How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 38 - Computing_1
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“There is a way, just a bit immoral,” Li Qiao said.
Old Mrs.
Qin was intrigued, “Let’s hear it.”
Li Qiao: “The Peng Family has a dog, right?
It not only often scares people but also loves to chase the production team’s chickens.
Tomorrow just so happens to be my turn to feed them.
I’ll kill one and throw it near the Peng Family’s dog kennel.
If they admit it, that’s fine, but if they deny it, not only will they have to compensate the production team for the chicken, but they will also be criticized in a village-wide broadcast.
Plus, they can say goodbye to the year-end labor model family reward.
That’s the first step…”
Li Qiao rambled on with his calculations.
Old Mrs.
Qin shivered.
Usually, her gentle and compliant daughter-in-law could be so vicious that even Loser Qin couldn’t match her.
“This…
just afraid that plans can’t keep up with changes.”
“Adapt as necessary.
Tomorrow, you do this…” Li Qiao laid out the tasks Old Mrs.
Qin needed to do.
Old Mrs.
Qin nodded repeatedly.
No sooner said than done, Li Qiao went according to plan the next day.
She managed to catch one of the pecking chickens, but she couldn’t bring herself to kill it.
She decided to hide the chicken first and picked up the feathers scattered in the chicken coop during the lunch break, sneaking them into the Feng Family’s dog kennel when no one was looking.
Then she pretended one chicken was missing and reported it to the captain.
The captain immediately concluded that it had been stolen and eaten, as it had happened before.
“Could it be?
Who would steal it?”
“Loser Qin has stolen before.”
Li Qiao silently covered her face.
Sometimes she really despised him for stealing chickens and dogs, pinching melons and dates.
If her parents knew their son-in-law was such a person, they’d be furious.
“Let’s search first and see if we can get it back.”
The captain’s words perfectly aligned with Li Qiao’s intentions.
She joined the captain in searching for the chicken, deliberately leading him toward the Peng Family.
With the dog barking, Captain Feng Qingjun remembered something and said, “This dog also often chases cats and chickens.” Then he looked toward the doghouse, and a few scattered feathers caught his attention.
He immediately called out to someone inside the house.
Yu Feng, picking at her teeth, came out and, with a flick of her finger and a forced smile, said, “Oh, it’s Qingjun.
What brings you here?”
Captain Feng Qingjun got straight to the point, “Auntie, one of the production team’s chickens is missing, and your dog often chases chickens.
There just so happens to be feathers in its kennel.
What do you have to say about that?”
Yu Feng took a closer look, and indeed there were.
She hurriedly explained, “The dog was tied up this morning; it was just released.
The missing chicken definitely has nothing to do with it.”
“Who can testify to that?”
“My son and daughter-in-law can testify.”
“Aren’t they in your family?
Wouldn’t they just say what you want?” commented Feng Qingjun with a cold gaze.
“This…” Yu Feng exclaimed, “Next door, Old Mrs.
Qin can vouch for me.”
Feng Qingjun looked toward the tightly locked door, “No one’s there though.”
Old Mrs.
Qin appeared at just the right time, chuckling, “Oh!
What’s all this about?”
Yu Feng briefly explained the situation, “Old Mrs.
Qin, please vouch for me to the captain.”
Old Mrs.
Qin said, “I wasn’t paying attention, I can’t testify to that.”
“Hey, this morning you even asked why the dog was tied up today.”
“You also say ‘this morning.’ After that, I went to Widow Song’s house at the head of the village.
I only just got back, so who knows if you let the dog out in between?
Isn’t it let loose now?
Auntie, it’s not to criticize you, but kids often pass by this road in front of your house.
Tying the dog by the roadside…
if it bites someone’s child, what will you do?” Old Mrs.
Qin criticized, dissatisfied.
Yu Feng’s eyebrows shot up as she stood there, grinding her teeth in anger.
‘Old wretch, kicking someone when they’re down,’ she thought.
“That doesn’t prove it’s my dog that took the chicken.”
Feng Qingjun didn’t waste words, “The evidence is conclusive and yet you still argue.
If you don’t compensate the production team for the chicken, tomorrow I’ll report it to the higher-ups and cancel your labor model family award.”
Yu Feng was dumbfounded.
Labor model family award, at the end of the year, there would be ten pounds of pork as a reward.
Ten pounds of pork.
That would cost five or six yuan to buy.
How much is a chicken worth?
But she was reluctant to offer compensation, stubbornly demanding Feng Qingjun to produce evidence, or else she’d take the matter before the village chief.
At this point, Li Qiao spoke up, “It might not have been eaten by a dog; maybe a person ate it.
The other night, I saw Auntie throwing a bag into the cesspool…” She mentioned what she had seen.
Yu Feng, fuming, pointed at Li Qiao, “The night before last, there were definitely no chickens missing.”
“It’s your family’s turn to feed the chickens tomorrow.
Did you go and count them in advance?
I’ll just check if what you threw away was chicken bones,” said Feng Qingjun.
Yu Feng: “…..”
Carrying a stick, Feng Qingjun headed for the outhouse behind the house, with Yu Feng looking extremely anxious, nearly the whole family trying to stop him.
Feng Qingjun: “If you didn’t steal a chicken, why block me?”
The family looked at each other, not knowing how to explain.
The rabbit from the house next door, the Qin family, had gone missing.
They went looking for it and eventually found it dead in the dog’s kennel.
It wouldn’t be right to give it back to them, would it?
And the rabbit wasn’t one that the Qin family had raised from a young age; Qin Jin had caught it without spending a penny.
They had only raised it for a little while, and keeping a litter of rabbits wasn’t bad.
Yu Feng stammered, “I’ll compensate, alright?
I’ll pay for the chicken.” The rabbit bones had been fished out, and even if there was no evidence that they ate the Qin family’s rabbit, when Qin Jin returned, there was bound to be trouble.
In the end, she’d lose more than just a chicken.
Feng Qingjun: “Why couldn’t you have been this straightforward to begin with?”
Yu Feng: “….How, how much money?”
“A chicken weighs at least three or four pounds, let’s say three pounds at two dimes a pound, give me sixty dimes.”
Yu Feng begrudgingly handed over the money, her heart bleeding.
Sixty dimes.
It’s almost half a day’s work to earn that.
Li Qiao seemed casual as she said, “Auntie, you’re so afraid of Captain Feng finding chicken bones, could it be that what you threw away wasn’t chicken bones but rabbit bones?
We lost a rabbit the day before yesterday, maybe you picked it up and ate it?
Captain Feng, you might still want to take a look.
As the captain of our production brigade, you are known for your fairness and integrity, your high level of political consciousness, and you are strict with yourself and put others first in your work.
You are our team leader, and you treat the villagers as one family.
Now that our family has lost a rabbit, and it is suspected that Mr.
Feng’s family ate it, I request that you help us recover our loss.”
Feng Qingjun, flattered, puffed out his chest, “Of course, rest assured, I will make this right for you.”
Yu Feng: “…” This little wretch!
She loves stirring up trouble!
Old Mrs.
Qin suppressed a laugh.
This kid, who was usually so quiet, turned out to be so eloquent.
It seems studying truly is useful.
Look at the way she flatters people – a whole string of unique compliments.
Feng Qingjun picked up his stick again.
The Feng family was unable to stop him and could only watch helplessly.
He held his nose and searched, stirring around until he found the rabbit’s head and recognized it.
“What do you have to say for yourselves?”
The entire family stammered and hesitated.
In the end, it was Feng Hu who spoke, looking somewhat embarrassed, “We ate the rabbit.
At that time, the dog…” He explained the whole story.
Old Mrs.
Qin and Li Qiao were not interested in listening; they were only concerned about how much compensation the Feng family would offer.
Once again, it was Captain Feng who spoke up, “Before, my wife wanted to buy a rabbit to replenish, and she had offered one and a half dollars, which Old Mrs.
Qin had agreed to.
So, you just give one and a half dollars.”
Yu Feng slammed her bottom to the ground, “Oh, Lord!
Look at this, ah~~ The captain is robbing us, ah~~ We didn’t eat that chicken.”
Feng Qingjun scolded, “Stop making a scene!
A rabbit weighs five or six pounds; in the market, it’s worth at least two dollars. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
I’m not asking for extra.
Besides, you ate a rabbit, and a dog ate a chicken.
They don’t conflict with each other!”
The neighbors gathered around to watch the excitement, quietly criticizing Yu Feng for being unfair.
How many people do the Qin family have?
You have so many in your family, counting children there are over ten of you.
It’s clear you’re bullying them.
