Wu's second son's adopted son arrived quickly. He looked at Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng with unfriendly eyes and walked past them to Wu's second son's wife without saying hello.
Adopted son: "How are you?"
Xu Xinning frowned, looking at her adopted son with great surprise.
Perhaps Xu Xinning was being too sensitive, but she always felt that the way Wu's second daughter-in-law and her adopted son interacted was strange.
On the surface, the adopted son was very filial to Wu's second wife. When the two went out together, he would always help her up as if he was afraid she would fall. Also, the two often went out together and rarely went out separately. In addition, Xu Xinning seemed to have never heard him call her "Mom," and he rarely used honorifics in his speech.
At first, Xu Xinning thought he came from the countryside, perhaps because they weren't used to using honorifics to address their elders. But as time went on, Xu Xinning realized that, judging from the adopted son's speech and habits, he didn't seem to come from some remote rural area.
Because of her doubts, Hsu Hsin-ning always paid extra attention whenever she encountered someone.
Wu's second son's wife smiled and said, "It's nothing, just a superficial injury."
After saying that, Wu's second daughter-in-law looked at Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng and said, "Nannan must have been frightened today. Jingheng, take Nannan home and let her rest well. This matter cannot affect her health."
Mu Jingheng didn't stand on ceremony. "Alright, Auntie, I'll take Xin'er back first. The department store manager is still here; you can tell him if you have any requests."
Wu's second son's wife: "Let's go, let's go. Don't worry about this. Let Xiao Tao negotiate with them."
Mu Jingheng glanced at his adopted son and said, "Alright, we're leaving now. Call home if you need anything."
Wu's second daughter-in-law: "Okay! Take good care of Nannan."
Mu Jingheng left with Xu Xinning, along with the people who had been protecting them in secret.
The adopted son watched Mu Jingheng and Xu Xinning's departing figures, and asked without turning his head, "Why?"
Wu's second son's wife: "Stand by the window and look around more. Come and ask me again when you've figured it out."
Many cups were smashed in a small courtyard.
"We've given you such a great opportunity today, how come you can't catch anyone? Are you all just freeloaders? Have you gotten too comfortable and forgotten who you are?"
"It's all because of Huang Que's mess. I don't know what she was thinking. If it weren't for her, we would definitely have succeeded today."
"Success, success, haven't you told me enough? How come only a few of you came back? Where are the others?"
"They haven't come back?"
"The ghost is back!"
Not long after, a woman walked in and immediately looked for a cup to drink water. However, she couldn't find one. She looked helplessly at the ground, sighed, and said, "These cups are hard to find now. If you keep smashing them like this, you'll only be able to use enamel cups."
People in this era almost all drink water from enamel cups, but some prefer to drink from ceramic cups with lids, and some people have tea culture ingrained in their bones and only like to drink tea using special teaware.
That man was the kind of person whose tea culture was ingrained in his bones. He was very particular about drinking tea, so he had prepared a lot of tea sets.
But by now there should be very little left.
Buying good tea sets these days is no easy feat.
The woman took an enamel mug, poured herself a glass of water, and hurriedly drank it.
"What happened at the time?" the man asked.
"What happened? I made thorough preparations to catch them, but I failed. That's all," the woman replied nonchalantly.
"Is it really that simple?" the man asked skeptically.
"It's not that simple. Your old flame wouldn't let me arrest anyone, so that's how it is. Oh! By the way! I discovered an ambush in the department store, and several of our men were arrested."
"What?" The man stood up excitedly.
The woman said with a half-smile, "So what if they've been arrested? They're a bunch of good-for-nothings. Fewer people means less food to waste."
The man glared angrily at the woman and shouted to the people outside, "Go and find out what's going on."
The man sat there upright, deep in thought, his fingers unconsciously tapping the table.
The woman drank water and went to find food without caring about the man.
The second daughter-in-law of the Wu family went through the discharge procedures early the next morning and returned to the compound.
Many of the older women in the courtyard started gossiping when they saw Wu's second son's wife walk by.
Have you heard about what happened yesterday?
"Is it about the incident where Wu's second son's wife was stabbed by a thief at the department store?"
"Did a thief stab someone?"
"You bet it was terrible. I heard there was blood everywhere."
"How can someone survive losing so much blood?"
"But aren't you doing just fine?"
You know?
The man pointed mysteriously to the walking Wu family's second daughter-in-law and said, "That's her. I wonder how much money and bills she had in her pocket. Such a thin person actually fought with a thief over a few dollars. It's lucky she didn't die."
There was a collective sigh of regret at the scene.
"I reckon she didn't have much money in total, otherwise why would she risk her life for money?"
"The second son of the Wu family has always wanted to divorce her. How much money can he give her? Maybe not a penny. She doesn't have any income of her own, so she values money more than her life."
Yesterday, the department store held a promotion, and there were quite a few people queuing up in the courtyard to buy things. They were busy grabbing goods and only heard rumors about the second daughter-in-law of the Wu family. However, since it was firsthand information, the rumors were not too far off.
After Xu Xinning learned that Wu's second daughter-in-law had returned, she took some gifts and went to visit her with Mu Jingheng.
We were supposed to visit her at the hospital yesterday afternoon, but Grandpa Jiang and the others didn't want to give the enemy agents another chance to arrest Xu Xinning, so they didn't agree.
This was Xu Xinning's first real visit to the Wu family.
The Wu family's house was similar in layout to the Mu family's house, but the Wu family had more people, so there were more things in the house, making it look cramped and the whole house seem much smaller.
There was no sofa in the living room, but a large table with ink stains on it, which looked like it was used by Grandpa Wu to practice calligraphy and painting. Several framed calligraphy and paintings were placed in the corner.
Wu's second son's wife lived on the first floor. Knowing that Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng were coming to see her, she came out of her room, along with her adopted son.
Mr. Wu's room was also on the first floor. Because there were too many people, he did not have a study. Not only him, but no one else in the family had a study either. They usually studied and worked in their own rooms.
Wu's second daughter-in-law looked at Xu Xinning and smiled, saying, "I'm fine, you don't need to worry."
Xu Xinning: "It's only right that I come to check on you. If it weren't for me yesterday, my aunt might not have been stabbed."
Wu's second son's wife: "Hey! The thief came for the money and tickets, what does it have to do with you?"
Xu Xinning didn't refute, just smiled and stopped talking, thinking to herself, "If you call him a thief, then he's a thief."
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