She remembered that when Su Wensong first came, he wasn’t so pale, only slightly paler than her dad and her brother, and somehow, he had become as pale as Cai Jun.
Behind the lenses, his eyes were sharp, yet the glasses made him look particularly gentle.
Qin Lihua couldn’t help but remember that during Chinese New Year, her second aunt had once told her mom that she wanted to match her with Su Wensong. If she had agreed when her second aunt mentioned it, would she have become the factory director’s wife?
Under Su Wensong’s gaze, Qin Lihua had no choice but to lower her head, “I’m sorry, Manager Sun, I was too anxious.”
Before Sun Lanlan could reply, Qin Lihua turned to Lin Chuxia, “Auntie, I know you care about me the most, and since you are willing to transfer Cai Jun to work at the food factory, please let him come back, you said it and he will definitely listen.”
The expression on Lin Chuxia’s face looked unpleasant, but for the sake of her calling her ’auntie’, she replied, “You should have persuaded him before coming to us, Lihua, it’s his choice, I have no right to intervene. He’s an adult, he has the right to decide his own life, and likewise, he can be responsible for his choices.”
Until Qin Lihua left, looking devastated, Lin Chuxia’s expression was still not pleasant.
“I initially thought she was quite obedient, I didn’t expect her to repeatedly cause such trouble. Tonight, I must write a letter to Qin Yang, I can’t deal with his niece anymore.”
Sun Lanlan laughed, “Are you looking to complain to a man?”
“What’s wrong with that? You have a fiancé to protect you, can’t I complain to my man?”
Lin Chuxia glanced at Su Wensong, and then Sun Lanlan also remembered Su Wensong’s previous two fiances.
Both of their faces couldn’t help turning red, and Sun Lanlan even gave Su Wensong an annoyed look.
He, however, started laughing.
These two were simply unbearable to watch.
But seeing their rapid progress, Lin Chuxia was happy too.
Sun Lanlan knew that in the end, Lin Chuxia was standing up for her, so she said, “No matter what, Qin Lihua is a member of the Qin Family, she has no faults in her work, and if you fire her as her aunt, it would be hard to explain to the Qin Family.”
“But if I don’t fire her, I can’t get this out of my chest, Lanlan, you don’t know, she clearly saw Su Wensong coming and still she spoke that way.”
If her affair with Cai Jun was out of uncontrollable emotions, her performance just now completely exposed her character issues.
“I know, but I am honestly grateful to her from the bottom of my heart. If she hadn’t interfered like that, maybe I would have ended up with Cai Jun. Just for this, I can forgive her little schemes.”
Before, she hadn’t noticed it, but now just thinking about being married to Cai Jun, Sun Lanlan felt a chill all over her body.
She almost wanted to put Qin Lihua on a pedestal and burn incense for her.
Seeing there was no issue anymore, and the two ladies seemed to have some secrets to talk about, Su Wensong found an excuse and left.
Watching his retreating figure, Sun Lanlan said, “Furthermore, she always said I had lingering feelings for Cai Jun, right? Let her see clearly, I’ll live a happy and beautiful life with Old Su to show her, if you fire her now, she might think I am petty and unable to tolerate them, and she might hold a grudge against us for a lifetime, I’m not afraid of her grudging me, I’m afraid she misunderstands my relationship with Old Su.”
“Oh my my…”
Lin Chuxia exaggeratedly contorted her mouth, “What kind of relationship do you and Old Su have? Lanlan, I just discovered how thick-skinned you are, oh dear, the world’s really declining…”
Sun Lanlan didn’t care, Lin Chuxia was her best friend, isn’t it normal for best friends to share their feelings?
“Just allows you and your Qin Yang to be all lovey-dovey? I won’t envy you ever again.”
Sun Lanlan said this while shaking her wrist, which is a signature gesture of a Su Family daughter-in-law.
Lin Chuxia genuinely felt happy for her cheerful demeanor.
Lanlan, you must find happiness in this lifetime!
………
After leaving the Bun Shop, Qin Lihua stormed home furiously.
She was not in the mood for work at all right now, thinking that Cai Jun would soon be farming, and she might have to farm as well, her mind was a complete mess.
Meanwhile at Qin Liang’s family, Ma Suyun had just arrived.
Although they had divided their family property, every year at planting in the spring and harvesting in autumn, Ma Suyun would seek help from the main house.
Her husband Qin Wen really lived up to his name, weak and incapable, all the household chores relied on her; how much could she really do?
And Qin Liang and his wife were not only good at working, Qin Jianjun and Qin Jianye, the two younger men, were even more capable than Qin Wen.
As she entered the courtyard and saw Qin Liang and Qian Chuncao busy working, Ma Suyun started smiling.
“Are big brother and sister-in-law busy? Do you have time this afternoon? I just bought some seeds, and I want to plant them this afternoon. I was thinking about getting Qin Wen to take a day off, but as you know, it’s not easy to get leave from his work.”
In the past, no matter if it was Qin Liang or Qian Chuncao, they would have said: Why take leave? It’s just lending a hand, work is more important.
But after Ma Suyun finished speaking, the two kept busy with their tasks and did not respond to her.
It was Qin Liang who finally looked up and asked, “This afternoon?”
Ma Suyun nodded repeatedly, “This afternoon.”
“That might not be possible,” Qian Chuncao took over the conversation, her smile not quite reaching her eyes, “Not to hide it from you, but we haven’t even started planting our own land yet. After all, you only have one person’s land to deal with, our family has to manage land for five people, how could we have time to help others?”
Ma Suyun was stunned, “But don’t you also have more people?”
“The number of people we had was indeed not few in the past, but this year Jianjun and Lihua both went to work, Jianye is also studying, just your big brother and I are planting land for five, that’s a much bigger burden than just you alone planting for one. We were even thinking about asking for your help later. Since you’re also busy, my husband and I will just have to manage slowly on our own.”
Qian Chuncao even rolled her eyes discreetly after speaking.
Ma Suyun, listening to her casual words, grew suspicious; she was not foolish. She could tell her sister-in-law was doing this on purpose.
“Sister-in-law, did I offend you in some way? We’ve always farmed together in the past, how come you suddenly don’t want to deal with it this year? Don’t bring up Lihua and Jianjun working because if they wanted to come back to farm, it would only take a word. It’s not like Qin Wen who has a hard time taking leave from a government job. If you feel awkward, I can talk to your sister-in-law myself.”
Hearing about asking her children to take leave, Qian Chuncao also lost her temper.
Let’s not talk about the daughter’s work, but her son had this job because he shamelessly reached out to his younger brother and sister-in-law. Now that his job was finally showing promise, and his brother and sister-in-law had even made his position permanent ahead of time, it was a critical period—he should be taking initiative, not taking leave to go farming. How foolish would that be?
“If you want to ask for leave, ask for your Qin Wen. Whether it’s government or private, just because your Qin Wen works doesn’t mean others are just messing around, right? To be honest, your Qin Wen might not even earn as much as my son.”