80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy - Chapter 500

80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy 
Chapter 500 – Does a woman dressing up mean she’s cheating? (1)  

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Several women began speaking one after another.

“Yeah, when a woman suddenly starts dressing up, isn’t it obvious she’s got a new lover? That old woman’s body might be old, but her heart sure isn’t! Tsk… Gu Jianshe’s dad must be cuckolded by now!”

“Those dance teams are causing trouble, their members full of shameless old folks. There’s an old lady at my mom’s factory, usually she’s quiet and meek, but after she retired, she joined the factory’s senior dance team. Hmph, every day she’d draw her eyebrows, paint her lips, change into a different outfit each day, and after just a few months, she started talking about divorcing her husband at home, hooking up with some flirtatious old guy from the dance team.”

“Did she get divorced?”

Everyone listened with great interest, they loved this kind of gossip.

“No, she didn’t. Her children strongly opposed it. That old lady moved out, saying she wanted to live her own new life. My mom and everyone said she must have lost her mind.”

Chu Qiao was stepping on the sewing machine pedal. Hearing such shocking news, she stopped sewing to listen. 

These women were at her house to learn how to make clothes. She had just made a plaid suspender skirt, which could be paired with both shirts and sweaters. 

When she wore it out, many people were envious, so they came to her house to learn how to make one.

“I think Gu Jianshe’s mom definitely has something going on too.” one woman concluded firmly.

The other women all nodded in agreement, as if the verdict was final, Zhu Yuzhen was definitely having an affair.

“As the saying goes, to catch a thief you need to find the stolen goods, and to catch someone cheating you need to catch them in bed. Without evidence, you can’t just casually slander my sister-in-law. Besides, she’s retired now and has nothing to do at home. Isn’t it perfectly normal for her to join a dance team to enrich her senior life? Dressing up nicely is just a love for beauty. Don’t you all dress yourselves up nicely too? You can’t just assume that a woman only dresses well to have an affair, can you?”

Chu Qiao spoke slowly, as her smile faded.

She might not like Zhu Yuzhen, but she disliked hearing these women criticize Zhu Yuzhen with such reasoning even more. 

She also knew that quite a few people said the same things behind her back.

They said she had no job, couldn’t earn money, spent lavishly, and only knew how to dress up every day. 

They said that when she grew old and lost her looks, Gu Ye would abandon her. Some remarks were even nastier, Chu Qiao couldn’t care less.

But she would not allow these gossips to smear Zhu Yuzhen in her home. After all, Zhu Yuzhen was her sister-in-law. 

As members of the Gu family, she and Zhu Yuzhen might have internal conflicts, but to outsiders, they were still one family, so they had to present as amicable in public. Therefore,  some appropriateness had to be maintained.  

The women’s expressions stiffened as they suddenly remembered Zhu Yuzhen’s relation to Chu Qiao. 

After all, they were family! How could they have been so careless as to badmouth her sister-in-law right in front of her? 

But then again, could they really be blamed? 

After all, Chu Qiao and her husband usually treat Gu Jianshe less like relatives and more like sworn enemies.  

“Ah, yes, yes! Xiao Chu is absolutely right. Everyone loves beauty. After all, we’re all women here, we should understand, haha…”

“Exactly, dressing up nicely always lifts the mood. Xiao Chu, that suspender skirt of yours is so pretty.”

“Xiao Chu, your hands are so skillful. Even ordinary plain fabric could turn into something  magical in your hands, even prettier than what’s sold in the stores!” 

The women forcefully steered the conversation away. 

Chu Qiao smiled faintly and didn’t bring up Zhu Yuzhen again. 

Whether Zhu Yuzhen was cheating or not didn’t concern her, but she wouldn’t allow such gossip in her home. 

The old man valued family unity above all. 

Internal squabbles were acceptable, but they could not lose dignity outside, and they definitely couldn’t betray their own people.

The reason Gu Jianshe had fallen out of the old man’s favor was precisely because that idiot had spread rumors about Gu Ye outside and even saying that he’d been cuckolded. That touched the old man’s biggest taboo. 

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