Chapter 21 Watching the Show and Eating Melon
"Third Sister, are you telling the truth?"
"Wang Guihua, Zhou Zhaodi's mother, asked loudly."
"Mom, what brings you here?" Zhou Zhaodi asked, looking at Wang Guihua standing with Secretary Zhu.
Wang Guihua walked over and grabbed Zhou Zhaodi's ear, scolding, "You brat, you didn't even tell the family about something this big!"
"If I hadn't happened to see Secretary Zhu passing by today, and since my family was out of food and I was thinking of borrowing some from Secretary Zhu, I wouldn't have known that you had done such a shameful thing behind my family's back!"
Chen Meili couldn't stand it anymore and quickly rescued Zhou Zhaodi, saying, "Aunt Wang, please sit down first. We can discuss this slowly. Besides, your family usually only cares about your son; you don't have time to care about Zhaodi."
Otherwise, they wouldn't have ignored Zhou Zhaodi when she fell into the water and returned home.
Zhou Zhaodi also has two older sisters, named Pandi and Laidi, who are now married.
After having three daughters, they finally had a son. The whole family doted on the son, and had no time to care about the daughters' lives.
Anyway, I'll get married sooner or later.
When Zhu Shengli entered, he also heard Zhou Zhaodi's words and asked Xiang Hong, "What's going on?"
Xiang Hong replied, "Zhou Zhaodi is pregnant. She said it's Xiaoyu's child."
Zhu Shengli asked, "Is it confirmed?"
Xiang Hong replied, "It's been more than three months, she's definitely pregnant, but whether it's Xiaoyu's is uncertain."
When Xiang Hong said this, she didn't lower her voice; she deliberately said it so that everyone could hear it.
There are three educated youths in this house. If this matter is not handled properly, and these educated youths expose it, her husband might lose his position as secretary.
After all, in this day and age, getting an unmarried girl pregnant is, to put it bluntly, a crime of indecent assault.
How can a scoundrel's father become a Party Secretary?
Lin Shanshan felt uncomfortable all over after Yang Wenqing and Huang Daren entered the room, but she had to suppress the urge to go up and kill them, and clenched her fists tightly.
Upon hearing Xiang Hong's words, Zhou Zhaodi touched her belly and began to wail loudly, saying, "I only have Xiaoyu as my man, and he knows that this child is his."
Wang Guihua's eyes darted around. This was a great opportunity. If Sanya married Zhu Xiaoyu, wouldn't she be marrying the Party Secretary?
But seeing that the secretary and his wife didn't want to admit it, they had to be forced to.
Even now, with educated youth still around, they aren't afraid of the Party Secretary using his power to oppress people.
With that thought in mind, Wang Guihua ran out.
She returned home and asked her husband, Zhou Erniu, and son, Zhou Xiaojun, to bang the gong and gather more villagers to go to the Party Secretary's house to watch the excitement. She then rushed to Zhu Shengli's house to take charge of the situation.
Zhou Erniu and Zhou Xiaojun each carried a gong, walking and banging it from opposite ends of the road, shouting loudly: "Secretary Zhu's son got my Zhou Zhaodi pregnant! Go to the secretary's house quickly!"
Most of the villagers were at home, but when they heard there was something interesting to see, they all rushed to the Party Secretary's house.
Zhu Xiaoyu, who was huddled in Widow Qu's house, heard this and hurriedly got off Widow Qu and put on his pants.
He cursed and said, "You Zhou Zhaodi, I told you to abort the child a long time ago, and you dared to scheme against me."
After saying that, he angrily went to cause trouble for Zhou Zhaodi, ignoring the fact that Widow Qu was still feeling lonely.
Gu Yiye was cooking crucian carp and tofu soup when he heard this and chuckled: "So that's how it is."
Zeng Huihuang, after taking a shower and changing his clothes, rushed to Zhu Shengli's house upon hearing the news.
When Zhu Xiaoyu returned home, the courtyard was packed with villagers. Everyone made way for him, as he was the star of the day.
Zhu Xiaoyu walked into the room and saw Zhou Zhaodi crying there. He was furious and cursed, "You filthy bitch, did I force you?"
"You took your pants off and let me have my way with you, and now you're pregnant and trying to blackmail me, huh? You're dreaming. I'd rather marry a widow than marry you."
Zhou Zhaodi is of average appearance, but she is relatively easy to get, so I've had my way with her a few times. I never expected that this bitch would actually try to marry into the family by virtue of her son. No way!
Zhu Shengli was trembling with anger. How could someone as shrewd as himself have given birth to such a fool who admitted to having a relationship with Zhou Zhaodi the moment he opened his mouth?
With a "smack," Zhu Shengli slapped Zhu Xiaoyu across the face, and, fearing he might say something inappropriate again, scolded him, "Go away."
Xiang Hong pulled Zhu Xiaoyu aside: "Son, don't talk nonsense."
When Zhou Erniu heard Zhu Xiaoyu admit it, he was overjoyed.
He said, "Secretary Zhu, look, the child has admitted it. Although our family is poor, our daughter has been raised with a clean conscience. Now that things are like this, let's set a date for the children."
Xiang Hong said, "Zhou Erniu, my son also said that it was your daughter who seduced you. I don't even know if your daughter is with someone else."
Wang Guihua began her performance: "Oh dear, this Party Secretary is bullying the common people!"
"I can't live like this anymore! The Party Secretary is leading the bullying of three generations of poor farmers like us. He's taking advantage of the fact that none of us in the family are officials. My son has taken advantage of my daughter and doesn't want to take responsibility... The Party Secretary's wife is even slandering my daughter's innocence..."
"This is outrageous! Heaven has no eyes!"
In this era, the worst thing is to be labeled as bullying poor farmers.
Secretary Zhu was even more afraid, but he didn't want to compromise and marry a rural daughter-in-law. He and Xiang Hong were already looking for girls from the supply and marketing cooperative for their son.
For the time being, he couldn't come up with anything to say to Wang Guihua, so he could only remain silent.
Yang Wenqing thought that Zhu Shengli was the highest-ranking officer in Anfeng Brigade, so he needed to win him over.
In the future, when I go to the county seat, provincial capital, or even Shanghai and Beijing to do business, it will be much more convenient to ask him for a letter of introduction.
So she stepped forward.
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