Chen Qiuxiang, who was beaten black and blue and had to pay compensation, suddenly had an epiphany. Yes!
Isn't the reason why she spread all these gossips because Jiang Li's cousin Jiang Hongmei gossiped about her in front of her?
"It was Jiang Hongmei. She made it sound very convincing. I just spread it based on what she said!"
Chen Qiuxiang didn't want to lose money, so she bought two kilograms of pork with two yuan.
If there is any compensation, it should be Jiang Hongmei who should pay it. What does it have to do with me? She was taken advantage of!
Jiang Li snorted coldly. As expected, Jiang Hongmei could not stay quiet for a few days and started to act like a demon.
"Why should I trust you? Go confront Jiang Hongmei."
Jiang Hongmei, who was sorting dirty clothes in the house, sneezed and her back suddenly felt cold. She looked vigilantly at Zhuang Guoliang who was snoring on the bed.
Fortunately, he turned over and fell asleep again.
Jiang Hongmei breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes falling on the basket in the corner of the room. She took a bag and felt it, smelling the fishy smell of lard mixed with pig blood.
Sure enough, Zhuang Guoliang went to sell pork again yesterday.
Then he must have money.
She looked around and carefully searched for the dirty pants that Zhuang Guoliang had thrown under the bed, but nothing was there.
Jacket pockets, no.
She touched every brick in the house and even looked at the rat's nest in the corner.
There is not a penny at all. Could it be that Zhuang Guoliang has it with him?
She sat on the edge of the bed and saw a bulging bag on Zhuang Guoliang's waist.
His heart suddenly started beating wildly. Jiang Hongmei could not help but reach out to touch it. When her fingertips landed on Zhuang Guoliang's waist, a pair of cold eyes opened and met hers.
Zhuang Guoliang grabbed her wrist and squeezed it hard. Jiang Hongmei couldn't struggle and heard the sound of her wrist cracking. "Guoliang, let me go. My body hurts..."
"Why, I haven't done anything to you in a few days, and you're craving for men again? You can't help it, and you want to climb into my bed again?"
Zhuang Guoliang's face was full of mockery and ridicule. He pushed Jiang Hongmei to the ground, turned over and stood up, and his words were full of ice, "Take it off!"
Jiang Hongmei's face was covered with tears and she lay paralyzed on the ground, unable to move.
Seeing that she didn't move, Zhuang Guoliang pulled her over and started to tear her apart. Jiang Hongmei struggled subconsciously, "Let me go."
"Why, are you pretending to be a chaste woman in front of me now? Have you forgotten how you climbed into my bed that day and how slutty you were in bed?"
Zhuang Guoliang did not hold back at all. He had no sympathy for this bad woman who forced him to marry her and ruined his life.
Jiang Hongmei was soon naked, but Zhuang Guoliang snorted coldly and pushed her down on the bed, "Do you think I will touch you? I hate dirty things!"
He picked up his pants that were lying on the side and walked out without even closing the door.
Jiang Hongmei was left shedding tears of humiliation, her face filled with despair.
She barely covered herself with the bed sheet and picked up the torn clothes to mend them. Two children rushed in from outside, and Zhuang Xiaobao had an egg in his pocket.
"Hey, I told you to go feed the chickens! If you stay on the bed, I'm going to beat you."
Zhuang Xiaoyu also asked, "Stepmother, do you have anything to eat?"
Without waiting for Jiang Hongmei to reply, she immediately went up and rummaged through the dowry box that Jiang Hongmei had brought.
The quilt and money inside were turned out. Jiang Hongmei hurried over to stop him, "Xiaoyu, don't mess with my things."
Seeing the pile of money in the parcel, Zhuang Xiaoyu's eyes rolled, and she smiled and said deliberately, "Stepmother, you should hurry out, or grandma will be angry."
Outside, she heard the sound of Zhao Xiangyu throwing things around. Jiang Hongmei's hair stood on end. She quickly rushed the two children out, put the things back where they were, and went out.
Wu Meili was rebuked as soon as she went out. She stopped sweeping the yard with the broom and said, "Some people are just shameless. They hide and do nothing, and just tire us, the sharp eyes."
I wish I was as lucky as my fourth brother and his wife, just waiting for food with my mouth open every day."
Cheng Yanyan covered her mouth and laughed, occasionally taking out a dried flower from her pocket and chewing it, "Who said it wasn't?"
Jiang Hongmei was furious, but there was nothing she could do. Under Zhao Xiangyu's murderous gaze, she went to feed the chickens and pigs.
"Let's go. I want to confront Jiang Hongmei face to face. It wasn't me who said those words. Why should I pay for them?"
The noise outside was getting louder and louder. Jiang Hongmei stuck her head out and looked outside. She was almost scared to death.
Chen Qiuxiang walked in front, followed by Jiang Li and her mother-in-law, as well as many members who came to watch the excitement and the team leader Qi Yupeng.
Jiang Hongmei subconsciously threw the chicken feeder away and tried to hide back in the house, but Wu Meili grabbed her and said, "Fourth brother's wife, where are you going when you haven't finished this job yet?"
The delay was just a short while before Chen Qiuxiang and her gang came into the yard. When she saw Jiang Hongmei, she immediately rushed over and grabbed her collar.
"You bastard, you tricked me into thinking I was your servant, and you deliberately said in front of me that Jiang Li was having an affair in Dashuping, but in fact you were jealous that your sister had a good marriage!"
I have to say that Chen Qiuxiang became much smarter after her mind turned around, and she figured out the trick immediately.
Jiang Hongmei denied it reluctantly, "How can I say that? I have never said such a thing. Don't talk nonsense!"
Chen Qiuxiang grabbed Jiang Hongmei's neck and said, "Well, you bitch, you don't even admit it.
The other day you told me that you were willing to sacrifice your own family for the sake of justice because you couldn't stand the fact that Jiang Li was not a faithful wife and was deceiving Qi Qiang, so you stood up and exposed her true colors."
"Do you have evidence? Who saw it?" Jiang Hongmei was not to be outdone and also grabbed Chen Qiuxiang's hair.
"You said it was? I said you threw dirty water on me on purpose!"
The two had a fight and rolled around in the chicken shit-filled yard, pulling each other's hair. Originally, Jiang Hongmei was not at all against Chen Qiuxiang.
But Chen Qiuxiang had just been beaten black and blue, and her strength was greatly reduced, but Jiang Hongmei, out of anger, actually fought her on equal terms.
In the end, both of them ended up in a bad situation. The captain yelled at them to stop and gave them five lashes each.
"Chen Qiuxiang, you still like to gossip at such an old age. And you, Jiang Hongmei, you have a bad character to begin with, but you still keep your tail between your legs and stir up a bad reputation."
"There will be a meeting tomorrow. All four of you must come up and make self-examinations.
Especially Jiang Hongmei, you should write a more profound self-review. If the public is dissatisfied, you will be punished again."
"Captain, you can make a self-examination, but I won't pay for it!"
Chen Qiuxiang felt as if her flesh was being rubbed by a blunt knife. "I have to compensate this dead girl. I'm not the only one who said this. Jiang Hongmei also said it."
Qi Yupeng glared at her and said, "You were heard spreading gossip, and there are people who can testify to it. You said Jiang Hongmei said it, but she denied it, and there is no one to testify to it.
Well, the compensation is still two dollars per family, hurry up.
After making such a fuss all morning, are you not going to go to work?"
Chen Qiuxiang gritted her teeth and took out two yuan from her underwear pocket. Tao Xiaofeng went home and handed over the money.
Sun Xiufang said she had no money. "My son-in-law is out gambling all day. We don't even have rice at home. How can I pay him?"