Chapter 163 - 158: Idle Chatter (Extra for Monthly Ticket Yesterday)
Fang Pingying’s sofa might be nothing special in the city, and even within this military dependents’ courtyard, there are many households with better sofas, but some people still feel jealous.
Just like that time when Gao Hongmei gossiped about Fang Pingying, seeing Fang Pingying coming from the same rural background as herself, but somehow, after a few years, she was still like a country bumpkin, and her house had nothing new—whatever was in the military quarters was all her family had.
But Fang Pingying hadn’t been there for half a month before she bought a sofa, and her clothing didn’t resemble that of someone from the countryside at all. Whenever the women in the courtyard saw Fang Pingying wearing a new outfit, they had to compliment her, and it made Gao Hongmei feel extremely uncomfortable.
So, while Luo Zhiyong was asking the men in the courtyard to help carry the sofa upstairs, she stood at the bottom of the building and said to Fang Pingying in a weird tone of voice,
"Sister-in-law, does your Camp Chief Luo earn more than the rest of us here? How can you afford such nice things?"
"That’s quite an accusation, do you think the military is an unfair place, that even the wages should be doubted?" Fang Pingying had been in the courtyard for a while and had come to understand the nature of these women, knowing that Gao Hongmei was one to stir up trouble. She replied with a half-smile that didn’t quite look genuine, "Then you should go and ask the leadership."
"You..." Gao Hongmei didn’t expect Fang Pingying to be even more hot-tempered than Xiao Juzi, unable to hide her displeasure.
Since Fang Pingying usually didn’t interact with her and didn’t want to say more, she cut her off, "My two younger sisters have come, I won’t chat with you now, I have to go back and tidy up."
After saying that, Fang Pingying led Luo Honglan and Fang Xiu upstairs.
