When Zhao Feng walked into the yard, he saw that although there was no one in the next yard, the door was open and wisps of white smoke were coming out of the kitchen chimney. He entered the house and buttoned his military uniform while asking, "Did Zong Shao bring his wife over?"
After asking for a long time without getting a response, Zhao Feng turned and walked to the kitchen door, where he saw his wife wiping the stove with a rag, with a long face.
Zhao Feng raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong? Who made you angry again?"
Gao Xiulian got angry when she heard his tone, threw the rag on the stove and said, "Who else could it be except the newcomer next door?"
Zhao Feng looked surprised: "Next door? Zong Shao's wife?"
"Besides her, who else is the newcomer to the army?" Gao Xiulian asked unhappily, "I have never seen such an ungrateful person. I really don't know what Zong Shao is thinking. He would rather not marry a girl like Luo Yun and find such a piece of trash!"
Zhao Feng frowned slightly: "This is so old news from many years ago."
Gao Xiulian was dissatisfied: "What do you mean by old news? Luo Yun was transferred away only a year ago, I just feel sorry for her. She wasted several years for Zong Shao, and in the end, he turned around and married someone else!"
In fact, Gao Xiu Lian and Luo Yun did not have such a good relationship. They had only met a few times when she took her child to the military hospital for injections.
Gao Xiu Lian heard from other military wives that Luo Yun liked Zong Shao. At that time, she despised Luo Yun's character and thought she was too unrestrained. Moreover, Zong Shao was already married, but she was still obsessed with him, which was really contemptible.
In the past, Gao Xiu Lian looked down on Luo Yun from the perspective of the original wife, but now with Lin Wei as a contrast, Luo Yun became a poor abandoned person in her heart.
But Zhao Feng knew what was going on. It was true that Luo Yun liked Zong Shao. Her aunt had tried to bring them together, but Zong Shao did not agree. Not long after that, Zong Shao took leave and returned to his hometown. When he came back, he had a new girlfriend.
At that time, Zhao Feng told people that Zong Shao was thinking too much. Luo Yun herself was not bad in terms of conditions. She was a young girl in her early twenties, as pretty as a flower, with a good education. After graduating from junior high school, she went to the old shigGdujia Medical School for a few years. After graduation, she was assigned to the Sanlin Base Health Center through connections, not to mention that she had an uncle who was the political commissar.
If she hadn't been completely focused on Zong Shao, given Zong Shao's level at the time, he might not have been qualified to marry a girl of such conditions.
You are still young.
But no matter what, there is nothing wrong with Zong Shao's feelings, and he has never done anything wrong to Luo Yun.
Therefore, Zhao Feng frowned when he heard Gao Xiulian's biased words, but he was too lazy to argue with his wife, and just said: "Just say this in front of me, don't say it outside."
Husband and wife are one body. If people heard this, they would think he was deliberately destroying Zong Shao's reputation and causing trouble.
Gao Xiulian didn't think there was anything wrong with her words. Seeing her husband's serious expression, she swallowed the "why" that was on the tip of her tongue and complained, "You didn't see the face of Zong Shao's wife. I kindly told her that the house just needed to be livable and there was no need to make it too fancy and waste money. As a result, she accused me of meddling in other people's business and deliberately picking on her! Don't you feel angry?"
Although Lin Wei did not say "It's no good for a dog to meddle in other people's business", Gao Xiu Lian thought that was what she meant and said it.
Zhao Feng also found this unpleasant to hear, and couldn't help but mutter, "What kind of wife did Zong Shao marry? You too, why are you pointing fingers at others and saying these things for no reason?"
Gao Xiulian was unhappy: "Why do you say I'm giving orders? I was obviously trying to persuade her with good intentions!"
"Yes, yes, you mean well, but what's the point if people don't appreciate it?"
"Otherwise, why am I so angry? If I had known she was this kind of person, I wouldn't bother trying to persuade her. Anyway, it's their own money, and it has nothing to do with me..."
It would have been fine if Zhao Feng didn't agree. Once he did, Gao Xiulian complained even more vigorously. She never stopped talking during the meal, which made Zhao Feng's head hurt. After finishing his meal, he put down his chopsticks and went out.
Coincidentally, as soon as Zhao Feng walked out of his house, he saw Zong Shao standing by the sink next door washing dishes.
Although Gao Xiulian said that Zong Shao's wife had many faults, Zhao Feng thought that was just a matter between women and had nothing to do with men, so he walked over and asked, "When did you come back?"
"Just arrived this afternoon." Zong Shao said while washing dishes.
Zhao Feng said, "Why are you washing the dishes? Is your sister-in-law not here?"
"She was not feeling well, so I washed her." Zong Shao asked calmly, "Have you had dinner?"
"They are still eating." Zhao Feng recalled the complaints his wife had made during dinner and paused before saying, "It seems like something unpleasant happened between your sister-in-law and your brother's wife this afternoon."
Zong Shao cleaned the last bowl, turned on the tap, washed his hands twice, and said, "I just wanted to talk to you about this."
"you say."
Zhao Feng said as he fished out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Zong Shao, but was politely rejected. He asked in surprise, "Don't you smoke?"
Zong Shao said: "My wife and children are at home."
Zhao Feng uttered "oh" in a long voice. He didn't expect Zong Shao to be a henpecked husband. He smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll smoke it myself." As he spoke, he struck a match and lit the cigarette in his mouth.
While he was smoking, Zong Shao spoke, but his words were puzzling: "Where is your sister-in-law working these days?"
"Work? She's not working?" Zhao Feng was stunned, then he remembered that Zong Shao's wife had just joined the army, so he said, "Are you looking for a job for your sister-in-law?"
"There's no rush for her job. I'm just wondering, did my sister-in-law go to the neighborhood office or join the Discipline Inspection Commission? Why does she start to make comments when she sees something she doesn't like in someone else's home?"
Zhao Feng understood that Zong Shao knew what happened in the afternoon and came to seek justice for his wife.
Although he felt that Gao Xiulian had not handled the matter well, he had brought up the matter with Zong Shao in the hope of reconciling the situation and clearing up the misunderstanding. But after hearing Zong Shao's veiled words, he was not so happy anymore, thinking, what's the big deal?
Zhao Feng's expression calmed down. "Your sister-in-law told me everything. She said those things not for any other reason, but out of kindness. It's just that she is a straightforward person, so don't be offended."
"Do you think your wife came to my house and said that we were wasting money by renovating our house and building a toilet, and that the great man said that corruption and waste are great crimes out of kindness?"
Zhao Feng's brows jumped when he heard this. The first half of Zong Shao's sentence was fine, but the second half was serious. Even if Gao Xiu Lian was his wife, he could no longer say that she had good intentions.
However, he and Gao Xiulian have been married for many years, so it is impossible for him to simply believe Zong Shao's one-sided words. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Is there some misunderstanding here?"
"My wife heard it with her own ears, how could there be any misunderstanding? If you don't believe it, you can ask Comrade Wang Fangli, the wife of Jiao Weiping of our regiment, or Comrade Li Qin, the wife of Deputy Battalion Commander Wang of your regiment, for confirmation. They came to my house together in the afternoon, and they should have heard clearly what Comrade Gao said."
Zong Shao continued, "I am confused. I didn't take any extra military subsidies when I was building the house and toilet. I spent all my own money. How could it be considered corruption? Also, before I built the house, I asked the logistics department whether the walls could be painted and the toilet could be built. The logistics department said it was no problem, and the superiors didn't object. How come Comrade Gao said that I was wasting money?"
The witness Zong Shaolian told the story, and Zhao Feng couldn't help but believe it about 80%. Then he thought of Gao Xiulian's complaints during dinner, and his face darkened.
How dare she complain that Zong Shao's wife was ungrateful? If someone else had put that accusation on her, he would have slapped them in the face! This matter is not so easy to end.
Zhao Feng was just getting angry when he heard Zong Shao say, "I originally wanted to report this to the Commission for Discipline Inspection, but then I changed my mind and thought that it was fate for our two families to be neighbors. Moreover, we have known each other for so many years and I know you well. Comrade Gao's words were definitely not your original intention, so I said I wanted to talk to you first."
Generally speaking, when there are quarrels between military wives, they go to the street office or the Women's Federation to resolve them. The people working in these two units are all military dependents, and as women, they are more adept at comforting others. The subdistrict office and the Women's Federation mainly deal with issues by seeking peace, trying to reduce big issues to small ones.
If you want to make a big deal out of it, it's best to report it to the Discipline Inspection Commission. The Commission will send someone to investigate. Within a day, the higher-ups will hear about it, and a small matter will become a big one.
The problem is that, to put it in a serious way, Gao Xiulian is vicious and makes false accusations against others. To put it in a milder way, she is just a stupid person who doesn't know how to speak, and it is too much of an exaggeration to report the quarrel between women to the Discipline Inspection Commission.
Even if Zhao Feng met with misfortune in the end, he would still be regarded as a bad person, which was a case of hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting oneself by eight hundred. That was why Zong Shao discussed this matter with Zhao Feng first.
Of course, Zong Shao definitely couldn't tell the truth to Zhao Feng. Not only could he not tell the truth, he also had to tell Zhao Feng that if he didn't give a reasonable explanation, he didn't mind making a big deal out of it.
Zhao Feng certainly didn't want the matter to get out of hand. Even though it was Gao Xiu Lian who said that, the saying still applies: husband and wife are one body. If the matter got out of hand, others might think that he was dissatisfied with Zong Shao.
Thinking of this, Zhao Feng quickly made a decision: "I will give you an answer later."
After saying that, he threw the cigarette butt to the ground, crushed it with his foot, turned around and went home. Soon, crying and shouting sounds were heard from their house.
…
In the evening, when Lin Wei was bathing her two children, Zhao Feng brought Gao Xiu Lian and knocked on her door.
Under the dim light, Gao Xiu Lian no longer had the arrogance she had when she came to the door in the afternoon. She lowered her head with red eyes and bowed her head to apologize to Lin Wei.
Although the two families did not make it too public, there were two bystanders when Lin Wei and Gao Xiu Lian had an argument. In addition, Lin Wei's family had just moved into the family quarters, and their every move was closely watched. As soon as Gao Xiu Lian went to the Zong family to apologize, the news spread all over the old house.
So everyone in the family compound knew that Gao Xiu Lian had hit a wall this time, and that the new military wife was not to be messed with!
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