“I saw Sun Lanlan from your village got married to a city guy. They booked the biggest restaurant in the county for the wedding, and the groom’s side came in cars to pick her up. If you really think you’re a princess, why did you fancy my brother? You should marry some city guy too.”
“Oh, right, your previous fiancé was somewhat a city guy too, Qin Family Village is practically urban. I heard that man was even a college graduate with a stable job, but he didn’t want you, which is why you ended up marrying my brother. If you ask me, you should thank my brother for marrying you; otherwise, you’d be an old maid by now…”
“Li Hongmei, do we have a feud or something? Shut up,” Lin Jiayi interrupted her angrily, “What do you mean the Qin Family didn’t like me? That’s not the case at all. If you keep spouting nonsense, I’ll tear your mouth apart.”
It was clearly her who looked down on the Qin Family and didn’t want to marry that cold-hearted man again.
“Yes, we do have a feud.”
Li Hongmei had long ripped off the pretense with Lin Jiayi; she is now married and doesn’t care about reputation anymore.
And since she married such a person, she’s having a hard time, and she doesn’t want anyone else to have it easy.
“Our Li Family kindly took you in, and you repay kindness with ingratitude, manipulating my marriage to Ma Dazhuang. If you ask me, my brother should have divorced you long ago, any woman would be better than you, you malicious woman.”
The word “divorce” struck heavily in Lin Jiayi’s heart.
These days, Li Hongmei had more than once incited Li Guangyuan to divorce her, simply because her own life was troubled, she wanted to mess with her brother and sister-in-law’s life as well.
At first, she didn’t take it to heart, but now, if Li Guangyuan really has someone else…
A cold sweat broke out on Lin Jiayi’s back.
She couldn’t afford a divorce; the Li Family hasn’t prospered yet, and her good days haven’t even started.
Who would she marry if divorced?
She was pregnant now; a woman who has had a child is seen as ’second-hand’ in the eyes of others, only desirable to widowers or old men—undesirable to everyone else.
A great fear overwhelmed her, not even caring anymore if Li Guangyuan really had someone else on the side.
Her mind kept spinning, thinking of how to make Li Guangyuan change his mind and not divorce her.
She started by softening her tone.
“Guang Yuan, don’t listen to her nonsense. I really didn’t know about the Ma family situation; I was deceived too. I know you love your sisters, and I truly have their best interests at heart.”
Originally feeling guilty and letting her lash out—as he couldn’t clear up today’s issue—Li Guangyuan had already warned Cuihua to be careful, who knew what that woman might do when mad…
It was his first time dealing with such a woman, completely unlike Lin Jiayi’s gentle and slight kindness, and it was precisely this that made him unable to stop, and he cheated again.
Seeing Lin Jiayi not mention that incident now, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to console her with a few words, Li Hongmei spoke again.
“Enough with the pretense, who are you performing for here? If you really cared about us, why didn’t you introduce us to work at Qin’s Bun Shop? That’s your sister’s place, even Sun Lanlan works there and I heard she’s some kind of manager, making dozens of yuan a month. Are you saying your own little sisters-in-law can’t even compare to an outsider? Now that Sun Lanlan has married a city guy, even arriving in a car, if you had introduced us to the Bun Shop, maybe we’d have married city guys by now. It seems you just don’t want us to have anything good, you have good opportunities but don’t share them, instead, you introduce a guy like Ma Dazhuang to me. Lin Jiayi, you clearly have ill intentions.”
Old Mrs. Li originally didn’t intend to get involved in their affairs, but hearing her daughter’s words, she reconsidered, “Is that really true?”
“Today I personally saw it in the county. The groom’s side booked the biggest restaurant in the county for the wedding. Sun Lanlan looked so beautiful. If you don’t believe me, go ask around in Daqing Mountain Village. On my way back, so many people were talking about the Sun Family wedding, the groom came in a car, I heard they prepared everything with three rounds of firecrackers; the betrothal gift alone was 600 yuan.”
Li Hongmei’s face was full of envy, that was the life she dreamt of.
As long as Lin Jiayi could get them both a job at the bun shop, she would divorce Ma Dazhuang and then find a city man.
Old Mrs. Li had also thought of this, glanced at Lin Jiayi, and said softly, “I won’t mention Hongmei’s marriage anymore. Tomorrow when you go back to your parents’ house, talk to your sister about it. Let Hongmei and Dongmei work at Lin Chuxia’s bun shop, they need so many people for such a big shop, don’t they? Even if they hire outsiders, it’s still better to employ our relatives. We are all real relatives, should indeed interact more.”
Lin Jiayi did not expect things to develop in this direction, arranging for Li Hongmei and Li Dongmei to work in Lin Chuxia’s bun shop?
Let alone whether Lin Chuxia would agree, she would not agree either.
These two younger sisters-in-law already had their opinions about her, even felt it was her who switched their kin, wishing it was Lin Chuxia who became their sister-in-law.
If they were really arranged to work at Lin Chuxia’s bun shop, she would have even less of a place in this house.
Wouldn’t the two flattering younger sisters-in-law be holding Lin Chuxia’s stinky feet all day long?
She turned her pleading eyes towards Li Guangyuan.
Li Guangyuan knew about the Spring Festival issues, he should understand her difficulties, shouldn’t he?
However, Li Guangyuan seemed to have not received her plea for help and looked elsewhere.
Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Old Mrs. Li’s voice also dipped slightly.
“What’s the matter, unhappy about it? Or do you really not want to help your two sisters, not really considering us as a family?”
…………………..
Lin Chuxia wanted to give Su Wensong and Sun Lanlan three days of marriage leave, but neither planned to take it, returning to their posts the next day.
It was still okay at Sun Lanlan’s place, Xiyang Food Factory had just started a beef sauce production line; Su Wensong really couldn’t let go.
Now he has already treated the Xiyang Food Factory as part of his life.
The two insisted, so Lin Chuxia didn’t say much more, and on this day Jia Liang came looking for Lin Chuxia as well.
Other than attending Su Wensong and Sun Lanlan’s wedding, his main purpose was to report the work progress in the city to Lin Chuxia.
The storefront had been rented, located within the range Lin Chuxia had specified, and he wanted her to personally check it.
Originally, Lin Chuxia was to grant Su Wensong marriage leave, and she needed to be present at the Xiyang Food Factory for the next few days.
Since Su Wen came to work, she didn’t have much to do either. Glancing at the time, they could still catch the bus to the city, so they packed up and set off.
Once they arrived in the downtown area, Jia Liang took Lin Chuxia directly to the storefront he had chosen.
“This is a storefront of a garment factory, similar in nature to the one they rented in Ancheng County. The garment factory has been focusing on batch production and export for the past two years, so this building was idle, but it is still owned by the garment factory. I’ve contacted them already, and the price is this number.”
He gestured a number, Lin Chuxia looked at the building, the price was indeed not expensive.
“That’s good, you handle the negotiations with them, try to rent it long-term, and also the renovation work after renting the house, leave it all to you, I’ll give you the drawings later.”