Chapter 84: Can’t Just Make a One-Time Deal
Seeing her about to speak in her own defense, I cut her off, "Keep your filthy thoughts to yourself; don’t try to sully my name with them. You better take care of your own daughter, sneaking out in the middle of the night to confess her feelings to someone, and yet you have the nerve to meddle in my affairs."
Li Xiulan hadn’t expected Luo Qiao to speak such words, saying that her own daughter had gone to confess her feelings in the dead of night. She didn’t understand what "confessing feelings" meant, but she knew what it meant to visit someone in the middle of the night.
Fuming and wanting to scold Luo Qiao, but fearing that the wretched girl might say something else that could further tarnish her daughter’s reputation, she had no choice but to swallow her anger and ignore Luo Qiao.
Luo Qiao was not the kind to suffer losses quietly. Now alone in the village, if she appeared weak and easy to bully, then anyone would step on her. Although she disdained arguing with these people, she couldn’t allow them to throw dirt on her so casually.
The tractor arrived quickly, and Luo Qiao agilely climbed aboard and found a place to sit in the front. Li Xiulan, with some effort, climbed up as well—her experience from last time rendering her unable to be squeamish any longer.
Seeing Luo Qiao, someone inside the tractor remarked, "Look at you, Luo Qiao, not going to work properly and always running off to the commune—just because you’ve got no parents to oversee you doesn’t mean you can slack off."
Luo Qiao, tired of this endless nagging, turned around and said, "How I live my life is none of your business; don’t worry, auntie, even if I had nothing to eat or drink, I would never come to borrow food from your house. My affairs are not for you to worry about."
"I hear your two sons and daughter are not so young anymore; you should concern yourself more with your own affairs. A woman who worries too much ages quickly, so you’d better take it easy."