Bring your bestie to play melon in the domineering love story

"You're talking about Zhang Ergou." Aunt Wang grabbed a handful of melon seeds. "He's the director you're talking about."

"Director Zhang?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Captain Zhang, Director Zhang’s nickname is actually “Ergou”?

Jiang Ruoli raised an eyebrow. She didn't expect the director to have such a unique nickname. "Do you know him?"

"Hey! We're all family." Sister Niu's tone rose. "Ergou is a college student from our Hongxing Village. Ever since he became a director, he's been giving out benefits to the villagers. Last time he came back, he said he wanted to shoot a program and asked for the villagers' cooperation. How could we not cooperate? It's just..."

Sister Niu suddenly paused.

Jiang Ruoli also stopped cracking melon seeds.

The word "just" is very subtle. Whenever this word appears in any conversation, it means there is definitely something to be said.

Jiang Shaoqing hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sister, why don't you elaborate?"

Han Fei glared at him with disdain. "You're a grown man, why are you so gossipy?"

After saying that, he pushed the water cup in front of Sister Niu and smiled evilly, "Sister, I want to listen too, tell me!"

Jiang Ruoli: “…”

Sister Niu exchanged a glance with the other sisters and lowered her voice to say, "Ergou, it turns out he has a wife. She's from the village next door. She's so pretty. Everyone who sees her can't help but praise her as a beauty."

"What a shame..." Sister Niu glanced at the door. "It's a pity that Ergou is infertile. His mother wanted to have a grandchild, so she locked his wife in his father's room. His wife refused to obey and finally broke her head before she escaped. When Ergou found out, he had a big fight with his mother and insisted on taking his wife away from Red Star Village."

"Huh?" Han Fei looked at Jiang Shaoqing in shock. "Brother, was that Chinese I just heard? His mother sent his wife to his father's bed? To hold her grandson?"

Jiang Ruoli was still holding a half-eaten apple in her hand. "It's really unlucky to have such a mother-in-law."

"And then?" Jiang Shaoqing was already speechless with shock. After a while, he asked, "Did her wife leave?"

Sister Niu sighed, "Xiao Jiao is just too proud. After this incident spread around the village, she felt ashamed to face people and refused to follow Ergou to the city. In the middle of the night, when no one was around, she jumped into the river."

There was silence.

Jiang Ruoli thought of Director Zhang's smiling face everywhere, and suddenly felt that he was quite pitiful.

"Hey, don't say such unhappy things." Sister Gao, who was doing the cotton-spinning, touched her arm. "Look at how successful Ergou is now. He's a director and has bought a house in the city. Although his mother's ideas are a bit foolish, she has raised her son well and brought him to the city to enjoy a good life."

Sister Gao said this nonchalantly, but Jiang Ruoli had a strange expression on her face.

She just felt that the melon made her feel disgusted when eating it.

As soon as the topic started by "Ergou" ended, several middle-aged women began to gossip about the family of Old Man Cao in the next village.

Although there were strangers in the room, the aunts didn't care who was around when they started discussing.

"Does Old Man Cao from Yuntian Village know about it? Something happened in his family!" Aunt Wang, who was sitting next to Jiang Ruoli, spoke mysteriously again.

Sister Niu spat in disdain. "Old man Cao? He was so obsessed with having a son. I heard he threw his newborn daughter straight into a ravine. If the villagers hadn't found her, she would have frozen to death. I'm afraid this is retribution."

Aunt Wang nodded quickly, "That's right, it's absolutely heartless, to throw away your own daughter just like that, after all, it's still a life."

The two chatted while cracking melon seeds.

Jiang Ruoli was completely confused. "What happened to him?"

When she asked, Aunt Wang finally realized what was happening. She turned around with a look of gloating on her face. "In order to have a son, Old Man Cao made his wife give birth to three daughters in succession. He didn't want them and gave them away directly. Later, he married a younger one and finally had a son. Who would have thought that the boy was such a troublemaker. Not only did he get into fights, but he also went to loan sharks. Isn't this going to cause trouble?"

"The other party came to collect the debt and smashed his house?"

"It's more than just smashing things. I heard he threatened to kill him if he didn't pay back the money. To protect his son, Old Man Cao asked his daughters to pay, otherwise he would cut off all ties with his parents."

"Oh my god!" Jiang Shaoqing was surprised, "Then his daughter is simply a big victim."

Jiang Ruoli smiled and said, "If you want me to do that, I will just break off the relationship without even a second's thought."

Several middle-aged women looked disgusted. Aunt Wang continued, "Fortunately, those girls are all promising. One got into graduate school, one is working in another city, and I heard a few are teachers. Anyway, they're all quite far away, and they've made it clear that they have their parents to support them. What's his brother worth?"

"But do you know what the bloody part is?"

"Hurry up and tell me what's going on?" Sister Gao was a little anxious.

Aunt Wang held a few walnut kernels in her hand and raised an eyebrow. "The son his young wife gave birth to isn't his at all. I heard they did that paternity test you see on TV."

"The three unwanted daughters are all my biological children, but the son I raised as a treasure is someone else's!"

"Fuck! This is ridiculous!" Han Fei slammed the table. "No wonder they say retribution has come."

Jiang Ruoli shook the cup in her hand and was really frightened by this shocking news.

Before she could come to her senses, Aunt Wang slapped her thigh and said, "This isn't the most ridiculous thing. The most ridiculous thing is that the mastermind behind the whole thing was actually his young wife. Everything was self-written and staged just to get money for his lover."

Everyone: “….”

Ok!

Reality is even more ridiculous than fiction.

"What's the big deal? If you want to talk about melodrama, I also heard that Aunt Zhao's son..."

"what?"

"No, I heard that the woman in her 50s from the next village was having sex with four men. She would have sex with one and then the next, while the others played cards nearby."

"That seventy-year-old man at the village entrance goes to Widow Wu's house every day. His wife should know about it."

"besides......"

Jiang Ruoli sighed inwardly.

Rural gossip is really not just empty talk.

I guess anyone who sees a group of people gathered in the countryside would be scared. They never stop talking and even a dog passing by would be talked about.

Of course, there are definitely some people who fan the flames, who can't stand others doing well, who like you to be miserable, and who will gossip about you at every turn.

It seems that people should be kind and be more polite in their words.

The aunts chatted and time passed quickly. In the middle, they asked Jiang Ruoli about the gossip of several male and female stars. After Jiang Ruoli said that she didn't know much, the aunts looked regretful and continued to talk about rural gossip. Soon it was nine o'clock.

Jiang Ruoli stood up and prepared to go back.

Han Fei and Jiang Shaoqing looked unsatisfied.

I'm in the mood for gossip, how can I leave?