Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 37: Chapter 37 The Sudden Marriage Proposal Chapter 37: Chapter 37 The Sudden Marriage Proposal The villagers also asked, “Auntie! Are you sure you saw Bai Xiao? Could you have made a mistake? And who hits someone for no reason? Bai Xiao just came over from the village chief’s house; we all saw it. She didn’t come from the entrance of the village!”

“Exactly, you can’t wrongly accuse someone like that.”

“Bai Xiao doesn’t seem like the type who would take revenge. You’ve been beating her up for years, and we’ve never seen her retaliate.”

“Definitely not. That’s just not in Bai Xiao’s nature to do such a thing!”

Li Chunhua was even more angry. No one believed her.

“It was Bai Xiao, I saw it clear as day. And, there was someone else who must have seen it too; at that time, the postman, Zhang Changgong, was also on the road at the village entrance. He must have seen it. If you don’t believe me, just ask him!”

Finally, the old lady remembered she had a witness.

Bai Xiao was speechless. Old Lady Bai, could you please use your brain?

Zhang Changgong would definitely love to see you dead right now. You threatened him once, and you expect him to testify for you? What are you thinking?

Liu Baoguo and Li Chunmei both hurried over, and seeing that it was Li Chunhua again, the couple felt like swearing. Couldn’t Li Chunhua go a single day without causing some kind of fuss?

Do you ever let anyone live in peace?

Liu Baoguo was already frustrated and in a bad mood today because of his daughter’s issues, and here was Li Chunhua stirring up trouble again. This time, Liu Baoguo truly despised Li Chunhua from the bottom of his heart.

“Li Chunhua, what the hell is wrong with you? Stirring up trouble again?”

Upon hearing these words, Li Chunhua felt a belly full of grievances with nowhere to vent.

Pointing to the big lump on her forehead, she said, “Village Chief, look at this, you have to stand up for me. A granddaughter hitting her grandmother, that’s a sin worthy of divine punishment. This unfilial offspring can’t go unpunished. If young people follow Bai Xiao’s example, there will be no place for the elderly in our village.”

Liu Baoguo said impatiently, “How come you can link everything to Bai Xiao? You’re not going to tell me that the lump on your head was given by Bai Xiao, are you? Everyone in our village knows what’s what. If we call everyone out to ask, who would believe that Bai Xiao gave you that lump? I think you’re more likely to be the one giving Bai Xiao a lump on her head. Go do what you need to do and stop causing trouble in the village at your age. You’re just embarrassing yourself, shamelessly. Have you ever thought about Baoguo? Have you thought about your grandsons, Bai Zhuang and Bai Shan? With a grandmother like you, how are they going to find wives in the future?”

These words were incredibly harsh, amounting to a face-smashing rebuke.

Li Chunhua, feeling unjustly accused, nearly burst out, “Village Chief, I’m truly wronged. Look at this lump on my head. Do you think I made it up to frame Bai Xiao?”

Bai Xiao, looking at Liu Baoguo, said in a low voice, “Uncle, I didn’t hit her. Just now, Comrade Zhang delivered my college admission notice, and I was on my way to bring it to you. I didn’t even see my grandma. Besides, why would I hit my grandma?” Her expression showed the frustration of not having a place to plead her case.

Liu Baoguo turned to look at Li Chunhua and said, “I’m telling you, Bai Xiao was indeed at my house just a moment ago. So, the lump on your head couldn’t have been caused by her. As to who did, go find that person. If you keep spouting nonsense here and making life difficult for Bai Xiao, let me warn you, don’t think you can act lawlessly in our village. You can’t just do whatever you want. Our country, our party, does not tolerate anyone mistreating children and slandering them.

I don’t know what you’re thinking, Li Chunhua, such a good child, and the college admission notice has arrived. Bai Xiao is the only college student in our village. You all heard that, right? Bai Xiao got into college. In the future, she’s going to have an iron rice bowl as a government employee. Can you bear to stop a child like that from studying? I’m the village chief, and I won’t allow you to keep acting out. If you target Bai Xiao again, watch out, I’ll take care of you.”

Li Chunhua wanted to argue, but Hao Fang held her back.

It was clear that there were no good outcomes to be had in the presence of the village chief, and if the conversation continued, the village chief might lose his temper. In Liupan Village, the village chief was the one who had the final say, and if you provoked him, there would be ways to deal with you.

“Village chief, my mother-in-law probably saw things wrong. She’s old and it’s inevitable that sometimes she can’t see clearly. I know Bai Xiao is a good person. Rest assured, I’ll take my mother-in-law home now. Xiao, come home for lunch. Your in-laws want to visit you and settle the marriage. It’s time for men to marry and women to marry. This marriage was agreed upon by your parents years ago, and we can’t very well stop it,” Hao Fang had her methods.

Bai Xiao sneered, they were even bringing up his deceased parents now.

“Auntie, since when did I have an in-law family with marriage settled? How come I don’t know about it?”

The Bai family was in a desperate state, trying to force her to get married.

Yes, by marrying her off, they could get the dowry money and prevent her from getting an education. Once married, whether to pursue education would no longer be up to her.

“It was settled by your parents, and when people come to propose, we can’t exactly stop them!” Hao Fang knew what to say.

A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of Bai Xiao’s mouth. She remembered that years ago, they were not in such a hurry to marry her off. It was only two years after Wu Xiaoyue joined the family that they mentioned this “good” marriage to her.

Now they had moved it up by a whole two years.

It seemed that not only she had changed, but the Bai family as well.

“You should come at noon, it will be perfect for you to meet them!” Hao Fang didn’t believe Bai Xiao would dare not show up, given the reputation of her parents.

“Aunt, I won’t go! Just tell that family directly, I won’t marry,” Bai Xiao said word by word.

Hao Fang was startled; how had this girl changed so much that she dared to say such things.

As soon as Li Chunhua heard this, she became furious, “You ungrateful girl, what are you saying? Parental orders and matchmaker’s words, are you saying you just won’t marry? It was your parents who settled this deal, how could you be so undutiful as to anger your parents to the point of rising from their graves?” If it were not for Hao Fang holding her back, Li Chunhua would have grabbed Bai Xiao’s ear and tied her up to take her home.

The villagers didn’t know what to say; although marriage was free, in the rural areas of 1985, most people still followed the practice of parents arranging marriages through matchmakers, and if both sides agreed, their children got married.

There were generally no instances of defying the parents’ wishes. Of course, before an engagement, parents would definitely seek their children’s opinions, and if the children agreed, the marriage would be settled.

If it were indeed a marriage arranged by Bai Xiao’s parents, it would not have been to harm their child, so Bai Xiao speaking this way now indeed seemed somewhat undutiful.

But who would want to offend someone in this matter? Bai Xiao was on the verge of attending university and might even become an official afterwards.

She was expected to leave their mountain village and their small cocoon someday, and who knew if they would ever need Bai Xiao’s help in the future? If Bai Xiao was unwilling, no one could force her to agree.