Ye Yun's eyes flickered slightly, and she silently gave Qin Zheng a look.
Qin Zheng immediately understood.
Turning to look at Lao Gao, he raised his voice and said casually, "Lao Gao, it's just a small thing, why are you so angry?"
Gu Jin, being quick-witted, immediately chimed in, "That's right, we brothers aren't angry yet!"
Qin Zheng added, "We've never heard you mention that you have an older sister and a nephew. We're such good friends, you're not being a true brother to us."
Gu Jin added, "Exactly! You never even mentioned it. Old Qin and I thought you were an only child!"
Their back-and-forth banter left Lao Gao completely bewildered.
He didn't know who to reply to first, so he waved his hand haphazardly and said, "Let's not talk about that family!"
Gu Jin asked, "Why?"
"Why, why? You never do anything productive all day, why do you have so many 'whys'?"
Old Gao was in a bad mood and started picking fights with everyone he met. He said, "My older sister broke off all ties with my parents to marry a scoundrel, which angered my mother to death. Her son is an even bigger scoundrel. He got a girl pregnant before marriage, just like his bastard father!"
"With such a large family, what do you think I have to say to you?"
"It would be too embarrassing for me to tell anyone!"
As he finished speaking, Lao Gao became more and more agitated, and spat angrily on the ground.
Gu Jin was speechless with astonishment.
If that's the case, then there's really nothing worth saying.
Fearing Ye Yun wouldn't hear the news she wanted, Qin Zheng calmly continued, "Old Gao, is your relationship with this older sister also bad?"
"Pah, I wish I had nothing to do with her."
A hint of hatred flashed in Lao Gao's eyes as he said, "When my parents passed away, she didn't even glance at them. She was incredibly heartless!"
"Now that she sees I have a little money and thinks we're family, she keeps coming over to me to ask for money. How can we possibly have a good relationship?"
Ye Yun blinked.
Thinking about it, I wondered if I should advise Lao Gao, Qin Zheng's partner, to calm down.
"Make a scene, make a scene as big as you can, he'll be happy when his wife divorces him!"
Before Ye Yun could speak, Lao Gao waved his hand and said in an almost commanding tone, "Sister-in-law, you don't need to worry about him. Let him go crazy if he wants to! If he gets in the way of your business at the factory gate, just have someone stick him out of the way and don't hold back!"
Ye Yun didn't dare to answer.
Should she say that Xun Xiangbin's madness might be inextricably linked to her?
After thinking for a moment, she decided to hold back, chuckled, and coaxed, "Old Gao, could you tell us more about your nephew, like... why he would insist on going to the countryside to find some woman?"
"ha."
Old Gao was so angry that he laughed instead.
Extremely disappointed in his nephew, he finally couldn't hold back and cursed at his mother in exasperation.
When he spoke again, his words still carried a hint of sarcasm, but his tone was much calmer: "We don't know what he was thinking. Everyone knows he had a girlfriend in the countryside who he couldn't forget, but didn't he ruin that relationship himself?"
"I was even planning to propose to him, but then he suddenly got another girl pregnant. Can you believe how he behaved?"
"Fine, you got drunk and got her pregnant, so why don't you marry her and live a good life with her?"
"Hey, he won't!"
"After getting married, we slept in separate rooms, and we argued every three days and had a major fight every five days. When we argued, we almost blew the roof off the house!"
"Now the child is four or five years old. The little girl has a sweet tongue and calls out to everyone she sees. Even I, her distant great-uncle, love her."
“His wife has a proper job, and his daughter is obedient. What more could he want?”
"But he's still not satisfied. He keeps saying he's having a hard time and comes to me for drinks and to complain all the time. When you slept with him, why didn't you think about taking responsibility?"
"If you don't want to, then don't marry her. It's better than bringing her home and then cursing her later!"
"My older sister is also clueless. She only cares about the baby in the other person's belly and doesn't care whether her own child is willing or not. She hastily arranged a wedding for the two of them."
"Goodness, ever since they got married, life has been really lively!"
After saying that, Lao Gao shrugged, looking indifferent. He was both helpless and speechless about this family's mess, and didn't want to get involved at all.
It was less of an announcement and more of a notification.
It's more like venting.
Old Gao's words were filled with strong personal emotions. Ye Yun painstakingly pieced together what he wanted to express from his words and also reconstructed the truth of what happened back then.
It turns out that Xun Xiangbin had also told his family about Luo Xiujuan's existence.
He even got Lao Gao, his uncle who wasn't very close but was the most influential, to propose marriage on his behalf.
Unfortunately, a surprise attack came along halfway through.
Thinking about this, Ye Yun felt that something was not quite right. If Xun Xiangbin had not abandoned Luo Xiujuan, then why was he still with other girls?
This feeling of unease persisted until she returned home.
Under the warm light, she rested her chin on her hand, deep in thought, unable to understand what was wrong with Xun Xiangbin's situation.
Qin Zheng brought her a basin of water to wash her feet, put her feet in the water, and gently asked her what she was thinking, breaking her thoughts.
"I was thinking about Xiao Hai."
"How's the water temperature?"
Qin Zheng didn't mind, and instead carefully poured some hot water on the back of her feet.
Ye Yun nodded and casually said it was alright, then immediately asked, "Qin Zheng, don't you think there's something fishy about Xun Xiangbin's marriage?"
What's strange about it?
"Since he originally planned to have his elders propose marriage to Sister Juan, why did he still get involved with other girls and get one of them pregnant?"
"Didn't Lao Gao say that if you get drunk and mess things up, the other person will be pregnant when you wake up?"
"Qin Zheng, don't tease me."
Ye Yun cupped Qin Zheng's face in her hands, looking down at his eagle eyes beneath his thick eyebrows. Her small face was full of seriousness as she said, "He got drunk from drinking, not from taking drugs. You should know that men don't have that ability when they're drunk."
Qin Zheng suddenly smiled.
His large, still-dampened hands grasped Ye Yun's small hands that were cupping his face. He smiled faintly, a hint of amusement spreading across his face. "Wife, you know so much?"
Ye Yun blushed.
She awkwardly pulled her hand away from Qin Zheng's, muttering under her breath, "I'm a married woman, you aren't, and you've never been drunk before..."
"Um?"
Qin Zheng was slightly taken aback.
After a long while, he seemed to finally process Ye Yun's words. His mouth opened slightly in astonishment, as if in disbelief: "Wife, you mean you should try it when I'm drunk..."
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Before he could finish speaking, a small hand angrily covered his mouth.
Qin Zheng looked up and was met with a young woman's anger and shyness...
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