Chapter 81: The Country’s Taking Care Of Us
Lu Qiaoge naturally agreed obediently.
After she left, Sister Qiao sincerely said to Old Hu, “I never thought about it, the little girl who is always clean and dainty on weekdays actually has this side.”
Huang Juan had relief in her eyes: “Yeah, I didn’t think of it either.”
Old Hu said: “Contact Wei Qiang’s parents and see what’s really going on?”
Ren Xiaocui: “I don’t know what happened in the Wei family these past few days, but I know that Zhang Quan’s biological mother and elder sister from her mother’s home both came, preparing to take care of Zhang Quan for a while, but Old Woman Liu refused to agree no matter what, insisting that she could take care of her, so Zhang Quan’s biological mother and elder sister both left.”
At this point Ren Xiaocui paused, and taunted: “Zhang Quan has a work injury, the country is covering it, medical expenses are all reimbursed, and I heard that Wei Qiang gave all of Zhang Quan’s salary subsidies and such to his mom.”
“This shouldn’t last more than a few days?”
“Old Woman Liu has no conscience, she lives with her eldest son on the surface, but actually stays at her youngest son’s place all the time, before Zhang Quan had the accident, she handled everything inside and out, Xiao Bao goes to kindergarten and can come home by himself, no need for her to pick him up, three meals a day, all prepared by Zhang Quan and brought to the table, Old Woman Liu is so lazy she doesn’t even wash her own clothes, who among the left and right neighbors doesn’t praise Zhang Quan as a good daughter-in-law, praising Old Woman Liu for being fortunate.”
“No filial child before a long illness, let alone a mother-in-law, that Wei Qiang…”
Director Hu stopped her: “Alright, so much nonsense, meeting time!”
The women exchanged a gaze, men and women wouldn’t have common feelings about this matter.
Wei Qiang already had a bad temper, how much patience could he have to take care of his paralyzed wife?
In many families, if the wife doesn’t take good care of her husband, it leads to beatings and scolding, now the wife has no value and has become a burden, just speaking of Wei Qiang, how many days can he persist?
Huang Juan said: “Female comrades’ ideas often need to align more with female comrades, our neighborhood committee needs to pay attention to Zhang Quan, but more importantly, pay attention to Wei Qiang’s attitude.”
Old Hu frowned: “What’s that, Wei Qiang dares to abandon his wife?”
“He definitely doesn’t dare abandon his wife, but verbal abuse, blows, and disdain can take Zhang Quan’s life, Old Hu, talk to Wei Qiang, care about his attitude.”
Others are secondary, finding someone to take care of Zhang Quan isn’t difficult, but Wei Qiang’s attitude is the most important.
Especially since such a selfish person like Old Woman Liu is still Wei Qiang’s biological mother.
Half of the cadres under Old Hu were men and half women, he directly named Old Luo from the health clinic to go with him to the staff hospital.
Then Deputy Director Huang and Sister Qiao prepared to go to Wei Qiang’s home.
Lu Qiaoge didn’t know how they arranged things here, she rode her bicycle home.
Hua Hua, who was napping in the shade under the tree, had already jumped up, but upon smelling the scent on Lu Qiaoge, covered his nose and ran far away.
【Little master, what’s wrong with you, you stink so much.】
Lu Qiaoge herself knew it too, thinking of how Qin Hengzhi had just faced her, she couldn’t help but curl her lips.
The Lu family had a bathing area, a water tank made by Old Lu himself from discarded scraps, using a watering can nozzle as a shower head, which was fine for rinsing off in summer.
As for winter, the military factory had three staff bathhouses, the conditions were quite good.
Lu Qiaoge first took a bath and washed her hair, then went to wash clothes.
Finally she had cleaned herself up, back to being a clean and pretty young woman, the calico cat came running from somewhere and pounced towards Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge dodged, because he was so sure he would land in the little master’s arms, Hua Hua was completely unprepared and pounced into empty air, and not only that, behind Lu Qiaoge was a large water basin, with hot summer weather and water sitting in it, so Hua Hua fell straight in, splashing water everywhere.
Hua Hua doesn’t like water, dislikes it very much, flailing and wailing inside.
Xiao Si was about to go up to fish him out, Lu Qiaoge said: “You go study, don’t mind him.”
Old Mrs. Lu rocked her fan with a smiling squint at her second granddaughter, this girl did it on purpose.
Lu Qiaoge pressed down the calico cat who wanted to jump out, and asked: “Tell me the truth, why does Old Black Cat from Zhou Li’s house run when he sees me?”
The pressed calico cat stopped moving, his amber cat eyeballs surprisingly showing guilt?
“And the nearby cats, they meow meow meow and flee before I even get close?”
“I didn’t provoke them, why are they so afraid of me?”
Lu Qiaoge poked at the cowering Hua Hua again: “The day before yesterday I told the grey pigeon it’s fine to come find me to play, but these two days I haven’t even seen a shadow, and the sparrows that often come to the big elm tree at the doorway haven’t come either.”
While Lu Qiaoge said this, she didn’t avoid Grandmother either, Old Woman smiled and said: “Hua Hua is very domineering, but also very capable, since he came, we haven’t had a single mouse in our house.”
But this actually also had the merit of Rat Big and Rat Two.
These two little things on their first day visiting chased away a very hidden nest of mice.
But it can’t be denied, the calico cat really became Cat Head.
At this time Hua Hua didn’t even have inner voice, because these were all his doing.
Unfortunately, the current Hua Hua hasn’t learned how to defend himself yet.
Lu Qiaoge had long heard about it from Old Black Cat.
Hua Hua not only warned Old Black Cat to stay away from her, but nearby cats, any with a bit of spiritual energy were all driven away by him.
The animal world is the same as the human world, the strong are respected.
Now Hua Hua is clearly the boss of this area.
Lu Qiaoge gave him a bath, and he obediently didn’t dare resist at all.
Lu Qiaoge said to him: “Forget the other little things, don’t drive away Old Black Cat and the grey pigeon and those chirping sparrows, got it?”
Old Mrs. Lu saw the drenched Hua Hua actually nod and meow meow meow several times.
This little cat is very spiritual.
Lu Qiaoge fished Hua Hua out of the water, the Hua Hua who did wrong was very obedient.
Lu Qiaoge said softly: “Don’t worry, you are very important in my heart!”
【Really?】 The calico cat lifted his cat head and asked in surprise.
Lu Qiaoge smiled without speaking, she took out his special old towel to dry his fur, Xiao Si saw and volunteered to take it over, unexpectedly the calico cat shook his fur, drenching Xiao Si all over his body and face.
In the courtyard Xiao Si chased the calico cat, Naughty Swallow flew back, circling around Lu Qiaoge chirping non-stop.
【Go touch them, no problem, if they come out, they like your hand very much too.】
This was Naughty Swallow’s voice, it seemed the little swallow was about to hatch soon.
Lu Qiaoge moved over a ladder, first touched a few eggs, and also touched Naughty Swallow’s wife.
Since they came, whether day or night, in the Lu family courtyard besides occasional dancing butterflies, there were almost no mosquitoes or flies.
Naughty Swallow even forages by flying out.
The Lu family house is rundown, but the little courtyard is kept very clean.
The empty corner of the wall is planted with scallions, not much, but enough to use.
The north window is open, there’s a through breeze in the room.
If not going to work, staying at home like this is very comfortable.
