It was five o'clock in the afternoon, the peak time for school and get off work.

People who work or go to school in the village are returning home one after another.

The village where the Lei family lives is not big, and half of the population is from outside.

However, people who rent houses in their village often meet each other and know each other, so there are generally very few strangers entering their village.

Lei's mother sat at the doorstep picking beans and preparing to cook.

A man arrived at Lei's house on a motorcycle.

The man was about 30 years old and was dressed casually in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt.

The man took out a small cardboard box from the trunk of the car and asked Lei's mother, "Excuse me, are you Ms. Lei?"

"Yes, I am. Who are you?"

"It's like this, I'm a courier. Here's a package for you, please sign for it."

Lei's mother took the cardboard box and looked at it from left to right.

I looked at the consignee's information and it was indeed mine, but the consignor's information was blank.

"I haven't bought anything in this period of time, how come there is a delivery?"

"Sister, maybe your child was bought to show his filial piety to you?"

What the man said made sense. Lei's mother thought that maybe the children wanted to give me a surprise and bought me gifts secretly.

"what is this?"

"Sister, you can open it and take a look."

Lei's mother opened the carton and found a set of cosmetics inside.

Lei's mother was a relatively frugal person, and she complained, "I'm already in my forties, why am I still wearing makeup? What a waste of money."

The man continued, "Sister, you look so young. Once you put on makeup, you look better than those first-line celebrities."

No matter how old a woman is, she loves to be complimented.

After being praised by the young man, Lei's mother was overjoyed and talked more.

"I'm over 50, why should I wear makeup? These things don't suit me, so I'd better leave them to the young people."

"Sister, you are over 50? Wow, I couldn't tell if you didn't tell me. There is not a single wrinkle on your face. I thought you were only or years old. You've taken such good care of yourself, haven't you?" The man said in surprise.

For women over 30, crow's feet on their faces are fatal.

Any crow's feet can make a woman sad for most of the day.

But this man actually praised her for not having a single wrinkle, and Lei Mu felt as if she had drunk honey.

"Handsome boy, you are so good at talking. I have rarely used cosmetics in my life. At most, I would just use Dabao to apply on my face."

"Sister, that proves that you have good skin and a good foundation. Look at those big stars who put thousands or tens of thousands of dollars worth of cosmetics on their faces every day, but their skin is not as good as yours. With such good skin, you should use better skin care products. This box of cosmetics is just right for you. When you go to a party or go shopping, put some on your face and you will definitely get 100% of the attention."

After being praised by the man like this, Lei's mother temporarily forgot her last name.

The neighbors saw Lei's mother chatting with a strange man for so long and kept looking at them.

Lei's mother took the cosmetics in her hand and looked at them left and right, but they were all in English and she couldn't understand them.

"Sister, this is a big international brand. It's the best for you. After using it, you will definitely look like a 17 or 18-year-old girl. Many people want to buy this brand but can't. I don't know where your child bought it. I also want to buy a set for my mother."

Lei's mother held the set of cosmetics and couldn't let it go, with a smile on her face all the time.

"Sister, this is cash on delivery. Could you please pay?"

There was a QR code for payment under the cardboard box, and the man asked Lei's mother to pay.

Lei's mother was afraid of being cheated by others, so she never used WeChat to pay.

She asked the man to wait at the door while she went back into the house to get the money.

When Lei's mother entered the house, she suspected that the man might be a liar.

But I thought about what the man said, that the more she used it, the better her skin became.

Lei's mother was so overwhelmed by the man's praise that if she didn't buy it, she would lose an opportunity to become beautiful.

As women age, their skin becomes worse.

Who doesn’t like to be young and beautiful?

Whenever Father Lei looked at the young woman for a second longer, Mother Lei felt jealous.

In order to improve her skin, Lei Mu gritted her teeth and decided to throw it out.

The man didn’t know how much the set of cosmetics cost?

Originally, the shipper wanted to collect the payment online, but Lei's mother could not use WeChat, so the man used his mobile phone to scan the payment QR code, found out the amount, asked Lei's mother to give him the cash, and then he helped to pay online.

The man scanned the bill and found the amount was 898.

Wow! Lei's mother thought it was too expensive, and the man tried to trick her again.

"Sister, this set of cosmetics is not expensive at all. It's already a bargain. My friend bought the same set online before and it was already selling for 2999. It must be on sale now. You got a bargain. You saved at least 2000 yuan."

Hearing that she had not lost money and had saved more than 2000 yuan, Lei's mother felt less distressed and handed the man nine hundred-yuan bills.

The man took out two pieces of cash from his trouser pocket and handed them to Lei's mother.

Mother Lei went home contentedly holding the cosmetics.

The man rode away on his bike, and at the end of the alley, he saw a villager sitting at the door of his house, staring at him.

The man stopped the car and said to the person, "Auntie, you just saw me talking to that lady over there for so long, can you do me a favor?"

The old lady ignored the man. The man had just received nine hundred-dollar bills from Lei's mother. He took out one and handed it to the old lady.

"If you can do me a favor, this $100 is yours."

Wow, the old lady’s eyes lit up when she saw there was money to be collected.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Go to your village intelligence station and tell them that you saw a young man giving a box of gifts to the older woman. The two of them were chatting and laughing for a long time."

"Is it that simple?" the aunt was puzzled.

"Well, it's that simple. Spread my words, and the 100 yuan will be yours."

The old lady took the hundred-dollar bill and patted her chest, saying, "Leave it to me."

Soon, the whole village knew that a young man had come to see Aunt Lei and gave her a box of gifts. The two talked and laughed, and she smiled so brightly, like a chrysanthemum, and all the wrinkles on her face bloomed.

The last words reached Lei's father's ears.

Father Lei went home angrily.

Lei's mother was watching TV at home with the door ajar.

Usually when Lei's father came back from visiting, he would push the door open quietly.

This time, he didn't push with his hands, but kicked with his feet.

A "bang" sound startled Lei's mother who was following the TV series.

"Is your hand broken? You have no hands? You kicked the door open." Lei's mother yelled at Lei's father.

Father Lei stared at Mother Lei, his eyes bloodshot, as if he wanted to eat someone, and yelled: "My head is almost turning into green grassland. I didn't expect that you are old but still young at heart, and you actually found a gigolo."

"Bah! I don't understand what you are saying?"

"You still don't admit it? Everyone saw it. The whole village knows that you are in love with a young man."

Lei's mother had never been gossiped about before, and she was so angry that her blood pressure almost soared.

"I am an upright person and have never done anything to let you down. Whoever said that? I will settle the score with him."

Father Lei took Mother Lei to Aunt Li's house at the entrance of the village to confront her.

Aunt Li was angry. She also heard it from others. Then she took Lei's mother to find the previous owner who passed it on to her.

I talked to several middle-aged women in a row, and they all said that they heard the news from others.

Lei's mother cried out that she was innocent, saying that these people only heard what others said and spread facts they didn't even know.

In less than an hour, everyone in the village knew that Lei Mu was in love with a young man.

But no one knows who started the rumor. Do we have to tell everyone one by one that we are innocent?

Will others believe it?

Moreover, there are so many people in the village. How long will it take to clear their names one by one?

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