Pingying knew that the village placed great importance on face and the saying, "one’s glory is everyone’s glory; one’s loss is everyone’s loss."
She didn’t mind people teaching the Zhang family a lesson. With how they were, they deserved it, but the problem was, considering such a family, did Luo Cuilan really want to marry into it? After causing such a fuss, what was the point of marrying into that family?
But given her current relationship with Luo Cuilan, Pingying naturally wouldn’t say such things.
Seeing Luo Dahu and Qiu Xiu urging continuously, Pingying had to get up and go back to call Dashan and the others over.
At the Luo family, by now Luo Zhiyong and Luo Cuilan had cleaned up, and the whole family was in Luo Zhiyong’s room discussing Luo Cuilan’s matters.
It was a desperate situation, Luo Cuilan was even contemplating suicide, if the family ignored it, it would also lead to gossip.
Seeing Pingying coming back from outside, Zhou Yunmei looked at her unhappily, "With such a big issue happening at home, where did you go?"
Pingying slightly frowned, "I went to deliver ginger soup next door, Uncle Two had also gone to the pond to save Cuilan just now."
In fact, she felt that the people of Luo family were truly ungrateful. Today, when Luo Cuilan jumped into the pond, neither Luo Zhiming nor Luo Dashan went down to save her; it was Uncle Two who bravely jumped in to rescue. How come no one in the family appreciated the good others did?
Luo Zhiyong had just heard from Luo Honglan and knew that Pingying went to Uncle Two’s house, he continued to ask, "Pingying, how is Uncle Two? Nothing serious I hope?"
Upon hearing this, Dashan seemed to suddenly remember this matter, he immediately stood up and walked to the door, "Right, Uncle Two also went into the pond just now, I completely forgot about that. I need to go check on him."
Pingying nodded and added, "Yes, Dad, go have a look. Uncle Two just mentioned wanting to discuss Cuilan’s matter with you as well."
"I’ll also go and have a look, let’s discuss it together." Luo Zhiyong stood up, planning to go to Uncle Two’s house with Dashan, but at the door, he seemed to remember something, turned back, and looked at Cuilan firmly,
"Cuilan, I’m laying it out here. This time, it was you who desperately begged us to step in for you. Tomorrow, when we call the Zhang family to talk, if you still speak for the Zhang family’s side, even if you really die, we won’t care about you anymore."
Zhou Yunmei nodded, "That’s right, Cuilan, tomorrow we will decide how it’s going to be. You have to align with us. If you don’t agree, then let’s not talk about it tomorrow. Do as you wish."
At this point, Luo Cuilan naturally didn’t dare to say much. She nodded slightly, signaling her agreement with Luo Zhiyong and others.
But after thinking for a while, she still asked in a low voice, "Big brother, mom, what do you plan to do about this?"
Luo Zhiyong pondered for a while and said, "Since it has come to this point, there are two paths; either you completely break it off with the Zhang family now and go your separate ways, or the matter of setting up the banquet has to be done our way."
Zhou Yunmei became agitated, she suddenly jumped up from the kang, and exclaimed, "Even if it breaks, it can’t be that simple to just go our separate ways. We have to make their Zhang family pay for the losses, our daughter has been ruined by their family, there’s no way it ends so nicely."
Seeing her talking about compensation and the like, Luo Zhiyong watched her with a frown, "Mom, stop mentioning those unnecessary things, talk properly with Cuilan, we’ll go to my Uncle Two’s house."
Luo Zhiyong and others left for Uncle Two’s next door. There was nothing much left to discuss at Luo Cuilan’s side, Zhou Yunmei sat beside her detailing the matters to be discussed with the Zhang family tomorrow. Pingying remembered that the family hadn’t had dinner yet, so she called Luo Honglan and said it was time to warm up the meal.
Just as she was about to head to the kitchen, Fang Xiu suddenly started yelling outside, "What on Earth is going on? No one’s dead, and now we can’t even eat? The baby in my belly is starving, always crying out."
Fang Xiu’s words were clearly directed at Luo Cuilan, and Luo Cuilan was not the type to endure silently. She burst out of the house in anger, glaring at Fang Xiu and retorted, "Fang Xiu, don’t think you’re something special just because you’re pregnant. Any woman can get pregnant; it’s nothing to be proud of."
Fang Xiu scoffed and sneered, "That’s true, even you have been pregnant several times, and it’s no achievement. Otherwise, the Zhang family wouldn’t have forced you to abort the child."
"Alright, alright, stop arguing. Every time you two meet, you start fighting, and it’s making us the laughingstock of the neighborhood." Zhou Yunmei yelled at them, and after calming them down, she turned to Luo Honglan and said, "Honglan, go reheat the food and bring it here for us to eat."
With Zhou Yunmei’s intervention, Fang Xiu and Luo Cuilan pursed their lips and each went back to their rooms.
Initially worried that Luo Zhiyong and Luo Cuilan might fall ill after being soaked in cold water, they surprisingly remained quite healthy after drinking the ginger soup prepared by Fang Pingying. They had no issues that night.
But Luo Dahe next door wasn’t so lucky.
Later in the night as Fang Pingying and others were asleep, Fang Pingying, half-asleep, thought she heard someone knocking at the courtyard door. She quickly woke up Luo Zhiyong, "Zhiyong, quick, get up and take a look, it sounds like someone is knocking outside."
Luo Zhiyong, deeply asleep, didn’t hear the noise outside. He turned over and hugged Fang Pingying, "It’s so late, who would be knocking? You must have heard wrong."
Fang Pingying pushed him, "No, I heard it right. Go take a look."
While they were talking, the knocking sound came again from the courtyard, and this time they clearly heard it was the voice of the second aunt from next door.
Luo Zhiyong didn’t delay, he immediately got up, threw on some clothes, and went outside.
Fang Pingying guessed that such late night knocking by the second aunt must be for no small matter, so she quickly followed him.
They went to the courtyard, and Luo Dashan and others had already opened the door, and were talking to the second aunt, looking quite anxious.
Seeing Luo Zhiyong and his wife come out, Luo Dashan quickly called out, "Zhiyong, quickly wake Zhiming up, your second aunt said your second uncle has a high fever that won’t go down despite trying everything. He needs to be taken to the town’s clinic."
Hearing this, Luo Zhiyong also grew anxious, "Okay, mom and dad, go ahead and check on him, I’ll go wake up Zhiming."
Luo Zhiming, who also heard the noise outside, responded as soon as Luo Zhiyong called him and got up immediately. Fang Xiu did not come out, but shouted from the bed to Fang Pingying, "Big sister, what’s going on, in the middle of the night?"
Fang Pingying walked to her door and replied, "Second uncle is sick, he needs to be taken to the clinic in town."
"It’s all that damn Luo Cuilan’s fault; just had to go cause trouble when there was none, instead of causing trouble for others." Upon hearing this, Fang Xiu didn’t get up, merely turned over and cursed Luo Cuilan.
Fang Pingying glanced at her and said impatiently, "Just say less and continue sleeping if you’re not going to help."
"Call Luo Cuilan up, she caused this mess, isn’t she coming out to clean it up?" Fang Xi shot back at Fang Pingying.
Fang Pingying, tired of her muttering, simply closed her room door.
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