Chapter 139: Chapter 139: She Won’t Want You Anymore!

Early the next morning, Qiao Xinyu and Yu Xiaomin dressed up Xu Qinghuan. She put on a red ankle-length dress taken from her stash, a once high-end custom design from House D, with a rich drape that exuded elegance and sophistication.

The dress was made from traditional Hua Country fabric, so it wouldn’t raise suspicions.

Her hair was loosely braided into two centipede braids, adorned with small crystal stars from top to bottom, down to the ends, accentuating her frosty yet radiant face, both graceful and striking.

Jiang Xingye was dumbstruck, like a dazed goose, unable to snap out of it for a while, causing those watching the scene to burst into laughter.

Xu Qinghuan playfully glared at him, as he clumsily moved forward, just about to hold Xu Qinghuan’s hand when Zhou Guizhi couldn’t watch anymore and smacked him awake with a slap, “Go get to work already!”

A burst of laughter erupted.

Jiang Xingye, both delighted and embarrassed, turned beet red from his ears to his neck, and hurried away, yet couldn’t suppress the high uplift at the corners of his mouth.

“Brother Ye, do you need our help?” Hu Hai glanced over at Xu Qinghuan, who looked like a goddess, but he was self-aware, knowing someone like her wouldn’t think highly of him.

Indeed, to him, Xu Qinghuan was probably avoiding work by getting engaged to Brother Ye, and once she had the chance to return to the city, she would dump Brother Ye.

In other words, even Xu Qinghuan didn’t think much of Brother Ye.

Still, marrying a female intellectual was something to be proud of, especially for someone like him, whom no local would want to marry their daughters to. He had no choice but to take an unconventional path to get a wife.

“Skin the deer over there and slaughter the boar!” Jiang Xingye pointed to the game brought back early in the morning.

The end of the year is when pork is usually harvested, but since he was getting engaged today, he couldn’t just serve vegetables, so Jiang Xingye went to the mountain yesterday to set traps to catch some wild game.

A pack of wolves had driven two deer and a young boar into the trap, and he retrieved them early that morning.

There were also three wild chickens and two wild rabbits, enough to prepare a couple of dishes mixed with vegetables.

Seeing so much meat made the production team feel like it was the New Year.

In such situations, close family members would come for the feast. Even those from the same production team but of different surnames or beyond the fifth familial relationship would send someone to offer congratulations.

Gifts would typically be given, though in these poor times, even a pound of sugar was a precious gift, with many bringing just a couple of eggs.

Luo Jinhao also came, partly to celebrate and partly to bring money for Jiang Xingye. The wild boar weighed a total of 1,120 pounds gross, with a net weight of over 840 pounds. More than half was sent to the county factory, and part was sold on the black market, all averaging about one yuan and two mao per pound.

A total of 1,100 yuan was sold. As per the old rule, Jiang Xingye took 700 yuan, each person got 100 yuan.

The supply and sales channels belonged to Jiang Xingye, and what they got was money for hard work.

Each of the intellectual youths got two mao, which was handed over to Chen Dewen to give to Xu Qinghuan.

Luo Jinhao secretly handed a large wad of notes to Jiang Xingye, who didn’t count it and just put it in his pocket.

Jiang Chengxu was extremely unwilling, not because he couldn’t bear the two mao, but because Xu Qinghuan was originally his fiancée.

Chen Dewen chuckled coldly, “Jiang Intellectual, if you can’t bear the two mao, you don’t have to go.”

For someone like Jiang Chengxu, not going would be better.

“Chen Intellectual, how can you say such things? Could it be that Brother Chengxu can’t bear two mao? Do you think my sister marrying a country bumpkin is a good thing? Brother Chengxu just doesn’t want to see my sister go astray.”

Xu Manman’s eyes turned red, making Chen Dewen even more nauseated. This woman was really oblivious, bursting into tears whenever she opened her mouth, as if someone had wronged her.

“I’ve never seen anyone as abject as you!” Chen Dewen was furious, “If you weren’t clinging to your brother-in-law day and night, would your sister have broken off her engagement with Jiang Intellectual? And Jiang Intellectual, I suggest you really don’t go to the feast, so you don’t make people unhappy to see you.”

The Jiang Family certainly wouldn’t want to see Jiang Chengxu.

Xu Manman immediately started to cry genuinely, “Chen Intellectual, make it clear, when have I ever clung to Brother Chengxu? Did my sister say something to you? I knew it, she’s just trying to smear my name.

If she wants to break off the engagement, she can, but does she have to keep pinning the blame on me and Brother Chengxu? If she wants a good reputation, do we not deserve one too?”

Jiang Chengxu’s expression turned sour, clearly taking in Xu Manman’s words.

Chen Dewen was stunned, “You forget I’m also from Shen City. You may hide the little things between you from others, but I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Anyone can see the ambiguity between you two.

One must admit, Xu Qinghuan made a wise choice to break off the engagement, otherwise, she would’ve been disgusted by you in the future.”

After saying that, Chen Dewen stormed off angrily.

Jiang Chengxu stood there, recalling the words Xu Qinghuan said to him in the previous life, “Jiang Chengxu, you disgust me so much, I’ve never felt so sick in my life. If you want to be with Xu Manman, why not just ask for a divorce? Why do you have to be so disgusting?”

He begged Xu Qinghuan not to leave him. Xu Qinghuan found his mother and said if they didn’t get a divorce, she would hand over evidence of Jiang Chengxu’s affair to the organization.

Later, although the movement ended, society’s tolerance for infidelity was still low, especially for public officials.

He dared not gamble with his future, so he had no choice but to divorce Xu Qinghuan.

The word “disgust” became a burden he couldn’t bear.

Seeing the change in his expression, Xu Manman felt incredibly anxious, stepping forward to support his arm, “Brother Chengxu!”

Jiang Chengxu suddenly brushed her arm away, sternly saying, “Don’t touch me!”

If it weren’t for Xu Manman, Qinghuan wouldn’t have left him, yet when he saw Xu Manman’s hurt expression, he couldn’t help but recall the passionate times he had with Xu Manman in the previous life.

The memories were vivid and unforgettable.

While the memories with Xu Qinghuan were only filled with coldness and quarrels, Xu Qinghuan couldn’t have children and didn’t want to have conjugal relations with him.

Their worst fight was when Xu Qinghuan said, “What do you take me for? Your mom thinks I’m a barren hen, in your eyes, am I just a nanny, a childbearing tool, a puppet endlessly circling the stove?”

At the time, Jiang Chengxu thought she was being unreasonable. Isn’t a woman’s existence meant to be this way?

Even though Xu Qinghuan couldn’t have children, she believed she was justified.

All the women in the world work hard to earn money, take good care of their husbands and children, honor their parents-in-law, and treat their brothers-in-law kindly, don’t they?

In the early years of their marriage, Xu Qinghuan was indeed very virtuous, diligently working at home without complaint. It was unclear when she began to change.

If she hadn’t changed, Jiang Chengxu wouldn’t have gotten involved with Xu Manman.

Frankly speaking, it was Xu Qinghuan’s fault.

Being the woman with whom he had intimate relations in a past life, Jiang Chengxu could guarantee he wouldn’t repeat common mistakes men make, but he couldn’t ignore Xu Manman either.

This is why he and Xu Manman were so close.

But there was no inappropriate intimacy between him and Xu Manman.

Even if there was physical contact, could it not be seen as normal between a brother-in-law and sister-in-law?

Xu Qinghuan was just too headstrong, too petty.

Jiang Chengxu sighed. That’s just her personality; he couldn’t expect Xu Qinghuan to change just because he was reborn.

His expression finally softened as he spoke to the heartbroken Xu Manman, “You… better stay away from me, I don’t want to hurt you!”

Xu Manman instantly felt encouraged, “Brother Chengxu, my sister is already engaged to someone else, and she seems quite fine with that loser. What if she never looks back?”

She’s never going to want you again!

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