Chapter 80
Facing the question from the young and old Wang Xiaole, Bi Chunliu did not respond. Instead, she asked him, "Xiaole, what grade will you be in when school starts?"
Wang Xiaole puffed out his chest proudly: "My grandpa told my parents that they will send me to first grade when school starts! Sister Xiaoli from the alley ahead skipped to fourth grade when she was in second grade. I'll wait for the first half of the year to learn how it goes, and then I'll skip a grade too! When I don't have to go to school anymore, I can make furniture too!"
After entering elementary school, he was no longer the Wang Xiaole who watched the snotty kids playing around in the Yuhong class! He was the Wang Xiaole who was about to skip a grade!
Bi Chunliu applauded him, "Great!"
"Xiao Le, I heard from the waiter that someone came to my house to look for me?" Master Wang walked into the house holding two watermelons.
Bi Chunliu stood up and said, "Master Wang, it's me. I asked you to make a wooden box last time. I'm here to ask for your help again!"
Master Wang nodded. He remembered her. He asked his grandson to sit at the door and watch people. He spoke to Bi Chunliu, "What are you going to do this time?"
"Dressing table, is it convenient for you to make it for me?" Bi Chunliu was worried that Master Wang would not accept an item like a dressing table. If Master Wang thought it was not possible, then she would have to be prepared to spend a lot of money and go to the furniture factory to buy it.
As for the scrap yards mentioned in the novel, which are essential for Taobao shopping, she really didn't think about going there. Because it wouldn't be her turn to find those good things, they'd all been divided up among themselves! Going to the scrap yard would only give her some old newspapers and books, but she wasn't a wall-scrapper...
Master Wang pondered for a moment, then asked the girl if she was preparing for her wedding. Finally, he said, "Is there a table in the room? If there is, I don't recommend making a dressing table. It would be better to make a chest of drawers. If you think a chest of drawers is not enough, a seven-drawer one would be fine."
Bi Chunliu suddenly realized that as soon as Xing Fei mentioned making a dressing table, she started thinking about it. However, she didn't have many cosmetics or anything like that now, just a bottle of cold cream, a mirror and a comb. A dressing table was indeed not as practical as a chest of drawers.
"Master Wang, can this size be used to make a chest of drawers?" Bi Chunliu reported the dimensions of the room to Master Wang. She was so stupid. Her own chest of drawers was right there, so why didn't she think of making one? She could then put her mirror and other things on top of the chest of drawers, and it would be almost like a dressing table.
Master Wang said with certainty: "It can be done, more than enough. When the time comes, it won't be a problem to make the drawers wider!" Master Wang took a pencil and wrote down the dimensions. This girl was quite persuasive and easy to deal with, just like Sister Zhang! "By the way, do you have any ideas about the wood?"
Bi Chunliu shook her head. She didn't understand these things. All she knew was about Huanghuali wood and the like. "How about you just do it as I see fit? Just make something similar. I don't plan on keeping those things as heirlooms." She smiled and complimented Master Wang, "Grandma Zhang recommended you to me, so you must be a master she trusts. I trust you too!"
Master Wang shook his head in disapproval and waved his hand. "Good wood can be used for two or three generations. Okay, I get it. I still have some redwood at home. Let's use that."
"good!"
Bi Chunliu agreed on a price with Master Wang, and she decided to bring something back the next time she came to the Wang family. Master Wang was such a good man, giving her such a big discount on their second meeting!
"I won't keep you here, Xiaole. Go and see the guests off." Master Wang asked his grandson to see the guests off.
Wang Xiaole skipped into the house and said, "Let's go, sister."
"Xiao Le! Sister Tang, are you leaving?" The waiter appeared from somewhere.
Bi Chunliu tugged his nose amusedly and said, "My name is Bi Chunliu. You can call me Sister Bi or Sister Chunliu. What do you mean by Sister Tang?"
"Hehe... Sister Chunliu, my name is Wang Xiaopeng. I am the second child in my family, so they call me Xiaoer." Wang Xiaopeng touched his head embarrassedly. This sister is so nice. She speaks nicely and gives him candy!
Wang Xiaole is really annoyed with Wang Xiaoer today! A few days ago, when she was in the Yuhong class, she kept talking to him, causing him to be scolded by the teacher. Today, she is still pestering this sister!
"Waiter, it's almost time for dinner, why don't you go home?"
Wang Xiaopeng scratched his face and said, "It's okay. I'm not hungry. My brother hasn't come back yet. My mom said we can talk to him after he comes back."
Wang Xiaole: “…”
The three of them walked around an alley, and Wang Xiaopeng said, "Xiao Le, let's take Sister Chunliu over there. Don't go past my house. Aunt Shen and another aunt are arguing in that alley."
Aunt Shen?
Bi Chunliu remembered that Uncle Qi had bought Aunt Shen the magic formula for conceiving a child from her.
"Who did she quarrel with?" Bi Chunliu was really curious.
Wang Xiaopeng: "I don't know him either. What's his name? Xingzi? I didn't pay attention."
When Wang Xiaopeng said that, Bi Chunliu's first reaction was, could it be Bai Xingzi?!
"Bai Xingzi?"
Wang Xiaopeng: "It seems so! Sister Chunliu, do you know her?"
Bi Chunliu nodded heavily. "It's on our side. Can I go take a look?"
"Okay, Sister Chunliu, I'll take you there!" Wang Xiaole said first.
One big and two small ones tiptoed towards the alley that Wang Xiaopeng mentioned. As soon as Bi Chunliu heard the voices, she knew it was really Bai Xingzi.
She was puzzled. Bai Xingzi used to be a very proud person. Her mother had said that Bai Xingzi looked down on the aunties who didn't work in the compound, thinking they had no ambition. She also looked down on the aunties who worked, thinking their jobs weren't as respectable and clean as hers. She also looked down on Lei Xiuying, who had a similar job, thinking that she worked at the Women's Federation and dealt with trivial matters every day! So how did she become like this? Maybe she didn't interact with her enough.
Bai Xingzi: "Sister Shen, please consider this as your younger sister's request. Please help me. You said that my head of the family hasn't done any heavy work in so many years. How could he stay in the northwest? Please help me to overturn his case and let him come home. No amount of money is a problem! I kneel down for you..."
Bi Chunliu: ? ? Send Nie Xuesong back from the northwest? Is Aunt Shen that powerful?
Aunt Shen grabbed Bai Xingzi and said with a wry smile, "Sister, it's not that I don't want to help you. Think about it, you've been begging me for a long time. It's not that I don't want to help you, but people's setbacks and successes in life are all limited. The suffering your head of the family is going through now is for the future. You see, he seems to be suffering now, but this is all the tempering given to him by God. There's an old saying that goes, 'grind his muscles and bones, starve his body.' You've solved all the suffering he should have suffered, so won't he have to make up for it when he's old? You've ruined all his future blessings!"
"Ah?" Bai Xingzi stuttered for a long time, "Is there any way to replace my head of the family with someone else to suffer?" Bai Xingzi remembered the life-swapping she had heard about when she was a child. "Sister, isn't there a saying about finding a substitute? Can we find a substitute who is of the same bloodline as ours?"
Bi Chunliu: Suddenly it became Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio?
Aunt Shen was silent for a long time. "Who do you want to replace?"
Bai Xingzi: "Let's change the eldest child! No, no, no, no, I can't. When the head of our family comes back, the eldest child will have to serve him, and I can't do it alone. What about the second child? Tsk! No, my head of our family might be able to use the Lou family." Bai Xingzi passed Nie Xiangbei over, "Let's change the fourth child, hey! The fourth child is fine! My head of our family used to be so good to the fourth child! Now it's her turn to help her father. Her own father is suffering, and how can a daughter enjoy the good life in her husband's family! Anyway, her father and I don't like that idiot of the He family."
Aunt Shen: "This matter...sister, you have to let me think about it. Exchanging lives is not an easy thing. Besides, I have never done it before. This family also needs to consider other things."
Bai Xingzi pulled out a handful of money and bills from her bosom and slapped them into Aunt Shen's hands. "My dear sister, please help me. Tell me what you need and I'll find a way!"
Aunt Shen: “!!” It was the first time she was stunned by such a large amount of money. “Where did you get so much money?”
Bai Xingzi: "I found it in my son's room. That vixen might have hidden it there. Big sister, when you're calculating, please calculate when my eldest son will have another son. That loser couldn't keep the child. Tell me, in our time, people could still work even when they were pregnant for months!"
Aunt Shen said solemnly, "Young wives nowadays are all spoiled. Okay, I get it. You go home first. I'll light incense and do a proper calculation for you tonight!"
"My dear sister, I've seen it since I was in there. You are a very good person, no doubt about it! So please take more care of yourself. The head of our family is still waiting for your help!"
Bai Xingzi begged again and again, and said a lot of good things to Aunt Shen, but went home with a dry mouth at Aunt Shen's urging.
Aunt Shen watched Bai Xingzi leave, put the money in her pocket, and said with disdain, "Damn, she's even more cruel than me! Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, this woman is really vicious!"
The eavesdropping Bi Chunliu said: Aunt Bai, just look at what kind of person you are!
Just as she was about to slip away with the two eavesdropping children, she heard Aunt Shen cough twice and say, "Come out quickly."
Bi Chunliu:!!!
In an instant, sweat broke out on her hands. She grabbed the two children who were also surprised and opened their mouths wide, but still holding their hands tightly. Bi Chunliu couldn't understand how she was discovered. However, she had experience in this matter. She must not move at this time. This statement was probably a trick on her.
"Aunt Shen, you're not happy after receiving so much money and tickets?" A young woman's voice rang out, and Bi Chunliu's heart slowly settled. It was good that they weren't talking about them.
Bi Chunliu quietly stirred, crouching down to take a look. It was someone she hadn't expected to see: Nie Xiangnan. So Nie Xiangnan had been there when Bai Xingzi said those words? No wonder Aunt Shen's scolding of Bai Xingzi was so strange after she left.
Aunt Shen reluctantly took out the money and handed it to Nie Xiangnan, "I'm happy for you, girl. Take it. It's your family's money after all."
Nie Xiangnan took a look, pulled out two big unity notes and handed them to Aunt Shen. "Please take them. I won't let you help me in vain. Didn't you say you wanted to burn incense tonight?"
Aunt Shen clapped her hands and said, "Oh, you don't understand yet. Those were all excuses! Just tell me how I should tell your mother."
Nie Xiangnan narrowed his eyes and smiled, "She already said she can't bear to leave my dad, so why does she want us to serve her? Besides, it's useless for my dad to come back, because his work is all taken over by my mom's beloved third child. In that case, let my mom go and accompany my dad by herself. That's better for us. As their children, we won't affect their relationship!"
Bi Chunliu: That’s cruel enough.
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