HCB Chapter 113: Village Gossip
Chapter 113: Village Gossip
Aunt Xu turned her head slowly.
"Yu Zhiqing, do you know that scaring others can kill them?"
Without even noticing the surroundings, they were whispering bad things about others when suddenly a voice came from behind them. At that moment, they almost thought that their ancestors had gotten up.
"Hehehe~"
Yu Qingtang felt embarrassed and could only smile awkwardly.
Several aunts also laughed. Aunt Xu said unhappily, "Why are you, a little girl, listening to us old ladies? You are not ashamed."
Yu Qingtang sighed and said indifferently: "It's not like I meant to listen to it. Your voices just reached my ears, so I just listened."
"Besides, you guys who are talking about it are not ashamed, so why should I, a listener, be ashamed?"
The aunts looked at each other and thought that this little girl was quite shameless.
If it were other unmarried girls, hearing these obscene things, even if they didn't cover their faces and run away, they would blush with shame.
Yu Qingtang looked indifferent. After they had seen enough, he urged, "Then what? Were the daughter-in-law and father-in-law discovered?"
"Ha ha ha ha--"
The aunts laughed for some reason. Aunt Xu laughed the loudest. After laughing, she pulled Yu Qingtang into their small group.
He lowered his voice, looking like someone who was having an underground meeting.
"Of course they were discovered. The daughter-in-law was beaten by her son, and the father-in-law was beaten by the mother-in-law. Then they separated and lived separately."
"But, they only have one house. If they split up, they will just cook separately. Actually, they still live together."
The daughter-in-law who had cheated on her father-in-law still lives under the same roof with her. Even a fool would not believe that nothing will happen next.
Yu Qingtang raised his eyebrows: "Can my son and daughter-in-law still live like this?"
Aunt Xu: "But what else can we do? We country people are not like you city people, who always ask for divorce."
"Once you're married, no matter how hard it is, you have to live your whole life together."
"Even if you really want to leave, you still have to have the ability to leave. You may not be able to find the next one after leaving this one. Some men can't leave women, so they can only endure the disgust and make do with it."
Another aunt who she didn't know answered, "That's right. The daughter-in-law and her son have a child. Although we don't know whether it's his son or his brother, we can't just abandon him."
As soon as these words were spoken, several people looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Yu Qingtang didn't understand why they were laughing, but in order to continue listening to the gossip, she laughed a few times along with them.
After the tomb sweeping, Yu Qingtang received an invitation from Gao Wenwen.
"I'm getting married next month, and I hope you can come to my house for the wedding banquet."
When she said this, her eyes were full of anticipation for her future life.
The female supporting character who was originally going to die in the control group plot is going to get married and start her new life, and Yu Qingtang is happy for her.
"Don't worry, I will definitely come."
Yu Qingtang asked again: "Where is your partner from?"
Gao Wenwen's face was slightly red, and she said in a mosquito-like voice, "It's the educated youth comrade from your educated youth point."
"Sleeping?"
"Liu Jianguo."
The news that Gao Wenwen was going to get married to Liu Jianguo, a youth from the educated youth point, was a hot topic in the Gaolitun Brigade.
Some elderly people with a long-term vision advised Gao Wenwen's grandparents.
"You are confused. Those educated youth from the city are not people you can trust."
"Wenwen is the only child in your family. If you lose another one in the future, the educated youth will abandon her and return to the city, and there will be no one to support her."
Gao Wenwen's grandparents have different ideas.
"Everyone knows about our family situation. When the two of us pass away, Wenwen will be the only one left. She will live in the team, and the villagers will take care of her, so we can rest assured."
"If Liu Zhiqing is a man of conscience, then that would be great. But if he is an unscrupulous man, it would be good if he could go back to the city and leave Wenwen with a child to take care of her in her old age."
"It's better than getting married and serving someone else's family."
These words were considered ahead of their time. When Yu Qingtang heard them, he couldn't help but clap his hands and exclaim: "If you can survive, then survive. If you can't survive, then die and keep the son. What a wise couple of old people."
Yun Shuangjiang also nodded in agreement: "Even in our generation, not to mention our grandparents, even our parents were rarely so insightful. Most people still believed that girls should get married."
"I am coming."
Jiang Wan was standing in front of them, carrying a backpack and waving, "Let's hurry up and get up the mountain. If we're late, all the mushrooms will be picked up by people."
Yun Shuangjiang also carried a big basket. Today was Sunday, and she went to the countryside to look for fir mushrooms in the mountains.
Now is the season for eating fir mushrooms. In the past, she would buy fresh fir mushrooms in the vegetable market every time this season came.
But no one dared to sell it openly in that era, so Yu Qingtang invited her to go up the mountain to look for it herself.
Yu Qingtang teased Jiang Wan: "Aren't you going on a date with your boyfriend today?"
Ever since Jiang Wan and Song Chen started dating, Jiang Wan went to work with her every day, Song Chen would send her off after get off work, and they would spend time together on weekends.
Yu Qingtang didn't want to be a third wheel, so he went home alone after get off work and they didn't play together on weekends.
Jiang Wan blushed a little when she teased him, and said angrily: "You always say that I value love over friendship. I took time out to accompany you, but you keep teasing me."
"Woman, don't go too far."
Yun Shuangjiang burst into laughter: "Hahaha——"
"You're so greasy." Yu Qingtang shook exaggeratedly.
Jiang Wan didn't know the domineering words and phrases in the popular domineering CEO novels in later generations. She didn't understand what the two were laughing at and looked at her two slightly crazy friends in confusion.
The three of them went up the mountain happily.
After Qingming Festival, it rained intermittently. Although there was no sunny day, the work in the fields could not be delayed.
With fewer idle people in the team, the mushrooms on the mountain became happy and grew rapidly.
It didn't take long for the three of them to pack up all the belongings they brought with them.
Yun Shuangjiang looked at the fresh mushrooms all over the ground with regret: "I thought it would be hard to find, but I didn't expect that I didn't have much experience."
This was her first time to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms by herself. It was understandable that she lacked some experience, but looking at the fresh mushrooms all over the ground, she was reluctant to go back.
Jiang Wan and Yu Qingtang simultaneously took out the spare nylon bags they had brought with them and handed them to her.
Yun Shuangjiang looked at the two people in shock, then looked at the two nylon bags full of mushrooms that they had placed under the tree.
“Why do you carry so many pockets?”
Jiang Wan smiled awkwardly and said nothing, because she wanted to pick more to sell on the black market.
Yu Qingtang said nonchalantly: "It's better to be prepared. What if one of the bags I brought with me breaks?"
Yun Shuangjiang accepted this excuse.
The dark clouds in the sky were clustered together, making the forest, which was already dark due to the shadows of the trees, even darker.