Chapter 108: The Package Turmoil
Zhao Xiaocao said, "It’s all because Mom didn’t do the math right. If we had acknowledged Luo Qiao from the start, not only would we have someone earning work points for the household, but everything that happened last time would have made sense. Now look at us, we’ve suffered a loss for nothing."
Zhao Pulin said, "You’ve got food to eat and yet you still can’t keep your mouths shut."
It wasn’t just their family that had their eyes on Luo Qiao; as Li Xiulan’s eldest daughter-in-law Feng Xiaojuan came in, she scooped up a gourd ladle of water from the jar, gulped it down ’glug glug’, wiped her mouth, and plopped down onto a bench in the courtyard.
She began, "Mom, I just heard on my way back that the orphan girl in the village received two big packages. There’s not a single person in the village who isn’t jealous."
Li Xiulan glanced sideways and asked, "What did you say?"
Feng Xiaojuan repeated herself, "It’s that orphan girl the Zhao Family didn’t recognize. The brigade commander just said she got two big packages mailed from Capital City. Who would have thought that Luo Qiao had such connections without making a sound?"
Li Xiulan suddenly couldn’t sit still, turning her eyes this way and that for quite a while before heading into the house.
Once inside, she looked at Gao Shunyi, who was still lying on the kang bed, "Dad, I think we can’t wait any longer regarding our third son and Luo Qiao. The eldest daughter-in-law just mentioned that girl received two large packages.
Now there’ll definitely be more families in the village making a move on Luo Qiao; if we wait any longer, we might let someone else beat us to it."
Gao Shunyi was silent for a while before saying, "That’s fine, but we need a proper reason, otherwise the village will say we’re bullying her."