Chapter 3: Quarrel
With something on her mind, Mrs. Lu had no mind to do anything else.
There wasn't much work to do in the fields recently, so she finished her breakfast and walked towards the village entrance.
There is a big tree at the entrance of Xiaoshi Village, with two stone benches under it. When the elderly in the village have nothing to do, they will gather at the entrance to chat. Sometimes, when there are not enough benches, the chatters will bring their own small benches.
Lu Xing and her old sisters often gathered there to eat melon seeds and chat about gossip in the village.
Because she and Lu Xing don't get along, Old Lady Lu usually doesn't want to go to the village entrance. She chats somewhere else.
If she had a way, she wouldn't want to come to the village entrance either. But when it comes to matchmakers she knows, the most powerful one is Lu Xing's friend Liu Hehua. Because she has a son who is the village chief, she knows the family backgrounds and personalities of the people in several nearby villages very well.
In order to find a good partner for her son, Old Lady Lu went to the village entrance with all her dignity intact.
She had made up her mind that if she met Lu Xing and she said something unpleasant again, she would pretend not to hear it and then curse back after the matter was over.
She felt a little proud when she thought of this. This way, it would not affect her son's affairs, nor would it let that old man take advantage of her.
Just like that, Lu Xing watched Old Lady Lu walking towards her with a twitching look in her eyes and her lips twitching. Such rich facial expressions made her already droopy face even more distorted.
"Lu Xing, I have something to do with Hehua, please move aside." After saying that, she pushed Lu Xing aside and looked at Liu Hehua with a strange expression.
Liu Hehua was originally holding Lu Xing's hand, ready to see how she had recovered after the "ghost encounter" yesterday, but unexpectedly a distorted face suddenly appeared in front of her.
She subconsciously asked, "Judi, have you also been possessed by evil spirits?"
The people chatting nearby were originally gathered together to discuss the nightmare. Seeing this scene, they joined in the commotion. "Judi, your face is twitching like this. What evil spirit has happened to you?"
"Go away, you're the one who's been possessed by evil spirits. I'm here for serious business." Old Lady Lu didn't bother to pay attention to the group's nonsense. She pulled Liu Hehua aside and secretly stuffed something into her mouth. "Hehua, try this."
Liu Hehua opened it and saw the freshly fried pumpkin seeds, still steaming and looking plump. "Your pumpkins are growing well this year, the seeds are all full."
"Yes, I thought the pumpkin looked good when it was growing in the field. When I picked it, I saw that not only was the flesh sweet, but the seeds were also bigger than others."
"Yeah, you know what, it's not easy for these melon seeds to grow like this." Liu Hehua picked up the melon seeds in her hand and started cracking them.
It’s not easy to eat something from Old Lady Lu’s house. I don’t know why she sent me pumpkin seeds today. She just talked about this and that but didn’t get to the point.
It’s true, the pumpkin seeds she fried today have thin skin and big flesh, and they are quite fragrant.
Liu Hehua didn't point it out, and continued talking about pumpkin farming while cracking melon seeds.
Old Lady Lu watched as the melon seeds in Liu Hehua's hand dwindled, but before she could get to the point, she became anxious and pulled Liu Hehua's hand, "Hehua, I'm here to ask for your help."
"Fellow villagers, if there's anything I can help with, just let me know."
"My son Xiaoyu is not young anymore. Can you help me introduce someone to someone?" When Mrs. Lu said this, she never thought that she would be rejected.
In her opinion, her son is good in everything, so he needs to find a girl with good conditions who is worthy of him. Her conditions cannot be worse than the village chief's wife.
"My family's requirements are not high. Just comparable to your Zhengde's wife is enough."
Liu Hehua was almost choked by what Old Lady Lu said. With her son's conditions, it was good enough that there was a girl willing to marry him, but he was acting so arrogantly.
But thinking this in the heart is one thing, and speaking it out loud is another. "Sister-in-law Lu, your husband passed away early, and it's not easy for you to raise two boys alone. If there's anything I can do to help, I will definitely help."
"But I haven't done this for a long time, so I can't give you a definite answer as to whether it will succeed or not."
Mrs. Lu nodded as she listened to the first part of the conversation. Then, she glared at the second part. "My Lu Yu is such a nice guy and good at talking. How come he can't be found?"
The old sisters who had been listening to the gossip silently burst into laughter when they heard Mrs. Lu's shameless words.
One of them said directly, "How dare you say that? Your second child hasn't even grown out his hair yet and he's already been naughty. He's either stepping on other people's land or pulling other people's cows."
"When he grew up, he would squat in front of the vegetable stall. I thought he had grown up and become sensible."
"As a result, do you know what that boy said?" The aunt who spoke looked around, and the sudden pause attracted everyone's attention.
Everyone looked at her, a little curious about what Lu Yu would say.
"That boy squatted at the vegetable stall to watch the young wives buying vegetables. He would go to watch whichever family bends down to pick vegetables." After all, there was a young wife present, so the aunt did not say it too bluntly, but just glanced at the collar of the clothes hintingly.
No one was stupid, they all understood what she meant when they saw her. Several people's eyes instantly became strange, and some young wives even tightened their clothes.
At first, Old Mrs. Lu stood by and ignored everyone's words. After all, every son had been naughty when they were young, and those words were just said out of jealousy.
But what Huang Liye said was, to put it bluntly, hooliganism. In the early years when the law was strictly enforced, the crime of hooliganism was punishable by death.
Although she is much better now, Old Lady Lu has witnessed the fate of those people with her own eyes. Especially after Huang Liye finished speaking, some people looked at her with strange eyes.
If she doesn't resolve this matter today, how will her son find a partner?
So she rushed forward, grabbed Huang Liye's hair and started to curse, "Huang Liye, you bitch, you dirty bastard, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart and throw you into the cesspool."
The other party was not one to take offense. Huang Liye slapped back, relying on her youth and strength to pin Old Lady Lu down and beat her. "You're not allowed to tell the truth? You treat your son like a treasure, despite his poor character."
The few people who tried to stop the fight were no match for the two men's fighting power and were also dragged in. It instantly turned into a melee with curses mingling in between.
Lu Xing looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and couldn't reconcile it with his previous memories.
In his previous life, Lu Yu’s blind date didn’t seem to have caused such a big stir at this time. There was no news about it in the village, and he suddenly got engaged and married.
They quarreled so much that they finally called over the village chief who was working in the fields. Seeing that his mother was standing aside and not the main force in the fight, the village chief breathed a sigh of relief.
When he saw the two people fighting the most, he couldn't help but feel a headache again, "What are you two fighting about again?"
Neither of them would give in, and they almost started arguing. The person who was trying to take sides was also busy talking.
"Stop! Talk one by one!"
The village chief still had some authority when he spoke with a stern face, and everyone else kept silent.
Mrs. Lu held it in for a long time before finally saying, "She...she said bad things about my son."
"What bad words? Aunt Ye, don't say nonsense."
"Bah, you are the one telling lies. I saw with my own eyes her son looking at his young wife in the vegetable market..." Things seemed to have gotten a little out of hand, and she didn't dare to utter the last few words.
Old Mrs. Lu next to her hated Huang Liye to death. She felt that this woman just couldn't stand what her youngest son had said before and was deliberately taking revenge.
The village chief almost couldn't stop her from rushing forward to scratch people.
Because one side was speaking vaguely, while the other side rushed up to hit someone without saying a word, there was no way to communicate. The village chief had no choice but to drag everyone to the fields to work, and have someone supervise both sides the whole time.
Farming is the most important thing in the world. If there are any conflicts, wait until you finish your work and calm down before resolving them.
Then he went to his mother privately to find out what happened.
Only Liu Hehua could talk to him about this.
The mother and son went home to discuss how to deal with the matter. Those who were arguing and those who were watching the fun went to the fields to farm.
Only Lu Xing was still sitting on the bench at the entrance of the village, thinking about the farce he had just witnessed.
[Host, was your life so wonderful before? ]
System 66 also likes to read gossip. When the two people were fighting just now, it hid in Lu Xing's mind and made all kinds of exclamations.
"Not really... Are you sure I was really reborn? Didn't I travel to some parallel universe?"
Lu Xing thought about her memory. The gossips her sisters talked about were either about whose vegetables were lost or whose grandchildren were successful. Even gossip like divorce could be passed on for more than ten years, which shows how peaceful Xiaoshi Village is usually.
I thought I would live a peaceful life after this rebirth, but I didn't expect to know two such big pieces of gossip as soon as I arrived.
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