Feeling extremely angry, Zhou Ling returned to her stall.
Unable to hold back any longer, she buried her face in Zhao Kun's arms and burst into tears.
“They’ve gone too far. They’re all taking his side, even though I’m the victim.”
"Why am I the bad guy and he's the good guy?"
"It was Zhou Chen who wronged me, I did not wrong him."
Zhou Ling was crying with tears streaming down her face. Zhao Kun quickly comforted her, "Wife, don't worry about what those idiots who don't know the truth think of you. They're just a bunch of strangers. It's not worth getting angry with them. Your brother-in-law doesn't want us to compete with him for business and ruin our reputation, but we won't let him have his way."
Zhou Ling looked up, wiped away her tears, and asked, "Then what should we do? Should we also slander his stinky tofu and ruin his reputation?"
Zhou Chen ruined her business, and now Zhou Ling doesn't care about family ties anymore; she doesn't want Zhou Chen to have an easy time either.
He had the idea of retaliating in kind.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Kun's eyes flickered, and he finally shook his head. "If we make false accusations out of thin air, it might actually get us into trouble. I think we should listen to my sister-in-law's advice and not set up our stall too close to your brother's. Let's find another place to set up our stall."
Um?
Zhou Ling blinked. She had heard Zhou Na mention these words yesterday. At that time, she confidently said that she had experience in doing business and told Zhou Na not to worry. Now it seemed that Zhou Na was right.
Setting up a stall near Zhou Chen's stall severely impacts business.
The young couple decided to move their stall to a different location the next day, but before they could even change locations, the street management officials arrived.
Upon seeing their stalls, they were told to either leave immediately or pay the stall fee.
Zhou Ling and Zhao Kun didn't earn a single penny and even had to pay stall fees. They were very unhappy because they not only didn't make money, but actually lost money.
Left with no other choice, the two had to pack up and close their stall, because they couldn't even afford to pay the stall fee.
Rather than being kicked out, it's better to leave willingly.
Soon, the stall was packed up. Zhou Ling glanced at the stall opposite and noticed that Zhou Chen wasn't looking in their direction. But she knew that Zhou Chen was definitely laughing at her, and she was inwardly laughing hysterically.
A thought struck me.
Zhou Ling quickly looked at the street management personnel, then pointed to Zhou Chen's stall and asked if Zhou Chen had paid the stall fee and should be evicted along with them.
However,
This was all Zhou Ling's wishful thinking; she wanted to drag someone down with her.
The manager merely glanced behind him, then, expressionless, said, "They already paid a month's rent for their stalls, it's all legal. On the contrary, you should hurry up and leave."
The managers may not say it, but they despise Zhou Ling for her malicious behavior; they find it utterly disgusting.
On the other end,
"Haha, now we can't set up a stall."
"It's good that you were fired. I'm so annoyed for you, Brother Zhou."
After witnessing Zhou Ling and Zhao Kun pushing their stall cart away under the supervision of street management personnel, Zhang Dafu sighed once again.
He really couldn't stand his heartless sister, Zhou Ling.
Zhou Chen smiled but didn't say anything. Even if Zhou Ling didn't leave, given her bad reputation, there was no point in her staying here. She would only make a fool of herself and become the focus of gossip.
"Young man, do you have a grudge against that girl from earlier?"
“We asked her to leave, but she still wanted to report you, saying that you hadn’t paid your stall fee.”
Before long, the street management personnel came to the stall and spoke to Zhou Chen.
"She is Brother Zhou's sister, but not by blood, she is his adopted daughter. That stinky tofu stall was something she copied from Brother Zhou's business. In the end, her own products were not good, so she blamed everything on Brother Zhou."
Before Zhou Chen could speak, Zhang Dafu was furious to hear that Zhou Ling had committed such a despicable act of reporting someone, and he took the initiative to explain their identities.
The manager was surprised to find that the two were siblings, but then his eyes showed disgust as he looked at Zhou Chen and warned, "Young man, your sister's character is absolutely terrible. I advise you to stay away from her."
"Thanks."
Zhou Chen smiled. He had heard similar words more than once before. His master, Xu Laoqi, and his fellow workers had all said similar things.
He wasn't surprised that Zhou Ling wanted to trick him; a love-struck ingrate like her was capable of anything.
The next day, Zhou Chen didn't go to the night market to help out; instead, he stayed home to study.
After Xu Dalong returned, he said that Zhou Ling and Zhao Kun hadn't come to set up their stall.
Clearly, they knew their stinky tofu was not competitive and had a bad reputation.
Zhou Chen estimated that they had most likely moved to another place to set up their stall, somewhere where no one knew them, where they could sell their goods more easily.
For four or five consecutive days,
Neither Zhou Ling nor Zhao Kun's stalls were present at the night market, but Zhou Chen learned from a customer where they were located.
It turns out that Zhou Ling and Zhao Kun went to the bus station.
It must be said that the two of them were quite shrewd, knowing that the bus station had a large flow of people.
Although Zhou Chen knew where the two were setting up their stall, he didn't care. As long as Zhou Ling didn't set up her stall across the street to annoy him, he didn't care where she went.
For several days in a row, without Zhou Ling's harassment, Zhou Chen had almost forgotten about her.
As a result, the harassing text messages reappeared today.
Without even looking at the phone number, just by listening to her boastful tone, I knew it was Zhou Ling.
"Brother Kun bought me a necklace today, worth over five hundred yuan, it's pure silver."
“We eat out every day, with big meals of meat and fish. This is the Kun you didn’t think much of. He’s good to me and good at business. Zhou Chen, you must be very disappointed, haha… Our life now is much better than you imagine.”
Although Zhou Chen didn't see Zhou Ling's smug face, he could imagine how pleased Zhou Ling was from the text message.
It seems these two have made money imitating his stinky tofu stall in front of the bus station.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be so arrogant.
He wasn't angered by Zhou Ling's smugness; such petty tricks weren't enough to make him angry, and Zhou Ling had no right to make him angry.
A necklace worth a few hundred yuan and a few meals at a restaurant made Zhou Ling so happy, as if she had reached the pinnacle of her life.
hehe……
Zhou Chen could only say that Zhou Ling had never seen much of the world.
Given Zhao Kun's character, once he has money, he'll continue to treat you, Zhou Ling, well.
He absolutely refused to believe it; he knew that the happier Zhou Ling was now, the more miserable she would be in the near future.
If he remembered correctly, Zhao Kun and a prostitute had been secretly entangled, a fact that Zhou Ling was unaware of.
But he accidentally bumped into it, and because of this, he got into a fight with Zhao Kun.
To protect Zhou Ling, he didn't mention this in his previous life. Later, Zhao Kun accidentally revealed his true colors and was caught red-handed by Zhou Ling, which made things very ugly.
With her belly swollen, she regretted being with Zhao Kun and even blamed him, her older brother, for not trying to stop her or persuade her, thus ruining her life.
In short, Zhou Ling's main characteristics are being unreasonable and shirking responsibility.
She wasn't wrong; the whole world was wrong.
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