Chapter 197 Are You Trying to Kill Me
After dinner was cleaned up, Lu Yichen and Stone walked off together, and Luo Qiao went into her space to prepare the bedding from the city. Having it ready in advance meant that it would be there for use on days when she might not be able to rush back and needed to stay in the city.
At the Secretary’s Home, Zhang Dezheng’s wife, Wang Chunnian, was scolding their daughter, "What’s gotten into you, a young lady, gossiping about others for no reason? Just listen to what people are saying about you now.
What has Luo Qiao ever done to provoke you? You’re ruining her reputation. If she finds out, our whole family will suffer for it.
The others in the Zhang Family remained silent, while the Secretary, looking at his daughter with disappointment, said, "Qiaoyan, if all your schooling has led to this kind of behavior, you would have been better off not attending at all, lest you one day bring ruin to the Zhang Family."
Zhang Qiaoyan looked up at her father in disbelief, "Dad, it’s just a few words I said about Luo Qiao. Are you all overreacting like this? I am still your daughter."
Shang Hongying, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhang Family, humphed quietly. She had always disliked her younger sister-in-law, feeling that the girl was too proud because she was the only one from the village attending high school.
Now that Luo Qiao was attending high school in the city, Qiaoyan couldn’t stand it and had been bad-mouthing her. Qiaoyan thought she was doing nothing wrong, but all the village women laughed at her these days.
They wouldn’t confront her face to face, but behind her back, they said she had bad character. If her father-in-law wasn’t the Secretary, someone would have probably spoken up by now.