Why is Chen Pan'er out arguing with someone instead of staying at home?
Gan Li was puzzled, but she immediately ran towards the source of the sound. As she turned a corner, the sound became clearer and clearer, and the view in front of her suddenly opened up.
She immediately spotted the small, thin figure confronting someone ahead. The girl was a head taller than Chen Pan'er, but she showed no fear, her eyes filled with anger as she glared at her.
"Are you being unreasonable? I clearly caught these in the stream, why are you taking them away?"
As she spoke, Gan Li looked down and saw that Chen Pan'er was holding a dripping bamboo basket, while another pair of hands were gripping the basket tightly on the other side.
"What makes you say you caught these? Besides, this is our Yuxi Village. What right do you, an outsider, have to fish in our village?"
There were some onlookers, adults who didn't mind, but quite a few mischievous children who joined in the commotion.
"Yes, yes, this is our village, and the fish in the stream are from our village too. Are you from our village?"
"It doesn't seem so, I've never seen her before."
"Then why are you stealing fish from our village?"
"I..." Amid the commotion, Chen Pan'er choked, her momentum clearly weakening.
Gan Li arrived at this moment, and with a stern face, she coldly shouted, "What's all the noise about?"
The original owner's appearance resembled that of the Gan family; he was very tall with large eyes, and when he glared, he looked quite intimidating.
Especially now that she looked serious and shouted sharply, she stunned everyone, and the scene immediately fell silent.
Upon hearing this voice, Chen Pan'er instinctively trembled. Looking up, she saw her mother give her a cold glance, and her heart sank. She hadn't shown any weakness when confronting so many people alone just now, but now she exuded a deep sense of dejection.
To maintain her composure, Gan Li dared not relax her expression, but she was also worried that Chen Pan'er might have been taken advantage of, so she quickly glanced at her. Little did she know that this one glance would make the girl overthink things.
She didn't notice Chen Pan'er's emotions, maintaining her fierce expression as she glanced around.
The noisy children who had been shouting earlier were now frightened and cowered behind their parents.
They were frightened, and the adults in the family were unhappy to see their child so frightened. One woman, taking advantage of being in their own home, preemptively attacked Ganli:
"What are you shouting for? What are you shouting for? Can you afford to compensate me if you scare my child? Besides, although what the children said was unintentional, it's not without reason. This is our village stream. If outsiders come to fish, isn't that stealing?"
Once she spoke, others echoed her, and some even recognized Gan Li, loudly mocking her:
"Oh my, isn't this Uncle Qingtian's traitorous daughter? What, not content with sucking her own family's blood, now she's trying to suck our village's blood too? She's here to fish today, are you going to move this whole stream to your Chen family's place someday?"
Gan Li: "..." These women are really ruthless. They only know how to insult people by pointing out their shortcomings. If the person here today was still the original owner, who was a bully in her own backyard, she would probably be scolded by these people and run away with her tail between her legs.
But sorry to say, now that she's here, the things she heard as a child were far worse than these, so she doesn't even care about this little bit.
Ganli took a deep breath and smiled at the woman who had spoken earlier:
"Oh, isn't this Sister Zhou? No wonder you can't stand me. Who in this village doesn't know that you're the most devoted to your own family? I heard that when you got engaged to my brother Ganwang, my aunt took ten taels of silver just for the bride price, not to mention the rest."
So when it came time for the wedding, you came empty-handed… Well, everyone knows you have many brothers, so you have to save money for your brothers' weddings, right? Sister Zhou is so considerate of our parents; she's truly filial.”
The "auntie" she was referring to was the woman's mother-in-law. Yuxi Village was a large village, and although there were several people with different surnames, the most common surname was Gan. They all traced their ancestry back to the same ancestor, so out of respect, Gan Li was also called "auntie."
Gan Li spoke with a sigh, seemingly saying only good things, but the person opposite her looked increasingly worse.
As soon as she finished speaking, a furious roar came from the house behind her:
"It's almost dark, and you still haven't cooked! Are you deliberately trying to starve my whole family so you can move all our belongings to your parents' house? Why am I so unlucky to have married such a traitor! You're going to empty our house..."
The woman surnamed Zhou glared fiercely at Gan Li, but dared not say anything. She hurriedly responded while pulling the child into the house.
After one left, Ganli turned her gaze to the first woman who had spoken.
The woman straightened her back and shouted, "When I married into this family, my family brought a huge dowry! Your tricks won't work on me!"
"Who cares how much your dowry is? Even if it's a lot, it doesn't necessarily mean I can spend it. You want to be reasonable, right? Well, I'll explain the reasoning to you properly!"
"What are you talking about? Am I wrong? This stream doesn't belong to our village?"
"This stream is indeed in our village, but without an upstream water source, how could it possibly appear out of thin air? According to your logic, without a stream there are no fish, and without an upstream water source, there is no stream! If we're really going to talk about it, then this stream should be the very upstream of the village. What does it have to do with your Yuxi Village?"
"You, you...you're just being unreasonable!" The woman was so stunned by her barrage of words that her mind went blank. She wanted to retort, but she had nothing to say, so she could only stammer out this one sentence.
Gan Li saw through her bluster and sneered, "Where did I say something wrong? You tell me the answer."
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