As soon as the word "slut" came out, it was like a thunderclap exploding in the sky, and the eyes of the women who were watching the fun instantly lit up with a raging fire of gossip.
"Huani'er is a slut? No way?"
"That's hard to say. After all, she looks just like her mother. She's quite alluring."
"That's right. Last time she walked past my house, my Tieniu just stared at her without blinking, and almost chopped the firewood sideways."
"Tsk, like mother, like daughter."
"I don't know which boy this little vixen has seduced. It's so pitiful. Maybe she'll even cheat me out of all my belongings."
…
Mrs. Chen felt proud when she heard the women talking. She knew that rumors about romantic affairs like this spread the fastest. This damn girl still wanted to fight with her?
Unfortunately, she misjudged Xue Huan. She was not someone who would allow others to throw dirty water at her.
"Pa!" She stepped forward and slapped Mrs. Chen in the face.
Mrs. Chen covered her face and stared at her in disbelief: "You dare to hit me?"
Xue Huan smiled at her and slapped her again with her backhand. "I'm going to hit you! You dare to slander me so casually? These two slaps are still light. If I hear anyone making up stories about me again, I will hit them without hesitation!"
She glanced at the women, the warning in her eyes obvious.
The women who were talking happily suddenly fell silent.
"Little bitch! You dare to hit me! I'll fight you!" Madam Chen rushed towards Xue Huan like a madman, and her maid and coachman also surrounded her, trying to catch Xue Huan.
"Dahei!" Xue Huan shouted loudly.
Dahei rushed out of the yard in an instant, knocked the coachman to the ground, and bared his teeth at him. The coachman was so scared that he peed his pants and kept screaming.
The driver was dealt with, so how could the remaining two women be a match for Xue Huan? She kicked the maid away, grabbed Madam Chen's hair and pressed her against the carriage wall, "Now, tell me why you want to break off the engagement."
Mrs. Chen never expected that Xue Huan would dare to treat her like this. She wanted to struggle a bit, but when Xue Huan took out a dagger and slapped her in the face, she shuddered and had no intention of resisting.
He trembled and said, "Your father is dead, and the Xue family will fall into decline sooner or later. Our Chen family definitely cannot marry into a poor family."
Xue Huan smiled coldly, "I see. Then why did Madam Chen slander me?"
Before she could speak, Xue Huan spoke for her, "Because my family has done a great favor to your Chen family. My father saved Mr. Chen's life from the hands of bandits. In order to repay his kindness, Mr. Chen proposed that our two families become relatives.
"What happened? As soon as my father got into trouble, your Chen family came to cancel the engagement. If this gets out, others will definitely say that your Chen family is ungrateful, despises the poor and loves the rich, is greedy for wealth and has no conscience!"
Every word is powerful.
"Your Chen family is afraid of getting a bad reputation, so you're throwing dirty water on me so you can justify breaking off the engagement, right?"
Mrs. Chen opened her mouth, but had nothing to say.
Xue Huan let her go. "This marriage can be cancelled, but it's not your Chen family who's going to cancel it, it's our Xue family! I wouldn't dare marry someone like you! Just wait, I'll go get the engagement letter and return it to you."
Xue Huan went in, and the subject of gossip among the women outside suddenly became Mrs. Chen.
"This Chen family is such a despicable bunch! Bah!"
"Second Xue saved Master Chen's life, but now he's missing. Instead of helping to find him, the Chen family's in-laws came to cancel the engagement. Not only did they cancel the engagement, they also threw dirty water on the girl's head. They have such a filthy heart."
"I used to buy things from their store, but I won't dare go there again. Who knows if the things they bought are legitimate?"
…
Mrs. Chen was surrounded by strange looks, and her face became increasingly hot. She stroked her face, with hatred surging in her heart.
Xue Huan took out the engagement letter and threw it into Madam Chen's arms. "From now on, our two families will have nothing to do with each other's marriages. I wish Mr. Chen a bright future and continued success."
It was clearly a sentence with good meaning, but to Mrs. Chen, it sounded like a curse.
She picked up the engagement letter angrily and said, "Stop, now that the marriage is cancelled, shouldn't your Xue family return the betrothal gift that my Chen family originally gave?"
Dowry… Xue Huan smiled playfully, “If I remember correctly, the party at fault has no right to ask the woman to return the betrothal gift.”
After saying this, she went in without looking back. Before she closed the door, Dahei rushed in in time.
Mrs. Chen stared at the closed gate for a long time with gritted teeth, then finally threw up her sleeves and said hatefully, "Go!"
Inside the room, as soon as Xue Huan came in, Xue's mother immediately came forward to greet her, "Huan'er, how are you?"
Originally, after she drank the water mixed with the spiritual spring, her body was repaired and her mind relaxed, and she fell into a rare deep sleep, so she was not awakened by the noise of the broken engagement outside at first.
But later when Xue Huan came in to look for the engagement letter, she woke up. After asking, she learned that the Chen family had come to cancel the engagement, which made her feel bad.
Although she was barely calmed down by Xue Huan, she was still worried and eager to know the course of events and the outcome.
Xue Huan poured her a cup of tea and dropped a drop of spiritual spring water into it. "Mom, the marriage has been cancelled. From now on, our family will have nothing to do with the Chen family."
Xue's mother loosened her grip on the teacup. If Xue Huan hadn't caught the cup in time, the tea inside would have been wasted.
"Your father just got into trouble, and they're already breaking off the engagement... Although I used to think Madam Chen was difficult to get along with, I never imagined she would be so ungrateful!"
Xue Huan put her arm around her shoulders and said, "So, this is actually a good thing. It allowed our family to see the true character of the Chen family early on. Otherwise, who knows how much suffering our daughter would have to endure after marrying into their family."
Having said that, Xue's mother still found it hard to accept.
She leaned against the head of the bed and took a while to accept this reality.
Seeing that her daughter was not disappointed or sad, but was smiling to comfort herself, Mother Xue felt that she was forcing a smile, which made her even more worried. "Huan'er, don't be afraid. The young master of the Chen family is not a good match. I will find a better one for you in the future."
Her daughter Huan'er is so good, she will definitely find a perfect husband.
Perhaps influenced by her parents' divorce, Xue Huan had no expectations or fantasies about marriage in her previous life. Now that she has come to this era, she has even less hope of getting married.
Those novels about a modern woman who travels through time, meets her everlasting love, and lives a happily ever after life with the male protagonist, these kind of plots are just for fun.
If you take it seriously, haha.
However, she would not express these thoughts out loud and pour cold water on Xue's mother, so she just let her have good expectations.
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