Chapter 87: Maybe the relationship will get even better?
Ning Tang's happy smile vanished instantly, and she turned to look at the source of the sound.
At this moment, Ning Xin, who was standing behind, was furious and wished that everyone in the world would disappear. She pinned Ning Tang to the ground and beat her to death.
"Ningxin, you need to provide evidence when you speak."
"The house was broken into a long time ago. The local police station investigated it back then and it had nothing to do with me. Are you trying to pick a fight by bringing this up again?" Ning Tang smiled slightly, not taking the furious person in front of her seriously.
Her nonchalant demeanor only made her more hateful in Ning Xin's eyes.
At this moment, Xu Qiaofeng came forward to add insult to injury.
He shielded Ning Tang behind him, while Xu Qiaoyan, who was beside him, did not speak, but his expression slowly turned dangerous, his narrow eyes full of scrutiny.
Xu Qiaofeng warned coldly, "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."
“I know my wife well. It’s none of your business to judge her. Besides, what gives you the right to criticize her?”
"I see you're a woman who doesn't want to fight. If you keep slandering her, don't blame me for being impolite."
Previously, after learning about Ning Tang's tragic past as a girl, Xu Qiaofeng harbored hatred towards the Ning family.
In particular, Ning's mother deliberately drugged him, hoping to bring her own daughter Ning Xin to her bed so that they could force the issue and she could marry into the Xu family.
If it weren't for fate arranging for him to meet Tangtang, he wouldn't even dare to think about the future...
Ning Xin shrank back in fright at the man's gaze.
But the thought of Ning Tang living a successful life while he was being tortured in hell every day made him realize how wonderful it was.
I don't know what's wrong with Zhang Yanfei, but now she beats her for even a single grain of rice, forbids her from eating for free, and makes her work every day.
Today, she came to the supply and marketing cooperative because Zhang Yanfei gave her the order to buy rice and cook.
In other words, it was the nanny she used to look down on the most.
Ning Xin was furious. They only gave her a few bills, yet she wanted to eat delicacies. She used to spend hundreds of yuan on a pen without batting an eye, but now she had to be careful with money for a few yuan!
Overwhelmed by the poison, Ning Xin's mind went blank, and she pointed directly at Ning Tang's nose and shouted.
"What is my identity?"
"I am your older sister, your sister-in-law!"
"Ning Tang, you used to wear my hand-me-downs when you were in the Ning family, but now you can afford polyester, and you're still spending money on outsiders. Do you even respect me as your older sister anymore?!"
"I think you stole all the money from the house, leaving my mother and me to eat nothing but coarse food!"
She had her eye on this dress before, and begged Zhang Yanfei for a long time, trying her best to impress him, but in the end he just dismissed her by saying it was too expensive and he didn't have the money.
She had inquired at the hospital before and found out that Ning Tang's monthly salary was at most twenty yuan.
She has almost a month's salary today. If she didn't steal it from home, how could it have fallen from the sky?
It's currently closing time, and the supply and marketing cooperative is packed with people.
The people shopping nearby, who love to join in the fun, immediately huddled together and started chattering as soon as they heard the words "stealing money."
Soon, countless eyes fell on Ning Tang.
She was well taken care of during this time, while Ning Xin on the other side was tormented and looked haggard.
To onlookers, it looked like evidence of a crime.
"Yes, look how well she's dressed, her face is so fair and tender, you can tell she's living a very comfortable life. And look at her sister, she looks like a wilted cabbage in the field."
"No way, there's no way such a thing could happen. If word got out, people would gossip about us and curse us to death."
"What do you know? Some people are more attached to money than their parents. Who knows what kind of beasts they might do?"
"It's just pitiful for the older sister to have such a younger sister. She should have drowned her in a chamber pot in the first place."
Ning Xin felt incredibly pleased to see everyone speaking up for her.
He arrogantly raised his chin and reached out to pull Ning Tang to the police station next door.
Just as she reached out her hand.
Ning Tang didn't hold back and slapped it hard.
She didn't rush to refute the misunderstandings of those around her; instead, she looked at Ning Xin with a cold, emotionless gaze.
"Sister? You dare to use the word 'sister'?"
"How can this girl talk like that? I told you she's an ingrate!" The older women around Ning Tang all cursed her angrily.
Xu Qiaofeng and Xu Qiaoyan were so angry that the veins on their hands bulged.
Just as they were about to step forward to stop her, Ning Tang slowly spoke up.
"I remember, your mother carried me back from outside, didn't she?"
“When I’m hungry, you deliberately eat cookies in front of me, not even giving me the crumbs that fall on the ground. If I disobey you, you complain and tie me up outside in the dead of winter to be punished.”
Ning Tang's voice was soft, and when she spoke of her painful past, her eyes were devoid of emotion, yet a few tears slowly streamed down her face.
She was just pretending to be pitiful.
It's just acting, anyone can do that.
She had previously moved all of the Ning family's belongings into her spatial storage, and hadn't touched them since, originally intending to donate them when the opportunity arose.
Looking back now, on what basis?
The Ning family treated her so badly, why should these things be given to unrelated people?
It's better to use it as compensation for yourself!
Upon hearing that there was more to the story, especially since the child was adopted, the expressions of those around them immediately changed.
Nowadays, every household is struggling to get enough to eat, not to mention the past, when conditions were even more difficult.
Who would be so foolish as to adopt a child? Especially a girl?
For a moment, some people who sensed something was wrong shut their mouths.
Those who had just been helping Ning Xin changed their expressions, their eyes shifting from sympathy to disdain and suspicion.
"Girl, if it's really as your sister says, then your family is too cruel."
"An adopted child is also a life; how can you treat them like this?"
"Oh my god, they say it's adopted, but where did they get it from? Who would know if no one told them?"
"If I had such a beautiful daughter, I would never have lost her. Who knows if this child was adopted or stolen?"
Ning Xin's face turned deathly pale.
She couldn't understand why these people were speaking up for her just now, but then suddenly they were helping Ning Tang.
They're all shameless opportunists!
"You outsiders shouldn't talk nonsense if you don't know. My mother is already being kind by giving her a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Does someone who was adopted expect to live better than me?" Ning Xin rolled her eyes, thinking they were delusional.
"I don't care, I suspect this money of yours is ill-gotten. You have to prove to me whether it belongs to the Ning family or not!"
Xu Qiaofeng could no longer bear it.
They exchanged glances with Xu Qiaoyan beside them, and the two of them shielded Ning Tang behind them.
How dare they bully the Xu family in front of them? Do they really think they're dead?
"I haven't even had a chance to seek justice for the harm my wife suffered in your family, and you're already coming here looking for your own death?"
"What, you want her to prove it? I'm putting it out there today, my wife, Xu Qiaofeng's wife, doesn't lack these two coins. She will hand over her salary and savings, and it would be more than enough to buy a hundred items."
"Going to the police station? Great, I happen to have some questions that I need the police officers to answer. What are you doing here, a capitalist's daughter who's been sent down to the countryside, instead of in the Great Northern Wilderness?"
Xu Qiaofeng had previously investigated Ning Xin.
I know she was allowed to return to the city because she had contracted a lung disease.
But looking at her lively and troublesome manner in front of me, she doesn't seem like someone with poor health at all.
Ning Xin's face turned pale instantly.
She had been soaking in the river for several hours before developing a high fever, which made her fellow educated youth who had been sent to the countryside suspicious.
If Xu Qiaofeng keeps holding on to her, won't things be exposed?
Will she be sent back to the Great Northern Wilderness then?
The mere thought of this possibility was unacceptable to Ning Xin. She dared not offend Xu Qiaofeng, and could only glare at Ning Tang, the culprit, with resentful eyes.
Ning Tang was too lazy to waste her breath arguing with this kind of person.
Moreover, with so many people watching, and it being near the hospital, it's not good for her.
So he winked in Xu Qiaofeng's direction.
"Woodcutter's wind... I'm so scared."
Xu Qiaofeng couldn't stand seeing his obedient and timid wife being bullied, especially when she looked at him with such a helpless expression!
He immediately questioned Ning Xin in a cold voice: "Why are you glaring at her?"
"You, you shameless bastard!"
Ning Xin was furious. Don't think that she didn't see Ning Tang just now because she did it on purpose.
Is he showing off to himself?
Ning Xin desperately told herself in her mind that it didn't matter, that she didn't care.
But her eyes still couldn't help but linger on Xu Qiaofeng's handsome face and tall, upright figure.
In particular, he is now standing in front of the woman with a very manly air, a protective stance that he had never seen even when he was deeply in love with Zhang Yanfei in his previous life.
Not to mention, she was the one who married Xu Qiaofeng in her past life...
She should be the one who deserves this treatment.
Ning Xin couldn't understand why the man who was so cold to her in her past life and had never even touched her body was now acting like a completely different person when he met Ning Tang.
Having been husband and wife for a short time in her past life, she knew all too well.
Since Xu Qiaofeng dared to openly use terms like "capitalist" and "Great Northern Wilderness," he would definitely not let it go easily.
The onlookers began whispering amongst themselves, some secretly rubbing their hands together in anticipation.
We've always heard about capitalists, but today they've finally caught one alive!
They need to be thoroughly punished!
Capitalists, that stinking excrement, must be eliminated!
Seeing that the people around her were about to pounce on her, Ning Xin, who was already terrified after being beaten at the hospital entrance last time, forced herself to remain calm and took half a step back.
"I suddenly remembered I have something to do at home, so I won't keep arguing with you guys here."
"Ning Tang, you're such a jinx, I shouldn't have let my mom bring you back from the train station in the first place!"
After saying that, Ning Xin practically fled.
Seeing that there was no more excitement to watch, everyone dispersed.
All the way back, Xu Qiaofeng and Xu Qiaoyan kept looking at each other in bewilderment.
To be honest, they previously thought Ning Tang was born into a wonderful family, and no one could believe that such a good girl had gone through these experiences.
——
I've arrived home.
Grandpa Xu and Grandma Xu were chatting in the yard when they saw them return, and they greeted them with smiles.
They seemed very curious about how they met and came back together.
Ning Tang walked up quickly and took out the gift she had bought.
"Grandpa, these are the clothes I bought for you. Do you like them?"
Grandpa Xu was shocked and quickly got up from his rocking chair: "Tangtang, Grandpa has clothes to wear, why don't you spend the money on yourself?"
Although all three grandsons are very filial, the boys are more carefree and less attentive to detail than the girls.
In addition, Su Ying was very busy with the art troupe, leaving early and returning late, so she didn't pay attention to these things.
As for her former daughter-in-law Wenya, she didn't care about that at all; she was only concerned with her own beauty.
So, when he received the gift out of the blue, Grandpa Xu was so excited that it took him a long time to realize how much the younger generation had spent the money.
Ning Tang smiled and handed over the clothes, her voice gentle:
“Grandpa’s clothes are all a bit too small. I carefully selected this material; it’s soft and has a good fit.”
"Please try it. If it doesn't suit you or you don't like it, I'll go and take another look."
Grandma Xu also came over to take a look, and pouted, "Tangtang has good taste, she'll definitely look great in this."
“But you’ve only been working for a short time, haven’t you received your salary yet? Don’t think about buying us things. We’re old, and we won’t look good in them. You’re still young, so dress yourself up more.”
His words were full of concern for his granddaughter-in-law.
There was also a deep-seated jealousy towards her spouse.
"Don't worry, Grandma, I've bought them all." Ning Tang had also noticed, and smiled as she took out the fabric she had bought. "These are the fabrics I bought to make clothes for Grandma."
Upon hearing that she had one too, Grandma Xu was overjoyed and straightened her back considerably.
She took Ning Tang's hand, patted it affectionately, and said, "Good Tangtang, Grandma also has a gift for you. Come in with Grandma."
"good."
Ning Tang, not understanding why, followed him into the house.
As soon as I entered the house, the door was locked from the inside.
They even nervously drew the curtains shut.
They look as if there's some kind of raging flood outside.
Grandma Xu opened the wardrobe and took a box out of the bottom drawer.
The box was beautifully packaged, unopened, and had a long string of English text on it.
Grandma Xu said, "Tangtang, all my relatives are abroad. They brought this back when they came back to China to visit relatives. They said it's very popular abroad."
"I'm old and faded, there's no use for me anymore, so I'll give it to you, my little darling."
As Grandma Xu spoke, she carefully unpacked the box.
Before Ning Tang could refuse, she saw a dark red skirt lying inside.
The fabric is not the common cotton cloth found in China; it feels very smooth to the touch and has a very stylish design.
The only drawback...
It has a very large neckline, a very short skirt, and even the sides of the waist are cut out.
Ning Tang's face flushed instantly, and she didn't dare to look up and meet Grandma Xu's gaze.
She whispered, "Grandma...this dress is too revealing..."
In those days, girls wore skirts that went past their knees to their ankles, and their necklines were completely covered up. She couldn't even imagine wearing something like this.
Grandma Xu didn't think there was anything wrong with it; instead, she even brought the skirt over to compare it to her own.
“Oh my, this will definitely make your waist look slimmer and your legs look longer. We won’t wear it out, but when you’re with Qiaofeng, just the two of you, it will look so good on you.”
"Besides, who knows, maybe your relationship will get even better after you put on this dress!"
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