She followed the sound and turned right into another alley, where she saw several people gathered at the gate of a house, and the arguing was coming from inside.
As she got closer, she also heard a girl crying.
She glanced at it twice and was about to leave when the group of people who had been watching the commotion at the gate of the house suddenly scattered.
Then two women rushed out one after the other. The stronger woman in front screamed, her face filled with terror.
The tall, thin woman behind her was holding a kitchen knife, her face terribly gloomy, looking like a vengeful ghost crawling out of hell to claim lives.
Seeing the two running towards her, Yu Qiuying quickly ran away.
"Aaaaaah!" A terrifying scream rang out.
It was the tall, thin woman who hurled the kitchen knife in her hand, hitting the woman in front of her who was trying to escape.
"Song Qin, if you ever dare to covet my house again, I'll kill your whole family!" The tall, thin woman gasped as she picked up the kitchen knife from the ground.
Just then, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old ran over crying.
"Waaah... Mom, Mom, are you alright? Don't be impulsive! If you really kill Auntie, the police will arrest you. Mom, don't leave me! I'm scared, waaah..." The girl hugged the tall, thin woman tightly, her face full of unease and helplessness.
The tall, thin woman didn't say anything, but with a stern face, she pulled the girl back.
As the courtyard gate was closed, the group of people nearby began to whisper among themselves.
"This eldest son's wife is going too far. She's still eyeing the second son's house after all this time. The eldest son doesn't even care about his wife. He's really going to bully the second son's widow and her children to death!"
"If you ask me, it's all because of that incident. If the second son's wife had taken good care of the child and hadn't thought about remarrying, the eldest son's wife wouldn't have made such a fuss. It's because the second son's wife wants to be with the deaf old woman's youngest son, and she doesn't have a son. The eldest son and his wife are probably afraid that the deaf old woman's youngest son will take over the house."
"So what if Yuping doesn't have a son? This house is still hers even if she doesn't have a son. What does her remarriage have to do with her brother-in-law's family? This is a new society now, and the old ways don't apply anymore. Yuping's husband has been dead for five years, and she's only in her early thirties. Do they really want her to live as a widow for the rest of her life?"
"That's right. I think it's just that Song Laoda and his wife want to take over Yuping's house. If you ask me, since she's already decided to remarry, she might as well sell the house and save Song Laoda and his wife from always eyeing it."
"You make it sound so easy. These days, houses aren't so easy to sell. No matter how cheap this house is, it'll still cost at least 20,000 or 30,000. Who in our area would be willing to spend that much money to buy her house?"
"That's true. I did consider buying her house, but you know my family's situation. Let alone 20,000 or 30,000, we can't even come up with 2,000 or 3,000. Sigh..."
Yu Qiuying was about to leave when she heard the conversation between the two women behind her and immediately stopped.
She stepped forward and asked the two men with a smile, "Hello, comrades. I just heard you say that someone here wants to sell a house. Is that true?"
As she spoke, she quickly took out a handful of sunflower seeds from her pocket and distributed them to the two of them.
"Oh, you're not from around here, are you? You look unfamiliar." A woman in her early fifties with a rather thin and long face took the sunflower seeds Yu Qiuying offered and immediately started cracking them open. However, the other woman didn't answer her question right away but instead looked her up and down.
Another short woman didn't take the melon seeds Yu Qiuying offered, but instead frowned at Yu Qiuying and asked, "You want to buy a house?"
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