Chapter 044: Self-inflicted
The old lady can allow others to say bad things about herself, but if anyone dares to say that her granddaughter is not good, then she will fight hard with the other party!
Reputation is so important to girls, Xiong Xiaofen used this to threaten Qin Mutong, how could the old lady endure it?
It's just that before the old lady could speak, Qin Mutong had already scolded herself: "Aunt Xiong, what do you mean by this? I just followed your words a few words, why did you have a sharp mouth and a reputation? Aunt Xiong, you have been in the village for so many years, and your reputation is like that, aren't you still living well? I think, no matter what I do, I should still be better than Aunt Xiong'er, you, it's so much better, right?"
Xiong Xiaofen was dumbfounded!
She is used to teaching young girls, whether it is the girls of the Zheng family or the Xiong family, there is almost no one who has not been scolded by her. is someone else's girl, she also scolds when she wants, and people don't dare to say anything.
To Qin Mutong, Xiong Xiaofen was actually polite.
The main reason is that Qin Mutong was quite low-key in the village before, and he didn't walk around the village much, and he was not very familiar with most people in the village.
When everyone mentions her, they all say that she is a fool who can only read.
Xiong Xiaofen had also said this about Qin Mutong behind his back before, but it was just everyone's private gossip, and when he spoke, it was just a brain, purely for fun.
Coupled with Qin Mutong's temperament that is completely different from that of the people in the village, every time he stands in front of Qin Mutong, Xiong Xiaofen is inexplicably weak-hearted, and involuntarily becomes a little shorter, and he can't do what he wants when he speaks.
But Xiong Xiaofen still didn't expect that this girl was not stupid at all, but she was also very neat!
She said one sentence, the dead girl can have ten sentences for her to come back!
If this is not a sharp mouth, then what is?
"Tong Tong is worthy of being a person who has read for a few more years, and this is different from others. Xiong Xiaofen said angrily, "I said Aunt Han, you just look at your granddaughter so cold to me, does she still take us elders in her eyes?"
What's wrong with her reputation in the village?
"Aunt Xiong, let's talk, why did you find my grandmother again?" Qin Mutong said with a smile, "We children quarrel, but we have long been reluctant to find parents to complain." Besides, the elders also have to be like elders to be worthy of respect, don't you say? What about the elders who ask for food, why didn't you see Aunt Han you brought people home to offer them?"
In the countryside, most of the days are not good, every meal of food is counted to eat, and a meal has to be mixed with a lot of sweet potato pieces to fill the stomach.
There are those filial and harmonious people, naturally one person eats one bite, and everyone supports them to barely survive. Those who have lost their conscience will directly drive their elderly parents out of the house, regardless of them.
In Xinmin Village, there are also elderly people who have been kicked out of their homes.
For this reason, the village chief and village secretary, as well as the captain of the brigade, also came to talk to people. But the family is very single, saying that their family's food is not enough to eat, and the old couple feels sorry for their grandchildren and voluntarily does not eat, just to save a bite for their grandchildren. The house at home was not enough to live in, so the old couple went to find a place to live on their own and left the house to their grandchildren.
Isn't this fooling? No one believes this nonsense.
The village cadres went to talk to the old couple who were pulling the bark of wild vegetables and eating outside, but the people still recognized the unfilial words of the family, and everything was voluntary. The village cadres wanted to send them home, but they still refused, rolling on the ground and spilling on the ground, and scolding others for being nosy.
In such a situation, how can people still care?
Yes, since it's voluntary, you can live it however you want!
In this way, the old couple finally settled in a rotten grass house near the Zheng family ancestral hall.
When they are lucky, they can dig up some wild vegetables and fruits to eat. When they were unlucky, they couldn't pick anything up, so when it was time to eat, they went to the door of the house of the person who had a relatively good life, and watched them eat, and kept swallowing saliva, wiping the saliva from the corners of their mouths with the sleeves of their torn clothes.
In this way, who can stand to be stared at by the old man who is miserable at a glance?
Some people really couldn't stand it anymore, so they would divide half a bowl of food and send it to the two old men. If you don't have enough food at home, or if you are a little ruthless, you just close the door of your house and eat behind closed doors, out of sight and out of mind!
It's not that no one sympathizes with the old couple and wants to help them get ahead. But no matter who it is, as long as they stand up, the final result will be the same as that of the original village cadres. The son and daughter-in-law of the old couple were even more proud, and scolded the person who came out, so that they would take the old couple back to their own house if they had kindness, anyway, their family had no extra food at all!
The old couple was willing to be treated like this by their own son, and slowly, everyone became indifferent.
Within two years, the old couple who were reluctant to scold their own son but ate and drank everywhere were disliked by the whole village, and almost all of them turned their heads and left when they saw them, and they were not willing to deal with them at all.
After everyone went back, they didn't forget to tell their children to stay away from those two old begging for food, so as not to be pulled up by a little care!
But this is how they are full and hungry, and the old couple is actually in good health, and they have never heard that they are sick or anything. Look at the few taels of meat on them, but people just live long!
If you want to say that these two people have a generation in the village, it is really not low, and they are the same generation as Mrs. Qin. In addition, they are still the same clan of the Zheng family, so they can naturally be regarded as Xiong Xiaofen's elders.
Xiong Xiaofen didn't expect Qin Mutong to bring out these two old goods, she said with disgust: "It's not that the one who asks for food doesn't have a son, why should I bring people home?!"
She didn't notice the sarcasm in Qin Mu's fairy tale, which meant that she was not an elder and was not worthy of respect.
"It's not like I don't have a grandmother, why should others teach me?" Qin Mutong asked rhetorically.
Xiong Xiaofen: "......"
This dead girl just thinks she's nosy with a mouse!
"Gotta gotcha, you are a scholar, I can't tell you! I won't tell you!" Xiong Xiaofen glanced at Qin Mutong indescribably, jumped up and shouted behind Qin Mutong, "Auntie, on the day of Jianqing's wedding, don't forget to come and drink the wedding wine!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiong Xiaofen turned around and ran, and disappeared from the Qin family's courtyard with a whoosh.
Obviously, she was afraid of Qin Mutong, for fear that she would be scolded back as soon as she opened her mouth, so she simply left her words and left, not giving Qin Mutong a chance to talk back at all!
Qin Mutong: "......"
Old Lady: "......"
I didn't see it, Xiong Xiaofen has a pair of small feet, and she runs very fast!