CHAPTER 313: CHAPTER 258 DESERVED_2

Yan: ...

She chuckled and said, "Dad, sorry, I usually don’t laugh unless I can’t help it."

"Dad was telling the truth." Rong Wenming’s expression remained utterly serious.

Yan felt like she was going to die from laughter.

During dinner, Aunt Jin still made a visit.

"Here, eat something," Madam Rong said to her without any qualms.

"This is for Yanyan." Aunt Jin felt like her timing was inopportune, arriving right at mealtime.

However, since she had already arrived, she just set down the gifts she had brought.

According to custom, close families indeed exchanged gifts.

This time she bought a basin, twenty eggs, and a thermos; these were already quite nice as casual gifts.

Madam Rong, looking at these items, quickly said, "This is too much courtesy... It’s too much!"

Without the thermos, it would have already been quite polite.

"What’s too much about it? This is just a little token from our family."

With the gifts duly given, it wouldn’t be polite to send them back, so Madam Rong told Yan, "Aren’t you going to thank your Aunt Jin?"

Yan promptly said sweetly, "Thank you, Aunt Jin."

"What’s there to thank for? I’m happy that you’re getting married. Just keep eating, I’ll head back now."

"Hold on a moment," Madam Rong stopped the departing aunt, and handed her the half-eaten watermelon, "Take this. The melon is delicious. Yanyan bought it again this afternoon."

Yan had gone out in the afternoon for a bit, just to have an excuse to bring back a few watermelons.

The watermelon seeds she planted last night... they really produced a lot of watermelons!

"This isn’t right..." Aunt Jin hesitated.

"What’s not right? Didn’t you give us some to eat? Take it, don’t push it back and forth; otherwise, it might end up on the ground and nobody can eat it."

Finally, Aunt Jin accepted, "Then, okay, I’ll take it. By the way, that old woman Zhao... I heard the case got decided."

Madam Rong, intrigued, asked, "Oh? Did she confess?"

Aunt Jin was about to leave, but seeing her interest, stayed.

"I heard from my sister-in-law that old woman Zhao couldn’t withstand it and confessed last night, late into the night. She knew that the medicine was harmful..."

Though Madam Rong had believed her daughter earlier, when the verdict was actually given, she was still shocked.

"Why would she do that? Why stop her daughter-in-law from having a grandson? Isn’t she sick? Also, if she didn’t want her daughter-in-law to have children, then why let her son get married? Isn’t this harming others?"

Aunt Jin suddenly became very agitated, "That was her way of controlling the new daughter-in-law. She has only one son, treated like a treasure, and she was afraid that once the new daughter-in-law came, her son would drift apart from her, so she thought of this despicable trick."

Madam Rong was astounded:...

The other members of the Rong Family were also left speechless.

Are there really such people in the world?

"She overdosed the medicine... Moreover, Zhao Daquan has a child outside, she planned that after Xu Guilan couldn’t have children for a few years, it would make her feel inferior. Then she could use the excuse of adopting a child to openly bring back her grandson from outside. Later, when they stopped Xu Guilan’s medication, by the time she had a child, she would feel grateful to the adopted one."

Usually, if a couple couldn’t conceive for many years, they would adopt... because having a child is said to invite more.

Madam Rong:...

Is this household that horrifying? How can they have such wicked hearts?

"What did your brother’s family say?"

Aunt Jin sighed, "My niece is brainwashed. My brother wants her to divorce the Zhao Family, but she refuses outright. She even brought that child home because of a few words from Zhao Daquan."

Madam Rong:...

She must be seriously ill.

"My sister-in-law is sick with anger. They’re considering cutting ties with Xu Guilan!"

Madam Rong: "Even with this, she still won’t agree to divorce?"

"Correct." Aunt Jin didn’t even want to mention her anymore, "In the future, if she comes to find me, I’ll drive her away."

"No worries. I doubt she’ll look for me again," Yan said.

"How is that possible, she..." Madam Rong felt uneasy just thinking about Xu Guilan. "With her approach, she’s definitely going to make several attempts."

"With everything out in the open, what is there for the Zhao Family to be careful about? I guess they just want her to treat well the son she brought home!"

Madam Rong:

...

Is there such a foolish woman in this world?

Not bearing her own children, and yet have to raise another woman’s child for her man?

Aunt Jin’s complexion grew even worse, because she somewhat believed this statement.

Because her niece was really brainless.

"Ah, let’s not talk about this anymore, please continue eating! I’ll head back first!"

"Wouldn’t you stay for a bit to eat?" Madam Rong politely offered.

"No, our food is also ready at home, just waiting for those who are done working to come back." Aunt Jin, holding a watermelon, walked out.

Madam Rong escorted her to the door, then gently closed the door.

After returning to her seat, she sighed, "That Xu Guilan really is sick in the head, and whatever she suffers... it’s all her own doing."

The Rong Family agreed with her remark.

"Alright, let’s not talk about these irrelevant people, let’s eat," Rong Wenming interrupted.

He felt no sympathy.

"Let’s eat," Madam Rong didn’t want to mention it anymore.

The dinner was rather lavish that evening.

Because a lot of it was leftovers from lunch.

The weather was too hot for food to last long.

After dinner, Qin Ye and Rong Yan stepped out together, heading to the quadrangle.

"I’ll buy a refrigerator?"

Qin Ye had no objections, "Okay."

"This refrigerator can be placed in the kitchen, and later you can handle the plugs and electricity here." The refrigerator Rong Yan chose from Space Supermarket was a single-door model, sold at the Overseas Chinese Store.

It was rather short and small.

The Overseas Chinese Store required ration coupons, and the prices were high.

But it was almost half cheaper at her Space Supermarket.

"Okay," Qin nodded.

"I’ll also buy a washing machine, and a color TV."

"All fine," Qin responded, as long as she was happy.

Then Rong Yan started her spree.

All her purchases from Space Supermarket were items sold in regular stores.

Therefore, even if someone else came to check, they wouldn’t find anything wrong.

Aside from these, Rong Yan also bought many other new things.

It was a pity there was no furniture for sale, otherwise, she would have bought that as well.

As Rong Yan brought out the items, Qin Ye busied himself with arranging them, and in less than two hours, their previously empty house was filled.

"Really nice," Rong Yan was quite satisfied.

Qin Ye also felt a sense of belonging, "Let’s not have mother come over tomorrow, let her come the day after to visit."

Rong Yan nodded, "Okay. Oh, and maybe get some flowers for the yard here."

"Sure." Qin Ye was naturally compliant with his wife’s liking for flowers and plants—even if she hadn’t mentioned it, he would have planted them himself.

Speaking of plants, he remembered something, "Wife, I’ve bought some of the saplings you wanted, they’re in the storeroom, go take them!"

Rong Yan hadn’t really noticed those and got curious, "What kind of fruit saplings did you buy?"

"Some oranges, and some vegetable saplings, and a few more... you’ll see when you take a look." Actually, when he bought them, he didn’t ask much, knowing they were fruit or something, he just bought them.

"Okay then, I’ll get them." Rong Yan went to the storeroom, and realized that Qin Ye had bought not just tree saplings, but also some vegetable seeds.

Including corn kernels.

It seemed the quantity wasn’t much, but there were quite a few types.

There were several types of vegetable seeds alone.

She gathered all these items into her space, then disappeared from her original spot into her "space," where she quickly planted those saplings into the black soil...