The Husband I Snatched Is Not Right!-Chapter 72: What a Big Mouth! Spilling Everything!
The dawn light suddenly appeared, and the crowing of roosters rose and fell as smoke curled up from each household.
The Zhou family.
Setting out this time, it would be earliest to come back after giving birth and completing the confinement period, so Matchmaker Liu packed up the thin clothes worn in summer.
The family wasn’t short of silver, but savings on a trip were always good.
Ever since deciding to keep this child, her sharp eyes were filled with anticipation and affection.
But...
It’s just that, for some reason, she always felt that Zhou Qin was deliberately or unintentionally staring at her these days.
If it weren’t for the fact that it wasn’t obvious yet, she would have thought that Zhou Qin had noticed she was pregnant.
"Are you heading out, mom?"
Suddenly, someone called from the door.
Matchmaker Liu turned around and looked at Zhou Qin who appeared, causing an inexplicable jolt in her heart, and she cursed, "Are you trying to kill someone, scaring them early in the morning."
This stepdaughter, just a glance at her elicited disgust.
She said irritably, "There’s trouble in the village, your grandpa and I do indeed need to leave for a bit of a dodge, why, you won’t allow it?"
Matchmaker Liu snorted.
"A married woman is meddling too much."
"Do the affairs of the elders concern you?"
She looked at the taut corners of Zhou Qin’s mouth and understood inside.
"What, do you also want to follow?"
What a joke.
"Give up the thought, let me be clear with you, we will definitely not take you along."
"You’re not my own child, why should I care about your life or death."
To Zhou Qin, this was simply a disaster.
She was just waiting for Matchmaker Liu to be unlucky!
The village had been generations of farmers who couldn’t leave their tiny plots of land, what on earth did the stepmother say to make Grandpa agree?
Matchmaker Liu was so cunning, what if she took the chance to get rid of the child on this trip?
If Grandpa went along, he might be kept completely in the dark, not knowing whether this daughter-in-law was a human or a ghost!
The more Zhou Qin thought about it, the more upset she became.
Seeing her bewildered, Matchmaker Liu got pleasure, starting to mock her verbally.
"You’ve been back for many days, yet haven’t seen your husband come to pick you up, what will you do? Poor thing, being abandoned at your maiden home, and yet unwelcome at your husband’s place."
"What will you do if he divorces you?"
"Qin Niang, you are like your early deceased mother, destined to live a bitter life."
Zhou Qin was burning with rage, yet out of fear of alerting the enemy, she refrained from calling her a harlot.
She held her anger in her heart, and went to find Aunt Wu. Upon meeting, she anxiously grabbed and asked,
"Aunty, the fortune-teller you mentioned last time, is he accurate? My stepmother is about to run away." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Zhou Qin steeled her heart: "She guards against me, though we are under the same roof these days, she hardly lets me get close."
Though she hated this stepmother, she couldn’t deliberately cause her a miscarriage to achieve her aim.
But obviously, she was so angered that she lost her reason.
She didn’t care what Matchmaker Liu said about her.
But talking about her mother was not acceptable.
"I can’t stand her arrogant look, if it really won’t work, I’ll go to Doctor Qian to get some abortion pills and put them in her meals; if she has stomach pain and bleeds, the matter will spread."
Aunt Wu quickly covered her mouth.
"No way!"
"Are you crazy? You still have a pair of children!"
If it could be done, why go round and round to seek Yu Tingwan’s help in the first place?
"If you ask for medication, will Old Man Qian prescribe it without clarity?"
"Liu the widow is immoral, got pregnant by a bastard...no matter what, she deserves to die."
"When things come to light, someone will deal with her sooner or later."
"Drugging her will leave evidence; don’t drag yourself down, the Zhou family matters are a mess, why get involved for no reason!"
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Meanwhile, Old Man Zhou was already knocking on the Village Chief’s door.
Chang Shu frowned at the sight, "What brings you here?"
Old Man Zhou pushed past him, darting his eyes around the Chang family’s yard.
Despite the Zhou family being wealthy, it was all in Matchmaker Liu’s hands.
Their family house wasn’t as well-kept as the Chang family’s.
Matchmaker Liu was always too busy running around to care for the household, unlike Li Lian who often added this and that, with the daughters-in-law industrious, cleaning the yard neatly.
The Chang family was flourishing.
Envy briefly glinted in Old Man Zhou’s eyes.
But he was about to become a father again.
If it was a son, he wouldn’t fall behind the Chang family in the future!
"Where’s your grandpa? I have something to discuss with him."
Chang Shu said gruffly, "My grandpa’s asleep; tell me what you want, and when he wakes up I’ll relay it."
The Village Chief, being old, was worn out from yesterday; indeed he needed rest.
Chang Shu wasn’t willing to rouse him for Old Man Zhou.
Hearing this, Old Man Zhou laughed angrily.
"Chang Shu, do you hold something against Grandpa Zhou?"
Whenever he saw him, he had a sour face.
He showed off his yellow teeth, saliva spraying: "I’m busy too, do you think you can afford to delay me? It’s no effort for the Village Chief, he can handle my business and then return to resting."
Chang Shu, showing no respect, muttered, "Every kind of person wants to come saying they are relatives; I didn’t know we had so many kin."
"I disdain you, and that’s clear. Just because you’re older, you act shamelessly everywhere."
Mentioning this, a wave of panic crossed Old Man Zhou’s eyes but was quickly concealed.
No worries, no worries, Yu Tingwan was already dead.
No one would know what happened on the mountain.
"Chang Shu."
The warning voice came from the Village Chief.
Awakened by the commotion outside, Village Chief came out, draped in a coat,
Yet he didn’t reprimand his grandson much, casting a glance at Old Man Zhou.
"This child lacks stability without a wife, his words offend, forgive him on my behalf, don’t take it to heart."
Though he said apologize, it was merely a perfunctory gesture; he never chastised Chang Shu.
Watching the Village Chief maneuver with words, Old Man Zhou was furious inside.
Nonetheless, he didn’t dare offend him.
Village Chief: "You arrived just in time; I was planning on seeking you out as well."
He said sternly, "Be honest, is there a tiger in the mountain?"
Panic flashed through Old Man Zhou’s eyes: "Yes, there is!"
Recalling it made him fearful, "If I hadn’t run fast back then, I wouldn’t be standing here."
"Old Man Zhou, this is no small matter. The entire village is alarmed by your words; if you are speaking falsely, I won’t let you go!"
Old Man Zhou: ???
He couldn’t understand why the Village Chief suddenly turned hostile.
Thinking about it, Old Man Zhou was enraged, that little bitch Zhou Qin eavesdropping on his and Caiying’s conversation; though she didn’t catch the secret, it still scared him into a sweat.
Mouths were too quick to spread anything!
A tiger should have come down the mountain and eaten up the Village Chief, that old man!
The villagers who despised him, who gloated over his misfortune, and mocked his childlessness all deserved death.
But all he could do was keep smiling.
"What kind of talk is this? Yes, my mouth usually speaks little truth, yet I’d dare not speak recklessly before you even with ten guts."
