The phrase "His girlfriend was cheated on by her best friend" can be translated as "He slept with his girlfriend's best friend, and he cheated on his girlfriend."
Goodness, no wonder he's a high-ranking member of Victory Base, what an artful speech, managing to distance himself from the situation.
The girl's gossip spirit was burning brightly. Song Yuanqing nudged Song Moshang's arm and asked, "Dad, do you remember the story about my cousin's cousin's aunt's son's cousin's uncle's daughter?"
Song Moshang: "Huh?" What cousin, aunt, son, uncle, daughter? What are these things?
Ye Zhi looked up in shock, "Huh?"
The two people, one big and one small, had identical shocked expressions.
Seeing that her father didn't understand her meaning, Song Yuanqing realized that even Little Sweet Bean was focused on what she had just said.
She clenched her fist secretly. It seemed she had no choice but to take matters into her own hands; relying on her father was useless.
"It's Xia, haven't you heard of her?"
Ye Jingyu, who was announcing the news, glanced at Song Yuanqing, who was still chattering away, and smiled indulgently. "Wait, don't come over yet. Meet me here in ten minutes."
My wife's started gossiping, so I need to give her time to gossip. I'll also help her dig up some gossip that Little Sweetie just mentioned. That's probably what she wanted to hear, which is why she made up all sorts of messy relationships like cousins, uncles, and aunts.
Ye Zhi excitedly straightened her reclining posture, "What?"
[Such a complicated relationship, sounds like a good piece of gossip!]
Seeing that Ye Zhi had taken the bait, Song Yuanqing began to fabricate his own story: "When she was eighteen, the village chief of her village acted as matchmaker, arranging for her to marry a technician from out of town who was fifteen years older than her."
"What, fifteen years old!" Ye Jingyu walked to the sofa and expressed his shock.
"That was when that guy was in high school, before Xia was even born!"
"And then what? And then what?" Ye Jingyu's expression and question gave Song Yuanqing the confidence to continue making things up.
"Then, they got married."
When Ye Yubai, who had just rushed over, heard the news that they were married, he asked curiously, "What? Who? Who married whom?"
He had a thin layer of sweat on his forehead and was slightly out of breath. When Ye Jingyu called him, he heard about his cousin, uncle, son and other messy relationships.
This messy relationship gave him a whiff of gossip, so he didn't listen carefully to what Ye Jingyu was saying. He just gave a few perfunctory replies and ran over from the villa next door.
Nothing can stop him from enjoying the gossip! This is practically a speed bump for Chinese people going out to fight zombies.
"My cousin's cousin's aunt's son's cousin's uncle's daughter married a technician who was fifteen years older than her, with the village chief acting as matchmaker!"
"Holy crap, what's your relationship with that woman? What should you call her? She's fifteen years older than you, do you think her family would agree to that? Is that village chief crazy?" Ye Yubai's mouth gaped open, then he manually closed his jaw, and then asked a series of three and a half questions before his jaw dropped out again.
Song Yuanqing selectively ignored the first and a half questions Ye Yubai asked. She had no idea what the relationship was; she had just made it up.
She quickly racked her brains over the following questions. "Her grandmother persuaded her, saying that the village chief would act as matchmaker, so she should agree. That year, the oranges grown by everyone else were not good, but the oranges grown by the technician who was fifteen years older than her were plentiful, sweet, and big. So she chose him."
Ye Zhi asked a crucial question, "How far is it between the two households?"
Song Yuanqing paused, thinking, "Don't get sidetracked! What I want to know is the gossip that Little Sweet Bean just mentioned."
She started rambling again, "It's only a short distance between City A and Victory Base."
"What? That far!" Ye Jingyu's reaction was perfectly coordinated, his expression one of utter shock.
Song Yuanqing sighed, then revealed his purpose, "Yes, and then Xiaoxia regretted marrying him there, but she still gave birth to a son for that technician."
Song Yuanqing glanced at the eager looks in the eyes of the people around him, and deliberately drawled out the last syllable, "Then..."
Ye Zhi was the first to give in. She climbed onto Song Yuanqing's lap, tugged at his sleeve with her little hands, and then rolled around on his lap, saying, "Tell me."
Ye Jingyu gradually shifted from feigning curiosity to genuine interest. "Next, what?"
Song Yuanqing straightened Ye Zhi's posture and, without keeping her in suspense any longer, continued, "Then she cheated on that technician and ran off with the one from the next village."
“Every time the mistress from the neighboring village came to the technician’s village, she would be beaten by the villagers. Eventually, the mistress and Xiaoxia ran away.”
"But, that lover got beaten up again, and I heard he was almost beaten to death."
At this moment, Grandpa Song exclaimed, "They really know how to be green, they really know how to run. They really know how to fight, they really know how to fight."
Song Yuanqing glanced at Old Master Song, who kept saying he really knew how, with amusement. Where did the old man get his way of speaking? It was quite sarcastic.
"Then, Xiaoxia ran away and went to another place. Her lover was beaten up once when he came to the technician's village. He was so scared that he abandoned his house in his own village and went to another place. We don't know where he went."
"Xiaoxia got married and had a son and a daughter with someone else."
"And then!" Song Yuanqing paused again, feeling that she had quite a talent for screenwriting. Look, the four people on the sofa, Xiao Tiandou, Song Moshang, Ye Jingyu, Ye Yubai, and Lu Ben, Zhang Dongliang, and Lu Ke who arrived ten minutes later, were all very excited by the story she had written and this pause.
"Tell me, tell me," Ye Zhi pleaded with Song Yuanqing, her body twisting into a pretzel shape once more.
"Then, Xiaoxia had her first husband's contact information and sent a video of her son and daughter to the technician."
"What's most heartbreaking is that the son and daughter were wearing gold necklaces and gold bracelets, while the technician was depressed and unable to work or live because his wife cheated on him. He even left his son with his mother to take care of."
"Holy crap." Ye Yubai's mouth really opened wider and wider, big enough to fit Ye Zhi's head.
"Holy crap." Ye Zhi said "holy crap" for the first time in front of her family, not in a truly heartfelt way, but because Xiaoxia's gossip was so...so delicious.
Then she thought to herself, "So the higher-ups at my Victory Base cheated on her with her girlfriend."
Based on the principle of "you share a piece of gossip, I'll reciprocate with a piece of gossip," Ye Zhi mentally shared the gossip she had read in the original novel with Song Yuanqing.
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