Chapter 197: Are You Trying to Kill Me?

After dinner and tidying up, Lu Yichen went out with Shitou, while Luo Qiao entered into the space to prepare the bedding from the city. She made sure it was ready in case they couldn’t return in time and had to stay there.

In the village secretary’s home, Wang Chunni, Zhang Dezheng’s daughter-in-law, was scolding her daughter, “You’re a young girl, what business do you have gossiping with others? Listen to how everyone talks about you now outside.

Did Luo Qiao offend or provoke you? By tarnishing her reputation like this, if she finds out, it won’t be good for us. If she knows, our family will be in trouble.”

The rest of the Zhang family remained silent. The village secretary looked at his daughter with some resentment and said, “Qiaoyan, if you continue like this after we’ve supported you through school, you’d better not have studied. This way, you won’t ruin the Zhang family.”

Zhang Qiaoyan looked incredulously at her father, “Dad, I just said a few words about Luo Qiao. Why are you blowing this out of proportion? I’m your daughter.”

Zhang’s eldest daughter-in-law, Shang Hongying, snorted softly. She always disliked her younger sister-in-law. She always felt that she’s the only girl in the village to go to high school.

Now Luo Qiao has gone to the city to attend high school, and she couldn’t stand it anymore. These days, she hears gossip about Luo Qiao everywhere, thinking she did nothing wrong. But these days, which woman in the village doesn’t ridicule her?

They don’t confront her face-to-face, but behind her back, they say she has a bad character. If it weren’t for her father being the village secretary, someone would have stepped up and accused her.

Zhang Dezheng said, “How did I raise such a brainless daughter like you? You slander Luo Qiao every day outside. What do you hope to achieve? What do you expect?

Luo Qiao goes to the city to attend high school, but you, your parents, and siblings are all in this village. You’re tarnishing your own reputation and dragging the Zhang family’s reputation down.

Are you deaf? Can’t you hear what people are saying about you, about me, about the Zhang family? If Luo Qiao hears this, do you think I can still sit comfortably as the village secretary?”

Zhang Qiaoyan protested, “So what if she hears? I don’t believe she can do anything about it.”

Wang Chunni, angered, walked over and punched her daughter. Zhang Qiaoyan cried in pain.

She said angrily, “Mom, are you trying to kill me?”

Wang Chunni said, “If it wasn’t illegal to kill someone, I really would want to kill you. Look at the trouble you’ve caused these days. Listen to how people laugh at our family, saying your character is bad, you’re jealous of others’ success, and you’re malicious, bullying others just because your dad is the village secretary.”

Shang Hongying also stood up and said, “Qiaoyan, Mom and Dad are doing this for your own good. What you said didn’t hurt Luo Qiao, but it has ruined your own reputation, dad’s reputation, and the reputation of our Zhang family.”

Zhang Qiaoyan was already unhappy with her parents’ lecture, and now her sister-in-law was also lecturing her. Despite being a high school student, she hadn’t even finished elementary school herself. How dare her sister-in-law lecture her!

She glared fiercely at her sister-in-law, “My parents are still alive. Who do you think you are to lecture me? You didn’t even finish elementary school, yet you dare lecture me, a high school student!”

Now Shang Hongying was fed up too. She angrily threw the bowls and chopsticks she had prepared for the kitchen into the yard. “Yes, my family is poor and couldn’t afford to send me to school. Are you satisfied now?”