"Forget it, I won't worry about it anymore. Everyone has their own destiny."
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Lijia Village.
"Tell me how unlucky the Zhang family is."
"Yeah, I think it's all Wu Lili's fault. As a mother, she doesn't know how to pay more attention."
"She's been showing off every day that she gave birth to a son, and now let's see how she can still be so arrogant."
"Poor old couple Zhang family."
"I heard that Li Mingqing was the one who stood by and watched the child die because he was jealous that the Zhang family had a daughter while his own child was a girl."
"You believe this too?"
"If that were the case, the Zhang family would have made a fuss long ago."
"Yes, I went to see him last night. His whole body was covered in bruises. He must have been dead for a long time. Even a god couldn't save him."
"Is it really that serious?"
"That's what I saw with my own eyes."
"No wonder the Zhang family's old couple turned gray overnight, and Wu Lili is also crazy."
As soon as Li Mingqing came back, he was pulled aside by the old ladies in the village to gossip.
He refused and said, "Auntie, I have something to do at home. I'll go home first."
"What's going on at home? Sit down and chat."
"It's really something."
Several old ladies surrounded him and pressed him down on the stone slab to make him sit down.
"Tell us what happened at the Zhang family last night?"
"The child died unexpectedly."
"Please be more specific and tell us something we don't know."
Li Mingqing said helplessly: "Auntie, it's not appropriate to talk about this now."
Zhang Cuihua, holding the child, said from behind, "If there's anything inappropriate, someone else will say it even if you don't say it. I'm not asking you to make it up."
"Exactly. This is the first time in my life that I've heard of a child being suffocated to death."
"Falling into a river or a well and drowning is understandable, but suffocating to death while sleeping is truly unexpected."
Li Mingqing was about to speak when he heard Old Lady Wu say, "Didn't a child in the village next door accidentally suffocate to death? The young couple worked tirelessly in the fields all day and slept soundly that night. When they woke up in the morning, they found the child was stone cold."
"Auntie, that's all. You guys chat, I'm leaving first."
He quickly pushed his bicycle out of the crowd.
After walking less than a hundred meters, I was stopped by a few old men.
No way, when did the uncle become as gossipy as the aunt?
"I have something to do at home, I'll leave first."
"Ming Qing, don't be so anxious. Stay and chat. I heard you're going to the capital and going abroad again. Is that true?"
"Where did you hear that?"
"I don't know. I suddenly heard about it while I was working. You want to see the world. We rarely even go to the provincial capital, but you want to go abroad. You really have great potential."
Li Mingqing said, "It's nothing."
"Look, he's just capable. If it were someone else, they would have set off firecrackers to celebrate."
"That's a must. If it were me, I would definitely make a fuss."
"There's nothing wrong with that. Look how ordinary the Ming and Qing dynasties were."
He finally got home after receiving a lot of praise.
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