Gossip
My cousin's wife Meng Lin didn't stay for long. She gave a red envelope on behalf of her family for the opening of the company, and then took Junjun to my cousin's company in a taxi.
Aunt Zhou's fruit shop has become a chain store. The one in Xiuli Community is "Xiangxiang Fruit Shop No. 1", and the one in Jinxiu Community is "Xiangxiang Fruit Shop No. 2". When Chen Jin came over, she was still tidying up the shelves.
As soon as you enter the store, you can smell the rich aroma of fruit. Aunt Zhou and a young girl are busy packing fruit baskets. Compared to the past when they bought fruit in the village and put them in red or black plastic bags to take away, the packaging in the store now seems much more high-end. Not only are there fruit baskets, but even the plastic bags for the fruits are customized, with the name of the store "Xiangxiang Fruit Shop" printed on them.
It seems that Aunt Zhou wants to turn her fruit shop into a "branded" one.
However, it does look much more upscale, and it would be face-saving to buy it as a gift to someone.
"Oh! Third sister, come and eat watermelon." Aunt Zhou was stunned for a moment when she saw her, and handed her a bite of the watermelon she had just cut. Seeing Chen Jia and Chen Yongan following behind her, she handed them two more bites of watermelon, "A new variety, seedless watermelon, very sweet!"
Chen Jin took it with both hands and took a bite. He nodded in surprise, "It's really sweet! And crispy!"
"I'll buy a few to take back later. Aunt Zhou, please keep some for me, uh, seven." Chen Jin checked off the families he wanted to send to.
Aunt Zhou smiled with her eyes curved. "Don't worry, there are plenty. I'll pick one for you later."
The store hired someone to help, and Aunt Zhou introduced her as her relative's daughter. Seeing that there were not many people in the store for the time being, Aunt Zhou moved a few small plastic stools to under the parasol outside the store, invited them to sit down and eat, and took out the half that had just been cut.
"Third sister, eat more."
Chen Jin grinned, "Okay!"
After chewing half a piece, Chen Jin remembered the "real purpose" of coming here and nudged Aunt Zhou with his elbow, "Aunt Zhou, is there anything interesting happening in Xiuli Community recently? I've been busy with work since I graduated, and I haven't seen the people in the village for a long time. I miss everyone a little bit."
Aunt Zhou looked at her with a sidelong smile, her face showing "Still pretending with me? Can't I tell you're thinking about everyone's gossip?"
"Over there, there's been a lot going on lately."
Aunt Zhou acted as if she was going to gossip something. She moved her stool to get closer to Chen Jin, and then she looked around from front to back and left to right, then she covered her mouth with her hands and lowered her voice unconsciously.
"Just last time I told you that I went downstairs to take out the trash at night and ran into Chen Wenzhen sending a young woman to the house in Xiu Li Community. Guess who this woman is?"
When Aunt Zhou moved the stool, Chen Jin stopped eating the melon, holding her breath and waiting for her to explode with a big melon. But Aunt Zhou asked her to guess? !
Chen Jin pouted to show his disdain, "If you let me guess again, I'll let you guess next time too."
Aunt Zhou was choked by her words, and slapped her with a click of the tongue, "You have no patience!"
But he continued, "His wife's cousin!"
After saying that, he raised his chin towards Chen Jin: Unexpected? !
Chen Jin...Chen Jin really can’t believe it! How can this be possible?
However, "Is he just dropping it off on the way?"
"It's not on my way!" Aunt Zhou waved her hands. "I heard from the cleaning lady in the community that Chen Wenzhen and his sister-in-law are calling each other husband and wife. Tsk, tsk, tsk, this man is the most honest one if he is hanging on the wall! I think Chen Wensong is better than him. Even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows! He is like this, it's really disgusting! If Zhang Meixian knew about it, wouldn't she be mad to death? And Zhang Meixian's cousin is the same. There are so many men outside. Why does she have to find her own cousin's husband? What a disgusting thing, tell me, I have never seen such a thing in my decades of life. Why are people getting more and more immoral now that they have a high level of education?"
Aunt Zhou couldn't understand it. No matter how bad the people in the village were before, they couldn't get any worse. But now, they are all like beasts possessed and have no idea what etiquette and morality are.
Chen Jin disagreed with her statement that Chen Wensong was better than Chen Wenzhen, "Why are you still comparing the bad? They are about the same."
They are all garbage. Is the garbage on the road more noble than the garbage in the sewers?
"Has it spread now? Has the village chief known about it?"
"It hasn't spread yet, but I don't think it will spread far. If the village chief finds out, how can Chen Wenzhen survive? I'm afraid Chen Wenzhen and Zhang Meixian's cousin can't reach an agreement, and once they come to the door and reveal their cards, it will be hard for this matter not to spread."
"But, anyone who often goes to Xiu Li Community would know almost everything."
Aunt Zhou became more and more excited as she spoke. "No one knew about it at first. The woman got into a fight with someone outside the community for some unknown reason. Chen Wenzhen came to help and called me husband as soon as they met. Tsk, your third uncle, third aunt, and your aunt were all there at the time, as well as Jiang Kexin. Others might have saved face for Chen Wenzhen and not told anyone, but Jiang Kexin might not."
Chen Jin took another bite of the watermelon and said, "Why? But Aunt Xin and Chen Wenzhen don't have any grudges against each other."
"How come there is no hatred? Chen Wenzhen is now with Chen Wensong every day, helping his brother. When he saw Jiang Kexin in Xiuli Community, he lectured her and told her to give half of the building she was assigned back to Chen Wensong. In the end, Jiang Kexin kicked her into the trash can."
"Hiss...Is Aunt Ke Xin so powerful now?" A grown man just kicks her when he says so? That time in the village before, if she hadn't been holding a knife, she would have suffered a lot and was injured a lot.
Aunt Zhou nodded. "I heard that she was bored and signed up for a class to learn how to fight. That person, Chen Yue, was sent to practice boxing by her mother after she came back from the college entrance examination. The training class was located opposite the Xiuli community, in a small martial arts gym."
Chen Jin became interested. "Then I'll go and have a look some other day. If it's suitable, I'll sign up to learn it."
It would be helpful for her to learn some self-defense techniques. After all, she is now a wealthy woman with a net worth of tens of millions, and she has to protect her own life.
"You're going too? My Xiaokang also said he wanted to learn. I really don't understand what hobbies you have now. In the past, I only saw people learning musical instruments, but few people specifically learned to practice boxing."
Chen Jin smiled and stopped her from changing the subject, "Any other gossip?"
"Yes, of course. The two old men in my family are trying to get Chen Wenxing to divorce and remarry, saying that if this man can't have children, there will be no one to inherit the family's things." Aunt Zhou laughed, "What else can they inherit? Chen Wenxing was cheated in his business, and they don't have much money left. How can they inherit the Rose Garden apartment and his car worth more than 400,000 yuan?"
"They will cry sooner or later. They are still living in Rose Garden now, but in less than two years, they will have to sell their house and car and move away. Humph, I am just waiting to see them make a fool of themselves."
Otherwise, why is it difficult to keep money?
When I had no money, I planned very well, including how much money to save to earn interest, how many houses to buy to collect monthly rent, and how much cash flow to keep in hand for reserve... When I had several million in my hands, I felt that this was cheap and that was not expensive either. I felt that I could afford to lose one million to try out the business, but after trying a lot, I fell into it.
People always overestimate their self-control. Chen Jin is no exception.
Just look at the clothes in the cloakroom of her home in her small western-style building and the row of skin care products and cosmetics on her dressing table and you will know that she is now thinking about buying a million-dollar luxury car if there is another demolition. Is this still the same girl who was intimidated by an Audi worth four hundred thousand yuan back then? They are all a little bit drifting.
Fortunately, she had replaced most of her savings while she was sober, and now had a house and investments, so she didn't have that string of numbers lying there coldly, losing a little from time to time for various reasons, and finally losing half without realizing it.
"Hey, I saw the man in front of your aunt. He said he was going to remarry and bring his second wife's children to live with him. They are both in their twenties, and they should get married and start a family at this age. They must be here for his house. I think the woman has coaxed him so much that he has lost his mind. His two biological children have also come to make trouble."
Chen Jin smiled: She knew it!
Sooner or later, evildoers will meet evildoers, and bad people will hang out with bad people. Her aunt is living a very good life now. It must have been a good divorce!
"Hey, you can come back to Shop No. 1 in Xiuli Community some other day. Please tell my aunt about this. This news is great for dinner."
"You don't have to tell me. I have a good relationship with your aunt and third aunt."
Aunt Zhou smiled proudly, "I think it's nice to live in Xiuli Community. Although many families in the village live in Rose Garden, it's still not as good as living in Xiuli Community."
Chen Jin sat here for an hour and basically got the news about every household in Qiaodong Village. After hearing the news, I finished eating the watermelon.
She stood up contentedly and stretched her limbs, and was almost startled by Chen Jia and Chen Yongan who were standing very close behind her. She had almost forgotten about their existence.
Both of them had satisfied smiles on their faces, and they must be thinking that today's trip was not in vain.
Aunt Zhou still had to take the bus back to Xiuli Community, so from now on, she and Uncle Wenming would take turns to look after her family's Store No. 2 occasionally.
On the way back home, Chen Jin could pass by Xiu Li community by taking a short detour, so she asked Aunt Zhou to follow her car.
Before leaving, Chen Jin asked Chen Yongan to move six large watermelons to the trunk, and moved the remaining one to Tian Miao in the store in front. She also picked some other fruits.
I first went to Xiuli Community and just happened to send Aunt Zhou to her doorstep. I also got to give a big watermelon to my third uncle, third aunt, and my aunt.
Chen Yongan said that he would go to stay at the small western-style building with his third sister tonight, and without waiting for his parents' consent, he urged Chen Jin to drive away quickly. When Chen Jia saw that it was summer vacation and she had nothing else to do at home, she immediately raised her hand to indicate that she wanted to go too.
So Chen Jin drove all over Rongcheng.
After leaving Xiuli Community, they went to their uncle's house, presented him with a big watermelon, and then went around to the rose garden, asking Chen Yongan to go upstairs to get some clean clothes. When he came down, he took his game console with him. Then we went around to Dongcheng District to the staff quarters of the Municipal Meteorological Bureau.
Chen Jia said it might be a little slow as she had something to talk to a friend, so she asked them to sit and wait at her house. Chen Jin drove the car in and parked it in the open space next to the gate of the staff quarters. Chen Yongan followed behind, holding a big watermelon.
Chen Jin had some impression of the people in the family compound.
During the summer vacation after she finished the college entrance examination, she came to give Chen Jia tutoring for a period of time. Because every time she came over for dinner in high school, my second uncle and second aunt would tell the neighbors that she was studying at the No. 3 Middle School in the city and had very good grades, so that summer, in addition to Chen Jia, the children of several of my second uncle and second aunt's colleagues were also sent over to ask her for tutoring.
It was because she was tutoring those people very smoothly at that time that she mistakenly thought that tutoring was not difficult, and then she suffered a Waterloo with Chen Yongan. Later, when she went to college, she never thought of tutoring others to earn pocket money.
I’m afraid of meeting another person like Chen Yongan.
As she walked in, someone said to her along the way, "You look familiar."
Doesn't that look familiar? Your son studied with me for a month and a half, and I was his teacher for a day... Never mind. Anyway, we met every day that summer.
I didn't recognize her, probably because she was dressed up specially today and looked very different from usual. When I think about it this way, I feel that all the trouble I put in before going out this morning was not in vain. If she put on makeup and looked the same as usual, then she would have gone through a lot of trouble.
"Sister Chen Jin!"
Chen Jin looked back and saw that it was another person she had taught. It seemed that her teaching was not in vain, as at least the person still recognized her.
"Sister Chen Jin, are you coming to Director Chen's house? They seem to have gone to work."
"It's okay. Chen Jia is here."
"Jia Jia is back?" The boy wanted to call her, but when he found that Chen Jia, who was walking in front of him, was walking very fast, he gave up.
Chen Jin talked to him with a smile, and they kept chatting until they went upstairs and went their separate ways. When they arrived at her second uncle's house, she still couldn't remember the boy's name, but she just remembered that he and Chen Jia had come to take tutoring classes with her before.
The building of the Municipal Meteorological Bureau's staff housing was built about eight years ago. It is a collective housing. At that time, my second uncle and aunt almost emptied their family savings and borrowed some money to buy it. Later, there was basically no housing allocation by the company. They were all glad that they paid for the house at that time. Houses were not expensive at that time, and they had enough money to pay it back even if they borrowed money. Otherwise, houses would not be the same price now. Compared with the increase in wages, the increase in the unit price of houses was too large.
"Third sister, Yong'an, pour yourselves some water." Chen Jia went back into the house to get something, then hurried out again.
Chen Jin found a cup and poured himself some water to drink. Then he was attracted by a piece of information on the dining table. The information contained introductions to various famous foreign universities. The source of the information was a study abroad agency.
Because this document was spread out, there were marks on it, with some key information circled in red pen.
In this family, only Chen Jia is most likely to study this information.
So, Chen Jia wants to study abroad?
Chen Jin was just about to flip through the information when he saw Chen Jia running back, panting, and heading straight for the information on the table. After Chen Jin saw it, he panicked for a moment, then hurriedly said: "This, this is my friend's, I'll give it to her."
Chen Jin smiled and said, "Hurry up, we'll go out for dinner later."
After they went out, Chen Jia stole glances at her several times, but Chen Jin pretended not to see anything.
Chen Jia is about to enter his junior year. Even if he wants to go abroad for exchange studies, he will have to wait until his senior year. Otherwise you have to wait until you graduate from university to apply to study abroad.
Among the people she knew, only her classmate Zhuoran chose to study abroad. She didn't know much about studying abroad, and didn't know whether it was easy to apply now or how much it would cost to study abroad.
But there is no doubt that the cost of studying abroad is definitely not cheap.
It's not impossible for her family to send her abroad to study, but she's afraid her second uncle and aunt won't agree with her going so far away. After all, she is an only child, so it’s okay for her to move to other places in the country, as I can always keep in touch with her. But I don’t know about it abroad.
Many people are thinking about going abroad now. Chen Jin also asked Yang Qian what it is like to travel abroad.
Yang Qian said it was just so-so and it would be better to go to Hong Kong.
The moon abroad is not rounder than the moon at home. Although the current public security in China is not particularly good, the situation abroad is not much better either, and people abroad look down on Chinese people.
Forget it, I won’t say more since she doesn’t understand. Judging from Chen Jia's appearance, he is just collecting information now, and it is still unclear what the final decision will be.
Chen Jin had lunch outside. He randomly found a restaurant that he liked and found that the food was surprisingly delicious. He asked the owner for a business card, thinking that he could bring his friends over to eat next time.
They had already arrived in Dongcheng District, and since he had nothing to do, Chen Jin drove around the streets. I went to Laoyoufu at the end of Jiefang Road to buy some pastries, and then went around to Guxi Road to buy the red leaf cake that I mentioned last time.
Satisfied, she went straight to her little home with her favorite delicacies.
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When Shen Baichuan heard the familiar sound of a car outside the courtyard gate, he slowly put down the information in his hand, got up, went to the bathroom on the first floor, looked in the mirror, looked left and right, and then quickened his pace but looked nonchalant as he walked out.
Two young people got out of Chen Jin's car. One was her younger sister who would occasionally come to her house, and the other one she had no impression of, but she heard him call Chen Jin "Third Sister", so he must be her younger brother from her relatives' side.
She had a great harvest today, bringing back two living people, three big watermelons, a big bag of Laoyoufu pastries, and three small cakes. Well, he had treated her to this cake before, but he didn’t expect that she would find that shop.
"Good afternoon, Teacher Shen." Chen Jin waved when he saw him, and then urged Chen Yongan and Chen Jia to hurry into the house, "Hurry, hurry, you're dying of the sun..."
He stood at the door for a while, and then saw her holding an umbrella and carrying a big watermelon to Professor Song's house. When she came back, she waved to him and ran back.
He looked at the sky, then at the white and black cars outside the door, then at the front yard of the house next door. After waiting for more than ten minutes, he heard a noisy sound of "Ahhh, I lost again" from next door. He was very familiar with the sound of this game.
Well, there shouldn't be any watermelon sent to him.
Tsk! We are all neighbors, why are we treated differently?
He turned around and went back into the house to make himself a cup of coffee. Then he received a call from Qin Yi, asking him if he would come back to the old house for dinner tonight.
Shen Baichuan asked who else was going, and after confirming some of the names, he said, “Then I’ll go too.”
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Chen Jia and Chen Yongan stayed with Chen Jin for three days, and had fun with Chen Jin for three days, but the two of them had other things to do. Chen Jia was going to go back to his grandmother's house with his second aunt to visit the old people. Chen Yongan's classmates asked him to go and play, and the phone call came to Chen Jin.
After sending Chen Yongan off, when Chen Jin sent Chen Jia to the staff quarters of the Municipal Meteorological Bureau, Chen Jia was reluctant to get out of the car, so he waited quietly.
"Third sister..." Chen Jia pinched her fingers nervously. In the past three days, her third sister had not asked her about the study abroad materials. But her third sister was so smart that she must have guessed something. And now she is still secretly collecting information without telling her parents...
"If you want to talk to me about the information, then don't bother. I won't mention it to anyone else. You have your own judgment on your own affairs. If you need help, come to me."
Chen Jin added: "Studying abroad is not a trivial matter. You should also talk to your family. You know, even though you are the only child of your parents, they never stopped you from staying in Rong City to study and work. They are still very open-minded."
"Yeah." Chen Jia secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling embarrassed but also warm-hearted, "Thank you, Third Sister."
"Don't thank me. You are an adult now. You know what is good and what is bad."
Watching Chen Jia walk into the family compound, Chen Jin sighed deeply. After waiting for a few minutes, I started the car and went home.
As soon as he got home, Chen Jin was attracted by the red car in front of Shen Baichuan's house and couldn't move. This color is so beautiful! It reminded her of a picture in a fashion magazine, where a model was sitting on the hood of a red car...
I really want to borrow a car to try taking photos.
She plans to replace it with a camera with better performance.
"Do you want to go up and take a look?" Shen Baichuan suddenly appeared behind him without knowing when, and Chen Jin was frightened again.
She is a brave person, but she can't stand being scared!
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