Chapter 10 Jing Xuan saw the sneer at the corner of Tang Huai's lips

Tang Huai didn't look up and hummed softly before saying, "I heard about it too."

"Liu Xiaoyu can't possibly be using her own urine to stew pig's feet, right?" Liao Xiaoxiao also came over and looked at Tang Huai with an exaggerated expression, "Is it edible? What does it taste like?"

Tang Huai looked up, and with an obedient demeanor glanced at Liao Xiaoxiao, "It's alright."

Yang Hongxing loved seeing Tang Huai's timid, cowardly demeanor—so pathetic, so easy to bully.

Upon hearing this, Liao Xiaoxiao wrinkled her eyebrows in disgust, looking at Tang Huai with a strange look in her eyes, "Can your mom really eat that? Has she gone mad?"

Tang Huai shook her head, her voice soft, "My mom hasn't gone mad."

Yang Hongxing reminded Liao Xiaoxiao, "That's a secret recipe for lactation."

Liao Xiaoxiao furrowed her brows, "What kind of secret recipe is that? The smell of a woman's urine during confinement is so strong!"

Yang Hongxing felt a tightness in her chest upon hearing this, and wanted to vomit.

She looked at Tang Huai, "I'll go and talk to the village chief later and get you half a pig's foot. You take it home and stew it in your mother's urine for her, got it?"

"Um…" Tang Huai nodded obediently.

"Does stewed pig's foot in a woman's urine really taste good?"

The villagers began to discuss it amongst themselves.

"Only a mad person would do something like that."

"Liu Xiaoyu is just a freak."

"It's not just Liu Xiaoyu who's a freak, her whole family is freakish, they have some new normal. Such a pity, passed away so young."

"Everyone says, it was her younger daughter that caused the death of Jing Xuan."

"It's truly sinful, the biggest mistake Jing Xuan made in his life was marrying Liu Xiaoyu. Look, he didn't have a son to carry on the family lineage, and even was brought to his death."

Gossipy words, each sentence as piercing as it gets, extremely hurtful.

In her previous life, Tang Huai had become increasingly more introverted upon hearing the villagers speak that way about Liu Xiaoyu.

She was not fond of talking, and when facing the villagers, she didn't greet them, leading the older generation to say she had no manners. Thus, in the eyes of the villagers, her character was weird.

Liu Xiaoyu was frail and couldn't work in the fields like those strapping women in the village. She was unable to bear sons, and among the daughters she had, one had a strange temperament, while another couldn't walk properly; she became an object of bullying by the village women and was looked down upon by village men.

Now that her man had died, the villagers looked down on her even more, pointing fingers at the daughters she had born.

However, Tang Huai, having been reborn, had developed an immunity to all that pointing and gossiping; they couldn't hurt her anymore.

She kept her head down, picking at her fingers, appearing to the villagers like a fool, a simpleton.

The villagers gave her even more contemptuous and mocking glances.

Not giving up, Liao Xiaoxiao mockingly asked Tang Huai again, "Does pig's trotter stewed in urine taste good?"

Tang Huai's head drooped even lower, "I don't know, I haven't eaten it."

"Go home and ask your mom," Liao Xiaoxiao said mockingly.

Tang Huai looked up cautiously and glanced at Liao Xiaoxiao, "My mom didn't really eat it, it was all eaten by my aunt and her family."

The villagers' discussion about Liu Xiaoyu was more entertaining than a play, and Yang Hongxing was having fun listening to it, but suddenly she heard Tang Huai's statement. Yang Hongxing's face stiffened, and she glared at Tang Huai, "You brat, what nonsense are you talking about?!"

Yang Hongxing was both anxious and angry, yet she had to restrain her emotions, accompanied by an awkwardness that was quite comical.

"You ate it?" Liao Xiaoxiao looked at Yang Hongxing in shock, "You look down on Liu Xiaoyu the most, yet you ate her urine?"

Yang Hongxing felt that Liao Xiaoxiao was making fun of her, and she glared at her irritably: "What do you know?"

Tang Huai glanced cautiously at Yang Hongxing and Liao Xiaoxiao before lowering his head again: "My third aunt didn't know what the pig's trotters were stewed with. I had it simmering in the kitchen, and when I came back after feeding the pigs, the pot was gone. If she had known beforehand, she wouldn't have eaten it."

What?!

After hearing this, Liao Xiaoxiao's expression became even more animated, almost bursting into laughter.

So it turned out that Yang Hongxing had stolen someone's pig trotters, only to find out later that they were cooked with urine, haha, that must have felt, rather sour, right?

Yang Hongxing could no longer maintain the smile on her face, and Tang Ying's complexion wasn't good either. She carefully looked at Jing Peng, and only relaxed a bit when she saw his expression was indifferent.

"Really, stealing someone else's pig trotters meant for nursing, bullying shouldn't be done this way." Along with Jing Xuan's grandmother who was sitting at the doorway, Jing Xuan's aunt pursed her lips and said gently.

"I can't stand Liu Xiaoyu's weak appearance, but that doesn't justify bullying her. It's not a big deal to steal food normally, but to eat her nursing pig trotters too? I think Liu Xiaoyu spent all her savings to buy those pig trotters, and now she won't dare to indulge in meat for the next half year," Jing Xuan's grandmother said.

"It's not like that," Tang Ying panicked upon hearing Jing Xuan's grandmother speak up, and hurriedly said: "It wasn't my mom who stole it, it was my grandma who did."

Yang Hongxing was also anxious, if Jing Xuan's grandmother didn't like Tang Ying, she would definitely oppose Jing Peng's relationship with Tang Ying.

Yang Hongxing tugged at Tang Huai's clothes, trying to make her smile appear more natural: "Tang Huai, that's not right to say. It could cause misunderstandings, making people think it was the third aunt who stole your pig trotters. You should tell the Jing Family elder, it was your grandma who stole them."

Tang Huai looked obedient and submissive, took a step back with his head lowered, "I didn't see who stole it... third aunt, I'm going to the vegetable field."

After saying that, Tang Huai turned and ran away.

Yang Hongxing was gnashing her teeth in anger but had to maintain a smile in front of the villagers: "This little girl."

In fact, she was cursing Tang Huai countless times in her heart.

"Hongxing, I heard that Tang Ying stole fifty yuan from you for the market, is that true?" Jing Xuan's aunt asked.

As soon as the words fell, everyone's gaze fell on her and Tang Ying, and Tang Ying's face instantly turned pale.

Yang Hongxing immediately shook her head, her smile was exaggerated and stiff, "No, not at all! I found it under the bed later. It must have fallen there when I was flipping the mat."

"Wasn't it said that Tang Huai stole it?" Liao Xiaoxiao asked Yang Hongxing in confusion.

"No, no, I misunderstood Tang Huai," Yang Hongxing said, yet a rage was building in her chest.

That little wretch, Tang Huai!

After running out of the village chief's courtyard, Tang Huai came to a stop and walked slowly.

Did Tang Ying pull her aside thinking she would let the entire village know Liu Xiaoyu ate pig trotters cooked in urine, making everyone laugh at her entire family?

However, Tang Ying forgot that the pot of pig's feet was finished by her family.

Tang Huai slightly raised her eyebrows; with such intellect, Tang Ying had actually managed to fool her in their previous life, implicating that her own intelligence wasn't much better then.

The villagers knowing they stole her "urine pig trotters" was enough to embarrass Tang Ying and Yang Hongxing.

Tang Huai curled her lips into a cold smile, thinking to herself, "Tang Ying, you must be regretting dragging me to the village chief's home now, aren't you? I'll slowly ensure the Jing Family sees your true colors."

As she sneered, one corner of her mouth lifted, her eyes shimmering with broken light, a stark contrast to the timid obedience she had shown before.

Jing Xuan, leaning languidly against the wall smoking, glanced over just as Tang Huai ran out and happened to catch that cold smirk on her lips—