novelraw Chapter 822 The Marriage Breakup Expert
Chapter 822 The Marriage Breakup Expert
Chapter 822 The Marriage Breakup Expert
After Lu Qiaoge left, Meng Xia heard Lu Qiaoling come back and tell her:
"Mom, have you heard? It's that Deputy Factory Director Kang's wife, Kong Fanrong. She's so shameless. She told the leaders that if they wanted her to agree to a divorce, they had to let her be the factory director of the hygiene products factory. Otherwise, she would never agree."
Meng Xia frowned: "Weren't you doing just fine? Why are you talking about divorce again?"
"Come on, what do you mean by 'living well'? I heard Kang Yuxing moved out a long time ago."
Meng Xia glanced at her third daughter: "This is a matter between the two of them, how do you know so much about it?"
"Their affair is nothing new now, but what's infuriating is how shameless Kong Fanrong is. Just because my second sister and brother-in-law came back, Deputy Factory Director Kang went to the station to pick up the goods and also picked them up. Then, a few days later, when Deputy Factory Director Kang filed for divorce, that woman started to blame my second sister."
Then, Lu Qiaoling said angrily, "Sometimes these people's mouths are really awful. They actually said that my second sister is a marriage-breaking expert."
Meng Xia wasn't angry; instead, she chuckled.
"Mom, what are you laughing at?" Lu Qiaoling asked, puzzled.
Meng Xia said, "Your second sister has become an expert, of course I'm happy, it's a happy thing."
As far as Meng Xia is concerned, her second daughter is doing good deeds, so why is she unhappy?
Take Qi Shuang, for example. She was such a wonderful girl, but because she married that man, she ended up divorced. Otherwise, you'd think it would be so easy for her to find a partner. I heard they're all engineers now.
Thinking of Qi Shuang, Meng Xia also recalled the incident when her second daughter and Qin Heng went to the movies together.
The technician was indeed forced to marry his wife, and that woman was truly domineering and unreasonable. All the technician wanted was to watch a movie and calm himself down, but who would have thought that just because Qi Shuang was sitting next to him, his wife almost beat him up.
Fortunately, her second daughter was also present at the time, otherwise the matter would have blown up and might have tarnished Qi Shuang's reputation.
Then the technician filed for divorce, and the second daughter mediated the situation, and in the end, the two divorced peacefully.
Thinking of this, Meng Xia said, "Kong Fanrong is actually not very cultured or sophisticated, but you have to admit that she is very cunning and shameless. No matter what, she will say anything to achieve her goals."
“What good is it if she dares to say anything? Does she think she can just become the factory manager of a hygiene products factory? Even if Secretary Hao and Secretary Ye agree, my second sister might not agree.” Then, Lu Qiaoling frowned: “If my second sister doesn’t agree, won’t she be resented again?”
After a pause, Lu Qiaoling sighed and said, "My second sister doesn't work here anymore. You know, these people are so idle. They keep talking about how Director Lu is, and then this and that, even bringing up disputes they resolved in the past, and they talk about them with great relish."
Meng Xia blinked and sighed, but then said to Lu Qiaoling with a smug look, "Alas, people are afraid of becoming famous, just like pigs are afraid of getting fat."
Meng Xia wasn't worried about this at all; let them say what they want. No matter what they said, no one could stop her second daughter from moving forward.
So what they're saying is bullshit.
What kind of marriage-breaking expert?
That's bullshit too!
Lu Qiaoge and Qin Hengzhi checked into the guesthouse of Xuefeng Forest Farm.
Lu Qiaoge knew that Director Zhou of Xuefeng Forest Farm had a good relationship with Qin Hengzhi.
When I arrived, I realized how good the relationship was, because they had called ahead of time. The hospitality was impeccable.
Because it's winter now, to be honest, for northerners, there's not much to do in winter. Everywhere is covered in ice and snow. The only things that come to mind are ice skating and skiing, but actually, very few people do ice skating or skiing at this time of year. There's no professional equipment. At most, parents will pour buckets of water on the slopes to freeze it into ice for their kids—that's called "making ice sleds" here. So when Director Zhou of Xuefeng Forest Farm saw Qin Hengzhi, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Bringing Xiao Lu here to play in this cold weather, all you see is ice and snow. We're northerners, haven't we been seeing ice and snow since we were kids?"
Qin Hengzhi said, "Aren't you about to start your first winter fishing season?"
Factory Director Zhou smiled and said, "Oh, so that's what you've been eyeing."
Finally, she looked at Lu Qiaoge and said, "You've come at just the right time. Tomorrow our forest farm will be doing its first fishing season, so dress warmly. We'll be having a whole fish feast for you then."
The guesthouse was a single-story building without heating, but it had a heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) and a heated wall. Since it was a forest farm, firewood could be burned freely. When the two of them entered the room, it was so hot that they had to take off their down jackets.
The mat and quilt on the kang (a heated brick bed) were new, and the frost-covered glass windows were decorated with paper-cut window decorations that looked like they had just been made.
The aroma of chicken stew with mushrooms wafted from next door, and Director Zhou called Qin Hengzhi to come with him to roast a whole lamb.
It's so quiet here. The only sounds are the wind rustling through the treetops and the soft patter of snow falling from the trees.
There were no people coming and going, no grudges or entanglements; it seemed as if the world was so uneventful that only the slowly flowing time remained.
Well, to sum it up in two words: comfortable.
Because the phone lines here are not working properly, you can't make calls if anything happens. This is even without a blizzard in the past few days. If there were a blizzard, Qin Hengzhi's jeep wouldn't be able to get in at all.
So, with no phone calls and no one to call, and being far from the city center, everything truly quieted down.
The whole roasted lamb was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, golden brown and emitting a mouthwatering aroma. Old Zhou brought over a box of canned yellow peaches and some frozen pears, saying they were for cooling down the house because it was hot.
A big pot of chicken stew with mushrooms, dried potatoes, multigrain porridge made by the guesthouse chef, flatbread, and roasted whole lamb—even Lu Qiaoge felt she was having a delicious meal.
Before dawn the next day, Director Zhou knocked on the door, his voice booming: "Get up, get up! Time to open the first net!"
Once on the river, the scene was truly spectacular.
Dozens of people chanted as they pulled the large net inch by inch from the ice hole. Silver scales flew as they threw both big and small fish directly onto the ice, where they quickly froze solid.
Lu Qiaoge found it fascinating and took out her prepared camera, snapping away non-stop. Qin Hengzhi, worried that she would get cold, wrapped her up tightly in his military overcoat, while he himself wore only a military green cotton-padded jacket, smiling as he helped the fishermen carry the fish.
The whole fish feast at noon was naturally incredibly lavish.
The bighead carp stewed in the iron pot was bubbling away, the fish meat so tender that it fell off the bone with a touch; the fried crucian carp was so crispy that even the bones could be chewed up; the best thing was the fish shavings, raw fish slices mixed with shredded scallions and ginger, and drizzled with rice vinegar brewed by the forest farm. Lu Qiaoge took a bite and her eyes lit up: "Delicious, it's really too delicious."
Old Zhou brought over some frozen pears, saying with a smile, "The kang (heated brick bed) in the house is burning brightly; eating these will help cool you down."
Lu Qiaoge bit into the frozen pear, the cool juice mixed with the sweet flesh was delightful, and paired with the hot fish, it made her feel warm all over.
Qin Hengzhi glanced down at his wife, whose eyes were full of smiles, then looked up at the frozen river outside the window. It seemed that this was how life should be.
(End of this chapter)