How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 58 - Concealment_1
58: Chapter 58: Concealment_1
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Because Li Qiao had been hit in the back of the head with a stone, the two of them ran desperately to the dormitory as soon as they left the classroom.
It was only when they saw the dormitory gate that they gradually slowed down.
The lights went out at nine-thirty, and it was already about time after washing up and tidying everything.
Li Qiao lay in bed, while Zhao Li in the bunk below her was still talking about gossip among classmates, occasionally turning over and shaking the bed.
The shaking made it impossible for her to fall asleep, so she might as well listen in.
For some reason, when the topic of marriage after failing to get into university came up, the conversation suddenly turned to her.
“For those of us who have been to high school, we can at least find a formal worker to be with.
Li Qiao, who do you think you’ll marry?
With your grades, you’ll get into a university and maybe find a rich youngster in the city, which is much better than someone who digs for a living, right?”
Li Qiao didn’t make a sound.
Zhao Li stretched her head upwards, and in the pitch dark after the lights went out, it was unclear.
She murmured, “Are you asleep?” then whispered, “Shall we make a bet whether Li Qiao will get divorced after she goes to university?”
Li Jinhua said firmly, “She definitely won’t.”
No matter how good Li Qiao was at studying, in the future she was at best a salaried worker.
Qin Jin was different.
Taking advantage of the great social upheaval, his career soared like a rocket, and he soon became a tycoon, a household name by the 1990s.
He had a talent for business, earning money in whatever he invested.
Those friends and companions who followed him, although not every one of them rose to great heights, still enjoyed the glamour of cars and mansions.
If Li Qiao hadn’t caught him, he would have definitely become successful early on.
With him, Li Qiao’s promotion and salary increase would become much easier.
Who would give up such a man?
“Right, I almost forgot you share the same parents.
Even if she wanted to divorce, your parents certainly wouldn’t agree to it.
Divorce is too shameful for a woman,” Zhao Li said.
Li Jinhua took the opportunity to package Dong Lamei’s persona: “Yeah, my mom is traditional and values loyalty.
When we were very young, she instilled in us the idea that a woman should be literate and sensible, faithful till the end.
My third sister often cries about how unhappy she is after marrying my brother-in-law.
My mom always tells her not to look down on him just because he’s poor now.
‘Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west,’ who knows if he might become successful later?”
Li Qiao: “???”
Your mom is literate and faithful till the end?
How did your step-dad come into the picture then?
And when has your mom ever told me not to look down on Qin Jin or anything similar?
I’ve never heard it once!
This is so exaggerated!
Praise Dong Lamei all you want, I don’t mind, but don’t imply that I look down on Qin Jin.
My love for him is true!
“You two are blood sisters, so why don’t you look alike at all, even your personalities are different,” Hu Xiufang suddenly said.
Li Qiao was fair and beautiful, with a good temperament, sitting up straight and holding herself high, even making cotton dresses and cotton trousers look stylish.
She was mostly quiet, only laughing and joking occasionally, but not opening her mouth wide like others.
Li Jinhua was completely different.
At first glance, she looked pretty lively, but on closer inspection, she was at best charming.
Her temperament was far inferior to that of Li Qiao.
She was also particularly sly, often subtly making demeaning implications about Li Qiao.
Like now, instead of stopping them from betting on her older sister’s divorce, she joined in the conversation.
Incomprehensible.
Li Jinhua gave a vague response, “She resembles our dad more…
Ah, I’m so sleepy, I need to go to sleep.”
The room finally quieted down.
Li Qiao spoke resentfully, “I was asleep until you woke me up.
I don’t look like my dad, people in the village say I take after my mom in my skin and features, almost identical.
Jinhua and I are the same age; she’s just a month younger.
She looks like her mom.” She emphasized that they were the same age.
“Her mom never told me not to despise a poor partner.
I like my partner, like him a lot.
I’m not lacking in food or clothes; I don’t find him poor.
Marriage is destined by heaven, and I won’t go against it.”
The dormitory boiled over, like water coming to a boil.
“Li Qiao, what do you mean by that?
I’m confused.”
“You’re blood sisters with two different moms?
Half-sisters with the same father?”
“Did Li Jinhua’s mom push out Li Qiao’s mom?”
“…”
Everyone had question after question.
Li Jinhua’s face turned pale in an instant, unable to recover for a long time.
Li Qiao yawned, “Alright!
Stop disturbing my sleep.
The moment the lights went out before, as soon as my flashlight came on, you all started fussing about not being able to sleep and threatened to kick me out and tattle to the teacher.
Now when the lights are out and I’m asleep, you all chat away happily. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Such double standards!
If anyone speaks another word, I’ll get up right away and go complain to the dorm manager and tell the teacher tomorrow.”
“…”
The dormitory fell silent.
Everyone had something on their minds they couldn’t hold in and began whispering amongst themselves in the lower bunks, head-to-head.
Li Jinhua was in agony, that damn Li Qiao was clearly slapping her face.
Just you wait!
The next morning.
When Li Qiao got out of bed, Li Jinhua glared at her.
Li Qiao acted as though she saw nothing.
The roommates asked Li Jinhua what the relationship was between her and Li Qiao.
Li Jinhua, with tears in her eyes, kept silent.
Hu Xiufang was on good terms with Li Qiao, so everyone who dared not ask Li Qiao came to her instead.
Hu Xiufang spread her hands, “I want to know too.
If you find out, tell me.”
…
After breakfast.
The dorm manager came knocking, “Is there someone called Li Qiao in this dorm?
Someone outside is looking for her.”
Li Qiao figured Han Ting must have brought the notebook.
She immediately set out.
Liu Lanlan nudged Li Jinhua, “Is it your third sister’s husband looking for her?
She said she loves men so much, take me to have a distant glimpse of what kind of man he must be to make her so enamored.”
Li Jinhua was already feeling miserable, thinking Qin Jin must be digging river ditches today, right?
Maybe it’s the sent-down youth.
That damn Li Qiao made her lose face in front of her classmates; she wouldn’t be let off easily!
She thought for a bit and said, “Third sister’s husband is quite good-looking.”
“Thick eyebrows, big eyes, a square face?
Hurry up and take me to see.”
Only then did Li Jinhua get moving, “None of those, he has Phoenix eyes.
They appear to be double-lidded when he deliberately opens his eyes wide.
His face shape and features are delicate, like a painting—I’ll know when you see.”
“How did you observe him in such detail?”
Li Jinhua, “…someone else described him like that.”
When Li Jinhua saw Han Ting, he handed a backpack to Li Qiao, and whatever they said made them both laugh.
“That’s your third sister’s husband?
He does look good, but not as handsome as you described.
He does have a nice temperament though, refined and cultured, not like what the students say about him being a loser.”
“He is a sent-down youth from third sister’s village, also serving as the principal of the village primary school,” explained Li Jinhua.
Liu Lanlan was like hearing big news, “How come your third sister knows a male sent-down youth?
Could it be that he’s tutoring your third sister?
Isn’t your third sister’s husband angry?”
“It’s just studying together.
Third sister’s husband isn’t a petty person.”
The more subtly Li Jinhua explained, the more suspicious Liu Lanlan grew.
Which man would like his wife to stand with another man, chatting and laughing?
Li Jinhua was covering for Li Qiao, wasn’t she?
What’s so wrong with Li Qiao denying Li Jinhua’s words outright?
Just wanting to get along well with her.
She outright denied it and let her sister lose face without any semblance of being an elder sister.
There, Li Qiao, with the backpack slung over her shoulder, turned her head and saw the two of them.
Liu Lanlan and Li Jinhua quickly turned and walked away upon seeing her.
The latter even looked back at her after a few steps.
Li Jinhua, “Don’t tell anyone about today’s incident, okay?” With those words, she basically confirmed the improper relationship between Li Qiao and the sent-down youth.
Liu Lanlan thought to herself, if you’ve got the guts to associate with other men, what are you afraid of being talked about for, right?
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