Chapter 12

Bai Hongmei stared with her big eyes filled with tears.

She looked at Qiao Baozhu and asked faintly, “Comrade, I haven’t offended you, why are you so aggressive and making things difficult for a widow like me?”

Good boy, this is Qiao Baozhu bullying her again. Qiao Baozhu was too lazy to deal with her and glanced at Bai Hongmei indifferently.

“I don’t even know you, why should I embarrass you? What good will it do me to embarrass you?”

Bai Hongmei twisted the corner of her clothes, lowered her head like a punching bag, and said aggrievedly: “Poor people like us are always looked down upon. Never mind. Whatever you say is right. I won’t argue with you.”

Every sentence seems to be belittling himself, but in fact it is a subtle criticism of Qiao Baozhu’s looking down on others.

Qiao Baozhu smiled faintly and said nothing more.

Bai Hongmei did have some acting skills. If it were Qiao Xifeng, who was brainless and reckless, she would have been provoked by her and started cursing.

After all, Qiao Baozhu lived thirty years longer than Bai Hongmei, so she saw through her little trick at a glance.

Sun Jihong on the side snorted coldly and mercilessly ridiculed: “You woman are really good at pretending!”

“Before the PLA comrades arrived, you were throwing a tantrum and refusing to pay the money. More than a dozen people from our supply and marketing cooperative saw it. When you framed the public security comrades, you were not so polite.”

“What’s going on? It’s not enough to frame the police, but now you’re framing kind customers? Aren’t you a family member of a martyr? Logically, your ideological awareness should be higher than ours.”

“Comrade of the People’s Liberation Army, she has evil intentions, do you know that?”

In an instant, Bai Hongmei’s face turned even redder.

I was so embarrassed that I wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

She looked at Shen Xiao with tears in her eyes, covered her mouth and choked up, “It’s my fault, it’s all my fault. I was anxious and said the wrong thing.”

“Brother Shen, you know me. I’m not good at talking. Woo woo …

As she spoke, Bai Hongmei threw herself into Shen Xiao’s arms, but Shen Xiao had already predicted her move and dodged to the side.

Shen Xiao turned around and walked around to Qiao Baozhu.

He looked down at Qiao Baozhu with a low voice and no emotion on his face.

“When did you enter the city?”

Qiao Baozhu paused while arranging the cloth, tilted her head and smiled faintly: “I came back overnight last night. With such a big change, I have to tell my parents.”

Shen Xiao nodded, “You, know her?”

Shen Xiao was referring to Bai Hongmei, and Qiao Baozhu could tell.

Bai Hongmei wiped her tears and looked at Shen Xiao and Qiao Baozhu in surprise.

“I don’t know him.”

Qiao Baozhu shook her head.

Shen Xiao stared at Qiao Baozhu’s face carefully, trying to find flaws in her expression.

Bai Hongmei saw Shen Xiao staring at Qiao Baozhu motionlessly, and she felt flustered and had a bad premonition.

“Brother Shen, so you two know each other?”

Bai Hongmei walked forward and said to Qiao Baozhu with a familiar smile, “No wonder you bought all the fabrics that my son had soiled. After all, anyone in the family compound who knows Brother Shen knows the relationship between our two families.”

Bai Hongmei and Qiao Baozhu mistakenly thought she was Shen Xiao’s admirer, and secretly showed off that she had a special relationship with Shen Xiao.

“Sister, you are too polite. Fortunately, Brother Shen has time to come here in person today. If it was someone else, it would be a waste of effort.”

Bai Hongmei smirked and said that Qiao Baozhu bought the dirty cloth just to show off in front of Shen Xiao.

The people around who were watching the fun began to talk, and even Sun Jihong looked at Qiao Baozhu with a bit of scrutiny.

“What? Did she buy so much fabric just to please that PLA comrade?”

“It’s normal to win favor. That PLA comrade is tall and handsome.”

Qiao Baozhu no longer wanted to pay attention to Bai Hongmei, but now she had to speak up.

She coughed lightly, and the scene immediately became quiet.

Qiao Baozhu looked at the complacent Bai Hongmei, frowned slightly, and said in a clear voice: “Sister, excuse me, are you a model worker?”

Bai Hongmei was stunned and blurted out: “I’m not!”

“So you are a March 8th Red Flag Bearer?”

Bai Hongmei’s eyes flashed with annoyance, and she muttered impatiently: “No!”

Qiao Baozhu chuckled, “You are neither a model worker nor a March 8th Red Flag Bearer, so why do you think others have to know you?”

“You……”

Bai Hongmei’s face turned red and she stared at Qiao Baozhu with gritted teeth.

“You don’t know me, how could you not know me? Anyone who knows Shen Xiao knows me. You must have seen Shen Xiao helping me in front, so you bought those fabrics, otherwise who would buy dirty ones…”

Qiao Baozhu looked at Bai Hongmei with both laughter and tears, and shook her head helplessly.

“I came in before you. Could I have foreseen that your son would stain the fabric?”

“We all come from poor backgrounds, and seeing good materials being wasted and turned into defective products, everyone will feel sorry.”

Bai Hongmei was choked and speechless. Qiao Baozhu was telling the truth. Nowadays, every family is poor. Her son destroyed things like this. If it were someone else, he would have been beaten so badly that he couldn’t get out of bed. But Bai Hongmei was still making excuses.

Qiao Baozhu turned her head and looked at Shen Xiao with a smile and satisfaction in her eyes.

“And the salesperson gave me a 50% discount, and even charged me a few inches less for the cloth coupons. I’m not a delicate person, so I can take the fabric home, wash it, and make clothes that I can wear.”

When Bai Hongmei heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.

“So I gave you a 50% discount! No wonder you were willing to spend money on these stinky cloths. You just wanted to save a few dollars, as if you were so noble.”

Bai Hongmei’s words were so harsh that they instantly aroused Sun Jihong’s dissatisfaction.

“Hey, you lesbian are really heartless.”

“People see that you are a family member of a martyr, so they are willing to pay out of their own pockets to help you clean up this mess.”

“Not only are you ungrateful, you’re also making up stories to take advantage of others! Have you ever seen a girl calculating her dowry? I saw with my own eyes that her pockets were filled with money and coupons.”

“After buying the fabric, they were going to leave quietly. It was you who came over and said a lot of nonsense. You are uneducated and a scoundrel, you are really a mean person.”

Bai Hongmei and her two children not only made the supply and marketing cooperative smell bad, but also seriously affected the business of the supply and marketing cooperative, which had already aroused public anger. Everyone started to chide Bai Hongmei for being narrow-minded.

“Some people are so dirty inside that they think everyone else is the same as them.”

“I was sitting at the cashier counter and saw it all clearly. This female comrade was getting married, and she brought 60 or 70 yuan worth of cloth coupons to buy her dowry. She was kind enough to help you clean up the mess, but you slandered her and said she was taking advantage of you. Even so, she is still a martyr’s relative? Why can’t I believe it…”

Bai Hongmei could no longer stay in the supply and marketing cooperative because of the crowd’s pressure, so she ran out crying, covering her face.

When the three naughty kids saw their mother run away in anger, they also ran after her, grimacing and crying.

The supply and marketing cooperative fell silent, and Qiao Baozhu felt a pair of eyes falling on her.

She knew who this gaze came from, and she was very curious at this moment.

Shen Xiao’s goddess was driven away by her. I wonder if this great romantic will be angry?