Chapter 63 Guaguagua Her man is not her man
When it comes to the festival, the happiest people in the Xiang family are the eldest Zhang Juhua and the youngest Xiang Xiaoyi.
Xiang Xiaoyi knew that there would be meat to eat during the festival, as well as candies, melon seeds and other snacks. Just like the Dragon Boat Festival a few months ago, she stuffed her little pocket with food and was so happy!
As for Zhang Juhua, it was because on days like this, her two daughters would return to their parents' home.
It’s not that I like these two daughters very much, but after they got married, every time they came back to their parents’ home, they would bring a lot of things.
She valued the gifts she brought more than her daughter.
It’s strange to say, in the Xiang family, daughters have never been given much attention, but once girls get married, they tend to pay extra attention to their parents’ home.
Not only that, they will also make all kinds of comparisons to prove that they are the most caring one.
Just now, the eldest aunt Xiang Yinliu and the younger aunt Xiang Cuiliu of the Xiang family returned to their parents' home one after another early in the morning and started to compare with each other.
"Hey, big sister, what are you bringing?" Xiang Cuiliu sat in the yard basking in the sun, her eyes fixed on the basket in Xiang Yinliu's hands. Her voice was vague, "Why did only Xiaoqiang come with you? Where's my brother-in-law?"
She is eating melon seeds.
Holding the melon seeds in one hand and pinching a melon seed with the other hand, he placed it near his mouth. With a click of his teeth and a roll of his tongue, the melon seed fell neatly into his mouth.
One by one, by the time Xiang Yinliu arrived, a pile of melon seed shells had accumulated next to the stool.
Xiang Cuiliu married into the next commune, while Xiang Yinliu's in-laws' home was on the edge of the county town, which was a little farther away.
"Your eldest brother-in-law had something to do at home and couldn't leave, so Xiaoqiang came with me. As soon as he arrived, he went straight into the house. He had been thinking about playing with Xiaoliang for a long time."
Xiang Yinliu had a round face, and her smile was quite festive. She spoke politely, but with a hint of sarcasm:
"Why, you asked me what I brought as soon as I came in. What good stuff did you bring this time?"
He spat out a piece of melon seed shell to Cui Liu and raised his chin.
"I went to buy a pound of meat early this morning, and I also brought a pound of brown sugar. Yang Qi said that since it's not easy for me to go back to my mother's house, I have to be polite."
"Yang Qi, I had something to do, but that's just how he is. You know his temper. He insisted on coming back with me, and I wouldn't listen! Now, as soon as he got back, he followed our eldest brother to work."
After hearing this, Xiang Yinliu's smile paused slightly. She knew very well that her sister was stabbing her.
Her husband Li Tiehua has never liked visiting his mother-in-law's family. Not only does he dislike visiting, but every time he sees her carrying a lot of bags, he gets very unhappy. He always feels that she is using her mother-in-law's family's things to subsidize her family, and he treats her with the cold shoulder.
How could sisters not know about this situation? She had talked about it with Xiang Cuiliu when she was on good terms with her.
However, their relationship wasn't as good later on, and these things became the subject of ridicule from the other party, making her regret telling him everything.
But Xiang Yinliu was not someone who could be easily bullied. She immediately put a smile back on her face and said casually:
"Hey, there are so many nephews and nieces in my mother's family. What good can your one pound of meat do? If each of them takes one chopstick, there will be no trace of it. Unlike me, I can pick up two pounds of cotton, a large smoked fish, and even go to the county town to buy a bag of five-nut mooncakes!"
"But I understand. Your family isn't well off. This is already your best effort. Mom knows that and won't blame you."
The Li family lives on the edge of the county town. Although they are also from the countryside, they often make some vegetables to sell in the city. Throughout the year, they earn much more privately than Xiang Cuiliu's in-laws.
Xiang Cuiliu certainly knew that her family's financial situation was a major flaw, and that they were never as good as her elder sister's. She was so angry that she turned around, ate melon seeds resentfully, and went to talk to her elder sister-in-law.
Xiang Yinliu snorted coldly. So what if her man didn't come with her? She brought more and better things.
Her mother would only show more smiles and care to whoever brought more things, but she would not be happier for whoever brought back her son-in-law.
Maybe, I would feel unhappy because there was one more person to eat with...
The two sisters were not always at loggerheads with each other. After a brief exchange when they first met, they soon began chatting normally.
To be precise, they started to get together, eating melon seeds and gossiping.
Xiang Cuiliu's face flushed slightly, and she spoke with great joy: "Hey, you don't know, but a big thing happened in the production team next door a few days ago! If I tell you, I guarantee you'll all be scared to death!"
Liu Xiaolan was picking vegetables nearby. When she heard this, she immediately turned her head and said, "Little sister, please tell me what's going on."
Xiang Cuiliu looked around mysteriously and saw her sister-in-law's little daughter Xiang Lili playing nearby. She called out to Zhou Aihua, "Children shouldn't listen to this. Sister-in-law, please call your Lili away first."
"What's going on? Why are you being so secretive?" Zhou Aihua grumbled, but curiosity got the better of her and she called out to her little daughter, "Lili, your brother and sister-in-law are back home today. Go check on Xiaoyi and see if she's awake. Take good care of her!"
He nodded to Lili and went into the house obediently.
Zhou Aihua said, "Is it okay now? Tell me quickly, what happened?"
Xiang Cuiliu cleared her throat, adjusted her expression, and was about to start speaking when she heard a crisp voice approaching -
"Yes, yes, aunt, what's the matter?"
Xiang Cuiliu raised her eyebrows and said, "It's Yaoyao. I thought you weren't at home. How come we haven't seen you in such a long time?"
Xiang Yao smiled and made up an excuse: "I was cleaning the house. I just happened to hear your voices and knew you had guests, so I quickly came out to say hello."
Liu Xiaolan curled her lips when she heard this and thought to herself, everyone has been talking for a long time, and this girl just came out at this time. She even has the nerve to use the word "hurry up", as if she is very proactive. She is so shameless!
If Xiang Yao knew what her third aunt was thinking, she would definitely say, what's wrong with not being ashamed? If she hadn't smelled gossip, she would have planned to wait until dinner time to come out. Not only is she not ashamed, she is also impolite!
Of course, now that there was gossip to be heard, she was being polite.
Xiang Cuiliu said: "Originally, Yaoyao shouldn't listen to this kind of thing, but you are already at the age where you should find a partner, so it's okay to listen to it."
Xiang Yao curled her eyes and said, "That's right, aunt, I'm already this old, what can't I listen to? Tell me now!"
Seeing that all these pairs of eyes were staring at her impatiently, Xiang Cuiliu felt very satisfied. She drank her tea slowly and began to share her gossip.
"As for what happened in the production team next door, we were all shocked at the time. It was really embarrassing!"
"That family's surname is Wang. A few years ago, they married a daughter-in-law, but she ran away. Later, they married another one, but she ran away too. We thought this daughter-in-law despised our Wang family because we were poor!"
"As a result, he married another one after the Chinese New Year this year. This daughter-in-law is usually loud and noisy. Her brain was damaged when she was young, so sometimes she is not so smart. Sometimes she is good and sometimes she is not."
"But there's nothing we can do. This is the third marriage for the Wang family. It's already pretty good to find a daughter-in-law like this."
Xiang Yao held her face in her hands and spared no effort to make fun of the situation: "Yeah, and then?"
Xiang Cuiliu bulged her eyes and patted the melon seed shells sticking to her hands:
"A few days ago, the Wang family's wife must have lost her mind again. She ran out barefoot in the middle of the night wearing only a cloth jacket and ran all over their team!"
Zhou Aihua stopped what he was doing and leaned forward slightly: "What's going on?"
Xiang Cuiliu said, "The wife of the Wang family ran and shouted loudly, saying that her man was not her man!"
Everyone opened their mouths in unison: "Huh?"
Xiang Cuiliu: "You guys are confused too, right? I was confused when I heard that. What do you mean her man is not her man? That's nonsense! But it turns out that I wasn't talking nonsense!"
Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on her seriously, she felt quite proud:
"Someone rushed to the Wang family's house and saw a naked man, about to run away! It turned out to be the husband of Wang's wife!"
Liu Xiaolan guessed: "Is it Wang's wife who is cheating on her?"
Zhou Aihua retorted: "If she was cheating on me, why would she shout it out to the whole production team?"
Liu Xiaolan said: "My sister-in-law also said that the Wang family's daughter-in-law is a fool. Maybe she suddenly became stupid and forgot that she was cheating on her husband!"
Xiang Yao didn't say anything, feeling uncomfortable.
Xiang Cuiliu waved her hand at this time: "You are all a little bit right, but also not right at all."
"This matter is actually not as simple as it seems. The old woman of the Wang family, in collusion with her son, appears to be marrying off one wife after another, but in fact, she is using this to collect money and make money!"
"As long as you give them a little money, they will arrange for someone to enter the room and sleep with Wang's wife in the dark!"
Everyone understood that this new silly daughter-in-law might not have known before that the man lying in the same bed with her was not her own man. She suddenly found out one day, and her spirit was stimulated again, which led to what happened later.
Zhou Aihua frowned: "This, this is actually happening..."
Xiang Cuiliu said, "Who would have thought that this person could do such a thing! Oh my, this is so shameful! Even if I were short of money, I would never do such a shameful thing!"
Xiang Yinliu even curled her lips: "How could such a damn family exist in this world! Anyone who marries into their family will be unlucky for the rest of their life!"
"So, what happened next?" The smile on Xiang Yao's face completely disappeared. He felt a sharp pain in his stomach and felt like vomiting.
She looked at Xiang Cuiliu and asked seriously, "Have you reported this to the police? Have the Wang family and those who came to give money been arrested?"
Xiang Cuiliu said, "How could that be? She was just called to the brigade headquarters and punished, but no one called her comrade. This silly daughter-in-law is from outside, and the Wang family is local, so of course they all protected her."
Xiang Yao suddenly raised his eyes, his tone sharp as a knife: "This is illegal. How can it be handled only internally? People like this should be criticized, sent to labor camps, and imprisoned, right?"
Liu Xiaolan sneered, "Look, you're young and don't understand. Don't air your dirty laundry in public, understand? Of course the brigade will cover up something like this. Who would be so desperate as to report it? If they did, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing? Wouldn't they even have a chance to participate in the evaluation and commendation?"
Xiang Yao's face darkened. "Then the Wang family's daughter-in-law suffered in vain? The Wang family and those bastards did such a thing, and they continue to get away with it?"
"I told you, little girl, you don't understand at all. This kind of thing is something every household would keep secret. How could they make it public? Wouldn't that be even more embarrassing?"
"That's right, this kind of scandal must not be spread out. Otherwise, no one in the surrounding area will look down on the people in the team, and no one will dare to marry into the team!"
…
The people behind her were still talking, but she could no longer hear them. She stood up and left the Xiang family.
The Mid-Autumn sun is still as hot as ever. This is the power of the autumn tiger. Before the arrival of the cold winter, it shows its final strength with its fangs and claws.
Xiang Yao found a ridge and sat on the grass, staring blankly at the fields one after another. He seemed unaware of the sun above his head and only felt a little cold all over.
A familiar, clear voice came from behind, like an autumn breeze, with a hint of tenderness.
"Why are you sitting here alone? What are you thinking about?"
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