Lu Xiufen was startled.
Realizing what was happening, and seeing that Lin Chunying dared to yell at him, he immediately shouted in an even louder voice than Lin Chunying, "How can you be so ungrateful? I did all this for you..."
"Stop spouting your nonsense!"
Before Lu Xiufen could finish speaking, Lin Chunying interrupted her sharply, coldly snorting, "You've fooled me my whole life, don't I know you? You know perfectly well whether you want the money to help Tianyou get married or to support your eldest son's family! I'm telling you right now, not only will you give me the meager 100 yuan dowry, but you'll also get this 50 yuan dowry—"
Lin Chunying turned around and stuffed the 50 yuan in her hand directly into Qiao Qiqi's pocket. "These all belong to Qiqi. If anyone dares to touch a single penny, I'll fight them to the death!"
Qiao Qiqi's eyes flickered.
Seeing that Lin Chunying, who was usually weak and burdened by filial piety, suddenly stood up, her face showed undisguised relief.
She was worried that her parents would continue to be blindly obedient to her, and that would make it difficult to get rid of Lu Xiufen.
Now it seems that things will be simple once we take down Qiao Weiguo.
“You…” Lu Xiufen looked at Lin Chunying, who had a murderous look on her face, in disbelief. Suddenly, she slapped her thigh and sat down on the ground, crying out.
"Weiguo, look at this! This is the wonderful wife you married! She's actually going to fight your mother to the death! Oh dear, I can't live like this!!!"
This tactic was a common trick of Lu Xiufen's. In the past, whenever she sat on the ground and threw a tantrum, Qiao Weiguo would give in.
Qiao Qiqi had read the contents of the book, so she naturally knew about this matter.
Her gaze involuntarily drifted to Qiao Weiguo, wanting to see just how blindly filial he was…
Where she couldn't see, Lin Chunying also looked at her husband, her eyes filled with expectation.
Under the watchful eyes of the mother and daughter, Qiao Weiguo seemed to have aged suddenly. After a heavy sigh, he finally spoke, "Mother, Chunying and I share the same opinion on this matter. If you really don't want to, you can skip dinner with the Qin family tonight. I'll take you to my elder brother's house first and then pick you up tonight."
Lu Xiufen paused in her sobbing and looked up in disbelief.
"What did you say?!"
Qiao Weiguo repeated, "I said I'd take you to my older brother's house first, and then tonight..."
"Unfilial son! This is the fine son I raised? He actually wants to kick his own mother out! What's the point of me living? I'd rather die with his father!!!"
Seeing Lu Xiufen sitting on the ground wailing and crying, Qiao Qiqi really wanted to say, "Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you hurry up and die!"
Just as she was about to step forward, her arm was suddenly grabbed.
Qin Huai glanced at her.
He originally thought this was a family matter of the Qiao family. Although he had already registered his marriage with Qiao Qiqi, he was still considered a semi-outsider and shouldn't interfere.
Seeing how things had developed, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and, under Qiao Qiqi's questioning gaze, walked over to Qiao Weiguo's side.
"Dad, you shouldn't be preparing this dinner tonight. My parents should be. If you and Mom don't mind, please come to my house for dinner tonight!"
Qiao Qiqi's eyes lit up, and she instantly thought this was a great idea!
Qiao Weiguo also thought the idea was good, but he still turned to look at Lin Chunying. After hearing Lin Chunying say "okay", he then said to Qin Huai, "Okay, then your mother and I will go to your house tonight."
"Mm." Qin Huai nodded.
Lu Xiufen, who was sitting on the ground crying, watched as the group made their decision without her consent, and suddenly stood up.
“I’m telling you, you’re not getting rid of me. This isn’t over yet, I…”
Qiao Qiqi's gaze turned cold: "If Grandma thinks we've gone too far, why don't we go directly to the brigade and have a word with them? Or we can just call the brigade leader and the police officers to our house. I said yesterday that the things that were stolen from the house hadn't been found yet, and today my mother said that other things were stolen from the house, right, Mother?"
Lin Chun met her daughter's suggestive gaze and instantly understood.
At this point, she was completely disappointed in her mother-in-law. Thinking about how her more than 20 years of forbearance had only resulted in the other party becoming increasingly unreasonable, she finally decided to stop enduring it.
“Qiqi is right. When I was cooking just now, I found that ten eggs were missing from the house, and Qiqi’s dowry was also missing a pair of pillowcases and a quilt cover…”
Lin Chunying rattled off seven or eight more items in one breath.
Qiao Qiqi glared at Lu Xiufen's guilty expression and sneered, "The thief in this house is really shameless, he actually stole so many things!"
As Qiao Weiguo listened to his wife and daughter's words, and then saw that they were all staring at Lu Xiufen, his eyes grew increasingly disappointed.
"Mother, why are you even touching Qiqi's dowry?"
"I didn't take it!"
Lu Xiufen, feeling guilty, stubbornly insisted on blaming Lin Chunying, saying, "Who knows if she's too old and misremembered where she put the things? Anyway, this has nothing to do with me."
Having distanced herself from the situation, Lu Xiufen glared at Qiao Qiqi with a look of resentment.
"You unfilial daughter! Since you don't care about your father and refuse to give your dowry to support your parents, then consider me meddling in your business! I can't be bothered with you!"
The thought of losing 50 yuan made Lu Xiufen feel like her heart was bleeding.
But the thought of Qiao Qiqi threatening to call the police at the drop of a hat terrified her, and no matter how unwilling she was, she could only turn around and quickly return to her room.
Qiao Qiqi narrowed her eyes.
Knowing that today's events were not enough to kick Lu Xiufen out of the house, she was unwilling, but fortunately she had already thought of other ways.
Thinking it over, she immediately took out the sun hat and gloves she had bought for Lin Chunying from the bundle she had just brought. "Mom, Qin Huai asked me to buy these for you in town, to shield you from the sun and protect your hands."
Lin Chunying immediately pushed the things back, saying, "Mother doesn't need these. You take them back for your mother-in-law to use."
"I also bought one for Mother-in-law, two of them, so you can both have one." Qiao Qiqi put the sun hat on Lin Chunying's head.
Lin Chunying has fair skin. Although she got quite tanned from working in the fields when she was younger, she has regained some of her tan in recent years after her back started acting up and she can no longer do farm work.
So Qiao Qiqi specially chose a pink hat for her, which immediately made Lin Chunying look much more delicate and several years younger.
Qiao Qiqi glanced at it with satisfaction, then immediately looked at Qiao Weiguo, "Dad, look how beautiful Mom looks in this hat!"
Qiao Weiguo was already stunned.
Suddenly called out by Qiao Qiqi, his face flushed red, and he hurriedly looked away before saying, "My son-in-law bought it for me, so you can keep it!"
Lin Chunying actually liked the hat the moment she saw it.
But she still said with a pained expression, "This hat must have been expensive, right? Why are you wasting this money?"
Qiao Qiqi looked completely innocent: "Qin Huai asked me to buy it. If you want to blame someone, blame him."
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