"You're talking about Qingqing's home. She went to Miss Xiao Gao's house next door to play with her daughter Xinxin." After hearing Yuan Jiahui's words, Han Rou's expression did not change, but when she looked closely, the smile on the corner of her mouth became a little stiff.
"Oh, I see." Yuan Jiahui said.
Yun Qiao secretly tugged at the corner of Yuan Jiahui's clothes. Yuan Jiahui also realized that something was wrong and quickly changed the subject.
After this little episode, Han Rou's enthusiastic attitude cooled down a bit. After chatting for a while, Yun Qiao and Yuan Jiahui left Han Rou's house on the pretext of something.
The two of them emerged from Alley No. 2. Yuan Jiahui glanced back, patted her chest, and turned to Yun Qiao and said, "Yun Qiao, did you notice just now? Han Rou's attitude wasn't right when she mentioned the daughter left by the original wife. Why do I feel like she doesn't seem like the kind of stepmother who would treat her stepdaughter as her own?"
"You just found out." Yun Qiao was a little surprised.
Yuan Jiahui was puzzled: "Huh? Did you know this earlier?"
"She stopped pretending a long time ago." Yun Qiao explained: "When she was in the second half of her pregnancy, Xiong Qingqing listened to others' instigation and told Xiong Tuan that she didn't want her to have the baby. At that time, she took the opportunity to leave Xiong Qingqing alone. She usually didn't care about anything else except preparing a meal for Xiong Qingqing at home."
"There's also this matter." Yuan Jiahui said, "I went back to my hometown to visit my relatives during that time. After I came back, no one specifically told me about it, so I didn't know about it. Otherwise, I definitely wouldn't have mentioned it."
Yun Qiao said, "After all, it's someone else's private matter. It's fine to discuss it briefly at the time, but if you bring it up again later, it always feels like you're talking bad about them behind their backs."
"That's true," Yuan Jiahui said. "What Xiong Qingqing said was indeed infuriating, and it's normal for her to be angry, but after getting angry, we still need to deal with it. We are all adults, why bother arguing with a four-year-old?"
Yun Qiao: "After all, she is the child's stepmother. Even the biological father doesn't mind her doing this, so what can we outsiders say?"
Yuan Jiahui sighed, "Indeed. If we outsiders talk too much, they might accuse us of meddling in other people's business."
New Year's Day is in a few days.
This year, the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar were only one month apart. As New Year's Day passed, the lunar calendar entered the twelfth month.
Songjiang is close to the Arctic Circle, and there are heavy snowfalls in the cold winter. The extremely cold weather is not suitable for going out.
The military uniform factory had given an early holiday. After Yun Qiao finished his last day of work, he locked the door of the clinic and did not have to come to work until the seventh day after the New Year.
After a month of extreme struggle, An Xiaomei and Xiao Zhang's relationship finally ended. Her mother finally couldn't resist An Xiaomei's insistence and reluctantly agreed to the marriage under her crying and begging.
Because An Xiaomei was so treacherous and devoted to the man, she was coaxed into getting a marriage certificate as soon as her family agreed to the marriage. This meant that the promised one-in-a-million betrothal gift was definitely lost. With the marriage certificate, the man's family had leverage, and they pushed for more, ultimately failing to even provide the full sixty-sixth betrothal gift.
The betrothal gift was stuffed into a red envelope, which felt like a thick stack. When I opened it after the engagement, I found that it was all one-yuan bills. They looked thick, but the denominations were too small. In the end, there were only thirty-six bills.
An Xiaomei's mother was so angry that her eyes went dark and she almost fell to the ground. After she recovered, she pointed at An Xiaomei's forehead and cursed.
It's her fault for giving herself away and not being able to think straight. She was controlled by her in-laws before she even entered the house, and her family members were also humiliated and stepped on the face.
The betrothal gift is only 36 yuan, who are you trying to embarrass?
Go out and ask around, which family accepts a dowry of thirty-six yuan for marrying off their daughter?
The lame daughter of Old Zhang's family at the back of the village received a betrothal gift of 16 yuan from her in-laws when she got married.
How are you worse than others? Why do you degrade yourself like this?
Just wait, when you really get married, you will suffer again.
An Xiaomei's fingers were so tight as she held the red envelope in her hand that they were frazzled. She lowered her head and tears fell down her face.
Seeing this, her mother was furious again: "Cry, cry, cry, you only know how to cry at home. Now you feel wronged, what were you doing before?"
"We've already got the marriage certificate. It's too late to regret it now."
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