"Oh? Suffering? Didn't she go to the city with Lin Haodong?"
Ji Xia raised an eyebrow. How could she not suffer? She had suffered for half her previous life!
Yang Cuiqin shook her head: "She didn't go into the city. The brigade leader talked to Lin Haodong and asked him to leave Pianran behind to take care of his mother, so she stayed."
"It's fine if she stays, but that old woman is always worried that she won't be faithful. She even watches us when we chat in the fields..."
Liu Pian was driven crazy by the torment, so she asked her old friends for help. Only then did everyone realize how abnormal Lin's mother was.
Because of that figure-hugging wedding dress, Lin's mother always felt that she couldn't live without a man for a while, so she had to keep an eye on her during the day and have her sleep in the same room at night.
It is unknown how much harm Lin's mother suffered in the old society. Every night, Liu Pianran had to fetch water for her to wash her feet, and she had to serve her morning and night. All the housework was left to Liu Pianran, and she did a lot of work in the fields. Even so, she would still indirectly scold her every day, calling her unfilial.
It seems even worse than Ji Xia's previous life. Of course, she is still the daughter of Secretary Ji, and her family is in the brigade. She has to go to work at the commune every day to earn money to support her. Lin's mother would never dare to treat her like this.
Ji Xia secretly rejoiced: "Aunt Lin made her suffer? She just put up with it? She doesn't seem like such an obedient and docile person to me."
"Of course, she remembers!"
Yang Cuiqin glanced at her classmates nearby and whispered, "I heard that Aunt Lin tripped and fell at the door one day and hurt her back. I also heard that someone smeared oil on the soles of her shoes."
"Moreover, Liu Pianran used all the money her family gave her for herself. She would hide the good food outside and eat it secretly by herself, not letting her mother-in-law benefit from it at all. She made her mother-in-law eat wild vegetable porridge every day until she was so hungry that she was dizzy and lightheaded—"
Ji Xia listened to the battle of wits between the Lin family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with a faint smile, and her mood immediately improved.
That's more like it. The two of them are fighting to the death. Let's see if Lin's mother can live for another ten years or so.
If there's no filial piety involved in outsourcing, then it depends on whether she wants to do the work herself.
With Lin's mother's frail health, she probably won't live for more than a few years. I wonder if another rich and beautiful woman will appear by Lin Haodong's side after Liu Pianran outlives her mother-in-law and goes to the city.
The students entered the classroom one after another. Someone passed by and turned back to look at them in surprise: "Ji Xia? You're taking the college entrance exam too?"
Ji Xia looked up suspiciously. A tall, thin young man with a buzz cut was standing in front of her. His face looked somewhat familiar, as if he were her high school classmate.
Having been reborn, he barely remembered any of his high school classmates and couldn't recall his name for a moment.
Ji Xia smiled distantly: "Yes, I still want to be more ambitious and give it another shot."
"That's great! Let's work together and make progress together."
The boy happily gave her a thumbs-up and sat down not far behind her.
Not long after, someone greeted him and called him Gao Yuanlong. Ji Xia immediately remembered that Gao Yuanlong was her high school classmate who graduated last year.
She seems to have expressed interest in me before.
The school bell rang, and a middle-aged man with a refined demeanor walked in carrying lesson plans. He introduced himself as Mr. Liu, the homeroom teacher of the second-year high school class, who was in charge of this year's college entrance examination class.
Teacher Liu took attendance using the roll call list. After the opening remarks, she arranged for textbooks to be distributed and explained the course schedule. In the afternoon, the diagnostic test began.
After taking two mock exams in the afternoon, Ji Xia left the school exhausted and saw Chen Jing's tall figure standing outside the school gate, like a crane standing among chickens.
He was still wearing a white shirt, but his demeanor was completely different from that of the carefree man in the countryside. He leaned against a lamppost, pushing his bicycle with a relaxed expression, and his handsome smile was very infectious.
When his smiling eyes were fixed intently on her, Ji Xia couldn't help but blush.
"Someone has come to pick you up."
Yang Cuiqin winked at her, then tactfully waved goodbye and left. Ji Xia smiled and walked to Chen Jing's side.
"How was your day? Did it go smoothly?"
The two spoke in unison, but after a moment of hesitation, they looked at each other and smiled.
"We had two diagnostic tests today, and I think they went pretty well." Ji Xia reached up and brushed her bangs aside, her eyes sparkling, and she looked quite pleased with herself.
"I had a good day too, I landed a big order, I'll tell you about it when I get home."
Chen Jing stared at her radiant face, mesmerized, and his unease grew even stronger.
He naturally took the backpack from her shoulder, slung it over his own shoulder, and gestured for her to sit in the back seat of the car.
"Really? That's wonderful! Ah Jing, you're amazing."
Upon hearing about the order, Ji Xia felt all her fatigue vanish and showered him with compliments.
Chen Jing felt the warmth around his waist and unconsciously looked down at the pair of jade-like hands on his waist. His ears flushed red, and he felt a little more at ease.
The two returned to the small workshop, where Old Man Sun was preparing dinner, sitting outside the gatehouse picking vegetables.
Ji Xia jumped off the car, smiling as she pulled out ten yuan and meat coupons: "Uncle Sun, we received payment today, so let's have an extra meal. Go to the restaurant and get some meat to go, so everyone can enjoy themselves."
Old Sun couldn't help but smile, and the female workers in the room cheered when they heard Ji Xia's words.
The small workshop provided room and board, and the fact that they ate white rice every day in the city and meat once a week already surprised and delighted them.
Having extra meat for dinner today, and eating to my heart's content, isn't that amazing?
Chen Jing shouted, "Work hard, and if we make money, we'll eat meat every day!"
The crowd cheered.
After parking the car in the yard, Chen Jing led her to the warehouse and showed her the dozens of bolts of fabric that had been brought back to the warehouse.
"We picked out more than sixty bolts of fabric today. What do you think of the colors and quality of the different ones?"
Ji Xia touched each bolt of fabric, and when she touched a few bolts in the corner, she raised an eyebrow in suspicion: "Why are there only one bolt of each of these colors? Are they all leftover stock?"
"Is it leftover stock or defective products? It cost quite a bit of money."
The eight defective bolts cost seven or eight hundred yuan, but the quality of these eight bolts of cloth was indeed much better than the others; they were not only softer and finer, but also had more beautiful colors.
Chen Jing gave a wry smile: "Something happened today. Let me finish, and don't be angry yet."
“Sales work is not an easy task, and you're the one who gets upset, so why would I be angry?”
Chen Jing's eyes welled up with tears at her words, and his heart felt as if it had been gently caressed by warm water, making him feel a surge of tenderness.
"Although I was the one who made the arrangements, they insulted you. Today I encountered two spoiled young ladies who were simply unreasonable and treated you like an ordinary tailor."
He pulled out more than a dozen renderings and handed her eight selected designs: "These are eight styles that have been ordered. Only one of each style can be made. We can't sell this style to anyone else except them."
After briefly recounting what had happened that day, he looked at Ji Xia with a guilty expression: "She also asked you to come with her next week. She wants to see the wedding dress you designed. I guess she wants you to help make the wedding dress. I'm sorry!"
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