"Her family lives in the last row, on the first floor."
After thanking her, Jiang Xue quickly tidied up the few remaining pairs of cotton trousers on the stall.
Jiang Xue parked her bicycle in front of the aunt's house. "Auntie, why did you run off so early?"
The auntie was washing vegetables in the yard. "Oh, young lady, what brings you here? Let me cook you some noodles, they're all frozen."
Jiang Xue replied without hesitation, "Okay." The main reason was that she was indeed cold and hungry, and just wanted something hot to eat.
The woman quickly wiped her hands, grabbed a few green vegetables, and rushed to the kitchen.
Jiang Xue followed behind and saw the aunt fry two eggs for her with deft hands.
"Auntie, you really don't need to spend money. I'll just have something simple to eat." Jiang Xue felt a little embarrassed by the auntie's politeness.
"It's okay, it's okay. It's not like I eat here every day. I can still serve guests presentably when I'm just having a meal."
Jiang Xue ate the steaming hot noodles, fragrant with scallions. "Auntie, do you know how many pairs of socks I sold just now? Could you please tell me?"
The kind-hearted woman shook her head. "I bought a total of sixty pairs of socks and five pairs of cotton pants."
"Wow, that's amazing!" The woman's eyes widened in surprise.
"That's all because you helped me. I promised to give you a commission, and I will definitely give it to you." Jiang Xue calculated that she earned about thirty yuan on this trip. After deducting labor costs, the net profit was about eighteen yuan.
Jiang Xue finished her bowl of noodles, wiped her mouth, and took out five yuan to put on the aunt's table.
"Auntie, this is your commission of four yuan, and there's another yuan in front of you." As soon as Jiang Xue entered the house, she noticed that there was an elderly woman in the auntie's house who was paralyzed in bed, and that she was indeed having a hard time.
According to other employees' families, she seemed to be a very frugal person, yet she still generously prepared two eggs for herself.
"I can't accept it. I didn't help at all; it was all your talking that got the better of you."
Seeing that the aunt was absolutely unwilling to take it, Jiang Xue told her very seriously, "I didn't ask you to sell it. Your task was just to bring people over."
"Keep it safe, I need your help with something." Jiang Xue had no time to chat with the aunt.
If such a large order were to slip away, she would be so angry she'd vomit blood.
"Whatever it is, as long as I can help, I will definitely help."
"Then, Auntie, please have a seat."
The older woman was taken aback by Jiang Xue's mysterious manner. She carefully sat down opposite her and lowered her voice, saying, "Tell me about it."
"Is there a man named Liu Daxing at Hong'an Factory?"
The moment Jiang Xue mentioned Liu Daxing, the aunt's expression changed drastically. "Who are you to him?"
“I have absolutely no connection with him, I was just asking.”
"It's fine if we don't have any connection, but if we do, you're not welcome here."
Jiang Xue immediately became interested, "I also really dislike him; he's not a good person at all."
Jiang Xue's words were half platitudes and half truth.
“I was originally a worker who threaded the wires for light bulbs, but then I don’t know why, I was laid off. Later, my husband told me that a beautiful widow had been assigned to my position. To put it bluntly, she replaced me.”
Jiang Xue instantly became excited; this ability to completely trip up that kind of person was the strongest evidence.
"And then what?"
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