Chapter 24 Are you just going to let your wife run wild like this?
"Liu Xiao'e, you come out here!" This was the first time Lu's mother had been so angry; her voice trembled slightly.
Inside the house, Huang Zhaodi sobbed and said to Liu Xiao'e, "Mom, it's all your fault for coming up with those terrible ideas. Now look what's happened! Everyone in the village is saying I was seducing Lu Zheng. How can I ever face anyone again!"
She spoke while wiping away tears with her hand.
Just then, Lu's mother's voice came in, and Huang Zhaodi panicked even more. She pushed Liu Xiao'e, her voice trembling, "Mom, what should we do? They've come to our door!"
Before Liu Xiao'e could speak, Lu's mother's voice rang out again: "Liu Xiao'e, I know you're home. If you're so capable, then open the door!"
Then, not only Lu's mother was shouting, but Xia Qianqian's fans also joined in, which made Liu Xiao'e's face turn very ugly. Finally, she stood up, pushed open the door with a "bang," and walked out aggressively.
Upon seeing Lu's mother, her triangular eyes nearly popped out, and she put her hands on her hips and scolded, "You're all bullying us! Our Zhaodi kindly went to deliver food to Lu Zheng, and this is how you treat her?"
"You dare come to my door to settle scores? Bah! You're all ungrateful wretches! When you fled here, if I hadn't given you a bite to eat, you would have starved to death long ago!"
Mother Lu was so angry at Liu Xiao'e's distorted words that she trembled with rage. She pointed at Liu Xiao'e's nose and said, "Liu Xiao'e, don't make false accusations here! Everyone knows what Zhao Di is thinking. Not only do you not educate her, but you also make trouble here. We did receive your help back then, but the money I gave you was exactly the same."
Liu Xiao'e put her hands firmly on her hips and shouted, "So what? What does money mean in our village! Do you think we have to work our lives for you just because you have a few bucks? We don't owe you anything!"
With each word she spoke, spittle flew out. Standing to the side, watching Liu Xiao'e's unreasonable and irrational behavior, Lu's mother's face changed color, and she felt a pain in her heart.
For so many years, she had lived a stable and respectable life in the city, surrounded by well-educated and reasonable people, and had never seen such a shameless person.
She truly regretted not having decisively rejected Liu Xiao'e back then.
Xia Qianqian kept an eye on Lu's mother's condition. Seeing that she was so angry that she couldn't speak, she thought to herself that her mother-in-law must have been a lady from a respectable family and had never met someone like Liu Xiao'e.
Worried that Lu's mother would upset herself, she quickly took her hand and gently comforted her, "Mom, don't upset yourself. Didn't she say that a little bit of strength is nothing? Okay, when Brother Lu comes back, let him go work for her family and make her pay back all the money she owed."
"Don't even think about it!" Huang Zhaodi's eyes turned red with anger instantly, and she jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
Lu's mother did give their family some money before, but that money had long been spent.
If Lu Zheng really comes to our house to work, where will we get paid? Isn't that going to kill her?
Xia Qianqian revealed a teasing smile, her gaze sweeping back and forth between Liu Xiao'e and her daughter: "Aunt Liu, you don't want Lu Zheng to come to your house to work either?"
Liu Xiao'e was caught off guard by Xia Qianqian's sudden question.
She never expected Xia Qianqian to be so cunning, digging such a deep pit for herself.
If she agreed to let Lu Zheng do the work, Xia Qianqian would definitely make Lu Zheng take back the wages he had given her before. But if she didn't agree, Xia Qianqian would definitely mock her for not being worth that much money for the little effort she put in.
She gritted her teeth, cursing Xia Qianqian in her mind.
Seeing that Liu Xiao'e remained silent, Xia Qianqian's fans joined in the commotion.
"Liu Xiao'e, you think you can earn so much money with so little effort? Do you think money is so easy to earn? Why don't we come to your house to work as well? You just need to pay us the wages that Sister Lu gave us!"
"You can all keep dreaming!" Liu Xiao'e was so angry that her head was buzzing. She couldn't understand how, in just a few days, everyone in the village had sided with Xia Qianqian.
Just as she was getting angry and anxious, the production team leader calmly walked out from behind the crowd.
The captain looked at the situation, cleared his throat, and said to Lu's mother, "Sister Lu, Xiao'e is a widow with a child. It's not easy for her to make a living. Let's be forgiving."
Hearing the team leader trying to smooth things over, Lu's mother was seething with anger, but she thought that she would still have to live in this village in the future, and that it wouldn't do any good to make things too tense.
She finally nodded reluctantly.
When the captain saw that Lu's mother agreed, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to relax his tense expression, Xia Qianqian suddenly spoke up.
"Captain, she is indeed pitiful as an orphan and a widow. But she can't just use that status to slander people! Am I just supposed to let them gossip behind my back from now on?"
At this point, Xia Qianqian covered her face with her hands, her slender shoulders trembling slightly uncontrollably. Anyone who saw her would understand that she was crying from anger.
This scene instantly ignited the anger of the surrounding "fans." Soon, someone couldn't hold back and shouted, "What is the production team leader doing? What kind of skill is it to bully a helpless young wife!"
Seeing the captain desperately trying to explain, Xia Qianqian lowered her eyes, a barely perceptible sneer curling at the corner of her lips.
She thought to herself: Anyone can play the victim. Since this captain only cares about who is weak and who is right, she'll put on a good show for him.
"Xia, you've misunderstood. That's not what I meant." Amidst the accusations from the crowd, the captain felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Xia Qianqian pretended to gently wipe away her tears with her hand, raised her head, her eyes slightly red, and looked at the captain with a wronged expression.
"Then what do you mean? My reputation has been ruined by Sun Zhaodi, yet you're using the excuse of being an orphan and a widow to protect them. But I'm younger than Sun Zhaodi, and I was kicked out of my home by my parents, with no one to rely on. According to your logic, shouldn't you be protecting me even more?"
"This—" The production team leader was stunned by her question. He opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.
He regretted that he shouldn't have stood up for Liu Xiao'e for such a small benefit, and that things had turned out this way. He really didn't know how to deal with it.
Xia Qianqian's words reminded the onlookers that in the past, no matter what Liu Xiao'e and Huang Zhaodi had done, the captain always said that they were a widow and orphan and asked everyone to forgive them.
Only now did they realize that Huang Zhaodi had grown up long ago and was no longer an orphan. If they were to compare misery, Xia Qianqian was far more pitiful than her.
And that girl never played the victim; she even treated them to soda!
Xia Qianqian spoke again: "Captain, although I am also weak, I firmly believe that in this world, the weak are never right. We must seek fairness in our words and deeds. If we let the act of slandering others go so easily, wouldn't that encourage this kind of evil trend?"
The villagers were taken aback at first, but then they realized what was happening and cheered, "That's right, that's exactly how it should be done!"
The team leader's already somewhat embarrassed expression turned even more unpleasant. He looked at Lu Zheng, who had just returned from work, and said irritably, "Aren't you going to do anything about your wife?"
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