Back To The 80s: Pre Chapter 79: Restless

Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Restless

Watching Cheng Su wrap up the entire lunch rush, Qi Taiguo finally understood how busy she had been. He also realized that when she talked about diverting money to fill in the gaps, she wasn’t lying—it was probably true. After all, the business at the eatery seed to be booming.

After eating lunch at the small restaurant, Qi Taiguo, clutching the pawn ticket and the banknotes Cheng Su had given him, left. As he stepped out of the restaurant, he turned for one last look.

Cheng Su was quickly chopping radishes at the table she called her workbench. Her wrists were agile, her knife skills were impressive—it was as if she were seasoned through and through.

She hadn’t even fully rested before she began feverishly preparing for the next day’s sales. Those radishes—weren’t they ant to be pickled?

No wonder she’d earned the money back so quickly!

Qi Taiguo tightened his grip on the banknotes and strode away with a pursed lip.

But it wasn’t until he arrived at the pawnshop that she had ntioned that he realized: Why was he helping her redeem those two items? When had they ever been that close?

"Hey, are you pawning sothing?" The small window at the pawnshop opened, and the boss stuck out half his head to ask.

Qi Taiguo handed over the pawn ticket: "Here to redeem so items."

Cheng Su had also asked him, and seeing that he indeed had ti today, she had him co to help with the redemption. After all, she was truly busy. If she ca here to redeem the items and then went ho, it would be too late.

"That was quick." The boss took the pawn ticket, looked it over, and muttered, "Wait a mont!"

After paying the money, Qi Taiguo took the two items belonging to Cheng Su back to the military residential compound. By then it was the afternoon. The weather was exceptionally good, and several people had moved stools out into the courtyard to sit, chat, and knit.

"Hey, did you know? Commander Qi’s wife was nowhere to be found these past few days!" A woman in a cloth shirt whispered mysteriously.

"Without you saying it, I also rembered; she hasn’t been seen for several days." Another person chid in.

"Look, for so many days with Commander Qi away on a mission, she’s been missing; no idea what mischief she’s been up to."

"Tsk, tsk, don’t say that, they just got married."

"Who says it’s not possible? I could tell just by her deanor that she’s a restless one. Just look, the mont Commander Qi goes on a mission, she disappears—could she have a lover on the side!"

"Hehe, you would know."

"Commander Qi really is pitiful."

"Cough, cough... shush!"

The chatter ceased, and the group of won looked up to see the man standing behind them, their faces a mix of shock and panic.

Qi Taiguo’s face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he walked past them without expression, but his heart was already churning with shock and outrage.

During the days he hadn’t been ho, had that woman not been ho either?

Seething, he threw the items he had redeed from the pawnshop into Cheng Su’s room and sat down on the bed, thinking about the idle gossip he had just overheard, his anger rising in waves.

He had known she was restless, but could she have dared to neglect their ho? Did she not take him seriously at all?

Qi Taiguo wished he could confront Cheng Su at the eatery imdiately, but rembering how busy she had been today, his rage seed to be doused all at once.

That’s right, could she have been staying at the eatery? With all the preparations she had for her business, having seen how occupied she was, it actually made sense for her to stay there—it would be convenient.

With that thought, Qi Taiguo’s anger gradually subsided—he would wait for her return.

Hanging up Cheng Su’s dress, Qi Taiguo glanced around the tidy room, which seed to have been infused with Cheng Su’s scent—even the air seed to carry her touch.

This was originally his territory, but it had now been taken over!

Qi Taiguo returned to his room to write the report for his mission. Just as he was finishing up, he heard the outside door being pounded.

Upon opening it, he saw Wan Dahe at the doorway, who said urgently, "It’s bad, Commander Qi, you need to go downstairs and see—your sister-in-law is downstairs having an argunt with Platoon Leader Zhong’s family!"