Zhao Futang and Yang Yuelan exchanged a glance, both feeling somewhat awkward. Yang Yuelan turned her head and looked at the newly built room window with the curtains tightly closed, then said to Zhao Chengjun, "It's cold outside, you should go back inside."
“They were really kissing inside the house, I saw it all,” Zhao Chengjun said again. “My third uncle was also hugging my third aunt…”
"Go read on the kang (heated brick bed), don't run around." Zhao Futang didn't even look up, continuing to wash the radishes in his hands.
"You should read your book obediently, and I'll make you something delicious tonight," Yang Yuelan urged. "If you don't behave, I'll tell your parents and have them take you back home."
Zhao Chengjun then jogged back into the house.
Xu Qingning heard everything clearly inside the house and blushed deeply. She pushed Zhao Jingyu away, saying, "Go out and help with the work. I want to sleep."
“They’re washing and pickling vegetables, and I don’t know how to do that.” Zhao Jingyu wasn’t embarrassed. He pointed to the scar on his forehead. “I’m currently recovering from my injury and am here to take care of you. I don’t need to do anything else.”
"I don't care about you, I'm going to sleep." Xu Qingning pulled back the covers and lay down. Zhao Jingyu also crawled into bed. "We can take a nap together."
In bed, he looked at her, she looked at him, their eyes met, and Xu Qingning was the first to give in, turning over and turning her back to him.
Zhao Jingyu hugged her from behind: "Aren't you going to ask me about Xiao Tingshen and the others?"
"Yeah, how did they do?" Xu Qingning didn't not want to ask, but she was too lazy to ask. She had already won first place, so they must have failed!
She didn't want their affair to ruin her good mood.
"Did you think that the burglary in my room was just a coincidence?" Zhao Jingyu then told her everything that happened in the provincial capital and his chance encounter with Ge Yanni. "On the surface, it was Chen Meili who did it, but in reality, it was Tang Wenya who did it. Xiao Tingshen should not have known. Tell me, why are those two acting like madmen, why are they so fixated on us?"
“It’s obvious that Tang Wenya is jealous of me,” Xu Qingning said calmly. “She has always felt that I am not as good as her. Now that I am doing better than her, she feels unbalanced and tries every means to go against me. She’s no different from a madwoman.”
Actually, she couldn't understand why Tang Wenya had become like this.
In the original story, Tang Wenya's character was not like this. She was admitted to university with Xiao Tingshen, then had a baby during winter break, and continued her university studies after completing her postpartum period.
The original owner suffered greatly in the countryside and hated Tang Wenya to the extreme, so she took revenge on her in a crazy way, opposing her at every turn, just like her current situation with Tang Wenya.
The male and female leads' daily life consists of various displays of affection, bed scenes, and then the male lead slapping the face of the cannon fodder female supporting character, as well as any other female supporting characters who have feelings for the male lead.
Although their relationship was not smooth sailing, with many breakups and reconciliations, they eventually lived happily together.
Now, because of her changes, the whole plot has changed. Tang Wenya seems to have become the original version of herself, but she has not followed Tang Wenya's path.
She is walking her own path.
“Her jealousy will only drive her crazier,” Zhao Jingyu said knowingly. “We’ll get better and better off in the future, and that will drive her crazy.”
Xu Qingning just smiled.
She'd face whatever came her way; she wasn't afraid of Tang Wenya anyway, and she'd tough it out if she dared.
Tang Wenya was furious when she received Xiao Tingshen's letter: "I knew he would always contradict me, as if he were so upright and honest."
System: "Host, don't worry, the police station can't find Chen Meili. The leader of that organization has already fled the provincial capital. No one can prove that Chen Meili is the mastermind."
"But Xu Qingning still got first place, didn't she?" Tang Wenya was furious inside. "When did she become so successful..."
Xu Qingning was clearly just her little follower.
She has things that Xu Qingning doesn't.
System: "Host, you are the female lead, so you should actively promote the main plot and solve the problems in the main plot, instead of fighting with Xu Qingning in the side plots."
“You didn’t say that before,” Tang Wenya complained to the system. “Not to mention anything else, you were the one who suggested this fashion competition. You said we could compete for it. Now look what’s happened. When Chen Meili comes back, she’ll definitely say I’m unreliable.”
Xiao Tingshen said it in the letter.
He told her that if Chen Meili was the one who did it, she would definitely be implicated, and that she should be prepared.
System: "Don't worry, she'll be fine. Trust me. Although we didn't win against Xu Qingning, we still annoyed her and it also helped advance the main storyline, didn't it?"
"What do you mean?" Tang Wenya no longer trusted the system. "You shouldn't suggest such underhanded tricks that do me no good in the future."
"The main problem is that I can't find any information about Xu Qingning, so I didn't know she was prepared in advance," the system said, frustrated.
It felt that its repeated setbacks were because Tang Wenya had previously blocked it, damaging its functions. In the end, it was all because of Xu Qingning.
“Xiao Tingshen is already angry because of this, and I don’t want him to come back and argue with me about it.” Tang Wenya touched her belly. “Don’t tell me about Xu Qingning anymore. After I give birth, I will study hard and get into a university in the provincial capital so that I can see him every day.”
“Okay, then let’s focus on developing the main storyline and work hard to improve ourselves.” The system agreed. “The problem in the main storyline right now is Ge Yanni. If she comes, don’t panic. Just focus on getting along well with Xiao Tingshen. Ge Yanni isn’t difficult to deal with.”
"I understand." Tang Wenya never took Ge Yanni seriously. No matter how seductive Ge Yanni was, Xiao Tingshen was still her man and the father of her child.
Ge Yanni can't take Xiao Tingshen away.
The next afternoon, Zhao Jingwen got off work and rode his bicycle to meet Zhao Futang and Zhao Jingwu.
As soon as he entered the door, he asked Yang Yuelan, "Mom, where's Chengjun?"
"He went out to play with Yaqiang." Yang Yuelan glanced at him expressionlessly. "Your dad and Jingwu are inside. Come in and sit down!"
Yesterday, the elderly couple took turns trying to persuade Zhao Jingwu, and they finally managed to calm him down.
Zhao Jingwu agreed to have a good talk with Zhao Jingwen, since they were brothers and should continue to keep in touch.
With nothing to do, Xu Qingning sat in her room drawing her design drafts. She couldn't afford to lose her job; it was very important.
Zhao Jingyu roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes on the stove. Xu Qingning especially loved them, and he loved them too. The two of them would roast a few every day.
Hearing Zhao Jingwen enter the house, Zhao Jingyu put down the shovel in his hand and went over: "Big brother, second brother, you should talk things out and not quarrel."
A silence fell over the room.
Zhao Jingwen didn't know how to bring it up; he was actually quite annoyed.
This matter could be a big deal or a small deal. If Zhao Jingwu keeps pressing the issue, he won't be polite.
"Brother, you promised to give me any more job openings, so why did you give them to sister-in-law?" Zhao Jingwu's anger flared up the moment he saw Zhao Jingwen. "And you didn't even let us know, you just quietly got it done. Is our years of brotherhood less important than a job opening?"
“You weren’t in the village at the time, and your sister-in-law didn’t think much of it, so she brought the child to the city.” Knowing he was in the wrong, Zhao Jingwen still tried to salvage the situation. “Who knew that once we arrived, the factory would want us? It wouldn’t be right to go back and replace you, would it?”
"Are you treating me like an idiot?" Zhao Jingwu grew angrier and angrier, and stood up abruptly. "Even if Dad isn't home, my mother-in-law's house is only two or three miles away, a ten-minute walk. How dare you say I'm not home?"
"Jingwu, sit down." Zhao Futang pressed him down to sit, his face darkening. "All of you, speak properly."
"Anyway, things are already like this." Zhao Jingwen was angered by Zhao Jingwu's attitude. "Your sister-in-law's job wasn't arranged by Dad, so think what you want."
"You did something like this, and you still think you're right?" Zhao Jingwu was completely enraged. "You only care about yourself, where are we? I've always respected you and treated you like an older brother, ptooey!"
"You talk like you're so noble. Don't think I don't know you've been badmouthing me behind my back." Zhao Jingwen was also furious. "You know how to keep targeting my weaknesses, and there are so many things I haven't settled accounts with you for yet!"
"Let's stick to the facts. Why are you bringing up old grievances?"
"I just made it up, so what?"
The two argued back and forth, their words growing more and more heated, until they started fighting.
"What are you doing?" Yang Yuelan panicked. "Stop right now, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
"Jingwen, let go first." Zhao Futang stepped forward to separate the two men. "Let go of each other."
Zhao Jingyu leaned against the door and saw his two older brothers fighting. He couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed their sleeves, saying, "If you want to fight, go outside."
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