Chapter 19

Qiao Xifeng was stunned by her uncle’s scolding and looked at Qiao Changfu with a helpless look.

Qiao Changfu ignored his niece, and saw his second brother bragging in the crowd. He grabbed him and questioned Qiao Changgui with gritted teeth.

“What the hell is your daughter wearing? Hurry up, make her take it off!”

Changgui was frightened by his elder brother’s ferocious look and subconsciously glanced at Qiao Xifeng. He caught a glimpse of a few young guards and immediately understood.

“Brother, I don’t know, I really don’t know!”

Qiao Changfu lowered his voice and said in a serious tone: “This matter can be a big deal or a small one. If these guys really accuse us of being capitalists, our whole family will be finished.”

“Tear off her skin quickly!”

Qiao Changgui was so frightened that his legs went limp. Thinking that his whole family would suffer, he was shocked and angry, and his voice was trembling.

“Our family has always been of good origin. Don’t you know who Xifeng is? She must have been fooled by the city people. You know that the city people are cunning and will cheat anyone to make money.”

As brothers for decades, Qiao Changfu naturally understood his second brother’s hint. He nodded, pouted at Qiao Xifeng, and whispered, “Hurry up and deal with it. Don’t embarrass the new son-in-law.”

Qiao Changgui also knew in his heart that he couldn’t let his son-in-law have a bad impression of his family on such a happy day. What would he do if he became a high-ranking official in the future and didn’t support his family?

“Ge Liuping, what are you thinking about? Go back to your room right now.”

Unable to offend his son-in-law or scold his daughter, Qiao Changgui could only vent his anger on his wife.

He slapped Ge Liuping on the face with such force that she fell to the ground.

“Dad, why did you hit my mom?!”

Qiao Xifeng didn’t understand what was going on.

Her uncle suddenly got angry, her father also got angry for no apparent reason, and now even her mother was going to be beaten.

“What the hell is going on? Are you all crazy?”

Qiao Changgui’s face turned pale. He picked up Ge Liuping from the ground with one hand, grabbed Qiao Xifeng with the other hand, and walked into the main room angrily.

Qiao Xifeng’s shoulders were held down by her father. She grimaced and screamed loudly, “Dad, why are you pulling me? It hurts so much, let go, let go of me!”

After entering the main room, Qiao Changgui threw his daughter onto the kang.

“Hurry up and take off your clothes and change into the clothes your mother prepared for you. Hurry up, change quickly!”

Qiao Xifeng was so angry that her eyes turned red. She rubbed her arm and shouted, “You made such a fuss just for the clothes I’m wearing?”

“This is my wedding, I can wear whatever I want! Anyone who doesn’t like it can leave!”

Qiao Xifeng had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem. Tears were falling down in pairs as she cried and cursed.

Qiao Changgui was furious and raised his hand to slap Qiao Xifeng. Ge Liuping screamed and threw herself on her daughter, crying angrily and fearfully: “Changgui, what are you doing? Today is a good day for my daughter, and you are doing something stupid?”

“Who is the one who is doing the wrong thing?”

Qiao Changgui was trembling all over, his eyes were wide open, and he was pointing outside with gritted teeth.

“She was seen wearing this awful thing by those little guards from the committee. They said it was capitalist shit and wanted to label us capitalist-roaders.”

Ge Liuping’s legs went limp and she collapsed to the ground, shaking with fear.

She quickly reacted, and while pulling at Qiao Xifeng’s wedding dress, she said tremblingly, “Take it off quickly, everything will be fine if you take it off.”

Anyone who has experienced those years knows how powerful the little guards are.

The Qiao family had been tenant farmers for generations, and they had enough to eat by fighting against landlords and dividing up the land. Ge Liuping didn’t understand what a capitalist-roader was, but she knew what it felt like to be criticized and put in the cowshed.

But Qiao Xifeng didn’t know!

It had only been a few days since she was reborn, and there were only two things on her mind: one was to marry Zhao Haiyang, and the other was how to surpass Qiao Baozhu.

Relying on the fact that he had lived once and witnessed the prosperity of later generations, Qiao Xifeng felt that he was superior to others and felt that he was very awesome.

She even dared to talk back, “What’s wrong with me? I’m just wearing a wedding dress. They are ignorant and slander me? The photo studio can rent it out, so why can’t I wear it? Do you have any human rights?”

Qiao Changgui put his hands on his hips and growled, “What slander? What human rights? Shut your mouth. I’m from the committee. I have plenty of ways to kill you.”

Qiao Xifeng was so angry that tears welled up in her eyes. She cursed in her heart what a group of ignorant people were who could look down on just a wedding dress.

She held back a lot of curse words but dared not say them out loud. She took off her wedding dress unwillingly and put on a red gown made by Ge Liuping.

The door to the main room opened again, and Qiao Changfu and Zhao Haiyang walked in with sullen faces.

“Changgui, how’s your change of clothes?”

Qiao Changfu is a male elder, so even if he is your uncle, you have to avoid suspicion.

“Changed, changed.”

Qiao Changgui hurriedly agreed and looked at Qiao Changfu eagerly: “Brother, what did they say over there?”

Qiao Changfu rolled his eyes at Qiao Xifeng, who was sitting on the kang without saying a word, and snorted heavily.

“What else can I say! She’s not the only one getting married today. Baozhu is also getting married today. Baozhu is marrying an officer, and the army has already investigated our family’s entire family. If there really was a problem, the army would have come to arrest us long ago.”

Qiao Changfu secretly felt lucky that Zhang Guifen had kept the young soldier who delivered the letter. If it weren’t for the young soldier in military uniform, today’s incident would have been more troublesome.

“Yes, Captain Shen is our son-in-law. With Captain Shen here, I don’t think they dare to say anything!”

Qiao Changgui was no longer afraid. He straightened his back and said with a smile, “I had forgotten that San Ya was going out today. I’ll go over to see her and give her a few words. She’s a military dependent now, so she needs to be more careful in what she says and does in the future.”

Before he could move forward, he was stopped by Qiao Changfu.

“Don’t send her off. She left a long time ago.”

When Qiao Changgui heard that Qiao Baozhu had passed away, he opened his mouth and slapped his thigh, pretending to be regretful: “Oh, she left in such a hurry? She left without even telling her parents. This dead girl was really raised in vain.”

Ge Liuping was also sighing and complaining grimly about Qiao Baozhu’s ignorance.

Qiao Changfu sneered at this.

San Ya stayed in the yard for the night, and sat in the new house for a long time in the morning. You, the biological parents, didn’t even bother to go and take a look. Now that the person is gone, why are you regretting it here?

Besides, Qiao Baozhu’s wedding procession was so pitiful that it was unbearable to watch.

Because Shen Xiao was unable to come due to a temporary mission, Zhang Guifen found a mule cart, spread a quilt from her own home, and pulled Qiao Baozhu on board.

She wore the big red flower that the groom wore on her chest and drove the mule cart to the corps’ family compound herself.

Several female educated youth who came to see Qiao Baozhu off to marry were squeezed into a mule cart at the back.

Just like that, the two mule carts left the Qiao family quietly and empty.

There was not even a piece of cloth on the mule cart except for the bride.

Not to mention that Zhang Guifen looked unhappy, even Liu Meilan, the matchmaker, couldn’t hold back anymore.

She leaned on Qiao Baozhu’s shoulder and whispered softly.

“San Ya, your family didn’t give you anything as a gift?”