Chapter 249 Bitten by a Rat 3
The rest of the Chen family were stunned.
They went to dig for grain secretly at night; if they had been seen, the news would have spread yesterday.
No one in the family would be foolish enough to tell outsiders, but strangely enough, the news spread like wildfire.
Li Chunhua cursed under her breath, her face dark, "Which damned bastard is so gossipy, having to tell everyone such nonsense? All that grain should have belonged to our family, and now look what's happened, even the rat holes that weren't dug yet have been targeted by others."
Zhao Mei stood beside her, fidgeting nervously with the hoe stick in her hand.
The fact that there was grain in the rat hole was known only to Old Chen's family, his own family, and his second brother's wife's family.
Although her family members promised not to tell anyone, they were afraid that someone might have seen them digging a rat hole yesterday, which is why the news got out.
If it really was because her family leaked the news, then her in-laws, and even her own husband, would blame and resent her.
Compared to Zhao Mei, Zhou Zhaodi, who also notified her family, remained very calm.
She went out to dig for grain with her family last night, but she was absolutely certain that no one saw them yesterday.
Moreover, even if it really was someone from her own family who gossiped and leaked the news, it wouldn't have reached their commune in just half a day.
After all, the two communes were a full two hours apart!
Another thing is that the news spread far too fast; it's as if someone deliberately wanted the entire commune to know.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhaodi glanced around and, seeing that everyone was quite far away, whispered in her husband's ear, "I suspect that the news in the commune was spread by our mother."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiandang shook his head vigorously: "Impossible, Mom isn't that stupid!"
That's his mother! She's the smartest person in the world, how could she make such a mistake?!
"Let me finish speaking first."
Zhou Zhaodi analyzed the situation with an air of authority: "For so many years, no one in our area knew there was so much grain in the rat hole. If it weren't for Uncle Monkey, our Chen family would never have known. That means the news was either spread by our Chen family, my sister-in-law's family, or my family, or someone saw it. But either way, they must have been secretly digging up the grain in the rat hole. Who would openly let the whole commune know? And do you remember that Mom wouldn't let us dig up any more grain the last two nights? It's very likely that she had already planned this out back then."
Although she didn't know why her mother-in-law wanted to tell others, her mother-in-law was extremely smart, and there must have been a reason for doing so.
Chen Jianye still didn't believe it: "It definitely wasn't us who told anyone!"
A couple sleeping in the same bed can have completely different perspectives on things.
"Forget it, you wouldn't understand even if I told you."
Zhou Zhaodi sighed resignedly. Although her man was a bit slow-witted, he had a good temper and was willing to listen to her.
*
As soon as she got home from work in the afternoon, Li Chunhua started cursing: "I don't know which damned person spread the news that had sons who were unwanted and daughters who were unwanted. Now the whole commune knows there's grain in the rat hole! Well, now our Chen family's grain is gone!"
(End of this chapter)
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