"What happened next? What happened next?"
The aunt drank a cup of sugar water, smacked her lips, and squinted her eyes happily.
"Dead. I heard he jumped into a well and died. By then I was already married, so I didn't care about that family anymore."
Everyone sighed and some of the hot-tempered ones cursed out loud, their tone sounding quite disappointing.
"Why die? She should have poisoned that heartless family first! He's still a man? He gained all that weight for nothing! He's a coward who can't even stand up!"
Liu Ximei twitched her lips. There were unmarried girls here, why was she cursing everything out?
"Gu Zhiqing! Help!"
A stumbling figure rushed into the educated youth site, falling all the way in.
"Huh? Daquan? What's wrong with you?"
Aunt Ma was closest to the door and cried out in surprise when she saw the disheveled man.
"Gu Zhiqing! The captain said you can save my life! Please save my wife!"
Ma Quan fell to his knees with a thud and kowtowed to Gu Zuozuo repeatedly.
"Your wife? Isn't your wife pregnant and staying at home to take care of the baby? What's wrong with her?"
Ma Quan, a grown man, had tear marks on his rough and dark face. Even after being helped up by Liu Ximei, he couldn't stand up straight from crying.
"My wife went to the river to wash clothes and fell into an ice hole..."
"What the hell? Washing clothes in the river? The river hasn't even thawed yet, how can you wash clothes? Not to mention, isn't your wife eight months pregnant?"
Ma Quan lowered his head, his expression depressed, regretful and annoyed.
"Is Aunt Cheng torturing Sister Xiuhe again?"
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