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Chapter 139 A huge quarrel

The gossip spread like wildfire, quickly reaching the entire Dongyuan Village.

The village chief's courtyard gate was tightly closed, as he wanted to shut out the gossip from the outside world.

Li Shanhai sat in the courtyard, his brow furrowed with worry, occasionally taking a puff of his cigarette.

Now, the whole village knows that he, the village chief, has an unfaithful daughter. How can he hold his head high in the village now? What worries him most is that his time as village chief is coming to an end.

He pursed his lips, his face furrowed with anger, and banged his pipe loudly: "Zhao Chunxiu! Look at the kind of daughter you've raised! She's disgraced the Li family! She's brought shame upon me, the village chief!"

"You think you're the only one who's afraid of losing face? Doesn't my face matter?"

Zhao Chunxiu glared with resentment, her eyes seemingly about to pop out.

"How could I have been so blind to marry a woman like you? If I had known you were so bad at raising children, I would have..."

"What do you think you are? What do you think you are!" Zhao Chunxiu roared, seemingly on the verge of collapse.

"What about me? Of course I'll marry someone else! Maybe she can even give me a son, so I won't be childless."

These words struck a nerve with Zhao Chunxiu, and she exploded like a firecracker. That damned old man, he shouldn't have used this to humiliate her!

"Li Shanhai, you keep talking about your son all the time, why don't you go marry a young woman and have a baby for you! Do you even have the ability? Son, son, all you ever talk about is your son! It's all fate! You're destined to be spineless!"

"Snapped!"

Li Shanhai was so angry that his face turned ashen, veins bulged on his temples, and his two cloudy old eyes widened as he slapped Zhao Chunxiu with all his might.

"You old bastard, you dare hit me! You dare hit me! I'm done living like this!"

Zhao Chunxiu gritted her teeth and gasped for breath in anger.

She flung everything off the table, snatched the pipe from Li Shanhai's hand, and slammed it to the ground. Her expression was a mixture of anxiety, anger, and rage; she flailed her arms wildly, as if she wanted to devour him.

"Li Shanhai, shut your filthy mouth! Every time something goes wrong, you blame it on me. Are you even a man? Do you have any sense of responsibility? I've never seen such a coward! Just hearing you talk makes me sick! Ugh—"

Zhao Chunxiu couldn't forget the scene of washing clothes by the river this morning; she still hadn't recovered from it. As soon as she appeared, all the women turned to look at her, their expressions revealing a hint of disdain and contempt.

What they said was even more offensive.

"Zhao Chunxiu, how could your daughter do such a shameless thing?"

“Zhao Chunxiu, it must be because you have neglected to discipline your child.”

"Your family has brought shame to our village!"

"That's right. From now on, I won't dare to say I'm from Dongyuan Village when I go out. I can't bear the shame!"

This was the first time in her life that Zhao Chunxiu had ever experienced being talked about behind her back.

Her dignity was trampled on at will, and she was swept away by the river to who knows where. Now she has no dignity left at all.

She dared not refute them, because what they said was true, and Zhao Chunxiu had no confidence to refute them. In that instant, her arrogance as the village chief's wife collapsed completely.

Finally, she didn't even bother washing her clothes and rushed home, afraid that if she was a little slower, she would be drowned in the spittle of these gossipy women.

Unexpectedly, a few bold individuals actually went to their doorstep and started pointing fingers and making irresponsible remarks.

"Now the village chief's family has lost all face."

"I guess they won't dare to go out these days."

"Of course! If it were me, I'd be too embarrassed to go out either. Pshaw, I don't have a daughter like that."

"Listen to the commotion inside, the village chief and his wife are having a huge fight!"

"That's right, this place is about to be completely overrun with arguments."

The commotion outside reached the inside without missing a single word.

Zhao Chunxiu was furious, but she had lost her usual arrogance and dared not utter a word as others pointed and gossiped outside.

Normally, she would have opened the door decisively, exchanged insults with them, and then chased them away with a broom.

She was so angry that she could only go inside to hide, because the people outside were saying such nasty things.

She then gave Li Yuemei, who was hiding inside, a good scolding.

"Look what you've done, you shameless hussy! You've ruined the reputation of our whole family."