Chapter 134. Guaguaguagua.
After returning to Xiangjiawan, Xiang Yao had not yet decided when to go to the brigade headquarters to discuss making money by growing peanuts and tomatoes, but someone had already come to him to seek ways to make money.
At noon, as soon as the two returned home, they saw a familiar mother and son sitting stiffly in the main hall of their house, while Old Nie accompanied them with an embarrassed look on his face.
Seeing his son and daughter-in-law come back, Old Nie seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. He immediately stood up and said hurriedly, "Oh, you're finally back! Xifeng was looking for you for something! Look, you even gave me eggs, but I said no!"
It was drizzling outside. Nie Baichuan parked his bicycle under the eaves, then walked into the house and asked, "What's going on?"
Without waiting for an answer, he pushed Xiang Yao into the room and said, "Your hair is a little wet. Go get a towel and dry it first. Don't get sick."
Xiang Yao glanced at Yuan Xifeng and his mother and greeted them. Yuan Xifeng's mother, Zhang Guizhi, immediately frowned, picked up the half-basket of eggs at her feet, and said enthusiastically:
"Oh! You don't have to greet us, just listen to Baichuan and go dry your hair! We just have a small matter with Baichuan, and we'll leave after we're done! Let's leave!"
Xiang Yao smiled and said, since that’s the case, he didn’t bother to be polite and went into the room.
She thought to herself, Zhang Guizhi is a person who can curse people's ancestors for eighteen generations when she scolds them, but when she wants to show friendliness, she is willing to lose face and smiles brighter than the sun. She is really a person who can bend and stretch, and dares to love and hate.
She was wearing Nie Baichuan's coat, so her body was not wet at all. Only her hair was covered with some rain mist, which was not too wet.
So he just took a towel and wiped his hair briefly, then found Nie Baichuan's clothes, took them out and asked him to change into them, just in time to listen to what the mother and son were saying outside.
Yuan Xifeng and his mother didn't expect her to come out so soon, and the conversation hadn't even gotten to the point!
In Zhang Guizhi's opinion, as for the people of the Nie family, Old Nie is a good man, but he is not the main target they are looking for.
As for Nie Baichuan, he has always had a good reputation in the entire brigade. Although she has not had much dealings with this person, she also believes from the bottom of her heart that he is a person who is easy to talk to.
As for Xiang Yao, she was very familiar with this girl. Several times before, when she had quarreled with others, this girl would just stand by and watch the fun!
Not only does she watch the fun, she also likes to stir up trouble and add fuel to the fire. She is not an easy person to get along with!
Therefore, Zhang Guizhi would rather the girl stay inside and not come out, rather than having her stand here and be an eyesore.
But this was someone else's home, and if she wanted to stand there, they had no choice but to accept it.
Xiang Yao, on the other hand, keenly sensed Zhang Guizhi's dislike for her. She blinked and said directly, "Aunt Guizhi, Brother Xifeng, what are you doing here looking for Baichuan?"
Zhang Guizhi smiled awkwardly, then immediately reached out and grabbed Yuan Xifeng's waist, saying, "Let Xifeng speak."
Xiang Yao looked at Yuan Xifeng again.
This young man has been the source of her gossip for a long time. His affair with Sun Zhiqing was a hot topic before, but no one knows what's going on with him now.
Previously, because of Zhang Guizhi's interference, this guy made a big fuss at home. After all, there is no overnight hatred between mother and son. Look, the relationship between mother and son seems to have improved again.
Xiang Yao thought, however, it is also possible that Zhang Guizhi had already compromised before, but she did not expect that when she went to the educated youth site, she was humiliated by the educated youth Sun, so the mother and son naturally stood on the same side.
Tsk tsk, I don’t know what the situation is like at the educated youth camp now.
She was just daydreaming about gossip when she saw Yuan Xifeng acting coyly. He glanced at Nie Baichuan secretly, then immediately lowered his eyes, stammered for a long time, and couldn't utter a word.
Yuan Xifeng is not his mother. His mother and the adults think that Nie Baichuan is a kind and good person who is polite to everyone, but many of the younger generation know that this is not the case.
This Nie Baichuan is good at pretending to be good in front of his elders, but in front of his peers, he is a completely different person!
He was really afraid of this guy named Nie. If his mother hadn't dragged him here, he wouldn't have come!
Now his mother still wants him to bring up the matter, how can he say it?
He opened his mouth for a long time but no fart came out, but this made Zhang Guizhi very anxious.
When she got anxious, her mouth started chattering and full of sarcasm.
"You son of a bitch, why don't you just say something? What's there to be embarrassed about?" She grabbed Yuan Xifeng's arm, feeling very disappointed. "All you do all day is act like a tyrant at home. You're not a decent person at all! I might as well have given birth to a piglet! I can fatten it up and kill it for New Year's!"
Yuan Xifeng didn't dare to talk to Nie Baichuan, but he dared to confront his parents. He immediately said angrily: "I can't be a piglet, why don't you have another one."
Zhang Guizhi was so angry that she gritted her teeth and wished she had never given birth to this little son.
But it happened that she loved this son the most, otherwise she would not have brought him to the Nie family with such a shameless face.
"I'm sorry, my son is like this. He is honest and doesn't like to talk." Zhang Guizhi turned her head and smiled flatteringly at the young couple.
Nie Baichuan was actually a little impatient. He said rather coldly, "Aunt, if you have anything to say, just tell me. I have things to do here as well."
Zhang Guizhi quickly said, "Hey, hey! I know you have a lot on your mind, that..."
She glanced at Nie Baichuan and asked cautiously, "Baichuan, I heard you're making a lot of money now?"
Before Nie Baichuan could speak, Xiang Yao frowned and asked, "Where did you hear that, aunt?"
Zhang Guizhi smiled rather awkwardly and said vaguely, "Well, someone knows after all! It reached my ears."
Xiang Yao smiled and said, "Ah, Auntie, just tell me who told you that. I'll go ask that person who spread such nonsense."
Zhang Guizhi: "No, no one."
She lowered her voice a little: "Someone has known about your Baichuan's matter for a long time, and it's not just one person who is spreading it."
"I was just thinking that our Xifeng people are honest and hardworking, and they just need a job that can earn them some money to support their food supply. This is a great opportunity for us to help Baichuan..."
She raised her head, looked at Nie Baichuan, and smiled flatteringly: "Instead of looking for people from other places, it's better to find someone familiar in our team. They are more reliable, right?"
"Look at our Xifeng. This kid is a stubborn person and won't cheat or be cunning at all. If he follows you to work, he will definitely not covet anything from you!"
Xiang Yao curled her lips and thought to herself, your Yuan Xifeng doesn't do any housework and only works for other educated youth. How can he be a reliable person?
But Yuan Xifeng was standing right here, so she couldn't bring herself to say this.
As for Nie Baichuan, he was too lazy to find excuses to shirk responsibility. He glanced at the mother and son and said directly, "I don't need anyone. Let's talk about it later."
You know what, he dismissed Zhang Guizhi with just this one straightforward statement.
It's strange to say, but when Zhang Guizhi entered the Nie family, she felt that Nie Baichuan was an easy-going person, and as long as she talked to him nicely, there would definitely be hope for this matter.
But when Nie Baichuan directly refused, she still felt in her heart that it was definitely not Nie Baichuan who was unwilling, but his wife Xiang Yao who was unhappy.
After thinking about it, Zhang Guizhi felt that it must be Xiang Yao who was interfering, which made her look at Xiang Yao with resentment.
Look, there is no grudge between us, and she didn't make any unreasonable demands, so why would she be so stingy?
Xiang Yao, who was being looked at by Zhang Guizhi again and again with this look, said: ...
What? What does this have to do with her?
No, it was clearly Nie Baichuan who rejected her, so why is he looking at her like that?
So even if she does nothing, everything she does is wrong, right?
Even when the mother and son left, Zhang Guizhi said goodbye to Nie Baichuan with a smile, but did not even look at Xiang Yao.
Oh, by the way, before leaving, Zhang Guizhi also took away the half basket of eggs.
However, Xiang Yao did not remain speechless for long, as someone else came to the door. Needless to say, the expression on his face was exactly the same as Zhang Guizhi's before, and he came for the same thing.
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A few days later, at the brigade headquarters.
"Xiang Yao, you've been coming to our brigade headquarters quite frequently lately!"
It was a rainy day, and Zhang Xiaoxia did not sit in the yard to knit as usual. Instead, she sat in the office to knit.
Seeing Xiang Yao knocking on the door with a smile, he kept moving his hands but started to tease.
Xiang Yao put on a well-behaved look and said, "Aunt Xiaoxia, I'm not here to cause you any trouble."
She looked at the wool in Zhang Xiaoxia's hand. The last time she came, she was knitting a green sweater. This time, it looked like it was a pair of woolen pants.
It’s also blue, and I guess it’ll just make a set.
Zhang Xiaoxia raised her eyebrows. "Then what are you doing here? It's so cold, and you're not staying home. What's wrong? Have you changed your mind? Do you want to come to our study session?"
During the slack season, Shitang Brigade would also organize some collective activities. Sometimes Zhang Xiaoxia would organize women to get together in the name of learning advanced ideas, but in fact they would get together to sew shoe soles, knit sweaters, and talk about family matters.
However, Xiang Yao was very unfamiliar with these handicrafts. She came here with great enthusiasm for the first time and learned to knit a sweater, but she went back dejected in less than an afternoon. She never came to such activities again after that.
The other women and old ladies either loved the atmosphere of many people working and chatting together, or wanted to save some firewood, after all, the firewood at the brigade headquarters was public.
But Xiang Yao, she has no shortage of fuel and is quite fond of gossip, but...
She was a young daughter-in-law sitting among a group of middle-aged women. Others only had the right to gossip about her, and she had no right to inquire about other people's gossip!
Unfortunately, these people are sometimes very explicit. Not only do they ask about her sex life with her husband, but they also gather together to guess whether she is pregnant and whether the first child is a boy or a girl.
It is no exaggeration to say that within ten minutes, the rumor that she and Nie Baichuan had sex seven times that night and were pregnant with a boy had spread throughout the entire team.
This was too scary. Xiang Yao couldn't bear it any more and didn't want to listen to any gossip. The best strategy was to run away.
Hearing Zhang Xiaoxia's question, Xiang Yao immediately put on a mysterious expression and approached her and said:
"Auntie, I have a plan to make money, and I came to discuss it with our brigade cadres to see if it is feasible!"
Zhang Xiaoxia paused——
"Money-making plan?"
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