Chapter 56 Dried Mustard Greens

After Xia Lulu said this, she walked towards Xia Tang with the sound of her little leather shoes clicking.

Instead, Xie Minghui was still standing there in a daze, his eyes sliding down from Xia Tang's slightly round cheeks to her slightly bulging belly.

Xie Minghui suddenly felt very unhappy.

That kind of unhappiness was an emotion that suddenly emerged from his bones. Before that, he rarely even thought about Xia Tang.

He just felt that Xia Tang shouldn't be like this.

Neither of them should be like this, but...

But what about it?

Xie Minghui didn't know.

He attributed this emotion to a kind of unwillingness, and followed Xia Lulu as he walked past.

Xia Lulu had already walked in front of Xia Tang, looking at her arrogantly, with her raised nostrils as if she was looking down on her.

"Xia Tang, you never thought that one day, I could be good at it, even better than you."

Xia Tang looked at her, somewhat puzzled:

"Are you doing well...?"

Xia Lulu choked at first, and then she was instantly filled with anger:

"Look at me now. Am I not doing well? Let me tell you, Xia Tang, I am different now. When Boss Zheng comes back, I will lead everyone to do big things and make a lot of money!"

"Aren't you curious about why I'm so awesome?"

Xia Tang looked at her and even smiled casually:

"Do you want me to applaud you?"

Xia Lulu became even more angry and raised her voice:

"Don't think that just because you pretend not to care, you really don't care! You must be jealous and crazy, right?"

After saying this, she deliberately moved closer to Xia Tang and whispered:

"Xia Tang, you didn't expect that I could go through what you could go through. Don't think that you are the only one who was reborn!"

After hearing this, Xia Tang finally showed some reaction.

She subconsciously touched her belly with one hand, her delicate eyebrows raised, and her almond-shaped eyes, which had been distant just now, finally showed a look of surprise.

Xia Lulu was happy again and said to Xia Tang proudly:

"I've been through what you've been through, too. I can only do it better than you."

"Xia Tang, you framed me in my last life, and I haven't settled the score with you yet!"

"Just wait patiently!"

Xia Tang pursed her lips, neither confirming nor denying it. She just looked at Xia Lulu calmly and said:

"Whatever you like."

After saying that, he took one last look at Xie Minghui behind Xia Lulu, shook his head, and turned into the snack bar.

After her rebirth, the first thing she did was to ask Xie Minghui to marry her.

There is no hope for Xia Lulu.

Xia Tang's reaction made Xia Lulu think that he was running away.

She turned around triumphantly and looked at Xie Minghui with a raised eyebrow:

"Now, she doesn't dare to talk to me casually!"

Xie Minghui frowned but said nothing.

The unhappiness in my heart became more and more intense.

Was Xia Tang afraid to talk to Xia Lulu just now?

Why does he feel that he is disdainful?

*

As for Xia Lulu and Xie Minghui, Xia Tang was too lazy to care.

She had no interest in whether Xia Lulu was just bluffing or was truly reborn.

No matter how much Xia Lulu struggles, it will still be the same. What else can a woman who treats Xie Minghui like a treasure do?

However, her indifference to them did not prevent them from sneaking under her nose.

A few days later, she saw Xia Lulu and Xie Minghui in the snack bar again.

The two of them and a group of other people entered the Mona Lisa Western Restaurant for dinner. Suman greeted them at the door, and Xia Lulu followed closely in front of a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, looking arrogant and flattering.

Is it the so-called Boss Zheng?

Xia Tang saw those people looking in her direction and she avoided their gaze out of boredom.

It seems that Xia Lulu is really capable of doing things.

However, Xia Lulu's troubles did not end there.

Ever since Boss Zheng came, Xia Lulu would go to the Mona Lisa Western Restaurant every few days, usually with Boss Zheng.

When she came, she deliberately let Xia Tang see her. Sometimes, when she walked around the door of the snack bar and didn't see Xia Tang, she would deliberately tell Ma Dafeng and the others.

It's just so contrived.

When Xia Tang told Chen Minzhi about this, he felt helpless.

Chen Minzhi was drying vegetables in the yard.

The mustard greens used for drying were sent by Lao Zhang.

Yesterday, she cut the mustard greens into strips, put them in a basket, and together with Minyun, added coarse salt and massaged them to force out the water inside.

Today, the mustard greens can be spread out on a winnowing basket to dry in the sun.

Chen Minzhi was repeatedly flattening the mustard greens with meticulous movements. When she heard Xia Tang talking about this, she couldn't help but interrupt and say:

"That Xia Lulu has been really up to something lately. Didn't you say that she has been following some Boss Zheng? You know, Boss Zheng is said to be a big boss in Guangzhou, and he came to Kuncheng to buy Lanhua."

"Buy orchids?" A memory suddenly flashed through Xia Tang's mind.

"yes."

Chen Minzhi lowered her head and flattened the mustard greens of similar size on the winnowing basket.

The light green mustard strips lay flat on the golden dustpan, like fat green caterpillars.

"He said that orchids are very expensive. In Guangzhou, one orchid is worth one hundred yuan! That's a lot of money! Who wouldn't take it seriously?"

Xia Tang frowned: "But, although we also grow flowers here, they are all raised casually at home. How can we find orchids that are so suitable for him to buy?"

"Who says it's not true? But I heard that someone from a nearby factory really sent orchids to Mr. Zheng, and he actually accepted them! He sold them for hundreds of dollars!"

"Which factory?" Xia Tang asked sharply.

"Then I don't know."

Chen Minzhi continued to say vividly:

"But, Mr. Zheng also said that he can provide seedlings, ranging from five to twenty yuan per plant. When the orchids grow up, he will come to collect them."

At this point, Chen Minzhi paused, and her hands unconsciously fiddled with the mustard strips in front of her:

"Many people in our factory want to buy it."

Xia Tang suddenly understood.

She grabbed Chen Minzhi and asked:

"Sister Minzhi, you don't want to buy it!"

"I didn’t."

Chen Minzhi lowered her head.

"I don't have that kind of money!"

A few days ago, just when she was about to file a lawsuit in court, the Du family suddenly sent a message saying that Du Linsheng was considering divorce.

It turned out that Wang Kaiyun had a distant relative who had just divorced in his hometown and he and Du Linsheng fell in love with each other.

Only then did the Du family relent.

However, although divorce was negotiable, the conditions proposed by the Du family were very harsh.

You don’t have to worry about house and savings anymore.

Chen Minzhi wanted Xiaoxiao to follow her, but Wang Kaiyun grabbed her by the neck and insisted that she give him 800 yuan before he agreed.

But where could Chen Minzhi come up with the eight hundred yuan?

She felt depressed, but she could only do more work.

When he was not working overtime, he even followed his mother up the mountain to collect herbs, hoping to earn a little more and take Xiaoxiao home.

Because of this, when Boss Zheng proposed to acquire Lanhua, she was quite moved.

An orchid seedling that costs five yuan can be worth one hundred yuan in the second year after being grown for one year.

If she had known about this good thing a year in advance, she would not have been unable to pay the eight hundred yuan.

Xia Tang didn't know about Chen Minzhi's conflicting thoughts, but she could see the turmoil in her heart.

She said softly:

"Sister Minzhi, have you ever thought about this? If you spend all your money to buy these orchids, and Mr. Zheng doesn't come to buy them next year, will you have any other use for the orchids you have?"

Chen Minzhi's subconscious rebuttal:

"But, Mr. Zheng said... it's very popular among big bosses in Hong Kong and Macau to grow orchids. Maybe if he didn't buy it, he could sell it to someone else."

Xia Tang sighed:

"I just heard what he said. If you want to do this business, have you learned about it yourself?"

Chen Minzhi stopped the work at hand.

"He said all of that. There's something about orchids being very popular in Hong Kong, and orchids being precious and profitable. But in reality, if it doesn't have the value that Mr. Zheng hypes it up to be, it's just an ordinary flower. It has no effect, no value. If it's really put on the market, how much would it be worth?"

Xia Tang said earnestly, and finally looked into Chen Minzhi's eyes:

"Sister Minzhi, I can't care too much about other people's affairs, but if it's you, I really want to sound the alarm for you. Raising orchids is not an option."

Chen Minzhi was just a temporary money-grubber.

After hearing what Xia Tang said, there was nothing he didn't understand, so he nodded vigorously:

"Don't worry, I will never get involved in this matter."

However, even though this matter was not involved, Chen Minzhi still had no idea where to get the money for the Du family.

She looked at Xia Tang and finally couldn't help but speak:

"Xia Tang, I want to tell you something..."

*

It has to be said that the "orchid fever" brought about by Xia Lulu is becoming increasingly popular in several nearby factories.

People were talking about the miracle of five yuan turning into one hundred, and they were scrambling to contact Mr. Zheng to buy orchid seeds.

Unable to contact Boss Zheng, they all went to look for Xia Lulu.

The small Xia family was almost squeezed out of their door. People from countless medicinal material factories and other factories came to their door just to ask Xia Lulu to buy a few more orchids for their family.

This impulse became even more intense after I heard that someone in the neighboring factory had sold a few orchids and earned a few hundred yuan.

In the midst of the frenzy, Xia Tang quietly raised the wages of all Tangji workers and, for the first time, held a serious meeting within the company.

Xia Tang rarely took on the airs of a boss and told all the workers not to get involved in the purchase of orchid seeds.

"I'm not trying to stop you. But this is not a reasonable thing to do. If any of our employees let me know that they mixed it in, don't blame me for firing them."

Everyone below looked at each other, and no one dared to say a word.

Boss Xia, who was always amiable, suddenly spoke in a serious tone. Naturally, they did not dare to show any objection on the surface.

However, it is hard to say what happens behind the scenes.