Chapter 17 This Girl is Really Crazy
Xia Jinhua held the baby in her arms and hummed a little tune softly.
She looked out the window from time to time, waiting for her two daughters who were working at the stall to come home.
People were coming in and out of the compound, each busy with their own things.
When people who know each other meet, they chat for a while.
Some unpleasant words reached Xia Jinhua's ears.
"I advise you not to matchmake Xueli. She had affairs when she went to the countryside and had several miscarriages."
Zhao Hongye grabbed the woman who had just entered the courtyard and said, "You introduced such an unclean girl to him, which is a betrayal to the man's family!"
"Xue Li... No way? I don't think she's that kind of kid."
"She was a good kid, but she's been away from home for so many years. Do you know what happened to her?"
Zhao Hongye said firmly: "Listen to me, find another girl for the boy's family!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, that's outrageous."
Liu Guanglei walked over, poured the dirty water from washing vegetables in the basin at the two people's feet, then turned around and went back to the pool.
"Kid, what's wrong with you!" Zhao Hongye's black cloth shoes were mostly wet.
She stamped her feet and glared at Liu Guanglei in dissatisfaction: "Leizi, if you have any opinions about me, just say it directly. What's the point of doing these little tricks?"
Liu Guanglei stood straight and said expressionlessly: "I didn't, it was an accident. Yes, yes, I'm sorry..."
Is this carelessness?
I thought she had no eyes!
"It's so hard to talk." Zhao Hongye waved her hand, too lazy to argue with Keba.
This guy was just speaking up for Xue Li.
What a fool, why does he like such a slut when there are any other girls he can like?
Old Mrs. Tang heard such gossip several times that day. Zhao Hongye even came up to her and said something sarcastic, which made the old lady very angry.
She couldn't help it in the end. Seeing that Tang Xueli didn't come back, she rushed straight to the second brother's house and blamed Xia Jinhua.
"You coward, you can't even give birth to a son, and you can't teach a girl well!"
"The second brother was so blind to marry you. You are such a jinx. Ever since you married into our family, nothing good has happened to us, the Tang family."
"You are such a shameless person. You still want to have a child at your age. Your daughter is even more shameless. She has an affair with someone else. Ugh!"
The old lady was afraid that others might hear her, so she didn't dare to speak too loudly, but her roar was quite powerful, with spit flying everywhere, and she tapped Xia Jinhua's nose with her finger.
Xia Jinhua's eyes were red, and she held back her tears as she said, "Xue Li would not do those things. They are all lies. Don't believe them. Xue Li would not do that. I believe she is a good child."
"You think she won't do it? If that girl hadn't done it, how could such a rumor spread? As the old saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs."
Old Madam Tang sat down on the bed, calmed down, and said, "Hurry up and arrange a marriage for Xueli. Find a man from a distant family to avoid gossip."
Girls like this need to be taken away quickly. They will be a nuisance if they are kept at home for one more day.
Xia Jinhua said anxiously, "Mom, Xueli can't get married. She wants to go to college, so she has to go to school for another year."
"Studying for college?" Old Mrs. Tang sneered, "You guys are really good at dreaming. Can you just go to college casually? Don't you think about your own abilities? Li Mei's grades are so good, but she still hasn't passed the exam!"
Xia Jinhua lowered her head and said in a low voice but with an extremely firm tone, "Xue Li will pass the exam."
Old Madam Tang curled her lips and said, "Come on! A girl like her who casually has affairs with men can get into college. If she gets into college, she will be able to get into Yihonglou or Lichunyuan."
"Grandma, don't say that." Tang Xueli walked in from outside with a cold face, "Be careful that someone reports you for slander and defamation. If you are locked up, no one will be able to save you."
Old Mrs. Tang stared and muttered silently: I was not wrong.
"Grandpa hasn't come back yet?" Tang Xueli changed the subject.
Old Mrs. Tang was stunned for a moment. Why did they suddenly mention the old man?
The old man never comes home all day. A few days ago, he kept asking for meat. The eldest brother paid for him to go to a restaurant, and he was barely appeased by eating steamed dumplings, braised pork and fried small yellow croaker.
He is an old man, but he acts like a child.
Look, it’s already seven or eight o’clock, it’s almost dark, and the person hasn’t come back yet.
"I don't know what kind of bird Grandpa is walking. Why is he still walking outside so late?" Tang Xueli said casually, "I heard that birds are usually walked in the morning! Grandpa seems to often walk outside at night. I really don't know what kind of bird it is."
“…” It was impossible for Old Mrs. Tang not to hear the hidden meaning behind these words.
But she couldn't show that she understood.
After choking for a long time, he could only utter three words: "Shameless!"
"This is probably because the top beam is crooked, the bottom beam is crooked, right?" Tang Xueli smiled, "Grandma, it's all your fault for marrying the wrong person."
Old Mrs. Tang had never seen such a quarrel before, and she was a little confused.
She stood up and prepared to go back to the house.
Tang Xueli said to her back, "If you come to this room to bully my mother again, I will smash your antique clock."
Old Mrs. Tang turned her head and looked at her with horror in her eyes.
This girl is really crazy.
What a misfortune for this family!
Tang Shuangshuang was very perceptive and felt that her mother and sister wanted to talk to each other in private, so she went out alone to wash the pots, bowls and dishes on the stall.
I didn't forget to close the door when I left the house.
"Xue Li, are you okay?" Xia Jinhua felt sorry for her daughter.
Any girl would feel very uncomfortable if she were to hear such gossip.
"I'm fine." Tang Xueli was really fine.
What she cared about was that her mother would be hurt.
Tang Xueli thought for a moment and asked, "Mom, do you want to move out and live on your own?"
So as to avoid being bullied and wronged here.
Xia Jinhua rocked the well-behaved baby in her arms and sighed softly, "I'm used to living here."
She couldn't tell the real reason.
If I move out, where can I go?
How do they, mother and daughter, live?
If you move without a reason, the gossip will definitely be unpleasant.
She doesn't care and will just endure it, but her daughters are still young and shouldn't have to endure this.
Tang Xueli understood her mother's concerns.
Yes, this is their home, a nice slum, why would they want to escape?
Those who should move out are those who don't deserve to live here.
After figuring this out, Tang Xueli's mood became much brighter.
"Mom, don't take anything they say to heart. They will get their comeuppance."
Tang Xueli comforted her mother with a few words.
Xia Jinhua laughed when she heard this, "This is what I, as your mother, should say to you! Why are you comforting me instead?"
Tang Xueli followed suit and laughed: "It's good to pretend to be an adult occasionally."
Xia Jinhua gently touched her daughter's hair and said, "My daughter has grown up. She is growing up beautifully and getting more and more beautiful."
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