Chapter 515. Very low key
Xu Sheng Mei left with a pale face. According to her character, she must hurriedly go to old Zhou's house to explain.
But now she dare not go over.
Zhou Er Ni didn't even give her an extra look.
This incident had touched Zhou Family's bottom line.
Want to make Hu Zi and Zhang Mei Lian an item? Thankfully, Hu Zi was honest and didn't know how to use these tricks. Otherwise, if he really had something to do with Zhang Mei Lian, then how will they deal with this matter?
What was her intention? Deliberately want to give old Zhou's side a stab!
Old Zhou Family had never done her wrong and this was how she repaid old Zhou Family. Who would like this interact with her? One would never know which day they will be stabbed in the back.
Lin Qing He went to work as usual. Completely unaffected. When she came here at noon, Zhou Qing Bai had forgotten to stew the soup.
"You forgot to stew the soup. Don't want a daughter anymore, right?" Lin Qing He gave him an displeased eye-roll.
"I'm going to stew it now." Zhou Qing Bai smilingly said.
"Don't stew it. Didn't you soak seaweed? Just cook a seaweed pork rib soup." Lin Qing He said.
"En." Zhou Qing Bai responded. He began to chop ribs and cook a seaweed rib soup.
Not long after, Zhou Er Ni and Wang Yuan came over. Lin Qing He mentioned, “A lot of dried seaweed came in this month. Take some to that side. This seaweed is very nutritious as a soup, so drink more.”
"Okay." Zhou Er Ni merrily nodded.
"Why do I feel that my wife isn't fat? I saw Third Sister is a lot fatter." Wang Yuan said.
"San Ni is indeed a lot fatter, but Er Ni isn't bad. Her month is short. She's not lacking in nutrition. It's just the fetus growing, rather than her gaining flesh." Lin Qing He responded.
Wang Yuan grinned and then looked at Er Ni's belly.
Zhou Er Ni dismissed: "You go and set the tableware."
"Okay." Wang Yuan went to set the bowls and chopsticks.
Zhou Er Ni told Lin Qing He about Xu Sheng Mei's arrival this morning.
Lin Qing He said indifferently: "Don't worry about her. This side have cut ties with her."
She never had any hope for Xu Sheng Mei. But this incident had refreshed her understanding of Xu Sheng Mei.
She had never given any good face to Xu Sheng Mei siblings. This, she admitted. But honestly,, other than her, everyone else was nice to her.
Before, when Hu Zi and Gang Zi heard about her and Zhao Jun's matter, they even went with Second and beat him into the hospital. How much they were on her side?
But she knew exactly what kind of person Zhang Mei Lian was and she still wanted to match her with Hu Zi. This intention was really vicious.
In her heart, did she take this side seriously?
So when Third came back with this news yesterday, she spoke of it in front of the family after dinner.
There was no need to prove it. Zhang Mei Lian and Xu Sheng Qiang being together was the best evidence.
Wasn't it because she was close to Xu Sheng Mei that she met Xu Sheng Qiang and allowed Zhang Mei Lian and Xu Sheng Qiang be like tortoise setting eyes on mung bean.
Speaking of it, it was self-inflicted. There was nothing to say.
What happened last night caused her Qing Bai to be thoroughly disappointed. So her family Qing Bai made a decision. Treat it like they don't know these matters. Old Zhou family won't interfere with old Xu family's affairs!
The sentence was clear and distinct. There was nothing to debate about.
Wang Yuan will provide the goods as usual. There was no need to stop supplying. After all, they were also coming to get the goods. Only that connection. As for the rest, they won't get involved.
Zhou Er Ni nodded. Then she hesitated, "Grandfather and Grandmother's side don't know about it yet."
"Don't talk about it over there. Those two siblings dare not come over now." Lin Qing He said.
Father Zhou and Mother Zhou's age wasn't small. Their bones were still healthy, but if they knew that their granddaughter wanted to give a stab and their grandson was living together with someone who had abortion and messy relationship history, they won't be able to take it.
Don't use the siblings' matter to trouble the two elderly. Let them be at ease.
Though they didn't tell Father Zhou and Mother Zhou, Lin Qing He told Zhou Xiao Mei when they took a bath in the bathhouse.
It must be mentioned to Zhou Xiao Mei, otherwise she would be in the dark.
Zhou Xiao Mei was stunned: "Huh? She actually did such a thing that harms others and herself?"
"Yes. Now Xu Sheng Qiang has gotten involved with Zhang Mei Lian and she had Xu Sheng Qiang in her grip. Xu Sheng Mei is seeking a solution in a panic. If not, we still wouldn't know she had done so much behind our back." Lin Qing He said flatly.
Zhou Xiao Mei reddened with anger: "Where did we do her wrong? Where!"
To actually wanted to match such a thing to Hu Zi. If it had succeed, how can her fourth sister-in-law explain to her second sister?
Good wife meant less misfortune for husband. Marrying a wife like that was simply extremely unlucky!
"Don't be angry anymore. Just letting you know so you can keep in mind. Our family will never recognize these relatives anymore. Your fourth brother won't care about Xu Sheng Qiang and Zhang Mei Lian." Lin Qing He spoke.
Qing Bai was understanding in this matter. If not, she would have to fight with him. But this kind man was really sad this time. Otherwise, why would he not even ask?
Zhou Xiao Mei responded, "It's right to not care. My eldest sister is really a failure. To raise and teach them into this!"
"It's also due to me bringing her to the capital in the past." Lin Qing He shook his head.
"Fourth Sister-in-law, don’t think like that. It’s not that you want to bring her. My eldest sister brought her over. What's more, when she was brought to here, she was told to study but she didn't. Just watching a store and she ended up with Zhao Jun. What did this have to do with you!" Zhou Xiao Mei comforted.
Lin Qing He said: "Let's not talk about this. How is your cousin's business?"
Zhou Xiao Mei was still angry, but the topic had changed and answered, "It's okay. I heard Da Lin said that they made more than 200 last month."
Lin Qing He nodded: "It'll be fine as long as the business continues."
Zhou Xiao Mei said: "This is the beginning. It will be better later. As long as they manage it well, it won't do badly. But my cousin-in-law's stingy and demeaning temperament..."
"No need to bother about this. Society will teach her to be a human being." Lin Qing He said calmly.
In the adult world, "counseling" was the highest law. Only by "counseling" can one live a good life and silently make a fortune.
Lin Qing He didn't have such a personality. When she was in the village, basically everyone in the village knew that she had a good life and that she had no money in her hands. She could spend more than she had.
The situation was different. So far no one knew that the shops they owned were bought by the couple.
They thought it was rented. At most, they knew that the dumpling shop belonged to her family.
Not many people even knew about the shops were going to be open.
In fact, they were very low-key.
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Being lowkey is good specially at that time when its not very stable yet.. Even until now, just recently, China targeted those IT or trading companies (like Alibaba,Tencent..etc). The reason why Jack Ma was gone for a long time and just recently go public this year 🤭.. Oh well, China's government..hehe..nvm.
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They're coming up on Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. Lin Qin He works at Beijing (Peking) University as a teacher/professor. And Peking students led the pro-democracy and reform protests that got stomped out. That's also the area she's buying all of her property. Luckily for her though, that whole event is censored so she might get to skip that part of history. But the crack down doesn't let up for like 3 years, so wonder if we make it to that point.
DeleteWell, in Jack Ma's case at least, I think he was trying to stick his hand in too many pots. He finally bit off more than he could chew, so it probably serves him right.
DeleteLowkey is, as you say, probably better for LQH and co. at this point in time. I wonder if that's actually how XSQ will fail? That kid probably doesn't even know how to spell lowkey since he spent his night-school experience and beyond chasing girls.
It's also due to me bringing her to the capital in the past." Lin Qing He shook his head.
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I only noticed it on my second read through because I’m reading a translation that flip flops between calling characters he and her chapter to chapter sentence to sentence. I now am hyper sensitive to it haha.
Love your work, thanks for translating so diligently and brightening your readers lives.
I just ignore it too, because my role is to just read lmao
DeleteThanks for the chapter!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chapter.
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