"Why are you all gathered here? What are you talking about? It's so lively?"
Xie lay on Xie Mingchi's back, leaning her head forward, looking at the women gathered under the banyan tree. A smile suddenly appeared on her face, and she raised her voice and asked with a smile.
Hearing the sound, everyone turned their heads to look over.
When they got closer, Mrs. Xie patted Xie Mingchi and signaled him to put her down, with a kind smile on her face.
Xie Mingchi frowned secretly, and his lips tightened a little.
Xie plopped down at the tree root where Li had just sat and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Everyone's looking at me. What were you talking about just now? It was so lively."
As the saying goes, don't hit someone who smiles at you.
Having just been angrily rebuked by Li, these narrow-minded women felt suffocated and at a loss for words.
When Xie asked this question, everyone looked at each other, not knowing whether they should say it or not.
Everyone knows that Li and Xie have known each other since childhood and are good sisters.
If you want to say something bad about Li, you can't say it in front of Xie.
A woman smiled and said perfunctorily, "It's not a big deal, just some trivial matters, not worth mentioning."
Xie pounded her calves and brushed away the messy hair around her ears. Even though she had fallen in the mountains and soiled her clothes, she still had a decent smile on her face. Her every move was slow and orderly, and she did not look embarrassed at all.
A woman had noticed the large bump on her forehead from a knock. Seeing her adjusting her clothes, which were disheveled, with torn cuffs and muddy hems, she couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you? How did you get yourself like this?"
Xie straightened her wrinkled clothes, smiled, and didn't care about the gloating tone that the woman couldn't hide. She said slowly,
"It's nothing serious. I accidentally fell while picking tea in the mountains. Coincidentally, Hua Shi, the eldest daughter of the Hua family, found me right after I fell. She carried me from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain. Hua Shi is a good girl..."
Before Xie could finish her words, a woman interrupted, "So it's the eldest daughter of the Hua family..."
This unclear sentence made everyone's expression vary. I wonder if they were remembering that they had just been humiliated by Li.
Mrs. Xie was not a fool. The few of them had exchanged glances for several times. As soon as she mentioned the eldest daughter of the Hua family, their faces became even weirder.
How could I not know what this is...
Xie feigned surprise and asked, "Hua girl just carried me to the foot of the mountain, and happened to see my boy coming to look for me. He said hello and went down the mountain first, and we followed him down... How come he disappeared in just a short while?"
The other woman laughed and said in an ambiguous tone, "She was taken back by her grandmother..."
It's funny to say that the eldest daughter of the Hua family has such a bad reputation in the village, but it's a good thing that she has such a good grandmother.
In the entire village, every family values men more, and the head of the family is usually the husband or son. After all, men do more work, and it is men who carry on the family line.
She, Li, was in such a mess that the Hua family was in such a mess that her husband was paralyzed in bed and couldn't get up. Her son had been taking the imperial examinations for more than 30 years but couldn't even pass the exam to become a scholar. He was like a hopeless case.
Several grandchildren were raised as if they were picked up, and they were so thin that their bones were visible. However, Mrs. Li was like a possessed person and only doted on her eldest granddaughter.
If the eldest granddaughter was a boy, it would be understandable, but she was just a girl, and her temper wasn't very good either. Why was it that...
Besides, Li is not without grandchildren. With three grandchildren, which one is not good...
Xie also smiled but said nothing.
She also knew that her old sister had a very bad reputation in the village and was a notorious shrew. When others mentioned her, they all looked disgusted as if they had eaten a fly.
But that old hag thought she was so beautiful that she acted pretentiously and was complacent about it. Others who saw her would only laugh at her behind her back.
Seeing Xie's easy-going appearance, the group of people felt a little restless and had to vent their anger.
The woman said tentatively, "Do you know that the eldest daughter of the Hua family went into the mountains and didn't worship the mountain god? She did it last time, and she did it again this time..."
Xie's expression paused, but she didn't say anything, nor did she intend to interrupt the woman.
"That girl herself admitted it, saying she had a head injury last time and couldn't remember a lot of things, including not remembering to worship the mountain god! This is a strict rule in the village, and she could forget it! Why didn't she forget about herself too..."
"That's right. Saying you forgot or don't remember is just making excuses. Why forget something so important?"
"You're lying if you say you've forgotten. I heard from my little girl that the eldest girl is domineering at home and often bullies her younger siblings. She lets her grandmother not give them food, leaving them starving...poor girl, these aren't just lies from my little girl. They were all said by the third daughter of the Hua family. She said it herself, how could it be false!"
The woman who spoke had a vivid expression and a very firm tone.
"It's pitiful that this Hua family's eldest daughter has such bad behavior..."
Everyone was talking at once, and what they said was as if they had seen it with their own eyes, it was real and vivid, their expressions were vivid and indignant, and their old faces were flushed red.
Xie frowned upon hearing this, and her expression turned slightly colder. She glared and said,
"What are you talking about?! Is a good young girl really as... despicable as you say? I think that girl is very warm-hearted and kind. I just fell down in the mountains and couldn't get up, and that girl carried me down the mountain without saying a word. She's so kind, isn't she? By saying this, aren't you tarnishing that girl's reputation? She's still a virgin, and you're framing her like this. Do you think she'll live..."
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