Chapter 470. Nothing to show
During the first seven days when the dry good shop opened, Hu Zi came over early in the morning every day to help. After five consecutive days of helping, he was no longer needed. Li Ai Guo and Zhou San Ni were both competent.
The couple live there by themselves. Although the place was a bit crowded, the conditions weren't bad. Especially since they were near the big market. They can eat whatever they want.
The sum of the couple's wages wasn't low, they can afford a decent meal.
At least Lin Qing He noticed Zhou San Ni and Li Ai Guo's complexion improved after coming here.
Because there was such a large truck of goods coming, it went without saying the shop was filled.
And because they were too valuable, Zhou San Ni and Li Ai Guo kept a cautious eye on them. Every night they have to take stock of them to see if there is anything amiss.
In terms of working attitude, it was top-notch. Of course, Ma Cheng Min also had to come to take inventory at the end of each month.
It wasn't just this side. The other shops were the same, except for the dumpling shop run by Zhou Qing Bai.
When the handover was completed, Lin Qing He was in a good mood and came back to the dumpling shop with Zhou Qing Bai.
Second was holding the spoon. However, there was an uninvited guest sitting in the dumpling shop. It wasn't anyone other than Xu Sheng Mei, who hadn't been seen for a long time.
When Xu Sheng Mei saw the husband and wife come back, her eyes lingered on the truck. She greeted: "Uncle, Aunt."
God knew how shocked she was when she went to Father Zhou and Mother Zhou's side today and got told by this grandaunt-in-law that her uncle had bought a truck.
She naturally knew that her uncle and aunt's family was well off. They had a job and a store. She had never been in contact with the purchase cost before, so she wasn't very clear about the profit.
But even if she didn't know the profit, she knew whether the business was good or not. Otherwise, how could she have opened another after another?
Even like this, Xu Sheng Mei never thought that her uncle's family could afford a large truck.
Regardless of whether this was a truck or any kind of vehicle, it was a four-wheeled one. A four-wheeled one was different.
Zhao Jun had wanted to buy one. It took until half a month ago before Father Zhao bought a Hongqi car.
It cost a few tens of thousands. It made the entire Zhao Family's face go up.
Zhao Jun can drive. Xu Sheng Mei was often drove around by him. This made her feel lucky for her decision more than once. If she didn't pick Zhao Jun, would she have such a good life?
So her old decision wasn't wrong.
Because Zhao Family bought it, Xu Sheng Mei knew how rare these four-wheel cars were. So she really didn't expect that her uncle would be able to buy a car.
Even when she knew that his shop made money, it was a difficult feat to buy such a truck no matter how profitable it was.
But her uncle had bought it!
"Why do you got time to come?" Zhou Qing Bai saw that his wife hadn't even responded and spoke.
"I just visited Grandma and Grandpa. I come and see them a few times every month." Xu Sheng Mei said.
This was why Lin Qing He looks up to Xu Sheng Mei a little bit. Because if this white lotus flower got a few more years of cultivation, she would be really excellent.
She was still a bit green now.
"Uncle, I went to my grandparent's place and found out that you bought a car. That's really amazing. This car must be costly?" Xu Sheng Mei continued.
"Ain't that right? All the money at home had been depleted on this and even borrowed a lot from others." Lin Qing He replied.
Xu Sheng Mei said softly: "Don't worry, Aunt. I didn't intend to borrow money. I just heard that you bought a car with my uncle and felt overjoyed. I came here to congratulate you."
Look, how good her words were. But this heart wasn't on the right path, so Lin Qing He straightforwardly uttered: "I heard that you are very close with Zhang Mei Lian, the daughter of old Zhang Family from next door? Someone has witnessed it a good few times. Saying you guys were talking and laughing."
"That was all a long time ago. After I found out about her matter, I didn't talk to her much." Xu Sheng Mei's face was a little stiff.
"That's okay. Otherwise I would have thought that you knew her origin and identity and still wanted to encourage her to be with Hu Zi. Hu Zi is your cousin and he's good to you. You can't harm Hu Zi like that." Lin Qing He said.
"What are you saying Aunt? I don't have that kind of mind." Xu Sheng Mei shook her head.
Lin Qing He scanned her a few times. It was truly right to say she was young. The gaze in her eyes wasn't steady enough. As expected, she held bad intentions.
Lin Qing He didn't catch her on the spot, so she didn't bother to go at her.
"Zhao Family also bought a car, which cost about 40,000 yuan. Not cheap at all." Xu Sheng Mei changed the direction of the conversation.
"It's Zhao Family who bought it. Not Zhao Jun, right?" Lin Qing He pointed out.
Xu Sheng Mei's smile stiffened and said, "It's too expensive. How can Zhao Jun afford it?"
"Wang Yuan can afford it. Er Ni got a day off yesterday. Wang Yuan drove her out to go on a date. I heard from Er Ni that they ate some steaks and wines? That restaurant is quite high-end. There's people specialize in playing a guitar." Lin Qing He mentioned.
Xu Sheng Mei felt her heart was stabbed.
Of course she knew Zhou Er Ni's boyfriend was flawless.
He was very rich. He opened a garment factory and had more than 500 workers. Her grandma said that it was expanding and recruiting in the past two years. How big was this factory to accommodate so many people?
Moreover, with so many people under his hand, it was unimaginable how much money was made. It was no wonder that he can afford a car by himself!
She took great pains to marry Zhao Jun. Although she was married very well, it was far worse than Zhou Er Ni's marriage. Especially since she heard that Wang Yuan was very good to Zhou Er Ni. Doted her like she was the apple of his eyes.
Xu Sheng Mei felt uncomfortable in her heart.
"Aunt, I'll go to the shop and find Sister Er Ni to sit around." Xu Sheng Mei couldn't stand staying here anymore and forced herself to say.
"Er Ni is very busy." Lin Qing He responded.
"I won't get in her way." Xu Sheng Mei finished speaking and went over.
Lin Qing He waited for her to leave before harrumphing softly.
Zhou Qing Bai was calm throughout. Zhou Xuan simply read his book and didn't dare to interrupt anything. The father and son knew which side to take.
Aunt Ma was direct: "Why does she come here so frequently when you dislike her, Teacher Lin?"
"I also don't understand. Before, my eyes were wrong. Her face can be so thick. My dislike toward her is clear. But look at her. She can come here from time to time. Made it seems like I, the elder is holding past matters without ever letting it go." Lin Qing He said in disgust.
Aunt Ma was very clear and spoke: "She wants you relatives. Otherwise, she had nothing to show in Zhao Family."
It wasn't just this side. The other shops were the same, except for the dumpling shop run by Zhou Qing Bai.
When the handover was completed, Lin Qing He was in a good mood and came back to the dumpling shop with Zhou Qing Bai.
Second was holding the spoon. However, there was an uninvited guest sitting in the dumpling shop. It wasn't anyone other than Xu Sheng Mei, who hadn't been seen for a long time.
When Xu Sheng Mei saw the husband and wife come back, her eyes lingered on the truck. She greeted: "Uncle, Aunt."
God knew how shocked she was when she went to Father Zhou and Mother Zhou's side today and got told by this grandaunt-in-law that her uncle had bought a truck.
She naturally knew that her uncle and aunt's family was well off. They had a job and a store. She had never been in contact with the purchase cost before, so she wasn't very clear about the profit.
But even if she didn't know the profit, she knew whether the business was good or not. Otherwise, how could she have opened another after another?
Even like this, Xu Sheng Mei never thought that her uncle's family could afford a large truck.
Regardless of whether this was a truck or any kind of vehicle, it was a four-wheeled one. A four-wheeled one was different.
Zhao Jun had wanted to buy one. It took until half a month ago before Father Zhao bought a Hongqi car.
It cost a few tens of thousands. It made the entire Zhao Family's face go up.
Zhao Jun can drive. Xu Sheng Mei was often drove around by him. This made her feel lucky for her decision more than once. If she didn't pick Zhao Jun, would she have such a good life?
So her old decision wasn't wrong.
Because Zhao Family bought it, Xu Sheng Mei knew how rare these four-wheel cars were. So she really didn't expect that her uncle would be able to buy a car.
Even when she knew that his shop made money, it was a difficult feat to buy such a truck no matter how profitable it was.
But her uncle had bought it!
"Why do you got time to come?" Zhou Qing Bai saw that his wife hadn't even responded and spoke.
"I just visited Grandma and Grandpa. I come and see them a few times every month." Xu Sheng Mei said.
This was why Lin Qing He looks up to Xu Sheng Mei a little bit. Because if this white lotus flower got a few more years of cultivation, she would be really excellent.
She was still a bit green now.
"Uncle, I went to my grandparent's place and found out that you bought a car. That's really amazing. This car must be costly?" Xu Sheng Mei continued.
"Ain't that right? All the money at home had been depleted on this and even borrowed a lot from others." Lin Qing He replied.
Xu Sheng Mei said softly: "Don't worry, Aunt. I didn't intend to borrow money. I just heard that you bought a car with my uncle and felt overjoyed. I came here to congratulate you."
Look, how good her words were. But this heart wasn't on the right path, so Lin Qing He straightforwardly uttered: "I heard that you are very close with Zhang Mei Lian, the daughter of old Zhang Family from next door? Someone has witnessed it a good few times. Saying you guys were talking and laughing."
"That was all a long time ago. After I found out about her matter, I didn't talk to her much." Xu Sheng Mei's face was a little stiff.
"That's okay. Otherwise I would have thought that you knew her origin and identity and still wanted to encourage her to be with Hu Zi. Hu Zi is your cousin and he's good to you. You can't harm Hu Zi like that." Lin Qing He said.
"What are you saying Aunt? I don't have that kind of mind." Xu Sheng Mei shook her head.
Lin Qing He scanned her a few times. It was truly right to say she was young. The gaze in her eyes wasn't steady enough. As expected, she held bad intentions.
Lin Qing He didn't catch her on the spot, so she didn't bother to go at her.
"Zhao Family also bought a car, which cost about 40,000 yuan. Not cheap at all." Xu Sheng Mei changed the direction of the conversation.
"It's Zhao Family who bought it. Not Zhao Jun, right?" Lin Qing He pointed out.
Xu Sheng Mei's smile stiffened and said, "It's too expensive. How can Zhao Jun afford it?"
"Wang Yuan can afford it. Er Ni got a day off yesterday. Wang Yuan drove her out to go on a date. I heard from Er Ni that they ate some steaks and wines? That restaurant is quite high-end. There's people specialize in playing a guitar." Lin Qing He mentioned.
Xu Sheng Mei felt her heart was stabbed.
Of course she knew Zhou Er Ni's boyfriend was flawless.
He was very rich. He opened a garment factory and had more than 500 workers. Her grandma said that it was expanding and recruiting in the past two years. How big was this factory to accommodate so many people?
Moreover, with so many people under his hand, it was unimaginable how much money was made. It was no wonder that he can afford a car by himself!
She took great pains to marry Zhao Jun. Although she was married very well, it was far worse than Zhou Er Ni's marriage. Especially since she heard that Wang Yuan was very good to Zhou Er Ni. Doted her like she was the apple of his eyes.
Xu Sheng Mei felt uncomfortable in her heart.
"Aunt, I'll go to the shop and find Sister Er Ni to sit around." Xu Sheng Mei couldn't stand staying here anymore and forced herself to say.
"Er Ni is very busy." Lin Qing He responded.
"I won't get in her way." Xu Sheng Mei finished speaking and went over.
Lin Qing He waited for her to leave before harrumphing softly.
Zhou Qing Bai was calm throughout. Zhou Xuan simply read his book and didn't dare to interrupt anything. The father and son knew which side to take.
Aunt Ma was direct: "Why does she come here so frequently when you dislike her, Teacher Lin?"
"I also don't understand. Before, my eyes were wrong. Her face can be so thick. My dislike toward her is clear. But look at her. She can come here from time to time. Made it seems like I, the elder is holding past matters without ever letting it go." Lin Qing He said in disgust.
Aunt Ma was very clear and spoke: "She wants you relatives. Otherwise, she had nothing to show in Zhao Family."
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ReplyDeleteXSM's face is thicker than earth's mantle XD
ReplyDeleteReally don't like her. Well, in every family , there's always that odd one's out. They call them black sheep..
-Cloverlin here-
Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteAi, can’t wait for the rest of the family to find a good reason to break off the relationship with XSM and her brother for good 😌
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chapter! ❤️❤️
I know this novel shouldn't have that much longer to go on till recent times, but are all the baddies after this just poor girls? When this novel started I was totally hyped on modern woman shitting on the high and mighty shitty guys like the playboy character back in the countryside, but the author seems to only make the antagonist poor ladies that are down on their luck. Maybe I'm the wrong target demographic being a guy, but I feel the constant cycle of the antagonist being slutty poor ladies is quite tiresome, does female readers really like seeing down on their luck ladies being put down by high and mighty women? Like in this case the main asscrack is obviously XSM's baby daddy and her bro and she's the only one putting in effort, but for sure she's gonna be slammed as the token slutty lady of the week.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good point it's just that the author may have ran out of antagonist and just decided to share their own hatered to slutty woman¯\(°_o)/¯
DeleteI have a different perspective. It's not that she's anjoyed that Xu Sheng Mei for intentionally getting pregnant by Zhao Jun. She's annoyed, yes, but she'd always had the modern women mindset of, your life is your life and my life is my life. If people don't try to interfere with her life, she wouldn't interfere with their life either. Fair enough.
DeleteThe thing is, Xu Sheng Mei went to the capital under her auspices and her name, and her doing that just because she's desperate to get married with a capital guy (as opposed to asking to her aunt and uncle to introduce her to a guy) smears their name and reputation as well. People in that time can easily suspect that their family raised their granddaughters that way, to be gold diggers.
Lin Qing He's position is straightforward. Fine, you want to make your way in the capital alone without considering your family? Do so. I'll stop caring about you too, then. What did she owe her niece? Nothing. She gave her a favour, and then her niece wanted more and now Lin Qing He doesn't want to give her more. In that sense, her outlook is very much of a businesswoman. 'You break the contract with me, it's null and void, then. I have no obligations to you either '
I don't think of her as being cruel. What, she didn't scheme and drag her niece or her new family down. She just decides to let that niece lie on the bed she made. Fair is fair, really
Exactly and I don’t see that’s it’s a trend with poor girls they’re not in Modern times were people are sleeping around.Xu Sheng Mei Intentionally got pregnant to trap a guy in to married for The lifestyle Of being rich when she had a stable job the ability to learn things from a good school and she wasn’t starving Or had a family member that was gonna die And needs money she wasn’t desperate everyone that’s saying it is wrong. she chose not to get a really good education work hard and get a good marriage. she didn’t feel that she could wait so she pushed it and drag the family into a possible loss of reputation which means The main character could’ve lost her job because her Close relative did something not moral for the times The reason she never asked her aunt or uncle is because she knew they wouldn’t agree with her getting pregnant to trap someone into marriage That’s not cool today back then it’s just as bad I don’t think I would be able to deal with a relative who I knew did that It’s slimy not only that all the mc Is doing Is ignore her and tried to get her to stop coming to visit. the mc didn’t let say…..try to drop her cousin into a horrible married because she’s being vindictive…no wait that was Xu sheng mei. Also I don’t understand why everyone thinks the main character has enemies there just people she doesn’t like and yes they’re mostly women because that’s who she deals with as it’s her social circle I know the main character is not perfect she’s a person and people have flaws But it’s mostly to show the difference when someone just doesn’t care about hurting Other people with their behaviour and when they do Xu sheng mei Doesn’t care and main character does.
Delete@Pomelo and @Apple Yours are long comments. But, I'm grateful for the insight.
DeleteAt the end of this chapter, LQH said about how ZSM's visits put a bad light on her. As if she's an elder who's holding past matter without letting it go. And I was confused as I thought, "Isn't the reason she didn't want to have connections to XSM was because of her past mistake (she schemed to marry ZJ)? How is it--she as an elder never give her a second chance for repentance, not even before she knows about XSM'Ss scheme against Hu Zi--not about LQH holding past matter without letting it go?"
But, your comments remind me of many points, such as the business deal and how the scheme of marrying ZJ has exposed XSM's nature as a white lotus. She's a perpetual liar/pretender. It's hard to trust such person for a second time. The girl isn't even close to her and LQH has already had a lot on her plate. She has no emotional attachment and she really has no time to respond to her repent even if the girl was sincerely repentance (in which she clearly shows that she was NOT).
Thanks for the chapter.
ReplyDeleteshameless simply too shameless if I were LQH I would have slapped that beach a long time ago
ReplyDeleteWhat I like about LQH's character is she's not a goody two shoes.
ReplyDeleteSo even if her reputation is on the line, XSM can't emotionally blackmail her.
To put into perspective, imagine if LQH and Mother Zhou switched places and it's Mother Zhou's face as an elderand career for that matter is put on the line because of XSM's scheming. Bet you 100 quid Mother Zhou would give in to that pressure.
I think it's important that the antagonists are often women because its female centric story. MC has to be compared to all the decisions that the original body made as a poor uneducated woman that's shown through the many characters in similar circumstances who walk different paths seeking the "Good life"
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