Xie Huihua hurried to Yard No. 13 and told Bai Hongmei the news he had heard today, adding some exaggeration.
"Sister Hua, which family member did you hear this from? If Shen Xiao's family is really that powerful, how could they let him marry an educated youth who is nothing?"
Bai Hongmei looked calm on the outside, but her heart was already in turmoil.
Xie Huihua listened to Bai Hongmei's questioning tone and felt guilty, so she didn't dare to look her in the eye. Secretly regretted that he shouldn't have boasted too much about Shen Xiao's family background just to get a little more money.
Shen Xiao's family background is really as impressive as she said. Why would he go to the Great Northern Wilderness Corps instead of enjoying his life in Beijing?
Xie Huihua hung her head and dared not say a word. Bai's mother walked in holding a pile of freeze-dried clothes.
He threw the half-dry clothes onto the kang, straightened them and said to Bai Hongmei, "What Xiaohua said is probably true."
Xie Huihua turned around and looked at Bai's mother with surprise: "Aunt, do you believe me?"
Bai's mother sat down on the kang and nodded in a pretentious manner at the sight of Xie Huihua.
"In the past, people always talked about marriage and wanted to marry someone of equal status, but what era is it now? Is it the same as before? Let me tell you, the better the family background, the less likely they are to find someone with good conditions when marrying off their daughters."
"Qiao Baozhu's family has been poor peasants for eight generations. There are more than a dozen people in the family and only two pairs of pants. These days, the poorer you are, the more glorious you are. People of culture like your father, the dean of their school, are the most miserable."
Thinking back to the past, all the resentment in Bai's mother's heart burst out like a flood.
Bai Hongmei was afraid that her mother would say something outrageous, so she quickly shouted, "Mom, what are you talking about? Dean Sui deserved it. Why do you sympathize with him?"
Mother Bai was startled by her daughter's shattered scream. She looked up and saw Xie Huihua looking at her with his triangular eyes. Realizing that she had said something she shouldn't have, Bai's mother felt a chill down her spine.
"When people get old, they love to talk about the past. Xiaohua, I'm sorry to make you laugh."
Bai's mother pulled the corner of her mouth guiltily, exchanged a few words of greeting and changed the subject.
Xie Huihua was in high spirits at the moment, so she brought the topic back to the topic: "Aunt, you just said that Captain Shen wanted to marry a poor educated youth because of his good family background. What do you mean? I don't understand."
Bai's mother usually likes to teach others. Seeing Xie Huihua's eagerness to learn, she found the feeling she had when she was teaching in the past.
She cleared her throat, put on the demeanor of an old teacher, and began to justify herself with a stern face.
"I have met Shen Xiao. From his conversation, I can tell that his family is well-off. But intellectuals like us have always been able to see through things but not to speak out. If he doesn't take the initiative to say it, we won't ask."
Bai's mother portrayed herself as extremely noble in her words and deeds, which made Xie Huihua full of admiration.
"Aunt, I find that you are really different from others. After all, you are a cultured person, which means you are more profound than the illiterate people in our countryside. If it were me, I would have long ago asked what Captain Shen's father did."
Xie Huihua's few flattering words made Bai's mother feel elated. I was just about to teach Xie Huihua a lesson as a person with experience.
The next second, he was slapped in the face by Xie Huihua.
"Aunt, if you had asked about Captain Shen's situation earlier, the person living in Yard 28 right now would be Hongmei."
Xie Huihua looked at Bai Hongmei and her daughter with a teasing look, which stunned Bai's mother.
Bai Hongmei married Shen Xiao?
My daughter had mentioned this to her before. What did she say at that time?
She advised her daughter to wait for a while, after all, Wei Yanda had only been dead for a few days. Even if I want to remarry, I should at least stay with him for a year.
If she had known that Shen Xiao was so well-off, she would have married her daughter and grandchildren into the Shen family even if it meant sacrificing her reputation.
Xie Huihua almost laughed out loud as she watched Bai's mother's face turn blue and red.
"Speaking of Captain Shen's family, she is really capable."
"Not only can she earn money at work, but she can also collect shoe soles after get off work. I heard that the new Sisters Mutual Aid Society was her idea. Qiao Baozhu is quite smart."
Xie Huihua almost laughed out loud as he saw Bai Hongmei's face becoming increasingly ugly.
Everyone knows that Bai Hongmei has a crush on Captain Shen, and she shamelessly moves into the staff quarters with her three children. Just when everyone thought that Captain Shen would marry her, Qiao Baozhu came to marry him.
Bai Hongmei's efforts were in vain and she almost hated Qiao Baozhu to death.
As expected, Bai Hongmei's face turned green when she heard Xie Huihua praising Qiao Baozhu.
"Before I got married, there was already a paper box-pasting craft in our neighborhood. Qingyanshan Farm is really a small place, and even a small thing like a sesame seed can cause such a big commotion."
"What a petty person..."
Bai Hongmei shook her head in disgust, unable to understand why such a trivial matter could cause such a commotion in the entire family compound.
Yesterday, Li Yan from next door came to her house and talked about it several times. She was so excited, as if she could become a millionaire by pasting paper boxes.
Bai Hongmei despised Li Yan's pettiness, and felt sorry for herself when she saw that the families of cadres in the family compound were all so unpresentable.
With her skills and pretty face, if Wei Yanda were still alive, she would definitely be very popular in the military family compound and scare these unsophisticated and useless military families into hiding back in their hometowns and never coming out again.
"No matter what, Qiao Baozhu is lucky. Captain Shen listens to his second aunt the most, and his second aunt is optimistic about Qiao Baozhu. Oh, she has been in the leadership team for only a few days after the marriage."
"When she gives birth to a son for the Shen family, wow, wow, wow, life will be so good. They will have to eat rice and flour every day and make new clothes every month."
Qiao Xifeng's words, 'I can't wear out all the new clothes my sister makes for me in three to five years,' flashed through Xie Huihua's mind, and she felt upset.
Yes, Captain Shen’s family members are the most fashionably dressed women in the family compound.
This winter alone, Xie Huihua saw Qiao Baozhu wearing two new sets of clothes. One is a brand new military coat, and the other is a uniform-style cotton jacket. The uniform-style cotton-padded jacket is a new type of detachable cotton-padded jacket that combines a cover and a jacket into one.
Xie Huihua had only seen this on educated youth in the provincial capital and Beijing. People from poorer backgrounds were lucky enough to have a cotton jacket to keep warm, so who would care whether it was easy to take apart and wash?
No matter whether it is a military coat or a uniform cotton-padded jacket, whichever one Xie Huihua wears, it is a beautiful thing that would make her wake up with a smile in her dreams.
Unfortunately, she only had an old cotton jacket that she had worn for three or four years.
We are all women, so why does she live so comfortably?
Xie Huihua felt upset and instantly lost interest in chatting. She just wanted to go home, lie on the warm kang, and soothe her frustrated heart.
When Xie Huihua looked up and saw Bai Hongmei with a look as if her father had died, she was so scared that she almost fell off the kang.
"Hong, Hongmei. Why do you look so unhappy? What's wrong with you?"
Xie Huihua stared at Bai Hongmei's belly, fearing that something unexpected might happen.
Bai Hongmei touched her belly and gave Xie Huihua a strange smile.
"I'm fine. This kid is too tough. His kick hurt me so much."
Bai Hongmei placed her dry and slender hands on her belly and stroked it slowly, and her voice became ethereal and mournful.
“Sister Hua, you just said that as long as Qiao Baozhu gave Shen Xiao a son, what would her future life be like?”
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