Chapter 142 No one should live according to other people's expectations
"Yes. I'm afraid that if I tell them I'm also a part-time worker, the part-time workers I hire won't obey my management, or if I ask them to do the work, they might have some opinions.
Besides, I have worked so hard to maintain so many customer relationships, and we now have three groups. If someone else comes and shares the commission directly with me, I feel it would be a bit of a loss. It would be better for me to stick to doing it alone.
But this is just my suggestion, if you mind we can discuss it again."
Seeing that Zhao Xiaojing pointed out the problem directly, Lu Hongwen stopped beating around the bush and directly expressed his thoughts.
"No, I understand. Why should we mind if you use your own money to hire a part-time job?
Besides, we agreed that you're the boss now, and Comb and I are the manufacturers, just dropshipping. We won't interfere with the concerns of bosses like you." Zhao Xiaojing saw that Lu Hongwen was a little serious, blinked, and replied jokingly.
"Okay, thank you, sister! I'll do it tonight!"
When Lu Hongwen heard this, he felt relieved and grinned with a relaxed look on his face.
Zhao Xiaojing smiled and shook her head. Since Lv Hongwen was in charge of the syrup business, she and Su Yuchen didn't have to worry too much about it; all they had to do was deliver on time.
Although they had told him to tell them if he had any questions or difficulties, his only complaint every time was that the amount was not enough and that they should do more.
With such a worry-free partner, they are happy to delegate power and would not mind these things.
Early the next morning.
Even though she had a busy day yesterday, Zhao Xiaojing still woke up at six o'clock as usual, washed up, and went to the park to stand.
At present, she has already learned the sixth form of Tai Chi in the course module, but after all, it is a virtual space, so she can only learn the movements accurately. The real body training still needs to be practiced every day in reality.
After standing still for an hour, Zhao Xiaojing felt refreshed. When she was about to continue practicing each posture, she suddenly felt a burning gaze from the diagonal front.
Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and saw that it was her landlord Chen Huiping. She was standing in front of the tree altar, staring at her in a daze, with a full basket of vegetables slung over her arm.
"Auntie Chen, good morning, are you back from buying groceries?"
"Ah." Chen Huiping nodded, smiled blankly at Zhao Xiaojing, then avoided her gaze and hurried away.
Zhao Xiaojing was stunned, feeling a little strange but didn't take it to heart.
By mid-morning, when Zhao Xiaojing had finished purchasing goods from the fruit wholesale market and was unloading the full boxes of fruit, Chen Huiping came over with a bag of vegetables.
"Xiao Zhao, these are vegetables grown in the garden your uncle (Chen Huiping's husband) built. I just picked them this morning. Have some."
"Oh, Aunt Chen, thank you so much!
This is the cantaloupe I bought this morning, take it home and eat it."
Zhao Xiaojing took the dish and took out a cantaloupe from the box and handed it over.
"No, no, we are too old to eat such sweet things!" Chen Huiping stepped back repeatedly and stretched out her hand to push the melon that Zhao Xiaojing handed over.
"We have more food than we can finish. You can take it and it won't be wasted. But you're going to use this for business, so put it down!"
"Okay, then thank you Aunt Chen, the food looks fresh!"
Chen Huiping kept refusing, but Zhao Xiaojing no longer insisted. She put down the melon and stood at the door with Chen Huiping.
"Excuse me this morning, please don't take offense. I've seen you guys practicing there for a while, and every time I don't dare to watch too much, hey."
Chen Huiping glanced at Zhao Xiaojing, then lowered her eyes and spoke hesitantly.
"It's okay, Auntie. We're just beginners, so we're just practicing blindly. I'm sure you like Tai Chi too, so it's okay if you want to watch."
"It's not me who likes it, it's my youngest daughter who likes it. She started learning Tai Chi in junior high school and has been learning it until she was about the same age as you..." Chen Huiping sighed.
"What about her?"
"She was paralyzed for two years and has been dead for ten years. Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of her death."
"Aunt Chen, please accept my condolences. Your daughter in heaven must wish you well." Zhao Xiaojing said softly.
Chen Huiping shook her head, a trace of fatigue appearing on her usually energetic face.
"Hope or not, it doesn't matter. No one in this world should live according to someone else's expectations, even close relatives like mother and daughter.
"Xiao Zhao, she was just like you back then, full of energy every day, getting up at five or six and practicing for hours."
Chen Huiping frowned slightly, her eyes distant, looking at Zhao Xiaojing as if she was looking through her at a place far away.
Seeing that she was in a low mood, Zhao Xiaojing hurried into the kitchen, moved two chairs, and pulled Chen Huiping to sit down.
Chen Huiping was silent for a while, patted Zhao Xiaojing on the shoulder, and her lips trembled when she spoke again.
"It's a bit abrupt to tell you this, but they're so alike, so alike. I really can't bear it. I'm afraid you'll end up like Mei Zi..."
Mei Zi is Chen Huiping's youngest daughter.
When she was in junior high school, Mei Zi and several classmates made an appointment to go to the famous Taoist mountain here to play. After returning, she said that she saw the Taoist priests practicing martial arts and they looked so handsome, so she started to want to learn Tai Chi.
At that time, Chen Huiping and her husband were busy with their careers, and Mei Zi's brother was in high school and boarding at the school. They had no time to take care of her. They just thought she was acting on a whim, so they gave her the money and asked her to sign up for the class and let her go.
Who would have thought that from that day on, Mei Zi actually took Tai Chi seriously and practiced it in the coldest days of winter and hottest days of summer, persisting day after day. By the time Chen Huiping found out, Mei Zi was already in her third year of high school.
At that time, Chen Huiping felt that practicing Tai Chi was just a hobby and she couldn't do anything with it. She had just played with it casually before, but now she was in her third year of high school and time was precious. How could she waste one or two hours every day on it?
So Chen Huiping tried her best to persuade Mei Zi to focus on her studies and stop practicing Tai Chi. However, her daughter, who was originally gentle, was extremely stubborn on this matter. No matter what she said, she refused to give in and refused to stop, not even for a single day.
Chen Huiping had been patient at first, but seeing this, she lost her temper and scolded her. She threw away her Tai Chi clothes, shoes, and books, and ignored her even though she cried her heart out.
After that, she supervised for several days in a row. Seeing that Mei Zi seemed to have compromised and no longer mentioned anything related to Tai Chi, and no longer got up before dawn to practice, she felt relieved.
However, Mei Zi and her became much more distant from each other after this incident. She didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking it was just childish irritation, and that it would be fine after a while. As long as she didn't waste an hour or two doing useless things, she would have achieved her goal.
After Mei Zi's college entrance examination results came out, she ostensibly followed the instructions of Chen Huiping and her husband and applied to the Architecture College in her province. However, she secretly changed her application and applied to study philosophy in Dong Province, more than 2,000 kilometers away from them.
The couple was very angry when they found out, but the matter was done and Mei Zi refused to repeat the year, so after a big tantrum they had no choice but to let her go to Eastern Province.
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