Chapter 159: Had a fight?
Li Wanyue shook her head: "I'm fine. Sir Xie followed me. Is there something you want to see me for?"
Xie Yan looked at her, and her attitude towards him seemed to have become a little colder.
I don’t know whether she was sad because of Li Shuangshuang’s divorce or because I didn’t tell her the truth about my identity.
Xie Yan explained in a gentle tone: "There's no need to be so distant between us. I don't want to hide anything from you. I just want us to get along more easily. No matter who I am, I am your... friend."
"You are joking, sir. I am just a commoner, how can I be your friend? If you have something to say, just tell me directly."
Xie Yan paused, stared at her for a moment, and said, "Can you please not call me like that? Just call me by my name, or just do it like before."
Li Wanyue did not answer and asked him, "What are you doing here?"
Seeing that she was avoiding the question, Xie Yan did not force her and only said, "It's about the thresher. I have asked someone to make it and sent it to you today. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. It's a coincidence."
Li Wanyue's eyebrows moved and she looked at him: "Thank you for helping Shuangshuang today, and thank you for making the thresher for me. I'll give you whatever you want."
Xie Yan avoided answering and walked towards Li's house. He asked, "You came up with such a good tool. Can I report it to the court?"
"Can."
Even if he is not allowed to report it, someone else will see it and report it to the higher-ups, unless her family does not want to use it.
Her answer was within Xie Yan's expectations.
He thanked her sincerely.
Li Wanyue tried the thresher and it worked very finely.
Xie Yan didn't stay for too long as he had other things to deal with, so he left.
Li Sandong approached Li Wanyue and asked in a low voice: "Sister, did you have a fight with Master Xie?"
"Don't talk nonsense. There's nothing for me and him to argue about."
"Then why are you so cold to him? You weren't like this before."
"You're talking as if I was so passionate about him in the past. Isn't it always like this?"
"It wasn't like this before, sister. Do you remember that the person who made things difficult for Miss Qin last time said that my sister was the county lord's favorite, and that's why she was so cold to Mr. Xie?"
Li Wanyue ignored him.
Li Sandong sighed: "I don't know if there is a misunderstanding. After spending some time with him, I think Mr. Xie is a good person. Sometimes I even think he might like you. Now that he has become the county magistrate, it should be impossible for you to be with him."
Li Wanyue looked at him in surprise. When did you become an emotional expert?
She asked, “How did you know that?”
"Sometimes he looks at you differently than he looks at others. He is also very attentive to you and gives you a handkerchief. Last time the Qian family wanted to arrest us, he helped teach those people a lesson. It seems that he is very worried about you."
Li Wanyue thought for a moment and said, "Have you seen how he treats other girls? Didn't he also go to Baiweilou for dinner with a woman during the last temple fair?"
Li Sandong frowned and thought, forget it, he is an official and they are ordinary people, the gap is too big.
But the good thing is that at least they know someone in the government office.
Kaoshan Village
At the intelligence gathering place at the entrance of the village, everyone knew that the Liu family went to Daohua Village to seek justice.
An auntie asked while fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan: "Do you think they can bring Li back?"
"Why not? She already has two daughters, can they still get a divorce?"
"What's a daughter? Liu Zhaocai is going to have a son soon. Will he care about two girls? I heard that the Liu family wants to marry Widow Chen as a daughter-in-law and Li Shuangshuang as a concubine to serve their family."
"This is too much bullying. If my daughter or my wife treated her like this, I would go to her house and beat her up."
A woman sneered, "Mrs. Ma's nephew works in the county government. If you knock on his door, he will throw you into jail. I think Mrs. Li will have no choice but to return home."
As they were talking, they saw a group of people entering the village. They were none other than the Liu family.
But looking at his dejected look, it doesn't look like he has brought the person here.
When they got closer, they didn't see Li Shuangshuang, so they asked hurriedly, "Didn't Jincai's mother go to pick up the second son's wife? Why didn't she come back? And where's your Zhaocai? Why is she gone?"
Ma Pozi said impatiently: "Li is a jinx, disobedient and unfilial. We don't want such a person to be our concubine even if it means bringing wealth to our family. We have divorced her and she is no longer the daughter-in-law of our Liu family."
"And the child?"
"We don't want these two money-losing goods. We'll give them to the Li family."
"What about your family's Zhaocai? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
"What does it have to do with you? You have nothing to do because you have eaten too much." Mrs. Ma was feeling annoyed and was about to leave.
The woman who followed to watch the fun said that the two had divorced, and it was Li Shuangshuang who proposed it.
Mrs. Cui, who was sitting nearby, already had a grudge against Mrs. Ma because Mrs. Ma instigated her to ask Li Wanyue for money, causing her family to pay compensation.
Now that I have the chance, I must teach her a lesson.
Mrs. Cui looked at Mrs. Ma and said sarcastically, "Oh, Mrs. Ma, we are all from the same village. Why are you hiding this from us? Just get a divorce. Anyway, your second son is going to marry Widow Chen soon. He already has a wife and grandchildren. What are you unhappy about?"
Everyone covered their mouths and laughed.
Mrs. Ma rolled her eyes at her and said, "Yes, I am very happy. You should be worried about your daughter. She dresses up all day and walks around the village. She always goes to the county, twisting her waist. She looks like a girl from a brothel. Is she going to the county to do serious work? Otherwise, what good girl would behave like her?"
The smile on Mrs. Cui's face disappeared instantly, and her face turned livid: "Don't talk nonsense, my Zhiyuan is studying in the county town, is it your business if Xiaohui goes to deliver something to his brother?
My son will definitely pass the imperial examination next year, and my daughter will marry into a wealthy family. Your daughter, unlike you, will bring bad luck to her husband after she marries him."
Mrs. Ma was already angry, and when she saw Mrs. Cui talking nonsense, she grabbed Mrs. Cui's hair and hit her in the face.
Mrs. Cui was scratched several times on her face. She grimaced in pain and also scratched Mrs. Ma's face and head.
When the two were opened, there were several blood marks on their faces and a lock of gray hair was clutched in their hands.
Mrs. Ma made a "pooh" sound and went home angrily.
Mrs. Cui also made a "pah" sound and was about to go home when she saw Aunt Big Mouth from Daohua Village coming.
Everyone gathered around to ask for details.
Aunt Dazui said: "It was a divorce, and the county magistrate wrote the divorce letter himself. The county magistrate said that the Liu family abused his wife and children for no reason. According to the law, the woman can divorce. They both asked for a divorce themselves.
Liu Zhaocai was sentenced to 20 strokes of the cane for beating someone without reason. He was taken to the county government office by the county magistrate to be beaten with the cane and will be imprisoned for a period of time.
Everyone was puzzled. Someone asked, "What? The county magistrate? He also went to Daohua Village?"
Aunt Dazui raised her eyebrows and said, "Let me tell you, Li Youshan's family in our village knows the county magistrate and helps him with his work. It just so happened that today, the county magistrate had something to ask the Li family, and encountered the Liu family coming to make trouble. As soon as he heard the whole story, he immediately sentenced them to a divorce and took Liu Zhaocai away."
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