Chapter 51 - Picking Him up on A Typhoon Day (1/2)

Villagers here always chatted in a loud voice but on the other hand, they thought that Li Hongmei and the other two were women so they were easily bullied, so in this case they did not even lower their voices while gossiping behind others’ backs. Li Hongmei and Ye Xiaoxian had heard all of it.

Xiao Baozhu was young with less nerve. Every time she heard others talk about her family affairs she would feel so embarra.s.sed that she wished that there was a hole which she could just crawl into.

Li Hongmei didn’t wish to hear others’ gossip, and what’s more, she could deal with gossip about herself but not about her son and her daughter-in-law.

She was just about to put down her handcart to argue with them when Ye Xiaoxian, who was behind Li Hongmei, stopped her. “Ma, don’t lower yourself to their level. It doesn’t benefit us much even if we win.”

Li Hongmei turned around to face Ye Xiaoxian. “But they’re talking about you. Don’t you need to think about your reputation?”

“We earn our reputations by relying on our abilities, not by arguing with them. Those people are green-eyed. If we stoop to arguing with them we would be indignant by lowering ourselves to their level. Life is long so let’s wait and see!”

What Ye Xiaoxian said made Li Hongmei feel much better.

“Little Ye, you’re right. So let’s just ignore them and let them say what they want to say. We’re very generous and we don’t care about those trivial matters!”

As soon as she finished talking, Li Hongmei made a “spitting” sound to the banyan tree. “We don’t even bother to talk to you green-eyed people!”

Ye Xiaoxian. “…”

…

Not long before they arrived home, dark clouds were flooding the sky and within a split second came drizzling rain from the sky and the wind was blowing stronger and stronger.

Qinghe is a southern village; but although it is not at the seaside, sometimes there are still typhoons. A typhoon was fiercely approaching and small trees in the village were wavering east and west in the wind which was gusting through the house and all the tiles on the roof were almost blown away.

Once Li Hongmei and Ye Xiaoxian reached home they hurried to bring in their clothes and close the windows and doors.

Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, Li Hongmei suddenly said, “Little Ye, Baoshan should be home soon. I guess he didn’t bring an umbrella or anything with him. He might get soaked, right?”