The whole family hadn't eaten, and Shen Heng was hungry, but she felt it was inappropriate to eat alone. She never thought that one day she would be so entangled with such a thing.
When night fell, Xia Shi got up. Seeing the three bowls of food on the table, a smile appeared on her face: "This is the first meal I cooked for you after you got married."
Shen Heng thought about it and realized that it was true. She had cooked it at noon as well. “Sister-in-law’s cooking is still the best.”
"They are all steamed dishes. By the way, where is the dog?" Xia asked. Usually at this time, Dahuang would sit by the stove, wagging his tail and watching the family do their work.
"It seems like I haven't seen it for a day." Chen Heng had never raised a dog, and she wasn't close to Da Huang, so there wasn't any affection between them, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
Xia came out to open the door, and it was the clan leader and two elders who had some prestige in the clan.
"Clan leader, Uncle Xiao, Third Uncle Xiao." Seeing this, Xia quickly bowed and asked, "Why are you here?"
Chen Heng also bowed.
"Is Xie Jian at home?" Uncle Xie had a goatee. He put one hand behind his chest and stroked his beard with the other hand, and his cloudy eyes swept across the Xie family's yard.
"I wonder what the clan leader, Uncle Yi and Third Uncle Yi want to talk to me about?" Xie Jian walked out of the living room and bowed lightly to the three of them.
"Xie Jian, I heard that Xie Mintian fell into the water and almost drowned?" The clan leader looked at Xie Jian with an unfriendly look.
"Thank you for your concern, Chief. Min'er is doing well."
Third Uncle Xiao coughed lightly twice to attract the attention of the Xie family, then said, "Xie Jian, everyone in the alley knows about Xie Min falling into the water. Tell me, in the past year, no child in the Xie family has been in trouble, but your family has. It's really unlucky."
"Uncle San, this is just an accident." Xia said hurriedly.
"Accident? Why is it that only your family had an accident, while everyone else's family is fine?"
"It was the child who was playing with Min'er who pushed Min'er into the pond." Xia explained anxiously.
"Nonsense! No child wants to play with Xie Min, so how could someone push him? Besides, even if there were children willing to play with him, how could they be so mean as to deliberately push him?" Third Uncle scolded, "You're just a woman, don't lie."
Chen Heng couldn't bear to hear what he said, and couldn't help but say, "Third Uncle, you said this as if you were with Min'er when she fell into the water."
"If you think about it, you'll know that Xie Min accidentally fell into the pond." Uncle Xie looked at Shen Heng with dissatisfaction for interjecting.
"Think about it? Uncle, Min'er is only five years old. If Ajian hadn't arrived in time, the consequences would be disastrous. This is a life, how can you just think about it? We were not there, and Min'er said that someone did push him."
"Can you take a five-year-old's words seriously?"
The clan leader on the side looked at this man, then looked at that man, said nothing, and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes.
Chen Heng was certain that these three people were here to cause trouble. Just as she was about to give them a good fight, she heard Xie Jian say, "Patriarch, you came here so late. What do you want to say?"
He didn't say anything. When asked why, clan leader Xie Changgen winked at Uncle Xie.
"Xie Jian," said his uncle. "Your family has a lot of problems. Your father got into trouble, your mother ran away, your eldest brother has disappeared, and Xie Min almost drowned. Everyone in the clan is a little upset, but of course, we can't blame them."
Xie Jian glanced coldly at the three of them, and his hands in his sleeves slowly tightened.
"So, everyone in the clan discussed it and decided to let you move out of the city." Uncle Xie said this while looking at the faces of the Xie family.
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