Qin Xiaoyu quickly shooed her away, and Zhou Xingcai was able to climb upstairs smoothly.

"How is he?" Qin Xiaoyu reassured Zhou Xing's mother, then went upstairs to check on him. Jing Tian had quickly filled the room with the smell of alcohol and was fast asleep, seemingly unable to vomit anytime soon.

"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on things." Zhou Xing closed the door, preventing Qin Xiaoyu from seeing any further.

"The ugly behavior of a drunkard."

"I'm the same when I'm drunk."

"So, you clean up his messes, and he'll clean up yours. Is that what they call a buddy?"

"No, fair-weather friends." Zhou Xing chuckled lightly. Qin Xiaoyu was truly speechless; facing someone who mocked herself was like punching cotton.

"Anyway, don't let him look for Wenwen again. He has already hurt Wenwen deeply. What more does he want? He only plays for a few days when he comes back to China, and then forgets about her when he goes abroad. What does he take Wenwen for?" Qin Xiaoyu was filled with indignation when she thought of Tang Wenwen, who was alone in the cold Northeast taking care of her pregnancy.

"Has something happened to Wenwen?" Zhou Xing was still very sensitive.

Why do you ask that?

"It seems you're a bit agitated."

"Is it wrong for me to be agitated? Didn't you say I always live in a state of repression, constantly on the verge of collapse? Isn't the time right yet?"

"You're right, I'm scared of you. Go downstairs now, or my mom will worry I'll eat you up." Zhou Xing directly asked him to leave.

"What does Jing Tian want with you? Does he want to avenge Bai Weiwei?" Zhou Xing's mother had quite the imagination, leaving Qin Xiaoyu both amused and exasperated by the question.

The next morning, Qin Xiaoyu prepared to leave early. She didn't want to be bothered by Jing Tian, ​​so she left early.

But as soon as she stepped outside, she saw Jing Tian standing at the door, his face pale.

"Sister Xiaoyu, I'm waiting for you."

"Don't call me that, I have nothing to do with you."

"I know you hate me for abandoning Wenwen after starting something, and I hate myself too. Why did I lose such a good girl? I regret it now. Please help me find her."

“Jing Tian, ​​you’ve probably never been rejected much growing up. So you don’t know that some things, once lost, are gone forever. For example, Wenwen, she will never have anything to do with you again. Just leave and never bother her again.” Qin Xiaoyu looked calmly at Jing Tian’s face.

"Give me one more chance, the last time!" Jing Tian pleaded.

Qin Xiaoyu slammed the car door shut in front of him and drove away.

She doesn't know how Tang Wenwen will handle the child she gave birth to yet. What's certain is that if any word gets out, it will cause another uproar, even worse than the one that happened to her.

Qin Xiaoyu felt uneasy as she entered the store's courtyard. Empty cardboard boxes were piled up in the yard, and her cousin-in-law, disheveled and dirty, was flattening the boxes, her face covered in snot and tears from the wind.

"The boxes have all been dumped out, how are we going to put the goods?" Qin Xiaoyu picked up a cardboard box, placed it on the ground, jumped on it, pressed it down, and then stomped on it hard, flattening the box.

"The goods have all been sold, what should we do with them?" Her cousin-in-law glanced at her, unable to hide the joy in her eyes.

"What do you mean? What about the goods we received yesterday?"

"We were open until 11 a.m. yesterday and everyone was scrambling to buy things. Luckily, we were short 10 yuan when we reconciled the accounts. Thank goodness."

"Frenzy? Prices dropped?"

"What's the point of lowering prices? Even if prices go up, it won't stop them from buying," my cousin-in-law said, still shaken.

Qin Xiaoyu quickly went into the department store and saw that the floor was a mess, with packaging bags and scraps of paper everywhere.

Zhou Yue had just woken up and was yawning as she came downstairs.

"We still need to restock. We've already sold a third of it, and we probably can't hold on any longer today."

"Where do these customers get their purchasing power from?" Qin Xiaoyu scratched her head, as if she had underestimated something.

Until noon on the 30th, the shops were in a state of chaos, selling whatever they could get their hands on. People bought whatever they saw as if it were free, flocking in like swarms. The shops were forced to stay open until 11 p.m., and the opening time, which was originally scheduled for 9 a.m., had to be moved up to 8 a.m.

Qin Xiaoyu had no choice but to stay at the store, working alongside her cousin-in-law Zhou Yue. Even Tang Long had to stay home to help. Tang Fengqin called over two more female classmates, which finally helped them weather the peak sales period of the past few days.

Qin Xiaoyu originally said she would have the day off on the 30th, but her cousin-in-law refused and insisted on staying until noon.

Qin Xiaoyu didn't leave the house all morning, and she settled the accounts for the past few days. She was really shocked when she saw the numbers on the books.

In just over a month since opening, the company had already made a net profit of 40,000 yuan, including from color TV sales. At the time, this was an astronomical figure. In an era when the average annual income was only 700 yuan, 40,000 yuan was enough for a person to save for a lifetime without eating or drinking.

As usual, Qin Xiaoyu took out two thousand yuan and gave it to her as a red envelope. Then she took out another ten thousand yuan, called her cousin-in-law over, and handed it to her.

"This is your dividend, sister-in-law, please accept it."

"I don't want this money. You own the shop, and I'm just a worker. Just pay me my salary. If you feel bad about it, open a bigger shop. But I can't accept any profit sharing. You're the one running around doing all the work, why should I get a share?" My sister-in-law exploded when she heard that.

"Sister-in-law, without you, I wouldn't have been able to make this store a success. It's all thanks to you and my brother, who treated this store like our own, working tirelessly day and night, that we've achieved such success. The promised profit sharing is the profit sharing, so take the money!"

Qin Xiaoyu forced the money into her hand, and her cousin-in-law felt the weight of it in her hands, her eyes reddening.

"If you insist on settling accounts with me like this, fine, I'll pay you back first. Your brother took 15,000 yuan from you, and there's also Tang Long's medical expenses. You can take this 15,000 yuan, and I'll pay you back slowly!" The cousin-in-law insisted on not accepting it, but in the end, Qin Xiaoyu insisted and finally accepted 2,000 yuan.

There wasn't much stock left on the counter, and there were fewer customers.

Some families are impatient and start their reunion dinner at two or three in the afternoon, eating and drinking until midnight, welcoming the New Year before going to sleep.

"Sister-in-law, don't be greedy. You should rest for two days during the New Year. It's too hard on you," Qin Xiaoyu said.

"Auntie, you're right. My mom is a money-grubber. She'll definitely open the door," Tang Long said with a smile.

"Don't worry, Auntie, I'm here. I won't let my mom get tired. If she insists on opening, I'll just sit in front and watch." Tang Fengqin was sensible.

"Okay, I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the hotel to make some arrangements. Sister Xiaoyue, stop checking the goods and get dressed quickly." Qin Xiaoyu had arranged a special New Year's Eve dinner.

Speaking of turning thirty, Zhou Xing's mother and Commander Zhou had been having some reservations for a while. They both had their own selfish reasons for wanting to keep the two children with them, but the children had proper grandparents, so how could they keep them away? They were both reasonable, but they just felt uncomfortable.

Qin Xiaoyu was calculating things differently. There were quite a few people in her family, but Grandma Hanhan was the only one doing all the cooking. She had also caught a cold recently and wasn't feeling well. Her cousin's family was also busy, and they didn't know what time they would get back. Her sister-in-law was always lazy, so don't even think about asking her to do any work. She had already started nagging Yang'er to go back to her parents' home for the New Year.