Wang Yue said, "Mom wants to stay, don't you want me to?"
"How could that be?" Dong Dingbang waved his hands quickly: "Mom, I'd love for you to stay."
"That means your wife doesn't want to." Wang Yue said coldly.
Dong Dingbang quickly defended Cui Xuezhi: "You can't blame Xuezhi for this. Before we even started dating, she told me that she wouldn't live with her elders after we got married. I...I agreed."
"Well, this is something I promised her long ago. It's not good to go back on my word at the last minute, is it?"
The more Dong Dingbang spoke, the lower his voice became.
Wang Yue: "If you feel embarrassed, I will go and talk to her."
Dong Dingbang was silent.
Wang Yue took it as his tacit agreement: "Then it's settled. I'll go talk to her."
Dong Dingbang uttered an imperceptible "hmm".
*
Unlike Cui Xuezhi's side where there was chaos, Yun Qiao and Feng Juan came back from work happily.
They bought fish, meat, and clothes, and returned home with bags full of things. Even the annoying Sun Lan sitting next to them couldn't affect the good mood of the mother and daughter.
News spread quickly about the family compound. Just a few minutes after the military truck stopped at the gate of the compound, Aunt Feng came from home with Yuanyuan.
Feng Juan packed the things she bought, and the four of them each carried a bag, and they took all the things in one trip.
As soon as she got home, Aunt Feng started working busily.
Although she is not an old lady in her fifties, she works more skillfully than many young people.
Feng Juan bought Yun Qiao a white rabbit fur coat. Although it was not as expensive as Cui Xuezhi's mink coat, at 80 yuan, it was not cheap at all. It was equivalent to a company-level cadre's monthly salary.
After all, this was the first Spring Festival that the mother and daughter spent together. Feng Juan had a compensatory mentality towards Yun Qiao and wanted to give her all the money she had. In the end, she only gave her 80 yuan, which Feng Juan felt was too little.
Of course, Feng Juan did not favor one over the other.
Since I bought clothes for Yun Qiao, I also want to buy one for my stepson Qin Zheng and adopted daughter Yuanyuan.
The item I brought for Qin Zheng was a dark grey round-neck wool sweater, a high-end item from the south, costing sixteen yuan. Whether worn alone in a heated room or layered with a white shirt, it looked great, and was perfect for single gay men like Qin Zheng who were looking for a blind date.
Yuanyuan was given a pair of fingerless gloves. The child didn't like wearing gloves because she thought her fingers were not exposed and not flexible. This time when Feng Juan went to the supply and marketing department, she saw fingerless gloves and bought her a pair. They were not expensive, only fifty cents a pair.
Feng Juan bought gifts for everyone, and she would not leave Aunt Feng out.
As early as when Qin Lin was still working in Pingqian Province, Aunt Feng came to work at home.
Over the years, Aunt Feng had accompanied her to Beijing in the north and Shanghai in the south, and now she had followed her to the frigid Great Northern Wilderness. To her, Aunt Feng had long been like a relative, and it was neither reasonable nor emotional for Feng Juan to treat her unfairly.
Feng Juan planned to give Aunt Feng's gift to her on New Year's Eve as a special surprise.
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