Qiao Xifeng's shameless face made Ge Liuping so angry that her chest felt like it was blocked by a rock and she was gasping for breath.
After patting herself on the chest and taking a deep breath for a while, Ge Liuping softened her tone.
"Haiyang is a capable and promising city boy. When he returns from studying in an agricultural class, he might replace your uncle as the farm manager."
"Son-in-law has been making progress, but you are so lazy. Aren't you afraid that he will dislike you and divorce you in the future?"
"My daughter, listen to my mother's advice. Work harder and spend less money. Only by giving birth to a son as soon as possible can you secure your place in the Zhao family."
Ge Liuping put herself in her daughter's shoes. She didn't want Qiao Xifeng to go through the hardships she had experienced in her husband's family in her early years.
"Mom, what you said is all old news. Let me tell you, Zhao Haiyang is different from the people my dad and I are with. He is a capable, ambitious man who wants to climb the social ladder."
Qiao Xifeng curled her lips nonchalantly and explained her great principles to Ge Liuping with a smug look on her face.
"If you want to be a good leader, ability is the least important. First of all, you must have a clean background and good conduct. Officials value the reputation of their subordinates the most. If a person is labeled as having a bad work style, fickle, lustful and stupid, even if he has the ability to make a big splash, the people above him will not be proud of him."
No one knows better than Qiao Xifeng the importance of a good reputation.
In his previous life, Shen Xiao was the top leader of the Qingyanshan Agricultural Reclamation New District. He personally built Qingyanshan Farm into a nationally renowned granary and a national agricultural demonstration window.
But what did we get in the end?
While others rose rapidly to high positions, he remained at Qingyanshan Farm his entire life.
Shen Xiao has no ability? Or no family background?
Just because of the unclear rumors between him and Bai Hongmei, and because he shamelessly supported the widow and that family.
Shen Xiao has a stubborn temper, refuses to give in, and doesn't flatter others, so he has offended countless people at work. Whenever the leaders wanted to promote him, there would always be people who would suppress him by saying that Shen Xiao had a bad work style and was greedy for women.
After so many times, the leaders no longer cared about him. Anyway, he is not jealous of others getting promoted or getting rich, so just keep him at the grassroots level and let him continue to work on his career.
In her previous life, Qiao Baozhu gave birth to a mentally retarded son who later drowned. Zhao Haiyang rose to a high position and became a high-ranking official. He didn't even have a child, but he was still willing to spend his whole life with Qiao Baozhu.
The common people of Qingyan Mountain all said that Zhao Haiyang had average abilities, but he was appreciated by his leaders and promoted high because of his precious qualities of not abandoning his wife and preferring to have no son rather than divorce.
Shen Xiao is capable and has a good reputation in Qingyan Mountain, but he is not clean in matters of men and women. His superiors look down on him and he loses his path to promotion.
In official circles, character is more important than ability, and choice is more important than family background.
Qiao Xifeng's words were convincing. Ge Liuping thought about it for a moment and felt that her daughter was right.
"You are right. Officials all want to save face. I think your uncle and grandfather are the same. You know how to control your son-in-law and make him listen to you in the future."
Before Ge Liuping could finish her words, she heard her daughter's stomach growling.
Qiao Xifeng did not feel ashamed and complained to her mother confidently: "The walls of the staff dormitory are as thin as paper, the kang is so hot that my butt is burned, and my head is so cold that my hands are frozen."
"I'm alone and I have no food to eat. I really can't stay here any longer."
Hearing this, Ge Liuping felt sad and quickly took out her key and took out an oil-paper bag from the cabinet. Qiao Xifeng snatched the oil paper package and opened it impatiently, revealing five or six pieces of peach cakes.
"This is what San Quezi gave to your grandparents as a gift. Those two old men couldn't bear to eat it, so they left it all to Emperor Guangzong. This is for you, enjoy it slowly."
Qiao Xifeng hasn't had much contact with women since she got married. Holding the peach pastry, he swallowed it in big mouthfuls.
"Eat slowly, it's all yours. Use wax paper to catch the food, and the crumbs won't be visible if they fall on the ground."
Ge Liuping felt sad and distressed when she saw Qiao Xifeng pouncing on her prey like a vicious dog. Although the family was not well off, they did not treat their daughter so harshly. Eating a piece of peach cake feels like eating the fairy peach of the Queen Mother.
"You, you."
"Since your uncle didn't leave you any money, can't you earn a little money yourself? No one in your staff dormitory makes paper boxes by hand?"
"When Chen Xiaozhen was taking care of the kids, she even knew how to paste paper boxes and sew shoe soles."
When it comes to making handmade paper boxes, Qiao Xifeng can't stop feeling resentful.
“Hiccup…hiccup…”
The peach pastry was too choking, and just as Qiao Xifeng was about to complain, she started burping.
He ran to the kitchen, scooped half a bucket of cold water from the water tank, and drank a few big gulps before he could swallow it down.
"Don't drink cold water! You just ate peach cakes and drank cold water. You're going to have diarrhea tonight."
It was useless for Ge Liuping to say anything. Qiao Xifeng wiped her mouth after drinking and said nonchalantly, "The little food in my stomach is not enough for my body to absorb, so there is no way I will have diarrhea. Don't worry, it won't happen."
If you don't eat much, you will poop less. Qiao Xifeng usually only goes to the toilet once every three or four days, so she is not worried about these things.
After eating a few pieces of peach cakes and feeling warm, Qiao Xifeng sat on the kang with her legs crossed and started to complain to her mother.
"I thought I wanted to live my life reaching up?"
"I want to make some money by pasting paper boxes so that I can buy you and my dad some noodles to improve our meals. I went to the mutual aid society today, but I didn't expect San Ya to be there. She was yelling at me for a long time."
“I didn’t get the carton either!”
Qiao Xifeng cut out the beginning and the end and only talked about the parts that were beneficial to herself. Ge Liuping was so angry that she was furious and went to find Qiao Baozhu with a fire stick to ask for an explanation.
"Mom, don't go. That bitch is so evil, you and my dad have experienced it before. She even cheated my uncle and he was suspended from work to reflect on his actions. How can we fight her head-on?"
Ge Liuping fell silent, then cursed unwillingly, "That damn girl, I should have thrown her into the piss bucket and drowned her. She is a jinx and a troublemaker. Nothing good will come of having anything to do with her."
Qiao Xifeng looked at her mother's helpless roar, rolling her eyes and pouting.
"That damn girl doesn't take us seriously now, and she's relying on marrying Shen Xiao. She thinks she's superior just because she lives in the family compound, and she looks down on us poor relatives."
Ge Liuping's eyes were sinister and vicious. "You stupid girl, you want to make trouble just after you climbed up the high branch! Humph, don't show off, she is a worthless creature, and she will fall to death even if she climbs up the high branch."
"Didn't you say that Shen Xiao had always been thinking about the young widow and was afraid of making a bad impression, so he got married? Could it be that Shen Xiao fell in love with someone else and broke up with the young widow?"
Qiao Xifeng sat on the kang with a gloomy look in her eyes, "Broken? Bai Hongmei is a slut who can't live without a man. How could she be willing to let go of such a big piece of fat meat."
When Ge Liuping heard this, she felt relieved. As an experienced person, she understood what her daughter meant.
With a calculating gleam in his eyes, he asked excitedly, "You mean, San Ya turned a blind eye to the affair between those two people. In order to get her to cooperate, the man named Shen helped her transfer to the office."
Qiao Xifeng nodded and looked at her mother meaningfully.
"I'll try to contact Bai Hongmei herself. Then we won't have to do anything ourselves. Someone will take care of her."
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