Chapter 348: Chapter 348: Whose Child Is She Carrying?

Before Jiang Baohua could say the names of the two people, the members had already shouted spontaneously, “Little Wu and Xu Qinghuan!”

That’s still having some conscience!

Jiang Baohua was very pleased.

“Alright, that’s it. Come and get your money!”

Xu Qinghuan and Jiang Xingye had already received their dividends. The dividends being distributed today were mostly investments from the production team, distributed according to the work points each household earned this year.

The factory’s production time is still short. The most one family has is over ninety yuan, and the least is over twenty-three yuan. The educated youths also received money, which felt like an unexpected windfall.

Plus, every household has laborers earning wages. Some had been working for two or three months, amounting to several dozen yuan.

Moreover, the production team had a plentiful harvest this year, and families with more laborers received a few hundred yuan at the end of the year.

There’s a market over at the Twenty-Ninth Commune, organized spontaneously by the members, a regular event each year where households bring things to sell. Even in a bad year like this, people are selling bean bags.

Originally thought it wouldn’t sell, but once people from the Shangjiang Team came, they swept the market clean like bandits entering a village.

“Oh, we’re too busy this year, no time to make sticky bean bags!”

“These frozen pears are nice, let’s buy some to take back! It’s cheap, only a little over a hundred, let’s take them.”

“Let’s buy some snacks to take back, good for eating or cooking.”

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Early in the morning, Xu Qinghuan was also brought over by Jiang Xingye, riding on Uncle Gensheng’s horse sleigh.

The Jiang Family made quite a few sticky bean bags this year, bringing plenty for Xu Qinghuan, and everyone finished them in no time. She quite liked eating them and bought fifty or sixty herself.

There were also frozen pears. Previously, Luo Jinhao brought a basketful from somewhere, almost finished, so he bought another basketful.

Jiang Xingye went out late at night a few days ago and brought back two baskets of goods, including lamb and beef, frozen in chunks. However, with so many people, two meals took care of them.

Some were selling at the market, a bit pricey, but given the rare opportunity, the two of them bought as much as they could.

At noon, the two of them ate in a state-run restaurant, each ordering a bowl of hot lamb offal noodle soup, eating warmly.

Their purchases were placed on the sleigh, with Uncle Gensheng helping to transport them back.

The team from Shangjiang Team was particularly large, with hardly any sellers and mostly buyers. On the way there, they discussed how much income their families had made. On the way back, they discussed what each had bought.

“Xingmei, look who’s that, and who’s with them?”

Jiang Xianglan pulled Jiang Xingmei aside, her voice too loud due to shock, causing the bustling members to quiet down. In the distance, two people were pulling and tugging at each other.

Isn’t that Zhao Jianjun and Liu Dongmei?

Zhou Guizhi was infuriated and was about to charge over, but Jiang Xingmei held her back, her eyes immediately turning red, “I’ve long heard that Brother Jianjun and Educated Youth Liu are of one mind. Mom, now everyone’s advocating for free love. Why don’t you let me fulfill them!”

Hearing her daughter say this, Zhou Guizhi understood what she meant, suddenly slapped her thigh, and played along with her, “Oh, what sin has my old Jiang Family committed to have such unlucky marriages for our children!

Is my old Jiang Family’s daughter so eager to marry into the Zhao Family? Is there such bullying?”

The plot seems to be going a bit awry!

Xu Qinghuan was also a bit confused, but when she thought about it, things in the Shangjiang Team and Jiang Family were different from what’s in the books now. Although educated youths were from the city, who knows when they could return to the city.

Zhao Jianjun loved Liu Dongmei, but the Zhao Family wasn’t foolish and would surely force him to fulfill his marriage contract.

Indeed, Liu Dongmei couldn’t hold her patience when Zhao Jianjun hadn’t backed out of his engagement with Jiang Xingmei, but her hopes of returning to the city were dim, and her fiancé had an affair. If she didn’t find someone to marry soon, she’d become a spinster.

At first, she played hard to get, enticing Zhao Jianjun.

Zhao Jianjun was quite taken by this.

Later on, with no alternatives, she did everything possible and impossible with Zhao Jianjun.

Zhao Jianjun didn’t even tell his family, showing he was hesitating.

Liu Dongmei was scared, so she had to expose this in front of everyone, forcing Zhao Jianjun to marry her.

Today, members from several production teams came to the market, and she deliberately made a scene for everyone to see. If Zhao Jianjun didn’t cooperate, she had other means.

As long as the Jiang Family and Zhao Family called off the engagement, Zhao Jianjun would have to marry her.

Zhao Jianjun’s parents saw this too, getting enraged. Zhao Shusheng glanced at his wife, Xie Cuixi.

Xie Cuixi had already noticed Zhou Guizhi’s reaction, giving her a jolt. The reason she didn’t want to call off the engagement with the Jiang Family had another layer of consideration.

Jiang Xingye’s wife had connections in the military, and her family were relatives with the Minister of the Armed Forces.

Zhao Jianjun’s brother was in the military, wanting a promotion—doesn’t he need to figure out a way?

Passing up obvious benefits for something useless that adds no value, demands to be kept, why bother?

Xie Cuixi rushed up and pushed Liu Dongmei away.

As a result, Liu Dongmei fell to the ground, clutching her belly and wailing.

Zhao Jianjun thought of something, his face turned pale.

Xu Qinghuan stepped forward, squeezed Liu Dongmei’s wrist, felt her pulse for a while, and said, “Congratulations, you’re pregnant!”

This was exactly the effect Liu Dongmei wanted, but she acted shocked at the time, covering her face crying, “You just go, this child has nothing to do with you. I didn’t want this either. I knew you had an engagement. It’s my fault for not being able to harden my heart and reject you!”

Xie Cuixi was shaking with anger.

At this moment, Zhou Guizhi rushed over, but Jiang Xingmei didn’t hold her back this time.

But she stood in front of the three, just panting like a cow, face flushed, yet said nothing.

By saying nothing, she could actually evoke others’ sympathy.

Jiang Xingye came over and punched Zhao Jianjun, “You damn jerk, are you bullying people too much, if you want to marry an educated youth, first come to our house to break off the engagement. Do you think Xingmei refuses to marry anyone else? You lowlife, two-faced coward, who are you bullying?”

Zhao Shusheng hurried over, pulling Jiang Xingye, “Xingye, don’t get mad. There’s nothing like that with Jianjun and the educated youth, it’s all misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding!”

Liu Dongmei seemed struck by lightning, looking at Zhao Jianjun incredulously.

She hoped Zhao Jianjun would say a few words.

But Zhao Jianjun turned his head and looked at Jiang Xingmei, seeing her beautiful hair and face, her stylish coat and pants, and the new-fashioned boots on her feet. He said nothing.

Jiang Xingye was furious yet amused, pointing at Liu Dongmei and said, “Then whose child is she carrying?”

Zhao Shusheng laughed, “That we don’t know, but it definitely isn’t Jianjun’s. Who doesn’t know that Jianjun and Xingmei are engaged? Jianjun also has a job. With all the talk about Jianjun here and there, we are used to it.”

Liu Dongmei began to cry aloud.

Xu Qinghuan stood up, when she checked the pulse earlier, she noticed Liu Dongmei wasn’t showing signs of miscarriage, nor did she care about her lying in the snow but instead wiped her hands and said,

“There’s no smoke without fire. Three months ago, we already knew Zhao Jianjun and Educated Youth Liu were quite close.

We’ve been waiting for you to give us an explanation. Now that things have reached this point, do you still want to deceive us like fools?”

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