Chapter 180 Tang Wan and Cao Huan become best friends
Wang Shuo was secretly pleased, but he pretended to be unhappy on his rough face: "Comrade Tang Wan, why did you keep this from me? Why didn't you tell me sooner? It's been so long, and I've been acting like a fool."
Tang Wan lowered her head and whispered, "What's there to say?" After all, she was her father's shame. She had disregarded their father-daughter relationship and packed her things to come to the Peng family without hesitation. She was an unfilial daughter.
Wang Shuo chuckled again: "But he's fine, it's not a big problem. He was just worried about you. He heard about the snail poisoning incident in your food processing team and that you were suspected of being the poisoner. He couldn't take it and fainted. He's fine now. Oh, and he also asked me to bring a lot of things and tickets."
Wang Shuo pulled out more than a dozen tickets, and also carried a bag of white flour on his back.
Tang Wan looked at the things in front of her, her eyes reddening and her throat sore.
Zhang Cuihua quickly stepped forward to take the tickets and the white powder, but Wang Shuo glared at her with wide eyes: "These are for someone's daughter, not for you two. You're just thinking of taking them. I've lived in your house for so long, and I've seen through you. You're all black-hearted."
He knew that the couple never treated Tang Wan as their daughter-in-law and were just trying to leech off her.
All the wages Tang Wan earned in the food processing team over the past few months went into the pockets of this heartless couple.
The couple didn't dare to say anything after Wang Shuo confronted them so bluntly.
After all, Wang Shuo was the instructor of the militia company of the brigade, and his master was the minister of the commune's armed forces department. He had a volatile temper, so they dared not provoke him easily.
Wang Shuo was quite excited. He never expected that his master would be Tang Wan's father. He sighed inwardly, "This is a destiny sent by God."
If this works out, we'll be practically family.
After dinner, Tang Wan saw Wang Shuo standing in the yard by the door enjoying the breeze. She took the initiative to go up to him and ask about her father.
Wang Shuo was a little excited and very willing and enthusiastic to tell Tang Wan about Tang Yanyi's deeds over the years.
Tang Wan was amused and nodded, "That's just the kind of person my dad is. He's very proud and straightforward, and he always insists on reason in everything he does."
Seeing Tang Wan smile in front of him, which was a rare sight, Wang Shuo felt sweet inside. He continued, "Although he doesn't mention you to anyone or allow anyone to mention you, the house, the living room, is full of your photos. He even cleans your room himself, and none of the furnishings have been touched. There's even a piano in the corner."
“My master said that you used to be a piano tuner and you especially love playing the piano.”
Upon hearing this, Tang Wan broke down in tears and couldn't help but cry.
Wang Shuo panicked and hurriedly slapped his own mouth: "Don't cry, I'll slap myself, I'll slap myself hard, I said the wrong thing."
Tang Wan quickly reached out to stop her.
After that night, Tang Wan's attitude towards Wang Shuo improved a lot.
For the past week, Tang Wan has been working at Hua Gui's non-staple food team. She deliberately tries to please Cao Huan and keeps complaining about Wang Yuqing in front of her.
At first, Cao Huan didn't say anything, but later, seeing that Tang Wan really disliked Wang Yuqing, she joined in the complaints: "That's right, she's not kind at all, and her personality is bad too. She's just the leader of the food processing team, but she looks down on us every day. She does the least work every month but gets the most money. Why should she?"
Tang Wan nodded in agreement: "I used to be with her, but I didn't see her true character. Later, when she started the non-staple food team, I realized more and more that she was really not a good person. This time, she actually told the police that she suspected me of being the one who poisoned the food."
Cao Huan felt a pang of panic upon hearing this.
Tang Wan suddenly added, "Cao Huan, actually, I also felt that she shouldn't have hit you that day. It was so disrespectful to you. I even talked to her about it in private. She said that she had been unhappy with you for a long time and wanted to slap you because she thought you had your eye on her family's Ji Xuening and was deliberately getting revenge on you."
This one sentence made Cao Huan completely regard Tang Wan as her best friend, and the two were almost inseparable for several days in a row.
When Chen E and Lei Yongxia were scolding Tang Wan, Cao Huan would stand up for Tang Wan and almost get into a fight with them.
Tang Wan learned from Cao Huan that Hua Gui and He Ruhua disliked Wang Yuqing even more and had long been disgusted by her food processing team. Now that Wang Yuqing was in trouble, Hua Gui immediately reorganized the food processing team.
Tang Wan also noticed that Cao Huan was weak-willed and not very bright, and didn't seem like the type to come up with the idea of poisoning snails.
She wondered if Hua Gui had instigated it.
Wang Yuqing has been staying at home these past few days. Everyone thought she was feeling unwell, but actually, she's been enjoying good food and drinks at home and is having a wonderful time.
At most, they'll take out their own treasured possessions to show off.
The thought that these treasures would be worth a lot of money many years later made her happy.
She was thinking that after a few years, she could finally settle down completely after taking in a few more old boyfriends.
Ji Xuening also thought that Wang Yuqing was deliberately acting indifferent, and that she was actually very sad inside, after all, the non-staple food team was gone, and her best friend had broken off with her.
He was also tongue-tied and didn't know how to coax Wang Yuqing, cheer her up, or make her feel less upset.
That day, he saw Wang Shuo return from the mountain, happily carrying a large bunch of four-season orchids, with a sweet smile on his face.
When Wang saw Ji Xuening, he said, "How is it? It smells good, doesn't it? I picked it on the mountain. I'll take it back to Comrade Tang Wan. She loves orchids in August."
He deliberately let Ji Xuening sniff it, then withdrew it: "It was hard to find. I searched for a long time and only found this much. Luckily, it smells good."
Ji Xuening said, "It smells quite good."
Wang Shuo chuckled: "Have you ever sent flowers to your wife?"
Ji Xuening shook her head: "No."
Wang Shuo looked Ji Xuening up and down: "Just by looking at you, you're obviously a straight man. You've been arguing with Tang Wan lately, and things have really fallen apart. She must be feeling really bad. Why don't you go up the mountain and find some flowers to give her?"
"Women all love fragrant flowers."
Ji Xuening took these words to heart. It just so happened that he was going to the mountain to cut down trees, but the Four Seasons Orchid was very hard to find; he couldn't find a single one anywhere.
He hadn't gone home by nightfall.
Wang Yuqing thought he was busy, but even though it was pouring rain outside, he still didn't come home.
She went to the brigade headquarters but didn't see Ji Xuening. Finally, she saw Wang Shuo, who said, "That guy should be looking for orchids for you on the mountain, but why hasn't he come back yet?"
Wang Yuqing sat in the main room, looking at the torrential rain outside, feeling uneasy and nervous. She remembered the last time, when it was raining heavily, Ji Xuening was alone in the back mountain and didn't come back for a long time. Fortunately, he killed a wild boar later.
Will we run into wild boars again this time?
Grandma Ji and the three children had all gone to sleep, leaving Wang Yuqing to wait alone. After all, it was dark and raining heavily, and it was almost impossible to see anything on the mountain. The road was difficult to walk, so she was quite worried.
Wang Yuqing grumbled, "What an idiot! You just do whatever Wang Shuo tells you to do?"
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