I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 274 Everywhere Are Eyes

Chapter 274: Chapter 274 Everywhere Are Eyes

Su Yunyao glared at her viciously and strode toward the door, disappearing around the corner in the blink of an eye.

Qiao Qingyu didn’t care and curled her lips dismissively. Of course, she didn’t care. She had the guts to bring He Xiuyu into her Space Laboratory—what else was there to worry about?

Qiao Qingyu was about to take the cup into the arbor to wash it when someone else walked in. It was Old Lady Zhao, who lived in the back courtyard. Qiao Qingyu frowned involuntarily; that old woman was truly thick-skinned.

In the spring, she shamelessly took quite a lot of vegetable seeds. Logically, being from the countryside, she should have had a green thumb. However, her vegetable garden turned out to be the worst, which is why she was always pilfering vegetables from one neighbor and pinching onions from another.

What was she up to now?

"Granny Zhao, it’s almost noon. Aren’t you cooking? What are you doing here?"

Qiao Qingyu’s question was not at all polite.

Her daughter-in-law was pregnant—you know, that distant cousin—she was quite big now, and the old lady had to take care of her every day; she looked much thinner than before.

"My Xiao Li wants to eat cucumbers. I looked around and saw that the cucumbers in your garden are the best."

She said this and quickly headed for the cucumber bed. Qiao Qingyu called out leisurely from behind, "Granny Zhao, just so you know, I’ve just fertilized this vegetable garden."

Granny Zhao didn’t care at all. She didn’t stop walking or talking. "The success of the crops is like a flower; it all depends on the dung as the head of the household. Your words won’t scare me—I’ve never seen anyone as stingy as you."

"I’ve never seen someone treat another’s vegetable garden as if it were their own."

"Then who told you to make your vegetable garden grow so well?"

Qiao Qingyu, "..."

Don’t get mad, don’t get mad. Getting angry is bad for your health, and no one else will suffer for you!

She walked quickly and grabbed Old Lady Zhao, frowning as she spoke, "Granny Zhao, don’t be insatiable. Those cucumbers are still small and can’t be picked. If you want to eat, go buy some from the commune."

"I’m just picking one, and you’re being so miserly. Are all the wives of officials so heartless?" It seemed Granny Zhao was gearing up to start wailing.

"Old lady, your words are really heartless. How much of my family’s vegetables have you eaten, and have I ever heard a word of thanks from you?"

Qiao Qingyu was so angry that her face turned crimson. She felt she was really quite capable, able to deal with shrews and troublemakers, but against someone like Old Lady Zhao who was old and shameless, she was at her wit’s end.

She couldn’t hit or scold her. If it had been a young person, she would have slapped them long ago.

She handed her a tomato, speaking impatiently, "Get going now, your daughter-in-law is calling for you."

Old Lady Zhao looked suspiciously at Qiao Qingyu, then pricked up her ears and listened. Sure enough, she heard Tian Li calling for her from the back courtyard.

Holding the tomato, she glanced at the yard once more and said, "The vegetable seeds you gave me just aren’t good. My family’s vegetables don’t grow nearly as well as yours, obviously not the same variety."

"Old lady, you don’t even look at what kind of soil I have, nor do you see how I plant and care for them. My He Xiuyu has to till, fertilize, and water the garden until dark after work. You grew up in the countryside too; is this how you’re supposed to farm? Can’t you stop saying such disgraceful things..."

Old Lady Zhao’s face was thick-skinned; even if her face reddened, it couldn’t be seen. With a huff, she snatched the tomato and turned to leave.

Qiao Qingyu watched her departure, hands on her hips. That old woman was just like a toad on the ground—not biting, but just plain irritating.

Rongrong and Li Mingguang came running over, sweating bullets. Seeing Qiao Qingyu’s expression, the young girl’s heart skipped a beat. She hurriedly took Qiao Qingyu’s hand, "Little aunt, little aunt, did that woman surnamed Su bully you?"

Li Mingguang, however, glanced back and said, "Rongrong, I bet it was Grandma Zhao coming to take advantage again. I saw her with a tomato; it’s definitely from your family’s garden."

He Xuerong’s eyes started rolling.

She gave Li Mingguang a meaningful glance.

Qiao Qingyu quickly said, "You two remember this, don’t even think about any crooked schemes, I’m not bothered about such petty advantages."

Li Mingguang was startled and quickly assured her, "Aunt Qiao, Aunt Qiao, we didn’t mean to do anything bad."

"Right, little aunt, with Grandma Zhao being so old, how could we dare to bully her? What if she tried to extort us? How would we handle that?"

That was correct, they even knew the word ’extort.’

Qiao Qingyu patted them on the back and said, "Go wash your hands, wipe the sweat off your faces."

At that moment, from the Northwest direction, there seemed to come a noisy commotion.

Qiao Qingyu looked that way, too. The base’s residential compound was large, not as big as a town, but pretty much the size of a village, yet it was seldom this tumultuous.

Qiao Qingyu walked outside and saw quite a few people running toward Dashun’s house.

Qiao Qingyu couldn’t hold back Li Mingguang and He Xuerong, who quickly ran off into the distance.

Standing at the crossroad, Qiao Qingyu didn’t wait long before the two kids came running back, gasping for breath, their little faces ashen. He Xuerong grabbed Qiao Qingyu’s hand, trembling voice and all, "Little aunt, little aunt, Xiao Xiao’s dad died."

Qiao Qingyu was stunned. Xiao Xiao’s dad – wasn’t that Sister Yu’s husband?

She had seen him just a couple of days ago at the front gate.

How could he be gone all of a sudden?

Seeing the states of the two children, she couldn’t just let them walk home alone; they seemed to have received a shock. At this time, it wasn’t appropriate for her to go ahead, so she quietly said, holding one child by each hand, "Let’s go back home first."

Soon, news that Sister Yu’s husband, Wang Feng, had passed away, spread throughout the base.

Qiao Qingyu went to Sister Yu’s house where Sister Yu had already cried until she fainted several times. Xiao Xiao’s face was covered in tears, standing numbly in the corner, small hands clutching the hem of her clothing without uttering a single word.

Qiao Qingyu let Xiao Hu and Rongrong accompany Xiao Xiao while she joined others in comforting Sister Yu.

The word was that the couple had been very close; who would have thought that one would depart before the other, leaving the remaining one in such torment?

Yu Jing was indeed suffering, yet at the same time, she was both shocked and scared.

Her husband’s death was unjust, for she hadn’t completed her tasks lately and had remained unmoved, causing dissatisfaction from above, who said she must be punished.

Her heart was overcome with fear, but the base was like an iron barrel, eyes and watchful gazes everywhere. What could she do, what dared she do? Before she could act, she would be caught.

The doctor’s diagnosis was a heart attack, but she knew her husband didn’t have heart disease. His heart was fine. How did they do it? Who did it?

If she failed to complete her tasks again, would her daughter be the next one?

Her heart was filled with towering hatred. One misstep led to another.

She didn’t even know how she had come to walk down such a path.

What was the cause of it?

Right, she was the descendant of a martyr, her mother had given birth to her in prison, and then was secretly executed by the enemy on the eve of liberation. She was rescued, taken in, and raised by her father’s comrade-in-arms...

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