Shen Xiao was shocked: "Deliberately leaving a few hundred for the thief?"
Isn't this nonsense!
How could my father-in-law agree to such a crude method?
Qiao Changhai is the kind of person who would like to get eight petals out of every penny. Would he be willing to spend hundreds of dollars to feed a thief?
Qiao Baozhu had a good idea. It would make people think that all the money in the family was lost, which would help those jealous people feel balanced.
Even though some people would take the opportunity to ridicule and mock them, Bao Huihua and Qiao Changhai have long been accustomed to those harsh words and don't care about them at all.
In fact, Qiao Changhai was really reluctant to leave the six hundred yuan at home, so he specially exchanged a lot of one-cent, two-cent, one-cent, two-cent, and five-cent banknotes. Wrap it in paper and hide it in various corners of the room. The Big Unity is hidden in the bottom drawer, and several Big Unitys are hidden under the quilt of the kang cabinet.
There are many places to hide the money, more than a dozen in total. Wrap them in newspaper and hide them separately.
The thief entered the house and took out the paper bag. He immediately put the money into his pocket and threw the paper aside.
Qiao Changhai just held a dozen newspapers thrown aside and cried to prove that he had lost several hundred dollars.
The folds on the newspapers were all the size of the big unity, and there were fake bills mixed in among the banknotes. The thief is in a hurry to steal things and will not carefully check whether there is waste paper among the banknotes. But the creases on the newspaper can show how much money was originally packed inside.
Based on the folds in the newspaper, Public Security Cheng recorded that Qiao Changhai had lost a total of eight or nine hundred yuan.
In addition, there were smashed sauce jars, broken furniture, and a stolen radio.
Although Qiao Changhai's loss this time was not as much as 3,600 yuan, it was still as high as thousands of yuan.
Just as the couple became formal employees, their house was robbed. The wages for the next three or four months will all be used to make up for the current losses.
When those shameless colleagues in the factory who came to borrow money heard about it, they ran away one by one. They were afraid that Qiao Changhai would ask them for money.
"There was nothing valuable in the house. There was only pork in the wing room and some coal and firewood that we had stored."
"When the public opinion dies down in a few days, I'll send some more. It's not worth it to let the old couple catch a cold."
Shen Xiao always keeps his word and is not stingy with money. He did not agree with Qiao Changhai's cowardly behavior, but he also understood and respected it.
After all, Qiao Changhai is not him, who has been honest and cowardly all his life. His way of making a living and saving his life must be different from Shen Xiao's.
As a son-in-law, all Shen Xiao can do is to make up for the losses of his father-in-law's family.
"We can't take that salary."
Chen Xiao looked at Qiao Baozhu's clear eyes and said, "The old couple's temper is such that they won't be able to accept it even if you go back. Go to the bank and open an account for them and deposit the money into it. We will deposit a sum of money for them every year in the future. Just think of it as retirement money for them."
When Shen Xiao returned to his parents' home after his wedding, he discussed with their parents about giving them living expenses every month.
Qiao Changhai righteously rejected Shen Xiao, saying that he was still young and not yet old enough to ask his children for money.
Not only did the old couple not ask for money, but every time Qiao Baozhu and Chen Xiao went back, they would prepare a lot of food for them to take back.
Feelings are mutual, and Shen Xiao is not a person who does things in a high-profile manner. But every time he went there, he would drive his jeep to pick up his father-in-law from get off work.
He parked the car at the entrance of the alley in front of Qiao's house, and in front of the neighbors, he went to the door carrying large and small bags of things.
The neighbors saw that Qiao Changhai had a son-in-law who was a military officer and drove a jeep, so they always looked up to him when they met him. When he sees Bao Huihua coming back from shopping, he will help carry her things.
At least in front of the old couple, the neighbors won’t gossip or bully them.
Qiao Changhai didn't want his son-in-law's money, but he was touched by his son-in-law's defense of him.
At this time, he was sitting on his warm kang, looking at the dilapidated furniture in the room, holding his wife's rough old hand, with a look of satisfaction on his face.
"I am just an ordinary person, I also have self-esteem and vanity. I have been looked down upon for half my life, and now I am respected and flattered. How can I not be happy?"
"I give this money to the young couple, and I don't feel bad about it. I want to spend it on my son-in-law. He is good to my daughter and to me too."
"I am content. Very content."
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