"Brother Jizong!"
"Sister Mei Ying!"
Upon meeting again, the two embraced tightly, calling out to each other with deep affection.
Chang Jizong had grown much taller and thinner, looking like a bamboo pole.
He put his arm around Chang Meiying's shoulder and raised his chin: "Meiying, I've prepared the firecrackers. When are we going to bomb the CCP in the public toilets?"
Chang Jizong was very proud of himself. He was ashamed of everything he did, and his mother constantly urged him to be humble and make friends with classmates from wealthy families, making him feel inferior to everyone else.
Ever since he went back to class last time and bragged about the rice-frying incident in the public toilet, his classmates have been vying to hear what Brother Jizong has to say.
Chang Meiying patted him on the back, glanced back, and only felt relieved when she saw that her mother wasn't there: "Brother Jizong, I'm just asking you, how fast can you run!"
Once, she was being naughty, and the fool she sent out was too stupid. He bombed the rice and didn't run away, which caused her sister Meiying to get a beating from her fierce mother-in-law Zhou Hongyu when she got home!
"Not fast. I can't outrun the girls in my class during PE class." Chang Jizong twisted his head uncomfortably.
Sun Yanxia demanded that he excel in everything, but unfortunately, he was not very talented and was neither good at academics nor martial arts, so she scolded him three times a day.
"If you can't run fast, then there's a lot to talk about. Brother Jizong, you need to train, I'm telling you..."
On the other side, Sun Yanxia was showing off her connections as the wife of a university teacher to several neighbors who had come after hearing the news.
"You know what a moving company is, right? There's never been such a service in China before! Professor Yang's daughter and her husband, who live in our apartment building, have become big business owners. This is their newly established company, and they were very enthusiastic in offering to help us with our move!"
Sun Yanxia twisted her waist and pointed at the car parked at the door: "Look, the big boss is really rich. He gets picked up and dropped off when he moves. How many people in all of China can afford to ride in a car!"
The neighbors nodded in agreement and complimented her, saying, "Yanxia, you're so lucky!"
"Of course!" Sun Yanxia said proudly.
Her greatest achievement in life was marrying a good husband and becoming the wife of a university professor!
Sun Yanxia glanced at Zhou Hongyu's room, then looked at Chang Rihui and his sister, who were repairing a bookshelf in another room, and felt a surge of hatred.
What kind of people are these? They didn't even bother to lend a hand during the move!
A neighbor nudged Sun Yanxia, saying, "Yanxia, they're calling you!"
Sun Yanxia then looked at the moving company people, waved her hand, and said smugly, "Looks like the move is over. I'll go over and say a few polite words to them and see them off."
"What?! You want money from me?! Who told you to ask me for money?! Your boss said he'd help us move for free!"
The team leader was both amused and exasperated: "The boss did say that, but you insisted on having us pick you up and drop you off. You have to pay for the car rental and gas. We can't just make a wasted trip and then lose money!"
Sun Yanxia almost fainted from anger.
She vaguely remembered the situation at the time. Professor Yang's daughter had said that she would help with the move for free, but she envied the VIP-level service of the moving company. She kept calling Professor Yang's daughter "sister" and said that she wanted the exact same thing.
If she had known earlier that she should spend her own money, why did she have to do this?
The tour leader calculated the fee for her, then sighed: "It's two hundred and sixteen yuan and seventy-eight cents in total. I'll round it down for you, and I'll just charge you two hundred and sixteen!"
Sun Yanxia kept a straight face and didn't say anything.
She didn't want to give a single penny.
Anyway, she's already moved out, and it's not her who's waiting to beg for help.
Seeing this, the team leader understood what she meant. Fine, then we'll just have to take it to the boss.
“We’re just employees. These expenses of yours are all paid from the company’s account. If the account can’t be reimbursed, I can only tell the boss the truth when I get back!”
After saying that, the team leader rudely told the workers to leave.
Sun Yanxia thought for a moment and immediately chased after him: "Come back here! I'll pay you! Don't report me to the boss! Calculate the expenses again, it can't be this expensive, especially the gas..."
"The gas is expensive because you, customer, come out of your apartment building and direct us to drive around everywhere, to pick up the yarn you forgot at your colleague's house, to deliver tables and chairs to your parents' house, and so on. Please think it over!"
...
Sun Yanxia's face turned a liverish color. She was in a daze at the time, thinking that it wasn't her own money being spent, and was only concerned with showing off, without thinking at all about saving the moving company money.
"Let's negotiate the price again. Two hundred and sixteen plus a little more would be enough for my husband and me for a year's salary. But since you're in business, let's be auspicious and make it eighty-eight!"
"Hmph!" The team leader gave her a disgruntled look.
Cut it in half, are you kidding me?
"Hey! Don't rush off! Eighty-eight won't do, then one hundred will do..."
Sun Yanxia stood at the door with her hands on her hips, haggling with the moving company. The neighbors looked at each other.
“Let’s go back. I bet something happened to Chang Guofu, and the third branch of the family lost out, so they slunk back here. Sun Yanxia used to complain so much about living in the university staff dormitory and living in the alley! How could she possibly move back just to have more space? Don’t listen to her nonsense!”
*
Before dinner, Chen Zhaodi returned from outside.
She was still thinking about the wonderful idea of going to the garment factory to buy goods and sell clothes to make a lot of money. Today was Sunday, her day off, so she made a special trip to the back gate of the garment factory to take a look at the situation.
Goodness, it's packed with people.
The back gate of the garment factory was packed with people, many of whom spoke with local Beijing accents, but even more spoke with accents from other parts of the country. There are still many clever people in this world.
Seeing that she couldn't squeeze into the registration line, Chen Zhaodi tried to get some information out of others, but she underestimated how shrewd business people were. Before she could get any information out of them, her own secrets were about to be revealed.
Several people overheard her words about making a fortune last time. After a quick calculation, they immediately guessed that she had strong connections in the garment factory and followed Chen Zhaodi around, wanting to give her money to befriend her.
Three thousand, five thousand...
The higher the numbers went, the calmer Chen Zhaodi became, and she made an excuse to run away.
Zhou Hongyu is right. There's no such thing as a free lunch. It's not easy to build a business.
"Mom, why are you carrying the cabinet all by yourself? Let me do it!"
When Chen Zhaodi entered the house, she saw Granny Chang moving things by herself. After looking around, she found that there were quite a few people from the second branch of the family at home, and she became angry.
How disrespectful they are to the elderly and children!
See, she's still the most filial to her elders!
Granny Chang and Chen Zhaodi each carried one side of the table. Granny Chang smiled and said, "Zhaodi, you're so thoughtful!"
Being praised by Granny Chang is equivalent to surpassing Zhou Hongyu!
Chen Zhaodi was secretly delighted.
She quickly realized something was wrong: "Mom, no one's staying in this room..."
Before he finished speaking, he carried the table into the room and saw Sun Yanxia lying comfortably on the bed eating snacks.
...
Granny Chang smiled and said, "Yanxia and the others are moving today. The moving company delivered the things and left in a hurry, leaving some things behind in the yard. Yanxia said she had a headache and backache and couldn't handle them. Hongyu and the others also had things to do, so I thought I'd lend Yanxia a hand!"
Chen Zhaodi: "Oh~"
As she left the room, Chen Zhaodi raised her hand and slapped herself twice. "Serves you right for being so shameless!"
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, I have something to tell you!" Sun Yanxia's haunting voice came from behind. Chen Zhaodi, who had suffered at Sun Yanxia's hands several times, didn't listen and ran away as fast as she could.
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