Chapter 59: He Pantian is really weird
Jiang Hao had just finished washing the dishes when he heard a commotion outside and vaguely heard someone say, "A little girl fell into the river."
Shi Luo quickly got off the kang and put on his shoes, "Let's go, let's go take a look."
Shi Luo pulled Jiang Hao and ran quickly towards the river. When they arrived at the river, quite a few people had already gathered there.
Shi Luo tiptoed through the crowd to look towards the river, and saw a little girl sitting on the ground, all wet. "Is it He Pan Di?"
He Pandi's father, He Laosan, also came over at this time. When he saw his daughter, he didn't even ask if she was okay. Instead, he started to blame her.
"You little girl, you're already in your teens, and I asked you to wash clothes, but you fell into the river."
He Pandi shrank back and shivered. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. The water was too cold and I lost my grip on my clothes. They fell into the river. I went to retrieve them and fell in."
He Laosan became even angrier after hearing this, "Did you get the clothes?"
He Pandi lowered his head and said, "Got it, got it."
There are people in the village who can't stand it and chatter about it.
"He Laosan, your daughter has been in such a serious situation. Although the weather is a little warmer, the river water is still icy. Why don't you take her home quickly and still teach her a lesson?"
"That's right, they say if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather. If it weren't for Pan watching the water and someone passing by to help her, it's hard to say whether she would be alive."
"Hey, look, there seems to be underwear in the basin. It looks like there are more than one person's underwear, both men and women. The He family is really shameless to let a ten-year-old girl wash these."
"I was wondering why they had to let Pan Die come out to wash after dark. It turns out they were afraid we would see them."
"Bah, how shameless."
The more He Laosan listened to this, the more embarrassed he felt. He quickly grabbed He Pandi and ran back with the basin.
Jiang Hao felt very strange when he saw He Laosan running away.
He was done watching the fun, so he simply pulled Shi Luo back and said, "I feel like today's incident was deliberately staged."
Shi Luo didn't quite understand what it meant.
Jiang Hao thought about the basin of clothes that He Pan had just looked at. Pants and vests accounted for 50% of the total, and they were all placed in front of him, obviously for people to see.
Seeing that there were no one around, Jiang Hao lowered his voice and said, "He Pandi has been washing clothes for the family for several years. She knows that she should come out to wash clothes at dusk. How could she not know that when washing underwear for the family, it is best to put it at the bottom of the basin and hide it so that no one in the village can see it?"
I just saw that the clothes in the basin seemed to be placed that way on purpose, and He Pan's shoes were not wet.
She must have fallen into the water on purpose. There was no such thing as her clothes falling into the water. Before entering the water, she observed whether there was anyone who could save her and took off her shoes in advance.
Cloth coupons were hard to come by for rural people, and there weren't many scraps of cloth to make shoes. He Pan was not favored at home, so she probably only had one pair of shoes. She didn't want to get them wet, and she was also afraid that if they got wet, she wouldn't have anything to wear tomorrow.
Shi Luo: "Then what is her purpose in making such a fuss? Is she trying to let everyone know that the He family treats her badly and abuses her?"
Jiang Hao didn't understand why such a scene happened. "I don't know, but the He family doesn't look down on He Pan. Everyone in the team knows this. There's no need to make such a scene to remind them.
The old lady of the He family favors sons over daughters, but the brigade can't intervene in this matter. After all, as long as it doesn't get under the brigade leader's nose, no one is killed, and those who are bullied in the family don't report it to the brigade, then it's all a family matter."
In everyone's eyes, today's incident almost resulted in a loss of life. Jiang Hao thought about the day when He Pandi was trying to separate from his father and grandmother. Suddenly, he seemed to understand.
"He Pandi still wants to separate from the family. She wants to separate herself, but she needs a suitable reason to do so. She is preparing a reason for herself, and now these are all preparations."
Shi Luo also figured it out. "Based on these two minor fights, she probably can't tell the difference. I guess He Pan will cause bigger trouble in the future."
Jiang Hao lit the kang. It was still a bit cold at night, so he had to light the kang.
"Then let's wait and see what happens. This little girl from the He family is a bit weird. Okay, the kang is heated, let's rest."
Shi Luo looked at Jiang Hao who was taking off his sweater and asked, "Aren't you going home to sleep today?"
Jiang Hao raised his eyebrows, looking accusing, "Are you disgusted with me? Is this what you mean by not cherishing what you have? You can't do this to me."
Shi Luo: "Bah, stop playing tricks on me. I'm just worried that your parents will be worried if you stay with me all the time."
Jiang Hao: "My wife and I live with their daughter-in-law. They have nothing to worry about."
Shi Luo's face and ears turned red. "You are the wife."
A good night's sleep
(Slightly edited because I went into a dark room. If you understand, you will understand.)
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