Li Yang's coworker couldn't help but yell, "Who's going too far? It's not enough to just make a scene this morning, you're even coming over for dinner. Xu Yanping, are you done yet?"

Xu Yanping pointed at her coworker and yelled, "I'm talking to Li Yang. What does this have to do with you? Stop meddling in other people's business!"

Coworker: "Anyway, I just can't stand seeing you bullying Li Yang all day! You really think you're the boss! You're so capable, you should marry Fu Jin. He might even look down on you!"

Xu Yanping turned to look at Li Yang: "Li Yang, are you just going to let others talk about me like this?"

Li Yang waved his hand: "I think Xiao Zheng is right."

Li Yang’s coworker was Zheng Shu, a young girl who had just started working. She had a round face and was clean and likable.

Li Yang's words today were meant to provoke Xu Yanping.

Xu Yanping has always been arrogant and competitive. Now she says that Fu Jin looks down on her, which is simply stepping on her tail.

In her previous life, hadn't Xu Yanping pushed her into the fire pit? In this life, she wanted to see how exhilarating it would be for Xu Yanping to walk into the fire pit herself.

Li Yang stood up, picked up his lunch box and said to Zheng Shu, "Let's go."

Zheng Shu also picked up the lunch box: "Let's go, it really affects our appetite."

When Li Yang passed by Xu Yanping, he deliberately glanced at her, and everything was said without words.

Xu Yanping was also angered by Li Yang's provocative look. She picked up the lunch box on the table and wanted to throw it at Li Yang, but when she saw the fresh food in the lunch box, she couldn't bear to do so.

What's so difficult about marrying Fu Jin? What's so great about Li Yang? Why do you look down on her?

When she really marries Fu Jin, let’s see how Li Yang will regret it!

Thinking of this, Xu Yanping seemed to have made up her mind and her eyes became firm.

*

As soon as he got off work in the afternoon, Li Yang hurried to the vegetable market.

Although she forgot the appointment with Ji Huaizhi in the morning to go home for dinner in the evening, she inexplicably felt that Ji Huaizhi would come back.

She bought a pork rib, some shrimp and vermicelli, and weighed some kale sprouts, planning to make steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce, shrimp with vermicelli and garlic sauce, and stir-fried kale in the evening.

Unlike a decade ago, people's enthusiasm for fatty meat has gradually decreased, and they are more pursuing the diversity of ingredients. The price of spare ribs, which no one was willing to buy before, has increased a lot.

Fortunately, Guangzhou is close to the sea, and most of the seafood is caught by the fishermen themselves. It is fresh and not expensive.

Li Yang saw a lot of mustard greens in front of a stall. They had many stems and few leaves, which were perfect for making kimchi, so he bought three. He went home to wash and dry them first, and then buy a jar tomorrow to pickle them.

Around six o'clock in the evening, the aroma of food wafted from every household, and Ji Huaizhi's footsteps followed.

Li Yang came out of the kitchen and said with a smile, "Go wash your hands quickly, we'll have dinner soon."

Ji Huaizhi looked at Li Yang in front of him. She was wearing a simple cloth dress, a newly bought floral apron tied around her waist, a strand of hair hanging down in front of her forehead, and she was smiling gently.

He suddenly remembered that when the Ji family was still alive, Ji's mother would put down her writing brush and wash her hands to make soup, and would also call him home for dinner.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll help." Then he went into the kitchen.

At the dinner table, Ji Huaizhi took out two more Mao Zedong notes and said, "Keep them."

When Li Yang saw him bring the money back, he first observed Ji Huaizhi's face. Seeing that there were no scars on it, he put the money into his pocket.

She couldn't help but ask, "Can I ask you what you do for a living now?"

There were very few reports about the first few years of Ji Huaizhi's entrepreneurship, and the media seemed to have tacitly concealed that part of the past.

She naturally wanted the best for him, but she was also worried about his safety, because when she saw him again many years later, he had a shallow scar on his brow bone.

"Do you want to know?" Ji Huaizhi glanced at her and asked casually.

Li Yang nodded: "Okay, just ask." She immediately added, "If it's inconvenient to say, it's okay not to say it."

Ji Huaizhi put a shrimp into her bowl and said, "I used to resell goods with people, but now I mainly collect debts."

After the reform and opening up, Guangzhou is full of business opportunities. The key lies in whether you dare to do it and whether you can do it. However, many people's thinking has not changed for the time being, and they are disdainful and dare not develop individual economy.

Even two years ago, the reselling business was only run by a small number of daring people. After the wave of layoffs followed, many people came to their senses. However, most of those who were ahead at that time had already become rich.

After hearing this, Li Yang felt relieved.

Although reselling goods was risky, it was much better than she had originally imagined.

Seeing her expression slightly relaxed, Ji Huaizhi said: "I am going out with Gangzi next month and will be back in about half a month."

As the year draws to a close, it's a good opportunity to make money and he doesn't want to miss it.

In the past, he would have just let it go, but with a little girl in the family, he inexplicably wanted to earn more money, not for anything else, but just hoped that the little girl would no longer be so frugal just to save a penny.

Li Yang knew that Ji Huaizhi was probably going out to do something important, so he nodded and said, "I understand. Be careful out there."

It's already the end of November, and the next month is only a few days away.

She also took the opportunity to tell Ji Huaizhi about her plan: "I want to quit working in the jewelry factory after this year."

Ji Huaizhi looked over when he heard this, with a serious look in his eyes: "So what are your plans?"

Li Yang said, "Didn't we sell a few pieces of jadeite last time? I want to find a job in a jade workshop and see if there's a chance to gamble on jade."

After much deliberation, Li Yang decided to go the route of gambling on stones.

Just like her new life, it was a gamble. She walked out of the mud and crawled in the darkness, with only that bit of unwillingness and no other way out.

Ji Huaizhi nodded: "Combined with the money I earned before the New Year, it should be enough for gambling on stones for the time being."

Li Yang was shocked when he heard this and quickly waved his hands: "No, no, I have money."

There are still more than two months before the Chinese New Year, and she has not received three months' salary, which adds up to two or three hundred yuan, which is enough to buy small raw stones.

Ji Huaiyi made the final decision: "Whatever you want to do, just do it. If it is really a burden, just consider it as my investment. When you make money in the future, you can pay me back."

Ji Huai had said so much, and Li Yang couldn't refuse any longer. After thanking him again and again, he felt that he owed him more and more.

*

After dinner, Li Yang was folding clothes in the room, while Ji Huaizhi grabbed the dishes and washed them in the yard. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Li Yang's heart skipped a beat. Feng Mei had been silent since yesterday. Could it be that she had come again?

Hearing the sound of Ji Huaizhi getting up to open the door, Li Yang hurried out to greet him.

I saw a young woman standing at the gate of the yard. She was thin, supporting her eight or nine-month-old belly with one hand, and looked haggard.