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Chapter 17 Trouble is coming
Qiao Nian smiled.

I only showed it to my mother once before putting the goat into my spatial storage.

Get to work and stack the firewood neatly.

"Mom, don't worry, we have a long good life ahead of us, so please relax, okay?"

Seeing her daughter working, Nian Yunci quickly joined in.

"Okay, okay, Mom knows, Mom knows."

“Niannian has grown up and can make her parents live a good life. Mom knows that.”

Qiao Nian nodded, "Yes, not just Mom, but also the baby, they should also have a good life."

"well."

While the mother and daughter were working, Qiao Guowen also trudged through the mud to Tian Shichang's house.

"Captain, battalion commander."

Qiao Guowen was known as Tian Shichang outside the home.

Upon hearing the sound, Tian Shichang quickly got off the kang (a heated brick bed), put on his cloth shoes, and came out.

"Brother Qiao, what's going on?"

Tian Shichang was somewhat taken aback when he saw the lamb Qiao Guowen was holding in his arms.

Qiao Guowen stepped forward and explained, “Captain, my daughter and I went to the mountains to collect firewood today and we unexpectedly encountered this injured lamb.”

"Niannian felt sorry for it, so she let me bring it back and hand it over to the captain for disposal."

After Qiao Guowen finished speaking, Tian Shichang opened his mouth, but hesitated to speak.

The Qiao family is too honest, isn't it?

When everyone was starving and they found a little lamb, they didn't secretly keep it to eat, but instead handed it over to the authorities.
This……

Is there any family more honest than this?

Tian Shichang was somewhat helpless.

Qiao Guowen didn't care. He honestly handed the lamb over to Tian Shichang. Before leaving, he didn't forget to tell Tian Shichang that the lamb had an injury on its leg and that he should take good care of it to prevent it from getting infected.

Otherwise, your leg will be damaged.

Tian Shichang, who had carried grain, stones, and sandbags during reservoir construction, was carrying a lamb for the first time.

His hands were a little stiff.

It feels like the first time I was a grandfather, holding my grandson, and the feeling came back to me.

"Old Tian, ​​what is this?"

Xu Chunmei walked out from the side and saw the lamb in Tian Shichang's arms. She quickened her pace as she approached.

"What is this? A wild goat?"

"Sent by Qiao Guowen?"

Tian Shichang nodded and briefly explained the origin of the goat to his wife.

Xu Chunmei...

The first thought that popped into my mind was, "Are Old Joe's family completely stupid?"
"Who says they're stupid?"

A sarcastic female voice suddenly broke through from the side; it was Niu Xianhua, the daughter-in-law of the Tian family.

Niu Xianhua, with her big pregnant belly, grumbled, "Dad, Mom, you say his family is stupid, that they'd hand over even a lamb to the authorities. How do you know they didn't keep the big one?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Tian Shichang was an upright man and disliked his daughter-in-law making such assumptions about others.

Niu Xianhua spat, "Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you can go and see for yourselves, Mom and Dad! I bet the Qiao family's kang (heated brick bed) is covered with mutton!"

After saying that, she muttered under her breath, "It's only because you two are so easily fooled that you think others wouldn't know to take advantage of a free lunch."

Niu Xianhua's words were infuriating.

Tian Shichang was indeed angered by her.

Xu Chunmei glared at her second daughter-in-law, "Don't think so badly of others. Not everyone is like your brothers."

"Oh, Mother, what do you mean by that?"

Niu Xianhua was furious. She threw the sunflower seeds in her hand on the ground. "You're talking about that stinking exiled woman, why are you dragging my brothers into this?"

"So, in your heart, Mother, these scoundrels with questionable backgrounds are better than your relatives?"

Niu Xianhua has a loud voice; even though she's speaking in her own home, her shouts are heard by all the neighbors.

They came out of their homes.

Niu Xianhua got even more excited when she saw it.

He insisted on going up the mountain to see the Qiao family's house.

“These bad elements are all black-hearted. I don’t believe they would refuse to eat meat; they must have hidden it.”

In an era when everyone was struggling to get enough to eat and wear, the mere mention of meat made everyone's eyes light up.

Now that the brigade leader's daughter-in-law is leading the way, they should go and check if those bad elements' homes have any good stuff hidden there.

Tian Shichang glanced at Niu Xianhua, who had an upright expression, and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

"Niu Xianhua" (牛鲜花).

Niu Xianhua was rarely called by her father-in-law's full name like that.

She was a little scared when she was suddenly called that.

"father…"

"You said that if we go to their house and don't find the meat you mentioned, then you'll be charged with spreading rumors, slandering the families of military comrades, sowing discord, and undermining the unity of the brigade members. Wouldn't you then be held responsible?"

"father…"

Niu Xianhua was very unhappy. "You'll know once you've gone to see for yourself. You haven't even gone to see for yourself, so how can you be so sure they're not secretly having a good time?"

Niu Xianhua's eyes darted around, avoiding Tian Shichang's gaze.

What else could Tian Shichang not understand?
This petty daughter-in-law is trying to take advantage of this opportunity to go to Brother Qiao's house and fish in troubled waters to gain some benefits!
It's all his fault.

Yesterday, he gave one of the White Rabbit milk candies that Comrade Qiao Nian had given him to his grandson...

Niu Xianhua, that greedy devil who's so greedy that even a mosquito flying by would lose a layer of skin, has probably been thinking about how to get something out of the Qiao family since last night.

Tian Shichang thought for a moment and realized that when Qiao Nian came, she only had a small suitcase.

He glanced at Niu Xianhua beside him and nodded with a cold smile.

"I'll put my words here first."

“Niu Xianhua, you must take some people to Old Qiao’s house to find out what’s going on. I’m letting you go.”

"But if their family doesn't have the situation you described, then you should go back to where you came from. My Tian family can't afford to support a troublemaker like you!"

After saying this, Tian Shichang handed the lamb to Xu Chunmei, put on his shoes, and called on those who wanted to investigate to go up the mountain.

"If you want to see it, then look carefully."

"Don't let one or two people, after being provoked by a few brainless people, think that others eat meat every day."

"The heads on your heads are for thinking, not for decoration. Don't be like some women with long hair and short minds, who will try to harm others for a piece of candy."

Although Tian Shichang did not mention Niu Xianhua's name when he said this.

But every single sentence is about Niu Xianhua.

Niu Xianhua's face flushed red and then turned pale.

Even so, she still stayed close to the group.

This is a rare opportunity to search through the Qiao family's property.

Let's not even talk about whether Qiao's son-in-law, who is an officer in the army, would often send them nice things.

Take the Qiao family's daughter who came yesterday, for example. She came to visit those two old folks, and she must have brought a lot of good things with her.

She'll have to keep a close eye on things and try to grab some while things are in disarray.

She was about to give birth, but no one in the Tian family, young or old, cared about her. She had to make plans for herself and the baby in her belly.

A large group of people walked up the mountain.

There were onlookers and those hoping to take advantage of the situation.

(End of this chapter)