BHBF Chapter 103.3

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 6) Chapter 103.3: My Son is an Unparalleled Good Man (9)

“Besides, everyone knows that Old Wang, your chickens are well raised. The chicken coop is always clean and you never get chicken plague.”

Old Man Wang, whose expression had softened slightly, turned completely dark after Shao Yu’s words.

Zhao Xuehong said, “Uncle, I’m just too naive. I just want Xiaobao to eat better. I really didn’t mean it to you.”

“Zhao San’s wife, I remember you used to have to ask around the market from one end to the other to buy a hair tie. Why didn’t you ask this time?” Shao Yu asked.

Zhao Xuehong was rendered speechless by Shao Yu’s words and felt extremely exhausted. She could only look at Old Man Wang and say, “Uncle, it’s all my fault. I will never buy chickens from other places again. I will only buy from your store.”

Old Wang was, after all, an elder, and since Zhao Xuehong had already gone this far, he couldn’t continue to make things difficult for her.

But just as one problem was about to be solved, another arose. As if he had discovered a new continent, Shao Yu exclaimed, “Zhao San’s wife, your clothes are quite beautiful. Did you just buy them?”

When Zhao Xuehong heard Shao Yu praise her clothes, she wasn’t as happy as she had imagined: “I didn’t buy them, they were given to me by a relative, and they were things she didn’t want.”

“You don’t want it? Brand new clothes that haven’t even been washed, how can you just give them away like that?” Shao Yu asked curiously.

Zhao Xuehong was surprised that Shao Yu had such sharp eyes that he could even tell that the clothes hadn’t been washed.

“She didn’t like this style, wore it once, and then gave it to me,” Zhao Xuehong said, hoping that Shao Yu wouldn’t press the matter further.But Shao Yu wasn’t about to let her off the hook, and asked, “Which relative?”

The villagers not only know each other, but they also know each other’s relatives very well.

Zhao Xuehong’s face stiffened. Her family was poor, and her clothes were expensive. She didn’t look like someone with a wealthy relative who could give away new clothes so easily.

Old Wang clearly knew about Zhao Xuehong’s relatives’ situation, and he looked at her with a very surprised expression.

Zhao Xuehong, now in her early thirties, looked exceptionally beautiful in her beautiful clothes, without a trace of sorrow on her face. In fact, she seemed somewhat out of place in the dark room.

“Third brother’s wife, is that you?” Old Wang really wanted to ask her if she was having an affair, since a widow dressed up so carefully would always lead people to have bad associations.

Zhao Xuehong blushed and turned pale, afraid that everyone would know that she had used the extra money she had saved for medical treatment and the money she had earned from selling grain to buy herself this outfit.

She didn’t know why she got carried away at the time, and after being coaxed, she insisted on buying this new outfit.

“No, I didn’t,” Zhao Xuehong said urgently.

Shao Yu asked, somewhat puzzled, “What aren’t you? You don’t have anything?”

Zhao Xuehong gave an awkward smile.

Shao Yu continued, “You haven’t mentioned any relatives yet?”

“Distant relative, distant relative,” she replied.

“Which distant relative? What’s the relationship?”

“A relative from my maternal family, my uncle’s daughter-in-law’s cousin.”

“But I remember you didn’t get along with your uncle. You often spoke ill of his family in the village. Your relationship with your cousin-in-law was even worse. You two even fought last year.”

Old Wang knew about these things and couldn’t help but nod in agreement.

“We’ve made up recently, we’ve made up recently…” Zhao Xuehong tells one lie, and she has to use a thousand lies to cover it up.

“Where is her cousin from, and how come she’s so generous?” Shao Yu asked again.

“She’s from the capital, and her family is in the military, so she’s very rich.” In Zhao Xuehong’s mind, all military personnel are wealthy.

“So, she brought these clothes back from the capital?” Shao Yu asked.

Zhao Xuehong nodded vigorously.

Seeing that Shao Yu didn’t seem to intend to press the matter further, Zhao Xuehong thought she was about to get away with it, but Shao Yu suddenly spoke up again.

“Something’s not right here. Your cousin’s wife is about the same size as you. Why is she being so nice? Why is she giving it to you instead of giving it to her cousin?”

“This…” Zhao Xuehong’s mind raced: “She gave my cousin-in-law more, but only this one to me.”

Shao Yu nodded and said, “That is indeed possible.”

Zhao Xuehong assumed she had gotten away with it again, but Shao Yu smiled.

That smile sent chills down her spine.

“You really can’t read,” Shao Yu said.

Zhao Xuehong was taken aback.

Shao Yu pointed to a line of words embroidered on the sleeve of her shirt: “Ningyuan County Garment Factory”.

Zhao Xue’s face gradually turned pale.

Shao Yu said, “How did clothes from our county’s garment factory become items brought back from the capital?”

Zhao Xuehong couldn’t explain it clearly this time. After all, why would someone from the capital go to a small town to shop for clothes, and why would they take the clothes they liked with them?

“Maybe I’ve misunderstood, Lao Wang. We should go to her parents’ house tomorrow and ask if her cousin-in-law has such a powerful relative.”

When Zhao Xuehong’s lie was exposed, she immediately shouted, “Don’t go!”

Her cousin-in-law doesn’t have any wealthy cousin; she made it all up. If this gets back to her family, she’ll never have the face to go back home again.

Old Wang was also furious at this point, and said, “Third brother’s wife, explain yourself clearly, where did this garment come from?”

Zhao Xuehong dared not tell the truth.

Shao Yu said casually, “I wouldn’t be willing to spend the money to buy such nice clothes myself. I would only wear them if someone gave them to me as a gift.”

Zhao Xuehong hadn’t realized something was wrong with the word “send,” but Old Man Wang’s expression suddenly changed.

He stomped his foot angrily: “Third brother’s wife, if you don’t want to stay, just say so openly. Our Wang family isn’t an unreasonable family. As long as you take good care of your mother-in-law and children, do you think we’ll stop you from remarrying? Do you have to cause a scandal before you’re satisfied?”

Zhao Xuehong was stunned.

Old Wang continued, “My wife told me the other day that she saw you talking to that scoundrel in the village. Tell me, did he give you these clothes?”

Widows are often the subject of gossip, and even if Zhao Xuehong didn’t mean it that way, her actions would still be interpreted differently by others.

Although Zhao Xuehong’s husband had died, she had young children, a weak mother-in-law who was easily manipulated by her, and Shao Dachun who gave her money and food without asking for anything in return. Her life was more comfortable than when her husband was alive. She didn’t know what she would face if she remarried, so she didn’t want to remarry for the time being.

Besides, even if she remarried, she wouldn’t want that scoundrel in the village, so she immediately explained, “This dress really wasn’t a gift from him!”

“Then who else? Who else have you offended?” Old Wang asked.

At this moment, Old Man Wang’s face turned red with anger, and he seemed to have already concluded that Zhao Xuehong had disgraced the family.

Zhao Xuehong said, “No one sent it, no one sent it!”

“Where did you get those clothes? Your family can’t even afford to eat, how could you afford such nice clothes?” Old Wang pressed.

Zhao Xuehong couldn’t explain it clearly.

Old Wang was furious at the moment. Whether it was because he had been overthinking things or because of Shao Yu’s repeated brainwashing today, he finally set his suspicious gaze on Shao Dachun.

“He sent it? He even gave you his salary. You two are definitely up to something? A married man and a widow getting together, you’re shameless!”

Shao Dachun was unjustly smeared and felt extremely wronged. He was eager to explain, but Old Man Wang seemed to have his eye on him.

“You’d give her everything you own, and you still say you’re not having an affair?” Old Wang said sternly.

Shao Dachun said, “Xiao Zhao is so pitiful, I can’t bear to see her like this.”

Old Wang retorted, “You think Zhao Xuehong is pitiful, but I think your wife and children are even more pitiful! Zhao Xuehong wears new clothes and her son is well-fed and healthy. Look at your own wife and child, their clothes are tattered, and they’re so thin they’re just skin and bones!”

“So, you must be blind to feel sorry for Zhao Xuehong, and you still say you’re not lusting after her body!”

Old Wang spat on Shao Dachun’s face without stopping, and rushed up to hit Shao Dachun.

“I’ll beat you to death, you shameless bastard! How dare you seduce the widow of the Wang family!”

Shao Dachun hurriedly tried to dodge, wanting to hide behind Liu Guizhi, but Liu Guizhi, for some reason, moved aside from a distance and even pushed her husband.

Shao Dachun respected him as an elderly man and didn’t dare to fight back. Since his own family wouldn’t help him, he could only run away with his head in his hands.

Although Old Man Wang was about the same age as Shao Yu, he was always in good health, so he was quite strong when he hit someone, causing Shao Dachun to cry out in pain.

Apart from Zhao Xuehong making a few perfunctory remarks, everyone else just watched the spectacle with amusement.

“Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, I really didn’t seduce her, please stop hitting me, please stop hitting me!”

Old Wang wouldn’t listen, and seeing that he didn’t resist, he beat him even more vigorously.

Shao Dachun shouted again, “Guizhi! Guizhi! Quickly pull them apart!”

Liu Guizhi remained motionless.

Shao Yu then said to his daughter-in-law, “You see, I never think of you when there are good things happening, but I think of you when there are things like this.”

Thinking about this, Liu Guizhi became increasingly angry. After a moment’s thought, she ran to the kitchen, grabbed a stick, and shouted at Old Wang, “Uncle Wang, use this to hit him!”

Old Wang took the stick and said to Liu Guizhi, “Guizhi, don’t worry, I’ll definitely teach this lecher a lesson for you!”

Seeing that Old Man Wang was really about to hit him with the stick, Shao Dachun could only shout, “Dad, Dad, say something! Help me!”

Shao Yu pretended not to hear.

Shao Dachun cried out again, “Dad, I was wrong, I was really wrong! I’ll never send them again, I’ll never send them again!”

Shao Yu finally moved and called out to Old Wang, “Old Wang, stop. Maybe there’s some misunderstanding.”

Old Wang, panting heavily from chasing, stopped and said, “What misunderstanding could there be? It must be your scoundrel who did something bad!”

Shao Yu said, “Old Wang, think of it this way: maybe your niece-in-law took the money for medical treatment to buy clothes.”

Shao Dachun immediately turned his hopeful gaze to Zhao Xuehong and said, “Xiao Zhao, where did you get these clothes? Tell the truth!”

Zhao Xuehong was caught in a dilemma.

If she doesn’t admit to using the money for medical treatment to buy clothes, then she has to admit to the stigma of seducing a married man, and she will never have any face left in the village again.

If she admits it, what will Shao Dachun think of her? Will he continue to support her in the future?