Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 Defamation

Li Guixiang had long known from the neighbors that Zhang Beiting and his partner set up their stall at the end of the Shen hour every day.

When it was the beginning of the You hour, she picked up her palm-leaf fan and went out. After walking two steps, she felt uneasy and turned back to tell her eldest daughter-in-law, "I have scooped out the rice for cooking and put it on the stove. Don't add more to the jar. The vegetables are in the basket. Stir-fry bitter melon. Save the eggs at home. Your younger brother will be on vacation at the academy in two days. Save them for him to eat when he comes back."

"I know, mother." Wu lowered her head and washed clothes under the eaves without raising her head.

She knew how partial her mother-in-law was to her younger brother the day she got married.

After giving instructions, Li Guixiang fanned herself, pretending to go out for a cool breeze, and walked towards the South City Inn.

When she was almost there, Li Guixiang saw two women in front of her walking in a hurry. They walked closer and heard one of them say, "Walk faster, the ice jelly will be sold out later."

Li Guixiang's heart moved, and she quietly followed the two people at a distance of a few steps.

When she arrived at the place, she realized that she had thought too much. There was no need to bother to find Zhang Beiting's stall. At first glance, it was the place with the most people in the whole open space.

There were three layers of people in front of the stall, and it was almost impossible to see what was going on inside.

Li Guixiang stood in the distance, watching the diners squeezed here and there, and her back teeth were clenched tighter and tighter.

Some old memories popped up in her mind.

Zhang Beiting's father Zhang Quan and his husband Zhang Pingsheng were in the same village. They were about the same age and lived close to each other.

It was just that the situations of the two families were very different.

Her husband Zhang Ping's family was the one in the sky.

Her husband's family had been the village cooks since their ancestors. They had accumulated a large fortune by organizing weddings and funerals for people in the surrounding area, and were a well-known wealthy family in the village.

When Zhang Quan was three years old, his father was killed by a big insect while chopping wood in the mountains. A year later, his mother remarried.

As an orphan, he relied on the kindness of the people in the same clan to give him a bowl of porridge today and a sweet potato tomorrow to avoid starvation.

When the two grew up, Zhang Ping soon got engaged to her.

At that time, Zhang Quan was still worried about where to get his next meal every day.

After she married Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping didn't want to be the village cook like his ancestors, so her parents-in-law gave them money to buy a shop in Yunyang City and opened a steamed bun shop.

In a few years, the couple saved some money, and with the money given by their parents-in-law, they bought a house and settled down in Yunyang City.

From then on, every time they returned to the village, everyone in the village praised them for their promising future.

She still remembered that her eldest son had been born for several years, but Zhang Quan had not yet found a wife.

Zhang Quan was so poor that no woman or boy in the surrounding area was willing to marry him.

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