"Hey, Fourth Brother, it's almost noon, how about we grab a quick bite together?" Qin Xiaoyu guessed.

"I mean what I said. If I'm not eating, I'm not eating. Weren't you going to give me a membership card?" Qi Si said impatiently.

"Oh! Right, right! Look at my memory." Qin Xiaoyu finally realized what Qi Si was waiting for, and hurriedly turned around to look for something. Seeing her seriously drawing cards on the table, Qi Si was internally collapsing.

"Can this thing of yours even be counted?"

"If I say it's a deal, then it's a deal."

"What if someone else draws one and uses it?"

"Who could draw this beautifully?" Qin Xiaoyu exclaimed confidently, leaving Qi Si speechless.

"That's true." He said after a long pause, then took the card and left.

Qin Xiaoyu watched his retreating figure and thought about what he had just said. Was he praising her?

Qin Xiaoyu was busy until Lunar New Year's Eve before she could finally catch her breath. She spent the morning arranging her wife's discharge from the hospital and only arrived at the hairdressing school around noon. She had already said that the afternoon was off and everyone would receive red envelopes at noon.

The red paper was cut a few days in advance, and the red envelopes were wrapped together with Hanhan and my younger sister. When I received the big, heavy bag, it was a testament to everyone's hard work.

The trainees were thrilled to receive red envelopes as apprentices. Qin Xiaoyu first dealt with the children, and when she saw fifty yuan in the bag, they jumped and shouted with joy, even happier than during the New Year.

The teachers and errand boys all had 100-yuan red envelopes in their bags, and everyone was satisfied. Qin Xiaoyu had originally planned to personally deliver the red envelopes to Da Liu when she went to pay her New Year's visits, but Da Liu had come to the school to wait for her instead. So she had to prepare a larger red envelope and present it to her personally.

"Junior sister, I wish you even greater success in your business next year. Your senior sister is counting on you, hehe." Da Liu grinned even wider.

"Little Fish, you're really amazing! You even managed to win over Big Liu." Master Wang secretly gave Qin Xiaoyu a thumbs up.

Money is a good thing. Qin Xiaoyu thought to herself. She saw everyone off at the gate, locked it herself, and then headed home.

The house was bustling with activity, with people busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner and cleaning. The men in the family, who were usually lazy, were now being directed by Qin Xiaoyu to dust and sweep the floor, none of them idle.

Qin Xiaoyu bought some firecrackers and asked Tang Long to take Hanhan to set them off. Her sister-in-law's family also returned. Tang Hu, covered in dust, watched the spectacle with his sleeves rolled up, his eyes full of envy.

"Bring your little brother along too." Qin Xiaoyu couldn't bear to see the child's pitiful eyes, so she pushed Tang Hu in front of Tang Long. Tang Long didn't respond, which was taken as tacit consent. Only then did a smile appear on Tang Hu's face. Tang Hu's mother saw this, but said nothing and turned to go inside.

This New Year's Eve dinner cost over a hundred yuan. This was Qin Xiaoyu's first Spring Festival after her rebirth, and she wanted to make it a grand affair.

"I'm so worried about your money, so please don't give me any more! I don't want it." Grandma Hanhan was dragged aside by Qin Xiaoyu, who casually stuffed a red envelope into her hand, but she absolutely refused to accept it.

"Mom, here you go, just take it! It's not good if others see this, hurry up!" Qin Xiaoyu refused to listen and kept trying to stuff the stuff into her pocket.

"Little Fish, it makes Mom feel uneasy when you're like this." Grandma Hanhan started wiping away tears again.

"Okay, it's a holiday today, let's not cry, let's be good, just laugh, don't cry."

"Okay, whatever you say!"

The children's red envelopes were also prepared, with fifty yuan given to Tang Long and Xiuqin each. The children had never seen so much money before and were terrified.

People are biased after all. Qin Xiaoyu gave Tang Hu a ten-yuan envelope, and Tang Hu's mother seemed quite satisfied. However, she was stingy and didn't give Hanhan and Xiaomei any red envelopes, but grabbed two handfuls of candy instead.

My cousin's wife didn't give Hanhan and the others red envelopes either, but mysteriously placed a box on the kang (heated brick bed) at Qin Xiaoyu's house.

"Mom! Mom!" Hanhan ran excitedly into the kitchen to find Qin Xiaoyu.

"What's wrong?" Qin Xiaoyu was startled, thinking something had happened again.

"A tape recorder! We have a tape recorder at home!" Hanhan was so happy she didn't know what to do.

Qin Xiaoyu was staggered and dragged back into the house by Hanhan. When she saw the tape recorder, she understood that it was a gift from her cousin-in-law.

“You’ve been saying you’d buy Hanhan a tape recorder, and she’s been wanting one for so long, but you haven’t bought it for her. All the money has been spent on others. My family is doing well now. Your brother brought back nearly two thousand yuan this time, including his bonus and the money he reimbursed for his business trip. We haven’t seen that much in all these years. Please accept it, so we can feel more at ease.” The cousin-in-law said, holding Qin Xiaoyu’s hand and wiping away her tears.

"Thank you, sister-in-law, I'll take it." What else could Qin Xiaoyu say? She just felt that the seeds she had planted had suddenly blossomed overnight, and she couldn't quite adjust to it yet.

Tang Wenwen arrived home late at night. As soon as she entered, she called out "Sister-in-law" and spun Qin Xiaoyu around in her arms. Seeing Tang Wenwen's radiant and triumphant expression, Qin Xiaoyu's heart sank. She knew that something that shouldn't have happened had occurred.

When she went to bed at night, she called Tang Wenwen over to sleep with her. Originally, when Hanhan's grandfather lived in the west room, there was a small room that belonged to Tang Wenwen. Now that they had moved houses, the small room in the east room was occupied by the grandmother, and Tang Wenwen's room had been squeezed out.

Given her uncle and aunt's attitude, there was no way she could stay with them. Her cousin's family was also very warm and welcoming, so she could only stay in Qin Xiaoyu's room.

Xiuqin also slept over that night, so it wasn't convenient for her to talk. Once the children were breathing evenly, Qin Xiaoyu turned to look at Tang Wenwen, waiting for her to speak.

"I'm sorry, sister-in-law."

"You're not sorry to me."

“Sister-in-law, I know you’ll be very angry. But he chased after me, begged me, and wouldn’t leave no matter how I chased him away. He swore that he would only love me for the rest of his life, and I had no choice…” Tang Wenwen said incoherently, sobbing.

"Ha, you actually believe this nonsense."

"Didn't you believe it too!"

"I believed it, so I died a terrible death!" Qin Xiaoyu sat up and glared fiercely at Tang Wenwen, who was still trying to reopen old wounds. She must have been bewitched.

"Sister-in-law, I understand. Maybe I'll die a terrible death too, but it's my own fault. Just pretend you don't know anything." Tang Wenwen was determined.

"You don't understand at all. In a man's eyes, there are only two kinds of women: one is the one he gets and no longer cherishes, like mosquito blood; the other is the one he can never have, like the white moonlight hanging in the sky. If you dump him, you become the white moonlight, and he'll chase you back desperately. But once you become mosquito blood, he'll still abandon you! You're a smart woman. Choose to be the white moonlight or the mosquito blood!" Qin Xiaoyu made one last effort to make Tang Wenwen see the light.

"I want to be a cinnabar mole, so that he will keep me in his heart."

"Wake up! There's no such thing as a birthmark in this world; that's just skin cancer sooner or later!" Qin Xiaoyu became more and more agitated as she spoke.

"Sister-in-law, maybe I really made a mistake this time. But this is my life, and I want to live recklessly just this once, is that okay?" Tang Wenwen said this much, and Qin Xiaoyu was speechless. Was this her fate? What could she do?