Chapter 91: Daring to Fabricate Things Out of Nothing, What Is Her Intention?

Seeing the situation was unfavorable to the eldest branch and wanting to beat a retreat, it was too late.

Liu Chuxue looked at the three families brought in by Aunt Cuihong: "Uncle Liangzi, Uncle Baogui, Grandpa Shuanzhu, you tell me, on the second night after my father's incident, where was I?"

Grandpa Shuanzhu spoke first: "Wife of Liu Shangang, I told you before that night Xia Qiu and Chuxue came to my house to borrow money. As an aunt, you shouldn't spread such nonsense and ruin the reputation of that girl Xue, yet you not only didn't listen, you also cursed me, an old useless one, for meddling."

Then Uncle Liangzi's wife, who had just arrived, spoke up: "A few days ago my mother hurt her waist and went back to her maiden home; only today upon returning did I hear those rumors. Ge Xiulan, has shit entered your brain? An elder spreading rumors about her own niece?"

"That day, Xia Qiu and Chuxue not only went to Uncle Shuanzi's house to borrow money, they also went to my house; our whole family can testify."

Seeing the villagers' eyes turn against her, Ge Xiulan angrily said: "You have always been close to the second branch, naturally you would speak for her."

At this moment, Uncle Baogui's little grandson squeezed through the crowd: "Aunt Liangzi didn't lie; that day Sister Chuxue even came to my house and gave me a piece of malt candy."

After speaking, he even made a face at Ge Xiulan.

Ge Xiulan blurted out: "A piece of malt candy bought you to speak for her; I didn't expect Chuxue to be quite so cunning."

Standing in the crowd, Liu Laoqi could no longer bear to listen: "If their words are not trustworthy, then what about mine?"

The crowd quickly made way for him.

Liu Shangan was now thoroughly terrified and hurriedly stepped forward: "Seventh Uncle, the younger generation in the family is just ignorant; please trouble you to make this trip. Whatever the matter, let's discuss it at home."

Liu Laoqi, however, gave him no face and slapped his hand away: "That day, they, mother and children, returned to the hospital very late to raise money for Shan Liang to go into the city to see his leg; I even greeted them. Your wife actually dared to fabricate things out of nothing; what is her intention?"

Seeing Seventh Uncle Liu, Ge Xiulan was as if she had seen a ghost and, frightened, instinctively wanted to step backward.

She knew how high Liu Laoqi's prestige was in the village.

Not only because his son was now a company-level cadre and his daughter was married to an officer, but more importantly, Liu Laoqi had been to the battlefield, killed Japanese invaders, possessed a body of unyielding righteousness, and no one disbelieved his words.

At this moment, villagers working in the distance also gathered around, all carefully asking what had happened; every member of the Liu family's eldest branch looked pale and despondent.

Liu Jianqiang, the eldest son of the eldest branch who knew nothing of the inside story, stepped forward: "Chuxue, is there some misunderstanding here?"

Chuxue's eyes were full of mockery: "The village rumors have been spreading for more than a day or two; why didn't my eldest cousin speak up earlier, and now come out to play the good guy?"

Hearing Chuxue retort, Qu Aihua, the eldest grandson's wife of the Liu family, took offense: "Chuxue, what did your eldest cousin say that you retort to him like that?"

Chuxue, not wanting her father, who was waiting for news at home, to worry, turned and looked at Ge Xiulan hiding behind Liu Shangan: "Eldest Aunt, you know yourself what you did to me; I didn't settle accounts with you before because treating my father's leg was most urgent, and also because family scandals should not be aired publicly."

"But you, instead, after failing once, want to try a second time; then don't blame me for disregarding family ties, after all, you have no family ties with me either."

The more Old Liu heard these words, the more something felt wrong; knowing the eldest branch might have concealed something from them and that things could not be allowed to develop like this, he said: "Chuxue, you also said family scandals should not be aired publicly; whatever the matter, let's discuss it at home."

Chuxue was not the original body; thinking to use the authority of an elder to suppress her was a delusion.

(End of this chapter)