CH 43.3

"It sounds good to marry a person at first, but it turned out to be an empty shell. You are not afraid of being struck by lightning for telling these lies. Pity my son who is gentle, who suffers from being fooled by your family!"

"Your family suffers? There is no one more savvy than your family! You gave the dowry with the lowest offer, and still wants my children to be cows and horses, if I’m not afraid to say it out loud to make people laugh! If you haven’t said that my children would be treated as your own after marriage, would I have agreed to you? Bah!"

When Xu He came, Fei's mother and his mother Liu Xianglan were scolding at each other with their waists up, like two roosters with their feathers blown out, one more fierce than the other.

"Okay, everyone is here, just in time to comment. The surname Liu said that her daughter is virtuous and capable of cooking, but in fact, she can't cook a few dishes at all. Why did she pretend to be sick and refuse to help at Chen's house that day? It’s because Xu Shaochun can't do it at all! She even lied to people that Xu Shaochun is capable! It was all done by He ge’er!"

Just seeing Xu He approaching, the villagers all looked at Xu He. Everyone thought about it, but no one opened their mouths.

"Hey! I said that the child can cook, but I didn't say which child it was. It's none of my business if you don't ask clearly! At first, you wanted our family Shaochun, but now you don't like it. Well, ten fingers have different lengths, is it possible that someone can be good at everything? Do you think your Fei Lian is so good just because he can read?”

"My son is a scholar with fame. Even if he doesn't know how to farm, he also has monthly money from the court and fertile land. What else does your Shaochun have besides empty shells? It can’t even be used for food. "

"Hey, I don't see anyone demolishing bridges like you when crossing the river. Didn't you just fall in love with the beauty of our family's Shaochun? The scholar in your family looks upright, but he doesn't blink his eyes when he looks at Shaochun."

Hearing Liu Xianglan described her darling son as a lustful person, she was so angry that she couldn't choose what to say, " Do you think my Lian'er likes your Xu Shaochun? Some people wanted to be married to our family, even at first my son didn't think highly of your useless Xu Shaochun, what he liked was clearly..."

"Everyone, the pigs are all ready, and I will take them back if you don't buy them."

Zhang Fangyuan suddenly came over and interrupted everyone who were watching the show with a loud voice, and also interrupted what Fei's mother was about to say.

Xu He also vaguely sensed what Fei's mother was about to say next, and was terrified, but fortunately Zhang Fangyuan stopped the quarrel first.

If Fei's mother spread out about those things, there would be more disturbances in the future that the family couldn’t think about it.

The villagers couldn't get enough of it. In the past, when the two families got married, they made many people jealous. Now seeing the two families swearing at each other so quickly, everyone felt so happy. They wished to hear more about the bad things about the two families.

But after Zhang Fangyuan came to interrupt, everyone couldn't continue to listen brazenly. They pretended to go forward to persuade people, and persuaded both parties to rest.

Xu Shaochun's eyes were swollen from crying in the room. Now that she lost all her face, she felt relieved inexplicably, as if she had lifted the shackles on her face. Regardless of what people said and people who wanted to see, they took a basin of washing water and poured it directly in the yard, and the villagers had no choice but to back out resently.

Xu He and Zhang Fangyuan looked at each other, knowing if something like this would happen, why bothered. He didn't go forward to persuade them either, or he could only get scolded and punched if he went by himself, so he simply went back to Huang's house with Zhang Fangyuan, and sold the pork for money.

It took two days for Xu He to hear about the follow-up.

Her mother, Liu Xianglan, was so angry that she called Xu Shaochun back when the Fei's family was busy planting the rice seedlings. Fei's mother chased after her and scolded her, and then she had to go home to work.

Xu Shaochun stayed at home for five days in a row, at first she was very proud, but later on she never heard anything from the Fei's family when she lived in her house, and Fei Lian didn't pick her up when he came back from the academy.

This time Xu Shaochun was in a hurry, and after a few tweaks, she still had the cheek to go back to Fei's house.

Knowing these things, Xu He sighed. It was really ugly that the two families were in trouble like this, and it was impossible to talk about reunion.

Getting married once would hurt your vitality, and getting married again was not as easy to find as before, and you had to spend money again, and it was hard to say it. They could only live in a stalemate like this, and it was common for daughter in laws to fight like this with their mother-in-laws, and they would come back as if the quarrel was over, but it would definitely not be easy to live a good life in the future.

He only hoped that his second sister could grow up after this incident. If she could manage the relationship between husband and wife well and lived a stable life, there would be hope in the future. After all, Fei Lian was also a rare scholar in the village.

When Xu He came back from picking vegetables, seeing that Fei Lian and his second sister were the only ones who became the talking material in the fields in the village, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He and Zhang Fangyuan, the two "Feng yun ren wu" who were only talked about by the folks, suddenly abdicated.

[风云人物 fēng yún rén wù: the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure]

"Do you want to come with me to sell vegetables in the city tomorrow?"

Zhang Fangyuan went to help Zhang Shiyuan to plant the rice seedlings in the field and came back. His two calves were covered with mud. He filled a large ladle of water and rinsed it at the corner of the yard, and poured some water into the rotten earthen pot with shallots in the middle.

Xu He sorted out the side dishes, and said, "I won't sell the vegetables in the future."