Chapter 47 :The Wings Have Hardened

Hu Qiao gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with resentment after Hu Yao left.

How come Hu Yao always had such good luck? She was about to be trampled into the mud, yet she managed to turn things around! Was it just because she was pretty that all men liked her?

Jiang Han had been with her for four years, why wasn’t he tired of her yet?

Hu Qiao’s face contorted.

Back then, she didn’t really want to kill her, she was just acting on impulse. After it happened, she panicked for a long time. She shouldn’t have saved her!

Since they were young, everyone compared her to Hu Yao. She wasn’t as pretty as Hu Yao, her personality and character weren’t as good as Hu Yao’s. The constant comparisons were excruciatingly painful! Even those educated young intellectuals who came to the countryside, they all liked Hu Yao!

What was so good about Hu Yao? Even Luo Chuming liked her!

Even though she used all her tricks to marry him, he still couldn’t forget Hu Yao. He never treated her, his real wife, with any respect! He constantly compared her to Hu Yao!

She regretted more and more that she hadn’t gone all the way with it back then, out of some sense of family.

Why didn’t Hu Yao just die after she became a fool? It would have been fine if she stayed stuck with a scoundrel like Jiang Han for the rest of her life, why did she suddenly start to reform?

She didn’t know what kind of good fortune she had, but her business was quite successful, even her in-laws, the Luo family, asked her to build a good relationship with Hu Yao!

Why did she have to be the one to lower herself to Hu Yao?

Hu Qiao was filled with resentment.

After all, she had forced her way into the Luo family. She had never been treated well all these years. She couldn’t disobey the Luo family’s orders.

So, even though she was reluctant, she still made this trip.

In the past, Hu Yao was always respectful towards her, but now that she had left the Hu family, she felt like she had Jiang Han to back her up, and she revealed her true colors. She was always good at pretending for outsiders!

Hu Qiao didn’t reflect on herself at all, her resentment towards Hu Yao grew even deeper.

Hu Yao had never treated her like this before! Now she was so smug!

Hu Qiao clenched her fist tightly, unwilling to flatter Hu Yao, but she didn’t know how to explain herself to the Luo family.

Filled with hatred and resentment, Hu Qiao stood there for a while without moving.

Then, a hard stone hit her in the eye.

“Ah!” she cried out, her vision instantly turning black.

…

“Mommy~ I’m back!”

Hu Yao didn’t know what Jiang Xiaochao had been up to, but seeing his bright and cheerful smile, she smiled and took his little hand. “Okay, let’s go home.”

Jiang Xiaochao blinked, his expression incredibly well-behaved. He skipped along happily beside her.

He didn’t tell Hu Yao because he noticed she didn’t like him throwing stones at people. He had noticed this when he threw stones at Xu Xuzhu last time.

Jiang Xiaochao also felt that Hu Yao, who had gotten better, was like his father said, much more timid. They used to do bad things together, even daring to hit Jiang Han！But now it was different, Hu Yao liked him better when he was good. He couldn’t scare Hu Yao.

Even though he was young, Jiang Xiaochao was very clever.

Hu Qiao’s eyes were swollen from the stone, and Jiang Xiaochao saw her glaring at Hu Yao, so he deliberately threw it at her eye.

Of course, Hu Qiao knew it was Jiang Xiaochao who threw the stone. The little bastard dared to come and warn her in front of her!

He was definitely Hu Yao’s son, a little bastard without any upbringing! If it wasn’t for Jiang Han，she wouldn’t have put up with it!

Hu Qiao was so disfigured that she was embarrassed to go back to the Luo family. She couldn’t help but go to the Hu family to complain to Hu Guifen, blaming everything on Hu Yao.

Hu Guifen loved her daughter very much. After listening to her, she immediately started scolding Hu Yao, calling her a white-eyed wolf who was ungrateful and had been raised for nothing for over ten years.

After Hu Qiao told Hu Guifen about the Luo family’s instructions and asked her to go find Hu Yao,

Hu Guifen’s scolding stopped, her face showing impatience. “That dead girl, when she saw me last time, she still dared to give me a face! She really thinks she has grown wings! I’ll see when that Jiang Han kind of person will abandon her! She’ll be even lower than a prostitute then!”

Hu Guifen said these vicious words about her own daughter without any mercy.

Thinking about the loan shark incident, Hu Guifen’s face became even darker.

“Mom, no matter what, she’s still your daughter. If you talk to her like that, she’ll listen to you!” Hu Qiao was anxious and frustrated, thinking about the situation she would face when she returned to the Luo family without getting anything done.

Seeing that Hu Guifen didn’t seem very willing to go find Hu Yao for her, she said again, “The money I gave you before was all from the Luo family. They already look down on me. If I don’t get this done this time, I won’t be able to stay in the Luo family anymore, Mom, you have to help me!”

She begged bitterly, Hu Guifen sighed, after all, she had loved Hu Qiao for so many years, and Hu Qiao had always been on her side. She couldn’t bear to see her like this, so she agreed.

“You’ve been married to Chuming for several years now, why haven’t you had any children yet? How can you make your in-laws happy? Qiao’er, you have to think of a way, see if there are any folk remedies, I’ll find some for you.” Hu Guifen changed the subject.

“What child! Luo Chuming still has Hu Yao in his heart!” Hu Qiao almost gritted her teeth.

Luo Chuming didn’t even want to touch her, he preferred to find women outside. Where could she get pregnant?

“They all remember her! Luo Chuming does, and that Zhong Jinghuai does too! Everyone likes her!” Hu Qiao’s face was twisted with jealousy.

After all, Hu Yao was just a peasant girl, she was just prettier than others, what else was there to attract educated people with money and status?

Men really just like women’s looks!

As for Luo Chuming, even if he still thought about Hu Yao, knowing that she was married to a reckless scoundrel like Jiang Han，he still thought about her, but he didn’t do anything!

Now that there were interests involved, he even had to curry favor with Jiang Han！How ridiculous!

Over the past few years, Hu Qiao’s admiration for Luo Chuming had long since transformed into resentment. Even though she had seen through his true nature, she was still unwilling to give up.

After all, the Luo family was considered a good family. Among the girls in this ten-mile radius, how could she not be considered the one who married the best? Even if the Luo family looked down on her, they wouldn’t be able to easily get rid of her as their wife and bring in another woman for Luo Chuming!

In the Luo family, Hu Qiao had endured her share of cold stares. But if she were to leave the Luo family and marry a poor man like the other girls in the village, spending a lifetime in poverty, she would rather stay in the Luo family. No matter how poorly the Luo family treated her, they wouldn’t truly mistreat or abuse her for the sake of appearances and avoid gossip. The Luo family’s conditions were among the best in the county.

Back then, she had fallen for Luo Chuming not just because of him, but more because of his family wealth!