Chapter 7 Not That Kind of Person
Yu Qiang couldn't quite understand after hearing this, "Why is Aunt Qin like this?"
"What do you think of that old woman? It's true that she took care of a few children, but Captain Gu only gave her thirty yuan a month, which was twice her salary when she was sweeping the streets. I don't know how much she got from Captain Gu's house in the past few years." Anyway, every time she saw Qin Shulan coming home, she was carrying a lot of bags.
"In my opinion, she was the one who pinched Beibei and put the blame on Xiaoyu. She was also the one who taught the two children what to say." She had taken care of the two older ones for several years. They were close to her, so naturally they listened to her.
"Why is she doing this?" Yu Qiang couldn't understand.
Qian Lan scoffed, "Why else? Of course I don't want Xiao Yu and Captain Gu to live a good life."
"Xiao Yu and Captain Gu are living a good life now. This family has a proper mistress. How much benefit can she, the former mother-in-law, get from Captain Gu? The two families will definitely drift further and further apart."
"She must have been stirring up trouble in front of the children, causing them to dislike Xiao Yu and avoid being close to their stepmother."
"Only when a few children don't get along with their stepmother, Xiao Yu, will she have more reasons to come to Captain Gu's house in the name of the children to get benefits."
After being told this by his wife, Yu Qiang finally understood. "Aunt Qin looks so kind, but I didn't expect her to be so scheming."
Qian Lan snorted coldly, "What do you know?"
Qian Lan's eldest son, Yu Jianshe, drank rice soup while listening to his parents, and he also felt that Grandma Qin was quite scheming.
He was already ten years old and didn't like playing with little kids, so he just sat there and ate his meal slowly.
After dinner, Qian Lan washed the dishes quickly and went out to help Yu Hui inquire about milk powder coupons.
There were many families in the compound whose children were still breastfeeding, so Qian Lan first left to go to Teacher Li's house, who was relatively well-off.
Teacher Li’s husband is the deputy political commissar. She is in her thirties and teaches Chinese in a military primary school. She just gave birth to her third daughter at the beginning of the year.
Qian Lan was very envious of Teacher Li because she had only attended junior high school. After joining the army, the organization arranged for her to teach in a military primary school and she also had a formal job.
Unlike her, she had never been to school and could only write her own name. After joining the army, there was no suitable job assigned to her, so she could only do housework and take care of the children at home.
Teacher Li had just finished her meal. The two older children had gone out to play, and she was at home taking care of her daughter.
Seeing Qian Lan coming, he quickly invited her into the house to sit down.
The two chatted for a while, and then Qian Lan got down to business.
"Teacher Li, does your family have any extra milk powder coupons this month?"
Teacher Li looked at her strangely. "What do you want the milk powder coupons for? Did that relative of yours have another baby?"
This milk powder is a special product and it is difficult for ordinary people to get it. So when Qian Lan asked her, what she thought of immediately was that some relative in her hometown had given birth to a baby and had to buy milk powder to feed the baby without milk.
"No." Qian Lan waved her hand. "I'm asking on Xiao Yu's behalf."
"Xiao Yu?" Teacher Li heard her say Xiao Yu, but he still couldn't remember who this Xiao Yu was.
"She's Captain Gu's new wife."
Teacher Li frowned when she heard this. It was obvious that she had heard about what happened in the compound this morning.
"The milk powder coupons Captain Gu's family receives every month should be enough for the child, right? Could it be that she not only abuses the child but also eats the milk powder?"
As a mother who just gave birth to a daughter, what she hates most is stepmothers like Yu Hui who abuse other people's children.
When she brought her own child into the picture, she felt like killing someone.
"Teacher Li, you have some misunderstandings about Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu is not that kind of person."
"The milk powder was originally enough for the child, but Xiaoyu bought two bags of milk powder a few days ago.
The milk powder was taken away by the children's grandmother this morning!"
Did the child's grandmother take it? Teacher Li looked at Qian Lan suspiciously.
"It was really the child's grandmother who took it." Qian Lan said firmly, "She took away the meat Xiaoyu bought this morning and the eggs she bought a few days ago. In order to feed the child, she came to my house to borrow a pound of meat and a few eggs."
"How do you know if what she said is true or not?" Teacher Li was skeptical of what Xiao Yu's stepmother said. "Didn't you all see the pinch marks on Captain Gu's daughter's legs?"
"Xiao Yu and I went to buy meat this morning. How could it be fake?" Qian Lan continued, "When the child's grandmother came this morning, the cloth bag was flat, but when she left, it was bulging. I saw it with my own eyes."
She actually didn't see it, but in order to make Teacher Li believe her words and not misunderstand Xiao Yu, an honest girl, and lend her the milk powder coupons, she told a little lie.
"When Xiao Yu came to me to ask who had the milk powder coupons, she burst into tears. I live next door to Captain Gu, and I see exactly how Xiao Yu treats the children. To be honest, she's much better than Xiao Lin's mother. She's definitely not someone who would abuse a child."
"It's not like Dongdong and Nannan said, that they didn't give them meat. It's just that she just came from the country and is used to being frugal, so she only eats meat once every ten days. The child is very greedy, and he used to eat meat before. Naturally, he complained after not eating it for a long time, so he said that Xiaoyu didn't give them meat."
After listening to Qian Lan's words, Teacher Li also had a different opinion of Yu Hui.
"What about the pinch marks on the child's body?" The pinch marks on the child's body were real.
Qian Lan didn't say it clearly, but only said that Xiao Yu swore that he had not touched the child at all.
Teacher Li thought for a moment and thought of Qin Shulan, who had taken away her granddaughter's milk powder.
If she really cared about the child, why would she take the child's milk powder, eggs and meat?
Teacher Li asked Qian Lan to help her hold the baby and went into the house to get two milk powder coupons.
"I do have a lot at home. Give these two to Xiaoyu first. We can't let the child starve."
Qian Lan took it and said, "How much is it? I'll ask Xiao Yu to send the money to you."
"No need to pay, just let her use it. Our old Wang is the political commissar, and Captain Gu is not at home, so it's only right for us to take care of his children."
"As expected of Teacher Li, you have such a high level of awareness." Qian Lan gave Teacher Li a thumbs up.
Although she had obtained the milk powder coupons for Yu Hui, Qian Lan did not go home immediately. Instead, she continued to wander around. When she met acquaintances, she would greet them and they would ask her where she was going.
She said she would ask so-and-so's family if they had any extra milk powder coupons.
When people asked her why she wanted the milk powder coupons, she told them that Qin Shulan had taken away the child's milk powder and the meat and eggs in the house.
Throughout this process, Qian Lan said this to no less than twenty people.
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