"You are a guest, what are you busy with? I just came back to say a few words. I am leaving now. My shop is also very busy during meal time." Chen Xiaoying smiled casually and said to her eldest son Li Hongwei and eldest daughter-in-law Liu Lanxiang next to her: "Come in with me, I have something to tell you."

Li Hongwei has also built a new house, a large bungalow covering an area of ​​more than 180 square meters. The layout inside is the same as the commercial housing in the city, spacious and bright. The living room is furnished with a sofa, a coffee table, and a big red TV cabinet, and the floor is covered with yellow and white tiles.

Chen Xiaoying looked around the room carefully. On the snow-white walls hung the Chairman’s portrait and a world map.

Conditions have improved. No wonder the eldest son Li Hongwei feels that he is more attractive than before. When men can earn money, there must be more women who have feelings for them.

Not to mention the eldest brother Li Hongwei, even the third brother Li Hongqiang, who is a good-for-nothing, can hardly walk with his back straight, is dark, thin, short, not good-looking, and has a mouth full of yellow teeth from smoking. He can still attract a few women who look like toads to cheat him of his money.

"Mom, what's the matter?" Li Hongwei asked.

Liu Lanxiang guessed it in her heart and didn't say anything.

Chen Xiaoying glanced outside and saw Kou Yajuan looking over here, because Li Yutong was talking to her next to her. Even if she wanted to come over to eavesdrop, she couldn't.

"Who is this and why is she eating at our house?"

She asked.

Li Hongwei said, "Oh, her name is Kou Yajuan. She has no land or man at home, so she came out to find some work. Because her home is far away, she can't go back at noon. Our house is empty, so let her eat here at noon, take a nap, and then get up in the afternoon to continue working."

After these words were spoken, not only Liu Lanxiang was depressed, but even Chen Xiaoying felt uncomfortable listening to them.

"Oh, she came to work for you, a country girl. How much did you pay her? And you also provided her with food and accommodation?" Chen Xiaoying didn't want to be angry anymore, but looking at the situation in front of her, she couldn't help being angry.

Li Hongwei didn't care: "What's the point of providing food and accommodation? She just scooped a bowl of whatever we ate, and the food wasn't that good. There was nothing to sleep with either. The room was empty, so she could just sleep."

Chen Xiaoying's face turned cold: "That's not the truth. She doesn't have a man, so you have to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, how bad will people outside say about you?"

"How ugly can it be? It's something I haven't done. I am not afraid of my own shadow. I don't care what anyone says." Li Hongwei is quite powerful.

Liu Lanxiang's eyes were red and she was about to cry, but she didn't dare to say anything, for fear that after her mother-in-law left, Li Hongwei would come back to settle the score with her.

Usually Li Hongwei is a very face-conscious person, just like his father Li Pingwang. Is he not afraid now?

"It's her business that she doesn't have a man. Let's ask her to go back after dinner. There are so many idle people in our village. It would be a shame to hire someone who knows her well. Why do we have to hire her?" Chen Xiaoying didn't want to quarrel with her son because of Kou Yajuan.

How many men don't even listen to their own mothers because of women.

Li Hongwei frowned. Why did everyone want Kou Yajuan to leave, but she didn't do anything?

"Mom, don't be so petty."

Chen Xiaoying was so angry that she laughed: "I am narrow-minded? I just said that when we do work, we need to find someone in the village who knows us well. Am I wrong? Do you know who Kou Yajuan is? Why do you always treat her specially?"

At this point, Li Hongwei thought that Liu Lanxiang must have informed his mother and called her back specifically to deal with Kou Yajuan. His face changed and he glared at Liu Lanxiang fiercely.

Liu Lanxiang was scared: "I didn't tell my mother anything."

"You didn't say it. You wouldn't have said it if you were a mute." Li Hongwei mocked her angrily.

Chen Xiaoying immediately got angry: "She is your wife and you are her man, you should protect her. Why are you siding with outsiders? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

"I stand for what is right, not my relatives." Li Hongwei still refused to admit it.

Chen Xiaoying stared at Li Hongwei with a sullen face without saying a word.

Li Hongwei stiffened his neck. He didn't think he was that kind of person.

Liu Lanxiang looked at her mother-in-law and then at her husband, and she didn't dare to say anything.

After a long while, Chen Xiaoying finally spoke: "I have asked people about this Kou Yajuan. She is a celebrity in Xiaohe Town. Her family is very poor. When she got married, she found a rich family in the town to marry. Why would the rich family like her? Because the son of the rich family was a cripple since childhood. One leg is longer than the other and he walks with crutches."

Li Hongwei's eyes widened when he heard this. This happened in Xiaohe Town, which was a bit far from Lijia Village. He had always been a hard-working person in the village and had never been to Xiaohe Town. He didn't know Kou Yajuan's reputation, and suddenly he heard his mother say that she married a cripple.

"She's quite pitiful then," he said.

Chen Xiaoying looked at him and said, "Don't be impatient. Just listen to me. She married the man of this family first. After a few years, I heard that she slept with her father-in-law. Her husband saw them and they had a fight. Her husband was a cripple and his own father pushed him. He fell headfirst on the steps and broke his head. He died. Her mother-in-law was so angry that she almost went crazy and jumped off the bungalow. She didn't die but broke her bones. During that time, there were quarrels in her family every day. People in Xiaohe Town all knew about her family. They said that they didn't know if her two sons had the same father."

At this point, even Liu Lanxiang's eyes widened: "Is there such a thing?"

Chen Xiaoying looked at her and said, "I haven't finished what I'm saying yet. After her mother-in-law broke her bones, she didn't take care of her, and her father-in-law didn't care either. I heard that she starved to death within half a year. She and her father-in-law were the only ones left at home. People in Xiaohe Town said that the two had been together for a long time."

Li Hongwei's face is now completely black.

As a man with relatively conservative ideas, he felt sick just by thinking about the fact that his father-in-law and daughter-in-law had an affair and killed his husband and mother-in-law.

"This is impossible. Maybe someone made up a lie to ruin her reputation?" He still didn't want to believe it.

Chen Xiaoying snorted, "That's not all. I don't know if it was retribution, but her father-in-law had a cerebral hemorrhage within a year and couldn't be saved. She became a widow with two sons under the age of ten. She wasn't afraid of being a widow, but within two years, she married another man in the town. The man and his wife lived together. His wife died of illness a few years ago. He had no children and was ugly, so it was hard for him to find a partner..."

"Only two years after she got married, her mother-in-law fell off the roof while drying grain and died on the spot. She lived with that man but didn't have any children. One time, the man went out to take out the garbage. He said he didn't see clearly and rolled down the slope. The slope for taking out garbage in Xiaohe Town is very steep, and there are train tracks at the bottom. He was lucky not to fall on the tracks when he fell, but there were many trains passing by. No one heard him no matter how hard he shouted for help. It was snowing in the middle of winter, and he was frozen all night. When people found him the next day, he was stiff."

This is the origin of Kou Yajuan’s two two-story houses.