The 1970s: Military Family Beauty

In the next few days, Jiang Xiaocui went out after breakfast and returned home after dinner.

Her time was exactly the same as Hu Xiuqing's time leaving home for get off work and arriving home.

Every night when Hu Xiuqing entered the house, she could clearly feel that the joy flowing in the house would suddenly stagnate. She knew clearly that this joy was definitely not brought by the heating, but she could not guess what they were happy about.

Hu Xiuqing secretly asked her son several times what his grandmother and aunt did and said at home.

Jiang Guoqing didn't care about these things at all. He only cared about whether he could eat half an apple when he got home from school every afternoon, and whether he could drink malted milk every day.

Unable to get anything out of her son, Hu Xiuqing had no choice but to ask Jiang Chaohui. Unexpectedly, the same question received simpler answers from Jiang Chaohui, either "I don't know what grandma and aunt did" or "After I finished my homework, I took Qingqing and others to recite the text together, and grandma and aunt were listening beside us."

No matter how you listen to it, everything seems harmonious, but saying this is more infuriating than not saying it at all.

The more Hu Xiuqing thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She felt that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law must be hiding something from her.

Otherwise, why did Jiang Dapeng go off on the mission without saying a word that day?

The whole family must have discussed behind closed doors how to deal with her!

After several days of fermentation, Hu Xiuqing's suspicion was on the verge of exploding. When she was at work, she thought about the people at home and cursed them out loud with gritted teeth.

"Hu Xiuqing, look at the button you sewed on? It fell off when I pulled it!" Wang Zhen, the team leader in charge of checking the workmanship, brought over several pieces of clothing and said, "Everything needs to be redone!"

Hu Xiuqing threw the clothes in her hand onto the workbench: "How can it not fall down if you pull it with such force? You can even rip the clothes off!"

Wang Zhen sneered: "You still want to tear off your clothes? You want to rebel? Stand up and reflect on your thoughts!"

Hu Xiuqing was so angry that she slammed the workbench: "I didn't say I ripped the clothes, I said you ripped the clothes!"

Wang Zhen finally had the evidence: "Hu Xiuqing, you deliberately destroyed public property and slandered a good person. I'm going to report this to the factory director and criticize you by name at a meeting!"

Hu Xiuqing was so angry that she stammered: "I didn't say that, you said it!"

Wang Zhen put her hands on her hips, tilted her head back, and glanced at everyone out of the corner of her eye: "That's what you said. Everyone heard it, and they can all testify!"

"I told you not to talk nonsense!" Hu Xiuqing was furious and raised his hand to slap him without thinking.

Wang Zhen grabbed Hu Xiuqing's wrist and said, "Hu Xiuqing, you're not doing your job properly, you're scolding your colleagues, and you're hitting your team leader." Wang Zhen turned around and shouted at the other colleagues who were looking over their shoulder, "Hey, you all saw it. Hu Xiuqing keeps making mistakes. This time, I won't let this bad guy go!"

Yu Caixia came over to smooth things over: "Team Leader Wang, forget it, Erhu's grandmother is in the hospital, she's busy and annoyed, she didn't mean to quarrel with you."

Hu Xiuqing felt so wronged that she raised her voice in excitement, "Yu Caixia, stop talking nonsense. I didn't argue at all."

"I'm here to help you, why are you arguing with me?" Yu Caixia was unhappy, and she threw her hand away and walked away: "No wonder your wife beat you up."

Hu Xiuqing bared his teeth and glared, filled with hatred.

Her voice was hoarse and her face was swollen, so she lied to her colleagues and said she slipped and fell in the snow. The other colleagues saw through it but didn't say anything. They talked about her behind her back but she could pretend not to know.

Suddenly exposed by Yu Caixia, Hu Xiuqing's face turned red and white, and she was so ashamed and angry that she shook off Wang Zhen's hand and rushed over to fight Yu Caixia: "Shame on you! I gave you my wool for free."

Yu Caixia was caught off guard by Hu Xiuqing's slap on the back of the head. She stumbled forward and turned around angrily, swinging her arm and hitting him: "You are shameless! Your face is swollen from that blow, and the fingerprints are still there!"

The two people were cursing and fighting, and everyone around them was stunned. No one thought of trying to separate them.

It was not until the workshop director heard the news and rushed over, calling Wang Zhen to take one of them on each side, that they were able to pull the two of them apart.

"Fighting during work hours!" The workshop director was really troubled. Family members were difficult to manage. Whether they were capable or not, they all had bad tempers, especially these two people in front of him: "What are you two doing? Are you playing Landlord? Landlord is about shaving, not pulling hair!"

Yu Caixia's braids were ripped apart, leaving her hair disheveled. A lock of hair was pulled out, and her scalp was bleeding. "Are you crazy? Are you trying to make me bald?"

Hu Xiuqing wasn't much better off. He spat on the ground, spitting out a bloody mess: "You knocked out all my teeth!"

The workshop director's features all scrunched up together, and he clicked his tongue and shook his head, "You two are really fighting!"

Wang Zhen, not wanting to be bothered by the excitement, squatted down to take a closer look: "Oh, two! Is it the top one or the bottom one?"

Hu Xiuqing spat out another mouthful of blood: "Damn it, up and down."

The workshop director frowned and said, "Oh, you're beaten like this, go to the hospital right away. I'll give you two some leave, so you can go to the hospital."

Hu Xiuqing refused to leave: "Why should I get leave? It was her who knocked my teeth out!"

Whether it's personal leave or sick leave, or being late or leaving early, if she doesn't work full time throughout the year, it will affect her attendance allowance at the end of the year. There's still more than a month left until New Year's Day. If she takes this batch of leave, all her previous hard work will be in vain.

Yu Caixia refused to leave for the same reason, slamming the table and cursing back, "You hit me first! Ask Wang Zhen if you're right! Wang Zhen said you weren't working properly, so I went to defend you, and you started arguing with me and even hit me. Wang Zhen saw it, and so many people in the workshop saw it. What's the matter? Director, I was working diligently, and now I'm bald. Isn't this unfair?"

"I didn't, no, bah, who told you to talk about my wife!" Hu Xiuqing couldn't argue with Yu Caixia, and got angry again, rolling up his sleeves to hit her.

Seeing the two men about to fight again, the workshop director could only stand up and stand between them: "Alright, alright, it won't count against your leave. Let's go, let's go to the hospital. Wang Zhen, write a report to the factory director later, and I'll sign it. Their leave won't be counted."

Wang Zhen looked at Hu Xiuqing's embarrassed look and added another stab: "Hu Xiuqing will have to redo all the buttons she put on today. Our team will not be able to complete the task."

The workshop director just wanted to calm things down quickly: "Alright, Wang Zhen, go get Xiao Liao and the others to work overtime."

Hu Xiuqing asked, "Director, if I go to the hospital for treatment now, it won't count as my day off, right?"

The workshop director shook his head: "Not really."

Hu Xiuqing seemed to have won. He glared at Wang Zhen fiercely, spat a mouthful of blood on the ground, and rushed out of the office angrily.

The workshop director looked at Yu Caixia and said, "You can go too. It won't count as your leave."

Yu Caixia rolled her eyes at Hu Xiuqing's back outside the door: "I'll leave after she leaves. I don't want to go the same way with her."

In this way, Hu Xiuqing and Yu Caixia left the unit one after another, and went to the hospital one after another.

Hu Xiuqing stayed in the hospital for more than an hour before being discharged. She had two cotton balls in her mouth, and her already swollen face looked even more like a pig's head.

It was not until he entered the family compound, turned into the alley, and saw the light coming through his window that Hu Xiuqing felt the burning pain on his face.