"What did you say?!!!!"
Wang Chunfang suddenly turned her head and looked towards the east of the village, where smoke was rising.
The four people's faces were filled with astonishment, which turned into shock and horror.
At this damn time, whose stove would produce such thick smoke?
I hope it’s not true that Lao Jiang’s house is on fire!
None of the Jiang family members went to work that morning. They were taken for a walk like dogs, running back and forth all over the village. Finally, they stood in front of their house, panting and in a neat row, staring blankly at the billowing smoke inside.
Jiang Xiaobao came back from playing in the mud with a big toad in his hand. He happily squeezed past the legs of the talking crowd and was stunned by the scene before him.
"Wow……"
"Oh my god!!! Why is it on fire!!!"
Wang Chunfang's legs went weak and she fell to the ground, her hair disheveled as she cried out for her parents, howling like a ghost.
An old man came running over with a bucket of water and said angrily:
"Stop screaming! Go get some water, you stupid bitch! If you scream again, the whole house will catch fire! If it burns down my house, I'll kill you!"
The big toad that Jiang Xiaobao caught fell to the ground, and with a "quack" sound, it kicked back with its powerful hind legs and shot out.
It happened to hit Wang Chunfang's wide-open, crying mouth.
The smelly mucus made her bend over. Not only could she not bring water to put out the fire, she also made things worse.
*
The bicycle wheels rolled over the village road, passing through wheat fields, sweet potato fields, and corn fields where only bare stubble was left, leaving a long and narrow rut.
Every time the car passed by a place, someone would look up and follow the wheel with their eyes.
After all, when you are working, anything other than work is attractive, not to mention gossip.
"Hey, hey, hey, isn't that from the He family? His legs can even ride a bicycle. He was still using crutches a few days ago."
"Hey, don't mention it, this young man who served in the army is in great shape. Look at his physique, even from a distance he's attractive..."
The bicycle came from afar and passed by quickly.
The auntie, whose face was wrinkled with laughter when she said this, lost her smile and slapped her thigh in frustration, "Oh my! Why is there a girl sitting in the back?"
In the wheat field, everyone is clearing the stubble.
A dark-skinned man, leaning on a hoe, bared his white teeth and said jokingly, "When I heard the sound of the wheels, I thought Ding Guangsheng was just bored and chanting again. Haha! I didn't expect it was a man taking his wife for a walk around the village. Who would be so generous as to buy a car?"
"Well, then aren't you going into the mountains? Fengying's youngest son, when did you get married again?"
"Take a closer look. Is that the third girl from the Jiang family sitting in the back? And the one who jumped into the river last night? Oh my goodness! Are these two in love?"
In the sweet potato field, a pregnant young woman sat on a wooden stick, turning over the rice seedlings and weeding, and she interjected curiously:
"That pretty girl must be his long-engaged young wife, right? From the Jiang family in the east of the village."
"Hey, Afang, what have you been doing lately? I didn't even hear about this. You broke off the engagement a while ago!"
The pregnant woman was surprised: "Ah, back off? Isn't that girl at the back the Jiang family's daughter? She's so delicate, the one who gets two jobs."
"Yeah, but the one he was originally engaged to was her stepsister. She didn't like him so much that she broke off the engagement the day after he woke up. Now this one is her sister! Are you crazy because you're pregnant? Hahaha!"
Everyone was talking at once, and a large area of sweet potatoes were turned over by the vines.
"Tsk, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, now there's something else to watch."
A woman in her forties with a sharp face and speaking in a sarcastic tone.
"The Jiang family girls are all really more powerful than the other. Did the elder sister really sleep with Wang Gou and Gou Shuan last night? And there was also an educated youth? This didn't even get reported to the disciplinary team, tsk tsk..."
And this one, in broad daylight, dares to let a man drive her around the village, she has no sense of propriety."
"That's right, this damn girl is really powerful! She's delicate and delicate at work, but when she hits people, she's like a crazy girl! Last time she hit me, my eye was swollen for seven or eight days!"
Chen Cuihua tore off the sweet potato vine in her hand, pointed at her right eye socket with a twisted face, and chattered incessantly.
"Just like her mother, a vixen who only knows how to seduce men! Fengying's son has already bewitched her since he came back. He would even grow back a broken leg and ride a bicycle to carry her! What a pity for such a handsome man..."
Everyone listened with great interest, and the topic revolved around He Jinshan and Jiang Henian.
Suddenly, a young woman who had not said a word throughout the whole process stood up, pursed her face and shook off the dirt on her trouser legs.
"Hey, Zhao Xiuhua, where are you throwing dirt? It's all over me!"
Zhao Xiuhua shuddered again before letting go. She raised her head and raised the corners of her mouth, smiling insincerely:
"When I'm done here, I naturally have to get up, shake off the dirt, and move the ground. Unlike you guys who are just gossiping about men and not doing any work."
After she finished speaking, the corners of her mouth dropped instantly, and she turned around and walked away, twisting her waist.
Chen Cuihua let out a long "huh" and pointed at Zhao Xiuhua, looking around speechlessly, "She, she, she—how dare she?! Usually, Widow Zhao is the best at talking about men."
"I don't know how many times I've been in bed with you in secret, why are you pretending now? Bah!"
The lady next to her bumped her knees, winked and said:
"This Widow Zhao has been trying to get close to He Jinshan at work lately, but he's ignored her completely. Now she must be jealous and wants to vent her anger, tsk."
Zhao Xiuhua walked forward for a long distance with an annoyed look on her face. She fiddled with the floral scarf and braids on her head, then turned left and right in place with her arms folded in frustration. Finally, she couldn't help but stick her head out to look.
The bicycle had already circled a large area and disappeared.
She lowered her eyes, bit her lip, and kicked the sweet potato vines under her feet hard in frustration.
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