"After all, they are from the city. Look at how much dowry they bring!"
"I don't know what those two bags contain?"
Lin Xiaoxi seemed to understand what these people were thinking. She unzipped the bag and pulled out a box.
The box is not big and looks quite exquisite.
"What is this?" she said, opening the box. "Oh, a watch!"
Lin Zhishan explained, "This is a pair of watches, one for you and one for your brother-in-law. They were bought by our father. There is also a box inside, which contains the passbook our mother gave you. There is some money saved in it for your future living. The rest is snacks, you can take your time to look at them when you get home."
Lin Xiaoxi smiled and stretched out her hand towards Lin Zhishan: "What about my brother? My brother and sister-in-law love me so much, why didn't they prepare anything for me?"
Lin Zhishan and Zhang Qingqing didn't expect this and watched Lin Xiaoxi ask them for money in front of so many people.
Zhang Qingqing wanted to get angry.
Lin Zhishan hurriedly stopped her and took out ten yuan from his pocket: "Your sister-in-law and I prepared ten yuan for you. It's not that I don't want to give you more, but your sister-in-law is pregnant, and she has spent a lot of money on checkups and supplements."
Li Chuan smiled naively: "Thank you, brother and sister-in-law! Ten yuan is a lot of money, it is enough for two months' income for people in our village."
“I’m glad you don’t mind.” Lin Zhishan felt distressed, but he still tried to put on a smile.
"Come on, come on, please come in, please come in." Seeing so many things, Mrs. Xu's face was full of smiles, and she called out to her two daughters-in-law, "Lanlan, Jinfeng, come and entertain the in-laws from Beijing."
This wave of adultery earned Lin Xiaoxi a lot of face. Everyone in the village was extremely envious and kept talking about it.
Ning Jia and An Ye had nothing to do, so they leaned through the window to gossip about what was happening at Lin Xiaoxi's home.
"I think Lin Xiaoxi's brother and sister-in-law seem to be reluctant to come here?" Ning Jia said while cracking melon seeds.
"If you don't want to come back, how can you come back?" An Ye looked outside and heard the voices of people envious of Li Chuan. Suddenly, he understood the meaning of this couple coming all the way here. "Don't you think Lin Xiaoxi arranged this? Is her purpose to make the villagers envy her?"
These words reminded Ning Jia.
"It may not be envy. Maybe Lin Xiaoxi is using this to create public opinion?" After all, Lin Xiaoxi is so favored in the Li family, and what Old Lady Xu is interested in is the background behind her.
In fact, the scripts that the young actresses of that era got at the beginning were all bad scripts.
For example, the script Lin Xiaoxi got was about her parents not being close to her, and her brother and sister-in-law not loving her. In fact, her parents didn't want her to go back to the city because there wasn't much she could do there.
If she wants to work, she must replace her mother's work.
Her mother also favors boys over girls. She has the same idea as Old Lady Xu, and both think that if a daughter is born, she will sooner or later belong to someone else's family. If this job was given to Lin Xiaoxi, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving it to an outsider? It would be more appropriate to give it to my daughter-in-law.
The accommodation conditions in the factory were already difficult. As soon as she left, her brother and sister-in-law connected her rooms to form one room, so that the baby could live more comfortably after it was born.
So, in fact, no one was looking forward to her returning to the city.
"What kind of public opinion is being created? Just to show people how favored she is in her mother's family?" An Ye couldn't understand what the point of this was.
"Yes." Ning Jia was sure that this was what Lin Xiaoxi meant. "Do you still remember how Lin Xiaoxi made his fortune?"
"Remember, in the early days she was the village accountant, and later she used her status and conditions to collect Chinese medicinal herbs, cotton, and eggs from the village and sell them in the city to earn the difference. Isn't this what we are doing now?"
As An Ye was talking, she suddenly became worried: "If she does this in the future, won't she be stealing our jobs?"
Ning Jia had thought of this a long time ago.
Right now, these trends are only temporary. How much money can you make from these trivial businesses? If you want to make money, you have to scale up, and it has to last for a long time.
Isn't this winter? This job is just a temporary transition.
After hearing what Ning Jia said, An Ye felt relieved.
"So I thought she created some public opinion to make the villagers think that her identity and background are impressive. I'm afraid she will make full use of her identity and background in the future." This paragraph does not appear in the book. This is purely the result of Ning Jia's own analysis.
Lin Zhishan and Zhang Qingqing did not come here voluntarily, and no one knew what tricks Lin Xiaoxi had used to get this couple here to help out.
"Who cares about her? As long as she doesn't affect our feelings, it's fine." An Ye said.
"Yeah, you're right."
Xi Xin was busy all day, and An Ye and Ning Jia were gossiping all day.
At night, all the relatives and fellow villagers left and the yard became quiet.
Li Yao returned to the house, smelling of alcohol.
"Are you tired?" Ning Jia brought him some water for washing his feet. "The water temperature is just right. Take a dip to relieve your fatigue."
Li Yao stretched out his hands and hugged her slender waist, holding her tightly in his arms: "It's great to have a wife!"
Ning Jia raised the corner of his mouth: "Then why did you let me stay alone in the empty room before? Where is your conscience?"
Li Yao lowered his head and pecked her lips, then said with a smile: "How about you punish me? Punish me to make up for you twice as much? I calculated that I have ignored you for three months. At the frequency of once a day, I have to..."
Before he could finish, Ning Jia covered his mouth with her hand: "I know you have nothing good to say. Come, let me ask you, you went to pick up Lin Xiaoxi's brother and sister-in-law the other day, what do you think of them?"
"Not very good." Li Yao let go of Ning Jia, sat on the stool, took off his socks and soaked his feet. "I feel that these two people are not willing to come, as if they have to come. Her brother and sister-in-law don't seem to love her that much."
"That's right." Ning Jia felt that he was right.
"What is right?" Li Yao wondered.
"Nothing, just wash your feet and go to bed early. My sister-in-law took the time to tell me that we have woven a lot of thorn frames, and there are also a lot of eggs from Widow Chen. When will you go to see Chu Songbai again?"
Li Yao went to deliver some goods a few days ago. He delivered all the bean sprouts and made some money, which he shared with everyone.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching soon, Ning Jia felt that he should sell the things on hand as soon as possible.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Isn't the deposit in your hands? That kid can't run away." Although they are partners, Li Yao is still upset about the fact that the kid came to his house to find Ning Jia.
Ning Jia certainly knew this.
She just felt that Chu Songbai's business was bad, and he hadn't even received the goods yet, but the deposit he paid was higher than the value of the goods.
Why is it so wrong?
"Then go for it. Business people value integrity. Only when there is give and take, can business last long!"
"Yeah." Li Yao agreed, and at the end he couldn't help but ask her, "You really don't know that boy?"
"I don't know him. How would I know him? He is from the city and I am from Qingshan Village. We are not related at all! What? Are you paranoid?" Ning Jia felt that Li Yao was jealous.
But this jealousy is a bit weird.
As Li Yao watched his wife's gradually developing figure and increasingly brighter vaginal features, his vigilance gradually increased.
"No," he denied.
"That's good! Come on, take a rest after you're done washing. It's getting late!" Ning Jia picked up the water and went outside to splash it.
"Let me go. It's cold outside and you're too weak to handle it." Li Yao took the water and walked out the door.
As soon as he went out, he ran into Li Xu who was circling around his door.
"Sixth Brother, I have something to talk to you about..." He hesitated, as if there was something he couldn't say.
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