The Male Lead’s Wife in the ’80s

Chapter 42 – A Family of Idlers

“If you have the guts not to return the money, you’ll be sorry!” Su Junheng took a step forward, and one after the other, the ten-plus men who stood behind him strode forward.

Seeing these ferocious men, Gu Chunmei couldn’t help but panic, and she wanted to scream.

But after she thought about her household’s circumstances, she still refused to back down and said, “We never took Man-er’s bride price. In the first place, Elder Sister gave Man-er’s bride price to Man-er. Now that you’re looking for my family for the money, isn’t this unreasonable? If you want to extort money, you can’t do it like this.”

Hearing her words, Su Mingzhe, Su Junheng, and the others almost laughed in anger.

Setting aside Gu Chunmei’s refusal to admit that she took the money, she still dared to falsely accuse them.

How can there be such a shameless person in this world!

Next to her, Qiao Zhengguo took a puff of tobacco, suppressed his panic and restlessness, and said, “My wife is right. We didn’t take the money, so your Su family can’t ask us for it!”

“Qiao Zhengguo, you…”

Su Junheng wanted to berate him, but at that second, the village head came with his wife and his son.

After all, the Qiao family and the village head’s family were about to be connected by marriage. Since they heard that the Qiao family met with a mishap, the village head’s family should come to take a look.

As soon as the village head, Zhao Dehai, entered the courtyard gate, he said, “What’s all this racket?! I heard your voices even far away. It seemed like you were going to fight.”

Zhao Dehai considered himself to be the village head and an official. So when he entered the courtyard, he turned his nose up as if he were superior to everyone else.

Following Zhao Dehai was his son, Zhao Dashun.

When he first entered the gate, Zhao Dashun glanced at Su Man-er. The longer he looked at Su Man-er, the more sweet and charming she looked. His eyes shifted slightly, and a trace of regret flashed in his eyes.

What a pity that he didn’t succeed that day. If he succeeded that day, Su Man-er would be his woman now.

If he had such a sweet and charming woman as his wife, he could wake up laughing from his dreams.

It was unfortunate…

It was unfortunate that things didn’t work out.

He inwardly sighed. Zhao Dashun set his eyes on Qiao Xinxin and walked toward her.

Although Qiao Xinxin wasn’t as good as Su Man-er, Qiao Xinxin was still a woman. In addition, she was a bit prettier than most women in the village.

So he was very willing to take such a woman as a wife.

Qiao Xinxin saw Zhao Dashun coming, but disdain emerged in her eyes.

At the thought of marrying such a man, she could hardly contain her annoyance and wished she could kill him.

As she grew more annoyed, she hated Su Man-er even more. All this was caused by Su Man-er. If it weren’t for Su Man-er, she wouldn’t marry a vile man like Zhao Dashun!

She clenched her fists by her sides with all her might. Qiao Xinxin glared at Su Man-er fiercely, turned to Zhao Dehai, and said, “Uncle Hai, we don’t want a fight. My uncle brought so many people here, and it’s obvious that they want to fight. I don’t know what’s with my uncle. He insists that my family took his money and insists on pressuring my family to return his money. If we don’t return it, he said we’ll be sorry.”

Although Qiao Xinxin hated the village head’s family, the village head’s family was now her family’s last hope.

Maybe the village head could turn the situation around and drive Su Man-er, Su Mingzhe, and the crowd out!

Qiao Xinxin’s words angered Su Junheng greatly. Su Junheng looked at Qiao Xinxin and said, “If you didn’t take my money, tell me how you could build your house. I can tell with a glance that it costs a lot of money–at least 2000 yuan!”

After a pause, he spoke again, “There seems to be a lot of furniture in your main room. You must have spent a lot. Where did you get so much money?”

Everyone looked at Qiao Xinxin, Qiao Zhengguo, and Gu Chunmei.

Qiao Zhengguo was just an ordinary farmer and the laziest one in the village.

How much money could a lazy farmer earn in a year?

It was even less plausible that Gu Chumei and Qiao Xinxin earned the money. The two of them only spent their days chatting, showing off, and sleeping at home. They were lazier than Qiao Zhengguo. How could these two earn money?

The Qiao family were idlers. Any villager could calculate how much money they could earn.

So to build such a beautiful house and buy such new furniture, they definitely didn’t spend money from their own earnings. They definitely took it from somewhere else!

Qiao Zhengguo looked into everyone’s eyes. His eyes were cold.

He could guess what everyone was thinking. Everyone just thought that his Qiao family couldn’t have so much money by themselves. The money to build the house and to buy the furniture must be taken from somewhere else.

He hesitated for a bit and was about to respond, but Su Man-er suddenly said, “Yesterday I asked Aunt and she said she borrowed it from someone else. Uncle, today I want to ask who did you borrow it from? Who has so much money to lend you?”

Qiao Zhengguo was slightly stunned. He didn’t expect Su Man-er to suddenly ask him questions.

Before he could react, Qiao Xinxin said, “Uncle Hai. My family borrowed it from Uncle Hai. Uncle Hai lent us 2000 yuan, so we had money to build a new house!”

Anyway, it was fine to borrow money from anyone as long as it wasn’t the Su family. Today the Su family wanted to take money from her family. Dream on!

Zhao Dashun walked to Qiao Xinxin and came to the aid of his future wife. “Yes, that’s right. My family lent it. Aunt Gu came to my house and borrowed 2000 yuan, which was used to build the new house and buy furniture.”

Hao Chunrong, the village head’s wife, put her hands on her hips, held her neck high, and said to Su Man-er, “Do you understand now? My family lent the money. Since you understand now, shouldn’t you take your family and leave the Qiao family alone?”

Gu Chunmei rejoiced in her mind.

Fortunately, the village head and his family came today.

If the village head and his family didn’t come, things would take an ugly turn today.

She couldn’t help but smile, looked up at Su Mingzhe and the crowd, and said, “I know that my family just built a new house, making you feel suspicious. But no matter what, you can’t wrongly accuse my family of taking your money, right? You really are…”

“Village head, I remember that your government-paid salary isn’t very high, right? Why are you so rich? Not only did you build a new house for your family, but you also built a new house for your future in-laws? Tsk, did the government secretly give you subsidies?”

Su Man-er didn’t wait for Gu Chunmei to finish, and then she turned her head to stare at Zhao Dehai.

Zhao Dehai’s breathing grew tense, and he inwardly thought “this is bad.”

Just a while ago, he felt that his family should not take the responsibility of “lending” money to the Qiao family. Just a while ago, he felt that it was inappropriate. Now that Su Man-er voiced it aloud, he feared that everyone would doubt where his family got the money to build a new house.

He frowned and wanted to reply, but Su Ruize said, “He’s just an ordinary village head. His salary is not as high as my factory worker friend’s salary. My friend hasn’t built a new house yet, yet this guy already has. The village head’s money is fishy.”