Chapter 26: Why do you think I like him?
"What are you laughing at..." The woman looked at the smile on Xiang Yu's face and felt a little guilty for a moment, but soon she seemed to think of something and suddenly became confident again.
"Daughter-in-law Jiawang, you can eat whatever you want but you can't say whatever you want. Do you have any evidence for what you said just now?" the grandmother asked in a serious tone, standing outside the crowd.
Xiang Yu was a child she had watched grow up, and she would never do something like seducing someone else's husband.
Some people remained rational, while others looked at Xiang Yu with suspicion.
After all, you can never know a person’s heart by looking at his face.
"Evidence, does it count as the lack of food in my house? She is a college student who just came back from the city. The second brother and his wife died early."
"They don't grow any food at home, and she seems to have stopped going to the city to buy food since last week. So where does she get her food?"
"Didn't the village chief distribute food a few days ago? But the portion that belonged to Jiawang is missing. I suspect Jiawang gave it to her."
"Don't think I don't know who Jiawang's mistresses are in the village. Sometimes I just turn a blind eye."
After she finished speaking, she looked towards the crowd, and Xiang Yu noticed with her sharp eyes that several aunts in the crowd avoided her gaze.
As people from Xiangjia Village, they knew best what kind of person Xiang Jiawang was in the village. At the same time, the men in the crowd looked at Xiang Yu with meaningful eyes.
If Xiang Jiawang can sleep well with just a little food, then they can do it too. He is a college student, the only one in the village who was admitted to a prestigious university.
Noticing the change in everyone's gazes, the woman immediately laughed, "Oh, oh, oh, you're already tempting men now, you shameless bitch."
Xiang Yu took two or three steps forward, grabbed the woman by the collar, raised his hand and slapped her hard in the face several times, knocking out several of her teeth.
"Your mouth is a shit machine, it stinks. And why do you think I'm interested in your husband, with his short stature?"
"You said your husband is here with me. Do you have any evidence? I don't even know who you are, and you just come here and force your way into my house."
"I have every reason to suspect that you and your husband have teamed up to bully me because I am a girl living alone and are eyeing the food in my house."
"You said someone saw me and your husband going in and out together, so why don't you tell everyone who told you that."
As Xiang Yu spoke, he slapped her a few more times. She was so arrogant just now because she kept calling her a bitch.
"The village chief is here..." The crowd automatically made way for a path, and the village chief looked at Jiawang's wife, whose head had swollen like a pig.
For a moment, I couldn't remember who the person in front of me was.
"Juchang..., you have to catch him for me..." the woman said vaguely, covering her swollen face.
The village chief looked at the man for a long time before recognizing him. "What's going on? Tell me."
The woman spoke vaguely, but the village chief didn't hear clearly. Instead, the grandmother walked over and told him everything.
Everyone in the village knows that Xiang Jiawang's family is lazy and greedy. If anyone's family runs out of food first, it will definitely be theirs.
"Jiawang's wife, please stop embarrassing yourself here and go back quickly..." the village chief said directly. Xiang Yu had lived in the village since he was a child.
Isn't it clear whether she can do such a thing?
Seeing that the village chief would not help her, the woman panicked, "Village chief, Jiawang hasn't been home for three days. The last person he contacted was Xiang Yu."
"If you don't help me get justice, then just let me go to her house and take a look," a woman's sixth sense made her feel that Xiang Yu must know where Xiang Jiawang had gone.
"Nonsense," the village chief shouted bluntly.
"Okay, go ahead and watch if you want," Xiang Yu said, moving aside in front of everyone.
"Xiang Yu," the grandmother shouted in surprise. Nowadays, everyone lives behind closed doors. If it was in the past, going to other people's homes would probably be nothing.
But nowadays, everyone is very careful about the food at home, for fear that others will find out.
Jiawang's wife is a big mouth. If she saw something when she went in, she would probably exaggerate it when she goes back.
Seeing that Xiang Yu had agreed, the village chief didn't know what to say.
The woman walked straight past Xiang Yu and into the house. There were shredded dried vegetables hanging in a basket above the stove and a bag of rice placed in the corner.
She checked several rooms but didn't see Xiang Jiawang, but she had a hunch that her husband must have been here.
Whenever a beautiful wife comes to the village, her husband will go and flirt with her, let alone a female college student like Xiang Yu who lives alone.
The woman turned her head to look at Xiang Yu standing in the yard, and the inexplicable smile on her face. For a moment, she felt a chill all over her body.
He didn't dare to look anymore and left in a hurry. Xiang Yu stood in the corner and kicked the shovel placed on the wall as if on purpose.
The woman noticed Xiang Yu's actions, but left in shame after just a moment.
The village chief wanted to stop her and ask her to apologize to Xiang Yu, but the woman ran away without looking back.
Seeing that it was just a misunderstanding, many men in the village looked disappointed.
At night, Xiang Yuran sat quietly by the fireplace. There was a compound bow on the sofa bed, and she was wiping the bow and arrow in her hands.
It was around ten o'clock in the evening. Xiang Yu turned off the oil lamp, picked up the compound bow on the bed, and then opened the window a crack.
The cool air poured into the house through the gaps. He stared out the window without blinking. Soon, a dark shadow climbed over the courtyard wall and came in.
Xiang Yu immediately nocked the bow and arrow, pulled back hard, and aimed at the black shadow's head, just as the black shadow picked up the shovel placed in the corner.
With a whoosh sound, the black shadow fell into the snow without making any sound.
Xiang Yu closed the window, walked out of the house, and stood in front of the black shadow. He didn't even need to look at who this person was, because Xiang Yu already knew her identity.
Xiang Jiawang's wife, the woman who had been throwing a tantrum during the day, the arrow pierced steadily into the woman's head.
He may be tough on the outside, but his life is not tough.
Stepping on her head, Xiang Yu pulled out the arrow that was stuck in her head. She gave the woman a hint when she was searching the house during the day.
Picking up the shovel placed at the corner of the wall, Xiang Yu dug another hole in the yard and buried the body in it.
"This way you and your wife will be reunited," Xiang Yu looked at the thermometer showing minus two degrees after finishing his work.
Over the next period of time, the temperature will continue to drop, so there is no need to worry about the corpse rotting and stinking.
After a night, all traces in the yard were buried by the heavy snow, and Xiang Yu pushed the cart up the mountain to chop firewood as usual.
Xiang Cheng and his two friends have been practicing slingshots in the woods recently, and now they can successfully shoot rabbits.
When Xiang Yu returned home in the afternoon, Xiang Cheng and two of his friends were standing outside Xiang Yu's house.
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