Su Xueli patted his shoulder and nodded.
It was around three or four o'clock in the afternoon. The crowd had dispersed, and the streets were filled with people heading home. The vendors who had set up their stalls were also packing up their things.
"Boss, I'd like to buy a bottle of face cream."
Yan Yan was busy packing bottles and jars into her luggage bag when she casually remarked, "We've sold out of face cream today. Let's do it next time."
"Then I'll buy a box of powder."
Yan Yan laughed, straightened up and gave her a push, "You really fooled me."
Su Xueli laughed and hugged Yan Yan.
Yan Yan teased her, "How could you bear to leave your handsome guy for even a moment? Did you come here specifically to find me, or did you come to the market with him?"
He looked around as he spoke.
Su Xueli said, "He and I just came from your cousin's place in the county today. He saw me off at the entrance of my village and took me home. I haven't been here for a few days and I miss home, so I came here specifically to find you."
Upon hearing this, Yan Yan exclaimed, "Oh, you're back from the county town. You must have made another fortune!"
Su Xueli held up one finger and said, "It sold for 130 yuan."
"Ah!" Yan Yan exclaimed and covered her mouth.
"Sherry, you'll be a millionaire soon!"
Su Xueli patted her and said, "Don't get excited, don't get excited. There are costs involved in making this 130 yuan. It's not like before where you could just make whatever you wanted. Now it's a complete set of characters from Journey to the West, and it also needs to be dyed. The process is more complicated."
Yan Yan asked with a curious look, "It must be very exquisite and beautiful, right? I have to go and see it sometime, and I'll buy a set when I get married, hehehe."
Su Xueli said, "I'll give you a set."
I thought to myself, you'd better not get married.
She glanced at Yan Yan and asked, "Didn't your brother come to help you?"
Yan Yan's face darkened, and she said, "If I don't give them the money I earn, they won't let my brother come and help me anymore."
Su Xueli had finally witnessed the ruthlessness of her parents. She chuckled twice and said, "Then rely on yourself. You can do it."
Yan Yan said confidently, "Yes, I can definitely do it."
She recounted how Cui Huabiao had gone home last time to express his stance to her parents. Her parents were already somewhat afraid of this son-in-law who received government-subsidized food rations, and when he so sternly told them that the money Yan Yan earned was part of her dowry and not for them, they readily agreed.
But the next day, her parents told Yan Yan that she could no longer order her younger brother around as she pleased, and that she could not do nothing but go to the market. She had to wash the family's clothes after going to the market, cook dinner after going to the market, and continue making shoes for her younger brother in the evening.
Otherwise, she would leave home and go live with her in-laws; they wouldn't support a freeloader like her anymore.
Yan Yan's eyes reddened again as she spoke, "Xue Li, sometimes I wonder if I was adopted. How could they be so cruel to me..."
Su Xueli couldn't respond to this. She could only say that she was unlucky, or that she owed their family something in her past life.
She gently encouraged her: "Just hang in there, focus on making money, and leave yourself a way out."
Yan Yan wiped her eyes and said, "That's what I think too."
Su Xueli helped her pack her things and tied them to the bicycle seat, then asked her, "Have you had lunch yet?"
Yan Yan said, "I ate, bought two hot steamed buns, and asked someone for a bowl of hot water."
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