This is settled for now.

After they sat for a while, Zhang Hongxiang couldn't help but ask, "Tingxia, do you remember Li Chunmiao?"

Jiang Tingxia nodded. How could she not remember? He gave her pesticides with bad intentions and stole her watch with her son. She even went to Li Changpu to complain first.

Ever since her family compensated him with 200 yuan, Li Chunmiao always had a resentful expression on his face whenever the two met occasionally.

Jiang Tingxia and she had become enemies.

Zhang Hongxiang stopped eating melon seeds and looked outside the door. No one came. Then she said, "She's dead."

"what!"

Jiang Tingxia was very surprised, but she saw Zhang Xinran and Yang Jinfeng both nodded at her, "Really."

"what happened?"

She had only been away for a few days, and suddenly she was gone.

Zhang Hongxiang said, "He died of illness."

Jiang Tingxia frowned, "She is only in her thirties, how could it be possible?"

Zhang Hongxiang waved her hand to let the people around her come over and said in a low voice, "I don't think he died of illness."

"Li Chunmiao was beaten to death by her husband."

"what!"

Not only Jiang Tingxia, but everyone at the table was shocked.

Zhang Xinran stuttered, "Sister-in-law, don't say such nonsense. This is murder."

Zhang Hongxiang cracked a melon seed and said, "What nonsense! I always saw her with bruises all over her body. Dongmei lives near her house and she said she could hear her getting beaten and crying sometimes."

"Dongmei said that once she heard her son yelling to his father to stop beating him."

Hearing this, Jiang Tingxia's heart was pounding, she was so scared.

She asked, "Isn't there a rule in the military that you are not allowed to hit your wife at home? If Li Chunmiao was abused, she would report it to the military and Guo Gang would be punished directly."

Li Chunmiao shook his head. "She's still complaining. She won't say anything."

"I asked her before where the injuries on her body came from, and she said she fell down."

Zhang Hongxiang looked puzzled. "She had been to the hospital once before. Two days after she came back from the hospital, the hospital doctor brought the director of women's medicine to her home, but in the end, no conclusion was made."

"No one knows what's going on."

Zhang Hongxiang rolled her eyes. "However, my guess is that the doctor did the same as me. When he found that she had injuries, he took the director of women's affairs to ask about her condition. She refused to say anything. It's a matter between a couple, and there's no evidence, so who cares?"

"Within a few days, the person was gone."

"Her family said she died of illness, but I don't think that's true. She was so young, what kind of illness could have killed her in just a few days? Guo Gang couldn't explain what the illness was."

Zhang Hongxiang insisted on her guess and said, "There's something wrong with this."

"Then what?" Jiang Tingxia asked.

Zhang Hongxiang spread her hands and said, "There is nothing more to it. The person has been buried."

Jiang Tingxia still didn't believe it and asked in confusion, "If she was beaten to death by her man as she told her sister-in-law, then why didn't she say it?"

Zhang Hongxiang turned around and said, "For her son."

She explained, "If Guo Gang was punished, he would have to go back to his hometown to farm. Then her son would no longer be an officer's son, but a farmer's son. Of course, Li Chunmiao would not say anything and would have to keep it a secret for him."

What Zhang Hongxiang said also makes sense.

Zhang Xinran sat aside and said with emotion, "If you say so, Li Chunmiao is also a pitiful person."

Zhang Hongxiang spat out a piece of melon seed shell, "Who said it wasn't?"

The passing of a life can easily leave ripples in people's hearts, and everyone feels a little depressed.

Zhang Hongxiang couldn't bear to see this atmosphere. After a while, she started talking about something else, "Tingxia, you just came back. I didn't know that a new family moved into the yard next to your house."

"is it?"

"Wasn't it Sister Qian who was living there originally? Her husband was transferred away, so the new battalion commander moved in instead."

Speaking of this, Zhang Hongxiang was furious. "The woman who lived there was so arrogant. She ignored us when we talked to her. Her eyes were like they were on top of her head."

Jiang Tingxia didn't care about this. Since the neighbors lived close to each other, they would talk to each other if they could get along well. If not, then forget it. She wouldn't force it.

Zhang Hongxiang looked disdainful. "I heard from my husband Zhao that the young wife is from the city and is a college student. Her family used to be wealthy. I heard that they are capitalists and have a lot of money. What's so great about that? In the end, she is still a girl in her twenties who married a man in his thirties or forties. She is still showing off. How dare she do that?"

"Last time, I was talking to her on the wall in the yard, and guess what, she just walked into the house with her hips swaying without saying a word."

"Don't even mention a smiling face. That face is longer than a donkey's."

Zhang Hongxiang cursed, "A capitalist lady who is hated by everyone, who has become a stepmother, is still putting on airs in front of me."

Wow, Zhang Hongxiang offended two people with just one sentence.

Jiang Tingxia and Zhang Xinran looked at each other, both of them with embarrassed expressions.

Zhang Hongxiang reacted and explained hurriedly, "I'm not talking about you."

She was so anxious that she slapped her face and said, "Look at my mouth, I just talk nonsense."

Zhang Hongxiang explained one by one, "Tingxia, although you are all from the city, people are different. No matter what, you are much better than that woman. At least you know how to greet people when you meet them. You don't look like a capitalist lady at all."

"Also, Xiao Zhang, don't worry too much. It's not that being a stepmother is bad. Look at how good your two children are. You didn't have to give birth to them yourself. You got two children this big for nothing. You raised them since they were young. How is it different from your own children?"

Jiang Tingxia and Zhang Xinran felt more and more uncomfortable the more they listened. It would have been better for Zhang Hongxiang not to explain.

Jiang Tingxia handed her an orange, "Sister-in-law, come, have an orange."

After sitting for a few hours, they decided to leave as they had to go home to cook lunch for their husband and children.

Jiang Tingxia sent them out the door. At this time, a long-haired woman walked out from the yard next door, dressed in the most fashionable outfit in the city.

Zhang Hongxiang took a look and winked at Jiang Tingxia and the others, "That's her."

Several people looked over and there was no conversation between the two sides.

Zhuang Xue also glanced over here, her eyes accurately falling on Jiang Tingxia, thinking to herself, this woman is not like the women in the mountains, bloated and sloppy, her dress is quite good. Look at the wool coat she is wearing, it is expensive, and most importantly, there is no demand for it.

Ever since arriving at Chazipo, Zhuang Xue had always felt that she was superior to others. Those peasant women were ugly, crude and rustic, and she was the only one who stood out in this place, particularly eye-catching. But suddenly a woman who was more beautiful, more delicate and had a better temperament than her came, and Zhuang Xue instantly felt hostility in her heart.

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