"Why don't you go find Zhao Dashu?"
"He ignores me." Xiao Yu had talked to Zhao Dashu a few days ago, but he didn't even listen and just walked past him.
"How could he do this?"
"It's all our fault that we signed the severance agreement. Our family really was tricked on us."
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Nothing can be hidden in the village. On the way back home after Li finished selling candy, several people who went to sell candy together chatted as they walked, "From Dayong's family, your eldest brother's Ruxin is a concubine?"
Li felt as if she was falling into an icy cave. "Who told you that?"
"Many people in the village are talking about this, so I want to ask you if it's true? You are a family, and you must know about her affairs. I heard that Ruxin hasn't returned to the village for a long time." They couldn't understand. It wasn't a famine year, and they were not so poor that they couldn't eat. She was still a scholar, so why did he send her to be a concubine? Is the other party very powerful? No matter how powerful you are, it won't work.
"Don't listen to nonsense. My elder brother and his wife love the child so much, why would they send the child to be a concubine?" Li would never admit it. She didn't know. She knew nothing.
"Is this really not true?" There is no smoke without fire. Everyone in the village spoke the same story as if it were true.
"You know that our family and the old man's family have been separated. We rarely interact with each other during the day. They don't come back often. After we were separated, we only met a few times. After dinner, they left."
"You have such a good relationship with Wang, but she didn't tell you about Ruxin's marriage?" Others continued to ask without giving up. They were very curious and didn't know whether this was true or not.
"When my eldest sister-in-law went home, I was busy in the kitchen cooking. My eldest brother and sister-in-law chatted with my parents and hurried back to the city after dinner. To be honest, we don't even know where their home is in the county town now. So you really asked the wrong person. I only heard that my eldest sister-in-law was helping Ruxin look for a wife before."
Li just wanted to cut off ties with Zhao Dawen. So what if everyone knew about it? They have separated and the two families have no relationship with each other. The matter of them selling their daughter has nothing to do with them.
The two women didn't get any news from Li.
"Who told you this? How did outsiders know about this when even our family members don't know about it?"
"It was first spread by Aunt Zhu, and then Aunt Lin also said so, so we believed it. You also know that the two of them have the best relationship with your mother-in-law."
Li's fingers turned white as she gripped her basket tightly.
Mother-in-law, it’s actually mother-in-law? She went out in the middle of winter to gossip about her eldest granddaughter. Is she sick?
Li now wants to break off the relationship with Zhao Dawen. It is really shameful to have such an elder brother. Not only is it shameful, but her entire reputation will be ruined.
"Don't we know what Aunt Zhu and Aunt Lin are like? Sometimes they don't even listen to what they say and just shout nonsense everywhere. You can't trust what they say."
The women on the road thought so too. The two old ladies had nothing to do except gossiping about the neighbors and fighting with others.
"Will Ruxin come back during the New Year?"
Li was bitter. Why did she come back? She was no longer free.
"That's right. I really don't know anything about my eldest brother's family. But before Zhaodi got engaged, I heard that Ruxin and my eldest brother both caught a cold, and it was quite serious."
What's wrong with you that you don't go home for the New Year? The county town is not the provincial capital, so everyone was a little skeptical of what Li said, always feeling that she was not telling the truth.
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