Chapter 10

Old Lady Li's gold ring was lost. It was said that she took it off and put it on the head of the kang the night before, and it disappeared when she got up in the morning.

She insisted that her second daughter-in-law stole it.

Because the second daughter-in-law had asked her for this gold ring, but she couldn't bear to give it.

The Li family's second daughter-in-law was also a fierce one, firmly refusing to admit it, and even asked the old lady to call the police, and then the neighborhood office also helped to find it, but unfortunately, it wasn't found.

Thus, this dispute had been shelved for several days.

That pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law blamed and accused each other, almost becoming enemies.

Lu Qiao moved her gaze away from the swallow's nest, introduced herself to Qi Shuang with a smile, and then entered the room with Qi Shuang.

Lu Qiao looked at Qi Shuang, who was full of sorrow and hidden pain, and said straight to the point: "I summarized a few possibilities for why he doesn't touch you this morning. Sister Qi, take a look."

After saying this, she took out the paper from her pocket and handed it to Qi Shuang.

Qi Shuang looked at Lu Qiao suspiciously. She didn't ask questions like others did when they came in, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

Taking the paper and unfolding it, Qi Shuang widened her eyes. The pain just now was gone, leaving only disbelief.

It was written with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 29 possibilities on the ordinary white paper.

This wasn't just a few.

Qi Shuang covered her chest, her eyes full of confusion.

How could there be so many possibilities?

"Sister Qi, can you exclude a few?"

As she said this, Lu Qiao took out a pencil stub: "Cross out the ones you think are impossible."

Qi Shuang hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

During the gap when Lu Qiao was drinking water, Qi Shuang had already frowned and crossed out half of them, and finally half remained.

Lu Qiao asked softly: "When your mother-in-law said you couldn't give birth, what was your husband's attitude?"

Qi Shuang gritted her teeth: "He didn't care, letting my mother-in-law scold me."

Lu Qiao:...

No matter what the reason was, this kind of marriage was too suffocating.

She looked at Qi Shuang calmly and asked again: "If he tells you the reason and still wants to live with you, what is your attitude?"

Qi Shuang: "Is it one of the reasons above?"

Lu Qiao nodded.

Qi Shuang hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth: "Divorce, no matter what the reason is, divorce."

This was easy to handle.

Lu Qiao suggested: "Then you write a divorce application. If he doesn't agree, you go to the Women's Federation."

Lu Qiao took the paper away before leaving, but Qi Shuang also copied it down.

Qi Shuang decided to confront Yao Kai one by one.

And at this time, Lu Qiao had just walked to the doorway when she suddenly jumped forward. This action made Qi Shuang, who was distracted, recover her mind, and immediately a bubble of bird droppings landed on the ground at the doorway.

It was also where Lu Qiao was standing just now.

Qi Shuang hurriedly asked: "Qiao, are you okay?"

Fortunately, she dodged in time; otherwise, it would have landed on her head.

Lu Qiao looked up at the swallow's nest.

A swallow flew over her head: 【Oops, missed.】

Another swallow poked its little head out of the nest and said affectionately: 【Honey, you're naughty again, hurry up and find me something to eat.】

In this season, it should be the incubation period for swallows, and the little swallows hadn't broken their shells yet.

Lu Qiao's eyes turned, and she looked at the noisy neighbors.

She said: "Sister Qi, your swallows are too hateful, I'll go up and teach them a lesson."

Before Qi Shuang could stop her, Lu Qiao had already moved the ladder from the corner of the wall and placed it under the eaves, then climbed up.

The swallow was still watching the excitement, but didn't expect that the human who climbed up would actually stare at it face to face.

【Ah... ah, ah!】

Lu Qiao: "Stop 'ah'-ing, is your honey really that naughty?"

【Ah?】 The swallow's whole body stiffened.

Lu Qiao looked inside, and besides three bird eggs, there was really a gold ring on the side.

Lu Qiao didn't take it, but whispered to the swallow: "I can understand what you say, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you, but don't move the gold ring, someone will come to take it in a while."

【You... can you really understand?】

Lu Qiao said "Mm," then pointed at the swallow: "Tell your husband, if it dares to fly over my head and poop again, I'll pluck all its feathers!"

The swallow stared with black bean eyes: 【Mm, mm... it... it definitely won't dare anymore.】

Lu Qiao thought about it, then smiled and said: "Tell your naughty husband to go to Guzitun in the north of the city and help me see what vegetables are in the vegetable gardens of the collective farm members. If you do it well, I'll give you millet to eat."

Guzitun was a production brigade closest to the military factory, located in the suburbs north of the city.

Every family had vegetable gardens and self-retained land.

Lu Qiao liked to eat meat, but also liked to eat vegetables.

But now, not to mention eating meat, eating vegetables wasn't as easy as imagined.

Not to mention the tube-style buildings, even the single-story house area didn't have vegetable gardens.

The Lu family only planted a row of small scallions in the corner of the wall, and now they were almost eaten up.

The non-staple food store actually brought in green vegetables every day, but they couldn't be snatched. It was said that they were all taken by people going through the back door. Only a few hundred catties were put on the counter, but there were thousands of people buying vegetables.

As for why they didn't bring in more, the non-staple food store had a new manager this year, and no one knew what was going on.

Anyway, they brought them in every day and had to snatch them every day...

Lu Qiao also had a sudden inspiration to let the naughty swallow fly over to take a look.

Whether it worked or not, only after using it would she know.

The swallow's eyes lit up when it heard this. They often went there, so it nodded vigorously in agreement.

Lu Qiao climbed down the ladder, pulled Qi Shuang over, and whispered: "Do you know about your neighbor losing the gold ring?"

Qi Shuang: "I know."

Lu Qiao pointed to the swallow's nest: "There is a gold ring inside."

Qi Shuang covered her mouth in shock.

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When Lu Qiao returned home, Su Hui, who had returned from odd jobs, was cooking.

Because of the journey, Old Lady Lu and Lu Qiaoling were very tired and were sleeping at this time.

It was almost the end of May, and the weather was a bit hot. Lu Qiao hurriedly ran to get water to wash her face.

And Old Lu returned just after Lu Qiao. He was holding a lunch box, which contained braised pork with potatoes.

Meng Xia took the lunch box and pointed to the west room: "Mom and Qiaoling are back."

Before Old Lu could show his emotions, Meng Xia told the whole story of their return.

In the end, Meng Xia frowned: "I don't know which mouth-deficient person called Qiaoling, it's too damaging."

Old Lu thought about it and waved his hand: "This call is not easy to check, let's just leave it at that."

Afterward, he said: "I see Qiao has become much more sensible after falling into the water. Even if they don't have jobs, they won't starve to death by pasting paper boxes at home. I'll apply for overtime tomorrow." Then he frowned: "What about Qiaoling, how was it handled in the hometown?"

Meng Xia rolled her eyes: "Your mother lay at the brigade office holding her heart and saying that she and Qiaoling were not going to make it, so Uncle Five didn't dare to keep them and sent them to the train overnight..."

Old Lu widened his eyes: "How could this be a lie?"

Meng Xia couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him: "Then go report it!"

Old Lu had always been law-abiding and responded to the call, never going through the back door to ask people to do things, otherwise he wouldn't have been so difficult.

Old Lu felt a headache. Just as he wanted to say something, Meng Xia said: "Don't forget to borrow some food from Old Jiang's house tonight. Mom and Qiaoling are back, and the food is not enough to eat. We'll pay him back next month."

(End of chapter)