vrcanaries Chapter 2 Important News
Chapter 2 Important News
"After I returned to the village, I heard that Momo had fallen into the river. I wonder how Momo is doing now?"
"I don't need your crocodile tears!" Xia's mother replied through gritted teeth.
Aunt Ma's face also turned grim. Suppressing her temper, she said, "I also heard from the villagers that a local hoodlum came to your house to propose marriage. You must not marry Momo to that hoodlum. I've also brought you some frightening news!"
Suppressing her anger, Aunt Ma said, "Before I returned to the village, I heard from people in the county that the scoundrel went to the gambling den and confidently said he would mortgage his future wife in advance. I don't know what the people at the gambling den were thinking! They actually agreed and lent the scoundrel twenty taels of silver!"
When Xia's mother heard the news brought by Aunt Ma, her face turned black, then green, then white.
The sudden chill caused Xia's mother's lips to tremble.
Xia's mother thought: The casino people were willing to lend money because they believed the scoundrel's words, which meant that... if the scoundrel couldn't repay the twenty taels, the casino people would come to the Xia family and take away her Momo to pay off the debt.
Just thinking about this made Xia's mother shudder.
Casino owners don't care about the law!
"you go!"
When Xia's mother realized that things had come to this, it was all Ma Yiyi's fault. She angrily chased people away, but dared not raise her voice, for fear of startling Xia Mo, who was resting after taking her medicine.
"What kind of attitude is this? I brought such important news, and you're kicking me out?!" Aunt Ma got angry when she saw that Xia's mother was still looking at her like she was an enemy.
"It was all Yiyi who plotted against our Momo behind our backs! What use is your fake kindness?!" Xia's mother's heart heaved violently, and her teeth ground together.
"You have to explain this clearly!" Aunt Ma was so angry when she heard the slander that she raised her voice so that all the neighbors could hear her.
"MoMo said it was your daughter who pushed her into the water! And it was your daughter who called the scoundrel to the riverbank!" Xia's mother said.
"impossible!"
Aunt Ma's voice unconsciously became shrill.
When did Momo fall into the water?
“Three days ago, at noon, your daughter asked my daughter to meet her at the riverside rock. It was there that my daughter was pushed into the river! She was swept away by the current for several meters!”
Xia's mother was still terrified when she mentioned this.
"No, when Mo'er fell into the water, Yiyi was in the county town!" Aunt Ma shouted, as if afraid others wouldn't hear her.
Aunt Ma thought to herself, she couldn't let others slander her daughter!
Almost everyone living near the Xia family heard it.
The Xia family's neighbors, who lived nearby, had already come out of their houses and gathered around.
"Yes, Yiyi is a child we watched grow up. She would never do such a thing."
In the room at the end of summer—
Xia Mo opened her eyes slowly, turned her head, and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
The voices of Aunt Ma and the others became somewhat muffled through the wall, but she could still hear them clearly.
Xia Mo propped herself up on the bed and, disregarding her physical condition, rushed out of the room in a few strides.
She just wanted to know why Ma Yiyi had schemed against her like that!
Inside the Xia family courtyard—
"Stop making noise! My daughter just fell asleep. You're disturbing her rest!" Xia's mother said in a low voice, waving her hand to signal Aunt Ma and the villagers watching to keep their voices down.
But these people don't care at all.
"mother."
Xia Mo's voice came from behind Xia's mother.
Xia's mother's heart jumped into her throat.
"Mo'er, I disturbed you," Xia's mother hurriedly went to Xia Mo's side and anxiously watched over her.
Xia's mother, overjoyed to have her daughter back, cherished her dearly.
Xia Mo looked at Aunt Ma, whose face appeared frail but whose eyes were unusually bright. She questioned, "Are you saying I lied?!"
Aunt Ma frowned and looked at Xia Mo without saying a word.
Xia Mo was also raised under Aunt Ma's watchful eye.
"It was Ma Yiyi who asked me to meet her by the big rock by the river! It was also Ma Yiyi who pushed me and pushed me into the river," Xia Mo replied through gritted teeth, but with unusual determination.
She knew she needed to calm down, but she had been betrayed by her best friend, and just thinking about it made it impossible for her to stay calm!
Aunt Ma shook her head firmly and said, "Impossible! When you fell into the river, Yiyi was in the county town! It takes an hour to get from the county town to Anjia Village. You must be seeing things!"
In Aunt Ma's opinion, saying that Xia Mo was "dizzy" was actually giving Xia Mo face.
“I grew up with Ma Yiyi. If the person who pushed me wasn’t Ma Yiyi, would I not recognize her?!” Xia Mo stared at Aunt Ma without blinking.
Aunt Ma paused for a moment, but still shook her head: "Impossible! Yiyi is your friend, she would never push you into the river."
"Aunt Xia, your daughter is being unreasonable. You should talk to her."
"MoMo, you and YiYi are good friends, how could she possibly conspire with scoundrels to scheme against you?"
The neighbors on both sides were trying to persuade Xia Mo.
Xia Mo stiffened her neck and looked at her mother, wanting to know what her mother thought.
Xia's mother was also stunned.
“I can testify that I saw Yiyi in the county town when Momo fell into the water.”
Someone else stood up to speak up for Ma Yiyi.
With Aunt Ma's words and witnesses, Xia Mo's words seem more like a lie.
In her previous life, there was a similar incident where she was afraid and dared not look at her mother's expression. In her mind, she imagined her mother looking at her with distrust.
In her previous life, she had an emotional breakdown and screamed at her mother in frustration. When her father, eldest brother, second brother, and third brother returned, she vented her anger on them.
In this life, she wanted to see Xia's mother's reaction with her own eyes, and this was also a small, unresolved issue for her.
Without hesitation, Xia's mother stepped in front of Xia Mo, glaring at Aunt Ma and the others, and roared, "My daughter was pushed into the river and almost lost her life! My daughter would never lie about her own life!"
Seeing the trust in her mother's eyes, Xia Mo felt relieved. In her previous life, she had indeed been overthinking things.
The neighbors who were watching listened to Xia's mother's words and agreed that they made sense, nodding in agreement.
"Yes, we watched Momo grow up. She was spoiled by her father and three older brothers and had a bit of a temper, but she's not the kind of ruthless person."
“MoMo is most afraid of pain. If she falls, her eyes will fill with tears. She doesn’t seem like the type to risk her own life to scheme against others.”
"..."
Aunt Ma thought of Ma Yiyi's somewhat evasive expression. No one knows a daughter better than her mother; that was the look her daughter would show when she felt guilty.
Can……
When Xia Mo fell into the water, Yi Yi was right beside her. Surely, she couldn't have made a round trip to the county town in the short time Yi Yi was out of her sight?
“Yiyi was right next to me at the time, and Sister-in-law Li saw it too,” Aunt Ma decided to believe Ma Yiyi.
"Has she ever left your sight?" Xia Mo thought of supernatural forces.
If she could return with supernatural powers, who knows what kind of extraordinary encounter Ma Yiyi might have had?!
“She was only out of my sight for about fifteen minutes. It takes at least an hour to walk from our village to the county town and back,” Aunt Ma glanced at Aunt Li and shook her head firmly.