Liu Wangcai’s wife is a notorious shrew in the village, a master at fighting and arguing.
When villagers see her, they basically avoid her if they can, lest they get bitten by a mad dog and have to pay for their own treatnt.
This ti, for so unknown reason, Liu Wangcai’s wife suddenly stord into the Old Mu Family to stir up trouble.
However, if it doesn’t concern her, Mu Shuangshuang keeps her distance, lazily ignoring it, as she has a lot of other things to attend to.
The gold and silver flowers have been put in a large sieve to dry in the courtyard, the white flowers and green leaves are quite eye-catching in the sieve.
The fragrance of the gold and silver flowers wafted to Mu Shuangshuang’s nose, making her feel instantly refreshed, with most of her fatigue dissipating.
After drying for two or three days, these gold and silver flowers will beco dried flowers, and once stored in a pottery jar, they’ll save her the cost of tea leaves.
The front yard was noisy, and even while busy chopping pig feed, Mu Shuangshuang could faintly hear demands to hand over that slut Mu Zhenzhen.
It was at this mont that Little Zhi ca up, holding Little Black who had just had a big al.
She mysteriously walked up to Mu Shuangshuang, insisting on pulling her into her room.
Mu Shuangshuang was very curious, wondering what could be so important that Little Zhi would pull her into the room to talk.
"Sister, I saw Second Aunt and Fat Girl’s dad co ho this noon. Is Fat Girl’s mom here to make a fuss because of this?"
Mu Shuangshuang frowned in thought, reckoning it was indeed about that, but she reminded Little Zhi.
"Little Zhi, act like you didn’t see anything happen at noon. No matter what occurs, you can’t tell anyone about it."
If Mu Zhenzhen gets involved with a married man, once it spreads, it won’t just disgrace Mu Zhenzhen herself, but also the entire Old Mu Family and the third branch, who will all be shad.
In ancient tis, anything related to reputation was always a big matter. One person’s mistake brought sha to many, so Mu Shuangshuang’s actions were not to help Mu Zhenzhen, but to protect herself.
"Little Zhi understands, Little Zhi heard nothing at all." Little Zhi said as she covered her mouth and ran out of the room.
Little Black followed behind her, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Mu Shuangshuang then went out to continue working on her tasks.
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In the front yard, Old Mrs. Mu stood alone at the forefront, balancing on her tiptoes as if rooted to the ground, not moving an inch.
Her fierce eyes glared at Liu Wangcai’s wife who was causing trouble at her ho, while behind her stood several unreliable sons from the Old Mu Family, Mu Dazhong, Mu Danian, and Mrs. Lin.
Mu Dazhong and Mu Danian were pulled over on short notice, so they were still sowhat reluctant. As for Mrs. Lin, she stood the furthest away, as she had already witnessed Liu Wangcai’s wife’s ferocity.
Last ti when she was watering the field, Liu Wangcai’s wife claid there was manure in her field and couldn’t let water through, berating Mrs. Lin thoroughly before stopping.
And beside Liu Wangcai’s wife stood Liu Wangcai, battered beyond recognition, with blood-soaked bandages on his head.
"Well, Liu Wangcai’s wife, how dare you co to my Old Mu Family’s front door barking, you’re tired of living aren’t you? Believe it or not, I’ll beat you till your parents won’t recognize you!"
Old Mrs. Mu was as fierce as ever, especially when it involved her second daughter, she was almost single-handedly crushing Liu Wangcai’s wife.
"You old woman, don’t think having a son who never passes the scholar exams makes you able to show off in front of , today you have to hand over Mu Zhenzhen whether you want to or not."
"You dead woman, dare to insult my old lady. What makes you think you can make hand over Zhenzhen, who do you think you are?"
"Humph, wait till you hear what low things Mu Zhenzhen has done, then you’ll see if you still defend her!"
As soon as Liu Wangcai’s wife finished her words, she kicked Liu Wangcai in the back, sending him sprawling to the ground.
"Worthless thing, tell everyone clearly what Mu Zhenzhen did today in front of the villagers. If you can’t explain clearly, I’ll knock you dead with a spade."
Liu Wangcai knelt on the ground submissively, like a criminal, shivering as he spoke: "Today noon, I t with Zhenzhen, she... she said she wanted to co to my house. As a married man, I naturally refused, and she started undressing to seduce ..."
That ntion of buying at made Old Mrs. Mu tremble inside, rembering the pound of at her daughter brought ho at noon — could it be...
But quickly, Old Mrs. Mu steadied herself, thinking her pretty daughter would never fancy soone like Liu Wangcai.
However, just because Old Mrs. Mu believed in Mu Zhenzhen, didn’t an the spectators did.
"Wow, how can Old Mu’s second daughter be such a slut and want soone like Wangcai?"
"You all don’t know, do you? The second daughter was divorced, so she’s without a husband now, perhaps..."
"No wonder, maybe she thinks Wangcai’s thing is good..."
Liu Wangcai’s words made the villagers watching gossip about Mu Zhenzhen, who hadn’t appeared.
So even went so far as to speak as if Mu Zhenzhen was a promiscuous woman, spinning all sorts of dirty tales.
Elably watching was so incensed she was about to hit soone.
Yet, Liu Wangcai went on: "Later when I refused to agree with Zhenzhen, she hit with a large sea bowl, and stole three taels of silver from our ho; those silver coins were stored in a pottery jar, and are certainly at Old Mu Family now."
"Listen, everyone, listen to what kind of daughter has Old Mu Family raised? Not only seducing other won’s husbands, but also assaulting people and stealing money — such a person shouldn’t stay in the village, they should be driven away."
"Yes, drive her away, Old Mrs. Mu, stop protecting her, since your daughter has done such low things, you should hand her over to be beaten to death with sticks."
Mrs. Zhang, who had argued with Mu Shuangshuang earlier in the afternoon, spoke first in agreent, thinking she couldn’t get revenge on Mu Shuangshuang, she would take it out on other mbers of the Old Mu Family — she won’t suffer losses.
Having so agreent from others, those mischievous wives in the village got all excited, clamoring to drag Mu Zhenzhen to be dunked in a pigsty.
"Everyone listen to , Old Mrs. Mu is harboring a thief, we must rush in and we need to capture her..."
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