After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 225 Past events

Jiang Xiaohe was really surprised.

"When did this happen?"

Zeng Hua covered her mouth and smiled: "Who knows? Li Taohua is not a decent person. How this marriage came about, I'm afraid only she knows."

After that, Zeng Hua continued, "This is the case of the top beam being crooked and the bottom beam being crooked. What kind of good person can a woman like Chen Guifang teach?"

Where did this come from?

She also had a seed of gossip buried in her heart: "Second Aunt, is there some past event that I don't know about?"

"You've only been married for a few years, how could you know some of the things that happened before..."

Then Zeng Hua began to speak.

"You know Chen Guifang, right? She's Li Taohua's mother."

Jiang Xiaohe nodded.

"She is also a widow. Her husband used to work in a quarry. He was killed by a rock. The quarry paid a lot of silver as compensation."

Wang Qiuxia nodded aside.

Zeng Hua continued, "At that time, Li Taohua and Li Tieniu were not too young, right, sister-in-law? It's been a while, and I don't remember it clearly."

Wang Qiuxia thought for a moment and said, "Li Tieniu is about ten years old. He is about five years older than Dashan. I remember that Dashan was only five years old at that time."

Zeng Hua nodded.

She continued, "At that time, Chen Guifang had a mother-in-law above her, so naturally all the compensation money went to her mother-in-law, so she was relatively honest. But her husband's death had a huge impact on her mother-in-law, and she passed away within a year. The family fell into the hands of Chen Guifang. In the first one or two years, the family had money, and she had a son and a daughter, so she was relatively honest. But after two years, this woman became a little unethical."

When it comes to this, Wang Qiuxia nodded with an indignant look on her face: "That's right, she dresses up beautifully and wanders around the village all day long. She's a woman with two children, and she has the nerve to do that." At that time, she even seduced Zhang Fu, wanting him to help her with work!

Jiang Xiaohe asked Zeng Hua to continue.

"At that time, the women in the village couldn't stand her because she didn't work all day and just asked the men in the village who wanted to take advantage of her to do the work for her. Don't you think this is obviously making the women in the village jealous?"

Jiang Xiaohe nodded.

"and then?"

"Then the women in the village were naturally dissatisfied and wanted the village chief to drive them out. Who would have thought..." Zeng Hua had a look of disgust on his face when he said this.

Wang Qiuxia took over the conversation and said, "Who would have thought that the village chief seemed to have an affair with her, and he suppressed the matter and allowed their family to continue living in the village."

Jiang Xiaohe only felt that she was struck by lightning and was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.

Zhang Shunchang? I can’t tell.

Zeng Hua nodded: "That's right! But after that incident, Chen Guifang has restrained herself a little. But just when everyone thought she had restrained herself, one morning someone saw a man coming out of her room."

So exciting?

"You remember Wu Qiulan, right? She lives next door to Chen Guifang."

Jiang Xiaohe thought about it and nodded, having some impression.

"She just saw her man coming out of Chen Guifang's house, so she made a big noise in the village!"

"That's right. Although Chen Guifang was a bit wild in the village before, I haven't heard that she really had anything going on with any man."

Zeng Hua nodded, "That's right, but Chen Guifang still refused to admit it. She said that it was raining those few days and the roof of her house was leaking. She saw Zhang Yougen passing by in the morning and asked him to come in to help. But Wu Qiulan didn't believe it. She pointed at her and scolded her, saying, if he just went in to help you, why did he hold up his pants when he came out?"

Jiang Xiaohe: ...

"This incident caused a big stir in the village at the time, and many people came to watch the fun, but Zhang Yougen and Chen Guifang insisted that nothing happened between them, they were just helping to repair the roof, and the matter was forgotten, and then it was not until a while ago."

Jiang Xiaohe opened her eyes wide waiting for gossip.

"About half a month ago, Wu Qiulan said in the village that she heard some inappropriate noises in the middle of the night from Chen Guifang's house next door. At first, she thought it was a wild cat in the mountains, but it was summer and the wild cats were in heat, so she thought someone was cheating on her family."

Jiang Xiaohe frowned: "Half a month ago? Wasn't mother kidnapped half a month ago?"

Zeng Hua nodded: "It was at that time. They said there was lightning and thunder at night. The sound was so loud that Wu Qiulan said she heard it clearly."

Jiang Xiaohe frowned slightly:

"So what then? Does this have anything to do with what happened before?"

"How come it doesn't matter!" Zeng Hua continued, "I heard that Li Taohua scolded Wu Qiulan in front of her house after hearing about it. Wu Qiulan was so angry that she went home and had a quarrel with her husband. Zhang Yougen was so angry that he ran out of the house."

"Then guess where Zhang Yougen went after he left home?"

Jiang Xiaohe looked at her and said, "Could it be possible that she ran to Chen Guifang's house?"

"You really guessed it."

Jiang Xiaohe: ...

"Wu Qiulan was so angry that she almost died at home. In the end, she even fell ill!"

Jiang Xiaohe complained in her heart: That Zhang Yougen is such a jerk!

Seeing Zeng Hua stopped talking, Jiang Xiaohe asked, "Is that all?"

Zeng Hua nodded and shook her head: "I don't know if it's over or not. Anyway, someone in the village said that when Wu Qiulan was sick, she saw Zhang Yougen coming out of Chen Guifang's house again."

Jiang Xiaohe was puzzled.

"It's already like this, shouldn't you be put in a pig cage?"

Zeng Hua shook her head: "How can that be possible? She is a widow and has no husband. Her son doesn't care about her. If she is caught, at most people will just make fun of her. Who would really put her in a pig cage?"

Jiang Xiaohe was speechless. What he meant was, dunking in a pig cage is only for married women?

Then he asked, "What about Li Taohua?"

Speaking of Li Taohua, Zeng Hua shook his head and said, "Who knows? What they advertised was that Li Tieniu met the boss while working in the next town, so he introduced her to his sister."

Jiang Xiaohe didn't believe what was said. It wasn't that she couldn't bear to see Li Taohua living a good life, but if Li Tieniu really knew such a person, he would have introduced her to his sister long ago and would not have waited until now.

Thinking about what Li Taohua had done in the past, she might have hooked up with this guy on her own.

At this point, Zeng Hua spoke up again: "But I see that Chen Guifang has been very generous to Li Taohua recently, buying her new clothes and jewelry and so on. I think she wants to rely on Li Taohua in the future."

Wang Qiuxia also nodded: "Now it depends on whether Zhang Xiu'e will give up."

Zeng Hua: "So what if she can't let it go? They've already paid the betrothal gift." At this point, she sighed: "To be honest, for someone like Li Taohua, marrying into a family like this for the second time is a blessing."

Then he added: "In two days, the eldest girl will be coming of age. You all must come then. No one can be absent."

"Don't worry, Second Aunt!"

Zeng Hua had been sitting here with them for such a long time. She picked up the sole of her shoe and said, "It's almost noon. I'm going back to cook. I'll come back in the afternoon."

The two nodded.