After drinking a small amount of the spiritual spring water, Lin Zhoushi's throat began to make a sound.
Her voice was as soft as a kitten's, so Wang Xiufen had to put her ear right up to her mouth.
"Ma Huijuan and Shuanzi had an improper relationship. Lin Tao knew this, but he still covered for them for money... The place where they often fooled around was the old locust tree in the bamboo forest behind... There was something under the tree."
Her words were fragmented, illogical, and difficult to understand. By the time Wang Xiufen tried to ask her more clearly, she had already passed away.
Wang Xiufen started to sob.
Despite how badly her mother-in-law treated her, she still felt very sad when she thought that she was her husband's biological mother.
At that moment, Ma Huijuan's wailing and howling could be heard outside.
In order to save her, Zhang Lei forced her to vomit, so he had to force some feces and urine into her mouth.
Ma Huijuan vomited incessantly until there was nothing left in her stomach to vomit. She then vomited a mixture of yellow bile and red blood.
Fortunately, after some effort, her life was saved, unlike the old lady who passed away suddenly.
Zhao Ergou started spreading the word like a megaphone, telling everyone about the sordid affair between Ma Huijuan and Shuanzi...
For the next few days, Ma Huijuan lay in bed, being cared for by Yu Xiaofeng.
Yu Xiaofeng had mixed feelings. Thinking of Ma Huijuan and Shuanzi's shameful affair, she wished she could kill her with a knife, but for the sake of the child in Ma Huijuan's womb, she had to endure the humiliation.
Lin Chen postponed the construction of the house and hired people to bury the old lady according to custom.
When the yellow earth buried her coffin, his only connection with the Lin family was severed.
There was no longer any brotherly affection between him and Lin Tao!
Ma Huijuan reaped the consequences of her actions and was left barely alive. For the sake of the child in her womb, Lin Tao did not report her and allowed her to continue living at home.
Every day, Yu Xiaofeng would take care of her and then scold her, calling her a jinx to the family and telling her why she didn't just die!
After everything that had happened, Lin Tao looked somewhat dazed as he advised his mother:
"Mom, the baby will be born in two months, please bear with it!"
Ma Huijuan was quick-witted. As soon as the old lady left, no one lived in the house, so she moved in and took over the house.
Yu Xiaofeng then treated her a little better.
Lin Chen didn't care. The new house was about to be completed, and he didn't care about the old mud-brick house.
Wang Xiufen remembered the old lady's words and took him to dig under the old locust tree. He actually dug out a stone.
The stone was grayish-brown, quite large, and heavy; Lin Chen couldn't move it by himself, and he couldn't tell what it was.
Wang Xiufen told him to throw it in the cellar.
Two months passed quickly.
Lin Chen's new house had already been built. The ground was paved with cement and the walls were painted with lime. The lime wasn't very white and had a yellowish tinge, but it was still better than no paint at all.
Lin Chen had already moved all the furniture and curtains inside, and was just waiting to move everything in.
Because the old lady passed away, no ceremony was held when the roof beam was raised in the new house.
He invited acquaintances and friends to dinner after moving into his new home.
Lin Fugui, Gao Qiang, Aunt Luo, Luo Guangming, Gao Baoliang, Meng Jiao, Zhang Lei, Liu Fang, Zhao Ergou and others all came. Every time a guest arrived, Lin Chen would set off a firecracker, which crackled and popped for quite a while.
The meal was plentiful, and we drank some wine; everyone's faces were flushed with alcohol.
After dinner, instead of leaving, everyone set up two tables outside and started playing cards.
There aren't many entertainment options in the countryside, so people love playing cards without gambling.
Next door, Ma Huijuan, heavily pregnant, sat under the eaves basking in the sun.
She was wearing a baggy men's suit, her hair was messy, and her skin was dull and rough, making her look to be in her forties or fifties.
Seeing her neighbor move into a new house, she felt a surge of jealousy, envy, and resentment.
They live in mud-brick houses, while others live in new houses, even their toilets are made of red bricks.
Yu Xiaofeng came out of the house at this moment, glanced at the next room, and said irritably:
"It's all because of you, you jinx! Ever since you came into the family, nothing good has ever happened to us. There's been no end to all the trouble."
Ma Huijuan retorted:
“At least I’m better than Jiang Ning in one respect: I can have children. She’s been married for so long, and her belly is still flat.”
Thinking of this, Yu Xiaofeng felt a little relieved. However, she looked at her belly again and wondered why it didn't seem to have grown in the past two months.
Could it be...?
As she was pondering this, she saw Ma Huijuan holding her belly and swaying as she walked to the next room.
"Are you playing cards? It's a pity I'm so pregnant, I can barely sit, let alone play cards."
She talked to herself, pacing back and forth between the two tables.
Actually, nobody wanted to talk to her.
Zhao Ergou wasn't going to tolerate her behavior. He stuck out one foot, almost tripping her, and said awkwardly:
"My feet don't have eyes. Whoever is blind enough to kick them has only themselves to blame!"
Ma Huijuan stopped moving and stood to the side with her arms crossed.
Her reputation in Chayuan Village was ruined. The story of how she poisoned the old lady with rat poison, killing her and nearly losing her own life, had already spread far and wide among Zhao Ergou's ears.
And her affair with Shuanzi was something everyone joked about behind her back.
Shuanzi's mother gave him a strict order not to see Ma Huijuan, which is why the two stopped their illicit affair.
Seeing that she hadn't left and was saying some irrelevant things, Liu Fang couldn't help but shoo her away:
"Don't be scared here, you might accidentally bump your stomach."
Unexpectedly, a single, disapproving remark gave her a starting point, and she began to boast again: "There's nothing I can do about it, my belly is so cooperative, I got pregnant right after I got married, unlike some people who have been married for so long and their bellies are still flat. If a hen doesn't lay eggs, it might as well just kill itself!"
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