Just as Meng Xiao said, the husbands of those women did come to him one after another the next day.
"Old Meng, my wife at home is ignorant. Look, she made my sister-in-law angry yesterday and didn't dare to go home until midnight. It was only after I went out to look for her that she burst into tears and told me what happened."
Meng Xiao twirled the pen in his hand carelessly, his tone calm and emotionless:
"It's okay, my wife will be fine after a few days, so don't worry about it."
Liu Shan only felt his eyebrows twitching several times. What did he mean by his wife would be fine after a few days and asked his sister-in-law not to worry about it?
The implication is that my wife is angry, and she is very angry. It will take her several days to calm down.
"I scolded her when I got home yesterday. Why did she have to learn something else but to imitate other gossipy women and make up stories out of nothing? She was spreading rumors and causing trouble!
She also knew she was wrong. She didn't sleep all night yesterday and said she would go to the house with her sister-in-law to apologize at noon today! It's almost noon now, so she should have gone."
Meng Xiao didn't say anything. He was wondering if Shen Qingli would suffer a loss at their hands. His hands tapped lightly on the table.
The room was so quiet that even the slightest knock on the table felt like knocking on their hearts.
"My wife should go too. She knows what she did was wrong. Meng Tuan, those things are just rumors they heard from others. They just have big mouths and spread everything without knowing the truth. You and your sister-in-law must not be angry, or we will be guilty of a great sin."
The one who was speaking now was Zhang Jiefang. He looked at Meng Xiao, who still had an expressionless face, and gently nudged Wu Wen's shoulder, motioning him to continue.
Wu Wen was originally introverted and not good at speaking. Now it was much harder for him to speak than to do anything else. He gritted his teeth and stammered.
"Meng Tuan, just...just tell me how you and your sister-in-law can calm down. My wife got beaten yesterday, and I'm afraid she won't be able to get out of bed today."
Meng Xiao finally showed some reaction. He raised his eyes and frowned at him, his expression and tone full of complexity: "Did you hit your wife?"
In Meng Xiao's impression, he had heard a lot of stories about men beating their wives, but they were just hearsay and he didn't know whether they were true or not.
I didn't expect that Wu Wen, who usually looked honest and simple, would beat his wife for such a small thing and say it in front of several people in the room.
He couldn't understand it. In his opinion, isn't a wife meant to be loved? Why beat her?
Wu Wen stiffened his neck, his face flushed red. "She embarrassed me. Why shouldn't I beat her? She spoiled me so much that I dared to cause trouble outside!"
He looked so self-righteous and confident that Meng Xiao couldn't help frowning.
He didn't know that Wu Lian, known as a good guy, also had a tendency to domestic violence and was a male chauvinist.
"My wife and I haven't had any disputes yet, why did you hit her? Are you blaming us?"
Wu Wen's skin color was not white to begin with, and now his face turned red: "No, blame her! Not you guys."
Meng Xiao's lips tightened, and he suddenly didn't want to talk to him anymore. It was not easy to change one's mindset, and he had no right to influence other people's thoughts.
However, as his immediate superior, he could still give some guidance in the future. He decided to let Wu Wen write a review of the next ideological and moral education lecture.
He picked up the cup, took a sip of water, and waved the cup towards the door.
"Go back, everyone. Stop thinking about nonsense all day long. Leading your subordinates well is more important than anything else! Work hard, and anyone of you can take my position."
Although he was younger than them, he had the aura of a superior, and his handsome face looked at them with dignity without anger.
Please forgive Meng Xiao for not being able to be friendly to them at this moment.
Now he just wanted them to leave quickly. It was time for him to go back and see his little girl, and he wanted them to make sure she wasn't bullied.
The little girl he was worried about was sitting in the yard cracking melon seeds.
"If you eat too many melon seeds just by cracking them with your lips, you'll feel thirsty." Shen Qingli picked up the cup and took a sip of water.
The two people next to them echoed, "Yes, yes, yes." The melon seeds that Shen Qingli gave them were indeed delicious, but now they tasted like chewing wax.
They also apologized, and Shen Qingli asked them to sit down and gave them some melon seeds.
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was so powerful, but it turned out that he could be coaxed into submission with just two words.
"I just talk too much, isn't that just thirsty? Don't you think so?"
The two of them realized that they were talking too much, but they still responded with a stiff upper lip.
"Sisters-in-law, please take the eggs and noodles with you before you leave. Take them back for the children. We have everything at home, and we're not well off. Take them back later.
Aunt Liu will prepare the meal soon. My two sisters-in-law, please don't leave at noon. Just eat something here and don't be disgusted."
Shen Qingli looked at the five eggs and a pound of noodles the two men had brought. They even brought the same things, so they must have discussed this before coming.
After Meng Xiao's counseling yesterday, she was indeed not as angry anymore, but she really didn't want these things.
On the one hand, as she said, it is true that everyone is not rich and life is not easy, and egg noodles are precious things.
On the one hand, she really didn't need these things, so she let them take them back so that they wouldn't have to say outside that the Meng family's daughter-in-law took them in.
They both knew they were being told to leave. They had come to apologize, so how could they really eat here? They absolutely couldn't take these things back.
The two of them looked at each other and stood up to say goodbye to Shen Qingli. Of course, Shen Qingli had to pretend to keep them.
The two of them smelled the aroma of meat cooking in the kitchen and swallowed their saliva secretly, but they had to suppress their greed and pretended to refuse.
Ah! How painful! They don't want to leave! They want to eat meat! They don't mind! They don't mind!
They cook with meat! I just smelled two meat dishes. Do they have three meat dishes for a meal? I want to eat it! I'm so greedy!
What a wonderful life they are living!
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