Chapter 114 - 112: Why the Anxiety?
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Knowing the reason behind Dad’s anxious behavior, Zhang Shan Ni became even more vigilant in not allowing the old lady to wander off at will.
In the village, idle gossip was curbed somewhat because Xie Tiesheng specifically had his nephew, the village head, inform everyone about the situation. Although some still muttered criticisms under their breath, nobody was spreading stories about the incidents involving the elder brother-in-law from the Xie Family anymore.
With the support of her spiritual power, Zhang Shan Ni was particularly attentive to her father-in-law and understood his attitude right away. Of course, she would cooperate with his decision.
But in her heart, she disagreed with Dad’s approach! Keeping it from the mother-in-law was just a foolish, short-term fix!
After giving it more thought, she reckoned that once the rough patch was over and she had helped her mother-in-law recuperate, even if the latter did get wind of the idle chatter and become agitated, it wouldn’t be as frightening as the previous times.
So, whenever she went out to work in the fields and passed by the village committee, she purposefully projected her spiritual power onto the old ladies sitting under the big banyan tree in their dragon gate array and immediately became privy to numerous gossipy details!
It’s worth specifically noting that the primary reason Dad was preventing the mother-in-law from going out was exactly because of elder brother-in-law’s brainless behavior.
No wonder when he went to his second daughter’s house, the old master actually didn’t bring Xiao Wu along and had Xiao Yi and Xiao’er take Xiao Wu to the elder brother-in-law’s place instead!
It turned out the elder brother-in-law and his wife had made a fool of themselves!