Can't make a joke (short novel)

On this day, the weather was sunny and sunny. The young daughter-in-law, Tian Hua, hummed a cheerful tune in her mouth, and did farm work in the field with her hands and feet.

After a while, the village's new daughter-in-law, Xicui, also came to work in the fields. The two were talking and laughing while working, chatting and chatting, and Tian Hua suddenly remembered that the night before yesterday she and a group of young daughters-in-law went to the village square to watch a play, and on the way she saw Xicui's husband Shan Gen burrowing into the cornfield on the side of the road to drive pigs. Tian Hua, who is lively and likes to joke, turned her brain: Why not tease Xicui like this?

So she made up a joke about Xicui: "Hey, I said Xicui, where did you go?"

"Chopping wood at home. ”

“哟！”

Tian Hua pretended to be surprised: "Xicui, you have to be careful." The night before yesterday, someone was playing in the village, and someone saw your family Yamagen and a woman in the cornfield..."

When Xicui, who was upright by nature, heard this, the hoe in his hand fell to the ground.

She asked eagerly, "Is there such a thing? Why haven't I heard of it?" Who is that mean woman?"

"Look at you stupid! Who would say such a thing in front of you? But I told you, you have to keep it a secret, and you must not go back to get angry with Yamane!" Tian Hua said mysteriously.

"Don't worry, I promise not to get angry with Yamane. Who's that woman? "Xicui is impatient.

Seeing the anxious appearance of the Xicui monkey, Tian Hua laughed and continued to talk nonsense: "Who else can there be? Isn't it Xiaomeibei, who often goes to your house!"

This peach-colored news that caught the wind and caught the shadows out of nothing was just a joke for Tian Hua to tease Xicui. But Xicui can't help but regard it as a big deal, because this matter is directly related to the question of her husband's "loyalty or disloyalty" to herself. Xicui remembered that her husband did come back late the night before, and when he asked him, he also squeaked, only said that he went to Ergou's house to play cards, and now in retrospect, he really seems to have some "hidden secrets".

"Alas, Sister Tianhua, you work first. I was a little unwell and went back first. The more Xicui thought about it, the more angry she became, and she made an excuse to go home with a fire in her belly.

But Yamane, who said that he was chopping wood, saw his wife coming back with an angry face, and thought something was wrong, so he hurriedly greeted him and asked with a smile: "Why did you come back so early today?

"Hmph, you still have the face to ask me! Tell me honestly, what did you do the night before, why did you come back so late?" asked Hime, pointing to Yamane's nose.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't I say, did I go to Ergou's house to play cards the day before yesterday? ”

"You're still making it up! You're obviously dating someone, and someone saw it with their own eyes. I'll let you lie to me!" Xicui said, about to hit the mountain roots.

Yamane finally understood.

He picked up the axe for chopping wood, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Who is burying me, Lao Tzu fought with him!"

Xicui and Shan Ne quarreled for a long time, and the couple sulked without eating or drinking. At night, Xicui was still angry, lying on the bed and pondering repeatedly, is there such a thing? After thinking about it, she came up with a clever plan to "lure the snake out of the hole" by knocking on the side.

Early the next morning, Xicui crossed her hands on her hips, stared at her apricot eyes, stood outside Xiaomei's house, and scolded Huai Huai. Xiaomei's family, who were eating breakfast around the table, only heard Xicui shouting loudly outside the door at first, and didn't hear anything clearly, and then the more I listened, the more wrong it became, isn't this obviously scolding our Xiaomei for seducing his man!

Xiaomei's family couldn't swallow this breath.

Xiaomei Niang pushed her daughter into the room, closed the door and asked, "Have you done this embarrassing ugly thing?!"

"I was at my grandmother's house a few days ago, and I don't know when the play in our village is, so how can I go with him!" Xiaomei, who had just stepped out of the school gate, argued angrily and anxiously.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's a fool! She wants to wronged us for no reason, and we are not vegetarians!"

Xiaomei Niang led the whole family out of the house, and loudly scolded Xicui for being shameless, and couldn't watch her own men bury people indiscriminately. Xicui was anxious, grabbed Xiaomei Niang and tore up. At this time, Yamane also hurried over and joined the two families in the scuffle.

But it was said that Tiantianhua came back from the field that day, passed by Xicui's house, and heard that Xicui and Yamane were accusing each other, and a sense of schadenfreude suddenly arose in his heart. The next day, she heard Xicui and Xiaomei Niang scolding each other, first moved a stool, and "watched the battle" through the courtyard wall, secretly laughing at Xicui "to give a mallet as a needle";

Yamagen and Xiaomei's two families had a scuffle, and the result was that both were defeated, and Xicui and Xiaomei Niang were admitted to the town health center successively.

When Tian Hua saw this ending, she felt a trace of remorse in her heart. She wanted to buy some gifts to visit the hospital and tell the truth by the way, but she was afraid that people would not forgive her and she would not be able to step down. After thinking about it, she finally retreated, thinking that it was better to go with the flow and let time quietly soothe the grievances between Xicui and Xiaomei!

However, the development of things was far from being as simple as Tian Hua thought, and the peachy news that caused a storm in the village soon spread to Xiaomei's future in-laws. Hearing this bizarre rumor, Xiaomei's boyfriend believed it and angrily quit the marriage. The simple Xiaomei girl was already angry with this indescribable "black pot" on her back, and now she was abandoned by her boyfriend who didn't know the truth, she couldn't withstand the blows one after another, and she had a nervous breakdown for a while, and ran away from home in a delirium, and she didn't know where to go.

The innocent Xiaomei family was hit by this, and they were filled with grief and anger. Soon after, a lawsuit was filed against Mr. and Mrs. Yamane for defamation, wounding others, and causing people to run away, and they were filed in court. After the judge's in-depth and meticulous investigation, the cause of the incident was quickly found out -- the two victims were all caused by Tian Hua's joke! So, a summons was sent to Tian Hua's home.

In the face of the court's summons, Tian Hua's husband asked what was going on? Tian Hua didn't dare to hide it anymore and told the truth.

When the husband heard this, he was angry and didn't fight: "You crooked mouth! I told you a long time ago not to go outside and talk nonsense, stirring up right and wrong, but you always don't listen!

Tian Hua sat alone in the room. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she regretted that she shouldn't have made nonsense to harm others and herself. "If Xiaomei can't find it, or if she has three longs and two shorts, how can she afford to pay for it? Then she has to go to prison, how can she have the face to be a person in the future......?"

A few days later, there was a new grave at the foot of the south mountain in the village. In the autumn wind, it seems to be complaining about something.