Chapter 479: Chapter 492 Shameless
âEnough, enough.â Zhao Lanzi interrupted impatiently, âIâm a landlordâs daughter, not some âProletariatâ. I own fields and assets, and itâs all just been grabbed by scoundrels like you.â
âUh⊠we were just fighting the landlords!â Xu Xianxiong felt wronged, âFighting the landlords was in response to the national call. Was I wrong to do so?â
âGet lost⊠Youâre not wrong, itâs all my fault, okay?â This person really looked honest but was actually cunning.
âIâm telling you seriously, continuing like this will affect both of our families. I trust Ningning, but we canât just do nothing.â Before she married Xu Xianxiong, the young girls and little wives from the ten miles and eight villages would walk a different route just to avoid him, and even the ones who were a bit more timid, could be scared into crying.
She had been skeptical back then, but the result was even more surprising to her.
Having found a husband who was so good at cherishing a wife in this lifetime satisfied her entirely, enough that she could die happy and meet her prematurely deceased father with a smile.
âSo, what should we do?â Xu Xianxiong did not like to think, and he would leave important matters to his wife to handle.
âLetâs take a trip to Sheng Ningâs house!â
âOkay!â
The couple decided to set off immediately, got ready, and arrived at Sheng Ningâs house by noon.
Before entering the house, Sheng Laosan was squatting at the door smoking. He believed his daughter would never do such things, but he was worried that Ningningâs marriage could be affected.
Xu Qigang was their Liyang Countyâs hero, the pride of the community. Initially, it was their family who had reached higher by establishing a connection with him, and now with Ningningâs reputation being tarnished, if the Xu family wanted to call off the engagement, their family had no grounds to refuse.
What else could they do but agree?
This morning, his parents and older brother had called him over to ask him to personally go to the Xu family and propose to call off the engagement. To apologize, to state that Ningning was not worthy of Xu Qigang, and that she had tainted the Xu familyâs reputation.
Sheng Laosan had flatly refused; Ningningâs happiness could not be destroyed like this.
Luhua was cooking in the kitchen, and Sheng An had not gone to sell bean sprouts today, feeding chickens in the yard instead.
The rumors were so nasty now, and her parents, fearing she would be taken advantage of, had refused to let her go out.
âAnâan! Are you at home?â Qin Cuifen called out from outside the yard, smiling in her floral padded jacket.
Sheng An looked at her with disgust, âNo!â This woman had the nerve, after throwing dirt on her sister, to still come to their home.
âYou girl, always joking,â Qin Cuifen laughed as she came in. âAre you cooking lunch? Thereâs no one at our home today, so Iâm not leaving at noon.â Before she had fallen out with Sheng Ning, she often used to stay for lunch at Shengâs house instead of going home.
Even though Luhuaâs cooking wasnât tasty, she might have been trying to save every bit for the household. Her staying for lunch today wasnât merely about sponging a meal.
She really wanted to learn the art of growing bean sprouts but also to irritably provoke them.
To make them lose their appetite.
Just as Sheng An was about to kick her out, she looked up and saw Xu Xianxiong and Zhao Lanzi standing behind Qin Cuifen.
âUncle Xu!â Sheng An greeted him with a wide, ingratiating smile.
Although no one at home had mentioned it, she knew her grandparents and uncle were pushing them to break off the engagement with the Xu family.
She feared the Xu family might reject her sister.
Although she wasnât keen on her sister marrying so soon, she didnât want the engagement called off either.
âAnâan, youâre being so polite today.â Xu Xianxiong greeted her cheerfully, his demeanor unchanged from before.