Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 790 - 0790: Reap What You Sow5_1

Chapter 790: Chapter 0790: Reap What You Sow5_1

For ordinary people, owning a domestic watch was a great achievement. Among them, the Shanghai brand was the most renowned, costing seventy to eighty yuan apiece. Only seamen and military personnel, who had high salaries and low expenses, would purchase imported watches under permissible conditions. Yet no one possessed seven watches like Chen Ju!

Seven watches!

Five imported and two domestic. The former were purchased with money, no coupons needed, while the latter required both money and coupons.

Upon seeing the watches that Hu Zehong had fished out, Qi Gang was shocked, "Chen Ju, where did you get all these watches?"

He had never opened Chen Ju’s suitcase, nor did he know that besides the Rolex women’s watch he had bought for her when they got married, Chen Ju had six other watches, almost all of which were brand new.

"I bought them myself, with your salary!" Chen Ju retorted loudly.

Her voice was loud, but everyone present could sense her lack of confidence.

Buying watches with Qi Gang’s salary wasn’t strange. When Qi Gang married Chen Ju, he was already earning over two hundred yuan each month, and with the twenty-five percent allowance increasing now to thirty, the total sum exceeded 300, which in a year added up to three to four thousand yuan; indeed enough for Chen Ju to buy several imported watches.

However, the senior officers present knew one thing: Qi Gang had been sending living expenses to his ex-wife every month since the founding of the nation.

In the beginning, Qi Gang only gave thirty yuan to his first wife. But six or seven years ago, didn’t Chen Ju replace his revolutionary partner Li He? Therefore, Qi Gang has been paying monthly expenses to two ex-wives for the past six or seven years. Thirty yuan each, plus an extra twenty yuan for nutrition, means a hundred yuan is deducted from his salary each month.

With only over two hundred yuan left each month, which added up to two or three thousand yuan in a year, Chen Ju could afford to buy watches. But they had living expenses, didn’t they? Looking at Chen Ju’s clothes and shoes, and then at Qi Xiang’s appearance, their expenditures were not small.

Of course, no matter how much they spent, Qi Gang’s salary was enough to buy these watches, especially considering Chen Ju had been married for six or seven years.

If they were purchased with their salaries, why would Chen Ju feel guilty?

Observing the mixture of shock and anger on Qi Gang’s face, the commander Lu spoke, "Qi Gang, we received a report accusing the two of you of corruption, bribery, extravagant waste and so forth. You need to cooperate with our investigation."

Before Qi Gang could respond, Chen Ju blurted out, "Wasn’t the report about Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue? How could it be about us?"

Qi Gang instantly closed his eyes, his hands, placed on the sides of his thighs, clenched into fists, trembling nonstop.

After hearing Chen Ju’s words, everyone in the room widened their eyes.

"Chen Ju, why do you say that Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue are the ones reported?" Ding Aihong asked aloud. From the moment they arrived at the troop station until now, no one had mentioned receiving a report, let alone its content.

Chen Ju was at a loss and couldn’t answer.

Seeing his mother being bullied, Qi Xiang shouted and grabbed a wooden gun from the bed, pointing at Ding Aihong, "Bully, big bully, don’t you dare bully my mom! I’ll kill you!"

He even wanted to jab Ding Aihong with the gun, but was grabbed back by Qi Gang who had opened his eyes. He apologized to Ding Aihong repeatedly.

Whether an adult or a child, neither can stand comparison.

Having experienced the cleanliness of the Lu family’s home, the appropriate behavior of Feng Qingxue, the lively manners of Xibao, and then looking at the situation in the Qi Family, the actions of Chen Ju and Qi Xiang, everyone from the capital naturally leaned towards the former.|