This time, Tao Xiaoxi completely offended every father-in-law, mother-in-law, and grandparent in Mantou Village. Those wives who gave birth to sons were fine, but those who didn't were so eager to have Tao Xiaoxi's mouth sewn shut, her hands and feet tied, and thrown into a pig cage and drowned in a pond. Publicly, she became everyone's enemy, but privately, many new wives admired and envied her, and when they gathered together, all they could talk about was her.
Tao Xiaoxi, the conspicuous girl, seemed to be afraid that no one knew she had given birth to two daughters. Every day after dinner, she would hold Manman in one hand and take Beibei for a walk in the village with the other. With her unrestrained steps and ostentatious attitude, she didn't feel that she had done anything wrong.
Even Yao Youhua, a woman who hated her to the core, was puzzled: How could a woman live like this, so careless.
The funny thing was Sun Wangcai. While he felt quite sympathetic towards Li Nanshan—look, another girl—he was also utterly bewildered. The Li family didn't dare do anything to her, even though they had a girl, and yet their business was only getting better. Truck after truck of medicinal herbs arrived. He had no idea how much they would fetch, but his intuition was crucial. Sometimes he even fantasized that if Tao Xiaoxi had been able to make money like this before, maybe he would have taken her in.
He felt sorry for Tao Xiaoxi, but Tao Xiaoxi didn't pity him. She just saw that Grandma Sun was becoming less and less like a human being, so she would ask Beibei to bring her some meat from time to time. She didn't take too much, just enough for Grandma Sun to eat alone. She watched as she finished it on the spot and asked Beibei to take the bowl back. Sun Wangcai's mouth was watering at the sight, and he blamed his mother for not leaving him any.
Mrs. Sun was also puzzled. She no longer felt any pity for her son. Deep down, she didn't think he was her son.
On this day, Tao Xiaoxi got up in the morning to cook. She was about to make two scallion pancakes, one for herself and one for Beibei, when her eldest brother ran in from the door in a panic.
"Brother, you're here so early." Tao Xiaoxi greeted him.
"Xiao Xi, hurry up and go to the medicine field to take a look." The eldest brother was out of breath, his face was pale, and he was very scared.
"What's wrong?" A hint of surprise flashed in Tao Xiaoxi's eyes.
"All the herbs in the field have been pulled out!" The eldest brother slapped his thigh, completely losing his composure.
Tao Xiaoxi's heart skipped a beat. She took off her apron and called Beibei to look after her sister.
"Who is this bastard..." The two ran towards the medicine field.
Standing in the medicinal field, seeing the fallen medicinal seedlings, Tao Xiaoxi's heart sank, and her elder brother Li Nanlin was completely disappointed.
"Brother, do you know who did it?" Tao Xiaoxi narrowed his eyes and looked at Chaoyang intently.
The eldest brother was lifeless and muttered, "I don't know. It was still fine when I came home yesterday afternoon. It was all pulled out in just one night."
Tao Xiaoxi squatted down and looked at the pulled-up herbs. Some were pulled out with the roots and soil, some were just pulled out but not yet out of the soil, and some were stepped on by someone before they were pulled out. It seemed that it was not done by just one person.
Who could have such a deep hatred for her that would destroy her life? Tao Xiaoxi closed her eyes and pondered secretly. It seemed easy to guess.
When it was dawn and the sun had completely climbed over the top of the mountain, everyone in Mantou Village knew about this incident. Regardless of whether they liked Tao Xiaoxi or not, they all gathered there to watch the fun and talk about it.
Tao Xiaoxi observed out of the corner of her eye and found that some people really felt sorry for her, while others were hard to describe. In such a famous scene, no one would reveal their true thoughts, but they were just villagers after all, not power-seekers. Even if they didn't say it, their eyes couldn't lie.
Tao Xiaoxi didn't say anything at the moment, pushed through the crowd, and walked away dejectedly.
Everyone in Mantou Village thought Tao Xiaoxi was finished. All the medicine was gone. How could they deliver the goods? They were sure to lose everything.
The entire Li family seemed to have been swept by the plague, and they all looked listless. Even the second sister-in-law Yang Rongzhi could no longer be arrogant. She felt that her family property had been snatched away.
When everyone turned around again, they saw Tao Xiaoxi riding a bicycle quickly passing by them and disappeared.
"Old Li, your third daughter-in-law wouldn't be so depressed that she would commit suicide again, right?" said Old Man Huang.
As soon as he said this, everyone understood what he meant. Tao Xiaoxi had attempted suicide once before.
Old man Li frowned and secretly asked the second son to go and see what was going on. He also asked his wife to go to the third son's house to look after the two children.
A happy family ended up like this. Some people think that this is retribution. Who made her not give birth to a son and let her husband get a sterilization?
Just for this reason, the aunts and uncles in Mantou Village are watching with an attitude of watching the joke and taking advantage of the situation.
They were distracted while eating. Those who were holding bowls and pipes all gathered under the locust tree at the entrance of the village, waiting for the second brother Li Nanhai to come back and report on the situation.
About an hour later, what they had been waiting for finally arrived. It was a police car, making a lot of noise. Everyone sat up straight in an instant.
Four people got out of the car, three of them were in uniform, and the other one was Tao Xiaoxi. It turned out that she was going to call the police.
For the villagers of Mantou Village, this discovery was no less shocking than hearing that Tao Xiaoxi had decided not to have a boy. This woman was truly too tough.
"Where is your village secretary?" the police officer asked.
"There it is," someone pointed timidly.
A quarter of an hour later, the village secretary took the policeman to the village office. On the way, the policeman specially asked someone to call Li Maogen as well.
Three policemen sat on the top, followed by the village secretary, Tao Xiaoxi and Li Maogen.
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