How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 359 - 361: Better Like Mom_1

After returning home.

Old Mrs. Qin was the first to greet her warmly and said, "If you hadn’t come home, I would have gone to find you myself." Every time she talked about finding her daughter-in-law, her grandson would stop her: Qiaoqiao is preparing for her postgraduate studies, she’s very busy, do you want to go and disturb her?

Hearing this, she felt somewhat discouraged.

And with the freezing cold, if she rashly went to look for her daughter-in-law, what if the daughter-in-law slipped and fell while coming out to see her?

As you get older,

you start to worry over nothing, the more you think about it, the more you become afraid.

Today, she just couldn’t hold back and ordered the brat to bring the person back by all means.

Li Qiao smiled: "I had originally planned to come back and stay for a couple of days during the holiday."

"Stay for two days? You don’t come back to stay even during winter vacation?" Old Mrs. Qin felt an emptiness in her heart. Winter vacation is after the Laba Festival, right? After Laba comes New Year, what’s the point of the New Year if the daughter-in-law doesn’t come back?

Li Qiao: "Hmm, I plan to stay on campus to study."

Old Mrs. Qin expressed her concern: "Can your body handle it?"

Li Qiao nodded slightly: "I feel just like I’m not pregnant." So far, she hadn’t experienced morning sickness even once, and her belly wasn’t showing.

She even doubted whether she was pregnant and had Nan Chuyi take her pulse several times, and the result was always the same, she was indeed pregnant, and the fetus was like a bull’s horn, both hard and stable, very healthy. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

"When your mother-in-law was pregnant with Jin, she was vomiting in the morning and evening, tormented for several months, Jin was not easy at all. Yours is good, definitely a girl, sweet and considerate," Old Mrs. Qin said.

Li Qiao laughed: "I like both boys and girls."

Old Mrs. Qin smiled with her eyes: "So do I."

Qin Jin took the opportunity to mention the name for a girl.

Old Mrs. Qin repeated it twice: "Yaotiao, Yaotiao, this name is good, it sounds like a great beauty. Hopefully, she looks like her mother, fair and beautiful; if she looks like her dad, it’s over, being tall and big, she’ll struggle to find a partner later."

Li Qiao pursed her lips and laughed; her grandmother’s way of teasing was the same as ever.

Qin Jin was not pleased; for a girl, being tall and big was too convenient when looking for a partner, pick whoever you fancy, and carry them home like a small chicken.

"......"

......

In the afternoon, Old Mrs. Qin went out, and Qin Jin also left home.

Li Qiao locked the door and planned to have a chat with Nan Chuyi, but learned from Sir Xue that Nan Chuyi had gone back to his hometown with Professor Xue early in the morning for his parents’ death anniversary.

"In our complex, there’s also a college student who took the postgraduate entrance exam, he said he had finished and was accepted. How did you do?"

Li Qiao: "Finished? He’s not from our school, is he? Our exam is scheduled for next Wednesday." She had previously imagined having to register uniformly, followed by written tests, and then interviews. Later she found out that just an interview would do.

After publishing two papers in her field, Professor Dai had already told her privately that there was no need to spend too much time preparing for the exam; it was just a formality.

So, she was as good as admitted.

What she needed to do now was to ensure that no one discovered her pregnancy.

"Are you confident?" Sir Xue asked.

Li Qiao confidently said, "I am confident!"

"I hear from your Professor Xue that you’ve published several papers, Sufen hasn’t written one in two years."

"It’s clearly one and a half years!" Xue Sufen came down from upstairs and emphasized.

"You’ve got some nerve," Sir Xue scoffed with contempt. "Your little auntie, even if she didn’t have a formal education, managed to pass her certifications. Jin, without formal schooling, got two accounting certificates and a driver’s license, and her business is thriving. And here you are, a college student who can’t even study properly. You give me a headache."

Sufen was so angry she almost jumped up. What kind of grandfather says that? "....Well, I’m still more cultured than you."

"I’m uncultured, am I? Then tell me, what character is this?"

Sufen stepped closer and upon seeing the character, started to stammer: "This, this one...

"Qiaoqiao, take a look."

Li Qiao focused and saw: "Cuàn, it’s a surname."

Sir Xue said, "See, the difference is huge between college students. Qiaoqiao’s cultural level is high." He was starting to envy Qin. Though the man had passed, his successors were each more impressive than the last.

What’s scarier is Jin and Qiaoqiao are just a little over twenty years old.

They have plenty of time to grow the family business.

The only hope in his family was for the third child and Jingyi, both still showing promise.

Luckily, they’d each found decent girls.

If they went with the matches Old Mrs. Qin had arranged, the next generation would be totally ruined.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Has Yu Xiu been in touch with you lately? Did she mention anything about Jingyi?"

"Yu Xiu?" Sufen interjected: "Why is that woman still in contact with my brother? Li Qiao, you need to have a word with your Yu Xiu. Our family conditions are not something she can aspire to. I’m against this marriage!"

Sir Xue replied, "Your opposition is ineffective." He thought for a moment and then said, "Nan Chuyi might have been telling the truth. You’re not really our child. You didn’t resemble your grandma when you were younger—she was slightly more good-looking than you. I’ll have to ask your parents about this, see if there was some mix-up."

Sufen stormed off angrily.

Li Qiao felt a secret thrill of pleasure. To deal with Sufen you have to count on Sir Xue, who knows exactly how to make her vanish from his sight. Now, finally, there was peace. She said, "Yu Xiu is still in touch with Xue because her family’s reputation back home isn’t great. She’s thinking of taking exams to move here, to get away from all the finger-pointing. She even asked me for advice. In the city’s cultural center, if you publish a book, you can work there. Yu Xiu studied humanities in college and said her grades were always in the top five of her class. She’s been published in newspapers and magazines before, but because she doesn’t bribe people, she never landed a good job. Now she’s planning to submit her writing."

But Yu Xiu also said, "If I had found a good job, I wouldn’t have met you on the day you returned to your parent’s home."

Without meeting you, I would never have come to understand Hechuan’s character.

Once I get a stable job, I’m planning to get married.

So, everything has two sides, doesn’t it?

"Publishing a book isn’t easy," Sir Xue said. "When necessary, I can pull some strings."

Li Qiao understood. Basically, Sir Xue was suggesting that if Yu Xiu comes to visit, he would mention helping her with job matters. Yet, she felt that Yu Xiu, with her pride, would disdain asking for favors. She still said, "I’ll write and tell her later."

"Good."

"...."

......

Li Qiao chatted with Sir Xue for quite a while before heading home. Just as she got to the door, she saw Qin Jin rushing to the entrance on his bicycle, almost colliding with her.

"What’s got you in such a flurry? Where have you been?" Qin Jin chided, while also secretly relieved. He had feared she had run off back to school again.

"At the Xue Family’s place."

"Riding on snowy roads, aren’t you afraid of slipping? What if you got injured?"

Li Qiao raised an eyebrow slightly: "Seems like I’m the one more concerned about the baby."

"I’m just as concerned," Qin Jin weakly retorted. The child was partly his, after all. If men could carry babies, he would have wished to be the one pregnant. "Oh right, a letter arrived at the house today. It’s from Han Zhiqing."