Qi Tao did not fool Lin Wei. He told Yang Yi about the incident in the evening and asked Old Mrs. Qi to apologize to her.
Ever since the second son of the Qi family started a family and Mrs. Qi changed her attitude, she has never been so humble in front of Yang Yi. Don't mention how happy she felt at that moment.
Be proud of yourself!
Seeing Yang Yi's high spirits, Lin Wei asked, "Do you still want to find out now?"
The smile on Yang Yi's face disappeared. She bit her lip and thought for a long time. She nodded and said, "I still want to figure it out." Even if she believed Qi Tao about 60% to 70%, she would inevitably feel resentful when she thought about these things in the future. It would be better to find out the truth.
"What if the result is not as expected?" Lin Wei asked.
Yang Yi nodded again: "Yes."
Yang Yi made up her mind, and Liu Dan took action. That night, she told Xing Dong, "I've been thinking about this for the past two days, and I always feel like something is not right."
Xing Dong was sitting on the bed taking off his clothes. Hearing this, he turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Xiao Yang and her mother-in-law."
Xing Dong asked: "Isn't their relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pretty good? What's wrong?"
"What's good about that? Didn't you hear what Xiao Yang's mother-in-law said that night? Xiao Lin said Xiao Deng had something to ask Xiao Yang, and her mother-in-law's first reaction was that she didn't have a job, so what serious matter could she ask her for? Do you think this is normal? If it were me, would you grumble like that?"
Xing Dong thought about it and the answer was no.
But he said: "Their situation is different from ours. They are mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but we are husband and wife."
Liu Dan asked back: "According to what you said, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be harmonious on the surface, but look down on each other in their hearts?"
Xing Dong laughed: "How did it come to this? Qi Tao's mother is just an old country woman. Maybe she didn't think much when she said that."
"I didn't think much about it. I just said it casually. Isn't it just a beautification of what I was thinking?" Liu Dan leaned against the head of the bed, lowered his eyes and muttered, "And I remembered something these two days."
"What's up?"
"There were two times before when I went out in the morning and heard people quarreling next door. One time I didn't think it was right, so I went to knock on the door. Guess what happened?"
Xing Dong asked flatteringly, "What's going on?"
"It was Old Lady Qi who opened the door. She said she was scolding her son."
"That's to train my son."
Xing Dong climbed onto the bed, hugged his wife and tried to kiss her, but Liu Dan pushed him away: "Are you blind? Old Qi loves her second son too much, can't you see? Normally, she wouldn't even dare to speak loudly, how could she scold her son like that?"
Xing Dong's words fell on deaf ears. He raised his hands and put them behind his head, looking at his wife with a squint: "According to you, she is not scolding her son, but scolding her daughter-in-law?"
"certainly."
"But isn't Mrs. Qi usually very nice to Xiao Yang?"
"She is nice to Xiao Yang, but that's just on the surface. If she was really that nice, why would she have said that that night? She might say one thing to Xiao Yang's face and another behind his back. When no one is around, who knows how she would scold Xiao Yang! And haven't you noticed? Ever since Old Lady Qi came, Xiao Yang's face has been particularly bad."
Xing Dong felt that Liu Dan thought too much: "You... you think too badly of people. You said one thing to his face and another behind his back. How could Qi Tao's mother be so powerful? Besides, don't you know who Qi Tao is? His mother just muttered something that night, and he asked his mother to apologize to Xiao Yang. If his mother treated Xiao Yang like this, would he just sit there and do nothing?"
"It was Xiao Lin who brought up the issue that night. Xiao Yang had worked so hard for the Qi family for so many years, and so many people were watching, so of course he had to show some appreciation." Liu Dan muttered, "Besides, he might not know what his mother did behind his back."
Xing Dong shouted, "Oh my wife, you are too naive. That's his family. If his mother really has so many wives, and he doesn't know anything, how stupid must he be?"
Liu Dan's face changed: "You mean, Qi Tao knows how his mother treated Xiao Yang behind his back?"
Xing Dong choked: "...I mean his mother is not as scary as you think, how come she is so obedient?" The topic was off topic.
But his wife completely ignored him, sat up and said, "No, no, you have to help me ask Qi Tao to see if he knows about this."
Xing Dong was speechless and asked sincerely: "Wife, did you hear what I just said?"
"I heard it." Liu Dan nodded and said as a matter of course, "But I still feel that something is wrong with Old Lady Qi. And after hearing what you said, I feel that something is wrong with Qi Tao too. You have to help me ask him if he knows about these things."
Well, his wife is so straightforward, once she makes up her mind she won’t change.
Xing Dong could only change his train of thought and follow her, "Even if Qi Tao's mother is not right, and he is not right, but what's the point of asking? Can you still run to Xiao Yang and tell her that there is something wrong with your man and you don't want to live with her anymore? It's better to demolish ten temples than to destroy a family, wife."
Liu Dan thought, if they couldn't make ends meet, what did it have to do with her? If you must find the culprit, it's the fault of Qi Tao's idiot mother!
But this matter cannot be disclosed for the time being, so Liu Dan said: "Anyway, you have to help me ask, otherwise I will think that Qi Tao has a problem, and you are in cahoots with him, the same kind of bastard!"
Hearing this, Xing Dong was so angry that he fell backwards. He said, "Only women and villains are difficult to raise!"
…
In order to clear himself, Xing Dong had to follow his wife's wishes and test Qi Tao. So, the next evening after leaving the military camp, he stopped the man halfway and asked him about their family affairs in a roundabout way.
Although the two of them were on good terms, and they lived next door to each other, Xing Dong was not the type to pry into other people's family affairs. When he suddenly asked about these matters in a roundabout way, Qi Tao could not help but be suspicious. He frowned and asked, "Why are you asking these questions all of a sudden?"
"I……"
Xing Dong looked at his face, sighed helplessly and said, "It's my wife, you're worrying about me. She said she's been out for a while and heard a lot of noise in your house. Comrade Xiao Yang doesn't look too good, so I wanted to ask if anything happened in your family?"
Qi Tao stopped and asked: "Did she hear the noise in my house when she went out?"
"Yes, when your mother first came, about last week, she went out and heard a quarrel inside. She knocked on the door and asked, and your mother said that they were scolding your brother. She didn't feel comfortable asking more and went out to work. After that, she could hear noises every now and then when she went out, and she didn't think much about it, but..." Xing Dong glanced at Qi Tao and didn't say anything else.
Qi Tao took the initiative to ask: "But what?"
"Didn't Comrade Xiao Lin come to see my wife a few days ago and say they had something to discuss. In fact, they had nothing to discuss. She came to my wife to persuade Comrade Xiao Yang."
Qi Tao was so annoyed that Xing Dong said something like "stop", but he had to patiently ask: "What's wrong with Xiao Yang?"
"My wife said that after she followed Xiao Lin over, she saw Xiao Yang crying, but when she asked her why she was crying, she refused to say anything." Xing Dong sighed, "My wife said that she had been in a bad mood for the past few days. Didn't you notice?"
"I……"
Qi Tao fell silent. Of course he noticed that something was wrong with Yang Yi.
One night he woke up in the middle of the night and heard her crying secretly. He asked her what was wrong, but she said nothing. He asked again the next morning, and she just looked at him for a long time, turned over and said nothing.
At that time, he was upset about things in the camp. Seeing that she refused to talk, he did not ask more questions and just asked his mother to help her talk it over.
When Lin Wei came over that day, his mother muttered that sentence. He thought that the atmosphere at home might be bad recently, so his mother was also in a bad mood. So after Lin Wei and the others left, he talked to his mother and asked her to apologize to Yang Yi for what she said.
Yang Yi looked much better these past few days, so he thought the matter was over. But according to what Xing Dong said... Qi Tao asked, "Do you know which mornings my sister-in-law heard noises coming from my house?"
"I know it happened the week before last, but I don't know the exact date." Xing Dong paused, looked around and asked, "Did anything really happen in your family?"
Qi Tao only asked: "Can you go back and ask my sister-in-law for me?"
"It's definitely okay to ask her. She just wanted me to get information from you because she was suspicious. But if something really happens, what are you going to do?"
Qi Tao still didn't answer, but just said: "Please ask for me first, thank you for your help."
"polite."
…
As soon as he got home, Xing Dong, who had been anxiously waiting for a day, was dragged into the bedroom by his wife, who asked him desperately, "How is it? What's Qi Tao's reaction?"
Xing Dong didn't explain immediately. He just cleared his throat and said to Qiao, "After I left the military camp, I stood on the side of the road and chatted with someone for most of the day. Until now, I haven't even had a sip of water. Do you want..." He didn't say what he wanted, but just extended his hand suggestively.
The two have been married for more than ten years. How could Liu Dan not know what kind of person he is? He muttered, "Look what you can do," and went out of the house to get some water.
Taking the enamel cup, Xing Dong drank a sip and said disdainfully: "Why is it just plain water?"
Liu Dan gritted his teeth: "We have boiled water at home right now. If you want some tea, I'll make it hot. Do you want some?"
Xing Dong said awkwardly, "Forget it then," and took a big gulp of water. He opened his mouth and continued to complain, "Look at your attitude of begging for help. Fortunately, you are my wife, otherwise I would not bother to pay attention to you."
Liu Dan narrowed his eyes: "If I'm not your wife, which old shígG Dujia girl do you want to marry?"
Xing Dong still had a strong desire to survive, and immediately changed his words: "Except for you, I definitely don't want anyone else!"
"Come on, hurry up." She brought back several meals from the state-owned restaurant after get off work. Now the children were eating outside and she was still hungry.
"Okay, okay, tell me right away." Xing Dong raised his head and drank the remaining water in the glass. He told Qi Tao every detail of his conversation with him, even not missing his eyes.
Liu Dan fell into deep thought. After a while, he looked up and asked, "He asked you to ask me what expression I had when there was any movement in their house?"
"Frowning, thinking."
"Then do you think he really doesn't know what his mother did?"
Xing Dong leaned against the bed, playing with the cup in his hand and asked, "Tell me first, are you curious about this, or is Xiao Yang curious?"
Liu Dan's expression froze.
Xing Dong dragged out his voice: "I see."
"How did you know that?" Liu Dan asked awkwardly.
Xing Dong said, "You keep talking about what Qi Tao's mother did, and your attitude is so certain, it's hard for me not to see it."
Moreover, his wife asked him to test Qi Tao, and she made up all those lies. It's not that he looks down on his wife, but the couple have slept in the same bed for so many years, he really doesn't think his wife can make up such lies.
But he didn't dare say this out loud for fear of being beaten.
Liu Dan didn't think much about it, thinking that he was careless, so he softened his tone and asked, "You guessed it, why did you still test Qi Tao?"
"I have to help, otherwise you will always think that I am in cahoots with Qi Tao, how can I seek justice?" Xing Dong pretended to sigh and said his own thoughts, "Based on my understanding of Qi Tao, he probably doesn't know about the things between his mother and his wife."
Although Xing Dong felt that if Qi Tao's mother and wife really had a conflict and he knew nothing about it, then he would be too stupid. But then he thought about the situation in the Qi family. His mother was good at pretending, his wife wouldn't say anything, and he was so busy every day, it was possible that he didn't know about this.
In fact, the other two big families in their courtyard now think that Mrs. Qi is really kind and really good to Yang Yi. Even he himself thought that Mrs. Qi was a good person before last night.
Liu Dan didn't know what Xing Dong was thinking, but when he heard his words, his eyes lit up: "Really?"
Xing Dong nodded: "If his reaction at that time was all fake, then I have known him for nothing all these years."
Don't think that soldiers are easy to fool just because they are straightforward. People like them who have climbed up without any background have both high IQ and EQ, and they have the ability to judge people. He felt that Qi Tao's character was not perfect, but there was definitely no major problem with his personality, and he could be considered a man of integrity and righteousness.
But Xing Dong didn't say anything final, saying: "The details will depend on his subsequent actions."
If Qi Tao makes a big deal out of it and doesn't particularly protect his biological mother, whatever happens will happen. Then Xing Dong feels that whether he was aware of those things before is actually not that important. At least he is a clear-headed person and you will never be treated unfairly if you live with him.
On the contrary, if he lightly revealed the matter and let Yang Yi endure it, even if he really didn't know those things before, Yang Yi's life would probably not be easy in the future.
However, we are only looking at the worst of the above. Looking at the bright side, there is a possibility that Qi Tao does not know about those things and does not intend to protect his biological mother.
…
After dinner, Xing Dong went next door and called Qi Tao to his house, and let Liu Dan talk to him himself.
The conversation didn't last too long, maybe five or six minutes, or maybe eight or nine minutes. Qi Tao only asked some detailed questions. However, after getting the answer, his face looked bad and he had a gloomy face when he thanked Liu Dan.
However, Liu Danhe could understand him. Anyone who discovered that his harmonious family was actually full of conflicts would probably not feel very happy.
Therefore, Liu Dan now prefers that Qi Tao does not know those things. So after Qi Tao left, Liu Dan handed the task of supervising the children's bathing to Xing Dong, and quickly went to find Lin Wei to report the news.
When Liu Dan arrived, Lin Wei was standing on the second-floor balcony watering the pot of jasmine.
Because it is a potted plant, the soil moisture is not enough and it needs to be watered regularly. Although it is already October, the climate on Yazhou Island is hot and the temperature has not dropped completely, so she currently has to water the flowers once every two days on average.
Before, when she was not working, she would water the plants in the morning, but now that she has a job, the time is not so certain. She will water the plants when she remembers to do so after she finishes her work.
Today, after dinner, she saw a newly transplanted flower in the yard downstairs in full bloom. She remembered this and scooped a bucket of water upstairs.
While watering the flowers, Lin Wei was still wondering whether she should ask Zong Shao to move the flower pot downstairs, because the flower pot was placed on the balcony on the second floor, so she could only notice it when she came back from going out or when going up and down the second floor. Plus, I've been pretty busy lately, so it's easy to forget to water it.
If it is moved downstairs, she will see it more often and she won't always forget to water it.
While she was thinking about it, Lin Wei heard a voice coming from downstairs. She looked up and saw Liu Dan standing on the road waving at her.
Just by looking at the bright smile on her face, Lin Wei guessed that the result was probably correct, and smiled and said, "You go in first, I'll be down right away."
Liu Dan said yes and walked into the living room through the open back door.
In the living room, Zong Shao was opening a letter, but he seemed to be in a bad mood. His eyebrows were tightly knitted and his movements were a little rough. After tearing open the envelope, he pulled out the letter, pinched a corner and threw it away.
Liu Dan saw this and swallowed back the words "Comrade Zong, you have a letter from home" that were about to come out of his mouth.
Who, when receiving a letter from home, would not happily tear open the envelope? Because they are afraid of tearing the letter paper, they would deliberately slow down when opening it and read the letter with anticipation?
Even without looking at Zong Shao's expression, just looking at his actions, you can tell that the person who wrote the letter doesn't have a very good relationship with him.
Thinking of this, Liu Dan sat in the corner of the sofa farthest from Zong Shao, waiting for Lin Wei to come down as quietly as a chicken.
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