Hao Cailing felt that Zhao Xueyan was Chen Xiaoying's third daughter-in-law, and they were a family.

I am an outsider.

Zhao Xueyan usually slacked off in the store. Chen Xiaoying saw it but turned a blind eye. If Zhao Xueyan quarreled with her, she would most likely be the one to leave.

She still has to rely on this job to support her son and save money to marry her son Mingliang.

Chen Xiaoying knew Hao Cailing's dilemma and sighed. She reassured her, "It's okay, Cailing. I know you mean well. I will never tell her and make it difficult for you to be caught in the middle."

The old lady assured her, and Hao Cailing was relieved: "Okay, then I will go back."

Hao Cailing is gone.

Chen Xiaoying frowned and started to think, what was the purpose of her eldest daughter Li Hongyan looking for Zhao Xueyan this time?

What's going on with Zhao Xueyan?

Because of Li Hongyan's matter, she even divorced the old man Li Pingwang. Did she still dare to listen to Li Hongyan's instigation?

Chen Xiaoying was holding her breath. When she got back, she calmly asked Zhao Xueyan, "I heard that Li Hongyan came to the store some time ago. What did she do there?"

Zhao Xueyan had just washed her face and was getting ready for bed. She said hurriedly, "She didn't come. When did my elder sister come? How come I didn't know?"

She was actually lying to her.

Chen Xiaoying felt disappointed and couldn't help asking, "Xueyan, do you think the job in the restaurant is too hard and don't want to do it anymore?"

Zhao Xueyan hesitated for a moment and said nothing.

She said she came to the store to help out and her salary was quite high, but she was still doing the dirty and tiring work of wiping tables, sweeping the floor and washing dishes. That's what a small restaurant is like.

She didn't say anything before, but now that a new store has opened near the hospital, why didn't her mother-in-law think of letting her take care of it?

She asked her cousin to take care of the matter. Isn't this what the elder sister-in-law said, to be on guard against her?

Let her concentrate on being a worker, earning money for the first wife, and use the money she earned to buy a house for the first wife and open a shop. After all the hard work, the first wife has a house and a shop, so what does she have?

Just those few dead wages.

"Then I won't stop you from doing anything you want to do." Chen Xiaoying said, "When we split up the family business, we said we would build houses for the brothers. I've already built them. If you want to live back in the village, I have no objection."

Now that she has a house to live in and there is land in the village, if Zhao Xueyan is willing to farm, she can be self-sufficient and there is no need to work so hard in the county town.

Zhao Xueyan said hurriedly: "Mom, no, I am willing to do it. I am just thinking, when will I be able to finish my job as a waiter?"

She glanced at Chen Xiaoying: "My monthly salary is 350 yuan. I also want to buy an apartment in the county, but I can't afford it."

Her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying finally understood.

"You want me to buy you a house?"

Zhao Xueyan looked at her and said nothing.

Chen Xiaoying stared at her: "Besides buying a house, what else do you want to do?"

She wanted to know what the third daughter-in-law wanted.

Seeing that her mother-in-law didn't seem to have any intention of not giving, Zhao Xueyan hurriedly said, "Mom, I've learned how to run a small restaurant a long time ago. I thought, isn't my aunt working in our new store now? I might as well rent a storefront and learn to open a store myself, make money by myself, and no longer rely on you. Without me as a burden, you can live a more relaxed life, don't you think?"

Chen Xiaoying felt extremely disappointed when she heard her third daughter-in-law say such foolish words.

"Xueyan, you have been working with me for such a long time. Tell me, why do you think our restaurant can survive and make money?"

Zhao Xueyan said without hesitation: "Because our food is delicious."

"Then the delicious food in our restaurant, including the hot pot ingredients that are selling very well now, are all Xiaoyu's ideas and the recipes she figured out. So, without such delicious food, how can our restaurant make money?"

Chen Xiaoying knew that her third daughter-in-law, Zhao Xueyan, was also an ordinary rural wife who had only been to school for a few years. She couldn't understand some things all of a sudden. She still wanted to give her a hand and explain things clearly to her so that she wouldn't be confused.

But Zhao Xueyan obviously didn't think so: "Mom, I know what you are worried about. I have thought about it. When the time comes, I will also hang up the sign of Chen Li Restaurant and sell the same things as our store. I can still make money."

Chen Xiaoying was a little confused when she heard this: "Xueyan, what are you talking about? Why should I let you sell? Do you know how to stir-fry hot pot ingredients? Do you know how to make the stuffing for the steamed buns in our store? Do you know how to marinate the barbecued meat for barbecued meat rice?"

Zhao Xueyan was silent for a moment. She didn't know, but said, "Mom, then why don't you teach me?"

Chen Xiaoying was so angry that she lost her temper: "What I learned was all taught by Xiaoyu. If I taught you, then what would I mean? Xiaoyu knows so many things, she can hire someone else to be the boss. It's because she trusts me as a nurse that she asked me to help her run the store, don't you understand?"

"I taught you again and let you open a store, but now you come back to steal our business. I'm an ungrateful person, a traitor. Do you understand?"

Zhao Xueyan thought of her elder sister-in-law's words. She didn't believe it: "Mom, Xiaoyu is just a child. You actually did all these things, right? You favor your elder brother, so you put all these things on Xiaoyu's head and said that she did it."

"Mom, we are both your sons, why do you favor my eldest brother?"

She didn't think her request was excessive at all, but rather felt wronged.

Chen Xiaoying simply stopped trying to reason with her. With such thoughts in mind, she was afraid that she would not be allowed to continue working in the small restaurant.

"Xueyan, I don't know what's going on in your mind. You followed me from the beginning to the end, and you saw it with your own eyes. Xiaoyu did all these things in front of us, but you insisted that it was me who came up with it. Now that you've made up your mind, how else do you want me to explain it to you?"

Zhao Xueyan seemed to have been brainwashed by Li Hongyan. Even though her mother-in-law said this to her, she still felt unbalanced.

"Mom, are you planning to ask me to work for my brother for the rest of my life?"

She was very dissatisfied, had a sullen face and was in a bad mood.

Mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying was not used to her bad temper: "If you don't want to work for him anymore, just ignore what I said. You can spend 200 yuan later and hire another waiter to do your job."

When Zhao Xueyan heard this, she felt wronged: "Mom."

"Don't call me. I know everything about Li Hongyan coming to see you." Chen Xiaoying simply spoke frankly.

Zhao Xueyan immediately felt guilty.

Chen Xiaoying stared at her: "Xueyan, don't believe what your elder sister says. If you listen to her, you will fall into the ditch sooner or later. Isn't your father's fall cruel enough?"

Zhao Xueyan hesitated.

It is true. My elder sister-in-law is very selfish. When my parents-in-law divorced and divided the marital property, it was my elder sister-in-law Li Hongyan who instigated behind the scenes.

I heard that she even went to Xindian to help.

With her temper, if you dare to ask her to help, she will act like the boss on the first day, pointing fingers and making decisions, thinking that no one is more important than her.