Chapter 17

Snap!

The pink paper fell from Qiao Xifeng’s face onto her white wedding dress.

It was a piece of toilet paper folded into a square. When Qiao Xifeng was about to reach out to pick it up, Zhao Haiyang quickly picked it up.

Zhao Haiyang supported himself on one foot and snatched the leather shoes from Ji Guoan with a smile. After putting on the shoes, he stuffed the pink toilet paper into the heel.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the pair of leather shoes Zhao Haiyang was wearing were borrowed. Because they were too big for his feet, he stuffed a piece of toilet paper between them.

Although borrowing clothes and shoes for weddings was very common in this era, Ge Liuping felt very uncomfortable at this time.

My daughter could have married an officer. Shen Xiao was a high-ranking officer. It was said that he would receive a monthly allowance of nearly 100 yuan. What a good life. But she believed in some old immortal’s dream, insisting that Zhao Haiyang would have a promising future.

I don’t know if he will succeed or not, but it is true that he borrowed a pair of big shoes for his wedding and made a fool of himself in public.

“Ocean, if your shoes are too big, just put an insole in them. Why did you put a piece of paper in there?”

Some people took the opportunity to embarrass Zhao Haiyang, making Ge Liuping’s face even uglier.

Zhao Haiyang was a sensitive person to begin with. When he heard the guests’ laughter, his ears turned red with embarrassment.

Qiao Xifeng was also very angry at Zhao Haiyang for being so careless and making a fool of himself on such a happy day.

But she wanted to show her virtue in front of Zhao Haiyang, so she raised her face and smiled to defend him: “This is the cleverness of my Haiyang. The insoles will get wrinkled after wearing for a while and it will hurt your feet. A piece of paper is soft and absorbs sweat, killing two birds with one stone.”

Everyone burst into laughter.

“Look, it’s protected now.”

“They are a married couple, and they are of one mind, so how can they be defeated by a bachelor like him?”

Zhao Haiyang looked at Qiao Xifeng with gratitude. He saw sincerity in her eyes. She didn’t care about her poverty at all. He was very satisfied with Qiao Xifeng’s thoughtfulness and generosity.

Holding her hand, he loudly confessed: “Xifeng, I promise that I, Zhao Haiyang, will treat you well for the rest of my life.”

The aunts and uncles who watched Qiao Xifeng grow up, when they heard Zhao Haiyang’s confession, they couldn’t stop smiling and praised her one after another.

“Our Xifeng is so lucky to have found a man who loves her.”

“Haiyang is also very promising. He has only been in the countryside for a few years and has already become a team leader.”

“Our Xifeng has married well. She has landed in a pile of blessings.”

Qiao Xifeng couldn’t stop smiling. Of course, she had married well this time.

Not to mention that Zhao Haiyang will be promoted step by step in the future and will go to the provincial capital to become a leader. For now, Zhao Haiyang is a real, normal man. There is no other woman in his heart. He is healthy and capable. In this life, she can finally have her own child.

As everyone was joking, one of Qiao Xifeng’s aunts suddenly asked, “Where is our son-in-law?”

“What time is it? Why hasn’t Sanya’s man come to pick her up yet?”

Hearing this, Qiao Xifeng couldn’t hold back the smug smile on her face anymore.

She pursed her lips and said mysteriously, “He won’t come today.”

“Why?”

Everyone in the room was startled and looked at her.

“Could it be that Captain Shen dislikes the fact that his father-in-law is a cripple and is canceling the marriage?”

“What can a lame man do? He is a son-in-law, not a live-in son-in-law. He doesn’t need to be taken care of in his old age.”

The elders in the room became more and more confused as they talked, and even Ge Liuping became anxious.

“Xifeng, who told you that?”

Qiao Xifeng glanced at everyone. How did she know? Of course she knew.

In her previous life, she had lived through such embarrassment and shame.

Shen Xiao, that bastard, went out to perform a mission on the wedding day and didn’t come to pick up the bride. Her parents and uncle insisted on putting the overall situation first. This time, Shen Xiao was wrong first. As long as she compromised this time, she could control Shen Xiao for the rest of her life.

Bullshit!

Shen Xiao had been out for several days. As soon as he came back, he was seduced by that bitch Bai Hongmei before he even entered the bridal chamber.

She became the laughing stock of the entire compound. She was so angry that she ran to Bai Hongmei’s house and beat Bai Hongmei and the children severely.

Obviously, she was the one who was wronged, but that bastard Shen Xiao insisted that everything she saw was dirty.

He also said that he would get to know her better before deciding whether to get a formal marriage certificate. If she hadn’t threatened to die, Qiao Xifeng didn’t even know if she could get a marriage certificate.

And those women in the family compound, each of them is like an idiot, talking about understanding, tolerance, consideration and dedication every day.

Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance, she had been listening to it for half her life and tolerated it! She had been tolerant for her whole life, so why didn’t she live a good life like that bitch Qiao Baozhu?

Qiao Xifeng just couldn’t believe that a man whom she couldn’t handle could be nice to that idiot San Ya!

Look at the people in front of me, all with curious faces.

Of course Qiao Xifeng would not say that she was reborn. She rolled her eyes and said, “It was a dream! The ancestors in the old tomb came to me in a dream, saying that only one son-in-law would come to pick me up today. My Haiyang is here, and the one who didn’t come must be Shen Xiao.”

As she was talking, she heard someone outside the door laughing and shouting, “Baozhu girl? Where are Baozhu girl and her in-laws? I’m Shen Xiao’s second aunt, I have something to ask them.”

Hearing Zhang Guifen’s voice, Qiao Xifeng’s eyelids twitched and she blurted out, “Hey, in this room.”

Qiao Xifeng was afraid that no one outside could hear it, so she quickly called out to the bridesmaids in the room: “Quick, hurry and drag Zhang Guifen over here!”

When everyone saw Qiao Xifeng’s gloating expression, they all frowned.

Zhang Guifen was not only Shen Xiao’s second aunt, but also an elder from the same village as Qiao Xifeng. At such a young age, it was too rude for her to call her elders by their full names.

Qiao Xifeng didn’t care about that. She was afraid that she would miss out on the fun.

Seeing that Zhang Guifen was taking a long time to come into the house, she became anxious and was about to get off the kang, holding up her skirt.

Zhao Haiyang stopped Qiao Xifeng and looked at her in astonishment, “Where are you going?”

Qiao Xifeng was slightly startled, then she remembered that it was not appropriate for her to go out and watch the fun. A trace of annoyance flashed in her eyes, and she said to her mother, “Mom, go over and take a look.”

“If Shen Xiao doesn’t come to pick me up, it will affect my grandfather.”

Old Mrs. Qiao had been hiding in a corner and sulking because Qiao Xifeng wore white clothes when she went out. When she heard that something was going to go wrong at the Shen family’s place again, she was so scared that she pushed through the crowd and hurried to the wing room to take a look.

Such a lively scene that only happens once in a century, who in the room has ever seen it?

They all followed Old Mrs. Qiao out of the main room and went outside to watch the fun.

At this time, in the Qiao family’s side room, Zhang Guifen apologized to Qiao Baozhu with an embarrassed look on her face.

“Just now, Shen Xiao’s comrade came over to tell him that there was an urgent mission in the army, so he went to work.”

“My child, he can’t come back today. But he won’t marry you. I just have to put on a big red flower for him and take you home on his behalf.”

While apologizing to Qiao Baozhu, Zhang Guifen quickly scanned the room with her eyes.

It was discovered that Qiao Baozhu’s adoptive father, Qiao Laosan, was not there, and the only elder in Qiao Baozhu’s room was Bao Huihua.

Zhang Guifen knew that Bao Huihua was not the head of the family, so Qiao Baozhu had to make the decision on this matter herself.

Gritting his teeth, he said, “Baozhu, are you willing to come with me?”