The Male Lead’s Wife in the ’80s

The Male Lead’s Wife in the ‘80s Chapter 15- Am I Like Xiangfei?

Su Man-er picked her ear and got annoyed by Gu ChunMei’s words.

She looked at Gu ChunMei cold-heartedly and sneered: “Then go to my mother. Since my mother is generous, go to my mother! But if my mother knew that you helped others smear me yesterday and wanted to damage my reputation, I don’t know if my mother will recognize you as her sister!”

Gu ChunMei: “…” Her breathing tightened and she suddenly raised her head in fright.

If Elder Sister knew about yesterday’s matter, perhaps Elder Sister would really be angry and not want to recognize her.

Without the help and support of Elder Sister, the life of her family would certainly become worse.

So she couldn’t let Elder Sister know about what happened yesterday. Even if she knew about it, she couldn’t let her think that she was damaging her daughter’s reputation.

With a quick response, Gu ChunMei raised her chin and shouted sharply, “Who wants to damage your reputation? Don’t accuse me wrongly! Yesterday, I was cheated by Lil’ Duck Egg. I really thought that you were the person in the thatched cottage, so I was…”

“If you didn’t see who was in the thatched cottage, based on a child, Lil’ Duck Egg’s words, you determined that my wife was cheating and helped them scold Man-er and pour dirty water on Man-er. Do you still want to say you didn’t want to damage my wife’s reputation?! Do you think everyone is stupid and will believe your sophistry?!”

Chi YunChen interrupted her and exposed her lies very impolitely.

“If you really take Man-er as your niece, you wouldn’t do that yesterday! You would try your best to protect Man-er, and you would not let Man-er suffer any harm!” Chi YunChen’s face was cold and added.

These words oppressed Gu ChunMei to the point that she was red in the face. She opened her mouth and wanted to refute. But her mind was at a loss for words and she couldn’t find a single word to refute with.

Qiao ZhengGuo glared at her, this stinky woman, she only knew how to make trouble outside! If she had not helped Hu YuJiao frame Su Man-er yesterday, Su Man-er would not have been so rude to them today.

His eyes flashed. Qiao ZhengGuo’s eyes flashed his dissatisfaction to Gu ChunMei. Then he looked at Su Man-er and said: “Yesterday’s incident was all your little aunty’s fault. I apologize to you on your little aunty’s behalf. Su Man-er, as an adult, you have generosity. Don’t be angry.”

Qiao XinXin wiped her tears sadly and hurriedly said: “I also apologize to Cousin on behalf of my mother. Cousin, I know that you are actually a generous person. I know that in your heart, you actually don’t want to argue with us. Cousin, you will…”

“Wrong, I want to argue with you. Qiao XinXin, don’t think I don’t know what happened yesterday. Yesterday, you helped Hu YuJiao. Yesterday, Zhao DaShun told me all about how he went to the thatched cottage and how I was knocked out and told me everything. I only found out yesterday that my good cousin actually had such vicious intentions in her heart!”

Su Man-er had no time to listen to Qiao XinXin’s nonsense. Qiao XinXin’s nonsense could be left to coax ghosts!

Qiao XinXin’s pupils shrank, frightened by Su Man-er’s words.

Su Man-er knew? So she actually knew?

But Gu ChunMei and Qiao ZhengGuo were also surprised. What was going on? Was XinXin also involved in the thatched cottage incident yesterday?

Chi YunChen glanced at Qiao XinXin, turned to Su Man-er, and asked, “What did you mean by that? Do you mean that Qiao XinXin also had a part in yesterday’s incident?”

Su Man-er nodded.

The corners of her mouth hooked into a careless smile and her voice was merciless: That’s right. Qiao XinXin and Hu YuJiao planned yesterday’s incident. Hu Yujiao is hateful, and Qiao XinXin is just as vicious!”

Chi YunChen’s face fell. He turned his head and looked at Qiao XinXin in a very cold way.

When Chi YunChen looked at her like that, Qiao XinXin’s breathing was in disorder for a while and she suddenly felt somewhat panicked in her heart.

She didn’t want Chi YunChen to think that she was such a vicious person. She just wanted Chi YunChen to think that she was a naive and kind girl.

She ground her teeth and quickly explained, “How can you wrong me so much, Cousin? I don’t…”

“What, do you want to say you’re not involved at all? Ha ha, do you want us to go confront Hu YuJiao now? Hu YuJiao is right next door,” Su Man-er sneered, her every word carried ridicule.

Qiao XinXin’s pupils shrank again. She raised her eyes and couldn’t help but look at the house next door.

Seeing Qiao XinXin’s reaction, what else did people still not understand?

It was obvious that Qiao XinXin was involved in yesterday’s incident. Qiao XinXin also wanted to damage Su Man-er’s reputation.

“Qiao XinXin, if you were me, could you lend me this wedding dress? If it was you, you couldn’t, right?“ Su Man-er squinted and ridiculed.

Qiao XinXin clenched her fists, and she bit her lips tightly. She didn’t know how to answer.

But Chi YunChen said in a deep voice: “Roll! You framed my wife yesterday. Today, you came to borrow her wedding dress! Do you really think that she’s easy to bully?!”

Chi YunChen’s voice was cold as if it was mixed with ice dregs. He intimidated Qiao XinXin, Gu ChunMei, and Qiao ZhengGuo.

Qiao ZhengGuo looked at Chi YunChen, aghast.

How could Chi YunChen have such an aura? Such an aura was not at all like what a country person should have.

And Qiao XinXin looked at Chi YunChen, at the undisguised disgust in his eyes, which was obviously directed to her.

Her heart gave a hard jerk and she actually felt her heartache.

She raised her hand and covered her mouth. Tears came out of her eyes. She turned around sadly and ran out of the courtyard.

The man she liked…hated her.

This feeling was as bitter as eating Chinese goldthread. (1)

Seeing her daughter run away, Gu ChunMei clenched her teeth and called out, “XinXin,” and hurriedly ran.

And Qiao ZhengGuo felt that he had lost face today.

He walked towards the door with a gloomy face and said nothing.

Seeing that all the annoying people had left, Su Man-er’s lips pulled up and a faint smile appeared on her face.

It was wishful thinking to try to get something out of her hands!

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Gu ChunMei ran after her daughter for a while, then she suddenly pulled her daughter and comforted her: “XinXin, why are you crying? Just because your cousin knew what happened yesterday, you cried. Child, why are you so fragile. If she knows, she knows. We don’t have to be afraid of her.”

Gu ChunMei’s words showed that she was completely on her daughter’s side. Even if her daughter killed Su Man-er, she would clap her hands and cheer!

Qiao XinXin didn’t dare to let her mother know that she liked Chi YunChen.

When she saw her mother saying this, she went along and said, “What if Aunt knows? If Aunt knew, she would not often lend money to our family.”

They said it was borrowing money, but it was actually demanding money. Because every time they borrowed money from Aunt, they never returned it.

Gu ChunMei’s face fell, “I just thought of a way. I won’t let your Aunt blame you. You can rest assured.”

She patted her daughter’s shoulder and said: “I will help you get your wedding dress. Later, I’ll go to town to find your Aunt and ask your Aunt to come out and get Su Man-er to hand over her wedding dress. As long as your Aunt speaks, Su Man-er wouldn’t dare to not give it.“

That wedding dress was what they planned to let XinXin wear on her wedding day. After wearing it, they would sell it in the county.

They heard that the wedding dress was made to order at a high price. If you took it to sell, you could sell it at a good price.

With the money from selling it, they could use it to buy a wardrobe. Last time she went to the county town, she took a fancy to a very nice wardrobe, but at that time, there was no money to buy it.

“Mom, there’s still my dowry. I want a better dowry. I will only be valued by my husband’s family if I have a good dowry,” Qiao XinXin bit her lips and looked at her mother with distress.

“Alas, why are you worried about your dowry. When I go see your Aunt, I’ll get your Aunt to help me set it up. You’re her niece. You’re getting married, she has to help you with your dowry,” Gu ChunMei comforted her daughter, thinking about what she should ask Elder Sister for when she went to town later.

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En, it looked like she had to make a list to avoid forgetting when she went to town.

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After Gu ChunMei and others left, Chi YunChen turned his eyes to Su Man-er and suddenly said with a restrained voice, “Your little aunty’s family is not a kind-hearted one. Try to stay away from them in the future.”

In the future, he couldn’t look forward to being in the village for long. Without him around, he was afraid that those people would scheme against her!

Su Man-er took a look at him, “En, don’t worry, I know.”

She didn’t plan to have much contact with Gu ChunMei’s family. It would be fine if she didn’t want Gu ChunMei, a relative like that.

Sister-in-law Hong YaShan glanced at Su Man-er and said with a smile, “Man-er, you are so powerful. If I were you, I would have handed over the wedding dress just now.”

She couldn’t deal with Gu ChunMei. She was so stupid that she had no idea how to get rid of them.

“If I handed over my wedding dress, I wouldn’t be able to get it back. So I can’t give it to them,” Su Man-er took a look at Hong YaShan and said hurriedly.

With an admiring smile, Hong YaShan said words like “You are so powerful“ to Su Man-er.

Su Man-er hooked her lips up. In fact, she was not very powerful. In the face of shameless people like Gu ChunMei, you just had to be more ruthless than her.

“Say, have you applied anything on your body? How can it smell so good?” Hong YaShan suddenly approached Su Man-er and sniffed carefully.

By getting close to Su Man-er, the fragrance became stronger.

It was so rich that it made people feel comfortable and relaxed.

Su Man-er’s eyes darkened involuntarily, and her heartbeat uncontrollably slowed.

Although she knew that they would ask about the fragrance on her body, she was still frenetic when she heard them ask.

Chi YunChen’s eyes locked profoundly on her as he frowned slightly and said in a low voice: “You really are fragrant, I also wanted to ask last night.”

Su Man-er remembered that last night, he asked her if she had applied anything. But at that time, she didn’t know that she had a fragrance on her body. She thought he was asking if she had applied any medicine.

She clenched her fists secretly and smiled quickly: “Oh, I sprayed perfume. It’s a popular item that my Second Uncle entrusted someone to bring back from the port city. It’s very fragrant. Am I like Xiangfei after I spray it?”

As she spoke, she spun in a circle unnaturally as if she imagined she was Xiangfei who attracted butterflies.

Although he hadn’t heard of the word “Xiangfei”, he could tell from Su Man-er’s appearance that she must be saying that she is very fragrant.

Chi YunChen was silent for a second: “En, it’s very fragrant. Just what brand of perfume do you use? I know there are some special, popular goods in the port city, but your perfume is really special. So I want to know what brand can make such good perfume.”

T/N:

黄连 (Chinese goldthread) looks like this:香妃 (Xiangfei) is literally translated as fragrant concubine. I think that this term has some cultural background and refers to a literary character. I couldn’t find a link that was in English, but if you use Google Translate, it works pretty well. The second paragraph talks about Xiangfei’s fragrance. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E5%A6%83