Chapter 103 Cooperating with the Investigation
Qiao Yishi reacted quickly, "I'm sorry, brother. I didn't mean it."
Looking at the tears falling from his mother's eyes, Qiao Yishi was extremely annoyed. He had really just said something in excitement.
Brother Qiao had lost the mood to eat. He had been worried about something for the past two years and was in a bad mood. The food he ate was like a bottomless pit and he lost a lot of weight.
He is twenty-six years old this year. If nothing unexpected happened, he should have been married last year, and his children might be able to run around this year.
But in this world, man's plans are not as good as God's plans, and no one can escape natural disasters or man-made disasters.
Because of Qiao Yishi's words, the Qiao family's breakfast ended in a bad mood. In fact, neither Qiao's mother nor Qiao's eldest brother would blame Qiao Yishi, but they felt sad. Although their family had left that sad place, their hearts seemed to remain.
Whenever I think of my deceased loved ones, I feel so heartbroken that I can’t eat.
Because he said the wrong thing and brought back sad memories for his family, Qiao Yishi didn't know how to face his mother and elder brother for the time being, so he locked himself in the room to think.
Two years had passed and he could hardly remember his elder brother's fiancée. He had seen her seldom in the first place and only remembered that she was a rather bold and outspoken girl.
She is also devoted to his elder brother, but such a good girl happens to be married to a pair of money-minded parents. The old couple wants to marry their daughter to a rich family in the city and looks down on the peasants in their family.
There were many twists and turns before his elder brother could get engaged to his beloved girl. Qiao Yishi still remembered the joy that his usually taciturn elder brother could not hide on his face on the day of the formal engagement.
It was obvious that all the hard work had paid off, but a flood destroyed everything.
They only found out later that when the flood came, the girl wanted to go back to save her trapped parents, but in the end they were all washed away by the flood and no one knew where they were.
After the flood receded, he and his elder brother went to look for it again, but everyone knew that in such a flood, even the best swimmers would have no chance of survival.
One can imagine the blow it was to Brother Qiao after losing his father and his beloved girl in succession.
Thinking of this, Qiao Yishi slapped himself twice.
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After Hua Pozi returned home, she became more and more angry. Her two daughters-in-law were shocked to see their mother-in-law dressed up and went out, and then came back like a stray dog.
The two sisters-in-law had been married into this family for many years, and because the old woman could make money by acting as a matchmaker, they had always been oppressed. Although life was not too difficult, they were both mothers with several children, and no one wanted to be oppressed by their mother-in-law all the time.
Therefore, the relationship between Grandma Hua and her daughter-in-law has not been ideal.
At this moment, Hua Pozi was yelling at her two daughters-in-law to go and find a fight for her. The eldest daughter-in-law curled her lips and said, "Mom, it's a happy thing for you to be a matchmaker. Why would they hit you for no reason? Don't tell me you took some dirty money to set up a trap for that girl and got caught."
The eldest daughter-in-law's words were just a guess, but they directly hit the nail on the head for Hua Po-zi.
Back at her home, Hua Pozi straightened her back naturally. "Bah, it's not right for me to be a matchmaker and collect money. Besides, Mr. Zhang's family is a well-known wealthy family in Dongping County. If I can become his daughter-in-law, that little bitch will be secretly happy and dare to be picky."
When they heard the three words "Mr. Zhang", the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law's faces changed at the same time.
The eldest daughter-in-law snorted coldly, with a forced smile, "Mother, Mr. Zhang's family is so well-off, and my younger sister hasn't married yet. Why don't you just marry my younger sister to them? Then we can enjoy the blessings of this wealthy family."
The second son's wife also agreed, "Yes, mother, our little sister has always wanted to marry into a wealthy family. I think Mr. Zhang's family is just right."
The Zhang family is very famous in Dongping County. Not only is this family a well-known local landlord, but also because the only son of the Zhang family married three wives in a row, but all of them died or went crazy.
It is said that this man is unlucky in marriage and no decent family is willing to marry their daughter to him.
After the Cui family's girls' school opened, Cui Qingyi and Konjac's comings and goings were noticed by those who cared. The Zhang family sent someone to investigate the two girls' backgrounds and were very satisfied. They thought that if they married two weak and helpless women into the family, they would be able to control them and deal with any problems they encountered.
Thinking that the two girls have no opinions of their own and look not young anymore, if someone comes to propose marriage, they will probably be eager to marry in immediately.
The Zhang family invited Hua Pozi to propose marriage. What was originally a sure thing now went wrong. Hua Pozi thought about the silver in her money box and felt heartbroken.
How could she be willing to return the money she had already received?
Looking at their mother-in-law's expression, the two sisters-in-law knew that they had guessed right. They looked at each other and understood each other's meaning. This old hag was really a piece of shit. She gave birth to a treasure herself but she deliberately exploited others to give birth.
Hua Pozi didn't think that the Zhang family was a den of wolves, nor did she think there was anything strange about the consecutive deaths of three daughters-in-law in the Zhang family. She just thought that those girls were unlucky and couldn't withstand the wealth of the Zhang family.
She thought she had found a good family for Konjac, but when her daughter-in-law asked her to marry her daughter to them, she was extremely unwilling.
Mrs. Hua failed to persuade her two daughters-in-law to avenge her. She waited for her son to come back and cried, but she didn't get her son to stand on her side. She was so angry that she went to bed without eating dinner.
When it got dark, Hua Xiaomei brought a bowl of rice into her mother's room and said, "Mom, I was afraid you were starving, so I made you some egg fried rice. Come and eat it."
Hua Pozi was already sad, and when she saw her beloved little daughter and thought of her two sons who had married and forgotten their mother, she became sad again.
Hua Xiaomei patiently coaxed her mother to finish a bowl of rice, and then spoke a little sadly, "Mom, it's all my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have to endure the wrath of your sisters-in-law."
Hua Xiaomei is the daughter of Hua Pozi, an old woman who gave birth to a pearl from an old clam. She has always been loved like the apple of her eye. It makes me feel so distressed to see her like this.
"It's none of your business. Just stay home and take good care of yourself while I find you a great marriage. On your wedding day, I'll give you all the money I've saved, and not a single cent will go to your two good sisters-in-law."
Thinking of this, Mrs. Hua urged her daughter to go back to bed quickly. She still had to find a way to facilitate the marriage with the Cui family. After all, she couldn't give up the money she had earned.
But before Hua Pozi could think of any way to make the Cui family agree to the marriage, she was suddenly taken to the county government for questioning.
Although the bailiff said that there was a case that required Hua Pozi's cooperation, Hua Pozi and the Hua family were still quite frightened.
Ordinary people would never want to be involved in government cases.
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