Xia Ruzheng carefully kept the coats. She also wanted to learn from Grandma Liu how to preserve these coats. Such good things would be difficult to find coats of such good quality in the next ten years or so.
As soon as November arrived, Xia Ruzheng received three letters from home.
Xia Ruqian didn't react much to her sister and brother-in-law not coming home for the New Year. She just told them to take good care of themselves while they were away, and even if it was just the young couple celebrating the New Year, they should prepare well and not be stingy. Xia Chunfu, on the other hand, felt much more regretful. His youngest daughter was right in front of him, and now she was pregnant. Her in-laws treated her very well, so he didn't have to worry. Now he missed and worried about his eldest daughter who was away from home day and night. He wondered if she was doing well, if she was being bullied, and if what she said in the letter was true, or if she was just reporting good news and not bad news. Now that the letter said she wouldn't be home for the New Year this year, he felt even worse. He had thought he would see her during the New Year, but he didn't expect to have to wait until next year.
The Wen family was even more unhappy about this. They couldn't accept the two people going out to do business in the first place. That was speculation and profiteering, and in the past they would be arrested and imprisoned. Even if they were not arrested and imprisoned now, it was not a good thing, right?
Wen Zhichao found a very good reason in the letter. He said that the new store had opened and in order to retain customers and gain a firm foothold, he would not be able to go back for the New Year this year, but he would go back at one o'clock next year.
But the two elders of the Wen family did not seem to feel better about it.
Mother-in-law Wen still privately complained to Father-in-law Wen about Xia Ruzheng, thinking that it was her daughter-in-law who instigated her son to do so.
The old man of the Wen family wasn't happy either. No matter how abnormal his son was, he was still a member of the family. He didn't even come home during such an important time as the New Year. Was he obsessed with money? He'd abandon his own parents for a little money?
But as a man, he didn't have the narrow-mindedness of a woman, so he was more open-minded. He said, "Do you think our son is so easy to persuade? Ever since we were little, when we weren't very willing to control him, how willing has he been to listen to us? I didn't expect that he would be the most capable one until now!"
The Wen family didn't care whether their children went to school or not, but Wen Zhichao, relying on his own ability, managed to complete elementary, middle, and high school. Although he didn't get into high school, it's undeniable that he's very smart. Of his generation, he's the only one who can write properly.
Granny Wen is well aware of this truth. The most difficult son to control is that son. He simply doesn't treat his parents as his parents. Sometimes he feels guilty because his parents have let him down. Sometimes he thinks that his parents have let him down. But his parents are his parents after all, and you can't treat them like enemies, taking revenge when you have a grudge and complaining when you have a grudge!
So women are really very contradictory.
Because among the letters received this time, Xia Ruqian's letter was the most inspiring, Xia Chunfu's was the warmest, and the one from the two elders of the Wen family, when Xia Ruzheng saw the words on the envelope and knew that it was not a letter from Xia Ruqian, he knew that the two elders must have resentment in their hearts and were unwilling to tell Xia Ruqian, for fear that Xia Ruqian would turn around and tell her in-laws, so he simply found someone else to help write the letter.
So, Xia Ruzheng didn't read the letter, so he let Wen Zhichao read it himself!
After reading the letter, Wen Zhichao was indeed in a bad mood. Xia Ruzheng picked up the letter and saw that it was full of blaming words, as if not going back home for the New Year was unfilial.
Xia Ruzheng threw the letter aside and said, "Since Mom and Dad didn't say there's any reason why we have to go back, why don't we just not go back?"
Wen Zhichao was angry, but he couldn't change the decision he had made so easily, especially since his parents, with whom he had not been close since childhood, could not allow him to change his mind so easily.
Wen Zhichao said, "Of course not. If I go back, the business will be cut off. The competition in the tape stores over there is also very fierce. If I don't open for a month, all the customers I worked so hard to attract will become someone else's."
Xia Ruzheng agreed.
She'd been doing business in this area for almost two months, finally building a loyal clientele. If she left, wouldn't she be handing the business over to someone else? Even someone like Chen Mei thought her business was doing well, and others would notice. By then, there would surely be new breakfast stalls popping up nearby. When she returned, she'd have to start all over again.
"Then find some time to send some money home. Even if they're unhappy, we still have to fulfill our obligations as children."
Wen Zhichao said he understood.
Xia Ruzheng was also helpless about such a mother-in-law and father-in-law, but there was nothing she could do. This had been the way it had been in China since ancient times. Parents were always right, and everything they did was for the good of their children. But how could such absolutes be true? Even among people, there were many different kinds of people. At this time, the remnants of foolish filial piety were still very serious.
After the couple discussed it, they let Wen Zhichao do it.
November brought a raging winter, but Xia Ruzheng, wearing her military coat and with a few stoves, didn't find it nearly as cold as she'd imagined. Her stall offered plenty of hot items to warm people, so her winter business was even better than usual. Soy milk was in even greater demand, but Sister Li had run out of it, so the supply wouldn't increase. Many people rushed out early just to get a sip. Preserved egg and lean meat porridge was also popular.
Xia Ruzheng suddenly thought, if there was a bun stall here, business would definitely be good at this time! The big, piping hot meat buns would definitely be very popular!
It's a pity that if he wants to sell buns, he not only needs to buy extra tools, but also spend more time and energy on preparation. Xia Ruzheng feels that this is the limit of what he can do with his energy. If he wants to do more, he will have to hire people, but he does not have the conditions for that now.
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