Chapter 45: The Taste of Living Under Someone Else's Roof

"It's true!" Aunt Liu was full of admiration for Old Lady Yin and slapped her thigh. "My sister had someone remove the window and rebuild it. It was fixed in a few days."

"It's good that everything is fine now." Chen Guilan was also happy. "Auntie, we can do business together again in the future."

"It's getting cold now, so it's time for my family's vegetable garden to take a break." Ju Peijun touched his chin and said, "My mother is a person who can't sit still. When the weather gets cold, she wants to go to the city to roast sweet potatoes and sell them!"

"We have a lot of sweet potatoes at home. We can make more money by roasting and selling them." Aunt Liu said to Su Jiaojiao, "Xiao Su, I'll roast and sell sweet potatoes in front of your school when the time comes. I'm sure business will be good."

"It should be possible." Su Jiaojiao refilled the mother and son's tea and said seriously, "I just told my mother that I want to rent a place in the snack street next month to sell some goods. If Auntie is roasting sweet potatoes, she can stop by our place to rest. We can even keep each other company."

She seriously considered renting a house in the snack street.

Tell them in advance so that it will be easier for them to find her.

As far as she knew, Ju Peijun did not have a house in the city and he lived in the dormitory of Jiali Garment Factory.

"That's great." Aunt Liu said to Ju Peijun with a smile, "Look how nice Xiao Su is. She's thinking of helping me before she even found a house."

"Xiao Su, thank you." Ju Peijun clasped his fists towards her. Seeing some fabric on Chen Guilan's sewing machine, he asked, "Do you still make waist bags for sale?"

"No, this is some leftover fabric. I had some free space lying around anyway." Chen Guilan didn't want Su Jiaojiao to know that she had bought some fabric to make a waist bag. Su Jiaojiao had indeed not noticed anything, so she chatted with Ju Peijun about the Mocheng Clothing Wholesale Market. "Last week I went to the Mocheng Clothing Wholesale Market to buy some jeans. I wanted to sell them on the snack street, but I didn't expect to sell any of them. I did buy some dolls, but they were all sold out."

"You shouldn't sell jeans in the snack street, you should go to Shuangzhu Park." Ju Peijun pointed out the mystery. "Think about it, people who go to the snack street are there for food. Selling dolls and some cheap goods is fine, but people who really go shopping for clothes either go to the department store, Hualian Shopping Mall, or go to the market. If they don't have time for these three places, then where will they go? Of course, they will go to Shuangzhu Park."

Shuangzhu Park is the weekend market in Jiao County.

Locals know it.

"Oh, so that's how it is." Su Jiaojiao suddenly realized, "I hadn't thought of that. I'll go to Shuangzhu Park and try it tomorrow."

She only knew that the annual clothing fair was held in Shuangzhu Park, but she didn't know that she could also set up stalls and sell goods in Shuangzhu Park on weekends.

As expected, when three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher. It’s true.

"I'll go with you tomorrow." Chen Guilan happened to have some waist bags to sell. She had been working in the fields at the last Jiaoxian market and hadn't been able to go. Tomorrow was just the right time for her to keep her daughter company. Su Jiaojiao happily agreed, "Okay, let's go together."

"By the way, if you go to Mocheng to stock up on goods, let me know and I'll bring them back to you if it's convenient." Ju Peijun took out a plain business card and handed it to her. "Just call the number on it. Starting tomorrow, I'll be in charge of purchasing, so I'll definitely be going to Mocheng."

"Xiao Su, don't be embarrassed. It's just a piece of cake." Aunt Liu said beside her, "It's the company's car anyway. It's a waste if you don't use it."

"Okay, then thank you, Uncle Ju." Su Jiaojiao put the business card away and took out Liu Wenji's business card and gave it to him. "If my sales are good this week, I'll call you and you can help me find this boss to get the goods."

In her previous life, she had been a colleague of Ju Peijun for two years and trusted him very much.

He is not the kind of person who is good at talking, he is reliable in doing things.

"No problem." Ju Peijun put away the business card.

He likes dealing with straightforward people.

Although Su Jiaojiao is a high school student, her words and actions are very mature and she is a person who can get things done.

"Your Uncle Ju will bring you the goods, don't worry." Aunt Liu looked at Su Jiaojiao with a smile, and the more she looked at her, the more she liked her. "If he doesn't do it well, tell me and I'll beat him."

"Oh, mother, I'm a father now, can you please stop hitting me?" Ju Peijun touched his chin and smiled, "This is only in front of my elder sister and Xiao Su. If it were someone else, they would probably laugh at me!"

"How could we laugh at you? We're just envious!" Su Jiaojiao leaned against Aunt Su. "We've agreed that I'll still call my aunt Auntie, and you'll still be my uncle, because in my heart, Auntie will always be young."

Aunt Liu laughed and said, "You can call me whatever you like. We can discuss things on our own."

Just a name.

It doesn't matter.

"Let's have dinner at home tonight and have a good chat." Chen Guilan went to the kitchen to cook. It was not easy for her daughter to go to Mocheng. If Ju Peijun helped her, she would not know how to thank him. Ju Peijun hurriedly stopped her and said, "We appreciate your kindness, but I really can't do it today. I have to go back to work."

"Yes, he really did ask for leave." Aunt Liu also got off the kang. "We have a lot of time to go. We'll come earlier next time and definitely try your cooking."

Ju Peijun's car was parked at the door.

When they came out, many children were watching and touching this and that. Only when they saw Ju Peijun coming out did they scatter and hide not far away to watch them.

Su Cuicui's younger brother, Su Jinbao, timidly walked up to Su Jiaojiao and looked up at her: "Sister, can I see inside the car?"

"Sure, no problem." Ju Peijun immediately opened the car and carried Su Jinbao in front of all the children. He honked the horn and said, "Beep beep, is it fun?"

"It's fun!" Su Jinbao clapped his hands excitedly, earning a lot of envious looks from his friends. The car is really great.

"Okay, just play for a bit." Ju Peijun had to go back to work, so Su Jiaojiao carried Su Jinbao down. "When you grow up, I'll buy you a car, too, okay?"

In his previous life, after Su Jinbao graduated from junior high school, he bought a large truck a few years later and delivered goods everywhere. He lived a prosperous life.

Su Jiaojiao had little interaction with him, but when they met, he still politely called her "sister", and that was enough. She had no expectations of anyone and would never make things difficult for others for no reason.

"Okay!" Su Jinbao retreated behind Su Jiaojiao reluctantly. Chen Guilan touched Su Jinbao's head with eyes full of love. She didn't have a son, but she really liked this little nephew.

The little nephew didn't know about the conflict between the adults and always called her "Second Mother" by her nicknames.

Every time he came home to play, Chen Guilan would find him some food to cheer him up.

When Feng Yuefen was not at home for some reason, she would also invite Su Jinbao to their place for dinner.

She knew that Chen Guilan would not treat Su Jinbao badly.

"Let's go back!" Aunt Liu rolled down the window and waved to the mother and daughter reluctantly, "See you in the city."

"See you in town." The mother and daughter stood at the entrance of the alley, watching the car disappear into the distance.

The villagers were stunned.

When did their family become so closely associated with people who drive cars? What's going on?

Su Jinbao ran home and excitedly told Feng Yuefen about his experience riding in a car. Feng Yuefen was sitting on the kang knitting a sweater and didn't even raise her eyelids when she heard it. Su Cuicui was also at home. When she heard her brother say that, she muttered that it was childish. Feng Jinbao was bored and went out to play again.

Feng Yuefen continued to ask Su Cuicui: "Does your aunt agree to let you move into the factory?"

"Mom, why don't you understand? I'm just a free babysitter in their house. I even have to kneel on the ground to clean the floor. I'm really fed up." Su Cuicui choked up as she spoke, tears falling. "And that Liang Kun, he doesn't like me at all. He doesn't even talk to me. He likes Su Jiaojiao."

When she moved to Su Xiumei's house, she was as excited as she was now.

She thought that as time went by, Liang Kun would fall in love with her.

However, she soon discovered that this was not the case. Liang Kun never even looked at her, and her uncle treated her like a servant and did not regard her as a relative. Her aunt was the same. The whole family complained of being tired after get off work, and no one wanted to do housework. It seemed that she was the only one who was not tired.

She was really fed up with living under someone else's roof.