The 70-Year Family Lets You Take Charge (Female Dominant)

Chapter 18

Ning Xiangxiang secretly tracked them several times and found that during the New Year period, Ningning and Su Fei basically stayed at home without any outsiders visiting. They didn’t go out to work or earn any extra money.

He was very puzzled about where Su Fei’s money came from. After all, back then, Su Fei used to adore Ning Xiangxiang. She was a poor person, and all her money came from Ningning.

Now, even as a teacher, with her meager salary, she must have to support Ning Ning. According to his understanding, Ningning was a miser who wouldn’t let Su Fei spend money recklessly.

After investigating from various angles, Ning Xiangxiang felt that Su Fei’s money must be related to the postal worker. Every time the postal worker came, Ningning would buy delicious food for Su Fei.

Especially since Ningning was always cheerful now. Before, he used to have a terrifying face all the time, but now he smiled whenever he saw others. Now, the villagers’ opinions of him were getting better and better.

Ning Xiangxiang felt that Ningning used to worry about making ends meet all the time, never smiling. As he grew older and took on more work, he no longer worried about having enough to eat. But his habit of hoarding things remained.

Ning Xiangxiang, jealous and peeping at Ningning, saw him hoarding a lot of food at home, especially now in midwinter when things didn’t spoil easily. There was a lot of delicious meat that he had never eaten before, and now Ningning was eating it. He felt very angry.

Ningning and Su Fei went to the market once. During these New Year days, if they didn’t buy things with this money, there wouldn’t be any markets until after the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, until the Lantern Festival.

Ningning always felt like someone was spying on him, but he couldn’t find out who it was. It felt like someone’s gaze was burning into his back.

Unable to resist, Ningning turned around fiercely. He didn’t see anyone, but he startled Su Fei who was beside him.

Su Fei looked at Ningning’s turned back thoughtfully, feeling nervous. Ningning seemed to have discovered that she was keeping some private money. His gaze seemed like he wanted to kill someone.

Swallowing nervously, Su Fei asked uneasily, “What’s wrong? Ningning, what are you looking at?”

Ningning turned back, not seeing anything, and rubbed his chin, thinking aloud, “I feel like someone has been secretly watching me, their gaze almost burning into me, but I don’t know who it is?”

Su Fei had been here for almost half a year and knew the local aesthetics. People here liked effeminate men like Ning Xiangxiang. So she felt she was average-looking, just an ordinary woman. Now she could marry someone like Ningning, a masculine man. It felt like a blessing from heaven.

But now, discovering that someone had been spying on Ningning, could it be someone who liked Ningning, this kind of masculine man? No way! This was the territory she had worked so hard to establish, and no one could take it away.

With a fair face, Su Fei said seriously, “Who is it? Who has eyes on you?” Inside, she kept imagining scenarios, someone had discovered Ningning’s good qualities and wanted to snatch him away from her.

Ningning looked at Su Fei, feeling a bit guilty but also a bit proud. He said, “You’ll find out soon enough. Since your accident, your taste seems to have changed. You used to like delicate people like Ning Xiangxiang, but now you seem to like ugly men like me.”

Ningning felt both proud and surprised, enjoying this feeling. But he laughed and scolded, “Do you think everyone has bad taste like you? It’s just you who likes me.”

Hearing that it wasn’t about her, Su Fei felt relieved and quickly grabbed Ningning’s hand to continue shopping. Because now these homemade festival foods, in the era Su Fei used to live in, most of these things seemed to have disappeared.

“Come here, two pounds of fried dough twists, and this one and that one…” Su Fei looked like she had gone mad while shopping, wanting to buy everything she saw, especially since they were delicious and cheap.

Ningning thought it wouldn’t cost much anyway, and since this money was earned by Su Fei herself, of course, he had to spend it on her. So on the street, people basically watched as Su Fei, a grown woman, didn’t carry any money and let a man pay for things.

Other women looked at Su Fei with disdain, feeling embarrassed for themselves as grown women. So they whispered to each other loudly, “A woman asking a man for money, it’s so embarrassing!”

“Yeah, a woman at home should be decisive. Why do you need to do anything for a man? Spend whatever you want, buy whatever you need. That’s the demeanor of us women.” These envious and jealous women looked at Ningning, surprised at how much money Su Fei had.

They only knew Su Fei was a woman who lived off men. To them, such women were despicable. They decided to despise and look down on her.

At the Dadong Commune, a group of people came to the market. Most of them were men who had been through a lot and were eloquent. They knew what kind of woman Su Fei was. They especially envied Ningning.

If Su Fei wasn’t a woman who married into the family, they would definitely have wanted their sons to serve Ningning or be her concubine. She was so gentle and never argued with Ningning, although part of the reason was Ningning’s strong physical strength.

These local men couldn’t stand it anymore and said to these hooligans, “She’s a teacher who gets paid monthly, not like you all who do nothing all day.”

These young women didn’t argue with these old men and quickly retreated. Ningning was especially grateful to these people for buying the snacks he bought with him and giving them to everyone. Nowadays, people were practical and knew that nobody’s family was particularly well-off, so they wouldn’t take too much.

After sending these people away, Ningning continued to shop with Su Fei. But he couldn’t help but ask Su Fei curiously, “Are you not angry about what they said about you?”

Su Fei waved her hand indifferently, “Why should I be angry? What they said was the truth. I married into your family, married you. That’s the fact, so I’m not angry.”

Ningning didn’t expect Su Fei to be so shameless, publicly announcing the fact that she married into the family. Well, since he had just given away her snacks, he decided to go buy Su Fei another big bag of snacks as a reward for her eloquence.

Although Ningning and Su Fei didn’t hold hands, the atmosphere between them was explosive. The sour and sweet smell made the single dogs who saw them very angry. They couldn’t help but want to separate them, feeling that it was too torturous.

Everyone looked at them and finally understood an ancient saying: lovers see each other through rose-colored glasses. And it couldn’t be denied that in Su Fei’s eyes, Ningning was her rose-colored glasses.

Since Ningning found out that Su Fei’s articles were earning more money, he began to subtly reveal that they had money in the village. After all, Su Fei had become a teacher with a stable salary. If they continued to act like before, people would say they were especially stingy and reluctant to spend money.

And because Su Fei’s job was arranged by the village head, they also planned to give the village head some gifts to express their gratitude during the New Year.

Since they were giving gifts to the village head, they couldn’t be too cheap. This was a matter of mutual courtesy. Unless everything was handed over to Ningning, but Su Fei needed to personally deliver these gifts.

Because of Su Fei’s articles, the response from the newspaper was very good. Not only did they receive love from the people, but they also received praise from above. So during the New Year, the newspaper sent some New Year goods to Su Fei, expressing that they were a loving family.

Sitting at home, Su Fei was happy with the unexpected gains, but some of the New Year goods were missing. This was strange, wasn’t it?