Chapter 239 He Xiangju's Final Struggle
Ai Xiaoxia passed by He Xiangju's clothing store and took a look inside. It was quite deserted. There was only a sewing machine and not even any proper ready-made clothes. This shop only did some small jobs, and it was estimated that this small clothing store would not be in business for long.
He Xiangju hasn't come to the shop for the past two days because Liu Hao is determined to divorce. Although she has temporarily used the face of both families and the reputation in this compound to stabilize Liu Hao, she also knows that it is not a long-term solution.
I don’t have the mood to do anything else these two days. There’s not much work to do during the first month of the year anyway, so I just stay at home.
She had just arrived today and was sitting here feeling confused. She happened to look up and saw Ai Xiaoxia walking over. She felt like her heart was being pricked by needles and felt very uncomfortable.
Liu Hao has started sleeping in a separate room from her, and she really doesn't know how to save the relationship. However, she also understands that divorce will be the end of her, so she said she would never divorce him no matter what.
In fact, she wanted to go and ask Ai Xiaoxia for help, but Ai Xiaoxia was too vengeful. Suddenly, she thought of Lu Jingshen. Liu Hao respected Lu Jingshen, so why not go find Lu Jingshen.
Thinking of this, she looked at her watch and planned to go out early during her lunch break to see if she could find Lu Jingshen alone and talk to him about this matter alone. After all, it is somewhat easier for a woman to ask a man for help.
Ai Xiaoxia arrived at Ju Huiyan's shop. Although there were not many people making clothes in the first month of the year, she had ready-made clothes with novel styles, including many early spring styles, so there were many customers coming.
Now there are three of us here: an apprentice, a skilled worker, and Ju Huiyan, and we can handle the work.
When Ju Huiyan saw Ai Xiaoxia coming, she pulled her aside to sit and talk.
When Ai Xiaoxia was free, she bought a few more clothing styles and brought them to Ju Huiyan.
Ju Huiyan was particularly happy and talked to Ai Xiaoxia about what happened in the past two days of the opening.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Ai Xiaoxia went out to wait for Lu Jingshen.
However, when Lu Jingshen came out of the office, he was stopped by He Xiangju. Because Lu Jingshen was anxious to go home and go out with Ai Xiaoxia, he was the first one to come out after get off work and walked very quickly. There were not many people around at this time.
He Xiangju was very anxious. She was afraid of being seen by Liu Hao because Liu Hao had warned her not to cause trouble, but she didn't dare to look for Lu Jingshen at the door of her house. She was even more afraid of Ai Xiaoxia, so she could only block him here.
Seeing Lu Jingshen come out so quickly, He Xiangju felt that this was an opportunity given to him by God, and hurried forward: "Engineer Lu, can I have a moment to talk to you?"
Lu Jingshen frowned and looked at He Xiangju: "I have nothing to say to you."
He Xiangju said anxiously, "Mr. Lu, I know I was wrong. Please help me talk to Liu Hao and ask him not to divorce me. I'm a woman and it's not easy for me. Can you please sympathize with me?"
Lu Jingshen sneered: "Isn't it easy for you? You underestimate yourself. I have no mood and no right to interfere in your family affairs. You'd better take care of yourself." After that, he continued to move forward.
He Xiangju chased after him, looking at Lu Jingshen with tears in her eyes and a face full of grievance: "Mr. Lu, I know my sister-in-law said a lot of bad things about me to you, but that's because she has some prejudice against me. You can't take it all seriously."
Lu Jingshen stopped when he heard this and looked at He Xiangju with disgust on his face: "I know my own wife very well. She really doesn't bother to say bad things about you. Don't follow me, otherwise the consequences will be something you don't want to see."
He Xiangju didn't understand why Lu Jingshen, a man, had no sympathy for women. But she didn't dare follow him anymore. If Lu Jingshen got angry and said something to Liu Hao, her life would be in jeopardy. Besides, many people were out at the moment, and she was afraid that Liu Hao would see her, so she quickly ran back to the clothing store.
She knew that the only thing that could prevent Liu Hao from getting a divorce was his in-laws' family. She had to find time to go back. After all, the two families lived in the same village, and Liu Hao's family cared about face and would not support their son's divorce.
The more Lu Jingshen looked at women like He Xiangju, the more he felt that his wife was better. What a piece of shit this He Xiangju was.
When he saw Ai Xiaoxia at the gate, his mood immediately improved. He strode over and asked, "Are you cold?"
"It's not cold. The daytime temperature has started to rise in the past few days." Ai Xiaoxia said.
As they were talking, they took a taxi to the barbecue restaurant.
On the way, Lu Jingshen told Ai Xiaoxia about He Xiangju looking for him. They both always thought that this person was too dark-hearted. Ai Xiaoxia was glad that she revealed her true colors early, otherwise, if she really opened up to her, there would be a lot of trouble in the future.
When we got to the restaurant, we started to line up again because some companies were still closed and many friends and relatives came out to eat during the first month of the lunar year, so it was quite lively.
There are blessing characters pasted on the windows of the store and lanterns hanging on them. Although it is daytime, the festive atmosphere of the New Year is very strong.
Sun Qiangye happened to be there, and he talked to Ai Xiaoxia about the branch. The bath center also started to arrange to buy materials and so on, and they could start decoration once it opened.
After discussing it, Ai Xiaoxia and Lu Jingshen went out to have a meal. Lu Jingshen went to work, and Ai Xiaoxia went home.
In the next two days, Ai Xiaoxia drew some drafts of promotional posters for the new store at home. She gradually improved them during this period. It wouldn't be long before they would be needed for the opening of the new store. She prepared everything she needed as much as possible because she was afraid that she would get news about Lin Mei suddenly and be busy, which would delay her work here. Everything was done to prepare for finding her sister.
On the morning of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Ai Xiaoxia received a call from Lin Rui, saying that An Ning wanted Ai Xiaoxia to visit her gallery in the afternoon and give some advice. Her gallery would open in a month or so. Because An Ning had seen Ai Xiaoxia paint before, she still admired her very much.
And An Ning really wanted to thank Ai Xiaoxia. If it weren't for Ai Xiaoxia's conversation with her that day, the misunderstanding between her and Lin Rui might have continued.
There was no reason for Ai Xiaoxia to disagree, so she agreed immediately. It happened that she was going home with her second brother for dinner in the evening, and she would discuss the name change with her parents.
Lin Rui said that he would get off work at one o'clock in the afternoon and had to go home to change clothes. He would pick up Ai Xiaoxia at half past one and then go to the gallery together.
Ai Xiaoxia thought for a moment and said, "Don't bother picking me up. I'll be home waiting for you before 1:30. I can make some cookies for my parents and bring them over."
Lin Ruite was happy: "Then make more, I like to eat it too."
Ai Xiaoxia smiled and said, "I'll make some more and bring some for Sister An Ning."
"My sister is the best. I'll buy you ten packs of Wahaha at noon."
"Plus five packs of shrimp crackers."
"Whatever you want to eat, I'll buy it for you."
"I'll trick you when I think it through."
"How can buying delicious food for my sister be considered a scam? Silly girl, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm at work."
"Well, then you go ahead and get busy."
After hanging up the phone, Ai Xiaoxia was still laughing. Second brother was really funny.
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