Chapter 68 Rumors
But there are also families who refuse to accept it, from the young to the old. Manbao's neighbor, listening to the noise next door, was so angry that he started throwing things and hitting things. He lowered his voice and cursed, "No one taught you how to do this. You make a lot of noise all day long. Can't you be quiet for a moment?"
"What are you talking about?" Zhou Dayuan glared at her and sent away the grandchildren who were curiously looking at them. Then he said, "If you're not afraid of me blocking your door, just say it."
The skinny old lady started to curse, but she lowered her voice. She was about the same age as Qian, and they married into Qili Village one after the other.
Although Qian now stays at home all day playing with her grandchildren and appears to be gentle and smiling when talking to her neighbors, she was very fierce when she was young.
Seven or eight years ago, she was the bully in the village, and even the village chief's wife didn't dare to mess with her.
Zhou Jin's family was so poor before, but she was the one who brought them up. Although people in the village often said that she spent money on medicine and brought trouble to the Zhou family, everyone knew in their hearts that she was the other side of the Zhou family and it was she who supported the Zhou family.
But she was still a little unwilling to accept it. In addition to jealousy, this unwillingness was also due to the grudges accumulated since her youth.
After Manbao started school, the Zhou family's life became increasingly lively, reaching its peak. Although she lowered her curses, she deliberately banged the stick in her hand on the door and the table, shouting in the direction of the old Zhou family: "It's dark now, why are you still hanging around outside instead of sleeping? Tomorrow you will go up the mountain to collect firewood, and you won't even find a job. You deserve to be poor!"
There is a certain distance between the houses in the village because when choosing a place to build a house, it is taken into consideration that the children will also need to build houses in the future, and then they will definitely need to approve a residential land to build the house.
Therefore, there is an intentional distance between each family.
Therefore, there is a certain distance between Manbao's house and the houses on its left and right.
But the distance is limited, and the house is not soundproof. If people talk in the yard and their voices are a little louder, the neighbors can hear them.
Manbao heard it at this time, but she didn't know that her sister-in-law next door was making indirect accusations. She turned her head and glanced at Zhou Dayuan's family with great distress, sighing like an adult: "Dayuan's wife is scolding Dalu and the others again. Really, you should praise your children when teaching them, how can you scold them all the time?"
Zhou Silang and others: "...You should call her sister-in-law, don't always call her Dayuan's wife, Dayuan's wife, she's about the same age as your mother."
"Isn't she Dayuan's wife? It's just a title, don't take it seriously," she ran to find her three sisters-in-law and said to them, "Sisters-in-law, don't be like Dayuan's wife. In the future, you should praise Datou and Daya, and don't scold them all the time. I think Dalu has become stupid because of his mother's scolding."
The three sisters-in-law agreed with a smile, and secretly glared at the happy Datou, Daya and others over Manbao, and decided to go back to the house to educate them.
Old Zhou turned to his wife and said, "Manbao must have learned this from you. You should teach her not to call me that outside."
Qian said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, our daughter is not stupid."
He added, "Do you think she calls Dagu's wife like that? She always calls her sister-in-law. This kid is very smart. She knows better than anyone who calls her sister-in-law and who doesn't."
When Old Zhou saw his wife glance at Zhou Dayuan's house with disdain, he asked the children to catch fireflies, making the yard even more lively.
At the same time, the jingling sounds in Zhou Dayuan's house became more cheerful, and the curve of Qian's mouth became higher.
Old Zhou retracted his head and decided not to say anything.
While the children were having fun, the atmosphere at Zhou Dayuan's house was depressing. The children stayed in the house, not daring to make a sound. Dalu's wife couldn't help but grumble, "Mom, what a fool! She told us to sleep, but she kept banging and making so much noise outside. How can we sleep?"
The big donkey doesn't speak.
The donkey's wife continued, "They're playing in their own yard, isn't that their normal behavior? If mom hadn't knocked on the door, we would have fallen asleep even faster listening to the laughter outside..."
"Okay, go out and tell Mom if you have the guts."
The donkey's wife was very angry. She turned her back, hugged the child and coaxed him to sleep, ignoring him.
His child whispered to the donkey's wife, "Mom, why doesn't grandma like Manbao?"
Donkey's Wife: "Because she's smart!"
Goudan was surprised, "Is being smart not good?"
"Okay, it's not yours." The donkey's wife said and glanced at the donkey.
The donkey's face flushed red, and he couldn't help but slap her. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"What nonsense did I say? What you said is wrong? Your mother is just jealous of the Zhou family and the Qian family's aunt. She keeps saying that I can't have children and gave birth to a bunch of shitty donkey eggs. I want to give birth to a golden egg, a silver egg, a smart one like Manbao. Do you have that kind of child?"
The donkey's wife was already filled with rage, and with her mother-in-law still banging and hitting her with a stick, her anger only grew even more intense. She didn't care that her child was around, and started barking questions, "Don't you see what other people's fathers are like? What are you like? Can I have a child just because I want to?"
The donkey was so angry that his eyes turned red, and he blurted out, "My mother is the daughter of a scholar, aren't you?"
"Forget it, if he says so, then it's true. Who has ever met his wife's family..."
The couple had a quarrel, and Goudan and his younger brothers and sisters hid in the quilt, their eyes shining.
He is eight years old this year, only one year younger than Datou, and is already sensible. So the next day he excitedly went to find his friend and secretly told him, "Manbao is not her father and mother's biological child!"
Children are the worst at keeping secrets, and in less than half a day, most of the children in the village had heard the rumor. Ertou was at the age when he loved playing with his friends, so his friends came to him and quietly asked him if his aunt was his grandfather's daughter.
Ertou said confidently: "Of course not."
The friends were horrified, and Ertou looked at them with disdain and said, "How can a man give birth to a child? My aunt was born by my grandmother."
Hey, now it makes sense to everyone.
Then someone refuted it, saying that although Manbao was not born by her father, he was born by her mother!
By the time Datou heard about it, the rumor had already spread around the village twice, but its scope was limited to the children, and the older children had not heard of it.
So Datou went to look for them one by one and soon found the source of the rumor - Goudan.
Datou punched Goudan with his fists and said, "You look neither like your father nor your mother. You are definitely not their biological child!"
Goudan's nose was bleeding, and he cried and shouted, "You're lying! My parents said that. Your aunt wasn't born to your grandparents. My grandma also said that your aunt had no one to teach her. If that doesn't mean she has no parents, then what does that mean?"
Datou was so angry that he beat him again and said, "No one taught you how to spread such gossip?"
(End of this chapter)
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