Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 114

Chapter 114: Chapter 112: Why the Anxiety?

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Knowing the reason behind Dad’s anxious behavior, Zhang Shan Ni became even more vigilant in not allowing the old lady to wander off at will.

In the village, idle gossip was curbed somewhat because Xie Tiesheng specifically had his nephew, the village head, inform everyone about the situation. Although some still muttered criticisms under their breath, nobody was spreading stories about the incidents involving the elder brother-in-law from the Xie Family anymore.

With the support of her spiritual power, Zhang Shan Ni was particularly attentive to her father-in-law and understood his attitude right away. Of course, she would cooperate with his decision.

But in her heart, she disagreed with Dad’s approach! Keeping it from the mother-in-law was just a foolish, short-term fix!

After giving it more thought, she reckoned that once the rough patch was over and she had helped her mother-in-law recuperate, even if the latter did get wind of the idle chatter and become agitated, it wouldn’t be as frightening as the previous times.

So, whenever she went out to work in the fields and passed by the village committee, she purposefully projected her spiritual power onto the old ladies sitting under the big banyan tree in their dragon gate array and immediately became privy to numerous gossipy details!

It’s worth specifically noting that the primary reason Dad was preventing the mother-in-law from going out was exactly because of elder brother-in-law’s brainless behavior.

No wonder when he went to his second daughter’s house, the old master actually didn’t bring Xiao Wu along and had Xiao Yi and Xiao’er take Xiao Wu to the elder brother-in-law’s place instead!

It turned out the elder brother-in-law and his wife had made a fool of themselves!

Listening to the sarcastic mockery of these old mothers, Zhang Shan Ni pondered while listening:

"Just look at Tie Dan with his sharp-witted appearance, who would’ve thought his wife would get the better of him, daring to hold a heavy filial piety ritual at his mother-in-law’s place, tsk tsk, and I heard that even the kids wore mourning clothes..."

"Ugh, really, if I had such offspring, I’d rather hang myself!" one elder lady bluntly responded, her tone thick with disgust and clear schadenfreude.

"Go on, what are you saying! Even if Tie Dan mishandled this matter, that doesn’t mean you should implicate Sister Xiu Hua. She’s still being kept in the dark, so don’t you slip up in front of her! I heard that a few days ago, she visited Da Niu and was so infuriated by Da Niu’s mother-in-law that she nearly ended up in the hospital. If you make careless remarks and something three-five-six happens to her, you’ll just wait for Old Xie Family’s retaliation! Hmph, don’t say I didn’t warn you..."

"Scary? Sister Xiu is ill? No wonder I haven’t seen Iron Birth Mother arranging the dragon gate array these past days, turns out she’s sick!!" A relatively younger housewife said dimwittedly.

Zhou Xiu Hua hadn’t left home for quite some days, and some well-informed people had already understood the eight to z situation through the information deliberately revealed by Xie Tiesheng.

Thus, at this moment, six or seven women gathered around, chastened by the scolding of the older woman, each biting their lower lip, too afraid to gossip any further.

Seeing everyone suddenly silent as if dumb after eating bitter herbs, the young housewife glanced around with her pale, small eyes. Her gaze shifted, and she changed the subject, sighing enviously:

"Speaking of Brother Tiesheng’s house, she really is lucky. A casual rescue by Shitou, their big nephew, and they found a Phoenix Egg... Do you know how many nice things that station manager brought to Brother Tiesheng’s house that day?"

"Hey hey, I heard there was a bicycle!"

"Right right, I saw this on the truck, there was also a Phoenix brand sewing machine!"

"I heard there were a lot of valuable items, even two big bags of fine grains! XX also said they saw fine fabric!"

"My God, the Xie Family really is lucky. In our village, which family ever gets dowry gifts sent over and over like this for a bride!"