Zhou Lei nodded in agreement, feeling that his sister-in-law's words made a lot of sense.
Further on, the number of people increased, and they entered the densely populated area of the village.
People talking on the roadside saw the three of them approaching, and some stopped talking and looked them over.
Some people were also whispering among themselves.
"Isn't that Zhou Laosan's fifth son? And who's that girl? She's quite pretty."
"I heard that Matchmaker Zhou helped Zhou Quan, the paralyzed son of Zhou Laosan, find a wife yesterday. Could this be her?"
"No way? She's so good-looking? Does she have some kind of problem?"
"I think it's very possible, otherwise why would her family marry her off to a paralyzed man?"
"Could it be that she was abandoned by another family? Or that she had questionable morals and was forced to marry a paralyzed man?"
......
As Li Mai carried Zhuzhu past these people, she collected the words spoken by the villagers.
It's ridiculous. Do these people think they're deaf? How dare they say such things in front of me? Do they think they're afraid to curse?
After walking a few steps, Li Mai couldn't stand it anymore as their speculations became increasingly outrageous. She slowly stopped, put Zhu Zhu on the ground, turned around abruptly, glanced at the two people who had just said she was crazy and that she had been divorced and had questionable conduct, and gave a cold smile.
The people around her, who were talking enthusiastically, suddenly stopped when they saw her stop, and didn't dare to say a word.
Li Mai looked coldly at these people, "Do you know that those who exaggerate and spread rumors about others based on their own speculations and smear others will go to the Tongue-Pulling Hell after they die? Do you know what the Tongue-Pulling Hell is like?"
"Two large tweezers will pull your lips apart, and then a pair of large pliers, more than a foot long, will be inserted into your mouth. With a hiss, they will pull your tongue out of your mouth. The scene was quite intense."
"The moment the tongue is pulled out, it can bring out a spurt of blood, which will spray out a long distance with a 'pfft' sound. It is said that if it is pulled out quickly enough, even the intestines can be pulled out!"
"And do you know what? It's said that they pull it out once a day, and then use magic to put it back in, and then pull it out again the next day. Just think how painful that must be? The number of bad things you said to others and the amount of evil karma you created while you were alive is the number of times you have to have it pulled out."
As Li Mai spoke, she wore a strange smile, glancing at each of the people who had spoken ill of her earlier. She stared at them, her voice like a ghost staring into their eyes as she finished speaking.
She successfully watched as these people's faces gradually turned pale until they lost all color, their eyes filled with fear. She returned their gaze with a strange and ruthless look.
"Hahaha, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't want to suffer such a miserable death, experiencing the pain of having your tongue pulled out every day, you'd better stop gossiping about others behind their backs. Otherwise, you'll easily meet a bad end." After saying this, Li Mai laughed a few times, picked up Zhu Zhu, and turned to leave.
Hmph, these ignorant villagers are a bunch of superstitious people. Let's use superstition to scare them and see if they dare to gossip about others again.
This time, they didn't hear a sound from behind until they had gone quite a distance.
Li Mai sneered, "What a coward who bullies the weak and fears the strong."
Zhou Lei looked at Li Mai with admiration, "Sister-in-law, you're amazing! Aren't you afraid they'll talk bad about you again?"
"If I were afraid of them, I wouldn't have said those things. Xiao Lei, remember this: kindness is often taken advantage of. If you act like you're not afraid of what they say, and you're even more formidable than them, they'll start to fear you."
"Oh, I understand!" Zhou Lei secretly memorized his sister-in-law's words.
Zhuzhu also took her mother's words to heart. In the future, if anyone spoke ill of her, she would say the same thing to her mother and curse back.
When Li Mai arrived at Zhou Daniu's house, she looked at the brand-new gate, the neatly paved courtyard with bluestone slabs, and the large tiled house with blue bricks. She thought that this family must have made a lot of money making tofu and raising pigs. This house was one of the best in the village.
All she saw along the way were dusty mud houses and dilapidated courtyards.
Moreover, most families have courtyard walls but no gates, and some families don't even have courtyard walls.
Even Zhou Quan's house had a courtyard wall but no main gate. Next to the main gate was a simple gate made of branches and sticks. At night, when they went to sleep, they would move it in front of the gate and prop it up with two large stones to keep out wild wolves or dogs that might enter the village at night.
People were coming and going in the courtyard, and when they saw the three of them come in, they all stopped and looked at them.
Zhou Lei said to a burly-looking man, "Uncle Da Niu, do you have any more tofu? My sister-in-law is coming to buy some."
Zhou Daniu glanced at Li Mai in surprise, then looked at her holding Zhuzhu and understood. This was the wife he had married yesterday.
“Yes, you can go with your aunt to weigh it!” Zhou Daniu nodded.
Others came out after buying tofu, while others stood aside talking to Zhou Daniu, taking the opportunity to look around at Zhou Daniu's impressive courtyard.
Upon hearing that Li Mai was Zhou Quan's wife, everyone looked at her curiously.
What a pity, it's like a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung.
Zhou Lei led Li Mai directly to the largest room in the east wing of Zhou Daniu's house.
He knew that the house sold tofu.
After they went inside, one person was waiting to have the tofu weighed.
Upon seeing Zhou Lei, she smiled and said, "Oh, it's Xiao Lei. This must be your sister-in-law." After asking, the lady looked Li Mai up and down with a smile.
Zhou Lei nodded, "Yes, Aunt Wangcai, you didn't see my sister-in-law when you went over yesterday?"
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