How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 52 - Awkward_1

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Old Mrs.

Qin hadn’t heard a peep for quite a while, so she flashed her torch through the window and peered into the inner room.

Her own grandson was still carrying his beautiful wife on his back.

The daughter-in-law seemed to be awake, fidgeting and eventually getting up to shield her eyes and face outwards; Old Mrs.

Qin quickly turned off the flashlight and hid to one side.

Li Qiao thought there was a thief, “Jin, there seems to be a light outside, could it be a burglar?”

“Which burglar dares to rob my house?

Are you going to sleep or not?

You keep moving, making my back chilly,” Qin Jin muttered irritably.

Li Qiao, upon reflection, lay back down and cooed, “Jin, I suddenly can’t seem to fall asleep, what should I do?

How about we play a game?”

“What game in the middle of the night in bed?

Game my foot!

Hurry up and sleep.”

Li Qiao: “….” She shamelessly hugged him from behind, “Aiyah, it’s a bit cold, how about you hug me to sleep?”

“You really are a handful!

Warm now?” Qin Jin was impatient, but still turned to hug her and went back to sleep.

Old Mrs.

Qin ground her teeth in frustration, this wretched grandson!

His wife went to such lengths and he remained indifferent!

Could he be ill?

….

The next day, Qin Jin, as usual, slept in until the sun was high in the sky before getting up.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he lifted the pot lid—no breakfast for him.

“Grandma, you didn’t save any breakfast for me?”

“You don’t deserve it!” Old Mrs.

Qin said bitterly.

Qin Jin: “…” Did she swallow a bomb this early in the morning?

“Grandma, are you sure you’re feeling okay?”

Old Mrs.

Qin threw a stool at him.

He jumped up and ran off.

At the door, he still turned around, utterly confused.

Li Qiao discreetly took out a couple, making sure he saw them.

This morning during breakfast, she noticed that there was no food for Qin Jin.

Old Mrs.

Qin said, he had it coming for sleeping in; starve for all she cared!

So, she had kept two eggs for him.

Qin Jin smiled, scampered over to Li Qiao’s side, quietly took the eggs, and slipped them into his pocket: “The wife is the best.” Seeing Old Mrs.

Qin pick up a stick, he ran off again.

He couldn’t understand why Grandma was suddenly in such a bad mood.

He wandered outside for a while.

Ran into the team leader who informed him that he needed to dig river ditches tomorrow.

He went back home and told Li Qiao about it, “I’ll take you back to school after noon.”

Li Qiao: “Okay.”

A bit later, Du Xinxin came by to return some notes.

Li Qiao packed up her schoolbag, grabbed her handicrafts, and waited for Qin Jin to borrow a bike and sit on the back seat of it.

As soon as Qin Jin left.

Yu Feng got Feng Hu to follow him, and Feng Hu came back to report to Yu Feng that Qin Jin had gone to the supply and marketing cooperative with a sack.

Yu Feng felt both disappointed and jealous.

Their stuff had caught the interest of the supply and marketing cooperative, it was a legitimate deal, approved by the authorities, so what was there to report?

How did Loser Qin get to know someone from the cooperative?

“Did you ask what he sold?”

“Who dares to talk to him?”

“But you could have talked to someone inside the cooperative, right?”

“I didn’t ask,” Feng Hu admitted honestly.

“Good grief, you blockhead, you utter disappointment!

Why don’t you learn to be clever like Loser Qin, to be more observant and sharp?

At the same age, and you’re even two months older than him, how can he find the way to make a fortune, huh?

….” Yu Feng didn’t stop ranting.

Peng Chunhua thought to herself, your son doesn’t have a penny on him; you’re holding all his money.

Qin Jin may be poor, but he always has some change on him, carrying cigarettes everywhere, giving a couple to this person and that, what can’t he find out?

If there’s something going on at someone’s house, they call for Qin Jin.

With him there, no one dares to make trouble.

Your son, whenever he goes out, you’re scared he’ll lose a chunk of flesh, shouting after him wherever he goes.

Old Mrs.

Qin doesn’t look for Qin Jin even if he doesn’t come back for ten days or half a month.

When asked, she spins it off, “Leave him be, he’s not a child.”

Qin Jin can do anything himself, your son still has to ask you how much soy sauce to buy, it’d be strange if he amounted to anything!

Yu Feng, tired of scolding, went to the supply and marketing cooperative herself.

She inquired with the people inside what Loser Qin had sold there.

Nowadays, the sales clerks are all regular employees and they look down on digging.

When they saw Yu Feng, they squinted and said, “We don’t know Loser Qin.

All the goods here come from factories in big cities.

Individual selling is considered speculative hoarding.”

Yu Feng thought to herself, who are you trying to fool?

But she couldn’t find any useful information, and silently cursed them for being snobs before storming off, furious.

After returning to the village, and taking advantage of Qin Jin’s absence, she clenched her teeth and brought over a half jin of sugar to the door.

She apologized to Old Mrs.

Qin about the rabbit incident.

“It’s all because I was greedy, sigh!

These days, I’ve deeply realized my mistake.

Old lady, let’s just forget about this whole thing, alright?”

Old Mrs.

Qin was surprised by the sudden apology.

She didn’t take the sugar from Yu Feng, smiling as she said, “We’re all villagers here, it’s normal to have a few harsh words.

It’s all good now.”

“Eh, you’re so generous.” Yu Feng flattered her, sitting with Old Mrs.

Qin for a while before leading into the main topic, “By the way, I saw your family of three twisting rope the other day.

What was that for?”

Old Mrs.

Qin finally understood that she was inquiring about her family’s weaving skills.

At that moment, Qin Jin happened to come home.

Old Mrs.

Qin said, “You should ask Jin, I don’t really know.”

Yu Feng didn’t dare to ask and used the excuse of having things to do at home to leave.

Qin Jin: “Grandma, what did she want to ask me?”

Old Mrs.

Qin: “She was asking why you haven’t had children yet.

Her eldest grandson is going to be born in half a year.”

Qin Jin: “Let her have kids if she wants.

As for me, I definitely won’t have any.

My child?

As soon as they’re born, they should have everything.

Being so poor that it’s embarrassing to even have them call me dad.”

Old Mrs.

Qin grumbled, “Whether you can actually have kids is another matter.”

“What’s that, Grandma?

What did you say?”

Old Mrs.

Qin: “I was praising you.”

“….”

….

Under the night sky, the campus was dimly lit.

After evening self-study, Li Qiao walked toward the classroom with her textbooks, accompanied by Hu Xiufang.

Passing by the nearby forest, Li Qiao felt a sudden pain at the back of her head.

A stone rolled past her.

She let out a scream and clutched her head.

Hu Xiufang got alarmed, “Li Qiao, what’s wrong?”

“Someone hit me on the head.” Li Qiao released her hand from her head, no blood was seen.

Under the not-so-bright streetlight, Hu Xiufang parted Li Qiao’s hair to examine her scalp, finding a noticeably swollen spot, “Who did that, so wicked.

We need to tell the teacher!”

“Yeah.” The two of them found the on-duty teacher.

They explained the situation.

The duty teacher inspected the scene but didn’t find anything.

“Maybe a student was playing around and hit you by accident.

Be more careful walking next time.”

Li Qiao: “…” How much more careful can one be while walking?

Since they didn’t know who it was, the incident was left unresolved.

However, the next day, the grade director brought it up during a meeting.

He required the students to return to the dorm immediately after evening self-study and not to linger outside.

After this incident, Li Qiao didn’t dare to stay long in the classroom during self-study; she could only sit on her bed and do Math Olympiad problems.

When the lights went out, she used a flashlight.

Her roommates complained that the light was keeping them awake, so she sighed softly, turned off the light, and thought of days when study hall lights never went off and students could study as long as they wanted.

Now, even though she was on campus, her study conditions were limited.

Unable to sleep while thinking about the steps to solve problems, she put on her clothes and walked under the courtyard’s streetlight to write.

Hu Xiufang came out to use the bathroom and said, “You’re really dedicated, not sleeping at this hour.

Aren’t you afraid you won’t be able to concentrate in class tomorrow?”

“I want to get first place so I have a chance to participate in the provincial competition,” Li Qiao replied.

Getting a rank in the province would get attention.

She couldn’t afford to be sloppy with such a rare opportunity.

“I’d be satisfied just to place, never mind first,” Hu Xiufang said.

“How much longer will you be writing?”

Just as they were talking, Li Qiao put down her pen, “Done.”

Li Qiao slept on the upper bunk and as she climbed up, she annoyed Zhao Li on the lower bunk, “Li Qiao, if you don’t sleep, don’t disturb my sleep.

If you don’t go to bed after lights out, I’ll kick you out.”

Li Qiao felt guilty and meekly replied with an “okay.”