It is said that there are no secrets in the countryside. In less than a day, the explosive news that Cheng Maixiang had a divorce on her wedding night spread throughout Shuangshui Village. The whole village was talking about it, and the Cheng family became the focus of news in the village.
Cheng Maixiang had no time to deal with these boring conversations. She was currently busy at the sewing machine, working hard to make new clothes.
In her previous life, she was a clothing seller on Taobao. She designed her own clothes and found manufacturers to produce and put them on the shelves. Her business was quite prosperous. But in this era, looking at the baggy clothes in her wardrobe that were either gray or army green, she simply couldn't tolerate it.
She spent an hour sorting through the fabrics and clothes in her closet, and finally found a few pieces of fabric with relatively elegant patterns and designed a pair of overalls.
It seems that this piece of clothing, which is definitely the most cutting-edge fashion in this era, is about to come out.
"Pip, pip" there was a soft knock on the door.
"Come in." Cheng Maixiang responded nonchalantly.
"Aunt, what are you busy with?"
The door opened a crack, and a little head poked in, its big round eyes looking at her curiously.
It turned out to be the eldest brother’s daughter, Buckwheat.
"Buckwheat, come in quickly, Auntie made a pair of pants."
Seven-year-old Buckwheat skipped into the house.
"Qiaomai, come here and sit next to your aunt." Cheng Maixiang smiled and touched her head.
Qiaomai naturally also heard about Cheng Maixiang, and she heard it from her father Cheng Maiqing, so she naturally knew more than the villagers. She was afraid that Cheng Maixiang would be upset, so she secretly ran to comfort her. Seeing that Cheng Maixiang was in a surprisingly good mood, she couldn't help but share the gossip she had just received with her.
"Aunt, do you know that my father and second uncle brought a few people to the Wu family to take your dowry? The Wu family tried to stop them, and a quarrel broke out. The villagers were so angry that they smashed the Wu family's house."
Cheng Maixiang was stunned. "Did they destroy the Wu family?"
"Yeah," Qiao Mai said with a matter-of-fact expression, somewhat indignantly, "Everyone in the village says it's a good thing he smashed it. He doesn't even realize who he is. He's just an educated youth, eating in Shuangshui Village. And yet he's so audacious as to bully our team leader's sister. If we don't teach him a lesson, the girls in Shuangshui Village won't be able to hold their heads up high anymore."
Cheng Maixiang nodded. If this happened in the future, she would definitely call the police, but in this era, the police would often treat it as an internal family conflict and give a few words of advice.
But unexpectedly, the villagers couldn't stand it and actually smashed the Wu family's house. I wonder if Fang Chunlan, who never suffers any loss, will make a fuss about this.
Who cares? If the enemy comes, we will fight him; if the water comes, we will block it with earth. She is not afraid of them.
Cheng Maixiang broke the thread and was about to try changing her clothes when she suddenly heard a series of urgent knocks on the door.
"Cheng Maixiang, come out!"
See, you can’t talk about others behind their backs, isn’t this happening?
Cheng Maixiang stood up suddenly, told Qiaomai to "stay in the house", and walked out slowly.
"Cheng Maixiang, you bitch! My Wu family married you out of good intentions, but you didn't want to. It's fine if you broke off the engagement the day after your wedding, but why did you hire someone to destroy my house? Come out and explain yourself!"
Wu Jiadong's loud cursing could be heard from outside the door, and there was even a "bang" sound of the door being slammed.
The door was suddenly opened by Cheng Maixiang, and Wu Jiadong, who was still banging on the door, rushed into the house. There was no obstruction in front of him. He took two steps forward and fell to the ground before he could stand firmly.
Before he could stand up, a cane as thick as his little finger came down on his head and a childish voice angrily cursed: "You bastard, I told you not to bully my aunt, humph, we in the Cheng family are not to be trifled with."
Qiaomai waved the cane and beat Wu Jiadong fiercely. Cheng Maixiang was afraid that Qiaomai would suffer, so when she saw Wu Jiadong crawling up covered in dust, she hurriedly pulled her behind her.
Wu Jiadong's face was covered with marks from being whipped with a cane. He rubbed it with his hands constantly due to the pain, and there was an undisguised resentment in his eyes.
Cheng Maixiang held a three-finger-thick wooden stick in her right hand and tapped the palm of her left hand lightly, saying with disgust, "Wu Jiadong, didn't I tell you clearly this morning that we're done with each other. From now on, you go your way, and I go mine. It's only natural for my Cheng family to go to your house and take back my dowry. Why do you, the Wu family, stand in our way?"
Wu Jiadong's eyes blazed with anger, his hands clenched into fists, "The divorce was your unilateral decision. Our Wu family never agreed to it. In this case, the Cheng family has no right to take back the dowry. It's our responsibility to stop it."
"Wu Jiadong, are you really a high school graduate?" Cheng Maixiang snorted disdainfully, completely ignoring his anger. "We don't have a marriage certificate, only a marriage document. If either party changes their mind, the marriage document will be invalid. You don't even know this, do you?"
In this era, country people rarely get a marriage certificate like city people do. As long as the village clerk issues a marriage document and the grain and oil relations are put together, they are considered a family.
After returning to the village from the Wu family, Cheng Maiqing asked the village elders to write a document to cancel the engagement, and took away Wu Jiadong's grain and oil relationship from the Cheng family. In the countryside, this meant that the two had no relationship at all.
Wu Jiadong was choked by Cheng Maixiang, and his momentum naturally weakened a bit, but he still shouted unwillingly: "Okay, even if we have no relationship, it is a fact that the Cheng family smashed our Wu family. The Cheng family must compensate the Wu family for the losses?"
Cheng Maixiang suddenly understood that this was the reason why he came here in such a threatening manner.
She said such heartless words at the Wu family in the morning, and Cheng's mother asked the Cheng family to go to the Wu family to return the betrothal gifts and move away the dowry, which clearly showed that she wanted to break up with him. Moreover, Lin Jiayu publicly expressed his willingness to marry her, so the Wu family had no hope of saving this marriage.
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