She paused deliberately, waiting for seven or eight more heads to gather around her before continuing, "That girl from Old Wang's family..." She swallowed the words back as they reached her lips, "Well, go read the notice yourselves!"
Xie Dazui's tactic of being hesitant to speak was very clever and kept the neighbors' appetite high.
The crowd rushed towards the bulletin board.
"Make way! I have good eyesight!" Fatty Sun, who runs a grocery store, arched his beer belly and pushed forward like a pig fighting for food.
He narrowed his green eyes and read word by word: "After investigation...that...the hospital certificate..."
When I got to the key point, I suddenly got stuck and scratched my head in anxiety.
"Oh! Fatty Sun, you should read more clearly!" The young wife of the Yang family stamped her feet anxiously in the back, "What on earth is written?"
She simply rolled up her sleeves, pushed Fatty Sun aside, and moved forward herself.
This sight was not a big deal, but Sister Yang gasped, her voice suddenly rising eight octaves: "Oh my dear mother! Oh my dear mother! Shanshan from Old Wang's family kicked the baby in her belly!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole street started to boil like a pot of porridge with the lid lifted off!
People were saying all sorts of things, and most of them were pointing fingers at Wang Shanshan.
"No way, the Wang family's affairs have been notified at the police station?" Some people in the crowd raised doubts.
"I don't believe it!" Mrs. Liu, the tofu seller, slapped her thigh. "How can the Wang family be considered as such? The police station even gave them a certificate?"
"What? That's not the case at all!" Aunt Chen, who had first-hand resources, said slowly while eating melon seeds!
"What? What do you know? Tell us!" Everyone was attracted by Aunt Chen's words.
Aunt Chen spat out the melon seed shells and lowered her voice mysteriously: "This story has to start from three days ago..."
She deliberately dragged out her words, waiting for everyone around her to prick up their ears before continuing, "Wang Shanshan from the Wang family got pregnant, so she went to Mule Alley with her belly sticking out, insisting it was Li Mingyu's child. Guess what?"
"What?"
“People don’t recognize it!
The police station took the man to the health center for a checkup. Now, this is to clear his name!"
"Bah!" Aunt Wu, who was wearing the same pants as Wang Chunlan and had her cauliflower hair permed next to her, curled her lips. "The baby is still in the belly, how are you checking? I'm afraid it's not related to her!"
Before she could finish her words, Xie Dazui squeezed over, waving a piece of pink paper in his hand: "You are illiterate. Look at this! You didn't even read the flyers handed out by the Women's Federation!!"
Science is so advanced nowadays, there is nothing a hospital can't find out after a checkup!
She deliberately emphasized the word "check." "The man has that... that penis, so there's something wrong with it. He can't do anything bad! So, can Wang Shanshan just blow on her belly and get it up?"
The crowd immediately let out a long "Oh~~" sound. Several old ladies covered their mouths and laughed secretly, while the old men awkwardly changed the subject.
"If you ask me," Xie Dazui said, getting more and more excited, "Old Wang's daughter must have been raped by someone, and now they're desperate to find a father for the child, so they've got to stick to someone like that. It's over at Mule Alley!"
Once these words were spoken, they aroused the gossip of the masses!
"I think they were fooled by Boss Yu's nephew! I saw them sneaking around behind the supply and marketing cooperative last month!"
Aunt Qian, who had just returned from shopping, immediately chimed in: "That's right! During the twelfth lunar month, I saw that boy stuffing Shanshan with vanishing cream!"
"I thought so! On the night of the fifteenth of last month, I saw with my own eyes the girl from Old Wang's family coming out of the grove west of the city with her hair all messed up!"
"That's right! I even heard a motorcycle revving at the entrance of the alley in the middle of the night. It was so noisy that my hens couldn't lay an egg!"
"You are talking about old calendars before the Xianfeng period!" Old man Zheng, the shoe repairman, put his awl on his belt.
"A few nights ago, I closed my stall late and clearly saw Old Zhao's son bringing her home!"
The crowd's chatter grew louder and louder, and the stories became more and more outrageous.
By the time the news reached the Wang family, it had become "Wang Shanshan and Yu Xiaohu were caught in bed in the textile factory warehouse!"
Xie Dazui was eating melon seeds, squinting his eyes, watching the excitement.
She said that her ability to stir up trouble had improved, and she wanted to go to Fang'er and talk to her about the situation here.
Xie Dazui took advantage of the chaos to get away!
I'll have to go to Li Guifang to ask for a cup of tea later. The two of them worked together perfectly in today's scene.
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When Wang Chunlan rushed out with a broom in her hand, the old ladies were talking loudly.
Even Aunt Wu, who was having her cauliflower head boiled, changed sides.
What a joke! When it comes to gossip, there are no sisters! Besides, Wang Chunlan is not here. When the news gets to her, she will help to curse.
Aunt Wu pinched her voice and imitated Wang Shanshan's words: "Hey, Brother Xiaohu, I want that, I want that, can you buy it for me, please!"
The old ladies nearby were laughing so hard that they were bent over, revealing their corn teeth.
"You damn bastards, I'll tear your mouths apart!"
Wang Chunlan was so angry that she swung the broom and smashed it down on her head with a loud whistling sound.
Aunt Wu couldn't dodge in time, and half a rotten vegetable leaf was hanging on her newly permed hair, like a moving garbage dump.
"Ah, murder!" Aunt Wu, with her messy hair, ran around in the crowd. She kicked over someone's kettle, and the water spilled all over the floor.
Shoemaker Zheng, who was watching the fun, slipped and fell head over heels. The old cloth shoes in his hand flew out and hit Fatty Sun on his shiny forehead.
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