[Sis, don’t worry, I absolutely won’t give that woman a friendly look! Just wait and see—if she dares to bully you when we get back, I’ll make sure she regrets it!]
After sending the text to Song Linlang and getting out of the car, Song Xiangchen looked up to see his mother standing not far away, lost in thought. He hurried over to her.
“Mom, why are you standing here? Are you looking for…”
But Mo Pingxin immediately pressed her hand over her son’s mouth, signaling him to be quiet. Just as Song Xiangchen was wondering what was going on, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind:
[Actually, Zhao Guihua had already discovered Wang Fugui’s affair with Zhou Guafu a long time ago! But because Wang Fugui would always bring back some things from Zhou Guafu’s place to help out the family, she turned a blind eye to it!]
You Xiaoxia exclaimed: [Wow, this is really something! Lao Liu, it seems Zhao Guihua is treating her man like a gigolo—as long as he brings back money and goods, she doesn’t care whose bed he’s sleeping in!]
Song Xiangchen, still held firmly by his mother: ??? Who? Who’s talking? Who is Wang Fugui? And who is Zhou Guafu? This… this relationship sounds really messy!
The surrounding villagers grew even more excited!
“So that’s how it is! It seems we wronged Zhou Guafu earlier!”
“Zhou Guafu is so pitiful! She should hurry home and check what’s missing!”
“This Wang Fugui is really something else! How could he just help himself to other people’s things?!”
“No wonder Da Gongji followed Wang Fugui—Zhao Guihua must have had her eye on that rooster for a while, and she told Wang Fugui to get close to it so it would follow him home!”
Zhou Guafu was absolutely furious: “Zhao Guihua, have you no shame? You actually had your eyes on what little I have!”
Zhao Guihua, feeling guilty, didn’t fight back with much conviction at first. But after taking a few hits, she grew angry too.
“What’s the big deal if I took a few things from you? You slept with my man—shouldn’t you compensate me for that?!”
The onlookers winced and grimaced, but they also started to see Zhao Guihua’s point.
After all, she couldn’t just lose her husband and her belongings, could she?!
Zhou Guafu had taken a few hits herself. She turned and glared at Wang Fugui, who was cowering in the corner: “You! No wonder you’re a Kuai Jiangjun—all show and no substance! So you were only after my things!”
“Huh? Zhou Guafu said Wang Fugui is fast? Is he… not up to the task?!”
“I’m not so sure about that. If he had a mission, he probably couldn’t focus!”
Wang Fugui’s face flushed red, then turned pale.
But just then, that voice in their heads returned:
[Oh my god! So Zhou Guafu knew that Zhao Guihua knew about her and her husband all along! But she pretended not to know?!]
The crowd: What? What’s going on now? This is getting harder and harder to understand!
There are only three people involved, but the relationships are way too complicated!
“What did Zhou Guafu know?”
“What did Zhao Guihua pretend not to know?”
“I get it! Er Ni said Zhou Guafu and Zhao Guihua are the real deal—they were in on it together!”
“Yeah, yeah, that’s what I heard too!”
“What are you talking about? It’s clearly… Ugh, I can’t make sense of it either. Let’s just hear what Er Ni has to say!”
You Xiaoxia: [So Zhao Guihua and Zhou Guafu are from the same maternal village. After Zhou Guafu’s husband died, Zhao Guihua thought she was quite pitiful. When she accidentally discovered her own husband’s affair with Zhou Guafu, she was surprisingly tolerant, pretending nothing had happened. Later, when she found out Wang Fugui could bring things back from the Zhou household, she became even more tolerant—essentially using Wang Fugui as a duck to exchange for goods!]
[And this Zhou Guafu, once while she was fooling around with Wang Fugui, she noticed Zhao Guihua peeping from outside, and their eyes met. They immediately reached a tacit understanding. Zhou Guafu had been quite grateful to Zhao Guihua, and if it weren’t for today’s incident of her Da Gongji going missing, this matter might never have come to light!]
[Hahahaha…] You Xiaoxia slapped her thigh in amusement, [Lao Liu, if you think about it, Wang Fugui isn’t even worth as much as a Da Gongji! The two women didn’t fight over a man, maintaining peace for so long, but a single Da Gongji has them brawling! In one word: incredible!]
The two women who had been fighting froze.
The crowd froze as well.
Just then, Wang Fugui—who had been smugly pleased that two women were publicly fighting over him—slapped his thigh and wailed: “Heavens, how can I go on living like this…”
The two women, one pulling hair and the other grabbing clothes, simultaneously let go.
Zhao Guihua planted her hands on her hips: “If you can live with it, fine! If not, get lost! But the Da Gongji must be mine!”
Zhou Guafu refused to back down: “You can have Wang Fugui back, but the Da Gongji is from my family—it has to come with me!”
Zhao Guihua gasped in rage: “I don’t want Wang Fugui anymore! You two have been sleeping together for so long, I think he’s dirty!”
Zhou Guafu: “If you don’t want him, I don’t want him either!”
The villagers could hardly believe their eyes—spectacular, absolutely spectacular!
Ever since the You family’s Er Ni was hit by a falling rock and everyone could hear her thoughts, the village had been treated to daily drama. Life had become far, far too entertaining!
Meanwhile, Wang Fugui cried even louder!
After finishing a piece of sweet melon and a handful of sunflower seeds, You Xiaoxia retreated quietly, her deeds unknown.
But just as she pushed through the crowd, she came face to face with a well-dressed but stunned family of three.
[Oh ho, so these are my big sucker parents who lost their daughter!?]
Big suckers? The Song family trio exchanged glances—they must be talking about us?!
Seeing the dumbfounded expressions on this family’s faces, You Xiaoxia sighed: [They don’t look very clever, no wonder they didn’t notice when their child was maliciously swapped back in the day!]