That morning, Zhang didn't go back to the old house. Instead, she kept pestering Cai Xiaolian in the second wife's house to bring her daughter and go with her to take revenge.
Wherever Cai Xiaolian goes, she goes too, and she's incredibly noisy. She's determined to cling to Cai Xiaolian, saying things like, "Sister-in-law, we're sisters-in-law, you have to help me. I'll only help you if anyone bullies you in the future."
"Mom, just agree to Auntie's request! Anyway, we sisters haven't been able to exercise in a long time!" Gu Nian couldn't stand it anymore. She was annoyed. Her auntie's voice was so loud that she could hear it clearly even in the laboratory.
“Didn’t you just exchange a few moves with Li Muyan a few days ago?” Cai Xiaolian asked.
"Mom, let's help Aunt! Those aunties next door are slandering our Uncle! Uncle is such a good man, why should he be slandered! Uncle is a man, he doesn't bully women, but we are all women!" Gu Xin said. Her purpose was not to help Aunt, but to help Uncle get revenge.
Gu Hui and Gu Si did not try to persuade them.
"Alright, you guys go ahead and get busy!" Cai Xiaolian waved her hand.
“Sister-in-law, Niannian and Xinxin have both agreed! Let me tell you, those widow Liu and her friends are still talking badly about you. From what they've said, they still have their eyes on the second son!” Zhang said, stirring things up.
“Sister-in-law! His father used to be a drunkard and gambler, who would care about him? Did he have too much money in his hands?” Cai Xiaolian said speechlessly.
“Sister-in-law, please don’t be like this! I’m telling the truth. Those women are secretly talking about men! Have you forgotten that Sun Yumei chased after her husband to the next village, found out about his affair with Widow Liu, and made a huge scene, but it didn’t work out, and she was beaten so badly that she lost her child? Those women, their husbands are dead and they don’t have any sons, they’re wicked!” Zhang thought Cai Xiaolian didn’t believe her, and said anxiously, “There’s a woman surnamed Wan who said that the second son looks like her dead husband, that the second son has changed since last year, and that you’re not good enough for the second son because you can’t even have a son.”
Cai Xiaolian stopped laughing and looked at Zhang Shi.
Zhang continued, "They can lie to me today, and they can lie to you tomorrow. You and your second son have finally stopped arguing, and I don't believe you can tolerate people telling you that your second son is sleeping with other women, with several people testifying to it. They have such sharp tongues, even more so than me, and they even cursed you to die! If you die, your second son can still take a second wife; at most, I'll curse you to be unable to have children..."
Zhang covered her mouth and slapped herself, wondering why she had blurted it out.
They were almost convinced, so they won't change their minds because of these words!
Cai Xiaolian: "Sister-in-law, are you sure they really cursed me so viciously? Do they want me to die so they can be with Gu Shouxin?"
Zhang nodded vigorously: "Of course! How could I lie to you! One of those widows used to be from our village, but she married into that other village. That Cuihua from the Dou family, her husband died when she was young, and she raised her daughter with great difficulty. Now that her daughter is a concubine in the county, her life has improved, so she doesn't have any other thoughts now, does she? Have you forgotten that when she was a young girl, she was just like you, chasing after the second son?"
Cai Xiaolian searched her memory and realized that there seemed to be such a person.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Zhang continued, "Sister-in-law, Dou Cuihua's daughter entered into the household of Magistrate Gao last year, the one who is Magistrate Gao of Taoyuan County. She even boasted that her daughter would one day become the official wife, and then she would be the magistrate's mother-in-law. Maybe the second son would have to ask her for help with the imperial examinations, and then she could... you know what I mean! I just couldn't stand her smug look, that's why I was bragging about how good I was doing, and that's why I scolded her!"
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