50 is the age of blooming flowers, there will be someone you want to love

Ni Yue heard the bad news about Chen Hongmei two hours earlier than Zhang Chenling.

Her hometown is small, and news of weddings and funerals can spread to half of the town within five minutes. Her mother Wu Xia is at the forefront of gossip and notifies Ni Yue immediately of any movement.

In fact, like Zhang Chenling, Chen Hongmei and Zhang Chenguang, mother and son, have not returned to their hometown for a long time. After all, the whole family moved to Shanghai with Zhang Chenling in a grand and unrestrained manner. If they move back, they will be criticized, so they have been living elsewhere. This time they returned home in a low-key manner, intending to sell the old house in their hometown, a walk-up apartment worth tens of thousands of yuan.

Unexpectedly, when she returned to her old home and saw the room full of broken furniture and mottled wallpaper, and recalled the past, Chen Hongmei was overwhelmed with grief, crying hard and gasping for breath, and she fainted on the concrete floor.

"Mom!" Zhang Chenguang wailed and picked her up, sending her to the hospital for emergency treatment. Unfortunately, she was not favored by the goddess of luck. After twenty hours of intensive rescue, she was still unable to be saved and died of a sudden myocardial infarction.

When Ni Yue heard the news, his heart twitched violently and it took him a long time to recover.

She felt sorry for her cousin and even more upset about what she had said.

——That was the only time the two sisters quarreled. Ni Yue blurted out, "You never contact your mother...", which hit the point accurately and hurt Zhang Chenling deeply.

Later, the two sisters reconciled, and Ni Yue thought that the sharp knife that she had stabbed in her cousin's heart with her own hands had been successfully pulled out.

Who would have thought that it had always been there, just pretending not to exist, until today, a day as ordinary as usual, when the hand of fate suddenly grasped the sharp knife and stabbed it into Zhang Chenling's heart.

How painful this must be!

Ni Yue felt heartbroken and could empathize with him. If time could go back, she would rather she had never said those words.

The thumb hovered motionless over the phone screen.

She hesitated, wondering if she should tell her cousin the news, or... let her discover it herself?

Which method would make my cousin suffer less?

Just as she was hesitating, a skinny hand suddenly reached out from below, waved in front of her eyes, and successfully caught her attention.

Ni Yue's eyes left the phone and fell on the young master. He smiled and said, "Oh, sorry, I was distracted just now."

"You were just daydreaming. It looked like you had entered a two-dimensional world."

The young master raised the corner of his mouth slightly. He had just taken a shower, his hair was blown fluffy and his body smelled fragrant. He curled up in a clean pajamas, looking up at Ni Yue fiddling with his mobile phone.

At this time, Xu Zhiqian and Sister Shuang were packing up the bathtub and placing it at the door, while the young master's mother was washing fruit in the kitchen for everyone to eat.

"So, what is your two-dimensional world?" asked the young master, his eyes sharp.

Ni Yue shook her head. She would not tell the young master that something big had just happened in the three-dimensional world.

Separation from life and death is so shocking for a healthy person with all his limbs, let alone a disabled patient?

At this moment, she just wanted to talk to the young master about something happy.

So I changed the subject, "By the way, I asked the nurse for you, and he said that he has the day shift for the last two days of the month, and he can come to your birthday party after work at four o'clock."

Upon hearing this, the young master's expression suddenly darkened. He was not as cheerful as Ni Yue had imagined. There was even a glimmer of gloom in his eyes.

"Let's talk about the party later..." His voice choked.

Ni Yue was surprised, "Why? I wanted to see you cosplay Qin Che!"

The young master was apparently quite normal when he was taking a shower just now, but why did he suddenly become like a little girl and get upset when the birthday party was mentioned?

The young master glanced at his mother who was washing fruit in the kitchen. His eyes suddenly turned red. As if afraid that she would hear him, he choked and lowered his voice and said, "There's someone I wanted to invite who can't come."

Oh! Ni Yue understood. The person the young master wanted to invite was most likely the girl he had a crush on! People who have been ill for a long time are still human beings. What's more, the young master is only in his early twenties, at the age of blooming flowers. He must also have someone he wants to love!

Thinking of this, she felt a little uncomfortable.

The young master's mother came over with a plate of grapes, and the conversation between Ni Yue and the young master stopped.

On the way home, the atmosphere in the car was depressing. Sister Shuang was not familiar with anyone, and after a few words she fell silent. Xu Zhiqian also drove silently without saying a word.

Last night, he was talking to Zhang Chenling when the phone was inexplicably disconnected. He called several times but Zhang Chenling didn't answer. He had a lot of feelings in his heart but nowhere to express them. He secretly planned to return to Shanghai today to confess his feelings to her in person. Unexpectedly, when he came back, he only saw Ni Yue and a strange older sister.

Ni Yue said that Zhang Chenling had returned to her hometown due to family matters. He immediately sent her a WeChat message, asking about the situation at home, but only received a brief reply: I don’t know either.

Xu Zhiqian was very anxious and didn't pay attention when he was bathing the young master. He kept rubbing mud under his armpits, making the young master grimace in pain and wanting to laugh...

Ni Yue clicked into the dialog box with Zhang Chenling and reported the bad news in a few simple words, but he wrote and deleted, deleted and wrote again.

Finally, she decided to keep her mouth shut and say nothing, letting her cousin discover it herself - believing that she would understand.

Then, Ni Yue stopped worrying about this matter. After all, she had a lot of important things to do.

Just as Zhang Chenling had predicted, after the official media interview program was broadcast, public attention suddenly increased. Shangshanruoshui's official accounts on several social platforms and WeChat public accounts added hundreds of new followers within a day. Messages from all over the country poured in, and there was no time to check them one by one.

The work phone my cousin left behind kept buzzing.

Ni Yue received more than a dozen calls today and replied to more than twenty messages. Most of them were people who wanted to make appointments for home bathing assistance. As a result, the bathing assistance schedule for the next two weeks was suddenly filled up, and he had to take at least four baths every day.

Xiao Ma Ge also came to join in the fun at noon and left a message in the Shangshan Ruoshui group, saying that he felt his body had almost recovered and he would be able to return to the team in a week or two.

Ni Yue gave a warm welcome expression.

At the same time, he was thinking, with Sister Shuang joining and Xiao Ma returning, plus that Qian Xiaohu—assuming he's qualified, wouldn't they be able to form another team? That way, the two teams could take at least eight baths a day!

She cheered for this, but then she thought carefully and realized that if she expanded the team, she would have to increase investment, at least purchase another set of bathing equipment, and the personnel costs would have to double.

Thinking of this, Ni Yue began to count the financial accounts on her fingers. This was the first time since she joined Shangshan Ruoshui.

As she was calculating, she suddenly realized something - since opening her business, Shangshan Ruoshui's income has not been able to cover her expenses?!

At the end of every month, her cousin's salary would be deposited into her account on time. The fixed salary plus the share of orders was almost 8,000 yuan, and this was probably the same amount she paid to Xu Zhiqian. This meager amount of money was far less than a fraction of her previous salary. Ni Yue once secretly disliked it, but now she has calculated carefully and found that not only did they not make any money in the past, but her cousin might have been secretly paying for it!

She took a deep breath and blamed herself for not realizing it so late.

She quickly opened the memo and wrote down the calculations she had just made. Based on her limited financial knowledge, she estimated the cost of supporting two teams, including salaries and five social insurances and one housing fund, plus depreciation of fixed assets, and some other miscellaneous expenses. She roughly calculated the critical point for achieving a break-even point - at least eleven orders must be received every day, five and a half for each team!

On this basis, if you want to make money, you need to take more orders!

She couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Shanghai is so big that it would take a whole day to handle four or five orders. Unless the customers' addresses are relatively concentrated and the team's working hours are extended, it would be difficult to do that even if she worked herself to death!

...I walked upstairs with a heavy heart, and just as one foot reached the door, I almost tripped over a dark object.

She lowered her head and took a closer look. It was a package of express delivery - the bathing tool she bought specially for Miss Zhuang had arrived.

The mood that had been gloomy all day finally became brighter. Tomorrow morning, they will go to Miss Zhuang's house to accompany her to take a bath!