But there are also families from the old to the young who are not convinced. Manbao's neighbor heard the noise next door and was so angry that he started to fight and cursed in a low voice, "No one taught you, you are noisy all day long, can't you be quiet for a moment."
"What are you talking about?" Zhou Dayuan glared at her and drove away the grandchildren who were looking at them curiously. Then he said, "If you are not afraid that I will come to block your door, just say it."
The skinny old lady started to curse, but she lowered her voice. She was about the same age as Qian, and they both married to Qili Village one after the other.
Even though Qian now stays at home all day playing with her grandchildren and appears to be smiling and gentle when talking to her neighbors, she was quite aggressive when she was young.
Seven or eight years ago, she was the bully in the village, and even the village chief's wife didn't dare to mess with her.
Zhou Jin's family was so poor before, but she was the one who brought them up. Although people in the village often said that she spent money on medicine and brought trouble to the Zhou family, everyone knew in their hearts that she was the other side of the Zhou family and she was the one who kept the family going.
But she was still a little unwilling to accept it. In addition to jealousy, this unwillingness was also due to grudges accumulated from her youth.
After Manbao entered school, the Zhou family became more and more lively day by day, reaching its peak. Although she lowered her voice to curse, she deliberately banged the stick in her hand on the door and the table, and shouted in the direction of the old Zhou family: "It's dark now, why are you still hanging around outside instead of sleeping? You will go up the mountain to collect firewood tomorrow, and you can't even find a job, you deserve to be poor!"
There is a certain distance between the houses in the village because when choosing a place to build a house, we always take into account that the children will also need to build houses in the future, and then we will definitely need to approve a residential land to build the house.
Therefore, there is an intentional distance between each family.
So there is a certain distance between Manbao's house and the houses on its left and right.
But the distance is limited, and the house is not soundproof. When people talk in the yard, if their voices are a little louder, the neighbors can hear them.
Manbao heard it at this time, but she didn't know that the sister-in-law next door was making indirect accusations. She turned her head and looked at Zhou Dayuan's family with great distress, and sighed like an adult: "Dayuan's wife scolded Dalu and the others again. Really, you should praise children when teaching them, how can you keep scolding them?"
Zhou Silang and others: "…You should call her sister-in-law, don't always call her Dayuan daughter-in-law, she is about the same age as your mother."
"Isn't she Dayuan's wife? It's just a title, don't take it seriously," she ran to find her three sisters-in-law and said to them, "Sisters-in-law, don't learn from Dayuan's wife. In the future, you should praise Datou and Daya and stop scolding them all the time. I think Dalu has become stupid because of his mother's scolding."
The three sisters-in-law agreed with a smile, and secretly glared at the happy Datou, Daya and others over Manbao, and decided to go back to the house to educate them further.
Old Zhou turned around and said to his wife, "Manbao learned this from you, right? You should teach her not to call me that outside."
Qian said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, my daughter is not stupid."
He added, "Do you think she calls Dagu's wife like that? She always calls her sister-in-law. This kid is very smart. She knows better than anyone who calls her sister-in-law and who doesn't."
When Old Zhou saw his wife glancing at Zhou Dayuan's house with disdain, he asked the children to catch fireflies, making the yard even more lively.
At the same time, the jingling sounds in Zhou Dayuan's house became louder, and the curve of Qian's mouth became higher.
Old Zhou retracted his head and decided not to say anything.
The children were having fun here, but the atmosphere at Zhou Dayuan's house was depressing. The children stayed in the house and dared not make a sound. Dalu's wife couldn't help but murmured, "Mom is really annoying. She told us to sleep but she kept banging and making so much noise outside. How can we sleep?"
The big donkey doesn't speak.
Donkey's wife continued, "They are playing in their own yard, isn't that their normal behavior? If mom hadn't knocked and banged, we would have fallen asleep even faster listening to the laughter outside..."
"Okay, go out and tell mom if you have the guts."
The donkey's wife was very angry. She turned her back, hugged the child and coaxed him to sleep, ignoring him.
His child whispered to the donkey's wife, "Mom, why doesn't grandma like Manbao?"
Donkey's Wife: "Because she's smart!"
Goudan was surprised, "Is being smart not good?"
"Okay, it's not yours." The donkey's wife said and glanced at the donkey.
The donkey's face turned red, and he couldn't help but slap her, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"What nonsense did I say? Is what you said wrong? Your mother is just jealous of the Zhou family and Aunt Qian. She keeps saying that I can't have children and will give birth to a bunch of shitty donkey eggs. I want to give birth to a golden egg or a silver egg, as smart as Manbao. Do you have that kind of child?"
The donkey 's wife had been holding back her anger for a long time, and with her mother-in-law still hitting her with a stick, she was even more furious. She didn't care that the child was around, and asked questions in rapid succession, "Don't you see what other people's fathers are like? What are you like? Can I have a baby if I want to?"
The big donkey was so angry that his eyes turned red, and he said without thinking: "The mother is a daughter of a scholar, are you?"
"Forget it, if he says so, then it's true. Who has ever seen his wife's family..."
The couple had a quarrel, and Goudan and his younger brothers and sisters hid in the quilt with their eyes shining.
He is eight years old this year, only one year younger than Datou. He is already sensible, so the next day he was particularly excited to find his friend and secretly told him, "Manbao is not her father and mother's biological child!"
Children are the ones who can least keep secrets, and within less than half a day, most of the children in the village had heard the rumor. Ertou was at an age when he loved playing with his friends, so his friends came to him and asked him quietly if his aunt was his grandfather's daughter.
Ertou said confidently: "Of course not."
The friends were horrified, and Ertou looked at them with contempt and said, "How can a man give birth to a child? My aunt gave birth to a child by my grandmother."
Hey, now it makes sense to everyone.
Then someone refuted it, saying that although Manbao was not born by her father, she was born by her mother!
By the time Big Head heard about it, the rumor had already spread around the village twice, but its scope was limited to the children; the older children had not heard of it.
So Datou looked for them one by one and soon found the source of the rumor - Goudan.
Datou clenched his fist and beat Goudan, saying, "I see that you look neither like your father nor your mother, so you are definitely not their biological child!"
Goudan was bleeding from his nose, crying and shouting, "You are lying, my parents said this, your aunt is not your grandparents' daughter, my grandmother also said your aunt has no one to teach her, so what does that mean except having no parents?"
Datou was so angry that he beat him again and said, "No one taught you. Did anyone teach you to spread such gossip?"