A charming widow in her 70s married a factory manager and raised his children.

Chapter 198 Yueyue's Mother

After Village Chief Qian and his group left this time, they never came back, and the rumors outside grew stronger and stronger.

Zhuang Qingxiang is pointed at and talked about every time she goes out. If it were before, she would have hidden at home and never shown her face. But now she has to go out every day and act all smug. She also has to go to the county town every day to talk to Ma Ting.

Seven or eight days passed in a row, and Zhuang Qingxiang was going crazy. She hoped every day that someone would come up and talk to her. If this continued, her skin would be worn down by all the gossip outside.

Those people have been talking about it for seven or eight days now, and they still haven't stopped. They're practically making her look like a reincarnated fox spirit.

Zhuang Qingxiang's trip to the county town was another fruitless one. She walked listlessly on the road to the factory, lost in thought, when she caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of her eye. Before she could react, the figure rushed towards her and knelt down in front of her with a thud.

Zhuang Qingxiang was startled and took two steps back before she could see clearly that the person kneeling in front of her was a woman with her hair tied up behind her head and wearing a loose-fitting, patched coat. She looked like a woman from the countryside who was not well-off.

But she didn't know this person.

"Who are you? What are you doing?" Zhuang Qingxiang stepped aside to avoid shortening her lifespan.

The woman looked up and said, "Comrade Zhuang, I've come to see you. I have something very important to tell you."

Zhuang Qingxiang's heart suddenly raced.

We've been waiting so long, our eyes are practically green with envy, and finally, they've arrived!

I never expected those people to be so good at pretending. They could convincingly portray any character. This woman really looked like a real rural woman.

"Comrade Zhuang, I'm kowtowing to you, I..."

As the woman spoke, she kowtowed to Zhuang Qingxiang. Zhuang Qingxiang was stunned by the kowtow and quickly stepped forward to help her up.

"No, what are you doing? Stand up and talk to me properly." Zhuang Qingxiang pulled the person up with a bit of force, feeling that something was wrong.

This woman was too thin; her arms were very thin, and her hands were covered in thick calluses and cracks, clearly the hands of someone who had done farm work.

Zhuang Qingxiang frowned, looked around, and pulled the woman to sit down on a roadside stone.

"Who are you? We don't know each other, do we?" she asked softly. "What do you want from me? Tell me, there's no one else here."

The woman looked anxious and at a loss: "I... my name is Huang Cuilan."

Huang Cuilan? Zhuang Qingxiang thought carefully, but was sure she didn't know her.

After Huang Cuilan finished saying her name, she secretly glanced at Zhuang Qingxiang. Seeing her blank expression, she knew Zhuang Qingxiang knew nothing. She gritted her teeth and continued, "I heard you're going to another place with a high-ranking official? And you're taking your child with you?"

Zhuang Qingxiang was both amused and exasperated.

Huang Cuilan must be from a faraway place. I don't know where she heard the gossip, but she didn't even know that Lu Congyue was the factory director. She only heard that he was a high-ranking official.

The question is, what does this have to do with her?

Zhuang Qingxiang thought for a moment, then tentatively asked, "How did you know? Did someone send you to deliver a message to me? Then tell me."

Huang Cuilan hurriedly shook her head: "No one asked me to pass on a message. I... I'm not from the nearby brigade. I had a hard time getting here to find you. I... I..."

She became more and more anxious as she spoke, so Zhuang Qingxiang quickly said, "Take your time, I'm listening."

Huang Cuilan's eyes reddened: "Sister... no, I've inquired about you, you're actually older than me, I should call you elder sister. Elder sister, are you taking Yueyue with you when you go to another place?"

Zhuang Qingxiang was stunned: "Yueyue?"

"Yes, I am, I am Yueyue's biological mother..." Huang Cuilan cried.

Zhuang Qingxiang suddenly stood up, looking incredulously at the woman sitting on the rock, covering her face and crying, then looked up at the sun.

In broad daylight, did I see a ghost?

She backed away repeatedly, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about? Are you a human or a ghost?"

When Qian Quan married her, he made it very clear that his wife had died early and he was a widower!

Huang Cuilan quickly stood up, crying as she said, "Big sister, I'm not a ghost. I really am Yueyue's biological mother. If you don't believe me... if you don't believe me, you can go ask that old hag Li Shufen. Ask her if I, Huang Cuilan, am Qian Quan's wife and Yueyue's biological mother. Or, you can ask the old village chief. The old village chief wouldn't lie."

Zhuang Qingxiang found it hard to believe.

Since she was referring to the old village chief, she must be telling the truth, but this is just too absurd.

"You're not dead? Then why are they all saying you're dead?"

Huang Cuilan's eyes flashed with resentment and anger, yet also with a hint of smugness, which sent a chill down Zhuang Qingxiang's spine.

Huang Cuilan looked at her, first laughing, then crying: "Because I ran away, Qian Quan must have felt ashamed, so he told everyone I was dead."

"He ran away..." Zhuang Qingxiang asked, puzzled. "Why did you run away? Wasn't Qian Quan good to you?"

"Good? Was he good to you? No, even if he was good to you, it was all fake!" Huang Cuilan's face was full of resentment. "He's a beast, he doesn't deserve to be called a human being. I wished every day that he would die a horrible death. Thank God, he really died. It was so satisfying."

"Huang Cuilan, Qian Quan is dead. He was a good man. How can you say that? You've gone too far!" Zhuang Qingxiang scolded unhappily.

Zhuang Qingxiang genuinely felt that Qian Quan was a good person and a good husband.

Lu Congyue is treating her very well now, but Qian Quan is also very good to her; she is not an ungrateful person.

Hearing Huang Cuilan say so viciously that money is all beasts, she was very dissatisfied.

To her surprise, Huang Cuilan looked at her in astonishment: "You actually said he's a good person? You, you idiot!"

"Alright, I don't want to hear any of this. Just tell me what you want, I need to go back and see the kids." Zhuang Qingxiang said coldly and impatiently.

Huang Cuilan could tell that she was really angry and felt that the money was not worth it at all. After a moment of stunned silence, she burst out laughing.

"Idiot!" she yelled. "You're such an idiot, you're so easy to fool."

Zhuang Qingxiang turned and left.

She didn't like this person, and regardless of whether she was Yueyue's biological mother, she didn't want to pay any attention to her anymore.

Seeing her leave, Huang Cuilan quickly stepped forward and grabbed her, saying, "Wait a minute. I haven't finished talking yet."

Zhuang Qingxiang said coldly, "Then hurry up and tell me."

Huang Cuilan steeled her heart and said quickly, "It's none of my business if you want to go with the high-ranking official, but you have to give Yueyue back to me. She's my daughter, and I can't let her go with you."

"What did you say?" Zhuang Qingxiang's voice suddenly rose. "You want me to give Yueyue back to you? Who do you think you are? You say you're Yueyue's biological mother, so you are? If you're her biological mother, why are you running away? You've been running away for so long, why didn't you think about coming back to take her away?"

Zhuang Qingxiang recalled when she first arrived at Qian Quan's house. She was just a tiny child, not even as tall as the stove, yet she had to work, otherwise she would go hungry and cold. She looked as pitiful as an orphan without parents.

What kind of mother would treat her child like this?

Zhuang Qingxiang grew angrier the more she thought about it. She abruptly shook off Huang Cuilan's hand and snapped, "Are you trying to get money from her now that she's enjoying life? Let me tell you, she doesn't have a single penny. You don't deserve it!"

After saying that, she strode into the factory, walking faster and faster.

Huang Cuilan chased after her, calling out, "Big sister, I don't want money, big sister, wait a minute..."