Huo Beixiao had long legs and caught up with Jiang Qiaoqiao in just a few steps.

He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say to Jiang Qiaoqiao.

Jiang Qiaoqiao felt a surge of resentment.

She knew that she and Huo Beixiao were not a real couple, and it was none of her business who Huo Beixiao gave his money to or how he spent it.

However, Huo Beixiao's giving Jiang Yiran five yuan and saying that the duck was bought by them was undoubtedly a slap in the face to her.

The two returned to the family compound in silence.

It was right after lunch, when everyone was taking a nap.

It's too hot to sleep indoors.

The idle people in the residential compound gathered under the big banyan tree in the courtyard with large palm-leaf fans to cool off.

Aunt Zhao, who lives next door to Jiang Qiaoqiao, was among them.

When Jiang Qiaoqiao and Huo Beixiao returned one after the other, their expressions were not good.

Aunt Zhao immediately became interested.

"Did you see the faces of those two? Tsk tsk, they look so awful. Could it be that Jiang Qiaoqiao was having an affair and got caught by Engineer Huo?"

"No way, if she really gets arrested, would Engineer Huo still want her? Would he let her come back like this?"

“It wouldn’t be good to get divorced so soon after getting married! If we divorce right after getting married, wouldn’t everyone know that he was cheated on?” Aunt Zhao said firmly.

Some people think this makes a lot of sense.

Some people who couldn't stand it anymore reminded her, "Aunt Zhao, you should say less about such unfounded things. If someone hears you, they'll make a scene again."

Aunt Zhao immediately puffed out her chest and said defiantly, "How can I not have evidence? Look at her when she went out this morning, her snakeskin bag was bulging. But what was in the snakeskin bag that Engineer Huo brought back just now? It was empty, not a single hair in it!"

"I asked around at the food factory today, and she didn't go back to her parents' house at all. So many things, and she didn't take them back to her parents' house, what else could it be but using them to support a man?"

Aunt Zhao spoke with righteous indignation, and those who had tried to dissuade her fell silent.

*

Are you angry?

After following Jiang Qiaoqiao into the room, Huo Beixiao finally uttered his first words on the way.

Jiang Qiaoqiao could no longer contain her anger.

Turning back to Huo Beixiao, she said, "You have money, how you spend it, and who you spend it on is your business, it has nothing to do with me! I'm asking you, next time you want to help your sweetheart, don't involve me, I don't get along with her! I don't want to help her!"

She and Huo Beixiao didn't have a close relationship.

She has no right to control him, but Huo Beixiao also has no right to use her name to help Jiang Yiran.

Huo Beixiao looked at Jiang Qiaoqiao with a complicated expression.

He opened his mouth slightly, as if to explain.

But in the end, he didn't say a word of explanation, only saying, "I'm sorry, I'll be more careful in the future."

"If 'sorry' was enough, what would be the point of having the police?"

Jiang Qiaoqiao couldn't help but mutter to herself, but in the end, she couldn't bring herself to argue with Huo Beixiao, who was being so nice.

After all, their relationship is what it is, and the other party has apologized.

I was exhausted after setting up my stall all morning.

It was hot, and Jiang Qiaoqiao was in a bad mood, so she didn't feel like making lunch.

Huo Beixiao took a lunchbox and went to the factory canteen to get two lunch boxes.

The food in the cafeteria wasn't very flavorful, but it filled my stomach.

After lunch, Huo Beixiao went back to work at the factory.

Jiang Qiaoqiao rested for a while before taking out all the money she had earned that day.

Footed pants are sixteen yuan a pair, so ten pairs would cost one hundred and sixty yuan.

A floral print shirt costs 18 yuan, so ten shirts would cost 180 yuan.

It adds up to three hundred and forty yuan.

She spent 450 yuan on goods yesterday, and on only the first day of setting up her stall, she has already recouped more than half of her investment.

Jiang Qiaoqiao's depressed mood vanished instantly.

It seems that choosing to sell clothes was the right path; she has taken a solid first step on her long journey to becoming a wealthy woman.

Having missed lunch, Jiang Qiaoqiao decided to treat herself to a nice dinner.

She went for another walk around the market.

Just then, a villager shot a wild boar and brought the meat to sell.

People in this era are short of oil and fat in their stomachs, and fatty meat has long been snapped up.

There were some pig tails, pig feet, pig offal, and two large pieces of lean meat left over.

Jiang Qiaoqiao spent about twenty yuan to buy all of them.

She had already decided that she would make braised dishes from pig tails and offal, stew pig feet with soybeans, and make pork jerky from lean meat, which she would eat as snacks.

When she lived with the Jiang family, she not only did all the housework, but she could only eat the leftovers from the Jiang family, which led to severe malnutrition and overwork.

In her previous life, after working hard in the Jiang family, she also had to work hard in the Qin family, sometimes going hungry and sometimes not eating, which left her with a chronic illness that was difficult to cure.

When she finally became pregnant, due to her poor physical condition, she was pregnant three times, but she lost all three babies.

By the time Qin Haiyang threw her a 40th birthday party, her body was already completely drained. Even if Jiang Yiran hadn't conspired with the Jiang family to murder and dismember her, she wouldn't have lived much longer.

Moreover, Qin Haiyang threw such a grand birthday party for her because he planned to use her being childless as an excuse to force her to acknowledge his illegitimate child.

Thinking about her past life, Jiang Qiaoqiao felt disgusted, as if she had swallowed a fly.

She finally understood what was going on in her life.

Regardless of whether she can make it work with Huo Beixiao, the most important thing for her is to take good care of her health.

Only when she is healthy can she become a happy, wealthy woman.

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