Knowing that Li Qiao was pregnant, Yang Qiang wanted to make sure his wife had something good to eat.
After entering the mountains alone, he unexpectedly encountered a wild beast. When he was found and carried back, he was already dead.
Li Qiao suffered a miscarriage after being emotionally agitated.
When Old Lady Yang saw that her second son was gone, she started to hate Li Qiao and often cursed him in front of his door.
They also spread the rumor that Li Qiao had a tough life and was unlucky in marriage and that anyone who came into contact with her would be in bad luck.
In the end, it was reported that Li Qiao's parents would not allow her to return, and no one supported her.
Whenever Old Lady Yang was unhappy, she would pull Li Qiao out and scold him.
Fortunately, Li Qiao was a strong-willed person. He could withstand all the rumors and go to work to support himself.
There are always a lot of gossips around a widow, not to mention that Li Qiao is beautiful and graceful, so there are always old bachelors and scoundrels hanging around her.
Even men who have wives will peek secretly, causing women to spit at them behind their backs.
Li Dazui looked down on him particularly, or to be more precise, he was jealous of him.
Yang Qiang had dated her before, but he didn't like her. Instead, he fell in love with Li Qiao, a beautiful girl from the neighboring village.
The two lived in harmony, and Li Dazui married Li Dazhuang, an honest and simple man in the village, in a fit of anger.
Li Dazui had liked Yang Qiang for a long time, and after being rejected, he felt mixed feelings of love and hate.
When he learned that Yang Qiang was dead, he felt perversely happy, but he hated Li Qiao even more and blamed Li Qiao for Yang Qiang's death.
She exaggerated the fact that Li Qiao was destined to bring bad luck to her husband.
Until one day, she ran into her man fetching water for Li Qiao.
Although Li Dazhuang tried his best to explain that it was an accidental encounter, he happened to see Li Qiao almost fall on the side of the road and helped him.
Li Dazui didn't believe it at all and thought that Li Qiao seduced her man to help her.
She started cursing without saying anything, but Li Dazhuang still pulled her away forcefully.
Who would have thought that this usually taciturn man would actually call Widow Li's name in his sleep.
After hearing this, Li Dazui felt secretly resentful.
From then on, rumors began to spread in the village that Widow Li was unfaithful to her husband and had slept with men, and they spoke as if people had seen it with their own eyes.
Li Qiao explained it, but it was no use.
With her beautiful face and graceful figure, she was branded as restless.
People followed the rumor and it became increasingly outrageous, with it even being said that a different man entered and left the widow's house every night.
It seemed that fate really did not let this poor woman go, even though she was struggling to survive alone.
The strange looks from the villagers, the gossip behind my back, the noise outside the door at night...
Over time, it was enough to cause her mental breakdown and was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
It was that night that she used the hatchet in her trembling hand with desperate force to scare away an old bachelor who tried to violate her.
He hid in the house, shivering and crying for most of the night. Finally, he changed into neat and clean clothes and hanged himself.
She resisted people's harsh words in the most fierce way possible and gave up this suffocating world.
The culprit did not receive punishment. Perhaps he felt guilty for a moment and continued to throw dirty water on her.
Next time, the same thing will happen again.
Xu Zhiyi stood in the distance. After Li Dazui came, she looked at the scene with a sarcastic expression.
Gan Tiantian said angrily: "These people are so evil. They wrongly accused someone without any evidence and even killed her."
"Yes! They are all murderers. They don't use knives, just malicious speculation and random fabrications are enough to easily destroy a person.
In fact, this person may not be at fault at all.”
Xu Zhiyi felt that it was extremely ironic. No matter what era, women were always treated harshly and maliciously.
Is it because women are weak?
No! Blame those who lie freely and direct malice towards innocent people. Blame the ugly human heart.
A casual remark from someone else, deliberately spread by someone with ulterior motives, may ruin a person's life.
It takes only one mouth to spread a rumor, but it takes a lot of effort to refute it.
"A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth."
Anyone who truly does not know the full picture will refrain from commenting.
The farce ended under the strong force of the village chief, who was extremely angry.
In order to maintain the reputation of Xiangyang Village and punish Li Dazui for her restlessness, she was punished to carry manure for a month.
The dead are gone, and no one is allowed to discuss this matter anymore.
The village chief at that time did nothing and did not discipline the villagers. He just watched Li Qiao being bullied and allowed rumors to spread.
The gossipy women were all like quails because of the village chief's authority.
However, the farce did not end there.
The villagers never stopped gossiping about Li Dazui, and everyone had gossiped about him in private.
The sensible men repeatedly told their wives to be more obedient and not to be as vicious as Li Dazui.
If we make her angry, she will start making rumors and causing trouble again, and who can tell what will happen.
No one understands this situation better than a woman.
They isolated Li Dazui, attacked him behind his back, and told their own children to stay away from Li's children. The men also rarely spoke to Li Dazhuang.
This time, Li Dazui also suffered from the targeting of the villagers, the disgust of her children, and the indifference of her husband.
Every day when she picked up manure, she had a smell on her body and no one wanted to approach her. She began to be afraid of speaking in front of people and became silent and thin.
At least after this incident, the village chief's tough attitude, coupled with Li Dazui's sudden madness and weirdness.
The villagers were frightened, and the gossipy women became more restrained.
Time passed like this day by day.
Xu Zhiyi finally succeeded in upgrading his supernatural power to level three.
The upgrade of her superpowers gave her more confidence. Only when she was strong could she live freely no matter where she was.
Xu Zhiyi specially took Pei Yan with him and went hunting in the mountains.
This time they were lucky and encountered a lone wild boar. It didn't look very big, and before Xu Zhiyi could make a move, Pei Yan's machete ended the wild boar's life.
Calculating the time, I guess the Xu family’s letter and package will be delivered soon.
Xu Zhiyi planned to prepare some dried goods and game from the mountains and send them back.
She hadn't picked many mushrooms before, so she asked Pei Yan's family where she could exchange them. Every household in the village had dried mushrooms, and some also had dried vegetables grown in their own plots.
It was convenient to work in the cave, so Pei Yan was responsible for helping to marinate and smoke the wild boar meat, as well as a few pheasants and rabbits.
Pei Yan said that mushrooms and dried vegetables could be exchanged at the village chief's house.
Xu Zhiyi thought of Yang Xiaoxiao. This girl was enthusiastic and simple, and she was easy to get along with.
I thought I could take this opportunity to have a few more dealings with the village chief's family and establish some connections. Then, when I build a house in the village in the future, it would be great if the village chief could allocate a piece of land to me.
Having made up his mind, Xu Zhiyi searched for the food he had stored, took half a pound of brown sugar and a packet of old-fashioned snacks from the supply and marketing cooperative, and went to the village chief's house under the cover of night.
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