bookcurios Chapter 29: Groundless rumors?
Chapter 29: Groundless rumors?
Mu Jiaojiao hasn't gone out for a stroll since she came back from Hexi Town last time.
I stayed in Lihua Village for about ten days, enjoying delicious food and drinks.
She has been planning to build a beautiful big house for herself recently.
So after she finished training as usual that day, she made some lean meat porridge and fried a plate of fried buns, and the whole family ate them.
She also read a book with Xia Zhao and practiced calligraphy for about an hour.
The main reason was that she was stimulated by Jin Baoer last time.
She is a modern mercenary who is basically all-round, but she actually wrote a bunch of shitty words.
Who can bear this?
Anyway, Mu Jiaojiao couldn't stand it at all.
So after she came back last time, she asked Xia Jin to teach her calligraphy, and she practiced calligraphy at home for about an hour every day.
From the initial dog-crawling font, at least the characters can stand up now!
Even though she couldn't even catch up with Xia Zhao, a five-year-old kid, in writing characters, it didn't stop Mu Jiaojiao from feeling a great sense of accomplishment!
After doing this, she filled in the missing parts of the design of the house she wanted on paper.
Then she got up and went to find Xia Jin. She wanted to discuss with Xia Jin about rebuilding the house.
Why discuss it?
Because Mu Jiaojiao wants to use the fifty taels of silver that Xia Jin gave her!
When I left the house, I saw Xia Jin lying on a lounge chair under an old tree in the yard, enjoying the breeze, closing her eyes, and slowly basking in the not-too-bright morning sunlight.
On the ground next to them, Xia Jin spread some grass for Xia Zhao and threw a rattle to him, letting him play with it.
"I want to rebuild my house. This one is really a bit run-down."
Mu Jiaojiao approached Xia Jin and explained her purpose.
Xia Jin opened her dozing eyes, looking at Mu Jiaojiao with a warm look in her eyes.
"My wife has the final say."
"Hmm!" Mu Jiaojiao looked at Xia Jin like this and listened to such words, her face calm.
But there were some ripples in my heart.
This Xia Jin is really quite handsome!
"I plan to build my house at the foot of the hill next to this old house."
Mu Jiaojiao touched her nose to cover up, and then told Xia Jin what she was thinking.
"Good~"
Xia Jin looked at her embarrassed expression and raised the corners of her mouth softly.
Xia Jin: My wife's embarrassed look is kind of cute???
"Since you have no objection, I'll go talk to the head of the village and buy the land."
Mu Jiaojiao talked about her plan.
"My wife, I feel very good."
Xia Jin suddenly wanted to tease Mu Jiaojiao. Mu Jiaojiao looked cold and had a weird face.
People always feel that Mu Jiaojiao is ugly and has many shameful things.
But after getting to know each other, Xia Jin felt that Mu Jiaojiao was very genuine and sometimes very cute.
Mu Jiaojiao: “…………”
Is this man who is becoming increasingly shameless really the Xia Jin who thinks her nose is not a nose and her eyes are not eyes?
Is it true that no one switched this man?
Later, Mu Jiaojiao was too lazy to pay attention to this man who released male hormones, and went to Liu Lizheng's house by herself.
He expressed his intention to Liu Lizheng and spent one or two taels of silver to buy the land for building the house.
At the same time, Mu Jiaojiao also discovered that the mountain next to her home was actually owned by the collective villagers of Lihua Village.
Mu Jiaojiao asked Liu Lizheng about the price of the mountain, and Liu Lizheng said forty taels of silver.
Mu Jiaojiao was very moved, and then she took action.
She told Liu Lizheng that she wanted to buy it, but Liu Lizheng didn't ask her how she suddenly had so much money.
I just asked her to go home and discuss it with Xia Jin. After all, as a family, they should respect each other's opinions.
Mu Jiaojiao didn't think much of it. The money was in her hands, and most of it was earned by herself. The three people at home ate her food and used her money, so of course she had the final say.
Finally, seeing that Mu Jiaojiao had made up her mind, Liu Lizheng made an appointment with Mu Jiaojiao to go to the government office in the town the next day to transfer the mountain household to Mu Jiaojiao's private property.
Mu Jiaojiao was just going to Tongji Pharmacy to get some money and also to Jin Yumantang to check on the situation, so she agreed.
After finishing her business, Mu Jiaojiao walked leisurely towards home.
Mu Jiaojiao was still some distance away from home when she heard groups of women washing clothes by the river in the village talking about something.
Mu Jiaojiao was not very interested in this. The dream-like life in her previous life made her indifferent to things outside of herself most of the time.
But Ge Dagen's wife was among the discussion group, and after looking at Mu Jiaojiao, she boldly asked:
"Little Grass girl, a very impressive carriage arrived half an hour ago and has been asking around the village about your family. Now it's parked at your door. Could it be someone collecting a debt?"
Ge Dagen is an honest, simple and serious villager, but his wife is from the neighboring Taohua Village.
Her name is Li Xiaoyue, and she is Widow Li’s cousin. Last time, Widow Li got upset with her at Mu Jiaojiao’s house.
She couldn't stand Mu Jiaojiao, although she didn't like Mu Jiaojiao much before.
"Debt? What debt?"
Mu Jiaojiao was speechless. Is this just a rumor that was made out of nothing?
"Who would know this? You, Mu Xiaocao, have been missing for days on end, and every time you come back from town, you carry so many goodies.
Who knows if you've done something shameful and are in debt?"
The more Li Xiaoyue talked, the more outrageous it became. It was really out of character!
"Sister-in-law Li, the money I, Mu Jiaojiao, use to buy things comes from a legitimate source.
Sister Li is talking so coherently here, as if she has seen me do something shameful. If you have seen Sister Li, please produce evidence.
Otherwise, we can go to the village head uncle to argue with him and tell him how you, Li Xiaoyue, slandered me."
Mu Jiaojiao looked at the woman who had nothing to do after a full day, and spoke to her calmly and clearly.
"Bah, who wants to argue with an ugly bastard like you? I'm just giving you a kind reminder."
When Li Xiaoyue heard Mu Jiaojiao say that she wanted to find Liu Lizheng, her face changed. Where did she get any evidence?
I'm just jealous that Mu Xiaocao has been eating and dressing well lately.
"Hmph, don't worry, Sister Li. We are just asking the village head to seek justice. After all, this matter concerns Xiaocao's reputation.
Or is it that Sister Li doesn't dare to go? Or has Sister Li done something shameful and feels guilty?
Mu Jiaojiao saw that Li Xiaoyue looked unhappy, with a cold look in her eyes and a forced smile on her lips. She spoke to her in an increasingly imposing tone.
"You...you...Mu Xiaocao, who wants to confront you? How could I possibly do something shameful? I already said I was just giving you a warning out of kindness."
Li Xiaoyue pretended to be calm and composed, she couldn't be scared by this ugly woman Mu Xiaocao!
"I'm not going to talk to you, a person who takes your kindness for granted! I...I...I'm going home to cook."
Li Xiaoyue looked at Mu Jiaojiao with full of energy and ran away in a hurry with the unwashed clothes.
Seeing this, the women around suspected that Li Xiaoyue had been slandering Mu Jiaojiao.
Although Mu Jiaojiao's reputation is not very good in their hearts.
"This poor widow's son loves to gossip!"
A proud voice sounded, and Mu Jiaojiao realized that Liu Yulan was also among the people washing clothes.
"That's right, Li Xiaoyue and Widow Li went together to beat up Old Man Liu's wife. Come to think of it, she's a poor kid from a widow's family."
A village woman nearby agreed with Liu Yulan.
"Humph, this incident was really embarrassing. The village head found out later, and even the Li family from Taohua Village came. In the end, Widow Li and Li Xiaoyue had to pay two taels of silver to Old Man Liu's family."
Another woman who knew the bottom line continued.