Chapter 341: Grandma Qin Blows Without A Care
The next day, after finishing breakfast, Qin Hengzhi took Lu Qiaoge out.
When turning the corner of the wall, they heard a woman scolding someone.
Lu Qiaoge couldn’t help but stop in her tracks, because the person being scolded was Cao Lanzhu.
“I knew you offended the Qin Family, otherwise why would you go so early in the morning to deliver fried dough sticks to Lu Qiaoge?”
Cao Jing was very annoyed. The Qin Family now could not be offended, and she had thought Lanzhu could become the Qin Family’s daughter-in-law, after all, Old Mrs. Qin seemed to like her very much.
But unexpectedly, Qin Hengzhi had found a partner in that remote place in Jiangcheng.
What a useless good-for-nothing.
Cao Lanzhu argued back in great annoyance: “I didn’t offend Lu Qiaoge, I just wanted to give her some freshly fried fried dough sticks. Besides, why are you always afraid that I will offend Lu Qiaoge?”
Lu Qiaoge and Qin Hengzhi exchanged a glance. It turned out that Cao Lanzhu had come to deliver breakfast to her, but was intercepted by Cao Lanzhu’s Second Aunt Cao Jing.
Seeing her niece getting anxious over there, Cao Jing softened her tone: “I’m not afraid you’ll do something stupid like before? Since that’s the case, then go ahead.”
Cao Jing no longer paid attention to her niece and turned back to the Cao Family.
A jeep was waiting in front of the Cao Family’s main door. She opened the car door and got in.
Looking at her Second Aunt’s back, Cao Lanzhu suddenly lost the idea of delivering the fried dough sticks. After her Second Aunt left, she also turned and walked away.
Qin Hengzhi said: “Cao Lanzhu’s Second Aunt is called Cao Jing, who works in the Resources Department, widowed, has a twelve-year-old boy, and after becoming widowed, has always lived with her parents.”
While speaking, they also arrived at the Logistics small vehicle unit. Qin Hengzhi borrowed a jeep, drove the car, and sped off with Lu Qiaoge toward Sub-district 5 in a certain district of Beidu.
At this time in the Qin Family, Grandma Qin came back from outside and told her son and daughter-in-law about what happened in the activity room yesterday.
Grandma Qin said unhappily: “That girl Jiang Lan looks pretty good usually, how is she so brainless? I thought it was Cao Lanzhu causing trouble, but unexpectedly it was Jiang Lan. Luckily Qiao Ge knows how to play table tennis and plays quite well, otherwise it would have lost face and affected their relationship so much? No, I have to go chat with Old Mrs. Jiang.”
The environment at Bai Jinyan is very simple, rarely encountering such family trivial matters, so after pondering for a bit, she said: “Mom, I’ll go with you. I’ll tell them that I’m very satisfied with Qiao Ge. If the two of them don’t work out, then let Hengzhi remain a bachelor for life.”
Qin Feng: “…”
Seeing his mother and wife really about to leave, he hurriedly stopped them and analyzed very rationally: “This all happened yesterday, but they showed no abnormalities last night and weren’t affected at all. You don’t need to worry. Besides, if Qiao Ge really couldn’t handle such an occasion, she couldn’t have achieved such excellent grades at work.”
Grandma Qin frowned: “What do you mean? Just ignore it and let them each go find trouble with Qiao Ge?”
Qin Feng hurriedly explained: “Mom, that’s not what I mean. I mean these are all small matters that Qiao Ge can handle, just like what happened in the activity room yesterday. With Qiao Ge’s personality, if she didn’t know how, she would just say she didn’t know. Could Jiang Lan force her to play? And Hengzhi was right there beside her.”
Grandma Qin did not approve and criticized Qin Feng: “Women and men have always thought about problems from different angles. Her being capable is her being capable, not an excuse for you to ignore it. So what, just because she has skill, she has to bear all kinds of trouble? Can we just stand by and watch? What kind of reason is that?”
Qin Feng thought about it and found himself actually speechless.
So Grandma Qin and Bai Jinyan went out to the Jiang Family.
They were old neighbors of decades, so upon meeting there was no small talk. Grandma Qin started the conversation: “Oh, Little Lan isn’t home?”
Grandmother Jiang: “It’s Monday today, she went to work.”
Grandma Qin: “I thought she was practicing table tennis in the activity room. Yeah, yesterday she insisted on having Lin Lin play ball with my grandson’s partner Qiao Ge, but in the end the last ball landed right on her forehead, hahaha. This child too, just standing there stupidly, not even knowing to dodge…”
Grandmother Jiang understood, her expression not very good as she looked at Grandma Qin.
She sarcastically said: “So it’s Hengzhi’s partner. Looking at you like that, I thought they got married.”
Grandma Qin pursed her lips: “Our family’s Qiao Ge is only nineteen years old, what’s the rush? A woman’s best marriage and childbearing age is at least over twenty, and moreover, this girl is very capable. The food she develops can even be exchanged for foreign exchange.”
Grandma Qin wasn’t just bragging casually; this is how she thought. Those instant noodles taste so good. Even if we don’t count on foreigners buying them—after all, foreigners eat different things from us.
But on foreign soil, there are so many Dragon Country people like us.
Not to mention other places, couldn’t they exchange foreign exchange in Hong Kong?
And around Nanyang, even Xiao Guizi loves noodles. I don’t believe they wouldn’t like instant noodles.
So Grandma Qin boasted without any psychological burden.
“So I’m not rushing them to get married. They’re all young people now; they should put all their energy into their careers, work hard to build our motherland well.”
Grandmother Jiang didn’t interject a word throughout, got so angry she stood up, but couldn’t tear face either. After all, her stupid granddaughter did something stupid, and it was also a long-standing relationship; making a fuss over this wouldn’t look good.
She said: “Oh, I have to go out to buy vegetables. If I go late, the vegetables my old man wants to eat won’t be available.”
Grandma Qin smiled smugly.
She took her daughter-in-law and left, and on the way also detoured to the Cao Family, telling Cao Lanzhu to go chat with Qiao Ge if she had nothing to do, but now Qiao Ge wasn’t home…
Cao Lanzhu was really flattered.
Grandma Qin pitied her for having no father or mother and had always treated her better than others.
But because she was instigated by her family, first she sabotaged Qin Hengzhi’s blind date, and even presumptuously went to Jiangcheng. Such actions made Grandma Qin suddenly become cold toward her.
Luckily, she hadn’t continued doing such presumptuous stupid things.
She suddenly remembered something, ran out of the courtyard to catch up with Grandma Qin and Bai Jinyan, and said: “What I heard last night, Du Lin called Jiang Lan, asking her about Lu Qiaoge’s age, saying she was preparing to recommend her to the table tennis team.”
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law exchanged a glance; they actually didn’t take it to heart. Not to mention whether Lu Qiaoge had this idea, the table tennis team wasn’t something you could join just because you wanted to.
Bai Jinyan smiled and said: “These are all things kids say casually. It’s you kids who take it seriously.”
Cao Lanzhu smiled embarrassedly: “Yeah, maybe it was just said casually.”
At this time, at a certain team’s morning meeting, the coach summarized the training of each team member, and while summarizing, also gave severe criticism.
He told everyone that time was tight, tasks were heavy, and they would soon participate in the world competition. The burden on everyone was very heavy, so there must not be the slightest slack. Starting now, everyone’s holiday is canceled, add three hours of training.
