Wen Qihang shook his head, "No, I heard from A Yuan that it's just for my parents to go over and help look after the house, and the household registration will be under Xiaoxue's name."
"Comrade Lu is so good to Xiaoxue!" Qu Wenjing exclaimed.
"What, have I been bad to you?" Wen Qihang asked.
Qu Wenjing blushed and gave him a coquettish glare from behind, "I didn't say you were bad to me!"
Although Wen Qihang couldn't see what she looked like at that moment, he could imagine what she was like from her soft and sweet voice. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will treat you well in the future."
When Qu Wenjing arrived home, none of her family members were asleep yet. Her second uncle's family was also home. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed almost imperceptibly. Why were they still at their house so late?
"Oh, Wenjing's back. It's so late. I thought you weren't coming back tonight."
Aunt Qu's first words were full of veiled innuendo.
Qu Wenjing frowned and said, "Second Aunt, what are you saying? Where else could I go if I didn't come back?"
"The Wen family, didn't I hear you went to the Wen family for dinner? Why didn't they invite you to stay overnight?"
Qu Wenjing rolled her eyes inwardly. "Second Aunt, if Wenfang goes to her boyfriend's house for dinner, can she stay overnight? My parents taught me that I shouldn't do that."
Qu Wenfang is the daughter of Qu Ershen and also Qu Wenjing's cousin. The two are less than a month apart in age.
Aunt Qu was taken aback and her face fell. She snorted coldly, "Of course not at our house. Don't even mention letting people stay overnight, they can't even come back this late. Who knows what they've been doing if they come back this late?"
Mr. and Mrs. Qu looked extremely displeased. Were they determined to ruin their daughter's reputation?
"Second sister-in-law, what do you mean by this? Our Wenjing has always been a very sensible person, and the Wen family are also very polite. She must have been delayed by something to come back so late," said Mother Qu.
"Ha, you say it's delayed and that's it? Wenjing, then tell me what caused the delay."
Qu Wenjing sat down next to her mother and said to her parents, "Mom and Dad, Qihang dropped me off downstairs. He didn't come up so late, so he asked me to say hello to you on his behalf."
Mr. and Mrs. Qu's expressions softened considerably, and they nodded slightly. Mrs. Qu even casually praised her prospective son-in-law for his courteous manners.
Aunt Qu curled her lip, "You call this polite if you don't even go upstairs?"
After saying that, he added, "Don't try to change the subject. Wenjing hasn't said why she came back so late yet. Is she having trouble saying it?"
"What's so hard to say?"
Qu Wenjing suddenly smiled and her eyes crinkled. "Qihang's sister and brother-in-law are buying a house, so we went to look at some."
"Buying a house?" Mrs. Qu asked in surprise. "Which sister wants to buy a house?"
"Of course, it's my younger sister."
"Didn't their younger sister marry someone from another city? Why are they buying a house in Hangzhou? Are they going back to Hangzhou?" Mrs. Qu asked.
"No, Mom. My younger sister and her husband don't come back. They only come back once a year. It's just that they have a lot of children, and we'll definitely have children in the future. We're afraid the Wen family's house won't be big enough, so we decided to buy one. Qihang's parents can live there and look after the house for them."
Mr. and Mrs. Qu were overjoyed. This was a great thing. Their daughter's in-laws would live in that house, and then their daughter and her husband would live in the Wen family's house. The house was so spacious that even if they had several more children in the future, they could still live there.
Besides, distance makes things better than proximity. If a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law don't live together, there will be fewer troubles. Even if both of them have good personalities, there will inevitably be friction, and over time, conflicts are likely to arise.
Now that my daughter is married, I don't have to worry about these issues at all.
"Have you found a house yet? Where is it located?"
"Look carefully, we agreed to go and transfer the property tomorrow. It's on Dongxin Road, very close to the residential building."
"Oh, that's great! Your future in-laws will be closer to you when they move in, and you can take care of each other."
After saying that, she glanced at Aunt Qu and deliberately said, "After your parents-in-law move in, won't it be too empty for just the two of you in that big apartment building? But it doesn't matter, once you're married, hurry up and have a few kids, and the apartment will be full in a few years."
Aunt Qu's face almost twisted with sarcasm as she listened, and she said in a sarcastic tone, "Wenjing, you haven't even married into the family yet, and your future in-laws have already given money to your sister-in-law and her family to buy a house. They really don't care about you at all."
Qu Wenjing laughed, "Second Aunt, you've misunderstood. The money for the house was all paid by Qihang and his wife themselves. My future in-laws didn't contribute a single penny."
"Tch, you know that? Maybe they gave it to you secretly."
"I actually know that. Wen Xiaomei and her family are not short of money. Even if you offer them money, they won't take it."
"Ha, they won't even take money? That's hilarious!"
“They are different from some people who only know how to suck the blood of their relatives.”
These pointed remarks made Aunt Qu furious, her face turning red and her neck thick with anger. She shouted, "Qu Wenjing, what do you mean? Is this how you talk to your elders? So what if you got lucky and climbed the social ladder by marrying into the Wen family? If our Wenfang hadn't rejected that Wen boy, what would you have to do with this?"
Qu Wenjing laughed in exasperation. Was it that Qu Wenfang didn't like Wen Qihang? It was clearly Qihang who didn't like Wenfang.
"Second Aunt, stop trying to make yourself look good. Everyone knows what really happened back then. Don't keep bringing up what happened back then. Give Wenfang some face too."
"You..." Aunt Qu was so angry that her chest heaved violently. She couldn't come up with a reason after arguing for a long time, so she had no choice but to point the finger at Mr. and Mrs. Qu.
"Brother and sister-in-law, are you just going to stand by and watch Wenjing disrespect me, your elder, and not do anything about it?"
"What do you care? Wenjing is right. As an elder, you should refrain from doing things that would embarrass you. Even a junior knows this principle, yet you, as an elder, don't understand it. You should reflect on yourself."
Aunt Qu was about to say something more when her mother interrupted her, "Alright, it's late, you should go back now."
At this moment, Aunt Qu realized that they had not yet achieved their purpose for coming, and hurriedly said, "Then, elder brother and sister-in-law, why don't you agree to what we asked for?"
Mother Qu waved her hand, "Don't even think about it. This sewing machine and radio are betrothal gifts from Wenjing's in-laws. We'll take them back with us later."
"Whether we take it back or not is up to you. Wenbing finally found a girlfriend, and she's asking us for a 'three turns and one sound' (referring to a radio, sewing machine, and radio). You know our situation; we really can't afford it. You happen to have some, so please help us out. Wenbing is your nephew; you, as his uncle and aunt, can't just ignore him."
“You know Wenbing is our nephew, not our son. We’ve never heard of a family preparing things for their nephew’s wedding.”
Qu Wenjing finally understood that they were after her dowry. She was speechless. Her second aunt was truly a jerk.
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