"This is utter nonsense!" Yu Yang slammed his chopsticks heavily on the table. "I'll do whatever you want with everything else, but not this."
“Dad, if you insist on forcing me, then just let me stay in this hospital bed.” Dian Dian threatened him. “Anyway, all you care about is your pride, you never care about my feelings. I haven’t read a book in years, how am I supposed to concentrate? Why don’t you just treat me like a patient, since I’m not going to study anyway.”
“You…” Yu Yang’s face turned pale with anger.
"Director Yu, calm down!" Su Xiaonuan poured him a cup of tea. "Calm down! Dian Dian has just recovered, you can't be impatient, let's wait until she's fully recovered before we talk about it."
"Sister Xiaonuan, my mind is made up, don't try to persuade me." Diandian gestured for her to stop, telling her not to act as her father's mediator.
“Dian Dian, since you call me Sister Xiao Nuan, then I have to take responsibility for your actions. I support you in wanting to learn to cook and become a free and independent small business owner, but you still need to catch up on your studies. Even if it's not for the sake of going to university in the future, it's to make you more confident as a business owner.”
"Is Sister Xiaonuan a college student?"
"no."
"That's it then, I don't have to take the college entrance exam."
"Although Sister Xiaonuan is not a college student, she has self-studied all the college courses. Otherwise, she wouldn't have the confidence to open a shop and become a boss."
"You're just bragging."
"I'm not bragging, I'll prove you wrong later." Su Xiaonuan stared at the quirky girl in front of her. "Now, you should eat quickly and get better. Aren't you going to look for your mother? After you find her, we can discuss whether you should continue your studies or open a shop and become your own boss, okay?"
"Anyway, I don't want to study." She pouted.
Xiao Nuan gently tugged at her face. "There are golden houses in books, and beautiful women in books. If you don't read, you won't have the confidence to be a boss. Otherwise, you'll just be a small business owner at best, spending your whole life running a small shop and waiting to die."
"Does Sister Xiaonuan, this small business owner, have big ambitions?"
"Of course," Su Xiaonuan pointed at her, "You wait here."
She took out the franchise contracts to show Dian Dian, trying to convince this girl who was going through a rebellious phase with facts.
When she slammed the contract down in front of her, Dian Dian looked at her, puzzled. "What are these?"
“It’s a contract.” Su Xiaonuan looked down at her. “If your sister Xiaonuan wasn’t educated, how could she have come up with such a brilliant business idea? Take a good look. These are my partners. Next month, Jiuya Restaurant will spring up like mushrooms after rain on every street.”
Yu Yang was even faster than Dian Dian. He grabbed the contract and looked at it carefully. After reading it, he exclaimed that it was brilliant. "Xiao Nuan, you are a genius! You are a genius at solving cases, and I didn't expect you to be a genius at doing business as well. You even thought of such a business strategy. It's brilliant."
"Sister Xiaonuan, you're amazing!"
"Now you know how amazing I am, right?" Su Xiaonuan took the opportunity to flatter herself. "That's why you can't do without studying. If you want to be as amazing as me, you have to study more. Once you catch up on the lessons you've missed over the past few years, I'll take you on as my apprentice and even help you open a franchise store."
“Okay.” Dian Dian held her hand. “Once I find my mother, I’ll catch up on my studies and then I’ll learn to cook, and then I can be a free and independent boss.”
"You don't need to learn how to cook, just learn how to be a boss."
"You can learn to be a boss right away?"
“Of course you can,” Su Xiaonuan said. “If you study hard, you can become a capable boss. Cooking is something that manual laborers can do. If you don’t study hard, you can only stick to one shop until you die. It’s impossible to make a breakthrough or develop. With education, you can manage your business well and make it bigger and stronger.”
"I understand." Dian Dian finally understood. "Sister Xiao Nuan, I will study hard and catch up on my lessons, don't worry."
"What a good girl!" She patted Dian Dian's head. "I can't make it up to you, I have other things to do."
She could already see tears welling up in Yu Yang's eyes. If she didn't slip away soon, she would have to deal with Yu Yang's endless gratitude.
She ran into Peng Wan, who glanced at the wall clock. "It's already six o'clock, why haven't you gone to pick up your child from school yet?"
"I'll go after I finish serving this dish."
"Which table?" Xiao Nuan reached out and took the plate of food. "You'd better hurry to school."
"Boss lady, why isn't Aunt Ye here?"
"They have something to take care of today." She seemed to have something to say. "You can just tell me what you want to say."
"Boss lady, you need to be careful!" Peng Wan whispered in her ear. "That woman who got beaten up by the boss yesterday, she's here again today, but she didn't come in. She's been circling around the area for a while. I hope she's not up to any bad ideas."
"Okay, I understand, thank you!"
"No need to thank me. Aunt Ye told me to keep an eye on her. Otherwise, I wouldn't have found that woman. Chen Lan told me she was injured. Be careful she doesn't come back for revenge."
After saying that, Peng Wan walked away briskly.
After serving the dishes, Su Xiaonuan went out as well. She walked around outside but didn't find Xiang Qiuyun anywhere.
Just as she was about to go inside, Xiang Qiuyun ran out from around the corner and affectionately put her arm around her shoulder. "Xiao Nuan, did you know I was coming and come out to greet me?"
"Your face is all bruised and battered. Why aren't you at home recovering? What are you doing running around scaring people?" Su Xiaonuan was also confused. She had just searched the corner where the girl had run out from, but couldn't find her anywhere. Where did she come from?
"Wasn't this face injured by your man?" Xiang Qiuyun pouted. "The doctor said I need to rest for a week. I took leave from work, and I won't get paid, so I'll have to make do at your shop for the next few days."
"Heh, you want to dine and dash?"
"Don't put it so harshly. Xiao Moran injured me, is it too much to ask that I eat your food for a few days?"
"Not unreasonable." Su Xiaonuan looked at her former plastic best friend. "However, you've come to the wrong place. You should go find Xiao Moran and ask him to solve your food problem for the next few days."
"You're husband and wife, it's the same whether you look for him or you."
"We operate independently and split the bill equally, do you understand?"
"What do you mean by splitting the bill? I don't understand. All I know is that you're family. If he hurt me, you have to take responsibility. Even if it wasn't your man who hurt me, shouldn't you take care of me for the sake of our sisterhood?" Xiang Qiuyun winked at her.
Because of her bruised and swollen face, her eyes were almost reduced to slits.
“Aren’t you Jiang Yi’s girlfriend? Why don’t you let him come and take care of you? I have a child to take care of and a business to run, I don’t have the time to take care of you. If you insist on staying here, I’ll call Jiang Yi and have him come to the store and take your girlfriend home to rest.”
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