Ever since Chu Cuixia left her parents' home, there have been more rumors in the village about Aunt Chu Ertang's family. Even the children in the village don't like to play with her children.
The group of people who usually gossip about their wives under the big locust tree in the streets and alleys are obviously chatting enthusiastically, but when they see her family coming, they immediately fall silent, making them feel the embarrassment of being excluded and isolated.
"It must have been that damn bitch Chu Tianjiao who did it." The second aunt was indignant. After all, everything had gone smoothly for them in the village before. It was only after Chu Tianjiao came back from the county town that everything started to become a mess.
The two daughters-in-law looked at each other. They were not very familiar with this sister-in-law from the next room, but after so many years of marriage, they had heard a lot about the grievances between their sister-in-law and this cousin from the next room. Moreover, the last time they went to the county, Cuixia had nothing to do at home, but she just refused to go with them. It was obvious that she didn't want to have any contact with them.
But to say that all the inexplicable misfortunes that had befallen her family recently were related to Chu Tianjiao, who hadn't been back to the village for seven or eight years? That was unlikely!
But the old woman blamed them for instigating Cuixia to be squeezed out, and she was so angry that she had no place to vent it. The daughters-in-law didn't dare to refute her for fear of provoking her to talk back, so they just accepted whatever she said.
So after that day, under the deliberate creation of the second aunt, the gossip trend in the village changed. The protagonist changed from Chu Cuixia to Chu Tianjiao.
Everyone knew that the Chu family's genius was kidnapped seven or eight years ago, and was found some time ago with the joint efforts of Old Lady Feng and her son-in-law. Everyone was very curious, and the villagers had gossiped about it for a while. In front of the Chu family, they kept saying "what a pity" and "pitiful".
I don't know what's going on in my mind.
Later, the news that Lin Yi asked the villagers to build two large villas in the county town spread like wildfire in the village, and everyone became even more curious about Chu Tianjiao, who had not been seen for a long time.
"I heard that the girl was sold to the mountains in the south. She already had two children, and Cheng Zhiqing was actually willing to take over such a piece of junk."
"We're all from the same village, and the Chu family hasn't messed with you. It's not right for you, a neighbor who's even called 'auntie', to say such things, right?"
The topic about Chu Tianjiao was hot and cold, but the protagonist had never returned to the village, so no matter how much they talked about it, it was really boring.
But the second aunt is also half a relative of the Chu family, so what she said is more credible than the speculations of the people in the village.
So now the village is going crazy:
"Hey, have you heard? I heard that the college student from the Chu family wasn't kidnapped, but eloped with someone."
"Is this true? Wasn't she dating Cheng Zhiqing at the time? She looked down upon such a good guy, how could she elope with him?"
"That's right. Besides, she and Cheng Zhiqing aren't married yet. At worst, they can just give up dating. There's no need to give up her university status and elope with someone."
The person who started the conversation suddenly choked, and after thinking carefully, he realized, "But these words came from the Chu family, how could they be false?"
For a while, all kinds of true and false, true and false rumors were flying around the village.
Chu Tianjiao's sisters-in-law were so angry that when they went to the city to visit their mother-in-law and sister-in-law, they couldn't help but complain to their mother-in-law. If they had nowhere else to go, they wouldn't want to live in the village. They, the adults, didn't care, but the main problem was that it would teach the children bad things.
Ling Shuang patiently listened to the gossip about her daughter spread in the village by the daughters-in-law. She whispered to them, "When you go back, just..."
After hearing what their mother-in-law said, the daughters-in-law looked at her in confusion: "Mom, we are family, how can you stab me in the back like this?"
The younger daughter-in-law was the smartest and immediately understood what her mother-in-law meant. "It's not appropriate for our family to intervene directly in this matter. I'll go to my mother's village and take a look around. It's better to spread these words from outside to our village for a safer and more authentic feeling."
Half a month later, the rumors in the village became more and more intense.
In the patchwork of various rumors, Chu Tianjiao, who was rescued but never returned to the village, has become a brainless idiot who gave up his chance to go to college and eloped with a vagrant shoe repairman.
Moreover, this shoe repairman was a cripple with one eye larger than the other. He had seven children and four of his wives had died. After Chu Tianjiao was tricked by him and returned to their hometown, she was beaten by this cripple and had her legs scratched. In order to prevent her from escaping, the cripple's family dug a cellar next to the pigpen, welded an eight-meter-long and 10-centimeter-thick iron chain, and tied her in the cellar until she gave birth to a son.
Chu Tianjiao, who had been imprisoned and abused for many years, was said to have become insane and paralyzed. It was said that he could not move anything below his arms.
And, do you know why she hasn't returned to the village? Because the Chu family thinks she is a disgrace and refuses to let her go home.
Cheng Zhiqing, who was cuckolded, was kind-hearted and helped to find the man and even built a house for him in the county town. However, the house was only lent to the madman from the Chu family. The title deed was still in Cheng Zhiqing's name. Besides, he had already returned to the capital and would probably never come back.
And why did Old Mrs. Feng leave her old husband and grandchildren behind and never return to the village? It was because Cheng Zhiqing paid her to look after houses in the county town and take care of her crazy daughter at the same time.
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Chu Tianjiao was trampled into the dust by the rumors. However, Cheng Tianyi was washed away by the rumors and became loyal and righteous. He also had the brains to know that this piece of junk was not worth keeping and knew how to withdraw in time.
My second aunt had no idea that she had an ally nearby. Yes, she did make a few gossips at first, but later on, it had nothing to do with her.
The rumors intensified, and the Chu family never came out to refute them. This made the second aunt feel a little uneasy. Moreover, her daughter Cuixia had been gone for almost a month, and there had been two heavy snowfalls here. She didn't know if she was freezing outside.
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