“I am your elder. I used to be good friends with your mother. I watched you grow up. What’s wrong with me saying a few words to you?”

"My mother's best friend? How dare you say that? How many times have you visited me since my mother passed away? The engagement between our two families was called off long ago. To me, you're just a stranger. What gives you the right to talk about me like that?"

"Lin Qingyan, you, you are not only rude to your peers, but also disrespectful to your elders. Do you know how awful your attitude towards me is?"

"That's your own fault. You spoke rudely to me first, and I didn't even talk back to you, which is already giving you face. You should think about how awful your attitude was when you spoke."

"You." Gu's mother was clearly furious. She gritted her teeth, stomped her foot, and looked at Lin Qingyan with utter disappointment: "Fine, fine, thank goodness I didn't keep an eye on you back then. Mingzhou from our family broke off the engagement with you. Otherwise, if you had married into our family, who knows what kind of mess you would have made. I would have regretted it to death."

Lin Qingyan snorted coldly, "Do you think your family is a hot commodity that everyone wants to marry into? If Gu Mingzhou hadn't asked me to break off the engagement, I would have been the one asking him to. The fact that he took the initiative to break off the engagement just saved me the trouble."

Gu's mother retorted, "You're only saying this to save face for yourself. You're probably secretly envious of Sisi. Luckily, our Mingzhou married Sisi. Sisi is gentle, considerate, and understanding. She's much better than you. I don't know what kind of people your current in-laws are. They actually let you in. Either they haven't seen your true colors, or they're just like you, the same kind of people."

Lu Zhengting saw his wife angrily confronting the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and since his wife didn't suffer any losses, he didn't interfere.

But Gu's mother's words involved the Lu family, and he could no longer let his wife stand up for him.

He looked at Gu's mother with a stern expression. "Auntie, I respect you as an elder and call you 'Auntie.' But the words you spoke showed no respect whatsoever for an elder."

What's wrong with my family? My parents are both cadres in their work units, upright people who never speak ill of others behind their backs. You can ask around in the military to find out what kind of people I am.

My wife is right. You've wasted your age, thinking you're an elder, but you really don't deserve the title. At least, you don't deserve it in front of us.

Gu's mother was so angry that she almost rolled her eyes. She thought that Lin Qingyan was not polite, and that Lu Zhengting, having been in the army for a long time, should be better than her. She didn't expect him to be even worse than Lin Qingyan.

She pointed angrily at the two of them, "You two are really equally ignorant."

Lu Zhengting scoffed, "We need to be sensible depending on the person. For some people, being too sensible just hurts themselves."

Lin Qingyan said, "So, it's best if you two, mother and daughter-in-law, don't talk to me anymore. If you see each other in the family compound, just pretend you don't know each other, so as not to bother everyone."

Mother Gu snorted and grabbed Lin Sisi's hand.

"My Sisi is the best. She is gentle and generous, kind and considerate, and especially knows how to be filial to me. It is Mingzhou's blessing and our whole family's blessing to have a wife like you."

Lin Sisi was beaming with joy after receiving praise from Gu's mother.

"Mom, it's fate that brought Mingzhou and the Gu family together. It's fate that brought us together as a family."

"Yes, yes, Sisi, my good daughter-in-law."

Lin Qingyan and Lu Zhengting ignored them and let them talk to themselves.

Soon, the bus arrived, and they boarded separately. Even though they were sitting very close to each other, they ignored each other.

Lin Sisi and Gu's mother still maintained a loving relationship, which drew envy from the other military wives on the bus.

A military wife named Yang Qiuyue, who also lived in the same military family compound, praised, "Look how good your relationship is between you two, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. If I had such a good mother-in-law, I would be burning incense in gratitude."

Lin Sisi was extremely proud of herself. "I am so lucky to have such a good mother-in-law."

Mother Gu said, "That's because my daughter-in-law is good to me. It's good when both are good together."

Yang Qiuyue sighed again, "I still envy you two. If my mother-in-law treated me half as well as I treat her, I would be content."

Women tend to talk about family matters when they get together. It's unclear whether Yang Qiuyue brought it up first or Lin Sisi and Gu's mother asked first, but Yang Qiuyue poured out her troubles to Lin Sisi and Gu's mother for quite a while. In the end, Yang Qiuyue and Lin Sisi even became good friends.

Mother Gu also instructed Yang Qiuyue, "Qiuyue, if I'm not here anymore, you should often visit our Sisi to keep him company."

"Auntie, I will."

A few minutes later, the car arrived in the city. Since they were all going to the department store, they got off at the bus stop near the department store.

Lin Sisi noticed that Lin Qingyan and the others also got off the bus here. Could it be that they were also going to the department store like her?

Lin Qingyan and her two companions walked faster and entered the department store first.

Lin Sisi and Gu's mother then entered.

Three other military wives followed them inside.

Lu Zhengting first asked the staff if large items could be delivered to his home, and they said yes, so they could go ahead and buy them with peace of mind.

If that doesn't work, then go to the military base to find other vehicles for help.

After greeting Lin Qingyan, Lu Zhengting returned to her side and said, "They promised to send us the large items, and we can also bring back the smaller items we bought."

"Okay, let's pick out the big items first, then buy the smaller ones."

"good."

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