Yang Dazhi stood there, dumbfounded.
Chiang Songhai and Ge Liutao were quite embarrassed, but they didn’t speak.
Ge Dejun couldn’t hold back and sputtered, then coughed so hard that he choked himself. Liu Pei, carrying a basket into the kitchen, almost tripped.
Ge Xiaotong and Xu Linjiang exchanged looks and snickered secretly.
Little was becoming increasingly fierce. It had to be said that she had influenced them too, making them stand straighter and straighter.
Xu Linjiang especially felt that the household needed Chiang Xiao. Otherwise, who would shed a tear for you when you’re suppressed to death?
When Yang Dazhi left, he was bewildered, even forgetting that the reason he had come up with for his visit was to buy some candy for his mother-in-law.
It wasn’t just Ho Laidi waiting for his candy, Chiang Qingshui was too.
In her twenties, Chiang Qingshui had a tall figure, much like Ho Laidi in her youth and was quite nice, but unfortunately, she also inherited Ho Laidi’s looks. Although she did have a bit of the Chiang Family’s genes and looked okay, she ultimately didn’t have the beauty of the Chiang Family’s women.
From a young age, she had been compared with Chiang Qingzhu.
The more beautiful Chiang Qingzhu was, the more ordinary it made her seem.
The whiter Chiang Qingzhu was, the more rustic she seemed.
The more spirited Chiang Qingzhu was, the clumsier it made her seem.
And the more Chiang Songhai and Ge Liutao doted on Chiang Qingzhu, the more miserably it made her life seem.
In fact, when she was still a girl at home, Ho Laidi and Chiang Songtao were as good to her as possible. But in that era, men worked the fields, earning work points, doing physical labor, so keeping her at home to do the housework was already the easier task.
Yet Chiang Qingshui still felt mistreated because Chiang Qingzhu didn’t have to do anything at home.
Chiang Qingzhu’s hands had never developed a single cocoon, literally not touching a single drop of spring water. Her hands, on the other hand, would crack, turn red, and fester every winter.
Thus, after marrying, Chiang Qingshui made Yang Dazhi wait on her hand and foot. The Dazhi family was poor, but originally, he thought she was strong, healthy, good at household chores, and quite pretty, so he really liked her and was willing to pamper her. Over the years, he had indulged Chiang Qingshui, making her more and more proudly self-satisfied.
This time, when the Chiang Family sought her help, needing her and Yang Dazhi to come over and lend a hand, Chiang Qingshui felt a strange sense of pride in her heart.
Feeling that the Chiang Family still needed her, she thought, "See, aren’t I the useful daughter?"
So, she couldn’t help adopting a savior mentality. She came over thinking she could solve big problems for the Old Chiang Family with her abilities, and then Chiang Songtao and Ho Laidi would realize she was more useful than her two brothers!
With this mindset, when Ho Laidi complained to her and cursed the ungrateful Second Chiang and the increasingly rebellious and difficult Chiang Xiao, Chiang Qingshui immediately declared, "What’s the big deal? Given the temper of my second uncle and aunt, I’ll talk to them. They wouldn’t dare not pay the medical fees and compensation. If they dare not pay, I’ll never let it go! You’re afraid of that girl Chiang Xiao? Don’t make me laugh, mom, she wouldn’t dare cause trouble under my watch."
Upon hearing this, Yang Dazhi immediately found an excuse and left.
But now, as he returned to the hospital room empty-handed, Ho Laidi and Chiang Qingshui’s faces immediately darkened.
"Dazhi, where’s the candy you bought?" Chiang Qingshui asked sharply with a cold face.
Yang Dazhi cursed inwardly, realizing he had completely forgotten!
It was really because Chiang Xiao’s words had shocked him so much that he had been dazed ever since he left Osmanthus Alley, completely forgetting that Chiang Xiao had become so formidable!