Chapter 37
"It's me."
Zhou Yao's voice was even deeper and more magnetic because of the receiver, and it made her ears numb. Wen Yue subconsciously pinched her earlobe with her hand, her heartbeat inexplicably quickened, and her red lips opened and closed: "...How is Shencheng?"
"Do you miss me?"
Both of them spoke at the same time.
Wen Yue was stunned and didn't speak for a moment.
"Wen Yue." Zhou Yao waited for two seconds, but didn't hear a response. He patiently asked again, calling her name and whispering, "Do you miss me?"
Wen Yue subconsciously glanced at the lady boss of the canteen who was chatting with someone nearby. Even though she knew she couldn't hear, her face still turned red: "...I want to."
She closed her eyes and her voice was quieter than a mosquito.
Zhou Yao: "I didn't hear you clearly, what did you say?"
Wen Yue frowned: "If you didn't hear clearly, then we won't talk anymore."
"Hiss, you have a bad temper. I was wrong." Zhou Yao took a breath and sneered. He got the answer he wanted, and his words were full of joy. He answered honestly: "There are a lot of people in Shanghai. The night market here is very lively. I will bring you here to play during the New Year."
Wen Yue's face was still very red. She held the receiver tightly and reminded him: "You guys have to be careful over there. Don't be impulsive. Think twice before you act. OK?"
Zhou Yao responded: "Okay, I know."
Wen Yue added: "I have to go back to the village this week for my parents' death anniversary."
Zhou Yao frowned: "Why didn't you say so earlier?" As her man, he should have accompanied her back at this time!
Wen Yue felt a little guilty. She couldn't say that she had forgotten about it.
"It's okay. We can go there again when you come back." She held the phone cord in her hand and changed the subject: "Tell me more about Shanghai. I have to go back to class."
How could Zhou Yao not see her little thoughts: "Okay, I'll tell you."
The two chatted for nearly ten minutes, and Zhou Yao agreed to call at noon every day. After the agreement was made, Wen Yue hung up the phone and paid the phone bill for the boss's wife.
The lady boss teased her with a smile: "You are chatting with your husband or talking on the phone. Oh, you two have a great relationship."
Wen Yue pursed her lips and smiled shyly.
Wen Yue was in a much better mood after chatting with Zhou Yao. She would come to the hawker shop and wait for the call at a certain time in the next few days. Until Friday noon, she and Zhou Yao agreed that she would go back to the village for the next two days and could not talk on the phone for a long time.
Wen Yue went back with Grandma Fang and Lulu on Saturday morning. After taking the bus to the village entrance, she first accompanied Grandma Fang home, had lunch, and then returned to Zhou's yard.
After not coming back for more than a month, Zhou's yard became dirty.
Lin Fang was not a diligent person. When Wen Yue and Zhou Yao were there, Zhou Yao would often sweep the feces of the chickens and ducks on the floor to their side. So Lin Fang and Liu Cuicui had to hold their noses and clean the place.
But as soon as Wen Yue and Zhou Yao left, their true colors were immediately revealed.
Wen Yue frowned, tiptoed carefully through the yard, took out the key and opened the door. When she unlocked the door, she found that the key seemed to have been scratched.
When they pushed the door open and entered the house, there was a layer of light dust in the room. The wooden door stirred up the dust, and Wen Yue coughed twice. She covered her nose and walked out, then opened the kitchen door, took out the iron basin and rag, and planned to clean their room briefly.
Wen Yue was busy until around four or five in the afternoon, then went out to Fang's house again.
She went to Grandma Fang's house for dinner, took a shower after dinner and went to sleep directly. The main reason was that she didn't want to face Uncle Zhou Er and Uncle Zhou San's families. If they knew that Zhou Yao didn't go home with her, they might come over to cause trouble.
After dinner and a shower, I went straight back to sleep. The next day, I got up early to go to the mountain to worship my parents. The main point was to travel at a different time.
Wen Yue felt that she was very smart. After eating and taking a shower, she declined Grandma Fang's request to stay at her house, and went home with a flashlight. When she arrived at the yard, she saw that Lin Fang and Liu Cuicui's families had indeed lain down to rest.
She also quietly opened and closed the door, locked it, and went to bed.
The weather was getting cooler, so we didn't need to put down the mosquito net anymore. We covered ourselves with the quilt, turned off the light, closed our eyes and went to sleep.
Probably because she drank too much water at night, Wen Yue woke up because she had to go to the bathroom urgently. After holding it in for a while, she felt she couldn't hold it any longer, so she got up with a sigh, picked up the flashlight on the table, and went to the toilet at the back.
No matter how long I stayed there, I could never adapt to the dry toilets in the countryside.
Wen Yue rushed to the toilet, held her breath, and walked out quickly after using it. As soon as she turned the corner, she saw a figure coming out of the yard like a thief, sneaking out along the path.
She recognized the man as Zhou Jianghai at a glance.
It was strange. It was only a little after two in the morning. Where was Zhou Erbo going? Wen Yue looked at him curiously for a few times, and only withdrew her gaze when she could no longer see him, and went back to her room to sleep.
The next day, Wen Yue got up early, brought the offerings she had prepared, and followed the route she remembered to the mountain. Villagers were buried on nearby mountains after their death, so there were many graves on the mountain, many of which were covered by weeds and difficult to find without careful observation.
Wen Yue walked very carefully, fearing that she would step over someone's grave if she wasn't paying attention. After dying once and traveling through time again, Wen Yue was more respectful of these supernatural things.
The weeds on the road were dense, and Wen Yue walked for more than half an hour before she arrived. The two graves of the original owner's parents were close together, and the weeds on the graves were quite deep. When she came, she brought a sickle according to the original owner's habit of coming to worship every time, and cleared the weeds by the way.
Looking at the grave in front of her, Wen Yue recalled the original owner's behavior, cleared her throat and muttered: "Dad, Mom, you don't have to worry, I'm living a good life now. I married Zhou Yao from the village, he treats me very well, I went back to school to study, I'm in the third year of high school, and I can take the college entrance examination next year..."
She talked about what happened during this period and burned some paper money. When all the paper money was burned out, she stepped on the flame to make sure it was completely out before she walked down the mountain with a leisurely pace.
When they were almost at the foot of the mountain, Wen Yue unexpectedly ran into Wen Guoqiang and Li Huahong.
The two men were holding incense boxes and paper money, and they looked like they were going to worship on the mountain. When they saw each other, all three of them were stunned for two seconds.
"Xiaoyue, you're back to pay respect to your parents." Wen Guoqiang was the first to respond, and greeted with a smile, as if the previous nasty things had never happened: "I heard from Xiaoyu that you've gone back to school and you're doing very well. You can keep up with the progress. You didn't even finish your first and second year of high school, but you went straight to your third year. What's that? How do you say it? Pulling up the seedlings to help them grow! You've already gone back to study, so why not start from the beginning? Don't be impatient."
Wen Guoqiang was trying to persuade her earnestly. If she hadn't seen clearly what kind of person Wen Guoqiang was, she would have been easily deceived into thinking that he was a kind elder who cared only about her.
Wen Yue smiled slightly and said nothing.
"Haha, I think some people just don't have good brains. They think too highly of themselves and really think they are amazing. It's not that easy to get into college. It's not like our Xiaoyu, who always ranks among the top in every exam. The teacher said that our Xiaoyu will definitely be admitted to college..."
Li Huahong was standing beside her with a weird look on her face. She looked down at Wen Yue with her slanted eyes, looking down on her.
Wen Yue looked at what she was holding and smiled: "Since Auntie likes to talk so much, why don't I go with you to my parents' grave and you can talk slowly. Grandpa's grave is right there too, so let them see how you treated me. I wonder if Grandma will come to you in her dreams to talk to you at night."
She really hated this aunt-in-law, she was even more annoying than Zhou Yao's second aunt-in-law.
When Li Huahong heard this, her face immediately turned as ugly as if she had eaten a fly. She turned down the corner of her mouth and was about to curse when she was scolded by Wen Guoqiang.
"Look at what you look like. If you don't want to go, go home. You know today is the anniversary of your brother and sister's death, but you still act like a dead child." Wen Guoqiang scolded very rudely, snatched the paper money from Li Huahong's hand, and said with a dark face: "Go back!"
Wen Yue was too lazy to watch the two of them acting, so she walked around them.
Li Huahong held her breath and said: "Look at her like this. How can we both be her elders? How can you talk to your elders like this?"
Wen Guoqiang had a headache: "Okay, stop talking. She's already married, so she's no longer a problem for you. Don't be so sarcastic when you talk to her. After all, she's my brother's only daughter."
Li Huahong saw that Wen Guoqiang's face was indeed not good, so she held back her words, but she still had to complain in her heart. She just disliked Wen Yue because she was the daughter of her younger brother and sister-in-law. When her mother-in-law was still alive, she treated her younger brother and sister-in-law better. She had been holding this anger in her heart for a long time.
Wen Yue went to Grandma Fang's house first and had lunch. Not long after, Li Nianqiu came over with her sister. The little girls moved stools to sit in the yard, basking in the sun while eating snacks and chatting.
The weather in mid-October has become cooler and the sun is not as scorching as before.
"Oh, by the way, when I came out of the restroom last night, I saw Uncle Zhou Yao sneaking out." Wen Yue leaned back in his chair, thinking about what he saw last night, and felt strange: "It was only a little after two in the morning."
Li Nianqiu raised his eyebrows: "Maybe there is something urgent."
Li Xiangdong next to him had a strange expression on his face, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
"What's wrong?" Li Nianqiu noticed, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"The last time I saw Brother Zhou Yao's second uncle, he was coming out of Widow Liu's house." Li Xiangdong said slowly.
When Li Nianqiu mentioned Widow Liu, she looked a little strange. Widow Liu had a bad reputation in Hongshan Village.
Wen Yue searched her memory and found information about Widow Liu. Widow Liu's husband was from Hongshan Village, and Widow Liu was bought back by her husband. Not long after the two got married, her husband died unexpectedly, and Widow Liu was less than two months pregnant at that time.
Widow Liu's husband's parents and brothers died early, leaving him as the only child in the family, and he died as well. The village chief asked the villagers to take care of the two of them because Widow Liu was the only child of her husband's family.
Later, Widow Liu gave birth to a son, and the villagers took even better care of her.
However, her reputation in the village was getting worse and worse, because people often saw men coming out of Widow Liu's house and giving her money. What could a man and a woman do in a room alone, and give her money?
Later, all the married men in the village were controlled by the women in their families, and were told not to get close to Widow Liu.
Wen Yue widened her eyes: "Is this true?"
Li Xiangdong nodded silently: "Really, I've seen it three or four times."
"It's been three or four times, and Second Uncle's wife didn't even notice it." Wen Yue hissed. She never thought that Second Uncle, who looked honest and simple, would do such a thing. No wonder Second Uncle's wife couldn't find out. Who could have thought that Second Uncle would secretly meet with Widow Liu in the middle of the night!
Li Xiangdong added: "And Widow Liu might be pregnant. Last time I came back from collecting firewood, I saw Zhou Yao's second uncle standing at Widow Liu's door, touching her belly and saying something about having a baby..."
Li Nianqiu: “They didn’t see you, did they?”
Li Xiangdong shook his head: "No."
"That's good." Li Nianqiu's brows relaxed. "It's better not to get involved in this kind of thing."
Wen Yue nodded in agreement.
She had a feeling that things would soon be troubled in the Zhou family, but this matter had little to do with her and Zhou Yao. She would just stay in the county town and not come back, and it would not involve them in any way.
Wen Yue went to the grocery store to call Zhou Yao the first thing she did when she returned to the county town in the afternoon. However, the store owner who answered the phone on Zhou Yao's side told Wen Yue that Zhou Yao and his friends had gone somewhere else and left a message, asking her to call back and tell them not to worry.
Wen Yue agreed, hung up the phone and sighed in disappointment.
…
Red Hill Village.
Lin Fang carried a basin of washed clothes from her husband and son to the river bank downstream, where she washed clothes while chatting with several women she knew in the village and talking about village gossip with great interest.
"Hey, let me tell you something. Does Widow Liu know that she is pregnant?"
Wow, a single stone stirs up a thousand waves. The women who were washing clothes stopped what they were doing and looked over with wide eyes.
"Whose baby is this really?"
"It must be someone from our village. Tsk tsk, I wonder if that man's wife knows about this."
"I'm afraid I don't know."
Lin Fang laughed at him: "She can't even control her own man, what kind of wife is so useless?"
"It can't be Dali's mother."
"It's possible. Xiaoyun's mother is also possible. These two can't control their men."
"How dare they intervene? You know what kind of temper their men have..."
After washing clothes and chatting about gossip, Lin Fang walked home contentedly with the basin in her hand. As soon as she returned to the yard, she ran into Liu Cuicui. She said in a low voice: "Do you know that Widow Liu is pregnant?"
Liu Cuicui turned to look at her: "You already know everything"
Lin Fang: "Of course not!"
"You, you're not angry?" Liu Cuicui looked at the expression on Lin Fang's face, a little shocked. "If you're not angry at all, I'm afraid you'll be angry to death, so I haven't dared to tell you."
Lin Fang frowned and said, "Why should I be angry? It's just a small matter." It's not her man's child, why should she be angry?
"My second brother is having an affair with widow Liu, and the child is probably his." Seeing that Lin Fang was really not angry, Liu Cuicui said: "I thought you would be angry before, so I didn't dare to say it. It's good that you think it through. A man should..."
"What did you say!" Lin Fang's mind went blank and her ears started buzzing: "Zhou Jianghai's seed!" The voice was hoarse and her eyes were bloodshot.
Liu Cuicui was startled: "You, didn't you just say you knew?"
"Zhou Jianghai, you bastard, I'm going to fight you!" Lin Fang could no longer hear what Liu Cuicui said. She turned around, rushed into the kitchen, picked up a kitchen knife and rushed out.
Liu Cuicui groaned and slapped her lips twice: "My mouth!"
She was afraid something might happen, so she ran after him.
Lin Fang was running wildly on the ridge of the field with a kitchen knife in his hand and a ferocious look on his face. This scene quickly attracted the attention of the villagers, who hurried to follow and see.
Zhou Jianghai was working in the fields with his son Zhou Guangzong at the moment. Both father and son were hard-working people and were very silent.
Zhou Guangzong stood up to rest for a while, and saw his mother coming towards him with an angry look from a distance. His eyebrows jumped, and he had a bad feeling in his heart: "Dad, you haven't made Mom angry recently, have you?"
Zhou Jianghai frowned and replied in a low voice: "Why would I mess with her?"
Zhou Guangzong: "My mother seemed very angry...she was holding a knife in her hand."
Zhou Jianghai's heart skipped a beat when he heard that. He looked up suddenly and met Lin Fang's distorted face. His sight fell on the kitchen knife in her hand that was reflecting a cold light. He widened his eyes, immediately put down the hoe in his hand, turned around and ran away.
Zhou Guangzong was stunned: "Dad"
Lin Fang screamed: "Zhou Jianghai! You bastard, if you have the guts to do such a heinous thing, then don't run away! I'm going to fight you today!!!"
"Mom, Mom! What happened?" Lin Fang passed by and Zhou Guangzong wanted to go over to stop her, but was pushed away by Lin Fang.
Lin Fang's eyes were bloodshot, and she pointed at Zhou Jianghai who was not far away and said, "Go ask your father yourself, ask him what he has done!"
"Dad" Zhou Guangzong turned his head and looked at Zhou Jianghai.
Zhou Jianghai stood on the edge of the field with his lips pursed, not saying a word.
Lin Fang shouted at the top of her lungs: "Why don't you tell me what you did to your son, Zhou Jianghai? You are already over 40 years old, how could you do such a shameless thing?"
Zhou Guangzong: "Dad! What on earth did you do?"
No matter how Lin Fang screamed or how Zhou Guangzong asked, Zhou Jianghai's mouth seemed to be glued with 502 glue and he remained silent.
Lin Fang could no longer bear it, so she raised the kitchen knife in her hand and threw it at Zhou Jianghai, not caring whether it would hit him or not, and shouted: "Zhou Jianghai, if you have the guts, don't go home. If you have the guts, go to Widow Liu's house and stay there until you die!"
As soon as Widow Liu's name came out, the crowd who didn't know what was going on reacted immediately and their eyes fell on Zhou Jianghai, which was intriguing.
"I heard that Widow Liu is pregnant, and the child is Zhou Jianghai's"
"I never expected that Zhou Jianghai, who is usually a very honest man, would hook up with Widow Liu and even get pregnant!"
"No wonder Lin Fang is so angry. Who wouldn't be angry?"
The family has several children and has been married for decades, but the husband is pregnant with another woman. Who can bear this? Zhou Jianghai is really something. His eldest son is already in his early twenties. How could he do such an unreliable thing?
Although "Dad" Zhou Guangzong didn't know that Widow Liu was pregnant, he also knew that Widow Liu had a bad reputation in the village. When he heard that Zhou Jianghai had something to do with Widow Liu, he widened his eyes in disbelief: "Is this true, Dad?"
Facing the pointing and contemptuous looks from the people around him, Zhou Jianghai's face twitched, his guilt was replaced by anger, and he pointed at Lin Fang and cursed: "You damn bitch, you have to make a big deal out of this in order to not get a divorce! I can't live with you for even a day, we must get a divorce!"
Lin Fang's eyes widened: "Zhou Jianghai, you are really not a human!!!"
Shouldn't this kind of thing be discussed behind closed doors among family members? Whose daughter-in-law would make such a fuss about it? Everyone in the world knows that he should have listened to his mother and not married Lin Fang, a troublemaker who causes trouble all day long.
Zhou Jianghai blamed everything on Lin Fang.
The two of them glared at each other with red eyes. They didn't look like husband and wife at all, but rather like enemies.
…
Students may feel a little sleepy in the afternoon classes.
The Chinese teacher held a book in his hands and read the contents of the textbook with a dialect accent. He spoke so slowly that people kept dozing off.
"Knock, knock." Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a dark-skinned country man in his early twenties appeared at the classroom door, attracting everyone's attention.
He looked reserved, glanced at the teacher, and said, "Hello, teacher. I am Zhou Yaozu's brother. Something happened at home, so I have to ask him to go back."
The teacher looked at him and said: "Okay."
Zhou Yaozu frowned, stood up and walked out.
Wen Yue, Li Nianqiu, Wen Xiaoyu and Zhou Yaozu were all in the same class. Wen Yue and Zhou Yaozu had little contact and both tacitly treated each other as strangers.
After class, Wen Yue went to Li Nianqiu to gossip: "I saw that Zhou Guangzong looked unhappy. Was the affair between Zhou Jianghai and Widow Liu exposed?"
Li Nianqiu raised his eyebrows: "It's probably possible."
"Zhou Yaozu has been called back, so the situation must be quite serious." Wen Yue said.
Lin Fang usually dotes on her son, who is in his third year of high school, and no matter what happens, it will not affect Zhou Yaozu. Now she actually called Zhou Yaozu back, which shows the seriousness of the matter.
Li Nianqiu: “It’s impossible to keep this kind of thing secret.”
The village is so small, how long can we keep it secret?
Wen Yue nodded: "Indeed."
Not only them, but other students in the classroom were also very curious. Unfortunately, they had no channels to gossip, so they could only suppress their gossiping hearts.
The next day when Wen Yue arrived at school, she suddenly noticed that other students seemed to be looking at her from time to time, and their eyes were strange. She stuffed her schoolbag into the drawer and asked Li Nianqiu in confusion: "What happened? Why do I feel that the way they look at me is a little strange..."
"Hmm." Li Nianqiu glanced around and frowned slightly: "Just like usual, nothing happened."
Wen Yue took out the textbook from her schoolbag and placed it on the table, and said slowly: "Maybe I'm overthinking it." She didn't take it to heart and opened the book to read.
Time passed quickly and it was noon in the blink of an eye.
Grandma Fang would prepare lunch, so Wen Yue would go home to eat lunch at noon. As soon as she walked out of the school gate today, she caught a familiar tall figure in her sight.
He was wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt with a white tank top underneath. His hair had been trimmed into a buzz cut, revealing his sharp, dark eyebrows and eyes, and his three-dimensional, deep facial features.
His dark eyes stared straight over me, with a rogue smile on his lips.
"Zhou Yao" smiled warmly, his eyes lit up instantly, and he ran over with excited steps: "When did you come back?"
Zhou Yao narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Just arrived."
"You didn't even call me before you came back." Wen Yue pouted, a little unhappy, then quickly smiled, her eyes curved: "Is Shanghai fun?"
"You have to ask Lao Fang and Ye Liang, I'm just doing my job." Zhou Yao glanced at her, and the two walked home side by side: "What about you, what have you been doing these days?"
Wen Yue lowered her eyes and looked at her toes: "Go to school and read books."
"By the way, there is something I need to tell you." She raised her little face and looked at Zhou Yao, "It seems that your second uncle is with Widow Liu and is pregnant with a child. Now your second uncle's wife also knows about this..."
Zhou Yaozu had been called back but had not returned to school yet, so he didn't know what kind of trouble they had caused.
Zhou Yao just raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this: "It has nothing to do with us, don't worry about it. With Lin Fang's personality, it's only a matter of time before they start to quarrel."
Wen Yue frowned: "You can't blame your second aunt for their conflict. Your second uncle also has problems."
Zhou Yao readily agreed: "Yes, they are both not good people, they both have problems."
Only then did Wen Yue relax her frown.
The two returned to the alley, and before they entered the yard, they heard Ren Yeliang's loud voice coming from inside, bragging about what he saw and heard in Shencheng.
Wen Yue pushed open the half-closed courtyard door and saw Ren Yeliang sitting in front of the stove, talking to Grandma Fang while lighting a fire. When he saw her and Zhou Yao, his eyes lit up and he shouted: "Sister-in-law! You're back!"
Fang Shitao, who was washing vegetables nearby, also greeted her: "Sister-in-law."
"Well, did you have fun in Shencheng?" Wen Yue asked with a smile.
Ren Yeliang: "It's OK. Sister-in-law, let me tell you, there are a lot of people in Shanghai, it's very lively! The night market is crowded at night, and we also saw the hairpin necklace you made before at the night market, it's selling very well..."
When it comes to Shencheng, Ren Yeliang can't stop talking. He wants to cram everything he saw and heard in Shencheng in the past few days into other people's heads, showing off.
"If Brother Yao hadn't urged me to come back, I would have wanted to stay in Shencheng a little longer." Ren Yeliang sighed regretfully.
Zhou Yao and Fang Shitao were both eager to return home, one missed his wife, the other missed his grandmother and sister. He was fine, although he missed home a little, but he wanted to stay in Shanghai for a few more days and go shopping.
Zhou Yao glanced at him and said, "Didn't I tell you that you can stay in Shencheng by yourself?"
Ren Yeliang turned around and put the matches in the stove: "How can that be possible, brother, are you willing to leave me alone in Shencheng?"
Zhou Yao: "Yeah, I wish you would get out of here."
"Brother, I don't like what you said, take it back now." Ren Yeliang covered his ears, looking like a rogue who would not listen to anything.
Wen Yue smiled with her eyes tilted. She felt that the quiet courtyard suddenly became lively and her mood improved a lot.
After lunch, I went to the district school in the afternoon.
The study pressure in the third year of high school is quite high. Basically, no one goes out to play after class. They just sit in their seats to review. Except for Wen Yue and Li Nianqiu, as soon as the class is over, the two of them will walk hand in hand to the playground to exercise.
As soon as Wen Yue left, the originally quiet classroom became lively.
"When I went home for lunch at noon, I saw Wen Yue walking with a man. That man couldn't be her marriage partner. He was a bit far away, so I couldn't see clearly what he looked like, but he was very tall, very tall."
"Wen Yue is really married! I don't believe it! It's fake! How old is she? How come she is already married?"
"People in the countryside seem to get married very early. I have a cousin who lives in the countryside and got married at the age of 16... She now has two children."
"You can get divorced after getting married. Wen Yue's husband is a lazy, thieving, second-rate guy. Who would like such a man? Wen Yue definitely doesn't like him. She must have been forced to marry him."
Wen Xiaoyu had never thought that after she released the news of Wen Yue's marriage, it would have such an effect. Wen Yue was very popular among her classmates. She had good grades and a good personality. She was not like Li Nianqiu who was a bit cold and distant. Instead, she smiled all day long and looked particularly gentle.
No matter who asks her a question, she will answer it carefully and earnestly without any impatience. So both boys and girls like gentleness. Who would reject a classmate who has good grades and is gentle?
Wen Xiaoyu was so jealous that she spread the news that Wen Yue was married.
"Xiaoyu, you and Wen Yue are both from Hongshan Village. Do you know the man she is getting married to?" The girl at the same table turned her head and asked Wen Xiaoyu in a low voice, "What kind of person is that man? Why did Wen Yue marry him?"
Wen Xiaoyu's eyes flickered twice: "...It's hard to say."
My deskmate exclaimed, "What's wrong with saying this?"
Wen Xiaoyu said: "Wen Yue's husband was originally the marriage partner of her cousin."
My deskmate exclaimed again, eyes wide open: "What do you mean?"
Wen Xiaoyu blinked: "It means exactly what it says."
"You mean Wen Yue stole her cousin's man?"
Wen Xiaoyu turned around and opened the textbook in her hand: "I didn't say that."
She was telling the truth. Zhou Yao was her childhood sweetheart from the beginning. As for what others would think, that was none of her business. Even if Wen Yue found out in the end, she couldn't be blamed.
Wen Xiaoyu curled the corners of her mouth. After all, she didn't say anything nonsense, she just omitted some details.
My classmate was obviously shocked by the news. She sat there for a few seconds, then stood up and went to her good friend to complain. One person told another, and the news soon spread throughout the class.
Everyone's mood is very complicated.
Some people think that Wen Yue is not that kind of person, while others think that they were mistaken and did not expect Wen Yue to be that kind of person.
When Wen Yue finished her walk and returned to the classroom before the bell rang, she found that her classmates looked at her even more strangely.
Wen Yue sat back in her seat and turned her head to look around. After her classmates met her gaze, they quickly looked away, turned their heads to whisper with their deskmates, and behaved strangely.
She has always been a carefree person and didn't take it to heart. After talking to Li Nianqiu for a few words, she put the matter out of her mind.
In the evening, Zhou Yao was waiting at the door for school to be over again.
Wen Yue and Zhou Yao walked forward, chatting and laughing.
Zhou Yao noticed that someone seemed to be secretly looking at him and Wen Yue, frowning and looking back, his eyes cold. The street lights on both sides of the street were dim, and the weather was not good tonight. The moon hid in the clouds, so these people could not see Zhou Yao's appearance clearly, and only had a general impression - he looked particularly fierce.
"No one bullies you in school, right?" Zhou Yao retracted his gaze.
Wen Yue blinked blankly: "Ah, no, why are you asking this suddenly?"
Zhou Yao raised his eyebrows slightly: "Nothing, just caring about you."
Wen Yue's eyes narrowed: "Don't worry, no one will bully me."
"My classmates all get along well with each other, and we are in the third year of high school now. We will take the college entrance examination next year. We don't have time to bully others. We are all busy studying."
Zhou Yao: "That's fine. If someone bullies you, be sure to tell me."
Wen Yue smiled and responded: "Okay, I know."
Wen Yue didn't know yet that the rumors about her were becoming more and more outrageous.
From being married, it became known that she stole her cousin's fiancé, and later it became known that she liked to snatch away men who already had a partner and liked to be a mistress, and her reputation became worse and worse.
"Nianqiu, have you noticed that my classmates have been looking at me strangely these past few days?" Wen Yue returned to school after lunch and found Li Nianqiu tutoring in the playground. She waited for her to take a break and then went up to her and whispered to her.
Li Nianqiu nodded: "Indeed, they looked at me a little strangely. I guess they were discussing us behind our backs."
Wen Yue opened her eyes wide and her gaze was clear: "What do we have to discuss?"
Li Nianqiu: “Maybe they are discussing why our grades are so good.”
Wen Yue blinked: "It's possible."
In the exams, she and Li Nianqiu either tied for first place, or Wen Yue ranked second with one point and a half less. In short, they never fell out of the top two and left the third place far behind. It can be said that they are both the teachers' darlings and are definitely college students.
It's normal for them to be talked about since they have such good grades.
Wen Yue put the matter behind her again.
Li Nianqiu: "Zhou Yao and his friends are back from Shanghai"
Wen Yue nodded: "Yeah, I'm back."
"I'll go to your courtyard this Sunday afternoon." Li Nianqiu said, "I'm curious about what Shanghai is like."
Wen Yue's eyes curved: "Okay."
"bite--"
The bell rang for class, and Li Nianqiu and Wen Yue got up and went back to the classroom.
At the beginning of the first class in the afternoon, two police officers in uniform suddenly appeared at the door of the classroom. The teacher went out for half a minute and then returned to the class. He glanced down and said, "Wen Yue, come out for a moment."
Wen Yue was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked out of the classroom with a confused look on his face.
"You must be Wen Yue, right?" The police officer, who was about 30 years old, looked at her and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, your man's name is Zhou Yao?"
Wen Yue frowned, a little nervous: "Did something happen to him?"
"He was fighting with someone on the street and is now in the police station," the police said in a notice. "Please come with us, young comrade."
Wen Yue pursed her lips: "Okay."
He followed several police officers to the police station, listening to their stories as they walked. Zhou Yao, Ren Yeliang and Fang Shitao were setting up a stall on South Street, and they had a conflict with someone, and their stall was smashed.
Zhou Yao had a fight with the group of people, and then was arrested by the police and taken back to the police station. This matter was not too serious, but he needed to ask his family to come over to receive education and criticism, and write a self-criticism.
The Public Security Bureau was not far away and it took about twenty minutes to get there.
Wen Yue followed the police into the room. There were many people standing inside. She spotted Zhou Yao in the crowd. He was nearly 1.9 meters tall and very eye-catching. He had scars on his face and looked fierce and unruly. He lowered his eyes and stared at his toes, ignoring the police who were criticizing and educating them.
Ren Yeliang and Fang Shitao also had wounds on their faces. They looked like eggplants hit by frost, with listless expressions and no energy at all.
Not a single one of these people had an intact face.
Ren Yeliang glanced around and soon saw Wen Yue. He was stunned for a moment, then he stretched out his hand and poked Zhou Yao's arm and reminded him softly: "Brother, my sister-in-law is here!"
Zhou Yao immediately looked up when he heard that, and met those warm and clear eyes. A hint of guilt appeared on his fierce and aggressive face, and his gaze began to wander. After a few seconds, he smiled in a flattering manner.
Wen Yue ignored him.
After a while, the families of the people who had fought with Zhou Yao were also invited over, and the Public Security Bureau suddenly became as lively as a vegetable market. Various sharp sounds intertwined together, and the eardrums of people were about to be broken.
The public security comrades finally managed to calm the group of people down, and Wen Yue stood quietly by the side without saying a word.
"Brother, I think my sister-in-law seems angry." Ren Yeliang looked at Wen Yue, turned his head and whispered to Zhou Yao. Although my sister-in-law's expression seemed normal, his keen perception told Ren Yeliang that my sister-in-law was very angry now!
Zhou Yao's eyes followed Wen Yue's figure. He glanced at Ren Yeliang and twitched his lips. The bloody wound at the corner of his mouth was particularly obvious. He said with a sigh, "I'm not blind. I can see it."
He didn't want Wen Yue to know about this, but the police said that they couldn't go back unless they asked their family to come over. He couldn't call Grandma Fang over. Grandma Fang was old, and if she knew about this, she might get angry and do something bad.
After the educational criticism, Zhou Yao and the others were asked to review their own actions one by one, and then they were released.
Wen Yue looked at Zhou Yao and the other two, her eyes wandered around the wounds on their faces twice, and asked with a frown: "So what are your plans now? Go home directly."
Ren Yeliang touched the wound on his face and cried out in pain: "If I go back like this, grandma will definitely ask me what I will say."
Wen Yue: "That's your business. What? Did you think of an excuse to get away with it before the fight?"
This tone...
Ren Yeliang glanced at Zhou Yao and said: Brother, it's up to you.
Zhou Yao pretended not to see Ren Yeliang's look, raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose, and lowered his voice: "Are you going back to school?"
Wen Yue frowned and didn't reply.
"Let's go home first and tell grandma that we accidentally fell." Zhou Yao reached out to hold Wen Yue's hand, but she dodged him, turned around and walked in front without even looking at the three of them.
Ren Yeliang came over and said: "Brother, you have to comfort your sister-in-law when you go back."
Fang Shitao nodded silently.
Zhou Yao: "...Is that even necessary?"
The three of them just followed behind Wen Yue, all of them with their heads down and looking dejected, like dogs that had been severely criticized by their owner.
When they got home, the yard was quiet. Grandma Fang should be taking a nap at this time, which made Zhou Yao and the other two feel relieved. Ren Yeliang quietly went back to the room to take out the medicinal wine, and he and Fang Shitao wiped each other's wounds. They grimaced in pain, but they didn't dare to make any sound for fear of waking up Grandma, so they could only endure it.
Zhou Yao returned to the house with the medicinal wine, looked at Wen Yue who was sitting on a chair reading a book, touched the wound on his face, and walked over with a raised eyebrow: "Yueyue, help me apply the medicine"
"Apply it yourself." Wen Yue didn't even raise his head, his eyes were always on the book in front of him, he smiled and said: "You are so good at fighting, how can you not apply the medicine yourself?"
Zhou Yao moved a stool and sat down beside them, and said in a low voice: "Don't be angry, we were wrong, and we promise there won't be a next time."
Wen Yue: "Don't tell me that. You guys are awesome. Three of you can beat ten of them."
Zhou Yao raised his eyebrows: "Not bad."
Wen Yue raised her eyes to look at him, smiling: "Then I will praise you again."
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