.
To the butcher's wife, this scene meant the two were having an affair.
When Song Yinhua returned home, she saw Qiao Guilan and Tang Suxiang chatting in the courtyard.
As soon as they saw her return, the two of them fell silent.
Tang Suxiang called out her granddaughter's nickname a few times, and Song Yinhua saw her granddaughter run out of the house. The grandmother and granddaughter left in a hurry.
When Song Yinhua returned to her room, she found it ransacked, as if thieves had broken in.
"Mom, who came into my room? Has a thief broken into our house?"
"I've been home all morning, no one has come into your room." Qiao Guilan came in and saw clothes and pillows scattered everywhere, and she became worried. "Quickly check if anything is missing? Where did you put the money from selling the old hen? Was it stolen?"
"Don't worry about the money, I've hidden it in a very safe place."
Song Yinhua tidied up the room and found that nothing was missing.
Qiao Guilan was puzzled. "Today, only your aunt and her granddaughter came to our house to play for a while. Your aunt didn't even come inside. Her granddaughter is only a few years old. How could she possibly come into your house and rummage through your things!"
On the other side, Tang Suxiang asked her granddaughter, "Have you found it?"
The granddaughter shook her head.
Tang Suxiang looked at her father, "We couldn't find him."
Grandpa Tang said, "We'll find another opportunity to look for it. We must find Erbao's jade pendant!"
"Dad, could there be a mistake? Is the jade pendant that Erbao is wearing real?"
"I'm sure I'm not mistaken." Old Master Tang didn't say much in front of Tang Suxiang. After entering the inner room, he quietly told Tang Su'e, "Find an opportunity this afternoon to go to Erzhuang's house and search again. If we can't find that jade pendant, our good days are over."
"Dad, how can you tell this jade pendant is fake? It looks the same to me as before."
Old Master Tang craned his neck to look in the direction of the main room, and only when he saw that there was no one else did he tell the truth.
“There used to be a space hidden inside the jade pendant, filled with countless treasures. All the antiques and paintings that our family sold before were taken from there. There were also many grains and fruit trees growing inside, inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Even if our family lived for hundreds of generations, we still wouldn’t be able to spend it all.”
Old Master Tang was heartbroken to think that such a treasure containing mountains of gold and silver had disappeared.
“I’ve tried dozens of times to get the jade pendant on Erbao, but it just won’t go in. It’s a fake.”
Tang Su'e asked in surprise, "Dad, this jade pendant is so magical, why didn't you tell me sooner? I wouldn't have let Erbao bring it out to play!"
"I'm just afraid you won't keep your mouth shut and let outsiders know that our family has mountains of gold and silver. Then how can our family have a peaceful life?"
Grandpa Tang said again, "Su'e, that jade pendant is going to be left to you. You can't let your older sisters and your brother know about this, lest they fight you for it, understand?"
Tang Su'e nodded shrewdly.
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Machinery factory.
Han Zhiyuan was eating in the factory canteen.
The gatekeeper called out to him from afar, "Zhiyuan, a woman is looking for you!"
A colleague joked, "Zhiyuan, you're really popular with women. Your wife ran away, and now a woman is coming to you."
"Eat your food!" Han Zhiyuan followed the gatekeeper out and saw the woman waiting outside. "Second Sister-in-law Li?"
Zhao Huizhen, the owner of the pork shop, is Li Er's wife and Xie Daguang's lover. Outsiders call her Li Er's wife.
"What do you want?" Han Zhiyuan remembered that he and she had never crossed paths, whether in his past life or this one.
Zhao Huizhen didn't mince words and told everyone that she had seen Xie Daguang and Song Yinhua at the market, concluding that the two were having an affair.
Han Zhiyuan laughed. Xie Daguang was in love with Song Yinhua's fourth sister, Song Caixing. He was getting close to Song Yinhua, definitely to help himself.
"Da Guang has been released?"
Zhao Huizhen didn't answer, but kept saying that Xie Daguang and Song Yinhua had a close and ambiguous relationship.
"That's not true. Do you think I don't know Da Guang's character? Besides, it's Da Guang's freedom to be with whomever he wants. What does it have to do with me?" Han Zhiyuan didn't want to chat with her, afraid that the people in the factory would see them and cause gossip, so he was in a hurry to leave.
“You want to marry Song Yinhua to help you clean up your messes. Da Guang told me all about it.”
Zhao Huizhen's words provoked Han Zhiyuan, who yelled at her, "What a mess! Watch your mouth!"
"Since you know Xie Daguang's character, you should know he's a lecherous scoundrel. He's never picky about women. When he's with me, he's thinking about Song Caixing, saying he likes her, but he's also flirting with Song Yinhua..."
"Are you done talking? If you are, hurry up and leave. I don't have time to listen to your nonsense." Han Zhiyuan turned around and was about to go back to eat. He was annoyed that Xie Daguang had such a foul mouth and couldn't keep his mouth shut. He even told people such secret things.
Seeing that Han Zhiyuan was about to leave, Zhao Huizhen hurriedly said, "I can help you marry Song Yinhua!"
Han Zhiyuan suddenly stopped in his tracks. "You'll help me?"
"I've heard Xie Daguang talk about your family's affairs before. Why go through so many twists and turns to marry Song Yinhua? Just lure her out, have sex with her, and then have someone catch her in the act. Wouldn't she marry you then? Who else could she marry? The gossip in the village would drown her."
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