Zhao Aiguo said with a serious face, "490! It's gone in two days. These beautiful women are so expensive! I could work myself to death and still not earn as much as she spends!"
Zhao Dahu, both amused and exasperated, gave him a light tap on the back of the head. "I told you to study more back then, but you wouldn't listen. Is that how you use words? People will laugh at you if they hear about it!"
Zhao Aiguo rubbed his head and said, "What's wrong? Tell me, what happened?"
Zhao Dahu threw the toothpick on the ground, pulled Wei Shuqing up, and chuckled, "I'm not telling you, you can figure it out yourself!" The couple then went home.
Zhao Aiguo retorted, unconvinced, "I don't know either, so what? By the way, Grandpa and Grandma, I'll treat you to duck at Quanjude when I get paid tomorrow!"
Mr. and Mrs. Zhao nodded with smiles like Maitreya Buddhas, saying, "That's wonderful! My grandson is treating me to roast duck!"
Zhao Aiguo chuckled and said, "Okay, let's go eat duck tomorrow!" Then he hummed a song and went back to his room.
Sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed), Zhao's mother said, "My dear husband! It feels like a dream. How come our patriotism is so thoughtful!"
Mr. Zhao chuckled, "You think it's thoughtful of you to just give you a duck? We've put so much effort into raising him, can't we afford a duck meal?" His tone was incredibly relaxed, and as long as Mrs. Zhao didn't grin from ear to ear, she would actually believe him.
That night, Li Qiuxiang and Wang Dong lay down. "Wang Dong, when your mother came back from the Northeast, she still gave you 20 yuan and food coupons every month?"
Wang Dong asked suspiciously, "Who have you heard this rumor from? If we had that kind of money, would we be living such a miserable life?"
Li Qiuxiang exclaimed in surprise, "No way! She takes 20 yuan and a lot of food coupons from Xiao Hu every month, saying she needs them to support her child! Could it be that she's giving them to Wang Fang? Wang Hong, you don't know, do you!"
Wang Dong frowned and said, "If she really had that money, and still wouldn't give the job to Wang Hong, that would be utterly immoral."
There was a sound of a basin hitting the ground outside. The couple rushed out and saw Wang Hong. Wang Hong asked incredulously, "Sister-in-law, is what you're saying true? My mother received subsidies on top of her salary back then?"
Li Qiuxiang nodded and said, "Xiao Hu knows about this. He told me himself, and your mother didn't deny it either..."
At this moment, the brother and sister thought of her new clothes, food and other things back then, and felt as if their hearts had been ripped open by someone's bare hands!
Seeing Wang Hong crying uncontrollably, Wang Dong hugged her and said, "Hong Hong, don't cry. We won't acknowledge her anymore. We'll just live with your brother and sister-in-law!"
Wang Hong nodded vigorously, and vowed in her heart to treat Wang Dong and Li Qiuxiang as her own parents.
Li Qiuxiang didn't care. She had the nerve to do it, so why shouldn't I? Should I keep this a secret from her? No way! I was thinking of how to spread the word so the whole city would know!
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