Chapter 74 Refuting Rumors
"Don't you want it?" Li Shengli looked at Lou Xiaoe with empty eyes after leaving the courtyard.

"I don't care. I just happened to be coming out." Lou Xiao'e turned her head away and deliberately avoided looking at Li Shengli.

"Forget it, just follow me if you want." Lou Xiao'e's legs are on her own, so she can go wherever she wants.

Li Shengli no longer paid attention to Lou Xiaoe who was following behind him.

After leaving the courtyard, a few old men and women were sitting at the entrance of the alley and chatting.

"Have you heard about it? I heard that there is a person with a bad life in that compound over there. His parents died and now he is the only one left at home." An old lady said mysteriously. The way she shrank her neck and put her hands in her sleeves was quite funny.

"Hey, what era is this? You still believe in these things." An old man over there saw the old woman acting mysterious and thought there was something very secret, but after listening for a long time, this is all she said?

"Don't disbelieve it. I heard that this kind of thing is very effective." The aunt who spoke first looked very convinced.

"Yes, yes, I know an elderly person who was sick and couldn't be cured. Finally, he went to the temple to pray and got better." Another middle-aged woman gave an example in a serious manner, but in fact, this middle-aged woman had no idea whether the person was cured or not.

These people just brag when they chat. If they don't talk in a more impressive way, how can they show how knowledgeable they are?

"A few uncles and aunts are chatting." Li Shengli listened for a while from behind, and when he heard them discussing himself, he walked over with a smile.

"Yes, young man, we are just talking about a man named Ke Dad and Ke Ma in the yard of No. 95 in front." An old lady saw Li Shengli and happily invited him to chat with her.

Lou Xiao'e, who was following behind, couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw this.

When Li Shengli heard the voice, he rolled his eyes at her in annoyance.

"Auntie, do you know about his situation?" Li Shengli asked several aunties with a smile.

"Of course I understand. I heard that both his parents are gone and he's the only one at home." The first person who spoke to Li Shengli said seriously.

"That's it." Li Shengli deliberately pretended to be disappointed.

"This doesn't prove anything. He is the only one left in the family who died." The aunt looked surprised. Doesn't this count as bringing bad luck to both his parents?
"Hey, lady, where did you hear that? You didn't just think of it yourself." Li Shengli looked like he was in trouble.

"What's wrong?" The middle-aged woman was also shocked by Li Shengli's expression and felt a little guilty. "I heard this from someone in Yard 95."

"What's the matter? Think about the children from ten or twenty years ago. How many of them lost both parents? And think about their social status." Li Shengli slapped his thigh and said in a tone that said you are in big trouble.

"More than 20 years ago, wasn't that when we were still young?" Several middle-aged women thought about it and began to ponder seriously.

"Yes, now that they have grown up, many of them have an identity." Li Shengli emphasized the word identity.

"What's your identity?" Someone who hadn't reacted asked.

"Martyr's relatives." Li Shengli opened his mouth and spit out two words, "Think about it, if this word spreads, it will become that those who are the only one left in a family with both parents dead are people who have brought bad luck to their parents." Li Shengli deliberately scared these aunts.

"Hiss, it's true." An aunt who was more self-aware took a breath. They all knew themselves. The news changed its meaning as it was passed from mouth to mouth.

"See, you thought of it too." Li Shengli was very satisfied that there was someone to support him.

"If this matter spreads out, some people who have returned from the battlefield will hold on to these things. What crime do you think it is to engage in feudal superstition and insult the families of martyrs? They might be targeted." Li Shengli raised his tone to deliberately scare the aunts.

"Oh, no way." The aunts all took a deep breath. "It seems that the person who spread the rumor wants to harm you." Li Shengli analyzed seriously, stroking his chin with a little stubble.

"So that's how it is." Several middle-aged women suddenly realized.

"This Jia Zhang has bad intentions indeed." Aunt Zhao, who first spread the rumor, said bitterly.

"Thank you, young man. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't know whether we would have gotten into trouble." Aunt Zhao looked at Li Shengli with gratitude.

"Well, you're welcome. I'm just afraid that you aunts will be used as guns." Li Shengli looked as if he was saying, "I'm doing this for you."

"No, no, we won't spread it again." An old lady was obviously frightened.

"In that case, I feel relieved. Aunties, I'll take my leave now." Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Li Shengli waved to the aunts and prepared to leave.

"Young man, is that girl okay?" Aunt Zhao looked at Lou Xiao'e, who was laughing so hard not far behind Li Shengli, with concern.

"It's okay, it's an old problem." Li Shengli glanced at Lou Xiao'e and said unhappily.

"That's enough. Such a beautiful girl must be mentally ill." Another middle-aged woman sighed and looked at Lou Xiao'e with pitiful eyes.

Lou Xiao'e was about to stand up and refute, but Li Shengli saw that the situation was not good and quickly pulled Lou Xiao'e away.

"Thank you, young man. What's your name? You look familiar to me." Seeing Li Shengli was about to leave, Aunt Zhao quickly asked.

"My name is Li Shengli, and I live in Yard 95." Li Shengli shouted to several elderly men and women while pulling Lou Xiao'e out.

"Li Shengli, why does this name sound so familiar?" Aunt Zhao touched her head and inexplicably felt that she had heard of this name somewhere.

"Where else could it be? Isn't he the person you were just discussing who brought disaster to your parents?" Grandpa Sun, who had never believed what Aunt Zhao said, looked at the aunts as if they were fools.

"quack……"

Several people seemed to hear the cry of crows.

"Haha, it's him." Aunt Zhao said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Okay, it's good enough that they didn't come up and curse at me." Grandpa Sun understood how these people felt. It was really embarrassing.

"That's true, but what Lee Seung-ri said makes sense." The awkward atmosphere was eased when an aunt thought seriously about what Lee Seung-ri said and felt that this was possible.

"Then let's not spread it, but we can't let Jia Zhang go." A timid aunt was frightened by the consequences of what Li Shengli said, and decided to punish Jia Zhang who spread the rumor.

"Well, what is there to say? Why don't we tell others that Jia Zhang is trying to harm us?" Another aunt suggested.

"Okay, let's do this. Also, let's not say that people whose parents have both passed away are unlucky. This is feudal superstition." Aunt Zhao said with some embarrassment. If you were caught saying bad things about someone behind their back, you would have to be very thick-skinned to pretend you knew nothing.

The other aunts nodded. Li Shengli's words really scared them.

(End of this chapter)