Chapter 2243 You're the one who found this job for the Chen family kid
Aunt Hong sneered, "What else could you possibly want besides squeezing some money out of me?"
After saying that, she went straight into the house, ignoring Madam Yu.
Madam Yu, however, was furious and followed him. "Mother, don't go! I'm asking you, did you introduce that Chen boy to such a good job?"
She didn't think of it at first, but the more she thought about it, the more something seemed off.
Lu Ji is a shop owned by the magistrate of Wen'an County. The job that Chen Kangtai recently found was at Lu Ji.
This can certainly be called a coincidence.
But a few days ago, Chen Kangtai brought fish, meat and pastries to visit her mother-in-law. He spoke with great respect, and she even heard him say that he would take care of her mother-in-law in the future.
Retirement?
She felt something was off at the time, and now that she thinks about it, it's such a coincidence that Chen Kangtai was working as a waiter at Lu Ji, and it's such a coincidence that the owner of Lu Ji had a close relationship with her mother-in-law. If there wasn't some connection between them, she would have twisted her head off and made it a stool for her mother-in-law to sit on.
Aunt Hong was surprised that she had guessed correctly; she genuinely didn't know Shu Yu and Meng Yunzheng's identities before.
After Chen Kangtai started working at the shop, he came to visit her again. But Chen Kangtai assumed that since Aunt Hong and Shu Yu were so familiar with each other, Aunt Hong must know her identity.
In addition, he always referred to Shu Yu as "boss" and Meng Yunzheng as "son-in-law" when they were outside. How could he know that Aunt Hong knew nothing about it?
Today, however, Yu accidentally exposed his scheme and even helped her guess the source of Chen Kangtai's job.
Now that things had come to this, Aunt Hong had no need to hide anything, so she nodded and said, "Yes, I introduced her."
"You admit it?" Madam Yu almost jumped up, gritting her teeth as she said, "Mother, this is really unfair of you. Do we have no one else in our family? You introduced such a good job to a complete stranger. Your son is still doing manual labor, earning a meager wage to support the whole family. Are you just going to watch our whole family die?"
As she was talking, she started crying and making a fuss.
Aunt Hong frowned. "Are you done yet? They want clever and knowledgeable workers. I would like to find you some easy jobs, but can you read? Can you talk to those scholars? Can you speak eloquently and understand what the guests mean? There are plenty of people like you on the street. Miss Lu wants someone like Kang Tai who has seen the world."
Yu choked, unable to refute those words. Chen Kangtai had indeed studied for many years and knew how to conduct himself.
But she was unwilling to give up. "Even if we are not as educated as Chen Kangtai, her shop can't only hire scholars, can it? Doesn't it need helpers? My man may not be good at other things, but he can certainly do odd jobs."
“Miss Lu runs a shop and does business. Do you think she’s some kind of philanthropist? Oh, so she has to accept anyone I introduce? Am I her mother or her savior? Why should she listen to me? Back then, I abandoned Lele in their home without a second thought. I should be grateful that they didn’t hold a grudge. Given our relationship, I should be the one repaying their kindness. How could I possibly ask them to take care of my family?”
Yu was speechless. What he said was true, but she felt uncomfortable that an outsider had gotten away with it so easily.
However, before she could vent her frustration, she suddenly heard that Aunt Hong was going to go back to Dong'an Prefecture with Shu Yu and the others the next day.
She immediately forgot everything else, her face turning pale with shock, "You, you're leaving the capital? You don't want this family anymore?"
(End of this chapter)
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