"You little ge’er, how can you speak so badly!" The woman threw down the washing mallet, pinched her waist and opened her mouth to scold: "It should be that the men in the village look up on your second sister and look down on you. A ge’er with your temper is a match for that savage butcher."
Xu He was not angry or ashamed, anyway, behind his back, everyone was comparing him to his second sister, but before, they were talking about him behind his back and now they were talking about him in public. He had heard these words a long time ago, so he squatted down and continued to rub his clothes.
The woman wanted to fight, but he refused to answer. She punched the cotton and made her angry, but she couldn't help it. She cursed a few more words before being persuaded by the others.
"Who is it?"
"He has a really weird temper."
Xu He turned a deaf ear and continued to wash his clothes in an orderly manner.
Little did he know that on the other side of the small river blocked by the bamboos, Zhang Fangyuan, who had lost his bait and went fishing in the deep water, listened to the right and wrong of the stick of incense, and he never said a word.
These days, hearing gossip and gossip made his ears callused, and he was really a dumb person who ate coptis, and he couldn't tell what he suffered.
He didn't expect the Guang family to be so shameless, to save them some favors but they came out to bite back, crying and pretending to be pitiful everywhere, he had a bad reputation in the village, and the Guang family took advantage of this loopholes, really thought he was a bully and bullied the newly moved family, Wherever he went, the villagers couldn't help but avoided him.
He was thick-skinned now and he saw it quite openly, but he felt very sorry for the fourth uncle's family, who tried to take care of him, but ended up making trouble like this, and these gossippers in the village said so.
If Xu He hadn't stood up to speak for him just now, with his temper, he would have thrown his fishing rod over there and made his mouth broken, but Xu He was on the other side, he endured it, and still didn't go to meddle. He still couldn't do the thing of beating a woman and ge’er.
The fishing rod moved, and he pulled it up a little distractedly. The two-inch crucian carp was alive and kicking, and he roughly tore it off the hook and threw it into the fishing basket.
Xu He seemed to be in good health, and compared to the hoarse throat like a wild duck before, his voice was now clear.
After he recovered, his voice was still quite nice.
Especially when the three words Zhang Fangyuan were said.
He didn't like to talk and didn't like to deal with people's temperament, but he would speak for him. In the whole village, except for the fourth uncle’s family, no one spoke for him anymore.
After a long while, he realized that he seemed to be laughing belatedly.
"Auntie, I caught a few fish in the river, let's stew them tonight."
After Zhang Fangyuan returned home with the fish basket, he went straight to his fourth uncle's house and brazenly took the ingredients for a meal.
He had the shortcomings of most men in today's era, such as spending money lavishly, not knowing how to cook and do housework, and he had became more and more familiar with eating at Zhang Shicheng's house recently.
"There are also things that I bought before, and I don't use them. Auntie will take them to see if they can be used."
The pastry was given to Xiaomao early in the morning, and the things that wouldn’t last long, and the rest like the cloth and silk flowers were placed in the house. Today he went home and looked at the trouble, and he held them together again.
"The cloth and silk flowers can be saved for later use."
Zhang Fangyuan said: "No, it's probably not necessary."
"You child, how can you get discouraged so quickly."
"I'm not discouraged. Take what the previous family appreciates to ask for the next family, the people will know that it's inappropriate."
He Shi nodded, yes.
Everyone tacitly didn't mention the current gossip in the village, and said something happy: "It's good to eat fish tonight, let's cook some sour bamboo shoots and sauerkraut, you both like it. Your fourth uncle went to catch two fish and came back to eat, your fourth uncle’s skill, he can still catch fish in the field in summer, but let him go fishing in winter and there is no stock for most of the day, so he has been refusing to go out.”
Zhang Fangyuan Laughing, he ran around in the kitchen for a while, and after talking to He Shi, he entered the house. Xiaomao was practicing needlework, and the plum blossom purse had been embroidered vividly. It was said that he could already pick up the cloth in the city. He was so motivated that he didn't go out to play anymore.
His fourth uncle, Zhang Shicheng, was rubbing the dried hemp in the middle hall, and Zhang Fangyuan sat down beside him, and rubbed a few of them too.
"Don't take what they say outside to your heart. You did the right thing. If you can't find it in our village, go to other villages to see."
Zhang Fangyuan was anxious to settle down, but after this incident he instead After calming down, this matter depended on fate in the final analysis, and there was no rush: "I don't take it to heart, and told my aunt to stop rushing away. I have other plans in mind."
Zhang Shicheng put down the work in his hand, afraid that Zhang Fangyuan wouldn’t be able to think about it, he said, "What is your plan?
" I don't have any errands to do. "
"Don't worry, fourth uncle, I won't mess around."
Zhang Shicheng took a long look at the person in front of him, but he didn't say anything.