Even though Shen Qing followed Lin Ning's statement and asked Miao and Miao Hexiang to secretly hint in the village that he was doing business outside and got married - if the end of the world is counted as "doing business", this is not false.
But let alone the villagers, even Miao Hexiang and Wu Guixiang didn't quite believe it from the bottom of their hearts. But this is Qing Ge'er. Even if they don't believe it in their hearts, they have to protect him mindlessly. If Qing Ge'er says it is, then it is!
Other people in the village didn't dare to say anything in front of them, but they still gossiped about them secretly.
"I never thought about it before. Merchants are all strong men. Why would they look for a young man? Even if Shen Qing is strong, it's not convenient. Maybe he was just brought along on the road to relieve people's sexual desire..."
"I heard from the people at the dock that it's the same on the boats. The rich ones will hire two prostitutes on board... Don't tell me, in the brothels, beautiful girls are popular. If you want to do business, you really have to find someone like Shen Qing. Otherwise, you won't be able to stand the heat on the road and die of illness. It's expensive. Otherwise, he won't get this good thing. With his appearance, he will never be able to get the taste of a man in his life!!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, he might not even know whose baby he is carrying. He even said he got married outside. With his looks, who would marry him seriously if he has a respectable family?"
"No wonder you say that noble people value him so much. So this is how they value him. Hahahaha..."
The days of several guys headed by Wang Liuzi who have a bad relationship with Shen Qing have become increasingly difficult in the village over the past six months. Wu Guixiang is worthy of being the village chief's wife. She knows all the disputes in everyone's yard and only selects family members who have a conflict with them to work in the workshop.
Take Wang Liuzi for example. The one chosen to marry into his family was his aunt, who had been at odds with his mother ever since she got married. She also looked down on Wang Liuzi. Ever since she went to the workshop to earn money, Wang Liuzi's family has become less prominent in the family. His aunt is still not satisfied. Now, influenced by the old Lian family, she is clamoring to split up the family and leave them behind to pursue her own wealth!
The remaining few are in a similar situation.
New grudges and old hatreds piled up together, and Wang Liuzi talked about Shen Qing behind his back with a few friends. He was so angry that his teeth were itching! However, while they were talking, there was a person nearby who was keeping watch. He saw Ou Ge'er leading Lian Rong and the two aunts walking towards them from a distance, so he immediately stopped talking and pretended to be collecting firewood.
The current trend in the village! You have to say something gossipy about Shen Qing behind others' backs, it's like you've done something really bad! All the women and boys in the village are trying to curry favor with Shen Qing. Who knows which one of them is Shen Qing's informant?
When they first suspected Shen Qing was pregnant, they just "questioned" her a few times. Wu Guixiang immediately asked Zhao Shitou to come over and slap them each. Their ears still hurt! Zhao Shuanzi is also a useless person. Now he is controlled by his mother so much that he dares not even go out of the yard and has to work at home all day long!
Wang Liuzi was thinking like crazy in his mind, but he didn't dare to raise his head, for fear of arousing suspicion from Lian Ou and the others.
Ou Ge'er and Lian Rong walked by and looked at them suspiciously. After walking a little further away, Lian Rong whispered, "I always feel like they are saying bad things about Brother Qing behind his back."
Lian Ou frowned. He had the same feeling, but he couldn't say anything since he hadn't caught him red-handed. He knew that Qingger was pregnant, and the villagers couldn't stop talking about it. After all, Qingger's husband had never been to Lantang Village. Not holding the wedding banquet in the village is the least of the problems. Since he has never shown up, it is normal for those gossipy people in the village to think about all kinds of things.
Lian Ou pondered secretly, why not suggest to Qingge'er that they hire a respectable man in the county town, and have him pretend to be Qingge'er's man and live in the village for a few days? Qing Ge'er knows the county magistrate's brother and the big boss of the dental clinic. Isn't it easy to hire someone?
As they gradually walked away, Wang Liuzi and his men dared to raise their heads. They swallowed their saliva at Lian Ou's back and spat, making things even more obvious: "She was also a slut who had been touched by a man! Birds of a feather flock together, sluts only hang out with sluts!"
Unlike Shen Qing, Lian Ou is one of the most handsome guys in the village, and his appearance fits the current aesthetic of men. Some of them even wanted to marry Lian Ou, but how could Miao Hexiang look down on them? These rejected people now feel happy to see that Lian Ou has a bad reputation. They feel that Lian Ou, whom they once didn't deserve, has fallen into a quagmire. If they hadn't been married, they would definitely be able to... hehehe! Now even lotus root is not worthy of carrying their shoes!
"How dare he walk around here? He should be hanged, or at least too embarrassed to leave the house!"
"He goes to Miaoqian Village every few days, saying he wants to sell things. I think he might be like Shen Qing, who was touched by a man and went to Miaoqian Village to 'do business'..."
They said many obscene words to Lian Ou's back and made up some dirty rumors about Shen Qing. Someone who was watching from afar saw Miao Hexiang and Wu Guixiang passing by with a few women from the workshop. Several people immediately fell silent. This village is not safe anywhere, and there is no place to gossip. Wang Liuzi snorted coldly: "Let's go and sit in Uncle Youwei's yard!"
Seeing that Shen Qing's belly was getting bigger day by day, Miao and Shen Qing gradually became nervous. Shen Qing was giving birth for the first time, had no experience, and was always a little afraid of the unknown. Miao had suffered losses in childbirth, so she took people to clean up several empty rooms in the workshop next door, preparing to hire a few more midwives and a doctor. When the time came, they would stay in the village and be ready at any time.
"Brother Qing, look at this little dress. Is it pretty?" Miao Hexiang showed Shen Qing a piece of baby clothes made of goose yellow fine cloth. It was late autumn when Shen Qing gave birth, so she had to prepare small clothes and thick blankets for the baby. "I rinsed it three times and kneaded it until it was soft. This is the cloth that Rong Jieer personally picked out. She bought it with her own money. You and Yu Ge'er each get one."
It stands to reason that it is best for newborn babies to wear old clothes because they are softer. However, Lian Rong's old clothes from childhood were taken away by Wang and given to Lian Bao to wear. Miao Hexiang's family had no old clothes, so she could only wash the new clothes several times until they became worn out.
Lian Rong is usually noisy, but at this moment she was unusually shy, hiding half of her body behind Miao Hexiang. Ever since Qing Ge asked them to take the defective products to Miaoqian Village to sell, Lian Rong has saved a lot of money. This time, she selected the best and most expensive piece of cloth at the Miaoqian Village fair and bought it for Qing Ge. Qingge was good to her, and she remembered it all, but their family was much poorer than Qingge's, and the only thing they could do to repay Qingge was to show some appreciation.
Shen Qing naturally didn't say anything bad. This little dress feels soft to the touch, and the stitches are so fine that they don't scratch the skin at all. You can tell it was made with great care.
Several people praised Lian Rong, which made her even more embarrassed, and her little face turned red like a hawthorn. Speaking of hawthorn, Lian Rong said, "Brother Qing likes to eat sour things. My grandma dried a lot of hawthorns. I'll go home and get some to make water for Brother Qing to drink!" After saying that, she ran away.
"This girl has grown up and knows how to be shy. She is not as shameless as before." Miao Hexiang laughed at her and then talked about the comfortable life after the separation: "My mother-in-law is very good now. Yu Ge'er finally started to have morning sickness, so she dried a lot of hawthorns. Now she lives with us and never mentions the first wife again. I was worried that my parents-in-law would subsidize the first wife behind her back, but I didn't expect that the old couple really had no mercy."
The Lian family’s new house was completed before the autumn harvest and they moved in half a month ago. Wang brought Lian Bao and Lian Ye to the old lady's house and cried several times, but the old lady refused to see her. Miao Hexiang felt that Ye Ge'er was really pitiful, but she couldn't stop him because of Wang's concern. "Let's wait until Brother Ye gets married. If he marries close to us, we can let Brother Ou spend more time with him."
After chatting for a while, Wu Guixiang lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "Wang Liuzi's family is also going to split up. It will be in the next two days. Wang Liuzi's aunt has informed me that the old couple have already agreed. And the Chen family at the east end of the village said that if Wang Liuzi's family splits up well, they will also want a share."
In fact, there are more than just these two families in the village who are thinking about splitting up. Once the start is made, everyone else will rush to follow. Sure enough, a few days later, Wang Liuzi's family was in turmoil from morning to sunset, and finally the family was divided. However, Wang Liuzi’s aunt was not as lucky as Miao Hexiang. The old couple chose to live with the eldest wife, and only gave them very little, which was almost like leaving the house with nothing. Wang Liuzi's aunt was not discouraged. She took her husband and children back to her parents' home to live temporarily, and was already discussing with Wu Guixiang about buying a residential plot to build a new house.
A few days later, the Chen family at the east end of the village also divided up. After that it was the Liu family, the Sun family... Wu Guixiang visited Shen Qing's house much less often, as she was busy dealing with the division of the family property for each family!
When the family is divided, some are happy and some are sad. Those who were happy naturally became closer to Shen Qing, Wu Guixiang and others, while those who were sad began to hate them. In a sense, Zhao Youdang's initial worries were not wrong. The balance of the village was broken, and those parents who had raised their children with great difficulty and were waiting to exercise paternal authority suddenly had their power cut in half. How could they not be resentful?
But today, Zhao Youdang is no longer able to stop or reverse the situation. Undercurrents were surging beneath the seemingly peaceful surface of Lantang Village.
Once winter comes, Shen Qing may launch an attack at any time. Miao managed to get together five midwives and one doctor, which was a very lucky number. On the seventh day, Shen Qing ate two green apricots he found in the space in the morning, and suddenly he felt uncomfortable in his stomach.
Miao touched his stomach twice and found it felt hard, which meant he was about to give birth. Fortunately, it was still early, so Miao quickly called the maidservant at home, "Xi Que, go next door and call the midwife over!" She also told her little brother Haitang to go to the kitchen to boil water.
Xi Que ran out quickly. Her anxious look naturally attracted the attention of the workers in the workshop, and so the news of Qing Ge'er's incident spread quickly.
There were only four midwives living in the workshop, and one of them was Wei, the matchmaker from the village, who could also deliver babies. Xi Que was about to go to the Wei family to call for help, but Miao Hexiang stopped her: "Go and serve Qing Ge'er, I'll ask Lian Rong to go." Then she grabbed Lian Rong, who was trying to run to Shen Qing's house in a hurry: "You are an unmarried little girl, how can you go to this place? Go, go to the Wei family and call Wei the matchmaker!"
Lian Rong then left reluctantly.
The Wei family was not far away, so Ou Ge'er accompanied her. Ou Ge'er is an unmarried boy, so it is not appropriate for him to go to the delivery room. When they arrived at the Wei family and told the news to Wei the matchmaker, Wei naturally hurried to the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, but the brother and sister had nowhere to go, so they walked back reluctantly.
"Brother, what do you think Brother Qing will give birth to?" Lian Rong began to think wildly: "I think I should hope that Brother Qing will give birth to a boy, but what good is a boy! Sigh, but what Brother Qing will give birth to is not decided by me, so it's useless to hope for it."
Lian Ou was also very nervous and ignored Lian Rong's nonsense literature. However, it didn't take long before the brother and sister felt that they were too nervous. They seemed to be hallucinating. Why did it sound like someone was calling their names in a low voice?
After listening to the old man's stories so many times, Lian Rong shuddered and felt that this was not a good thing. She resisted the urge to look back, and just shrunk her neck and ran away.
It's broad daylight now, why is this happening? Where did these demons and monsters come from? Ahhhhhhh - Lian Ou pushed her and she turned around abruptly. She looked closely and saw a woman behind a big tree not far away, calling them softly and frequently.
It turned out to be Li Jiaofeng!
In Lian Rong's mind, this is no different from evil. She frowned and pulled Lianou to leave: "Come on, brother, ignore her, she is a bad woman!"
Hearing Lian Rong say this, Li Jiaofeng became a little anxious. She raised her voice a little, then quickly lowered it again, as if she was afraid of being discovered: "I really have something urgent! It's about Shen Qing!"
Lian Ou hesitated for a moment and looked around. Although there are not many people in this place, there is no place for people to hide except behind the big tree, so it is not dangerous. It wouldn't hurt to hear that, so Lian Ou still walked over.
Li Jiaofeng also looked around quickly. Seeing Lianou finally coming over, she quickly said, "Qing'er is in danger. Zhao Youwei has teamed up with Shen Zhigao to sink Qing'er into the pond and seize his property! You should go to Shiqu Village to find Sister Miao's family. It will be too late if you are late!"
After saying that, Li Jiaofeng turned around and ran away without caring whether Lian Ou heard it clearly or not. She sneaked out to report the news, if she was discovered she would be finished!
These words sounded like thunder to Lian Ou's ears, and he didn't react for a long time. When he came to his senses, Li Jiaofeng had already run a few feet away. Lian Ou couldn't help asking: "Why did you——"
Li Jiaofeng did not answer, nor did she stop. She didn't know why. It was obvious that she and Shen Qing were natural enemies. Even after they had worked together for a short time, Shen Qing refused to reconcile with her. But, but...just consider it as atonement for her own sins, consider it as accumulating good karma for her child, consider it as a way to thank Shen Qing for the silver, so that her child can gradually get better.
Just this time, Shen Qing’s fate depends on himself. Li Jiaofeng ran faster.
After Shen Zhiwei died, Shen Lingzhi also moved away from Anping County, and the life of the old Shen family became even more difficult. They sold a few more acres of land, and only the last two acres were left at home, which was barely enough for the family's food. But Shen Zhuang didn't work hard in the fields, and Shen Zhigao didn't do a good job either, so the harvest was not good.
Shen Zhigao once said to Shen's mother that they should just treat Miao and Shen Qing as dead, as if these two people did not exist in the world, and Shen's mother was not allowed to cause trouble for them. At that time, Shen Zhigao still felt a little superior as a father, as if he would lose his value if he asked Shen Qing for money.
But the hardships of life wore away the last bit of Shen Zhigao's backbone. He was madly jealous of Shen Qing and Miao. When he saw Miao walking around the village dressed up in fancy clothes, he would curse her madly at home, as if his divorced wife should stay by his side like a dead tree and not have a good life at all.
He wasn't that fond of Shen Qiang anymore. Sometimes she would cry and laugh while hugging Shen Qiang, and sometimes she would be so angry that she would wish to throw him to death if he cried. But in the end, she was reluctant to give up this boy who she had finally gotten.
Why? Why can my brother and that damn woman eat meat and drink honey in luxury, but I, as a father, can't even get enough to eat! Shen Zhigao is going crazy!
Just at this time, Zhao Youwei came to the door. The two of them, along with Old Lady Shen and Old Man Shen, who was lying on the kang but still had a clear mind, started muttering. Li Jiaofeng was almost scared to death when she heard this, but Shen Zhigao seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, his eyes shining like a wolf: "That's right, you are right... A boy who got pregnant before marriage really ruined the reputation of our Shen family and the atmosphere of our Lantang Village! He should be drowned in the pond according to the village rules. If he dies, I am his father, and everything he has should be mine... and his bitch mother too..."
Li Jiaofeng was standing by and hugged Shen Qiang in fear.
Speaking of Miao, Shen Zhigao paused, still retaining some rationality. He looked at Zhao Youwei: "If her brothers come again, you can't be like that wimp Zhao Youdang and let them bully others in the village!"
"Of course." Zhao Youwei smiled: "In our Lantang Village, how can people from other villages cause trouble? It's just my useless brother... Don't worry, I am different from my useless brother. As long as I become the village chief, our village can still live the same as before. The father will be the father, and the grandson will be the grandson for the rest of his life." Zhao Youwei's eyes were full of haze: "Women and boys, men don't bother with them and let them fight, they really take themselves seriously!"
There was also a gleam of light in Old Lady Shen's eyes. She is now very thin, with sunken cheeks. Old Man Shen is paralyzed in bed. Besides requiring her to serve him at all times, the paralyzed man also has a strange temper. The double torture of mental and physical torture makes her look like a dried corpse.
How she missed the old days. Sometimes she would see Miao in the village. The things she wore and the things she wore on her wrists were so good that even when her family was the richest, she had never lived such a good life. When Shen Qing and Miao die, all of those will be hers!
Li Jiaofeng looked at this room full of crazy people and felt that it was extremely unreal. Don’t they think there’s something wrong? She mustered up her courage and said, "There is a noble person behind Shen Qing... He also knows the son of the county magistrate and the big boss of the dental clinic in the city. That workshop is not his, it belongs to the noble person..."
"Shut up!" Shen Zhigao turned around and slapped her in the face, stunning Li Jiaofeng. The slap was so hard that half of Li Jiaofeng's face immediately swelled up to two fingers high.
Since Shen Zhiwei's death, Li Jiaofeng stopped pretending and was very insincere in front of Shen Zhigao. The two of them no longer had the deep love they once had. However, Shen Zhigao never hit her. He just scolded her from time to time, and she just treated it as the barking of a dog. This time, Li Jiaofeng was really stunned.
Zhao Youwei glanced at Li Jiaofeng out of the corner of his eye: She is not worthy of his gaze. Zhao Youwei really hated it when women interrupted men when they were talking. Unlike his useless brother, he spoiled his wife to no end. "The workshop's title deed and house deeds are all written in Shen Qing's name. If the nobleman says it's his, then it's his?"
Do you know what it means that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake? The workshop is in their village. Can an outsider take the workshop away? After killing Shen Qing and ransacking their house, all of Shen Qing's things will belong to them...As for the county magistrate's brother, he's just a brother, not a county magistrate, what can happen to him?
Zhao Youwei didn't think that the county magistrate would make a big fuss for a little brother's friend. The key point is that Shen Qing broke the village rules by getting pregnant before marriage. Their village does have the rule that unmarried pregnant women will be drowned in a pond. Although it has never been implemented, rules are rules. He dealt with people according to the village rules, and with Shen Zhigao, his biological father, in charge, the county magistrate couldn't find fault with it!
So everyone in the room was discussing excitedly how to divide Shen Qing's property. Zhao Youwei even wanted to replace his brother as the village chief... It was crazy, everyone was crazy! Li Jiaofeng was terrified until the news of Shen Qing's launch came out today. Shen Zhigao immediately went to find Zhao Youwei. Li Jiaofeng hesitated for a long time and ran out.
She didn't dare to go to Shen Qing's door for fear of being seen. She followed for a long time before she called Lian Ou and Lian Rong to a secluded place.
Lian Ou was still a little dazed, but Lian Rong had already pushed him hard: "Brother, go back to our house quickly and ask my eldest brother to go to Shiqu Village to report the news. Go and tell Aunt Chunlei, I'll find someone!"
After she finished speaking, she ran out of the village. Lian Ou was extremely anxious: "Where are you going?" Lian Rong did not answer him. Lian Ou stamped his feet and had no choice but to do as she said. He first went back to his own home to find Lian Shi and asked him to report the news. Then he rushed back to the courtyard at the foot of the mountain to find Miao and told her everything that Li Jiaofeng had said.
"What?!" Miao was stunned. Shen Zhigao and Zhao Youwei wanted to drown Shen Qing in a pond? Or was it Li Jiaofeng who came to report the news? She knows every word, so why can't she understand when they are put together?
Are you crazy?
She was still in shock, but she heard Shen Qing calling her from inside the house: "Mom!" Miao came to her senses and hurried into the house, only to see Shen Qing half-supporting her body, holding Matchmaker Wei's hand. Matchmaker Wei was extremely panicked, but she couldn't break free at all. The other four midwives watched the scene in horror, standing far away.
Miao was furious: "You are dead! Haitang!"
Haitang ran out from the kitchen in a hurry, and when she saw what was happening, she pinned Wei the matchmaker down with her hands. The other four midwives also came to their senses and rushed over to check on Shen Qing's condition.
It just started not long ago and I’m still in contractions, but it hurts sometimes and not sometimes. Just when the pain was over, Shen Qing held down Matchmaker Wei and didn't feel anything. Matchmaker Wei was disheartened when she was caught by Shen Qing. Now seeing Miao and the agile Haitang, she was so scared that she fell to her knees and said, "I was wrong, Qing'er, Chunlei, I'm not a human... But I had no choice, Zhao Youwei forced me to do it!"
When the name Zhao Youwei coincided with Lian Ou's words, Miao had to believe that this was true! No matter if they are crazy or not, they just want to take advantage of Qingge'er's childbirth and kill him while he is sick!
At this moment, there was a noise outside the courtyard gate.
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