"Cousin, my new coat, isn't it nice?" She tugged at the thick, soft fabric, her tone laced with a sense of superiority.
Su Wantang instinctively felt that Liu Cuicui had only said half of what she meant. She didn't respond, and sure enough, the next second, Liu Cuicui's face revealed the happiness of being pampered by a man.
"It was bought with Brother Huo's allowance!"
Just a few days ago, Su Wantang mocked her, saying that Brother Huo had been demoted and couldn't afford a coat, but today she's wearing a brand new coat. Isn't this a slap in the face to Su Wantang?
Liu Cuicui looked extremely pleased with herself, her eyebrows fluttering like butterflies, as if she wanted everyone to know how well she was doing.
She said in a affected tone, "I have several at home. Brother Huo dotes on me, and I can't stop him."
Su Wantang was so angry she laughed. She thought Liu Cuicui was up to something and was hoping to find out some information about Song Wanying from her, but she never expected that Liu Cuicui would come here specifically to talk about this.
Only she would think of relying on a man for everything.
Little did they know that relying on mountains can lead to their collapse, relying on people can lead to their downfall, and relying on oneself is the only true path.
Besides, Huo Jun is not a reliable person.
However, before she could say anything, Li Sisi, who recognized Liu Cuicui's identity, rolled her eyes and gave her a disapproving look.
"You're already feeling the pinch buying a few old-style coats from last year? I heard that when your man got engaged, he bought Sun Qian from the performing arts troupe a set of jade jewelry, which cost almost a thousand yuan."
"What?" Liu Cuicui's eyes bulged out.
Doesn't she know how stingy Huo Jun is? Ever since she married into the family, he only gets a tiny amount of money from her after she has to coax and pressure him.
"Who are you trying to fool?" Liu Cuicui didn't believe it at all.
"Are you a scallion pancake? Your face is so big? I'm lying to you? You're just bored. Believe it or not."
Li Sisi's mouth started firing like a machine gun: "See that? Sister Wantang is wearing the latest style coat from Friendship Store, it costs almost two hundred yuan."
Liu Cuicui's fingers twisted until they turned white, her heart burning with intense jealousy and resentment, but she said aloud, "Cousin, although you don't have to go to the countryside anymore after marrying into the Lu family, you can't continue to act like a capitalist, otherwise it will get out..."
"What capitalist style?" Li Sisi interrupted her. "What's wrong with buying a new outfit for the New Year? One outfit is capitalist style? According to you, if you buy seven or eight outfits, wouldn't you get your head shaved and be paraded through the streets?"
"How are these the same?"
"How is it different? Your old overcoat, one costs forty or fifty, seven or eight of them would cost three or five hundred. What, you're allowed to make a big deal out of it, but others aren't allowed to say anything in disagreement? What kind of logic is that?"
Liu Cuicui never expected that she would "push herself to her own feet"; her exaggerated and boastful words were actually used by Li Sisi to leave her speechless.
"I was just joking, why are you sisters taking it so seriously?" Liu Cuicui forced a smile as she changed the subject.
She stroked her slightly protruding belly and said, "Cousin, we got married around the same time. I'm three months pregnant, but why isn't your belly showing any signs? Is there something wrong with your body that prevents you from having children? Or is it that Huai'an looks down on your background and you two didn't even sleep together?"
That day, after returning from the hospital, Liu Cuicui felt increasingly uneasy.
If it were really as Song Wanying said, the two of them lived in the same room and acted as intimately as she had seen them, how could Su Wantang not be pregnant?
In her past life, Su Wantang became pregnant not long after joining the army, but for some reason, she miscarried soon after.
Besides, Liu Cuicui knew very well how much Lu Huai'an couldn't forget Gu Nanzhi, his white moonlight, in his past life.
She practically stripped naked to seduce him, but the man called her 'shameless'.
Su Wantang and she are half-sisters from the same mother but different fathers, and they look very similar. Lu Huai'an is not a lecherous person, so there is only one possibility left.
The two reached some kind of agreement to act as a loving couple in public.
"Sisi." Su Wantang grabbed Li Sisi, who was still lit by the gas canister, and gave her a look that said, "Leave it to her."
Su Wantang knew perfectly well that Liu Cuicui just wanted to show off her good relationship with Huo Jun, to provoke her, and to make her feel that she had chosen the wrong person and that he could outdo her.
She had no interest in arguing with Liu Cuicui about this; no one knew better than her whether she was doing well or not.
“Cousin, ten months of pregnancy and one day of childbirth. Three months is still early, you have to be careful, in case…” Su Wantang’s meaningful gaze fell on Liu Cuicui’s lower abdomen. She smiled, but it sent a chill down Liu Cuicui’s spine.
"What...what do you mean?"
Su Wantang didn't offer a kind explanation: "Cousin, I have to go first."
Watching the two figures walk away, Liu Cuicui felt a pang of unease in her heart.
But no matter how hard she racked her brains, she couldn't find anything wrong. Then she remembered what the doctor had said: the child was malnourished, which was why his development was a little delayed. Her anxious heart gradually calmed down.
"It must be that little hussy Su Wantang who's jealous of me! That's why she deliberately cursed my son! You vicious little whore—"
After dropping Su Wantang off, Li Sisi spotted Liu Cuicui loitering in the distance. She didn't like Liu Cuicui and didn't bother with her. She deliberately kept her distance, treating her like a piece of dog poop, and walked past her.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing these words, my lungs immediately ruptured.
Wan Tang is her friend; insulting Wan Tang is the same as insulting her.
Li Sisi rushed forward, grabbed Liu Cuicui's braid, and pinched and scratched the soft flesh of her body that was covered by her clothes, making Liu Cuicui scream in pain and curse her as a "madwoman".
While hitting the person, Li Sisi's mouth was also busy.
"Sister Wantang, are you jealous of me? Jealous that you're not as pretty as her? Jealous that you're not as capable as her?"
"What skills does Su Wantang, a capitalist's daughter, have? The ability to squander money?"
"A capitalist's daughter?" Li Sisi was taken aback.
"You don't know? It seems she doesn't consider you a good friend either. I advise you to stay away from her, lest you get implicated one day and labeled a bad element. My aunt was sent to the countryside because of her." Liu Cuicui distorted the facts.
She did get into the compound, but none of the people in the compound, her uncle, her five cousins, her brother, or her nieces gave her a second glance.
Why is Su Wantang living such a comfortable life? And how did she even become friends with the deputy division commander's daughter?
If she were to steal Su Wantang's friend, Su Wantang would be heartbroken, wouldn't she?
Thinking of this, Liu Cuicui spoke even more enthusiastically, analyzing the situation for Li Sisi.
“Sisi, my parents are poor peasants, and your parents are soldiers. We are the best of comrades, sharing the same pants. It’s just a coincidence that we live in the same compound. It’s only because I’m your older sister that I can’t bear to see you being deceived by that capitalist bad element, Su Wantang, that I’m putting aside family ties to tell you this from the bottom of my heart.”
"Thank you so much!"
"No need to thank me, we're like sisters. Come visit me often!"
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