How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 221 - 223: Program_1

Xue Sufen was naturally willing to show off her generosity, she specifically cut large pieces of the cake for Li Qiao and Old Mrs. Qin, then turned on the television.

She said, "Old Mrs. Qin, Li Qiao, if you want to watch TV, you can come to my house anytime."

Old Mrs. Qin responded: "Ah."

Li Qiao sat quietly on the side eating cake, thinking to herself that the flavor was even better than the ones she’d have decades later.

Xue Sufen mentioned, "Li Qiao, tomorrow morning’s class has been rescheduled to Saturday afternoon, do you know?"

Li Qiao replied, "I didn’t know." She had been staying in the library and no one had informed her. But whether the class was rescheduled didn’t affect her at all.

"My brother’s unit is having a power outage, and my younger uncle doesn’t have classes tomorrow either. We’re planning to hike up the Great Wall, will you and Qin Jin come along?"

Li Qiao sought Qin Jin’s opinion, "Shall we join them?"

After a moment of consideration, Qin Jin replied, "Hmm."

Xue Sufen said, "Let’s meet at the entrance of the residential compound at seven o’clock tomorrow morning."

"Okay," said Li Qiao.

After finishing the cake.

Jiang Wanqiu prodded Xue Sufen to play the flute, "It’s your grandpa’s birthday, play something festive."

Xue Sufen went back to her room to fetch her flute and started playing a tune that was slow and had the characteristics of the era, reminiscent of trickling spring water.

Jiang Wanqiu clapped along to the rhythm, and after Xue Sufen finished playing, she commented, "This is much more pleasant to listen to than the screeching of erhus."

Li Qiao thought to herself, is that comment directed at me?

Old Mrs. Qin said indifferently, "It’s just the same few notes, over and over. I could learn it in a few days."

Jiang Wanqiu’s eyes widened, "Learn in just a few days? Why don’t you give it a try? Qiaoqiao, do you think you could do it?"

Li Qiao, annoyed, didn’t want to engage with Jiang Wanqiu’s words, "I also wish to perform a piece to liven up the mood for Sir Xue."

"We don’t have an erhu here for you to play," said Xue Sufen.

"I’ll give a martial arts demonstration," said Li Qiao as she walked out the door, clearing away the wicker chairs, tea tables, and small benches from the courtyard.

Jiang Wanqiu turned on the lights; she wanted to see what kind of performance Li Qiao could pull off.

Li Qiao removed her coat, "Sir Xue, may I borrow your walking stick for a moment?"

Old Mr. Xue handed it to her.

Li Qiao jogged to the center of the courtyard, her movements with the walking stick resembling thunder and lightning, whipping up a gust of wind.

With a final leap, she ran up, used the wall for leverage, and kicked, snapping a ginkgo tree as thick as a child’s arm in the courtyard.

With a crisp snap, she landed steadily.

"Sir Xue, ginkgo trees smell terrible when they bear fruit. It might be better to plant a pine tree. They’re evergreen, tall, and upstanding. I know where to buy one, and I’ll arrange for someone to plant it the day after tomorrow," she said.

Jiang Wanqiu was dumbstruck.

A layer of cold sweat formed on Sufen’s back; Li Qiao was apparently so formidable. It seemed that when she beat up Cheng Shuqin, she had been holding back.

If she had used those moves on Sufen, wouldn’t Sufen be crippled?

Xue Jingyi whispered to Xue Lingqing, "Your student is kind of scary. No wonder her partner can do everything, including cooking. If my wife could also do all that, I’d be in for it too. Is it possible she is upset about what Old Mrs. Qin said and deliberately showing off by kicking down our tree to vent her anger?"

Xue Lingqing glanced over, seeing the girl had once again returned to a quiet and well-behaved demeanor.

She had just said Qin Jin could smash three bricks with one punch.

His skills were probably taught by Qin Jin.

He shifted his gaze back and said quietly, "Your grandma did go too far. They invite someone over, only to show them up. Who could stand for that?"

He, for one, would have walked out long ago.

His mother was indeed taking advantage of him and his father’s reputation to bully others.

Old Mr. Xue came back to his senses, "It doesn’t matter about the tree, but does your foot hurt?"

Li Qiao responded, "It doesn’t hurt." The ginkgo tree had been grafted, and she aimed for the graft when she kicked, making it not too difficult to break.

Old Mr. Xue laughed, "I had no idea you were so skilled."

Auntie Xue said admiringly, "You could be a soldier if you weren’t engaged in scholarly pursuits."

Li Qiao demurely said, "I wouldn’t be up to it, Jin’s skills are even better."

"Is that so?" Auntie Xue asked with interest. "Jin’s age is just right for the military. If he performs well, he could have a great future."

"Thank you, Auntie Xue, but I don’t much like being managed," said Qin Jin. Making money was more fun, anyway.

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Jiang Wanqiu’s little schemes came to an abrupt end with Li Qiao knocking over the tree in their family’s courtyard.

Old Mrs. Qin let out a sigh of relief, feeling entirely unburdened, and said, "It’s getting late, we should head back too. Sir Xue, Wanqiu, please come visit our house when you have the time."

Old Mr. Xue cheerfully agreed.

Jiang Wanqiu let out a strained ’aiyah’. What kind of virtue had Ruan Xiangjun accumulated to find such an outstanding granddaughter-in-law? Why couldn’t she have a granddaughter-in-law like that? Not only did she not have one, but her youngest son had been bewitched by someone else.

She saw it with her own eyes but couldn’t speak of it.

The moment she did, the whole family would denounce her ramblings.

Even Sufen thought she was imagining things.

Sighing, she said, "Jingyi, in the future you also have to find me a Top Scholar as a match."

Xue Jingyi replied, "Grandma, didn’t you hear Jin say? The Top Scholar’s wife was arranged by Old Mrs. Qin."

Xue Jingyi threw the difficult question back to Jiang Wanqiu.

Jiang Wanqiu: "..."

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At this moment, the three generations of the Qin family left the Xue Family grounds.

Qin Jin was concerned about Li Qiao’s foot: "Does it hurt? I can carry you."

Old Mrs. Qin also said, "If the tree broke, your foot must have been hurt badly."

"It was a clever use of force, it doesn’t hurt," Li Qiao replied lightly, easing Old Mrs. Qin’s worries, "Where did you learn martial arts? I won’t have to worry about you when you go out in the future."

Qin Jin answered, "I just read about it in books, they’re just moves to scare people off."

Against the sturdy men in the village who work all year round, no amount of moves would be useful. frёewebηovel.cѳm

Qiaoqiao could only beat up some weak gangsters.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been chased around by Lu Kai.

He added, "Grandma, do you and Madam Xue have a grudge against each other?" He hadn’t noticed it much before, but today with so many people around, it was particularly obvious; conversations were laced with jabs at his grandmother, Qiaoqiao couldn’t escape them either.

It wasn’t until they were out of the family compound that Old Mrs. Qin said, "There is a bit of a grudge, but it’s nothing serious."

In their earlier years, Jiang Wanqiu’s father was a Private School Teacher who taught Jin’s great-grandfather. Jiang Wanqiu would follow along, and naturally, the two kids ended up playing together. Jin’s great-grandmother jokingly suggested that Jiang Wanqiu could become a future daughter-in-law.

But who could predict how things would turn out?

As for her, she went to a girls’ school, while Jin’s grandfather went to normal school.

The normal school students organized a reading club and invited the girls’ school students to join. That’s how she met Jin’s grandfather.

Their families were well-matched.

Consequently, Jin’s great-grandmother set aside her joking promise to Jiang Wanqiu.

Jiang Wanqiu brought it up during an argument, long after she was married.

And Xue, her eldest brother’s father, was a worker in her maternal family.

Younger, Xue was even more handsome than Jin’s grandfather, albeit poorer.

Jiang Wanqiu never shared how she met him but claimed he impregnated her.

Xue denied it, but his father acknowledged the claim and promptly arranged their marriage.

Only after the marriage did the Xue family learn of Jiang Wanqiu’s fake pregnancy.

The couple fought often since they were young; Jiang Wanqiu was fierce, and Xue frequently sported a bruised face, though she too ended up with a swollen nose and blue eyes. Amidst their brawls, they had their eldest son, the name Xue Lingfeng was given by her father.

Then the world fell into chaos.

Xue enlisted in the military, leaving Jiang Wanqiu to struggle alone with the child for a while.

When Xue returned, the elder members of the home had passed away, so he took Jiang Wanqiu and the children away, never to return to their hometown.

Likewise, with the Qin family in decline, she took Jin and left for distant lands.

In her life, she never thought she’d see Jiang Wanqiu again.

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