Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 838 - 682: Love Crosses Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [29]

Chapter 838: Chapter 682: Love Crosses Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [29]

Finally, it was Qiu Mingyan’s second sister, Qiu Mingxin, who managed to get her to eat.

Qiu Mingxin spent the morning up in the mountains planting crops with Qiu Mingjun. When she returned at noon, she found the home cold and without any cooking, and vaguely sensed something was amiss.

Seeing Feng Chengyue awkwardly trying to learn from her brother how to light the fire, Qiu Mingxin immediately directed Mingjun to wash the rice, while she started the fire herself. After the fire was lit,

Qiu Mingxin wiped her hands, went to Brother Mingyan’s room, took a pack of tissues, and handed it to Feng Chengyue.

Feng Chengyue was feeling miserable at that moment and was quietly shedding tears she couldn’t hold back.

Seeing this, Qiu Mingxin was taken aback.

Qiu Mingxin didn’t say much. She just sat next to Feng Chengyue and said softly, "Don’t overthink. The family actually respects my brother’s wishes. Even Mom, although her attitude isn’t clear, is simply influenced by the village’s favors and may just find it hard to refuse."

Hearing this advice, Feng Chengyue was momentarily moved and didn’t know what to say.

Although Qiu Mingxin wasn’t speaking about her situation, Feng Chengyue felt a warmth apart from Qiu Mingyan in this village where she had been bullied enough.

After lunch, Feng Chengyue decided that she would see no one, pretending to be ill, even if someone wanted treatment, until Qiu Mingyan returned!

But...

Even though Feng Chengyue was very intelligent, she was completely unfamiliar with some of the villagers’ deep-rooted vices. There were things she had never heard of or seen, making it impossible for her to imagine them.

Therefore.

When in the afternoon, the village almost in its entirety came to Qiu’s house asking if Qiu’s family was distributing money to each household...

Feng Chengyue realized how terrifying her kindness towards Ah Sheng’s family was among this class that went mad at the sight of profit.

Some in the village didn’t come, like Uncle Chen Qi, who loved Qiu Mingyan dearly and had a broken finger, or Aunt Zhou, whom Feng Chengyue found very likable when she visited their home.

A small number of villagers didn’t participate in this event. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

But most people still came upon hearing about the distribution of money.

Finally, with Gui Lanzhi’s vigorous explanation, the villagers understood, oh, the previous families were just receiving medical care... Feng Chengyue wasn’t handing out money, it was still Qiu Mingyan’s money, and he was helping in emergencies out of gratitude.

At that point, they weren’t particularly malicious. Although they felt a bit regretful for not getting money, they had no complaints against Qiu Mingyan.

But with so many people visiting, there was an undeniable fact witnessed by the whole village—Qiu Mingyan had almost bought everything new for Feng Chengyue.

Those strange things were so new that they had never seen them before.

This caused quite an uproar!

Considering how they had scrimped and saved to support a doctor, why couldn’t Qiu Mingyan properly marry Mai Manxiang? Why must he bring an extravagant woman from outside?

Initially, everyone heard that Feng Chengyue was Qiu Mingyan’s colleague, coming to help build a health clinic, and they were naturally happy to hear there’d be another doctor, treating her wholeheartedly and sincerely.

But upon closer examination, it seemed that wasn’t the relationship at all. Perhaps there was something shady going on, perhaps Feng Chengyue was another bloodsucker spending Qiu Mingyan’s money, how could this be? Now the whole village’s exclusionary feelings began to grow stronger.

Moreover, almost everyone in the village was related, and once they sat together, they started chatting.

"Lanzhi’s mother, spending money like this isn’t right. If this money were given to Father Qiu Jing (Qiu Mingyan’s father), a son being filial to his father is only natural. But marrying a wife should mean getting someone who would manage the household wisely. Mingyan isn’t even married yet; have you ever heard of spending money on a girlfriend in this way? Ugh, I say, it’s good enough if the girlfriend doesn’t have to support Qiu’s family together, how is this different from having a wife who forgets her mother?"

"Yes, Lanzhi’s mother, marrying a wise wife is the principle set by our ancestors. Although we haven’t read many books, not as promising as Mingyan. But traditionally, society has always been male-dominated. I hear most of your household chores are done by Mingyan, and when this girl comes, she hasn’t done any farm work all day?"

"Ah, whether she does farm work isn’t important, isn’t she supposed to be able to treat patients? But Lanzhi’s mother, does our village need two doctors? I hear this girl spent over three thousand on medicine in one morning; not to mention, for Chen Shan’s family, for a headache or cold you gave two hundred, would they spend it on medical care? I just heard that after getting the money, he went to the town to shop, saying he plans to buy some cloth to sew clothes for his daughter and buy two pounds of pork to taste, listen, what is this all about!"

In just a short while, Gui Lanzhi was criticized and couldn’t say a word, so she just nodded quietly.

But Feng Chengyue suddenly felt her eyes well up with tears, especially upon hearing that the person named Chen Shan hadn’t used the money for medical treatment... she felt she had defended herself over and over yet still couldn’t imagine them doing such things...

Feng Chengyue felt herself incredibly stupid.

At that moment, since Qiu Mingjun and Qiu Mingxin went to farm after lunch, Qiu’s family’s farm was just on the mountain slope of Chen Family Village, out of sight from the hustle and bustle of the home and unable to return to help.

Qiu Jing, paralyzed, couldn’t speak a word.

Two women, left isolated, surrounded at the Qiu Family Courtyard, criticized from beginning to end.

For Gui Lanzhi, she truly couldn’t respond, awkwardly sitting with a strained expression.

The Qiu Family had a difficult time, especially when owing favor from the help during the past difficulties faced by every household.

If they were poor, the whole village would think the effort spent to support a college student back then was a waste, too much loss...

If they were rich, they lived frugally to avoid the village thinking: "Oh, when you were poor, we all supported you, and now your son is successful, but you’re eating well and drinking fine, leaving us to continue in poverty?"

Being in this situation is difficult, reflecting human nature’s common traits, as Gui Lanzhi just sat there.

But for Feng Chengyue, this kind of torture was akin to reaching heaven...

Thus, the day passed, and it was finally near evening when Qiu Mingxin was the first to return, seeing the family scene, she was taken aback, put down her hoe, and said: "What’s going on? Our family needs to eat, aren’t the others cooking? Isn’t it time for those farming to return?"

This made everyone who had lost themselves in conversation notice the height of the sun, anxiously slapping their thighs, saying: "Hey, spending a day for such a girl!" Hastily dispersing back to their homes.

At Qiu’s home, Feng Chengyue couldn’t even describe her emotions...

Meanwhile, less than five hundred meters away on a high slope, inside a tile-roofed house, village chief Mai Shilong watched the bustle at Qiu’s home, then looked at the girl named Feng Chengyue, furrowing his brow and lashes...