Chapter 32

“What misunderstanding could there be? They are just afraid that we will come and ask for money!”

Having her thoughts exposed, Qiao Dagui became furious and glared at Qiao Xifeng with gritted teeth.

“It’s all your fault!”

“You’re asking for a change of partner right before getting married, and letting others take advantage of you. So, now you look down on us poor relatives, right?”

Qiao Xifeng was stunned by the scolding from her aunt, and thought to herself, is this old woman crazy for daring to provoke her?

Qiao Dagui didn’t give Qiao Xifeng a chance to retort. She turned around and shook the loose skin on her cheekbones. She pointed at Qiao Changhai’s pants and mocked him in a sarcastic tone.

“I’m not saying anything bad about you, Third Brother. You’ve been in the city for ten years, right? Even if you were begging, you could have saved some money. Look at what you’ve done. You’ve cut a urea bag and used it as pants.”

“I was wondering why I couldn’t find you anywhere yesterday. It turns out you’re doing so badly that you don’t even have a decent pair of pants for your daughter’s wedding.”

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier that you had no pants to wear? Come to my eldest sister’s house and I’ll lend you your brother-in-law’s pants. Why do you have to hide and make your family worried?”

After hearing what Qiao Dagui said, Qiao Xifeng and Qiao Ergui also looked at Qiao Changhai.

He was wearing a torn sheepskin coat on his upper body and a urea bag on his lower body. It was obvious that he often wore the urea bag, and the words on it were almost worn away.

Seeing Qiao Changhai looking as poor and downtrodden as ever, Qiao Xifeng and her two aunts all showed expressions of disgust and contempt.

Qiao Baozhu saw the disgusted expressions of these three people, and secretly admired her adoptive father’s ability to hide his shortcomings.

If these people knew that her adoptive father had such a large sum of savings, her small shack would definitely be filled with filial nephews who would take care of Qiao Changhai in his old age.

“Aunt, what nonsense are you talking about?”

Qiao Baozhu pretended to be angry, making Qiao Dagui think that she had exposed Qiao Changhai’s shortcomings, which made Qiao Baozhu unhappy.

Qiao Dagui was very proud and felt that she had gotten rid of her anger.

Humph, don’t think you are great just because you married the battalion commander. You are still poor, far worse off than her family.

“What nonsense am I talking about? I haven’t even talked about you, Sanya. You are an educated youth who earns 32 yuan a month, so why don’t you buy a decent pair of pants for your dad?”

“Although he is not your biological father, he has raised you for more than ten years. Do you think you are wronged by giving him a pair of pants?”

Qiao Dagui knew the rift between the father and daughter of the third room, and she did her best to sow discord between them. The more unhappy other families were, the more comfortable she felt.

“Aunt, you have the time to worry about other people’s affairs, why not worry about yourself first. Eye disease is a disease, if you don’t see a doctor you will go blind.”

“The bucket of lime is right here, are you pretending not to see it?”

Qiao Changhai sat on the stool without moving, stretched out his legs and kicked the bucket at his feet.

He snorted, “Your aunt has had poor eyesight since she was a child, and now she is blind because of her age.”

Qiao Dagui then noticed the bucket on the ground. She curled her lips in dismay and said stubbornly, “Who can see this broken thing thrown here?”

“Besides, this house was allocated by the army. Do you really need to paint the walls? Shen Xiao is an officer, so why not find some soldiers to do the work?”

Qiao Dagui was frantically trying to find a way out for herself. In short, she was right and it was others who had problems.

“I see. There’s something wrong with this house, isn’t it? Is it leaking? If it leaks, why paint the walls white? You need to put thatch on the roof. You can’t even fix a house. How useless you are.”

Qiao Dagui was embarrassed, and seeing that the window was open, she hurried over to find something wrong to save her face.

Unexpectedly, I didn’t see the problem, but instead saw a room full of furniture.

“Oh my god, so much new furniture.”

Qiao Dagui’s surprised tone caught Qiao Ergui’s attention. She rushed over in two steps and stretched her neck to look inside the house.

In order to paint the wall, Qiao Changhai gathered all the furniture in the house together. Although the house with only one layer of whitewash did not look as bright and clean as the white wall, it was much better than the yellow mud wall.

The north and south windows were open, and a breeze blew through the hallway, bringing with it the unique earthy scent of the white lime walls.

This scene shocked the two sisters of the Qiao family speechless.

Qiao Xifeng had already stepped over the threshold and entered the house. When she saw a new cupboard in the kitchen that was almost as tall as her, she swayed and almost sprained her ankle.

Then she rushed into the house, and when she saw the 1.8-meter-tall double-layer kang cabinet and a double-door wardrobe inlaid with a mirror, Qiao Xifeng was almost furious.

“Shen Xiao also bought you furniture?”

The jealousy and resentment in Qiao Xifeng’s eyes were burning to the top of her head.

In her previous life, she was married to Shen Xiao. There was only an old kangqin in this room and an old cabinet on the floor.

Although Shen Xiao added new furniture later, it was still not as good as this room.

At that time, Qiao Xifeng was not satisfied with the furniture in the house and wanted to have three turns and one ring, which would be more glorious.

Unfortunately, she caused Bai Hongmei to have a miscarriage, and Shen Xiao gave all his savings to that bitch to support her health, so he could only buy her two ordinary pieces of furniture.

How come in this life, Qiao Baozhu started using new furniture as soon as she got married?

Why why?

She was so pissed off!

“Oh, Captain Shen is really rich. Not only did he give him 500 yuan as a betrothal gift, he also bought so many furniture. Wow, it must have added up to 1,000 yuan.”

“Xifeng, are you angry when you see these? These were originally yours. It’s too late to regret now.”

Qiao Ergui pretended to feel regretful but in fact she was looking at Qiao Xifeng with a gloating look on her face.

It’s so hilarious. Just to pick up a small sesame seed like Zhao Haiyang, he lost a rich big watermelon like Shen Xiao.

The girl Xifeng looks smart, but unexpectedly she is actually a confused fool.

At this time, Qiao Xifeng no longer cared about other people’s ridicule. She rushed to Qiao Baozhu and asked in a stern voice with red eyes.

“Let me ask you, did Shen Xiao buy these furniture for you?”

“Of course not, this is all the dowry my father gave me.”

Qiao Baozhu said it calmly, Qiao Xifeng breathed a sigh of relief, but the two aunts were furious.

“impossible!”

“I don’t believe it!”

The two sisters said in unison that they totally did not believe that this was Qiao Baozhu’s dowry.

They all had daughters, and when their daughters got married, they only made two quilts.

If this is the case with biological children, how close can San Ya, an adopted daughter, be to him?

Besides, Qiao Changhai is a cripple, where would he get the money to buy such a good dowry!

This must be Qiao Baozhu flattering herself.

Qiao Baozhu saw through the thoughts of her two aunts and smiled faintly.

“My dad doesn’t have money, but he has the betrothal gift from Shen Xiao. This room of dowry has spent all the 500 yuan of betrothal gift.”

The Qiao sisters looked at Qiao Changhai in disbelief, thinking he was crazy.

“What? You spent all that betrothal gift money?”