By the time they sat down to eat, Li Xunli's anger had subsided considerably.
Seeing Shen Yangyang shoveling rice into her bowl like a quail, she reached out and put a chicken leg in her bowl, then gave the other one to Shen Qingqing, who was staring at her. She sighed and said, "Why the long face? Didn't you always want me to quit my job? Now that I've actually quit, you're unhappy?"
Shen Qingqing muttered, "Asking you to resign is not the same as asking you to resign because of this kind of thing. It makes you unhappy and unlucky."
As Shen Qingqing finished speaking, she thought of how her parents had worked hard for half a year in her previous life, only to be owed wages, and how that short-lived son had absconded with the money. She couldn't help but feel a little relieved: "Luckily, you've already resigned. Now they can just find some excuse to deduct your wages. Who knows if they'll even be able to pay you in the future!"
Hearing this, Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli exchanged a glance, both seeing the deeper meaning in each other's eyes.
The daughter may have said something unintentional, but looking at the chaotic state of the factory, the two of them couldn't help but think more deeply about what she said.
Shen Rongzhou reached out and patted Li Xunli's hand holding the chopsticks: "Alright, don't waste your time on this. I'll be able to drive my own car next month, and I'll definitely be able to support our family."
Shen Qingqing chimed in, "Mom, now you can focus on those two porcelain orders! You don't have to stay up until midnight to sleep anymore!"
Upon hearing Shen Qingqing's words, Li Xunli seemed to suddenly remember something, and clapped her hands, saying, "Then we can make the remaining two porcelain pieces for Boss Yao as well! If we're in a hurry, we can make five and give them to him before Christmas!"
"Boss Yao's order is worth 10,000 yuan. If I save it up, I'll have a better year." Li Xunli thought to herself, and her mood improved again.
I paid a deposit of 2,000 yuan for the five custom-made porcelain pieces. I will pay half of that amount, which is 5,000 yuan, after the three pieces are finished. The remaining 3,000 yuan will be settled after the last two pieces are finished.
In addition to the two sets of small porcelain figurines of the twelve zodiac animals, the details were later finalized. In addition to maintaining the appearance of the twelve zodiac animals, some Christmas elements were to be added, and each set was to be purchased outright for one thousand yuan.
In other words, Yao Runyang earned a total of 12,000 yuan from this one order.
Then there's Zhang Hengyun's two thousand yuan before the New Year, which adds up to fourteen thousand yuan. On average, her salary in the months leading up to the New Year is about the same as Shen Rongzhou's!
Unable to understand what the adults were saying, Shen Yangyang finally finished the chicken leg her mother had just given her. She looked up and saw that her parents and sister all looked relaxed. Her big eyes darted around, and then she asked, "Mom, can I have another chicken wing?"
"Okay! Eat!" Li Xunli had just done a good calculation in her mind, and her mood finally improved. Hearing her little daughter obediently asking for food, she immediately picked up another chicken wing for her.
She wanted to give the last chicken leg to Shen Qingqing, but Shen Qingqing hadn't finished her chicken leg yet, so she quickly stopped her mother: "Mom, I don't want it anymore, you eat it!"
Li Xunli put it into her own bowl.
Shen Qingqing took a bite of a chicken leg, then suddenly exclaimed "Hey!" and excitedly said to her mother, "Mom! Then you'll have time to learn how to ride a motorcycle!"
Before Li Xunli could speak, Shen Rongzhou chimed in, "That's right, this way we won't have to ride our bicycles for so long to pick up Yangyang from school in the morning and evening."
"We'll see. I said I wanted to learn to ride a motorcycle before, but it was because I had to go to work and was in a rush. Now that I'm not in a rush anymore, it's okay to ride for a while. It's good exercise." Li Xunli felt that she wasn't in a hurry now.
“You don’t have to learn it all at once right now. If you can drive, you should learn to drive. If there’s an emergency, you won’t have to go through all that trouble riding a bicycle. It’s exhausting.” Shen Rongzhou advised her, “How about this, I have two days off at the end of the month. You can learn on those two days. Isn’t there an ancestral hall where your grandmother lives? There aren’t many people in the open space in front of the ancestral hall, so it’s a good time to learn.”
Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up, and she raised her hand: "Then we can go see Grandma!"
Shen Rongzhou glanced at his daughter, took out his phone and found the calendar: "Those two days at the end of the month aren't the weekend, otherwise I would have swapped with another one and moved them to the weekend."
"But everyone wants it on the weekend, so it'll probably be hard to get one."
"Okay, I can go by myself, it's very close anyway! It only takes ten minutes by bike!" Shen Qingqing was disappointed for a moment, but then perked up again.
The passing of her great-grandmother in her previous life was something Shen Qingqing deeply regretted.
In her later years, my great-grandmother suffered from severe hypertension. During the day, her children took turns caring for her, and nothing serious happened. However, one night when she got up to use the bathroom, she didn't see where she was going, tripped on the steps, and fell down, passing away from that day on.
But clearly, on the night her great-grandmother fell, Shen Qingqing went to see her with Li Xunli. However, since the door was closed, she assumed the old woman was asleep and left without disturbing her.
If they had knocked on the door that night, chatted with the elderly person, and accompanied them when they needed to use the restroom, they could have prevented their death.
Shen Qingqing remembered that day very clearly, so after her rebirth, she also kept the matter of changing her great-grandmother's fate of death in her heart.
My great-grandmother was very stubborn. She only wanted to stay in the small house where she and my great-grandfather had lived. No matter how many times we asked her to move over, whether to the Shen family or my maternal grandmother's house, she refused.
Therefore, Shen Qingqing could only make changes on that day. Now, she should spend more time with the elderly, as she is always alone in that small house and feels very lonely.
Li Xunli was also very close to her maternal grandmother, so she did not object to Shen Qingqing's idea of riding her bike to visit her great-grandmother. She simply reminded her, "Be careful on your bike. When crossing the road, don't just look to one side. Look to both sides and only cross when there are no cars."
Shen Qingqing nodded obediently, "I know!"
Time flew by, and Shen Qingqing would run to the ancestral hall whenever she had a spare moment, as her great-grandmother's house was right behind it.
The first round of the knowledge competition also arrived as scheduled. Since there were only four people this time, the Chinese teacher arranged for a five-seater van.
The process was exactly the same as in the preliminary round, except that there seemed to be fewer people. In the same examination room as Shen Qingqing was a senior from her own school.
Shen Qingqing was seated one after the senior student, and it still took her less than an hour and a half to finish.
She originally wanted to hand in her paper half an hour early, just like in the preliminary round, but then she saw a senior from the same school sitting behind her. She didn't know how well the senior could handle the pressure, so after thinking about it, Shen Qingqing gave up. She sat in her seat and scribbled on the draft paper, pretending that she was doing the questions, and waited until the competition ended.
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