"I..." Cui Fengzhen didn't expect Qiao Qiqi to suddenly bring up the house and yard, and she panicked immediately.

But she was a woman who had lived most of her life, and she quickly came up with a reason, saying, "It's not that I don't want to give them the house, it's just that the house is currently occupied by the Jiefang family. If we kick them out, they will be homeless."

As she spoke, Cui Fengzhen immediately looked in Qin Baojun's direction, her eyes brimming with tears, and said, "Jiefang is, after all, your elder brother. How can you bear to see his family sleeping on the streets? Besides, your family isn't homeless. Since you have a house, why do you need your elder brother's? Their family has it tough too."

"Tsk!"

Qiao Qiqi suddenly clicked her tongue, her eyes full of sarcasm as she watched Cui Fengzhen's every word defending her eldest son.

"In the end, isn't it just that you feel sorry for your eldest son? Otherwise, when you kicked my parents-in-law out of the house, why didn't you think about them being homeless and sleeping on the streets?"

Cui Fengzhen was about to speak, but Qiao Qiqi didn't give her a chance to open her mouth at all.

"Oh, my in-laws slept in a cowshed back then and they were fine, but now they can't? Judging from your posture, you don't seem like you were beaten! Or maybe the beatings weren't light enough, and you didn't learn your lesson. Otherwise, how could you be so forgetful of punishments?!"

The last sentence fell with a resounding force, causing Cui Fengzhen to tremble all over, but she still stubbornly refused to admit it.

"No, no, I just wanted you to have a place to live."

“Okay, we don’t need the house!” Qiao Qiqi suddenly agreed readily.

Qin Baojun looked at her with surprise, not understanding what she was up to, why she suddenly didn't want the house anymore.

Cui Fengzhen's eyes lit up. "I knew it. You're a soft-hearted child. In that case, then..."

"Then let's pay!" Qiao Qiqi said, going along with her suggestion.

"!"

Cui Fengzhen's smile froze instantly. When did she say she was going to give money? No! She didn't say that!

But Qiao Qiqi pretended not to see her expression and continued, "I think Grandma is right. We really don't need the house, so let's just give them the money. If we calculate based on the fact that it costs more than 300 yuan to build a brick house in the village now, then Uncle's house is already old. I'll include the depreciation cost and not ask for more. Let's just round it up to 200 yuan. As for the yard..."

Qiao Qiqi specifically asked Su Shangjin about the specific amounts of houses recently sold in the village, but in the end she simply couldn't be bothered to calculate it. "Since we're all relatives, I'll just take a loss. Including the storage room and the yard, all of it together will be enough for my parents-in-law to have 300 yuan."

"..." Cui Fengzhen was completely dumbfounded.

She had initially thought that it was fine if Qiao Qiqi didn't want the house, but when she saw that Qiao Qiqi was actually asking for money, she was so angry that her eyebrows stood up.

"Where would they get any money? The whole family of four relies on Jiefang to earn work points in the fields. Guizhi has to stay home to take care of the two children. She hasn't worked in the fields to earn money for many years. The whole family of four depends on one able-bodied person. How could they possibly save any money!"

After they arrived, it was Qiao Qiqi who kept talking and talking.

That little slut was all set up at home, tricking me into coming here to sign a document severing ties, but once she arrived, she suddenly started asking for the house and money.

At this moment, Cui Fengzhen realized that she had been deceived by Qiao Qiqi's sweet talk.

Seeing that Qiao Qiqi was not easily fooled, Cui Fengzhen simply turned her attention to Qin Baojun.

“Baojun, I am your mother. This matter is between you and me. Just tell me directly, are you going to support me or not? If you don’t support me, I will go to town and sue you!”

Qin Baojun frowned, took out his pipe from his pocket, but when he saw the leader from Beijing next to him, he put the pipe back in his pocket, looking pained and conflicted.

Qiao Qiqi knew that Qin Baojun was a filial son. If he hadn't been heartbroken by Cui Fengzhen's repeated actions, he wouldn't be so conflicted today.

Thinking of this, she went over, took Qin Baojun's arm, and gently comforted him, "Dad, the leaders are all reasonable people. You did nothing wrong in this matter, so just say what you think, and the leaders will definitely stand up for you."

Meeting those reassuring eyes, Qin Baojun's bitter and resentful expression finally softened a little.

But when he looked up at Su Shangjin, he still frowned.

He glanced in Cui Fengzhen's direction again, moved his lips, but ultimately said nothing, turning his gaze back to Qiao Qiqi.

"Qiqi, you decide what to do today. Whatever you say, I will do without any objection."

Qiao Qiqi had been waiting for Qin Baojun to say this. Seeing that Qin Baojun indeed remembered what she had said before and was going along with her words, she immediately smiled.

"Don't worry, Dad, I'll handle it for you."

"Don't worry, Dad." Qin Baojun patted her hand and then said nothing more.

Qiao Qiqi turned directly to Su Shangjin and said, "Uncle Su, you saw it too. Cui Fengzhen kept saying that Qin Jiefang and Ma Guizhi abused her. Let's not talk about whether this is true or not. Just looking at the situation, do you think she looks like she was kicked out?"

Su Shangjin frowned, glanced displeasedly in Cui Fengzhen's direction, and said nothing.

But Fang Keke couldn't hold back; being young, she immediately exclaimed, "It doesn't look like it!"

Sun Shengli glanced at her, but Fang Ke did not regret it.

Qiao Qiqi gave Fang Ke a kind look before continuing, "I don't think my demands for a house and money are excessive, since my demands are all in line with the way Cui Fengzhen did things back then."

“And that’s all. I haven’t even mentioned that before this, Cui Fengzhen was asking my parents-in-law for 5 yuan a month for support.”

"Do you think that, given the current situation, with her moving into my in-laws' house, Qin Jiefang will have to pay the alimony?"

Qiao Qiqi bombarded everyone in the room with questions, leaving them speechless.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Cui Fengzhen suddenly resorted to shameless tactics.

"I see now, you guys are all in cahoots, you're all bullying this old woman, aren't you? Qiao Qiqi, you're relying on your dad being the group leader and having a good relationship with the brigade leader, you... you're protecting each other! I can't fight you, I... I won't let him support me anymore, okay? Just let this old woman sleep on the streets, starve and freeze to death!"

At this point, everyone understood the ins and outs of the matter and saw through Cui Fengzhen's intentions.

Therefore, when they heard Cui Fengzhen speaking sarcastically, everyone remained unmoved.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Cui Fengzhen turned her anger to Qin Baojun, who was standing silently to the side. She pointed at him and cursed, "You unfilial descendant! You used to find a daughter-in-law to annoy me, and now you've found a granddaughter-in-law to annoy me! Your whole family is a jinx! I should have strangled that little bastard when he was brought back!"

The smile on Qiao Qiqi's face vanished instantly.

"Then you should really be glad you didn't do it, otherwise you definitely wouldn't be alive now, you would have been shot long ago."