1970s: A hot-tempered wife who accompanied a soldier to the military compound and made a fortune.

Chapter 65 Rumors spread
Kong Yizhang naturally understood what she meant. After all, he had already sent someone to investigate the girl's situation yesterday, and he knew what had happened in her family: "Alright, I was going to give you an award and a certificate of honor anyway."

Seeing that Kong Yizhang agreed, Liu Chuxue smiled and thanked him: With this honor, not only the villagers, but also the Liu family will have to think twice before doing anything. Their family's life in the village will also be better.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, they parted ways.

Meanwhile, rumors were spreading throughout Willow Tree Village: "Are you saying that the story about the second daughter of the Shanliang family is true?"

"Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but this was spread by the Liu family."

"Don't gossip like that, you're deliberately trying to ruin the girl's reputation!"

“We didn’t make things up. This is what her aunt said. How can you blame us?”

"Exactly, if she were truly innocent, these words wouldn't have come out."

Not far away, Liu Ruxiang, who was visiting her parents' home, looked disapproving: "Mom, you've gone too far. When Uncle and Aunt come back and find out that you spread these rumors, they'll definitely have a falling out with you."

Ge Xiulan said dismissively, "With your second uncle and aunt being such cowards, do you think I'm afraid of them?"

Liu Ruxiang was overwhelmed with questions: "Mom, why do you have to go against the second wife? What did Chuxue do to offend you that you have to ruin her reputation?"

Ge Xiulan's face immediately darkened: "Whose side are you on?"

"Mom, this isn't about who's in charge. If you do this, how are Dad and Second Uncle supposed to get along in the future?"

Ge Xiulan, fearing her eldest daughter would press for details, said, "Alright, alright, a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup; you should mind your own business."

Her deal with the Chen family was shady, so she couldn't say that she did it for her son's future: "Mai Mang is still young, you should go back and see the child as soon as possible."

Hearing her mother's tone, she knew she was being kept in the dark, so she couldn't help but remind her, "Mom, even a clay figure has some spirit. You two should be careful not to cause any real trouble." Having said that, she didn't linger any longer.

Meanwhile, the third wife and her husband, who overheard the conversation between the first wife and her daughter from behind the corner, asked: "Shanling, what do you think of this?"

Liu Shanling glanced at Ge Xiulan as she left: "Don't you know what kind of person my sister-in-law is? She's not one to do things without a reason. There's definitely something fishy going on here."

"These past few days, the whole village has been buzzing about the first snow. I don't believe my parents haven't heard about it, but they haven't stopped it at all. Just wait and see, there's bound to be some trouble when the second wife comes back."

"It's none of our business anyway, why are you in such a hurry?"

“Our Xiao Man is already sixteen this year, and he’ll be getting married soon. The second wife’s daughters have a bad reputation, do you think ours will be any better? You’re such a pig-brain.”

"That main house"

Before he could finish speaking, his wife interrupted him: "What are you afraid of, eldest son? Ruxiang already has three children, and Jianqiang's wife is several months pregnant. As for the two younger ones, didn't you hear the old man say that Jiandong has already found a job in the city and will be starting work in a few days? As for the youngest, Ruhua, she is only thirteen years old. By the time she is ready to be married, this matter will have long passed."

If this matter is left unchecked, our entire family will suffer the consequences.

"Then what do you think we should do?"

“Naturally, we should go to the village officials to handle it.”

"Isn't it wrong to go directly to the village officials without telling your parents?"

"Can they solve this? If they were truly interested, things wouldn't have turned out this way. I think it's because they condoned it. I really don't know what they were thinking?"

(End of this chapter)