Upon hearing the phrase "starting a relationship and then abandoning it," Shi Qiang was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly.
"No, no, no, I didn't, I..."
Huang Ying was already impatient and didn't want to listen to their arguing.
"Alright, enough nonsense. Just tell me when you plan to get your marriage certificate. Otherwise, I don't mind telling someone about your lewd behavior."
Huang Ying was starting to regret it. Why did she have to get involved in all this? It was really upsetting.
Shi Qiang was still thinking about what to do when he suddenly realized why Huang Ying was meddling in their affairs.
Thinking of this, he looked at Zhu Pandi with scrutiny and deep distrust.
8
"Nana, this is between the two of us. Why did you have to involve outsiders? How come I never knew you were so scheming?"
Now it seems my mom was right not to let me marry you. After being together for so long, how could you still try to scheme against me? Nana, you really... have disappointed me so much!
It was bad enough that he said such harsh words, but he also pointed his finger back and forth between Zhu Pandi and Huang Ying. Could Huang Ying, with her fiery temper, tolerate that?
Of course not!
So when Shi Qiang pointed at her again, she walked up to him, grabbed his finger, and bent it upwards.
"Ahhh—"
Shi Qiang cried out in pain.
Huang Ying pretended not to see his other hand waving for mercy, and continued to pry it upwards, not forgetting to launch into a verbal attack:
"You still feel pain? I thought you weren't going to keep this hand, you were pointing at it all the time."
"Let me tell you, I wasn't invited by Zhu Pandi. If she had really invited me, I might not have come. I just happened to run into her, and I couldn't stand seeing her so pathetic and being manipulated by you!"
After speaking to Shi Qiang, she looked at Zhu Pandi.
"Let me tell you, Zhu, I'm not here to help you today, I'm here to help us women. You'd better stand up for me, or I, Huang Ying, will look down on you for the rest of my life!"
Zhu Pandi nodded hesitantly, though it didn't know what it could do to earn Huang Ying's respect.
Fortunately, she was originally so timid and cowardly that she didn't even want a formal title to have children for the Shi family, so she knew what she had to do.
She was grateful that Huang Ying was willing to help, but she didn't want to fawn over the other party's condescending attitude.
Therefore, in response to Huang Ying's reminder, she simply said:
"I know."
Huang Ying could certainly sense the emotion in her words, but she couldn't be bothered with it. She wasn't just idly going around settling family disputes for them.
"Okay, good that you know."
With that, she released Shi Qiang's hand and stepped back outside.
Before leaving, she hadn't forgotten the purpose of her visit.
"Hey you two, remember to stock up on firewood. Don't blame me for being blunt, but if you don't prepare, no one will lend you firewood even if you freeze to death!"
Huang Ying was not exaggerating. This was the usual practice at the educated youth settlement. If people got used to borrowing from others, and everyone wanted to borrow, would anyone still be willing to prepare firewood properly?
Therefore, in order to make management easier, Huang Ying and Zhao Zhiyi set a rule early on: each person would use their own firewood in winter, and if there was none or not enough, it would freeze.
Zhu Pandi and Shi Qiang had heard similar claims before, but they hadn't taken them seriously.
Thinking about it, since the entire educated youth settlement was all living together, how could they really be separated like that?
But what Zhou Chunli said the next second shattered their illusions.
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