Chapter 1496 Old Agreement 1
The middle-aged woman kept repeating the phrase "eating out every day" over and over, and most people started to feel disgusted with the man.
Feng Qingxue, however, didn’t jump to conclusions. Instead, she listened carefully to the discussions among the men, women, young, and old standing in line around her.
Since they were all buying grain from the same store, they must belong to the same neighborhood, which naturally meant they would know each other.
Soon, Feng Qingxue heard someone ahead speak in a voice that wasn’t too loud or too soft: "Isn’t that Shi Guantao? He’s arguing with his sister-in-law again. Every ten days or so, they have to fight once—so annoying."
"You know them?"
"Of course I know them! Their house is right next door to our courtyard."
"Why are they always fighting? A sister-in-law and a younger brother-in-law fighting—now that’s something you don’t hear every day!"
"If you ask me, Shi Guantao should just toughen up and kick his brother’s whole family out of his house. That would put an end to all the constant arguments."
"What’s the story here?"
"His sister-in-law, Liu Guixiang, is just too greedy! Sure, none of us are fans of Shi Guantao eating out every day, but he’s an old bachelor with no family of his own. If his stove and kitchen at home are cold, where else would he eat but the restaurants? He has the money and the grain tickets, doesn’t he? The problem is, his sister-in-law keeps trying to get hold of Shi Guantao’s salary and grain tickets for the family’s communal use. No wonder there’s bad blood between them."