While Wang Fang was helping Qi's mother paste matchboxes and quietly refining her plan, Xiao Cui peeked out from behind the curtains. Seeing that Qi hadn't come out yet, even though she couldn't hear anything, she still glanced at Qi Zhijun and said, "Hmph! Qi Zhijun, your mother and your spendthrift niece are whispering to each other again. I wonder who they're plotting to harm!"

Exhausted, Qi Zhijun sat on the edge of the bed soaking her feet. She sighed and said irritably, "Can you stop overthinking all day? Fangfang hasn't been back for so long. What's wrong with her going to talk to her grandma? Why do you meddle in everything? Do you have a persecution complex?"

Xiao Cui scoffed, crossing his arms over his chest. "I'd like to think the best of them, but what good deeds have they ever done? Look at everything they've done—it's all utterly despicable!"

Qi Zhijun slammed the foot-drying cloth into the foot basin and roared, "What despicable thing did she do to you? Can you stop talking nonsense and just say whatever makes you comfortable? She may have done wrong things, but she didn't do anything to wrong you!"

Xiao Cui strode up to Qi Zhijun, staring intently at her, and squeezed out through gritted teeth, "She hasn't harmed me? From the moment I met you, your whole family has been harming me! They scheme about food, they scheme about clothes. If I hadn't married into your family, I wouldn't have known that they could even separate the heart of a cabbage from a pickled vegetable and stir-fry it separately with oil and salt, or that they could fill dumplings with more meat first. I wondered why she was so cunning. If she used her cunning in the right way, this family might have prospered. But she used it wrongly! In the end, she even schemed against herself, and now she's been tricked into cleaning toilets. How much more can they scheme against her! What's your family's reputation? Go around asking around, everyone knows you're a notorious family of sluts! That old lady single-handedly raised two good-for-nothing sluts!"

Qi Zhijun glared back and stood up abruptly. Xiao Cui took a few steps back and shouted sharply, "What are you doing?"

Seeing her like that, Qi Zhijun suppressed his anger and chuckled, "You call yourself a cultured person? You only just realized how venomous your mouth is! It's even more poisonous than the Tang Clan of Sichuan! The old saying is true: 'A snake's mouth is poisonous, a wasp's sting is poisonous, but neither is truly poisonous; the most poisonous is a woman's heart.' You're not even half as good as Wei Shuqing! Look at your ugly, mean-spirited face; it's disgusting!"

Xiao Cui laughed a few times after hearing this. "She's good? You know she's good now? Too late! What were you doing all this time? If she's good, why did you kick her out of the house? You don't even want your own son! It's been over ten years, have you ever bought your own son a piece of candy, or let him eat a single grain of rice from you? He hasn't even drunk a drop of your water, has he? You're so cold-hearted, I actually feel sorry for her! It's a good thing I'm not as bad as her, otherwise I would be just as miserable as her!"

Qi Zhijun suddenly turned around and stared at Xiao Cui with a sinister look. Xiao Cui was terrified by that look, but still held his head high and looked at Qi Zhijun with contempt.

After a while, Qi Zhijun dried his feet and took the water out. Actually, he wanted to refute it, but after thinking about it carefully, Cui Shuai was right. Just the fact that his son had grown up without ever eating or using a single penny of his money left him with no way to argue. The couple parted on bad terms. Qi Zhijun thought of Wei Shuqing's goodness again. If he had to do it all over again, he would definitely not choose to divorce Wei Shuqing.

After receiving the hint, Wang Fang returned to her room. The next day, she packed two sets of clothes that were about 80% new. In the closet, she found a new set of clothes that Qi Zhifang had bought when she was about to give her to Li Maocai, which she had put at the bottom of the closet because she found it disgusting. Then she asked someone to exchange 35 yuan and about 30 jin of grain coupons. Seeing that it was almost time, she went to the machinery factory and said to the gatekeeper, "Grandpa, can you help me find Zhao Dahu? I'm his relative."

The security guard didn't think much of it and told her to wait a moment. He then called the cafeteria. A short while later, Zhao Dahu strode out and looked at the tall, beautiful, and stylish girl in front of him from afar. He nodded happily to the security guard, confirming that he didn't recognize her.

"You were looking for me?" I asked instinctively.

“Yes, I have something to tell you. Let’s find a secluded place…” Seeing Wang Fang’s calm demeanor, Zhao Dahu asked suspiciously, “Who are you? Don’t cause trouble.” He then started to walk into the factory.

Wang Fang said urgently, "Wait a minute, I want to talk to you about Qi Aiguo!"

Zhao Dahu turned around and stared at her with a gloomy face. Wang Fang was not afraid at all and smiled, saying, "Can we find a place to talk now?"

Zhao Dahu stared at her for a while, then chuckled and said, "Excuse me, I don't know what you're talking about. You should go somewhere cool and stay there!"

Wang Fang quickly took two steps to stop him and said, "If you help me find a job, I promise I won't tell Qi Aiguo about his background. You don't want your son, whom you've raised for over ten years, to disown you, do you?..."

Zhao Dahu half-raised his eyelids, glanced at Wang Fang, thought for a moment, and suddenly remembered who she was. Then he said seriously, "Little girl, I advise you to be a good person, work hard and honestly, and stop thinking about these nonsense things! You're like a lunatic, coming up to people and asking for work. Do you think you're asking for radishes and cabbages? You're not even that good-looking, but you're dreaming big! You should go back and hug a pillow; it'll come to you faster in your dreams. You can have anything in your dreams!"

Wang Fang smiled brightly, "You don't need to talk to me about these things, and you don't need to pretend to be calm. Aren't you afraid that if I tell Aiguo, he'll know about his background and you'll have raised him for nothing?"

Seeing her smug look, Zhao Dahu suddenly grinned mischievously and said, "Go ahead and tell her! Let's see if I'm scared!" He then laughed and ran off, thinking to himself, "Little brat! You're still too green to mess with me!"

Wang Fang stamped her foot and turned back. When Qi's mother learned of this news, she patted Wang Fang's hand and whispered a few words in her ear. Wang Fang nodded.

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