Chapter 18 Uncle Huo, Women, and the Grove
At this point, she was forced to do what she wanted and replied with a stiff upper lip: "Okay, I'll... get it right away!"
Bai Shuyao turned around and went home.
Ye Surong packed up her things and came over. After listening for a long time, Ye Surong finally understood the whole story.
The rumors that are circulating today must be related to the girl just now. That girl came to Cha Cha's house yesterday to make her unhappy, but Cha Cha didn't tell anyone. She must be afraid of getting herself into trouble, so she chose to swallow her anger.
The more Ye Surong thought about this, the more uncomfortable she felt.
The girl just now looked like Wang Qing, who had come to annoy her yesterday. They looked like they were cast in the same mold. It was not difficult to tell that she was Wang Qing's daughter.
Wang Qing came home yesterday and failed to act like the hostess. Her daughter came to cause trouble for Cha Cha the next moment, probably to vent her mother's anger.
Even though Ye Surong was made of clay, she still showed some temper when Jiang Cha was wronged.
She had originally planned to go home to cook, but seeing this, she patiently stood here and waited with everyone.
Everyone is waiting for Bai Shuyao to come back, but only Jiang Cha knows that Bai Shuyao will not come back.
Sure enough, just as Jiang Cha had this thought, a loud thud was heard from Bai Shuyao's room.
Then, a scream was heard, "Ah! My feet."
"Hey, what's going on?"
"Hurry, hurry, let's go and take a look."
The big group of people went from Jiang Cha's house to Bai Shuyao's house.
Before they even entered the room, they saw Bai Shuyao falling to the ground. The heavy bench fell on her feet, and she fell to the ground, tears streaming down her face in pain.
The trouser leg of her injured foot was "curled up naturally", and the part of her fair skin that was hit by the bench was red and swollen, looking shocking.
The bench was made of oak, which was hard and heavy. In order to be able to naturally not pick up the pen, Bai Shuyao was very cruel to herself.
"Hey, Yaoyao, how did you get yourself into this state with just a pen?"
Bai Shuyao's face turned pale with pain, beads of sweat oozed out of her skin, and her lips were bleeding from being bitten by her.
"I was running so fast that I accidentally knocked over a bench and crushed my leg. I..."
She nearly fainted from the pain.
Everyone worked together to straighten the bench and lifted Bai Shuyao up from the ground.
"Your leg, you need to go to the infirmary right away. How swollen is it?"
"Come on, I'll take you to the infirmary."
Two enthusiastic aunts supported Bai Shuyao on each side, but Bai Shuyao shook her head, "I... I still have to get a pen, I..."
She was trembling all over. Most of the people around her had watched her grow up. How could they have seen her suffer so much?
"Why are you still holding a pen? Your legs are no more valuable than a pen."
Ye Surong clenched her fists and almost lost control of her temper. Jiang Cha spoke before her.
"Yeah, the pen can be used anytime. You should go to the infirmary right away. If you've injured any bones, it's no joke!"
"That's right," Sun Hongying nodded in agreement. "The misunderstanding between you and Cha Cha has been resolved. We're neighbors, living in the same compound. We see each other every day. There's no need to be so serious about such a trivial matter. Cha Cha isn't that petty!"
Sun Hongying said it unintentionally, but Bai Shuyao took it seriously.
Jiang Cha is not a stingy girl, so she is a stingy girl?
Bai Shuyao hated Jiang Cha's righteous look, but at the moment, she was in the wrong, so she had to endure it.
"Aunt Hongying is right. I'm being too picky, but I...ah!"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but screamed, her calf was in excruciating pain. In order to make the scene look realistic, Bai Shuyao specially picked the heaviest bench.
She regretted it before she even left the house. If she had known earlier, she would have picked a lighter one to hit it, and it would definitely not hurt so much.
The crowd of onlookers dispersed immediately, and no one noticed that the usually enthusiastic He Meishan did not even reach out to help Bai Shuyao this time.
Jiang Cha's eyes were fixed on the bench.
She couldn't even lift such a heavy stool by herself just now. How fast could Bai Shuyao run?
How could she have knocked over such a heavy bench in one go, with the edge of the bench just happening to press down on her legs?
She withdrew her gaze and happened to meet He Meishan's face.
But at a glance, she was sure that He Meishan was also doubting the unreasonableness of this matter.
It seems that Bai Shuyao's cleverness backfired this time and she lost a capable ally. As long as He Meishan no longer believes Bai Shuyao's words, the rumors about her and her mother will not become more and more outrageous.
How could Huo Jingchuan not see through such a simple trick?
Just as everyone was about to disappear at the door of the Bai family's house, Huo Jingchuan happened to murmur in a voice that everyone could hear, but without being deliberate: "Why don't I remember that I lost my pen?"
Bai Shuyao's heart skipped a beat, her legs went limp, and she almost fell to the ground.
He Meishan realized belatedly that this time, she was clearly being used as a pawn.
Unfortunately, she couldn't find any flaws in Bai Shuyao. Bai Shuyao took advantage of everyone's sympathy for her and directed and performed such a big drama. She unknowingly became the executioner who slandered Ye Surong and Jiang Cha.
He Meishan felt guilty, but she couldn't apologize for this.
She made up her mind that from now on, anyone who dared to speak ill of Ye Surong and Jiang Cha in the family compound would have a hard time with her, He Meishan. She must put an end to this bad habit of making groundless accusations and spreading rumors in the family compound.
After returning home, Ye Surong still felt the clenched anger in her chest. On the second day of arriving at the family compound, she suffered such a huge loss, and even dragged Cha Cha into suffering with her. She had begun to waver. Was it really necessary to continue this marriage?
Otherwise... before the wedding, she could secretly file for divorce with Huo Tingkun!
Ye Surong's face was filled with worry. She ruffled Jiang Cha's hair and said, "Cha Cha, I'm sorry that you've been wronged by this matter. When your Uncle Huo comes back, I'll tell him that we won't live here anymore. If we can't go back to the Ye family mansion for the time being, then we'll move into the other property your grandmother left behind."
Huo Jingchuan had just put the hot lion's head on the dining table when he heard Ye Surong speak at length.
His eyebrows jumped and he looked at the time on his watch. It was already half past six, why hadn't Lao Huo come back yet?
If he doesn't come back, his most beloved wife, his precious daughter, will be gone!
Jiang Cha couldn't help laughing. "Uncle Huo finally married you. If you ran away, would you have the heart to let Uncle Huo cry every day looking at the empty house next door?"
"He won't cry. If I had known he had such a difficult lover in the family compound, I wouldn't have been so impulsive and got a marriage certificate with him!"
Huo Jingchuan silently rolled up his sleeves: "It's already this late, why hasn't my dad come back yet?"
Ye Surong subconsciously turned her head to look at the clock on the wall and also felt something was wrong.
When Huo Tingkun left home this morning, he had clearly said that he would try to get off work early today and take her and Cha Cha for a walk around the staff quarters to get to know the place. At this hour, everyone who normally gets off work has come back, so why hasn't the person who said he would leave work early come back yet?
"He's a grown man, how could he get lost?"
Ye Surong got angry whenever she thought about what happened today, but she was a person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Although she said harsh words, she couldn't stop worrying in her heart.
Her duplicity was so obvious that even Huo Jingye, who had extraordinary insight, could see it clearly.
Huo Jingchuan picked up the apron and wrapped it around his thin waist.
"My dad hasn't come back yet. I'm a little worried. How about Aunt Ye, can you and Cha Cha go look for my dad?"
"I'm not going. I get mad when I see him. If I want to go, go find you. I'm going to cook!"
Huo Jingchuan had already tied his apron. "I'll make dinner tonight. You've worked hard all day, it's time to take a break."
How could Jiang Cha not see that Ye Surong was saying one thing and thinking another?
Although she doubted Huo Jingchuan's cooking skills, she was also feeling angry.
If Huo Jingchuan hadn't bewitched her to such an extent, wouldn't she be so worried and anxious, and wouldn't she be unhappy to come to her, her stepsister?
He deserves to be punished to cook!
Jiang Cha grabbed Ye Surong's arm and said, "Mom, let's just go out for a walk and get familiar with the environment. We're not going to look for Uncle Huo on purpose, okay?"
Ye Surong couldn't say no to Jiang Cha, so she reluctantly nodded, "Then I'll go out with you."
It was the first time that Jiang Cha saw his mother show such a childish side, it was really fresh.
My mother is more popular now than when she was in the Ye family. Maybe she herself is not aware of this.
"Leave the alley where we live and walk north along the main road. You will reach the military base. It's only about ten minutes away. Be careful on the road."
Huo Jingchuan showed Jiang Cha and Ye Surong the way, watched them disappear at the entrance of the alley, and then turned around and went home to cook.
At that time, there was no greenery. There was a small forest on the left side of the road connecting the family compound and the army, and a relatively large pond on the right. The inner side of the pond was surrounded by a circle of bluestone slabs. Every morning, the sisters-in-law in the family compound would wash clothes in the pond.
There were not many people here at this time. Jiang Cha and Ye Surong had just walked halfway when they heard a woman's intermittent crying coming from the woods.
"Brother Huo, I'm scared!"
Ginger Tea: “!”
In broad daylight, Uncle Huo, a woman, and the grove?
Before Jiang Cha's head could explode, Ye Surong's frail body swayed and she almost fell to the ground.
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