The speaker was a pretty girl with fair skin, who looked like she had been pampered at home. She had her hair styled in a princess style and was wearing a light yellow dress. She stood next to Chen Dongze and looked at Song Jiaojiao with disdain.
"Dongze and I are friends."
Song Jiaojiao was never a good-natured person. In addition, she was a rich second-generation and was spoiled by her adoptive parents in the countryside. She didn't think she was inferior to the girl in front of her in any way. Therefore, she openly revealed her relationship with Chen Dongze.
Upon hearing her words, the girl standing next to Chen Dongze rolled her eyes and then said, "How dare you call me 'Brother Dongze'? I know you very well. You're just trying to climb the social ladder. But let me tell you clearly, not only will my Brother Dongze not like you, you won't even get past Aunt Zhang!"
At this point, the girl scoffed, "My brother Dongze had a girlfriend who was a hundred times prettier than you before, but they still broke up. So, you ugly thing, you'd better not make a fool of yourself by hanging around my brother Dongze all the time!"
"My second sister broke up with Dongze out of necessity, not because Dongze's mother disliked her!"
Song Jiaojiao's eyes filled with tears, and she looked at Chen Dongze with a very aggrieved expression.
"You...you're Song Lan's sister?"
The girl's name was Yuan Xiaoya. She was Chen Dongze's childhood sweetheart. The two families lived in the same compound. She had liked Chen Dongze for many years and had long regarded him as her possession. However, she never expected that Chen Dongze would fall in love with another girl. She was really angry at that time, but she was not blinded by jealousy and anger. Instead, she put her efforts on Chen Dongze's mother.
At the same time, she found out all about "Song Lan" and casually mentioned it to Chen Dongze's mother. The effect was very satisfactory to Yuan Xiaoya—Chen Dongze's mother disliked "Song Lan" very much and strongly demanded that Chen Dongze break up with her.
Now that Yuan Xiaoya has undoubtedly gotten what she wanted, she certainly wouldn't let any other girl cause her any trouble or have anything to do with Chen Dongze.
Song Jiaojiao responded, "Song Lan is my second older sister."
"May I have your name?"
Yuan Xiaoya raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Song Jiaojiao".
After stating her name, Song Jiaojiao asked, "I've already told you my name. What's yours? What's your name?"
"What do you call me?!"
Yuan Xiaoya rolled her eyes, then said without any politeness, "Stay away from my brother Dongze, or don't blame me for being rude to you!"
"Brother Dongze..."
Song Jiaojiao turned her gaze to Chen Dongze, but Chen Dongze didn't look at her at all. His eyes were vacant, and she didn't know what he was thinking.
The villa area near the steel mill.
Tomorrow we'll be heading to the branch factory. Song Lan told Qin Boyan and Qin Yaxin to carry all the packed items to the living room on the first floor and pile them together so they can be loaded onto the truck early tomorrow morning.
She was busy and unaware that Song Jiaojiao had pulled her out for a stroll at the train station in front of Chen Dongze and his childhood sweetheart.
How will my older brother get there?
With her cheeks puffed out, Qin Yaxin suddenly asked Song Lan.
"An ambulance is coming."
The official in charge has already made arrangements; they just need to wait for the car to arrive at their doorstep early tomorrow morning, and they don't need to worry about anything else.
"When we get to the branch factory, the accommodations won't be too bad, right?"
She can't stand living in a small house!
"I don't know, we'll see how the branch factory arranges it."
She's the only one with a job, so when they get to the branch factory, they probably won't be able to get any decent housing.
Song Lan thought to herself, but she wasn't too worried about where she would stay. The reason was simple: she had money in her pocket right now.
The money in his pocket was because Song Lan had secretly gone to the black market before dawn this morning.
The housekeeper they had previously hired often frequented the black market to find good things to nourish the mistress of the house, Qin's mother. One day, while helping in the kitchen, the original owner of this body, Song Lan, overheard the housekeeper mentioning a black market not far from the steel factory.
With this memory in her mind, and considering that her family was short of money and food, and she couldn't just take food and vegetables out of the "Divine Doctor Valley" space, she turned her attention to the black market.
The Valley of Divine Healers, a space similar to this one, not only cultivates rare medicinal herbs but also grows many wild medicinal materials, such as wild ginseng and lingzhi mushrooms.
Song Lan knew where the wild ginseng was. This morning, before leaving home, she went into the Valley of Divine Physicians intending to dig up one, but in the end, she took a prepared one from the medicine room.
Because this wild ginseng was about fifty years old and had been processed exceptionally well, completely preserving the efficacy of wild ginseng, Song Lan was able to sell it smoothly on the black market without much promotion.
The buyer was not short of money. He happened to have an elderly person in his family who urgently needed wild ginseng to prolong their life, so he offered a price of 1,800 yuan, plus 200 yuan for various receipts and vouchers.
Song Lan didn't haggle; she handed over the money and the goods in one hand and completed the transaction in a short time.
With that experience already underway, and knowing she had plenty of money, Song Lan wasn't worried at all about whether the factory would provide her with suitable housing upon arrival. She figured she could just buy a house near the factory herself if necessary.
Anyway, we won't leave the whole family homeless!
"I won't live in a small house, much less a dilapidated house in the countryside!"
Qin Yaxin muttered with a long face.
Can't you face reality?
Qin Boyan didn't indulge Qin Yaxin at all: "For our family now, it's good enough to have a place to live and for the whole family not to starve to death. But you, you're not okay with this or that. If you're so capable, go ahead and live your good life!"
With one mishap after another at home, can't you use your brain a little and make things easier for others?
It's impossible to have everything go exactly as planned, like before. Where can you find such a good thing?
"I just'm not used to it!"
Qin Yaxin's eyes immediately reddened. It wasn't that she was heartless; she just wanted to live a good life. It was the changes that had happened in her family that she still couldn't accept... Of course, she was also afraid of living a hard life, such as eating coarse grains all the time or living in a dilapidated house that leaked wind and rain!
"You have to get used to it, whether you like it or not. This is not an excuse for you to make trouble for no reason!"
Qin Boyan scolded, "Listen to me carefully. My sister-in-law isn't much older than us. She's already working very hard to take care of our whole family on her own. We can't help her much, but we shouldn't cause trouble and add to her pressure!"
"Alright, we'll talk about the specifics of our new home at the branch factory after we get there."
In Song Lan's eyes, Qin Boyan was more sensible than Qin Yaxin, which filled her with pride. After a moment of silence, she shifted her gaze from Qin Boyan to Qin Yaxin and said, "Second sister, when faced with difficulties, we should think about how to solve them, not be greedy and crave unrealistic things."
Changing the subject, Song Lan added, "However, I will try my best to make our family's living space more spacious and comfortable."
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