Since Chen Xuanxuan really went home to live with Gu Yanzhang, Gu Yanzhang has become much more diligent than before.

In this family, he not only washes his own clothes, he also washes his wife's clothes.

Every time he sat by the river to wash clothes and was laughed at by the bachelors in the village, he raised his neck righteously and said loudly, "I can't compare with you bachelors, I have a wife!"

"If I don't wash my wife's clothes, who will wash them? Should I let you wash them?"

Those bachelors who didn't get married left in shame when they heard this.

As for the older women in the village, every time they saw Gu Yanzhang washing clothes for their wives, they were extremely jealous.

Some poor people were pounding clothes with mallets, gritting their teeth and saying, "I don't understand, what does that woman rely on?"

"She is such a coward, such a bad woman, such a wasteful woman who is not virtuous and down-to-earth and spends men's money everywhere, how can she be loved by such a good man?!"

"Yes, yes, I heard people say that his wife ate and drank at home every day, never did any work, never went to the fields to plant crops, and was never dragged out by her husband to sell her body... Such a woman who doesn't make money but spends money everywhere lives such a good life every day, and doesn't even have to wash her clothes herself. Do you think this is fair?!" People in and outside

the village were talking about the affairs of Gu Yanzhang and Chen Xuanxuan.

Gradually, Chen Xuanxuan became the public enemy of all the wives, big and small.

They scolded her for being a coward and a bad woman. She was not virtuous, not down-to-earth, didn't make money, and only knew how to spend money lavishly. However, they still envied her in their hearts.

After all, which woman doesn't long to be held in the palm of her man's hand and loved?

No woman is so mean that she wants to be beaten by her man every day, scolded by her man every day, bullied by her man's whole family, and do endless work every day.

Women all want to be treated well by others.

However, in the poor rural areas, there are very few daughters-in-law who are not abused by their men and their parents-in-law.

They want to spend money to buy themselves beautiful clothes?

No way!

They want to spend money to buy themselves delicious snacks and go to the county town to eat meat in a restaurant?

No way!

They want to not work all day, just rest, lie on the bed and let your mind wander, and relax?

Still no way!

The lives of these rural women are not easy.

If they don't work for a day, they will have no food to eat, and their parents-in-law and their husbands will call them lazy women.

Especially those daughters-in-law, if they are bullied, criticized, and abused, they will just grit their teeth and tell themselves secretly in their hearts, "As the saying goes, a daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law after many years. As long as I can endure for another thirty or forty years, or even forty or fifty years, ... as long as I can turn over and become a mother-in-law, I will have a good life. At that time, I can at least let my daughter-in-law taste the pain I have experienced before!"

All the daughters-in-law in the village think so.

But now, they saw with their own eyes that the young Chen Xuanxuan, who was only in her 30s, had enjoyed the good life in advance. She was not oppressed by her parents-in-law, but was loved by her husband and praised by her children. They were more and more angry.

The most feared thing between people is comparison.

When they don't compare seriously, many people think that their current life is okay.

After all, they all tell themselves, "No matter what, I am not as good as the best, but better than the worst."

"Although I don't live a good life, it's much better than those beggars on the street!"

However, with such a vivid example as Chen Xuanxuan, many other people's wives can't help but say bad things about her everywhere.

...

Chen Xuanxuan doesn't care about such things at all.

Isn't it just a few words?

What's the big deal?

You have to live your life by yourself.

As long as she can guarantee herself that she has good food to eat and good clothes to wear every day, and doesn't get beaten or scolded, doesn't have to endure anger, keeps herself in a good mood, and lives longer and more freely, then she won't have failed herself in this life.

As for those people in the village, whether they are known to her or not, they are just passers-by in her life.

They can't have any substantial impact on her.

As long as she has a strong mind and treats what they say as fart, those people can't hurt her.

...

Not to mention, Chen Xuanxuan's attitude of not caring about what others say really makes the villagers in Gujiagang angry and hateful.

What made them angry was that Chen Xuanxuan didn't take their words seriously. What

they hated was that they had no power to deal with her.

Although everyone in the village knew that Chen Xuanxuan had a son with a man outside, Chen Xuanxuan neither admitted nor denied it, and never told them the truth. Even if they wanted to find fault with her, they couldn't.

What's more, those people in the village basically didn't dare to anger the old lady Liu.

Therefore, those unpleasant words only spread for a while and soon disappeared.

...

Time passed slowly.

Chen Xuanxuan, who had adapted to the new situation, quickly found the rhythm of her life.

She got up at about seven o'clock every morning. She

had breakfast around seven-thirty.

At eleven-thirty in the afternoon, she had lunch. At seven-thirty in the evening, she had dinner.

This is the standard three meals a day, with a dessert or fruit from time to time, plus Chen Xuanxuan buys herself a beautiful dress every week or so... This makes the villagers extremely jealous.

Some of Gu Yanzhang's cousins ​​even wondered in private

whether the man Gu Yanzhang's wife found outside gave her a lot of money to support herself.

Otherwise, how could the old lady Liu treat the son she gave birth to like a treasure?

And was it because of that money that Gu Yanzhang was so desperate to get her to come home?

As long as money is mentioned, many men in the village would say, "If my wife had that ability, I might be living a good life like a rich man now! It's just washing a few more clothes for my wife, isn't it simple?"

"As long as my woman can make money for me, I'm willing to wash hundreds or thousands of clothes, not to mention ten or eight pieces of clothes!!"