Chapter 39 What happened?
At the Zhong family's side, Lin Ziqiu had been busy all day and cleaned himself up.
Downstairs, Zhong Xuexi was talking to her grandmother in the kitchen.
"Grandma, does my brother's monthly salary belong to you?" Li Guixiang was sitting on a small stool washing vegetables.
"He used to give me most of it, but he started keeping it for himself in the past two years. He only gives me some living expenses and bills every month to supplement the household expenses."
She looked at her granddaughter curiously, "Why are you asking this? Don't you have enough money to spend?"
Zhong Xuexi has been keeping her salary herself since she started working, and Li Guixiang has never taken a penny from her. Anyway, she basically eats and drinks at home, and considering her stingy personality, she should have quite a bit of savings.
"How could I not have money to spend?" Zhong Xuexi squatted aside, "My brother is married, why doesn't he give Lin Ziqiu money to spend?"
She was very puzzled because her brother had never been a stingy person.
Even if he was forced to marry Lin Ziqiu, he should still give her some money out of his responsibility.
Li Guixiang couldn't help laughing, "Are you concerned about your sister-in-law?"
"That's not true!" Zhong Xuexi refused to admit it. "Look at how shabby she is dressed. I feel embarrassed to go out with her. Isn't her father an employee of the machinery factory? Her family conditions should not be shabby, right? How come she doesn't have many decent clothes?"
Speaking of this, Li Guixiang was also worried, "Her family must not treat her well. Think about it, her mother passed away early, and her father married a stepmother, gave birth to a younger brother, and brought a daughter. How good can they treat her?"
"Although your sister-in-law doesn't dress that well, she's pretty. How can she be unsophisticated? Don't say such things in front of her. Do you hear me?"
Zhong Xuexi pursed her lips and said unhappily, "I heard it."
From her grandmother's words, she could roughly guess Lin Ziqiu's situation in her mother's home, which was quite pitiful.
Zhong Xuexi herself is not a bad person.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have helped Jiang Nianyue find a job just because she felt sorry for her.
Li Guixiang put the vegetables in a basket and thought about them going home together. She couldn't help but ask, "Why did you come back with her tonight? What kind of exchange meeting did you have for so long?"
Zhong Xuexi didn't tell her grandmother what happened at noon, fearing that she would worry more. "It was just a coincidence that she was getting off work, so we went home together, so that my brother wouldn't think that I bullied her again."
Li Guixiang smiled and said, "You are such a fool! How about this, I will buy you a new bicycle later, okay?"
Zhong Xuexi immediately shook her head, "I don't want to! I will walk to work in the morning and consider it as losing weight."
"Losing weight?" Li Guixiang couldn't believe it. "You are not kidding, are you?"
Zhong Xuexi frowned, "I'm serious! Just wait and see, I will definitely lose weight!"
Lin Ziqiu, who was coming down from the second floor, heard her words. It seemed that what happened this afternoon had indeed brought about a significant change in Zhong Xuexi.
Li Guixiang was the chef for dinner.
Thinking that Zhong Xuexi wanted to lose weight, Lin Ziqiu simply boiled two eggs and sweet potatoes, added some vegetables and a small amount of salt and stirred them.
Zhong Heyang did not come back for dinner that night, so Zhong Niannian and the other two were picked up by Wei Zhihe, who said he was taking them to see their mother.
Li Guixiang always knew that Zhong Niannian missed her mother very much, so she did not stop her.
Zhong Xueyuan has seldom returned home since her divorce, and as her grandmother, she misses her very much.
But Zhong Xueyuan had always refused to see her two children, so it was difficult for her to find a place to work in the art troupe.
There were only three people including Lin Ziqiu at home. As soon as Zhong Xuexi sat down at the table, she saw the dishes placed in front of her.
"What's this? Why are eggs stuck in there like this? Isn't this a waste of food?"
Li Guixiang explained, "This is something your sister-in-law made especially for you. It's called a diet meal. You won't gain weight if you eat it. Try it!"
Zhong Xuexi's face was full of doubt. She had never heard of any weight loss meal before, and this one looked like it had no oil or water at all, making it almost impossible to swallow.
She likes to eat meat, and the food at the Zhong family has always been good, with meat dishes almost every day, which makes her appetite grow bigger and bigger.
It was a little hard for her to accept suddenly eating such a vegetarian diet.
Lin Ziqiu is very confident in his cooking skills. In fact, it would taste better with lettuce, but there was none at home, so he had to use cabbage instead.
"To encourage you to lose weight, grandma and I will eat vegetarian food tonight."
Zhong Xuexi held a skeptical attitude and picked up her chopsticks hesitantly.
When she took a bite, she found that it was not as bad as she had imagined, and it even tasted good.
Li Guixiang couldn't wait to ask, "How does it taste?"
Zhong Xuexi glanced at Lin Ziqiu and nodded sullenly, "It's okay."
Li Guixiang laughed after hearing this, "Then you should eat more... No, you should stop eating when you are half full. If you want to lose weight, you can't eat too much."
Zhong Xuexi felt a little disappointed, but she knew that since she had made up her mind, she had to control her mouth.
When she was halfway through eating, she couldn't help but ask, "Will I really not gain weight if I eat this?"
Lin Ziqiu explained patiently: "Of course not, these together are very low in calories and help control weight."
"Okay." Zhong Xuexi ate half her meal, said thank you reluctantly in a low voice, and then continued to eat.
Lin Ziqiu pursed her lips and smiled.
After dinner, Zhong Xuexi offered to wash the dishes herself.
Li Guixiang was happy and at ease, so she just let her go.
When Zhong Xuexi finished her work and was about to go back to her room to rest, she was stopped by Lin Ziqiu as soon as she entered the main room, "Wait a minute."
"Why are you walking without making any sound? Are you trying to scare me to death?"
Zhong Xuexi was so frightened by the person who suddenly appeared that her face turned pale.
"I'll be more careful next time." Lin Ziqiu said casually, "You haven't paid for the fat-reducing meal tonight."
She stretched out her hand very naturally, and this action made Zhong Xuexi dumbfounded, "Those vegetables are from my family, and you still want to ask me for money! You wish!"
Lin Ziqiu, "There's also the processing fee. Since we're old acquaintances, I'll give you a discount and charge you one dollar."
Zhong Xuexi's eyes widened: "What's the difference between you and a robber!"
“Cooking is hard work!”
Zhong Xuexi was a little disdainful, "I can cook such a simple dish!"
"Okay, then you can do it yourself in the future, but you still have to pay me today's money." This is exactly what Lin Ziqiu wanted her to say.
For someone like Zhong Xuexi, the better you treat her, the more she will take it for granted over time, and she will not indulge you.
Zhong Xuexi took a deep breath and didn't want to give the money at all.
She hesitated, trying to bargain, "Can I use another way to offset this money?"
Lin Ziqiu raised her eyebrows slightly, "Sure, then call me sister a few times so I can hear it."
"I'm glad to hear that. It's not like I can't get a free meal."
Zhong Xuexi didn't even think about it and rejected it reflexively, "Don't even think about it!"
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. "I thanked you at the dinner table, and now you come to me for money. I think you don't want to show it in front of my grandma. You are really good at pretending!"
Lin Ziqiu disagreed, "So what?"
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