Chapter 11

“Sufen, you see, I just got married, where is the paper at home? I haven’t prepared anything yet. I wanted to ask you, when are you going to return the paper you borrowed in the first few months?”

When Gu Qijiao spoke, she looked straight at Wang Sufen with a serious look.

“What? Just a few pieces of paper, and you want me to pay them back?” Wang Sufen’s face stiffened as she spoke.

Gu Qijiao had given Wang Sufen many things in the past, but this was the first time she heard Gu Qijiao asking her to pay it back!

Fortunately, she had thought Gu Qijiao was generous before, but it turned out that she had secretly kept accounts on several pieces of paper.

Gu Qijiao was also shocked when she heard Wang Sufen’s shameless words: “Why, it’s just a few pieces of paper, are you planning to default on your debt?”

Sufen, I have helped you a lot in your daily food, clothing and shelter. Those things were given by me, so naturally I won’t ask you to pay them back.

But those papers, you asked me to borrow them every time you came here. Although we have a good relationship, you can’t deny the loan.”

It was just a few pieces of paper, so Gu Qijiao certainly didn’t care.

She was simply annoyed by Wang Sufen and wanted to annoy her back.

Moreover, I must never continue to associate with someone like Wang Sufen in this life.

It’s better to cut ties with her as soon as possible.

If you get too close to this kind of ungrateful person, she might bite you back at any time.

Not worth it.

Wang Sufen didn’t expect that Gu Qijiao would actually settle the bill with her for toilet paper, and she was a little at a loss for a moment.

“Qi Jiao, you know my family situation. My parents have a strong preference for boys over girls. I have never had enough to eat or wear warm clothes since I was a child.

I’ve been able to live a little better these past few years, and occasionally fill my stomach, but that’s all thanks to your help.

Although paper is not expensive, in the eyes of my parents, it is a useless thing that is not necessary to buy. Every year, I can only pick up some paper left by my sister-in-law at home when she comes back.

You suddenly ask me to return the paper, where can I get it for you? Aren’t we friends? You don’t have to settle accounts with me even for such a small matter. This makes me very sad!”

Wang Sufen has a brother who is in the army. Her sister-in-law is a city dweller who looks down on the countryside, so she follows her brother in the army and only returns to the Wang family for two days during the Chinese New Year.

That’s why Wang Sufen said that she could only take advantage of her sister-in-law’s return and pick up some of her leftover toilet paper.

This is also the reason why Wang Sufen did not come to Gu Qijiao to borrow toilet paper in the first month after the Chinese New Year.

“Sufen, we both grew up together barefoot. I know how hard it has been for you, and I really hope you can live a good life.

Over the years, I have treated you better than your family members, and I would always think of sharing some of the food and things I have with you.

But the situation is different now. I am married, and a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. My family will not support me anymore.

My man married me because I did something stupid. I don’t know how much he hates me in his heart, and it is impossible for him to give me money to spend.

From now on, I will have to spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation, and I will definitely not be able to use toilet paper.”

Gu Qijiao spoke these words sincerely, as if she had really been living a life of poverty and hardship.

In her previous life, she was so good to Wang Sufen, but not only did Wang Sufen not remember her kindness at all, she also went to the city to dig up her past, wishing to make her fall into the abyss and never recover.

In this life, Wang Sufen will never get any benefits from Gu Qijiao.

Not to mention a few pieces of paper, even if it was a glass of boiled water, Gu Qijiao would definitely not pour it for Wang Sufen.

She doesn’t deserve it.

Gu Qijiao sneered in her heart, but continued to say: “Sufen, you know me, I have never been the kind of person who cares about small things.

If I had no other choice, I wouldn’t have asked you for those papers. Besides the papers, you also borrowed 60 cents from me for a bottle of wine. Please pay me back for that as well!”

The sixty cents was what Wang Sufen borrowed from Gu Qijiao last year.

When the Chinese New Year was approaching last year, there were guests at Wang Sufen’s house. In order to entertain the guests, Wang Sufen’s father gave Wang Sufen 60 cents and asked her to go to the village supply and marketing cooperative to buy some wine.

Wang Sufen took the money and went out.

Who knew that when she got to the supply and marketing cooperative, she found that the money was lost.

In the Wang family’s situation, if Wang Sufen didn’t buy the wine and went back and said that she lost the money, her father would definitely beat her up.

So after Wang Sufen found out that her money was lost, she didn’t dare go home. Instead, she went to Gu’s house crying and found Gu Qijiao for help.

During this period, fifty cents was enough to buy half a pound of pork.

So sixty cents is not a lot, but it is not a small amount either. However, Gu Qijiao lent the money to Wang Sufen without even blinking.

Gu Qijiao has some money.

Every Chinese New Year, Gu Qijiao would receive a lot of lucky money from her parents, grandparents, and uncles.

Her savings are almost enough for twenty yuan.

Sixty cents is nothing to Gu Qijiao.

Gu Qijiao’s life was pretty good. She had five uncles, all of whom were big and strong village men. Her mother was the only daughter of her grandparents, and the youngest, so she was the only one doted on.

All five uncles were married and had a bunch of sons, but not a single girl. Gu Qijiao was the only girl in the whole family, so she inherited the love that only her mother had.

Speaking of Gu Qijiao’s father, her father Gu Dagan is the only male in the Gu family. He had married a wife before and had twin sons.

The twin sons don’t look like Gu Dagan at all. Everyone in the village says that the two children are not Gu Dagan’s children.

Gu Dagan didn’t take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, after he raised his two twin sons until they were in their teens, his wife ran away with the two sons.

Gu Dagan later found out the whereabouts of the woman and went to another village to look for her.

When he saw that his two sons looked exactly like a peddler, with bulging frog-like eyes, he realized that he was really being cuckolded.

The son he had raised for ten years turned out to be not his biological son. Gu Dagan was so angry that he almost stayed in bed for half a year and almost died.

Afterwards, Gu Dagan married Xie Jinxiang, a widow in her thirties from the neighboring village, Gu Qijiao’s mother, with the introduction of villagers.

Not long after the marriage, Xie Jinxiang gave birth to Gu Qijiao.

Although Gu Qijiao is a girl, she is Gu Dagan’s own child after all, so Gu Dagan naturally likes her very much.

Later, Xie Jinxiang became pregnant again, but unfortunately the baby died before it was born. After that, Xie Jinxiang never got pregnant again.

That’s why people in the village said that the Gu family had become extinct after coming to Gu Dagan.

Gu Dagan didn’t care what the villagers said. He didn’t care whether it was a boy or a girl, as long as it was his own child. He doted on Gu Qijiao more than most rural people doted on their sons.

Because of these reasons, although Gu Qijiao was born in the countryside and her family conditions were average, she was spoiled by both families.

Maybe the adults in the poorer families in the village don’t have as much money as Gu Qijiao.

So when a good friend asked Gu Qijiao to borrow sixty cents, she gave it to him without even frowning.

Thinking back on it later, Gu Qijiao felt that she was really stupid.

Her family conditions are not good, and she has so much money not because her family is rich, but because her family dotes on her.

The money she spent or lent out easily was actually the hard-earned money of her parents.

In her previous life, Gu Qijiao was too stupid, which is why she was fooled by Wang Sufen.

But not in this life.

What belongs to her, she will get back without a cent less.

But Wang Sufen was dumbfounded, she had long forgotten about the 60 cents.

I never planned to pay it back.

She didn’t expect Gu Qijiao to mention it to her.

She clearly came here to borrow paper, but in the end she didn’t get any. Not only that, but Gu Qijiao also urged her to pay back the money, and even asked her to return the paper she borrowed a few months ago.

Wang Sufen’s face suddenly turned ugly, and she even wanted to curse.

However, she suddenly had an idea and smiled:

“Hey, Qijiao, why are you so anxious to tell me? I will definitely pay you back when I have the money. Do you think I will refuse to pay you back?

Can you lend me some paper for emergency? I have been sitting in your house for such a long time. If I don’t put some paper under my clothes, my pants will be soiled when I go back and people will gossip about me behind my back.