Wang and Lu brought the food into the room, and Nanxing Chunyu helped set the table and pick up the bowls.
Hearing Xie Yushu and Xie Yumin's conversation, Madam Wang spoke quickly and directly.
"If you ask me, Yu Shu is a blessed person who doesn't enter the door of the unfortunate."
It must be that Heaven knew our Yu Shu was a blessed child, which is why that old woman Xiao caused all that trouble and divorced her.
With that bunch of troublemakers, even a good girl would be ruined beyond recognition in their family!
Those who lack great virtue cannot keep even if they are blessed!
After getting to know each other for a while, Liu Qiaomei also gained confidence and continued the conversation.
"Second Aunt is right. My younger sister was so capable in the Xiao family back then. She relied on her own abilities to lead so many people into the mountains and make a living. She even rebuilt the house and cured Xiao Yi's leg. Later, she bought a donkey cart, which made many people in the surrounding villages green with envy!"
They even bought land for our family and arranged jobs for both of my brothers. My mother said that the Xiao family must have been incredibly lucky to have married my younger sister.
Any family that could marry such a capable wife would be overjoyed. But that bunch of troublemakers can't see reality and just keep indulging in unrealistic dreams.
Now that his second sister has become a first-rank princess, old man Xiao is filled with remorse. Yesterday, he even heard that the Xiao family had missed out on a first-rank princess, and people were so angry that they threw rotten vegetable leaves into old man Xiao's courtyard!
Xie Tianlin also surprisingly chimed in.
"Yes, I heard that Xiao Zhengde sighed with regret."
The Xiao family is unlucky. They had a first-rank princess who had entered their family, but then they drove her away, which directly ruined the future of the family's descendants!
If Xie Yushu hadn't left, their Xiao clan would have had a clan school too. If a few of their younger generations had succeeded, in twenty or thirty years, their Xiao clan would have become a prestigious family.
Now only General Xiao Yi remains, a figure that can never be seen.
Logically speaking, Xiao Yi had won a battle and was awarded the title of general. He should have returned to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors, but he has not been seen for a long time, and he has not even sent a letter back. I wonder if he has become estranged from his clan!
For this, Xiao Zhengde even punished himself by going to the ancestral hall to kowtow and beg for forgiveness, regretting that he hadn't disciplined Old Man Xiao and Old Lady Xiao more severely when they first started causing trouble and separated the family.
Since the news of Yu Shu being conferred the title of First-Rank Princess two days ago spread throughout the surrounding villages, Old Man Xiao's family hasn't dared to open their gates!
Xie Yushu was filled with emotion after listening. Some people and some things are just waiting for the right time to come. If you stretch out the timeline, you can really see the cycle of cause and effect.
Old Man Xiao and Old Woman Xiao spoiled Xiao Yan, Xiao Yuanhang, and Xiao Damei without any limits, while exploiting Xiao Yi and Xiao Dayong. As a result, Xiao Yuanhang and Xiao Yan were spoiled rotten and became estranged from Xiao Dayong and Xiao Yi.
As a result, the ones who are least valued by them work hard and live a good life, while those who are pampered by them, because they always have someone backing them up, act recklessly and do whatever they want, and end up with nothing.
Xiao Zhengde, though generally upright, was somewhat indecisive and reluctant to take drastic measures to discipline his subordinates.
It was precisely because of this lenient punishment that a golden opportunity for the family to rise to prominence was missed.
Such a golden opportunity only comes once in several lifetimes!
If Xiao Zhengde had known the consequences of indulging Old Madam Xiao and her family, he would have certainly stood up for Xiao Yi when they divided the family property the year Xiao Yi returned.
Alternatively, when Xiao Damei's family returns, they can decisively make a decision for Xie Yushu. In that case, Xie Yushu will still be a daughter-in-law of the Xiao family, and Xiao Yi will definitely have returned long ago. Their clan not only has a first-rank princess, but also a third-rank general.
Unfortunately, there's no going back; in reality, everything fell apart.
In no time at all, the meal was ready, and the family sat down around the table to eat.
It's a rare opportunity for the whole family to get together, so we don't stand on rules like not talking while eating or sleeping; we chat as we eat.
After finishing talking about what happened with Grandma Xiao, Xie Baotian couldn't help but bring up Xie Dafu's family.
When Xie Dafu was removed from his position as clan chief, he was very resentful. However, because Xie Yushu was now the village head, he dared not openly cause trouble for Xie Baotian, so he repeatedly made trouble in secret.
At that time, Xie Baotian had just finished a meeting and gathered the villagers to buy timber to build the clan school. He then secretly put down a talisman into the foundation of the clan school at night.
There's an old saying in the countryside that if someone puts dirty things or sharp objects in the foundation or inside the walls when building a house, the people living in the house will have bad luck.
These dirty things or sharp objects are called talismans.
Although no one knows whether this is reliable or not, everyone is indeed wary of it.
Fortunately, this clan school was built for all the children of the clan, so everyone took it very seriously. Before starting work the next day, someone noticed something was wrong with the place where they had worked the day before. When they dug up the loose stones, they found that three coffin nails had been thrown inside.
The whole clan was in an uproar. They started investigating who had done this despicable thing. Several women even took their own cutting boards and stood at their doorways, chopping them and cursing for three days straight. This was the most vicious retaliation they could think of.
This kind of thing usually doesn't involve naming names; it's just like chopping a cleaver or swearing.
"You bastard who puts talismans in the clan school, I curse you to have sons without an anus, to have sores on your head and pus flowing from your feet, and so on and so forth. The rest is up to these spirit aunties to improvise. If they're really good, they can go on for an hour or two without repeating themselves. They'll curse your ancestors for eighteen generations."
It is said that if you do this, bad luck will come back to the person who did the bad thing.
Whether it was the village aunt's scolding that worked, or whether Xie Dafu's family was too angry to admit their anger after being scolded, Xie Dafu and Ma fell ill the next day and had to take medicine for half a month before they could get out of bed.
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